Rating : - Take my wife and give me a disintigrater, please!
"Keeper of the Purple Twilight" is one of the more interesting OL titles to come along.

Big-headed, big handed alien drops in on overacting scientist who's desparately trying to create a new power source. The alien turns into Robert Webber (of "Twelve Angry Men" fame) and gives him the needed calculations in exchange for his emotions. The result is a really cool (though the power source could be a little more portable) disintigrater. Webber then prances with scientist's wife, who seems rather calm around this guy. Even when he shows his true form to her. Realizing that his race is really, really bland, Webber confronts the alien soldiers who are there to pave the way for more emotionless critters to take over earth. In the end, everyone bits the electrons so to speak and the scientist finally learns not to overact.

On the positive side, the alien costumes and make-up are well done. And Webber turns in a pretty good performance given the limitations his character has. Whether Leonard Nimoy drew any inspiration from this to use in "Star Trek" is not really apparent.

This show has "underdeveloped" written all over it. While some scenes work nicely, the overall story lacks any oomph. A product perhaps of the limited budgets for this second season entry. The scientist final use of the disintigrater is rather puzzling since he knows the aliens are still a threat. But I suppose we needed some kind of moral conclusion to this tale.

One interesting note is how the scientist and his wife both enter & exit their cars (in separate scenes) on the passenger side. I don't really know why they would do that.

Overall, this is one of the better OL shows from season two. Worth obtaining if you're trying to complete you collection or you're a really big Robert Webber fan (and let's face it, who isn't?).