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| series = The Outer Limits |
| series = [[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]] |
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| season = 2 |
| season = 2 |
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| episode = 5 |
| episode = 5 |
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| airdate = |
| airdate = {{Start date|1964|10|17}} |
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| production = 41 |
| production = 41 |
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| writer = [[Harlan Ellison]] |
| writer = [[Harlan Ellison]] |
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| director = [[Byron Haskin]] |
| director = [[Byron Haskin]] |
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| producer = Ben Brady |
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| photographer = [[Kenneth Peach]] |
| photographer = [[Kenneth Peach]] |
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| guests = {{Unbulleted list | [[Robert Culp]] as Trent | [[Arlene Martel]] as Consuelo Biros | [[Abraham Sofaer]] as Arch | Bill Hart as Durn | Rex Holman as Battle | Robert Fortier as Budge | Wally Rose as Kyben #1 | Fred Krone as Kyben #2}} |
| guests = {{Unbulleted list | [[Robert Culp]] as Trent | [[Arlene Martel]] as Consuelo Biros | [[Abraham Sofaer]] as Arch | Bill Hart as Durn | [[Rex Holman]] as Battle | [[Robert Fortier]] as Budge | Wally Rose as Kyben #1 | [[Fred Krone]] as Kyben #2}} |
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| episode_list = List of The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) episodes |
| episode_list = List of The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) episodes |
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| prev = [[Expanding Human]] |
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| next = [[Cry of Silence]] |
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"'''Demon with a Glass Hand'''" is an episode of the American television series ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'', the second to be based on a script by [[Harlan Ellison]], which Ellison wrote specifically with actor [[Robert Culp]] in mind for the lead role. It originally aired on October 17, 1964, and was the fifth episode of the second season.<ref>''The Outer Limits: The Official Companion'', by David J. Schow and Jeffrey Frentzen, 1986, Ace Science Fiction</ref> |
"'''Demon with a Glass Hand'''" is an episode of the American television series ''[[The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)|The Outer Limits]]'', the second to be based on a script by [[Harlan Ellison]], which Ellison wrote specifically with actor [[Robert Culp]] in mind for the lead role. It originally aired on October 17, 1964, and was the fifth episode of the second season.<ref>''The Outer Limits: The Official Companion'', by David J. Schow and Jeffrey Frentzen, 1986, Ace Science Fiction</ref> In 2009, ''[[TV Guide]]'' ranked "Demon with a Glass Hand" #73 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rev-views.blogspot.com/2009/06/tv-guides-top-100-episodes.html|title=TV Guide's Top 100 Episodes|publisher=Rev/Views|access-date=July 4, 2016}}</ref> |
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In 2009, ''[[TV Guide]]'' ranked "Demon with a Glass Hand" #73 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://rev-views.blogspot.com/2009/06/tv-guides-top-100-episodes.html|title=TV Guide's Top 100 Episodes|publisher=Rev/Views|access-date=July 4, 2016}}</ref> |
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== Opening narration == |
== Opening narration == |
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For reasons unknown to him, Trent was sent into the past via a "time mirror", located in the building. A captured Kyben tells Trent that both of them are from a thousand years in the future. In that future, Earth has been conquered by the Kyben, but all the surviving humans except Trent have mysteriously vanished. The aliens are being obliterated by a "radioactive plague" that is killing all of the Kyben occupation force, a plague apparently unleashed by the humans in a last-ditch effort to repel the invasion. In a desperate attempt to find a cure for the plague and to extract whatever knowledge is stored in the hand/computer, the Kyben have followed him back in time with the missing fingers. |
