The Outer Limits

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As I had a twilight zone thread, I of course must have a thread for The Outer Limits which ran from 1963-1965. It focused mostly on pure sci-fi stories and helped pave the way for shows such as The X-Files. There was a second version later on in the 90s as well.

My favourite episode was The Zanti Misfits about a race of aliens (ANTS!! !) that come to Earth and how they are treated by the local humans. Also there was another cool one where this entire town was taken by mutant aliens who were planning on using the human race as slaves. I just got my Season 2-3 box set and just watch Cold Hands! Warm Heart! starring William Shatner, I think he made it about the same time he did Nightmare at 20,000 Feet on Twilight Zone.

Feel free to yap away about the Outer Limits. Also, I love the intro with the control voice. It's probably one of TV's most famous intro narrations.

Outer Limits was a classic. When I was growing up, a local TV station showed them every Saturday night and I was always watching. I didn't know they were on DVD now, I'd love to have them. I remember O.B.I.T., about an alien machine that was used for surveillance that had an even more sinister purpose.

I also liked Controlled Experiment, in which who martians named Deimos and Phobos used time manipulating equipment ot study a murder. The two martians were portrayed by Barry Morse and Carroll O'Connor. I could never see Professor Victor Bergman and Archie Bunker working together, so casting those two actors in the roles did give me a bit of chuckle.

There were also a couple of episodes with Martin Landau I enjoyed. One in which he plays a man from a post apocolyptic future who goes back in time to rewrite history by preventing the birth of the scientist who created the disease which devastates Earth, and another in which he plays a scientist who gets his hands on a piece of alien shielding technology with bad consequences.

I could probably list other episodes too, but there are just too many. I tried watching the new series, but it just wasn't the same. I don't know why, but the way they write them these days just isn't the same as the way they were done back then.

I saw one with a robot everyone thought killed someone and he got killed saving someone from a car. I cryed. I think I saw some others and I dont like it.

Hmmm-I used to watch a show called the outer limits, awesome show, but it was fefinetely modern. Did they redo it?

Yeah OBIT was a great episode, was very good for cold-war climate and has a lot of relevance to todays. I mostly enjoy those sorts of episodes in those old TV shows. They made Controlled Experiment in such a way that they reusued the same bit of footage over and over again to cut down costs and keep the series under budget, thus the whole rewinding and fast forwarding stuff. Still, it was a good episode.

Mockingbird, they remade it in the 90s, it was on for like seven years I think. It had a lot of cameos, I didn't really get into it much because to me it was lacking the original tone of the series and focused on sex/eploitation a bit too much.

Just watched an episode called The Demon With The Glass Hand. It was really cool and considering it was all set in the one building, they still managed to keep it full of action. I've got a funny feeling James Cameron must've seen it once. It's about this man who can't die who has a computer for a hand and about an alien race 1000 years in the future who conquered the Earth in 19 days and how the man saved the humans before travelling back in time. It was trippy and had a cool slightly twisted ending.

Just watched the episode "Nightmare" again with a young Martin Sheen. It's about these prisoners of war on an alien planet. I think it's such a great show, you really have to watch this one to understand. I read recently that alot of people used to just watch this show for the 'monsters' it had, but it was more than just that. It introduced genuine science fiction concepts to the public at a time when it need mass media respectibility. Good bless black and white television.