Miraclo Miles

 Sixty two years ago today, "Corpus Earthling," the 9th episode of The Outer Limits, aired.     This involved intelligent, parasitic extraterrestrial organisms that appeared to be mineral samples -- black rocks -- capable of changing their shape sufficiently to be able to move short distances, then meld into human beings and take them completely over. A pair of these aliens had been brought to the geology lab overseen by Dr. Jonas Temple (Barry Atwater) as as-yet-unclassified samples, and were deliberating on the most promising candidates to take over. What their exact aim was in this invasion - aside, presumably, from being able to inhabit much more mobile forms, with dexterous limbs - is never made clear.     Dr. Paul Cameron (Culp) has come to the lab to gather up his wife, Laurie Cameron (Salome Jens), who is Dr. Temple's assistant. While he's waiting in the lab, he hears a pair of strange voices. An injury some time past had resulted in Paul having a metal ...

       When Lost In Space debuted on CBS on September 15, 1965, I was four years old.        I can't say I have a clear recollection of having watched it from the start -- it's entirely possible I came in a little while later and caught up on the earlier episodes during summer reruns. We were still living up in Rhode Island, in military base housing, the September the show started. All of my clear recollections of the show were from once we were in Levittown, PA, in our first (and as it turned out last) family home, where we moved in the summer of '66.   There was much about the show (and this only became increasingly so) that was geared toward a young audience. Goofiness, flash and occasional mawkishnes that had I been a little older and self-conscious possibly would have put me off. The timing was what it was, though, and I was an unashamed fan, despite how most of the aliens were either wearing green or silver body paint, hist...