Episode description
In the American Research Institute in the South Pole, several snow pirates are met with a wolf dog being chased by a Norwegian helicopter and if they understood WTF they were saying, they wouldn't be in this mess. After eyebrows Hoolihan, Garry (Donald Moffat) shoots the Norwegian, the team decides to check out what could have happened at the other camp. They get MacReady (Kurt Russell) and his lustrous beard to fly them over and when they get there, they see twisted smoking bodies, an empty ice coffin, and a huge spacecraft frozen in the ice. They decide to bring the bodies back to be examined by nose ring having Dr Copper (Richard Dysart) and oatmeal eating Dr. Blair (Wilford Brimley). While all this is happening, dog wrangler, Clark (Richard Masur) is ordered to take the wayward dog to the kennels where it begins to transform...wetly. Blair discovers the secret of the shape-shifting organism, launching a night of paranoia where everyone is suspect. Who goes there? Is it Palmer (David Clennon), Fuchs (Joel Polis), Nauls (TK Carter), Norris (Charles Hallahan), Windows (Thomas G Waites), Bennings (Peter Maloney) or the always on guard, Childs (Keith David)? Take a quick blood test and find out in The Thing, this week on Doom Generation.