This is a top notch episode with the writing and acting. It has so many parallels with modern times and social media. Personal information, addiction. How did the character Mr. Lomax put it? "People want to know about everyone else, except themselves".
Writing, acting, AND cinematography. The stage design of that scene at the end, when Lomax unmasks and delivers his soliloquy - the avant-garde lighting - first-rate stuff.
Meyer Dolinsky (a.k.a. Mike Dolinsky, Michael/Mike Adams) wrote this story as well as stories used in two other episodes: "The Architects of Fear" and "ZZZZZ." His stories were used in a lot of science fiction shows such as "Science Fiction Theater," "Men Into Space," "The Invaders" and "Star Trek" (original series.) But he also wrote the stories and/or screenplays used in dozens of other productions too that weren't sci-fi.
The Original Outer Limits: One of the finest, thought-provoking series ever! O.B.I.T. was a prime example of the masterful use of every tool in the filmmakers' toolkit back in the 1960's. Jeff Corey (Lomax) set the stage for the tenseness and underlying stress. I remember Mr. Corey having lunch at California Pizza Kitchen in Beverly Hills with his family shortly before he passed away. A loving father and gentleman to be sure!
Jeff Corey was blacklisted by H.U.A.C. from 1950-1962. Fortunately, he was able to get work as an acting coach during that time. He stated that he thought of O.B.I.T. as H.U.A.C.
@@docmalthus Corey must have been a hoot to watch as he was being grilled by the HUAC. It is said that he was highly uncooperative, doing little more than giving “reviews” or others and their fawning, witness testimony.
Watching this episode now, it feels rather prescient, with the prevalence of high tech devices and social media that are able to track and monitor our every move and mood.
What's amazing is the real science fiction at the time would say, "in less than two generations, virtually every human being will carry a device that listens and watches them 24/7, and they do it willingly, even _pay_ for it, while providing their most intimate details and secrets." I'd like to recommend as well, _The President's Analyst_ starring James Coburn. The plot twist at the end was eerily prescient back in the '60s. It's a completely unexpected resolution in a brilliant comedy.
I'd love to hear Lomax do his "The machines are everywhere..." soliloquy in front of a Senate investigative committee now. How prescient was it that the aliens had only one eye...the one eye that sees us all.
I always admired the depiction of the U.S. senator in this episode; he was tenacious in the pursuit of the truth. He puts to shame most of the senators who squat in the senate today.
"It's called Facebook Sir. No, no coercion needed. They all do it voluntarily oh and Tik Tok and Instagram too. Yes Sir recording every movement and transaction they make until needed by us against them in the future
Meyer Dolinsky provided an excellent teleplay, Gerd Oswald directed it skillfully, but the cast elevated the episode to top rank. Peter Breck is certainly arrogant and ambitious, but he is also relentless, has a Columbo-like "one more thing," and his suspicion turns out to be justified. Harry Townes fears he has become insane. Alan Baxter fears that he's being driven insane. Jeff Corey does the most. He's firm and in control at the beginning, distracted when testifying from the console, eager to tell how powerful the device is, but denying that he invented it and in the dark about his own hiring, and literally swaggering with arrogance when he's exposed. His final gesture is priceless: it says "Gotta go!" without words. And beware those Le Corbusier/Roger Stone spectacles! Such fearful symmetry!
Corey's character appears resigned to his fate from the get-go. And his perceived swagger is a play on how his undisguised form walks. But this is without doubt the most prescient of The (original) Outer Limits episodes.
@@johnfraraccio99, Fate? What do you think that was, as depicted? I don't believe there's any indication that he just didn't return to the alien's lair or wherever, but not that he died or anything of the nature.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 That was indeed my first Stateside impression. I figured (and still do) that if the invaders could simply teleport (à la the episode A Feasibility Study) then they needn't have bothered softening things up by way of having O.B.I.T.s built for them by the locals.
@@johnfraraccio99, I only broached the aliens' ability to get around in that manner, as it relates to Lomax having been safely able to get out of Dodge, so to speak. I'm not sure how that tracks to the aliens' strategy of making the machines available to any and all takers (presumably, all over the world). Whether they can teleport (individually or en masse), wouldn't be a substitute for the mechanism the aliens chose to subvert and undermine Earth's civilization, for it to be overcome without any direct conflict being required. Not to get too far into the weeds, but your comments seem to be jumping from one issue to another. 🤔 🤔 🤔
O.B.I.T The Obselete Man The Machine stops Are the best 60s nightmarish visions of our future I've seen especially O.B.I.T and the Machine stops that predicted a lot that's come true.
