The Hundred Days of the Dragon
- Episode aired Sep 23, 1963
- 51m
IMDb RATING
7.2/10
975
YOUR RATING
A new skin molding technique enables a foreign power to replace a presidential figure inside the U.S. government with an agent.A new skin molding technique enables a foreign power to replace a presidential figure inside the U.S. government with an agent.A new skin molding technique enables a foreign power to replace a presidential figure inside the U.S. government with an agent.
Leon Alton
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Robert Brubaker
- Bryan
- (uncredited)
Eugene Chan
- Oriental in Hotel
- (uncredited)
Ron Chovance
- Secret Service Agent
- (uncredited)
George DeNormand
- Party Guest
- (uncredited)
Richard Gittings
- Briggs
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Allan Balter
- Robert Mintz
- Leslie Stevens(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe scenes that show the assassin having his face stretched and altered, was considered quite graphic for the times.
- GoofsAlthough it is established early on that Selby is missing part of the third finger on his left hand, it can be clearly seen in many scenes that this finger is intact on both Selby and his doppelgänger.
- Quotes
Li-Chin Sung: An archer in known by his aim, not by his arrows.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Featured review
Bizarre!
This is a really strange episode that just doesn't make it to the level of any other Outer Limits episodes, even the lesser ones.
I admit that the idea is intriguing, a method discovered to alter the face and fingerprints of anyone to them look like another person. But the idea of it being a presidential candidate and how it's accomplished is just extremely outlandish, The story has so many plot holes and illogical maneuvers that it just cannot hold up to any serious review, like the following:
1. They (the enemy) replace the presidential candidate first, and nobody else, killing the real one, with the great hope that he wins. What if the opponent won?
2. He does win, and then they go about replacing other high officials and businessmen, Why not do that first?
3. A stupid attempt by a bungler to replace the VP fails and alerts the real VP to what is going on. You have to see the attempt to believe how inept it was and how ridiculous.
4. The secret service around the Pres accept wholesale that the VP is right in telling them the Pres is an impostor, no real proof needed and no skepticism, hah!
5. The murdered Pres is exhumed, and is discovered to have been cremated, how convenient.
6. The official announcement of the Pres being an impostor is done at a dinner party where nobody disputes the announcement and they just cart off the impostor after exposing him. Hah again!
The whole thing was set up by communist Asians, where did that come from? And the phony Pres, on occasion, will squint his eyes as if he were an Asian underneath the skin, which looks just dumb.
The more I think about this episode, the sillier it gets.
I admit that the idea is intriguing, a method discovered to alter the face and fingerprints of anyone to them look like another person. But the idea of it being a presidential candidate and how it's accomplished is just extremely outlandish, The story has so many plot holes and illogical maneuvers that it just cannot hold up to any serious review, like the following:
1. They (the enemy) replace the presidential candidate first, and nobody else, killing the real one, with the great hope that he wins. What if the opponent won?
2. He does win, and then they go about replacing other high officials and businessmen, Why not do that first?
3. A stupid attempt by a bungler to replace the VP fails and alerts the real VP to what is going on. You have to see the attempt to believe how inept it was and how ridiculous.
4. The secret service around the Pres accept wholesale that the VP is right in telling them the Pres is an impostor, no real proof needed and no skepticism, hah!
5. The murdered Pres is exhumed, and is discovered to have been cremated, how convenient.
6. The official announcement of the Pres being an impostor is done at a dinner party where nobody disputes the announcement and they just cart off the impostor after exposing him. Hah again!
The whole thing was set up by communist Asians, where did that come from? And the phony Pres, on occasion, will squint his eyes as if he were an Asian underneath the skin, which looks just dumb.
The more I think about this episode, the sillier it gets.
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- rixrex
- Aug 16, 2014
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- Runtime51 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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