Dead Man's Switch

When it is not known if aliens coming to the Earth are friend or foe, five people are placed individually in secret underground bunkers to man switches that if not pressed at specified intervals will set off mass destruction that will wipe out anyone or anything living on the planet.

Category:

• Science Fiction
• Horror
• Drama

Directed by:

• Stuart Gillard

Tags:

• Flashback Sequence
• Biohazard
• Voice Interface
• FBI
• Conspiracy
• Scientist
• Anthology
• Alternate History
• Time Travel
• Android
• Supernatural
• Robot
• Paranormal
• Altering history
• Alien
• Authority
• Futurism
• Cult
• Space Travel
• monsters

[zenjim007]

@zenjim007 Whoops sorry for the misspell on "win" the aliens plugged in my head and caused that. He he. See...were all doomed.

[zenjim007]

Muh...Ha ha ha haaaaaa! The aliens when again! Well you know the Outer Limits and what side they are on,  Wouldn't it be hysterical to find out that The Outer Limits producers and writers really were aliens; writing all these alien scenarios where they win all the time just so we would give up when they do invade. They control the vertical and the horizontal already;...but they want all!

[project0omega]

@mistermassive1 no lmao

[project0omega]

@WWOLFwts the message is at the end of the episode :)

[RingSight91]

This aired on April 4, 1997, recounts the Wiki. Looks like the producers failed to take into account the events in the real US Air Force in creating their bunker heraldry. Sure, the "United Nations Strategic Air Command" might be fictitious, but who'd model it after a deactivated USAF Strategic Air Command (SAC)? By then "US Strategic Command" (USSTRATCOM) was already active, and elements of SAC were transferred to newly created different USAF Major Commands.

[brucearmstrong1]

@togo8186 That's why they have five widely separated stations around the world. Any one of the five stations can prevent the weapons from detonating.

[togo8186]

What if one person has a heart attack or something. Wouldn't it have been a better idea to have at least two people manning the switch?

[electronfun]

I guess we all know now why ET REALLY phoned home... it was to tell the other aliens that earthlings are easy, easy pickings... So dumb, so gullible, so naive...

I've long suspected that "First Contact" has already happened surreptitiously and it wasn't to our happiness and benefit. Maybe David Icke has been wrong in specific details, but got the overall gist exactly correct.

[WWOLFwts]

First person died by his AIR systems malfunctioning; Second person died by freezing to death, with ice being a form of WATER; Third person died because someone broke through the EARTH and pulled her through; Fourth person died by a FIRE starting; Fifth guy lives, his SOUL in torment from being secluded and cut off from the rest of the world

Perhaps there's a message there I can't possibly figure out yet?

Other than that, I've always loved this episode, ever since I was a kid =D

[waynebollman]

I'd have stopped pushing it after finding out that Obama became president.