Jeff Corey (1914-2002) was an incredible actor, who even went on to direct episodes of NBC's "NIGHT GALLERY" in the early 1970s, but his guest star role on ABC-TV's "THE OUTER LIMITS" in 1963, was both exceptional- and scary! In "O.B.I.T.", (an acronym for Outer Band Individuated Teletracer), he plays "Byron Lomax", who is part of the personnel of a US Military base, while a Senatorial hearing is held after a mysterious murder on the base. It is gradually revealed, that a unique surveillance device is being used on the base, and it has contributed to a morale decline, but later, it also reveals an even scarier and sinister purpose that the device is also the invention of Aliens from another galaxy! brilliantly scripted by Meyer Dolinsky, the episode was another great "scarefest" of "THE OUTER LIMITS", during its Monday nights on ABC in the 1963-64 TV season. The OBIT console later became the communications computer in NBC's "THE MAN FROM UNCLE" series, and "The Helosian" alien was later used in an episode of CBS's "THE MUNSTERS". Jeff Corey later guest-starred in "Short Circuit', a 1972 episode of the NBC series, "SEARCH", in which Leslie Stevens (the creator of "THE OUTER LIMITS") had created and produced for Warner Bros.Television. Corey played "Dr. Earl Moen", the former designer of "Probe Control", who invents an electronic jamming device that emits microwave frequencies that destroys anything with electrical circuitry within a two-mile range. Probe Control dispatches "CR Grover" (Doug McClure) to track down the scientist before he destroys the Probe Control unit with his jamming device. slightly similar to the Lomax character from OBIT, but in a more different storyline!
O.B.I.T. is one of my very favorite episodes and Jeff Corey is a sight to behold for his riveting performance, especially for the alien speech he delivers at the episode’s climax. I also enjoyed his stellar performance as Dr. Miles Talmadge in the premiere episode, “The Dead Man”. He directed two of my favorite episodes of the series: “Lindemann’s Catch” and “The Academy”.
Acting is so good. It's exactly how mundane government types try to make secret projects sound to this very day. Also that subtle wrinkle of what's really going on in this episode.
I know I've seen the OBIT machine during the closing stills in Man From UNCLE episodes, but isn't that paneled wall seen in a Star Trek episode? In any case, jack Poplin's set decorations are one of the dozens of reasons why I can't get enough of Outer Limits-both seasons, as different as they are.
@ 02:33 Jeff Corey as the Alien: "PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR" Is the all purpose justification given to destroy people's privacy which can be then used to blackmail them and create an environment of distrust and paranoia, When that is achieved, their conquest is absolute.
Or massive corporations who seem to have more and more power over laws written that govern citizens of those countries while taking away their rights to privacy.
This has been used on me, I tested it at Daimler Chrysler. A nasty supervisor gave me so much grief, that I imagined a scene from a horror movie in my head and cast him as the victim in my thoughts. soon after i passed his desk... and he was red, covered in sweat and frantically filling out paperwork. Soon after that I was forced to go talk to the company psychologist. I played like, what is this all about? They acted the same. It went no where. He was on a warpath to label me crazy and dangerous just based on those thoughts that day that he saw on some technology. It all was dead ended. Know this...nothing this technology gathers is admissible in court because they have to deny this technologies existence. You can play them like a violin just using creative thought and they fall for it every time because they think you're dumb and dont know about it. Their arrogance is the hole in their armor.
That's Peter Breck from The Big Valley I think. The man at the console later played a part on a great Star Trek episode. If I'm in error it's because I try not to look everything up but use my memory. Keeps my brain sharp I hope.
Imagine "Byron Lomax" providing the Defense Department with the cutting edge Nike-Zeus ABM and Colonel Grover spilling the beans: the ABM carries a neutron bomb that destroys an incoming ICBM's nuclear warhead by detonating and showering it with neutrons! Pray that it happens at high altitude! This is about what happened in February 1960.
