The Outer Limits (1963)

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"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll... more »

"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits."less «

• Favorite Episodes?

  i used to argue with my mom and dad's best friends' son about which was better, twilight zone or outler limits.  to this ...more »

  i used to argue with my mom and dad's best friends' son about which was better, twilight zone or outler limits.  to this day i can't remember who took which side; i am betting i took the twilight zone's side, though.  regardless, i've become a fan of the better episodes of the outer limits, and some of my favorites are demon with a glass hand, the architects of fear, the sixth finger, the form of things unknown, andro, the bellero shield and corpus earthling (that last i don't even remember except i remember loving all the ones robert culp was in).  how about you?  got faves? g less «

  pirategennie Last online Dec 31, 1969
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• Favorite Actor/Actress on The Outer Limits

  Who was your favorite actor/actress on The Outer Limits? I liked Martin Landau in The Bellero Shield.

  Who was your favorite actor/actress on The Outer Limits? I liked Martin Landau in The Bellero Shield. less «

  revbucky Last online 2 days ago
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• LEAST favorite episodes?

  So what are some of your least favorite episodes, and why? Here are mine: 1. "The Probe": A great series goes out with a ...more »

  So what are some of your least favorite episodes, and why? Here are mine: 1. "The Probe": A great series goes out with a whimper. Everything about this one says that the production crew was mailing it in, playing out the string, or whatever euphemism you prefer. 2. "Cry of Silence": Maybe just because I'm not an Eddie Albert fan, but this one left me cold. 3. "Production and Decay of Strange Particles": This one, not the far superior one about the bee woman, should have been the one to get the title "ZZZZZ," but for an altogether different reason. 4. "Children of Spider County": Great title, dull episode. 5. "Borderland": It's been a while since I've seen it, but as I recall, there was a lot of talk and very little action. less «

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  8 Great

  This is an excellent episode notwithstanding the core idea being a central story point recycled from episode 3, "The Architects of Fear." hide « show »

  This is an excellent episode notwithstanding the core idea being a central story point recycled from episode 3, "The Architects of Fear." In that episode, Robert Culp instead of Robert Duval is a soldierly man transformed into an alien as part of a strategic deception. Curiously, the scientist who effects the transformation, in both episodes, is played by the same actor, Douglas Henderson.
  
  There the similarities end as this episode, whose chief writer is the distinguished dramatist, Robert Towne, provides a narrative medium for the recycled idea that is wholly superior to the earlier script. While the first script amounts to a disturbing example of extreme cruelty in service of a preposterous idea, the latter script effectively indicts human fear and the impulse to violence in the face of the unknown.

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  sci-fine Added Apr 9, 2009 All my reviews
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  1 Abysmal

  This was the worst copy of The Twilight Zone ever!!! hide « show »

  Well this was the most ridiculous show I've seen, it's not even remotely close to The Twilight Zone. Silly stories, cheesy costumes,(I know it was in the 60's and the special effects were bad but it wasn't necesary to make cheesy monsters to scare you, in fact it made me laugh) horrible all the way!!. I kept watching, thinking that someday I was going to see an episode that make any sense, never happened!!
  And the silly control voice...just ridiculous! It will never be like Rod Serling's introductions.
  I wasted my time horribly!! =(
  I can't believe they made a remake which was terrible too.

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  ultimate-tv-fan Added Dec 13, 2008 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  There is nothing wrong with your telivision set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture, or the aliens will GET you. hide « show »

  Just recently, I managed to get my hands on a DVD collection of old Outer Limits classics and my God how the memories came flooding back!One of the best and scariest T.V. shows in the history of television. I was in short pants when these episodes origionally aired, and I never missed a single one of them! When the episode called "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" was shown, I had nightmares for weeks just thinking about Edward Asner trapped in that concrete hallway with a life sucking energy monster just waiting to rip him a new one. In the eighties, an anthology film of old twilite zone episodes was made starring John Lithgow and the late Vic Morrow. I'd love to see the Outer Limits get the same big budget treatment! My pics for episodes that should be dusted off and re-written for the Big Screen would be; "It Crawled out of the Woodwork", "The Man With the Power", "The Architects of Fear" and "The Invisible Enemy". If they did as good a job on the Outer Limits movie as they did on The Twilite zone, wild horses couldn't keep me from seeing it!

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  jawsthecabbie Added Dec 12, 2008 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  One of the original science fiction classics! hide « show »

  "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission." These familiar words introduced a short-lived but very important science fiction TV series. Although the Outer Limits only lasted a brief two seasons, people still remember those famous opening lines.
  
  I recently watched the entire first season on DVD. Each episode was well written (reflecting the writing of the early 1960s) and quality actors and actresses were cast in the major roles. Even though the special effects leave much to be desired, the end result was a series which every science fiction buff loves.
  
  Beginning with "The Galaxy Being," the series explored the theme of alien beings. Week after week the planet earth was exposed to life from other worlds. Sometimes they visited earth and other times they were visited by us. Other themes included nuclear war, the end of the world, and the effects of radiation exposure.
  
  Some of my favorite stars who appeared in the series were Leonard Nimoy, Martin Landau, Ivan Dixon, Robert Culp, Jacqueline Scott, and Robert Duvall.
  
  I'm looking forward to watching the rest of the series. I hope you'll join me on this "great adventure."
  
  "We now return control of your television set to you, until next week, at the same time when the Control Voice will take you to... The Outer Limits."

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  revbucky Added Jul 7, 2008 All my reviews
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  8.9 Great

  Not as good as the Twilight Zone, but still great nonetheless. hide « show »

  The only reason I compared this show to "The Twilight Zone" is because they're both have the same sci-fi/horror/mystery format in a series of weekly self-contained stories. I actually think that the remake version of "Outer Limits" is better than that of "Twilight Zone" (both the 80's and 00's versions)
  
  Anyway, I guess the biggest problem I had with this show was running time. Don't get me wrong, I loved the fact that the episodes were one hour instead of a half hour (like TZ) but sometimes this was a bad thing too because there just wasn't enough there to keep my attention for that extra half hour.
  
  Either way though, this show was great in its own right. As opposed to Twilight Zone's "underlaying moral fiber" message this show, in my opinion, focussed more on action and horror. One could probably consider this more of a "sci fi" show than Twilight Zone as well (which was more fantasy).
  
  Some of my favorite episodes include "The Man Who Was Never Born", "The Zanti Misfits" and "The Guests".

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  rhcp199 Added Nov 12, 2007 All my reviews