For reasons unknown to him, Trent was sent into the past via a "time mirror", located in the building. A captured Kyben tells Trent that both of them are from a thousand years in the future. In that future, Earth has been conquered by the Kyben, but all the surviving humans except Trent have mysteriously vanished. The aliens are being obliterated by a "radioactive plague" that is killing all of the Kyben occupation force, a plague apparently unleashed by the humans in a last-ditch effort to repel the invasion. In a desperate attempt to find a cure for the plague and to extract whatever knowledge is stored in the hand/computer, the Kyben have followed him back in time with the missing fingers. |
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Eventually, Trent defeats all of his Kyben hunters by ripping off the medallion-shaped devices they wear to anchor them in the past. Trent successfully destroys the mirror and recovers the missing fingers, one by one. When the computer is whole, he learns the terrible truth: he is not a man, but a robot. |
Eventually, Trent defeats all of his Kyben hunters by ripping off the medallion-shaped devices they wear to anchor them in the past. Trent successfully destroys the mirror and recovers the missing fingers, one by one. When the computer is whole, he learns the terrible truth: he is not a man, but a robot. Brain-scans of the human survivors have been [[wire recorder|digitally encoded]] onto a gold-copper alloy wire wrapped around the [[solenoid]] in his [[thorax]]. Immune to disease, he must protect his precious cargo for 1,200 years, after the Kyben invasion, by which time the plague will have dissipated. Then he will resurrect the human race. |
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Trent had thought he was a man, as he and Consuelo had begun to develop feelings for each other. With the truth revealed, she leaves him, pity mixed with horror in her eyes. Trent is left to face 1,200 years of lonely vigil. |
Trent had thought he was a man, as he and Consuelo had begun to develop feelings for each other. With the truth revealed, she leaves him, pity mixed with horror in her eyes. Trent is left to face 1,200 years of lonely vigil. |
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== Production == |
== Production == |
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Ellison's story outline depicted a sprawling, cross-country chase between the Kyben and Trent (then named Mr. Fish). Because this would have been prohibitively expensive, producer [[ |
Ellison's story outline depicted a sprawling, cross-country chase between the Kyben and Trent (then named Mr. Fish). Because this would have been prohibitively expensive, producer [[Ben Brady]] suggested that Ellison contain most of the action in a single structure when he went to script. Ellison agreed, realizing that by forcing the plot into an enclosed space, the change from a linear pursuit to a vertical climb — ascending as the action developed — would make for heightened tension. Most of this episode was shot in the [[Bradbury Building]], the same location used for the final scenes of ''[[Blade Runner]]'' and a closing scene in the 1950 film noir classic, ''[[D.O.A. (1949 film)|D.O.A.]]'' |
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Ellison's 10-page story outline was published in ''Brain Movies III'' in 2013.<ref>''Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison Volume III'', pgs 115-124, Edgeworks Abbey, {{ISBN|978-0-9895257-0-1}}</ref> |
Ellison's 10-page story outline was published in ''Brain Movies III'' in 2013.<ref>''Brain Movies: The Original Teleplays of Harlan Ellison Volume III'', pgs 115-124, Edgeworks Abbey, {{ISBN|978-0-9895257-0-1}}</ref> |
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Ellison's friendship with Robert Culp dates from the production of this episode. He found Culp to be very intelligent, quite a contrast to most actors, whom he described as『dips — strictly ''[[non compos mentis]].''』When Culp first met Ellison at the Bradbury building location for filming, Ellison introduced himself in a loud voice and told the actor that he had written the episode just for him. Culp also stated that he felt it was one of the best-written episodes of television in the history of the medium. Culp indicated that he felt the success of the series and this episode was due to the fact that it was, essentially, a morality play.<ref>http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/robert-culp#</ref> |
Ellison's friendship with Robert Culp dates from the production of this episode. He found Culp to be very intelligent, quite a contrast to Ellison's opinion of most actors, whom he described as『dips — strictly ''[[non compos mentis]].''』When Culp first met Ellison at the Bradbury building location for filming, Ellison introduced himself in a loud voice and told the actor that he had written the episode just for him. Culp also stated that he felt it was one of the best-written episodes of television in the history of the medium. Culp indicated that he felt the success of the series and this episode was due to the fact that it was, essentially, a morality play.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/robert-culp#|title = Robert Culp|date = 22 October 2017}}</ref> |
