BEM In A Business Suit

The famous Bug-Eyed Monster in a business suit episode has one of the best beginnings of any story in the series, but after the first act it all starts going south, fast. The OL production team was spread pretty thin at the time this one was made, and it shows.

The story is terrific, but it's never properly realized. A number of people all born in obscure, rural Spider County in a given time period are all suddenly disappearing - and the Space Agency wants to know why, since not only are the vanished men among their best scientists, but UFOs are associated with the vanishing acts. One of their agents attaches himself to the remaining young man fitting the profile of the missing, in order to smoke-out whoever - or whatever - is responsible.

Damn! Sounds good, doesn't it? Too bad it isn't.

The suspense is shot from the start, the dialogue is trite and often unintentionally comical, there's way too much padding and repeat use of stock footage (mostly of the BEM in a business suit stomping about the woods, who gets far too much air time for such a flimsy, if eye-grabbing, mask)...it just doesn't hold together, at all.

This one is screaming for a remake in the new OL series.

Lovecraft comes to TV

One of the better episodes, really has a feel of a 50s sci-fi horror flick rather than a sanitized TV show episode.