Expanding Human

"Expanding Human" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show, first broadcast on October 10, 1964, during the second season.

Introduction

A man experiments with consciousness expanding drugs and accidentally lets loose the monster inside himself.

Plot

Professor Peter Wayne is disturbed to hear that his university colleague, Dr. Roy Clinton, is pursuing forbidden drug experiments with a group of graduate students. When one of the students turns up dead, Professor Wayne investigates Clinton's activities. He discovers that consciousness-expansion can have powerful and dangerous consequences.

Closing narration

Some success, some failure, but either way the gnawing hunger to know is never sated, and the road to the unknown continues to be dark and strange.