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== Adaptations and unproduced sequel == |
== Adaptations and unproduced sequel == |
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A [[graphic novel]] adaptation, illustrated by [[Marshall Rogers]], was published by [[DC Comics]] January 1986. It was the fifth title of the ''[[DC Graphic Novel|DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel]]'' series. |
A [[graphic novel]] adaptation, illustrated by [[Marshall Rogers]], was published by [[DC Comics]]in January 1986. It was the fifth title of the ''[[DC Graphic Novel|DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel]]'' series. |
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Ellison's original script was published in ''Brain Movies Volume One'', by Edgeworks Abbey, in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.islets.net/film/brainmovies1.html |title= |
Ellison's original script was published in ''Brain Movies Volume One'', by Edgeworks Abbey, in 2011.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.islets.net/film/brainmovies1.html |title=Ellison / Brain Movies Volume One |access-date=2013-07-22 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120308063652/http://islets.net/film/brainmovies1.html |archivedate=2012-03-08 }}</ref> |
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During the run of ''[[Babylon 5]]'', series creator [[J. Michael Straczynski]] often said that Ellison would |
During the run of ''[[Babylon 5]]'', series creator [[J. Michael Straczynski]] often said that Ellison would be writing a sequel to this story (possibly called "Demon in the Dust" or "Demon on the Run") as an episode. However, the proposed sequel episode never appeared. Ellison was a creative consultant on the series and said in a behind-the-scene book about ''Babylon 5'' written during that show's third season:<ref>Bassom, David (1996), Creating Babylon 5. Boxtree. {{ISBN|0-7522-0841-1}}.</ref> |
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<blockquote style=font-size:100%>"I want very much to write this script and Joe very much wants it, and I think it probably will get written during this next season, but one never knows. I don't want to promise because if you promise, then all of a sudden fans on the internet start screaming, 'Well, where is it, where is it? Why doesn't he do it, why isn't he doing it? He's late again, he's late again.' And then I have to get cranky, go to their house and nail their heads to a coffee table!"</blockquote> |
<blockquote style=font-size:100%>"I want very much to write this script and Joe very much wants it, and I think it probably will get written during this next season, but one never knows. I don't want to promise because if you promise, then all of a sudden fans on the internet start screaming, 'Well, where is it, where is it? Why doesn't he do it, why isn't he doing it? He's late again, he's late again.' And then I have to get cranky, go to their house and nail their heads to a coffee table!"</blockquote> |
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In addition to "Demon With A Glass Hand", Ellison wrote other stories set against the backdrop of the "Earth-Kyba War." He adapted five of these |
In addition to "Demon With A Glass Hand", Ellison wrote other stories set against the backdrop of the "Earth-Kyba War." He adapted five of these{{snd}}"Run For the Stars", "Life Hutch", "The Untouchable Adolescents", "Trojan Hearse", and "Sleeping Dogs"{{snd}}into the graphic novel ''Night and the Enemy'' (1987), illustrated by [[Ken Steacy]]; "Life Hutch" would later be subsequently adapted (by [[Philip Gelatt]]) into an episode of the [[Netflix]] [[adult animation|adult animated]] [[anthology series]] ''[[Love, Death & Robots]]''. Also, Ellison's short story "[[The Human Operators]]"{{snd}}which he co-wrote with [[A. E. van Vogt]] and later adapted into the [[List of The Outer Limits (1995 TV series) episodes#ep94|eponymous episode]] of the new ''[[The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)|Outer Limits]]''{{snd}}is set in the same universe as this story; that story's ''Starfighter''-series of military spacecraft were originally built for the Earth-Kyba war. |
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== Allegations of plagiarism == |
