I guess I'm the outsider in my review for this episode. Unlike most of the other comments offered here, I didn't think this was a very good story, and as Amanda Frank (Peggy Ann Garner) stated to Jeff Rome (Peter Mark Richman) at one point - "There's no meaning or pattern to this". I felt that most of the dialog among the trio trapped in the plastic-like enclosure amounted to a bunch of meaningless and baseless assumptions. And that goofy, crawling blob! I could just picture some guy in that rubber suit with his arms outstretched and moving about, this way and that, and just laughing to himself about the absurdity of it all. It reminded me of a creature called the Horta in the 1967 Star Trek episode 'The Devil in the Dark'. But at least there was a rationale for that organism, while none was offered for the strange life form here. Throughout the story, Jeff, Amanda and Coberly (Ron Hayes) tried to rationalize an alien presence into human terms and it just didn't work for me. Which was kind of a downer since this was the last episode of the Sixties series, whereas one would have expected the program to go out on a much finer note.
Review of The Probe
