The Hundred Days of the Dragon

Episode aired Sep 23, 1963
51m

IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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The Outer Limits: The Hundred Days Of The Dragon

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Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery Sci-Fi Thriller

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.

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IMDb RATING

7.2/10

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Trivia
The scenes that show the assassin having his face stretched and altered, was considered quite graphic for the times.

Goofs
Although 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.

Connections
Featured in Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

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Review

Featured review

8/10

Cold War paranoia inspired episode.

Senator William 'Bill' Lyons Selby, who's set the become the next president of The USA, falls foul of Chinese agents, who have perfected a process for transforming people into exacting doppelgangers.

What a difference to the opening episode, I'm watching this series for the first time, I'd been expecting another alien based story, instead, was as a cold war inspired tale of infiltration, with a foreign power set to cause massive political unrest.

Now what I had expected, but equally as entertainment as the previous episode, albeit for different reasons.

In this day and age, when you see what certain celebrities are doing to their faces, with Botox, fillers and surgery etc, is it too much to dismiss the idea of huge facial changes, I wonder.

One little blip I noticed, considering that they went to such lengths in the early stages of the episode to establish that he had a mainly missing finger, why did they show full fingers? It seemed an unnecessary detail.

Well acted and well produced once again, this show really is offering up something a little different. Amazing to see how the landscape looks now, compared to back then.

Enjoyed it, 8/10.