The Probe

Pilot "Cobe" Coberly heads the crew of a transoceanic cargo plane inflight to Tokyo with only passenger, Amanda Frank. A hurricane forces the plane to ditch directly within the "eye" of the storm. The people scramble into a life raft....and run "aground" on a strange, solid surface in mid-Pacific.Dexter, the navigator, sets out to investigate the odd place. His distant screams are heard. Then an amorphous glob advances threatening the remaining crew. Further exploration reveals that they are all captives within a laboratory equipped with instruments and mechanization far in advance of anything known to scientists of Earth.

Category:

• Classic TV
• Science Fiction
• Horror

Starring:

• Vic Perrin
• Bob Johnson

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

[resculptit]

Trying to communicate " E=mc2 " is a bit stupid - considering the people Sending the message can't understand it. Their Fear is causing them to disolve into idiots. For examples of the Human - it would not surprise me that an alien race would consider us merely Parasites.

[GMF1313]

Somebody forget the pooper scooper? The dogshit monster reminds me of the Horta in Star Trek.

[GMF1313]

love the model airplane. didn't have the budget to film a real one. Wonder if the "bumpy ride" simulator was used on all of the spaceship and airplane episodes

[wastemgmt07]

There is your early joystick, and flat panel TV....@ 31:50

[jabrown45100]

Unlike T.zone and One Step Beyond, this program is too mechanical for acting. But its is good on average. The mystery is less to others.

[jabrown45100]

The pilot trying to transmit, I think played the pilot in Delta Force when it was highjacked

[OBIT3]

The obvious cheapness of this episode is explained by knowing the show had already been cancelled by ABC. With one episode left to fulfill the contract, a show was developed on an essentially bare sound stage, with minimal production values and half the normal budget. Under the circumstances, the fact that a reasonably coherent (well, sort of) episode was produced can be viewed as an accomplishment.

[Titan52berg]

This was one of the oddest episodes; the crew of the plane began figuring things out like scientists, asking questions and just suddenly making 'sense' out of everything they came into contact with... like they had read some sort of instruction manual with all the answers.... acting was a bit calculated and overdone in various segments. Not one of my favorite episodes.

[TheMrBlinx]

These people (the writers actually) didn't quite think it through. That joystick thing was meant to be manipulated by a hand or tentacle or something living, and the view screens were made to be seen by something also living, and at a fair height, too. Thus, the probe was not merely automated as they wrongly supposed.

[TheMrBlinx]

@ferlenarab Yep: /watch?v=65dzjOIkwwI