== Allegations of plagiarism == |
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Some media outlets had previously reported that "Demon with a Glass Hand" was the basis of a settlement that Ellison received after it was allegedly plagiarized for ''[[The Terminator]]'' |
Some media outlets had previously reported that "Demon with a Glass Hand" was the basis of a settlement that Ellison received after it was allegedly plagiarized for ''[[The Terminator]]''. Harlan Ellison clarified in a 2001 exchange with a fan at his Web site: "''Terminator'' was not stolen from 'Demon with a Glass Hand', it was a ripoff of my OTHER ''Outer Limits'' script, '[[Soldier (The Outer Limits)|Soldier]]'."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jamescamerononline.com/Ellison.htm|title=When Ellison Attacks|work=James Cameron Online|access-date=14 August 2015}}</ref> |
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According to the ''Los Angeles Times'', the parties settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount, and an acknowledgment of Ellison's work in the credits of ''Terminator''.<ref name=OkBut>{{Cite news |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1991-07-07/entertainment/ca-2720_1_screen-credit |title=IT'S MINE All Very Well and Good, but Don't Hassle the T-1000 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=2009-08-22 | first=Andy | last=Marx}}</ref> |
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Many similar elements of the story can be found in the ''[[X-Men: The Animated Series]]'' episode "One Man's Worth" which was itself taken from the [[X-Men]] storyline [[Age of Apocalypse]]. |
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[[James Cameron]] emphatically denied Ellison's allegations and was opposed to the settlement, stating "For legal reasons I'm not suppose [sic] to comment on that (the addition of acknowledgement credits) but it was a real bum deal, I had nothing to do with it and I disagree with it."<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jamescamerononline.com/Ellison.htm|title=When Ellison Attacks|work=James Cameron Online|access-date=14 August 2015}}</ref> |
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== Sampling == |
== Sampling == |
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The music group [[Cabaret Voltaire (band)|Cabaret Voltaire]] [[Sampling (music)|sampled]] bits of dialogue from "Demon with a Glass Hand" for several songs: |
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*"Stay Out |
*"Stay Out of It" from ''[[The Voice of America (album)|The Voice of America]]'' (1980): "the third part of your brain ... you know where it is?", "don't kill me please please" and "and my hand...my hand...told me what to do". |
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*"[[Yashar (song)|Yashar]]" from ''[[2x45]]'' (1982): "There's 70 billion people of Earth, where are they hiding?" |
*"[[Yashar (song)|Yashar]]" from ''[[2x45]]'' (1982): "There's 70 billion people of Earth, where are they hiding?" |
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*"Soul Vine (70 Billion People)" from '' |
*"Soul Vine (70 Billion People)" from ''Plasticity'' (1992). |
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*"Soulenoid (Scream |
*"Soulenoid (Scream at the Right Time)" from ''Plasticity'' (1992). |
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== UK broadcast == |
== UK broadcast == |
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This episode was first transmitted in the United Kingdom on [[BBC Two]] on Friday, 28 March 1980. Although the first season had been screened in the UK in 1964 by [[ITV Granada|Granada TV]], and a few other ITV regions, it wasn't until the BBC transmitted all 49 episodes, in two seasons between 28 March 1980 and 17 July 1981, that the second-season episodes were first seen in the UK. The BBC chose "Demon |
This episode was first transmitted in the United Kingdom on [[BBC Two]] on Friday, 28 March 1980. Although the first season had been screened in the UK in 1964 by [[ITV Granada|Granada TV]], and a few other ITV regions, it wasn't until the BBC transmitted all 49 episodes, in two seasons between 28 March 1980 and 17 July 1981, that the second-season episodes were first seen in the UK. The BBC chose "Demon with a Glass Hand" as the first episode to be broadcast; none of the episodes were screened in series order, and second-season episodes were mixed in with first-season episodes. This was also its last UK terrestrial television broadcast until being shown on [[Talking Pictures TV]] in September 2022.<ref>[http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/outer.htm A Television Heaven review] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100930000400/http://www.televisionheaven.co.uk/outer.htm |date=2010-09-30}} /Radio Times/Shadow Play fanzine No.1, page 16 (1986) article by Terry Doyle</ref><ref>Starburst — A Marvel Monthly No.30 Volume 1,number 6 (Jan 1981),page 46</ref><ref>TV Zone article by Tise Vahimagi</ref> |
