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The Outer Limits (original series) 50th anniversary
See body of thread | September 16, 2013

Posted on 09/16/2013 2:40:51 PM PDT by 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.


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To: Sigurdrifta
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.
41 posted on 09/16/2013 3:51:48 PM PDT by FredZarguna (Or perhaps his Nobel Prize lecture for medicine.)
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To: FredZarguna

42 posted on 09/16/2013 3:54:08 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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To: EveningStar

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

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


43 posted on 09/16/2013 4:04:01 PM PDT by Stalwart
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To: EveningStar

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


44 posted on 09/16/2013 4:08:01 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: lbryce
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!

45 posted on 09/16/2013 4:11:54 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: TomGuy
Do not attempt to adjust your set. But YOU tried.

OOOOH yea.......LOL!

46 posted on 09/16/2013 4:13:30 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (')
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To: EveningStar

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.


47 posted on 09/16/2013 4:19:14 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (.You have never tasted freedom, else you would know it is purchased not with gold but with steel)
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To: Sigurdrifta

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


48 posted on 09/16/2013 4:21:51 PM PDT by xkaydet65 (.You have never tasted freedom, else you would know it is purchased not with gold but with steel)
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To: FredZarguna

I just remember McCallum had a really big head!


49 posted on 09/16/2013 4:24:08 PM PDT by JaguarXKE (1973: Reporters investigate All the President's Men. 2013: Reporters ARE all the President's men)
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To: Hot Tabasco

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!


50 posted on 09/16/2013 4:25:10 PM PDT by timestax
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To: EveningStar
Great show, one of my favorites from back in the day.

Probably liked it as much as the Twilight Zone.

51 posted on 09/16/2013 4:28:51 PM PDT by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
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To: EveningStar

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.


52 posted on 09/16/2013 5:06:09 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Diogenesis

lolololol!


53 posted on 09/16/2013 5:07:50 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: onedoug

54 posted on 09/16/2013 5:11:09 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Fiji Hill

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

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


55 posted on 09/16/2013 5:12:26 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: JaguarXKE
One of my all-time favorite quotes comes from that episode:

Your ignorance makes me ill and angry

56 posted on 09/16/2013 5:12:56 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: lbryce

*** 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.


57 posted on 09/16/2013 5:15:04 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: TomGuy

***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.


58 posted on 09/16/2013 5:17:04 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: 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.

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

59 posted on 09/16/2013 5:18:09 PM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: headstamp 2

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


60 posted on 09/16/2013 5:25:04 PM PDT by wally_bert (There are no winners in a game of losers. I'm Tommy Joyce, welcome to the Oriental Lounge.)
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