"The Sandkings", an episode of The Outer Limits based on the novelette of the same name
"The Sandkings" is the first episode of the revived 1960s science-fiction television series The Outer Limits, based on the short story Sandkings by George R. R. Martin, first published in Omni Magazine August 1979.
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The action of the original story Sandkings by George R. R. Martin takes place in the distant future on a far planet colonized by humans.
Simon Kress is possessed by neither scientific interest nor desire to receive the Nobel Prize, but simple aggression, which turns the initially harmless Sandkings into aggressive creatures.
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In 1996 The Outer Limits TV-series was nominated to the prize Gemini Awards, including Beau Bridges received a nomination in the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series", and episode "SandKings" was nominated in the category "Best TV Movie or Mini-Series" and "Best Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series".