Beginning of the End

“New thrills! New shocks! New terror!”

Dr. Ed Wainwright (Peter Graves) is an agricultural scientist who grows oversized vegetables with radiation, and he has a government laboratory in Illinois to do it in. Reporter Audrey Aimes (Peggie Castle) is looking into why an entire town has been wiped out when her search leads her to Wainwright's work. Bert I. Gordon sends the two of them toward Chicago, where General Hanson (Morris Ankrum) and thousands of giant grasshoppers are waiting.