a Glass Hand" was the basis of a settlement that Ellison received after it was allegedly plagiarized for The Terminator. Harlan Ellison clarified in a 2001 exchange with a fan at his Web site: "'Terminator' was not stolen from 'Demon with a Glass Hand,' it was a ripoff of my OTHER Outer Limits script, 'Soldier.'" Sampling The music group Cabaret Voltaire sampled bits of dialogue from "Demon with a Glass Hand" for several songs: "Stay Out Of It" from The Voice of America (1980): "the third part of your brain ... you know where it is?", "don't kill me please please" and "and my hand...my hand...told me what to do". "Yashar" from 2x45 (1982): "There's 70 billion people of Earth, where are they hiding?" "Soul Vine (70 Billion People)" from Plasticity (1992). "Soulenoid (Scream At The Right Time)" from Plasticity (1992). UK broadcast This episode was first transmitted in the United Kingdom on BBC Two on Friday, 28 March 1980. Although the first season had been screened in the UK in 1964 by Granada TV, and a few other ITV regions, it wasn't until the BBC transmitted all 49 episodes, in two seasons between 28 March 1980 and 17 July 1981, that the second-season episodes were first seen in the UK. The BBC chose "Demon With A Glass Hand" as the first episode to be broadcast; none of the episodes were screened in series order, with second-season episodes mixed in with first-season episodes. This was also its last UK terrestrial television broadcast - until being shown on Talking Pictures TV in September 2022. Feature film The episode was announced to be adapted as a motion picture in June 2014. Footnotes External links The Outer Limits (1963 TV series season 2) episodes 1964 American television episodes Television episodes written by Harlan Ellison Fiction about robots Television episodes about time travel