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.
Watch it every weekend.
I recall best an episode where four people lost on a life raft were transported to an alien vessel. The ET’s were dissecting their gear with a light ray.
A panel flashed and glowed in sequence, as if they were trying to communicate with the humans. An hysterical woman kept pleading with the light panel, to be released.
Never recalled what happened to them...
In The Forms of Things Unknown he is the inventor of a time machine. That episode was actually intended to be a pilot for a spin-off series which never happened.
No, I did not. Several aliens emerged from the TV set and out of the illuminated TV Tubes in the back of the TV that were really miniaturized skyscrapers from their home planet in which they lived.
The figure out that they’re actually inside a space probe that’s taking samples. They manage to communicate with the aliens operating the probe by entering pi or something into a pilot console, and when the aliens realize they’ve trapped specimens who are sentient they let them go.
The figure = they figure.
I hope a FReeper can help me. I recall as a kid seeing a TV show (I don’t remember if it was Outer Limits, Twilight Zone, or some other show). It was around Christmas, and had to do with soldiers in the trenches in western Europe during WWI. I think it may have been (very) loosely based on the actual story of the “truce” between Scottish and French troops on one side, and German troops on the other (recounted in the movie “Joyeaux (sp?) Noel”).
The troops saw a flare in the night sky, pretty common, but as time went on the flare did not descend. The obvious idea was that it was the Star of Bethlehem.
Dang. I would dearly love to see that episode again.....
Yep... I have both seasons on DVD..best 3 episodes, all in the 1st season
1. Architects of Fear (with Robert Culp ) very moving dialogue between the Culp and his wife..moving music score.
2. Prisoners of Zanti (really cool stop animation)
3. The Man who was never born. (starring Martin Landau)( another heart rendering one)... again.. amazing music score.
Oh, that sounds like it would be a good one to watch...
Yep... I have both seasons on DVD..best 3 episodes, all in the 1st season
1. Architects of Fear (with Robert Culp ) very moving dialogue between the Culp and his wife..moving music score.
2. Prisoners of Zanti (really cool stop animation)
3. The Man who was never born. (starring Martin Landau)( another heart rendering one)... again.. amazing music score.
Robert Culp and his glass hand. That was some seriously way-out fare.
But so was the series as a whole. What about the one where everyone is a prisoner in an old house, overseen by some weird, glowing blob? Sometimes I’d think the series was too extreme, too bizarre, for mainstream 1960s ‘network’ television. But, in retrospect, there was a lot back then that actually seems less commercial, more experimental, than one might expect.
“The Xanti Misfits”
You'll have to watch some ads at the beginning and about halfway through, IIRC.
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