Posted by Dennis on January 23, 2003 at 11:13:54:
In Reply to: Reply from Glaxo posted by Sandy Donchess on January 23, 2003 at 09:57:40:
"We appreciate the opportunity to serve you..."
Respectfully submitted for your perusal - a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone.
A race of aliens arrive on earth and begin to convince the entire population of thier friendly motives. They start to aid mankind in every way from eliminating war, hunger, and introduce a way to produce extremely cheap power.
After the first meeting with the U.N. one of the Kanamit representatives accidently leaves a book behind. U.S. decoding experts including Michael Chambers start immediately trying to de-code the Kanamits language and therefore understand the book.
Eventually they decipher the title "To Serve Man" and everyone is relieved because they now know that the Kanamit's are here to serve humankind.
Mr. Chambers soon joins thousands of other people who have booked flights back to the Kanamits home planet. Just as he is about to board the ship his assistant breaks through the crowd and begs him not to board. She has figured out the book and yells "It's a cookbook". Mr. Chambers tries to escape but a Kanamit pushes him aboard.
The recollections of one Michael Chambers, with appropriate flashbacks and soliloquy. Or more simply stated, the evolution of man, the cycle of going from dust to dessert, the metamorphosis from being the ruler of a planet to an ingredient in someone's soup. It's tonight's bill of fare on the Twilight Zone.
Original Air Date, March 2, 1962
Writer, Rod Serling :)