Episode 08 : "Doomsday Minus One"

• First Transmitted February 28th 1967
• Director Paul Wendkos
• Written by Louis Vittes

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The Aliens plan to knock the Earth off its axis by detonating an anti-matter bomb to coincide with an atomic test to be carried out by the US Army and Department of Energy.

The Guest Stars in tonight's story :

William Windham 



Andrew Duggan   

SPOILERS
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What's New in this Episode

• The Invaders have harnessed the power of anti-matter.
• A radioactive world stripped of all life is no use to them
• General Beaumont has amassed enough evidence about the presence of the Invaders to convince the General Staff at the Pentagon
• He has let his furvor for nuclear disarmament cloud his military judgement

Unanswered Questions

• What were the aliens planning to do once the anti-matter explosion had happened?
• How and when did Tomkins make first approach to General Beaumont?

Notes

• William Windham also appears in The Summit Meeting, as well as in the similarly named Star Trek episode 'The Doomsday Machine"