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There was an Outer Limits episode about some sort of particle creatures who ate up the bodies of people working in a nuclear reactor and took over their radiation suits. It all happened during a thunderstorm, and the reactor was wonderfully creepy, a hellish furnace, all glowing, surrounded by people (well at first, anyway) in klunky radiation suits.
I know I first saw it during Xmas because I was at a friend's house; coming home, Mom and Dad were at a party and only big sister was there. She informed me that the christmas tree would protect us from the Particle Creatures. Well, at that time we sort of poorly estimated Xmas tree height out in the field and got trees way too tall for our living room. The result was a lopped-off, huge and bushy tree. I estimated that I could fend off Particle Creatures in the cover of that tree until Mom & Dad got home. Maybe jab 'em with the bubble lights or toss a spikey ornament at them if they got too aggressive.
In the summer, though, the threat came from the Martians. I'd seen Invaders From Mars a couple years before, and in the summer you're outside and on kinda...soft...ground that any competent Martian could dig a tunnel under and suck you in. I stayed on the sidewalks after dusk, believe me.
Man, the Martians in the Summer and the Particle Creatures in the Winter....it was tough being a kid.
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