Director Leonard Horn's, THE ZANTI MISFITS, while containing some interesting ideas, is not one of the better "Outer Limits" episodes.

The Zanti's, oversized ants, look silly rather than scary. They scurry about via stop motion photography, courtesy of Jim Danforth, Paul Le Baron, and Ralph Rodine of Project Unlimited, Inc.

The Zanti spaceship, beehive shaped, is not very impressive. The flying sequences, by Optical Effects Unit guy M.B. Paul, are weak.

Michael Tolan, as a historian who is eager to participate in a history-making event, is impressive. It's also fun to catch Bruce Dern in an early role as a criminal on the run.

I had no favorite scene.

Producer/Writer Joseph Stefano's dialogue is crisp and effective. At one point, Tolan remarks, "History has been recorded in some pretty morbid places, Major. But when a historian, named Grave, finds himself in a ghost town called Morgue..."

Director of Photography, John M. Nickolaus, Jr., delivers some striking images. An early shot of tumbleweeds rolling over the fallen down sign for Morgue, California, is particularly good. The music, by Dominic Frontiere, is adequate to the occasion.

THE ZANTI MISFITS will not be very watchable for most Sci-Fi fans. Some children may enjoy this episode, although the very small fry might be spooked by the creepy, crawly Zanti's. Even "Outer Limits" nuts will have a hard time getting ants in their pants over this episode.

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