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== Feature film == |
== Feature film == |
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The episode was announced to be adapted as a motion picture in June 2014.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://insidemovies.ew.com/2014/06/20/the-outer-limits-scott-derrickson-c-robert-cargill/|title=Classic sci-fi TV show 'The Outer Limits' coming to the big screen|work=Entertainment Weekly's EW.com}}</ref> |
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== Footnotes == |
== Footnotes == |
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Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 5 | ||
Directed by | Byron Haskin | ||
Written by | Harlan Ellison | ||
Produced by | Ben Brady | ||
Cinematography by | Kenneth Peach | ||
Production code | 41 | ||
Original air date | October 17, 1964 (1964-10-17) | ||
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"Demon with a Glass Hand" is an episode of the American television series The Outer Limits, the second to be based on a script by Harlan Ellison, which Ellison wrote specifically with actor Robert Culp in mind for the lead role. It originally aired on October 17, 1964, and was the fifth episode of the second season.[1] In 2009, TV Guide ranked "Demon with a Glass Hand" #73 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[2]
"Through all the legends of ancient peoples — Assyrian, Babylonian, Sumerian, Semitic — runs the saga of the Eternal Man, the one who never dies, called by various names in various times, but historically known as Gilgamesh, the man who has never tasted death ... the hero who strides through the centuries ..."
(Narrator Vic Perrin mistakenly says "Sumerican" instead of "Sumerian".)
Trent (Robert Culp) is a man with no memory of his life before the previous ten days. His left hand has been replaced by an advanced computer shaped like his missing hand and protected by some transparent material. Three fingers are missing; the computer tells him they must be reattached before it can tell Trent what is going on. Trent is being hunted by a handful of humanoid aliens called the Kyben; they have the missing appendages. The action takes place in a large rundown office building (the historic Bradbury Building in downtown Los Angeles) which the Kyben have sealed off from the world. In this deadly game of hide-and-seek, Trent enlists the help of Consuelo Biros (Arlene Martel), a woman who works in the building.
For reasons unknown to him, Trent was sent into the past via a "time mirror", located in the building. A captured Kyben tells Trent that both of them are from a thousand years in the future. In that future, Earth has been conquered by the Kyben, but all the surviving humans except Trent have mysteriously vanished. The aliens are being obliterated by a "radioactive plague" that is killing all of the Kyben occupation force, a plague apparently unleashed by the humans in a last-ditch effort to repel the invasion. In a desperate attempt to find a cure for the plague and to extract whatever knowledge is stored in the hand/computer, the Kyben have followed him back in time with the missing fingers.
Eventually, Trent defeats all of his Kyben hunters by ripping off the medallion-shaped devices they wear to anchor them in the past. Trent successfully destroys the mirror and recovers the missing fingers, one by one. When the computer is whole, he learns the terrible truth: he is not a man, but a robot. Brain-scans of the human survivors have been digitally encoded onto a gold-copper alloy wire wrapped around the solenoid in his thorax. Immune to disease, he must protect his precious cargo for 1,200 years, after the Kyben invasion, by which time the plague will have dissipated. Then he will resurrect the human race.
Trent had thought he was a man, as he and Consuelo had begun to develop feelings for each other. With the truth revealed, she leaves him, pity mixed with horror in her eyes. Trent is left to face 1,200 years of lonely vigil.
"Like the Eternal Man of Babylonian legend, like Gilgamesh, one thousand plus two hundred years stretches before Trent. Without love. Without friendship. Alone; neither man nor machine, waiting. Waiting for the day he will be called to free the humans who gave him mobility. Movement, but not life."
