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by wmcclain
June 10th, 2023, 6:11 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

Re: The Outer Limits (1963)

That's all folks. End of the series midway through the second season. I never saw the reboot series.

My comments and attempt at rating the episodes are in the first post of this thread.

Thanks for reading!
by wmcclain
June 10th, 2023, 6:10 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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The Probe (1965) , directed by Felix E. Feist. Forced down in a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane at first find themselves in a raft on stormy seas, but wake up the next day on a solid surface, inside a mysterious structure. They learn they are inside an automated alien surveyor probe and have t...
by wmcclain
June 9th, 2023, 5:45 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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The Premonition , directed by Gerd Oswald. A test pilot flies so fast he creates a time warp. On crashing his plane he and his wife find themselves in a frozen world a few seconds before the crash. The time lines are going to sync up again, but they have another problem: how to save their little gi...
by wmcclain
June 8th, 2023, 6:08 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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The Brain of Colonel Barham , directed by Charles Haas. The first mission to Mars depends on the senior astronaut who has trained for it. When he has only a short time to live, the solution is to put his brain in a jar and send that. What are the consequences of being disembodied? Nothing good, we ...
by wmcclain
June 7th, 2023, 6:10 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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Counterweight , directed by Paul Stanley. Volunteer explorers sign up for a 261 day simulated space flight. Anyone who can't take the stress: just push the "panic button" and the whole test is scrubbed. (Note: if the test is successful they are going on the actual mission for another 261 ...
by wmcclain
June 6th, 2023, 6:39 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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The Duplicate Man , directed by Gerd Oswald. By this time, late in the series history, everyone knew it would be canceled, but they produced an SF-thriller episode packed with intriguing ideas, a melancholy tone and eerie ambient score: In the space traveling future -- sometime after 2011 -- it is ...
by wmcclain
June 5th, 2023, 6:40 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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Keeper of the Purple Twilight , directed by Charles Haas. In advance of the invasion of Earth, an alien wants to know what all this "emotions" stuff is about, particularly that "love" weirdness that no one can explain. He swaps some mentality with a human scientist in exchange f...
by wmcclain
June 4th, 2023, 6:42 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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The Inheritors , directed by James Goldstone. Four soldiers miraculously survive head wounds. The bullets had been cast from a meteor and microscopic examination shows alien cell structure in the metal. Each man exhibits extra brain waves and it is clear the same brain is now controlling all of the...
by wmcclain
June 3rd, 2023, 6:56 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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I, Robot , directed by Leon Benson. The world's first mechanical man is on trial for his life, accused of killing his creator. Another straight SF story, this time drowned in a standard TV courtroom drama setting, obviously second season producer Ben Brady's comfort zone from his Perry Mason years....
by wmcclain
June 2nd, 2023, 6:17 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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Wolf 359 , directed by Laslo Benedek. Scientists recreate an entire planet in miniature to study its accelerated evolution. Something evil emerges. This could have been a first season episode: mysterious and thought-provoking. Harry Lubin, who did all of the second season music, provides an unusual...
by wmcclain
June 1st, 2023, 6:54 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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The Invisible Enemy , directed by Byron Haskin. The first mission to Mars does not go well. Successful landing, some walking around, then horrid screams and radio silence. Three years later, the second mission has a larger crew, supposedly better disciplined and definitely over-managed. They don't ...
by wmcclain
May 31st, 2023, 6:57 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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Cry of Silence , directed by Charles Haas. Driving into a desolate area to look at a property, a couple find themselves on foot and menaced by hostile tumbleweeds. The same unseen intelligence commands frogs (!) and large rolling boulders. I love a good creature feature and when you make it a First...
by wmcclain
May 30th, 2023, 5:15 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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Demon with a Glass Hand , directed by Byron Haskin. Trent has no memory, just a mission. Implacable aliens from the future are after him. He kills without mercy, but they keep coming. The fate of the human race depends on him and he must stay alive, no matter what. One of his hands is some sort of ...
by wmcclain
May 29th, 2023, 8:29 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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Expanding Human , directed by Gerd Oswald. A Jekyll & Hyde story is mashed up with a very popular 1960s TV topic: the use and dangers of "consciousness expanding" drugs. This is wrapped in a standard police procedural package, the kind of format second season producer Ben Brady was co...
by wmcclain
May 28th, 2023, 6:53 am
Forum: General TV and Media
Topic: The Outer Limits (1963)
Replies: 73
Views: 6921

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Behold, Eck! , directed by Byron Haskin. What strange force is trashing all the optical labs in the city, stealing experimental eyeglass lenses made from meteoric quartz? It is Eck! -- a two-dimensional being accidentally trapped on Earth and trying to find his way out of 3-space back to his home. ...