The Outer Limits (original series) 50th anniversary

See body of thread | September 16, 2013

[EveningStar]

The Outer Limits debuted on Monday, September 16, 1963 on ABC. Although this imaginative science fiction anthology series was cancelled midway through its second season, it gained a good cult following and proved to be highly influential.

The show had several truly fine episodes.

The Wikipedia article is very informative.

Many of the episodes are available online.

[FredZarguna]

I believe this is an episode of One Step Beyond entitled "The Vision." More than 1,000 different men on both sides of the front saw something in the sky at the end of November 1915. No two people described the same thing. It is actually based on a true event.

[Old Sarge]

[Stalwart]

Here’s a YouTube, only five seconds length, recommended:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yqBKV0IXlDo

[Hot Tabasco]

While I loved the original series, I thought the new series was wonderful. I was so disappointed when it ended.........

[Hot Tabasco]

If it wasn’t problems with the transmission, it would be the vertical hold. And if that didn’t cause distractions the horizontal hold would go haywire

Ya dummy, ya didn't have enough tinfoil on your rabbit ears antenna........LOL!

[Hot Tabasco]

Do not attempt to adjust your set. But YOU tried.

OOOOH yea.......LOL!

[xkaydet65]

In what turned out to be her last Christmas gift to me, though neither of us knew it at the time, my wife gave me the DVD of the complete series this past Christmas. We both loved the show, especially the now very relevant 100 Days of the Dragon.

[xkaydet65]

I believe it was John Newland’s One Step Beyond. I remember the episode.

[JaguarXKE]

I just remember McCallum had a really big head!

[timestax]

An episode set in Civil War battle. Something about the sun. The battle is in full charge when the North and South armies stop fighting due to something about the sun, the way it looked. Sound familiar to anyone? I KNOW I saw this episode!

[The Cajun]

Great show, one of my favorites from back in the day.

Probably liked it as much as the Twilight Zone.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

An hour long rip off of TWILIGHT ZONE. An excellent program as I enjoyed both TZ and Outer Limits.

The first episode I saw was the thing living in the box. You look through the lens and it pulls you in.

I loved the episode of the man who knew he was “strange”. Attacked a religious fanatic woman, tore his arm open and found he WAS A ROBOT!
My wife said that episode caused her cousin to have nightmares for months!

But then I also liked ONE STEP BEYOND.

[FreedomPoster]

lolololol!

[P.O.E.]

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Outer Limits—The Marketts (1963) ***

I believe due to copyright laws they were required to cHange the name to OUT OF LIMITS.

[P.O.E.]

One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from that episode:

Your ignorance makes me ill and angry

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

*** And if that didn’t cause distractions the horizontal hold would go haywire, so I just gave up.***

Hay it could have been worse. I remember MAN, WOMAN, BIRTH, DEATH, INFINITY. By then my dad was bored and changed the channel. I think it was some doctor show.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

***Do not attempt to adjust your set.***

I did! Dad had to take it in the next week and get a new tuner as I tried to turn it backward.

[Fiji Hill]

***Outer Limits—The Marketts (1963) ***

I believe due to copyright laws they were required to change the name to OUT OF LIMITS.

Yes, that's what happened. I have a 45 rpm disc with the original title.

[wally_bert]

The cable channel “THIS” around here in Columbia SC, runs the OL on Saturday mornings.