The teleplay by Harlan Ellison won several major awards:
Ellison's story outline depicted a sprawling, cross-country chase between the Kyben and Trent (then named Mr. Fish). Because this would have been prohibitively expensive, producer Ben Brady suggested that Ellison contain most of the action in a single structure when he went to script. Ellison agreed, realizing that by forcing the plot into an enclosed space, the change from a linear pursuit to a vertical climb — ascending as the action developed — would make for heightened tension. Most of this episode was shot in the Bradbury Building, the same location used for the final scenes of Blade Runner and a closing scene in the 1950 film noir classic, D.O.A.
Ellison's 10-page story outline was published in Brain Movies III in 2013.[3]
Ellison's friendship with Robert Culp dates from the production of this episode. He found Culp to be very intelligent, quite a contrast to Ellison's opinion of most actors, whom he described as "dips — strictly non compos mentis." When Culp first met Ellison at the Bradbury building location for filming, Ellison introduced himself in a loud voice and told the actor that he had written the episode just for him. Culp also stated that he felt it was one of the best-written episodes of television in the history of the medium. Culp indicated that he felt the success of the series and this episode was due to the fact that it was, essentially, a morality play.[4]
Agraphic novel adaptation, illustrated by Marshall Rogers, was published by DC Comics in January 1986. It was the fifth title of the DC Science Fiction Graphic Novel series.
Ellison's original script was published in Brain Movies Volume One, by Edgeworks Abbey, in 2011.[5]
During the run of Babylon 5, series creator J. Michael Straczynski often said that Ellison would be writing a sequel to this story (possibly called "Demon in the Dust" or "Demon on the Run") as an episode. However, the proposed sequel episode never appeared. Ellison was a creative consultant on the series and said in a behind-the-scene book about Babylon 5 written during that show's third season:[6]
"I want very much to write this script and Joe very much wants it, and I think it probably will get written during this next season, but one never knows. I don't want to promise because if you promise, then all of a sudden fans on the internet start screaming, 'Well, where is it, where is it? Why doesn't he do it, why isn't he doing it? He's late again, he's late again.' And then I have to get cranky, go to their house and nail their heads to a coffee table!"
In addition to "Demon With A Glass Hand", Ellison wrote other stories set against the backdrop of the "Earth-Kyba War." He adapted five of these – "Run For the Stars", "Life Hutch", "The Untouchable Adolescents", "Trojan Hearse", and "Sleeping Dogs" – into the graphic novel Night and the Enemy (1987), illustrated by Ken Steacy; "Life Hutch" would later be subsequently adapted (byPhilip Gelatt) into an episode of the Netflix adult animated anthology series Love, Death & Robots. Also, Ellison's short story "The Human Operators" – which he co-wrote with A. E. van Vogt and later adapted into the eponymous episode of the new Outer Limits – is set in the same universe as this story; that story's Starfighter-series of military spacecraft were originally built for the Earth-Kyba war.
Some media outlets had previously reported that "Demon with a Glass Hand" was the basis of a settlement that Ellison received after it was allegedly plagiarized for The Terminator. Harlan Ellison clarified in a 2001 exchange with a fan at his Web site: "Terminator was not stolen from 'Demon with a Glass Hand', it was a ripoff of my OTHER Outer Limits script, 'Soldier'."[7]
Many similar elements of the story can be found in the X-Men: The Animated Series episode "One Man's Worth" which was itself taken from the X-Men storyline Age of Apocalypse.
The music group Cabaret Voltaire sampled bits of dialogue from "Demon with a Glass Hand" for several songs:
This episode was first transmitted in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on Friday, 28 March 1980. Although the first season had been screened in the UK in 1964 by Granada TV, and a few other ITV regions, it wasn't until the BBC transmitted all 49 episodes, in two seasons between 28 March 1980 and 17 July 1981, that the second-season episodes were first seen in the UK. The BBC chose "Demon with a Glass Hand" as the first episode to be broadcast; none of the episodes were screened in series order, and second-season episodes were mixed in with first-season episodes. This was also its last UK terrestrial television broadcast until being shown on Talking Pictures TV in September 2022.[8][9][10]
The episode was announced to be adapted as a motion picture in June 2014.[11]
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