Hah! "Human beings too." That was the giveaway." The turning point comes when Colonel Grover returns to the stand. It's big. A good real world counterpart would be the point in early 1995 when the Archbishop of Washington decided that the cover-ups would end and the reasons for the suspensions of priests would be given. Cardinal Law was asleep at the time.
Look at some other series of the 60's. You'll see the same console used for the OBIT used by Mr. Waverly as the communications console in The Man From U.N.C.L.E sans the "mixing bowl" screen.
Love the sounds they always use 😂 especially this episode, they really put on a show with the electrical magnetics/static instrument's and wands/ futuristic sound machines 👾 😳👌
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As a child, I would watch this show for the monsters. As an adult, I get a whole new appreciation for its brilliance.
I borrowed Season 1 of OUTER LIMITS recently from the library. Really good! I am old enough that I remember watching it on TV as a child.
Same with me & my brothers, growing up in the 60s !
This is a top notch episode with the writing and acting. It has so many parallels with modern times and social media. Personal information, addiction. How did the character Mr. Lomax put it? "People want to know about everyone else, except themselves".
Here...here!
Writing, acting, AND cinematography. The stage design of that scene at the end, when Lomax unmasks and delivers his soliloquy - the avant-garde lighting - first-rate stuff.
Yes, great episode, but really, the clip is boring.
Meyer Dolinsky (a.k.a. Mike Dolinsky, Michael/Mike Adams) wrote this story as well as stories used in two other episodes: "The Architects of Fear" and "ZZZZZ." His stories were used in a lot of science fiction shows such as "Science Fiction Theater," "Men Into Space," "The Invaders" and "Star Trek" (original series.) But he also wrote the stories and/or screenplays used in dozens of other productions too that weren't sci-fi.
The Original Outer Limits: One of the finest, thought-provoking series ever! O.B.I.T. was a prime example of the masterful use of every tool in the filmmakers' toolkit back in the 1960's. Jeff Corey (Lomax) set the stage for the tenseness and underlying stress. I remember Mr. Corey having lunch at California Pizza Kitchen in Beverly Hills with his family shortly before he passed away. A loving father and gentleman to be sure!
Jeff Corey was blacklisted by H.U.A.C. from 1950-1962. Fortunately, he was able to get work as an acting coach during that time. He stated that he thought of O.B.I.T. as H.U.A.C.
@@docmalthus Corey must have been a hoot to watch as he was being grilled by the HUAC. It is said that he was highly uncooperative, doing little more than giving “reviews” or others and their fawning, witness testimony.
@@docmalthus Yes ! And he had some acting students that went on to become big in the industry, such as Jack Nicholson.
Watching this episode now, it feels rather prescient, with the prevalence of high tech devices and social media that are able to track and monitor our every move and mood.
mr lomax is describing, in part, a radionics machine.
A classic, classic, view of the future as far as surveillance and what is yet to come....excellent episode.....
What's amazing is the real science fiction at the time would say, "in less than two generations, virtually every human being will carry a device that listens and watches them 24/7, and they do it willingly, even _pay_ for it, while providing their most intimate details and secrets."
I'd like to recommend as well, _The President's Analyst_ starring James Coburn. The plot twist at the end was eerily prescient back in the '60s. It's a completely unexpected resolution in a brilliant comedy.
@@deadfreightwest5956 Lomax, i wonder if he was aware of George Orwell, 1984?
Were here now with the survaliance
I'd love to hear Lomax do his "The machines are everywhere..." soliloquy in front of a Senate investigative committee now. How prescient was it that the aliens had only one eye...the one eye that sees us all.
Yes, like the AI driven eye of RUclips, whose algorithms keep deleting my economic and environmental commentary of our past and current "leadership"
Tremendous Episode with two icons, Jeff Corey and Peter Breck( The Big Valley) !!!!!
I always admired the depiction of the U.S. senator in this episode; he was tenacious in the pursuit of the truth. He puts to shame most of the senators who squat in the senate today.
The senator is obviously a republican
OBIT is here. They just call them smart phones.
Dang, you took my comment. The ultimate addictive force today.
Nope
Accelerometer
Gyroscope
Magnetometer
Global Positioning System (GPS)
Proximity Sensor
Ambient Light Sensor
Microphone
Touchscreen Sensors
Fingerprint Sensor
Pedometer
Barcode/QR Code Sensors
Barometer
Heart Rate Sensor
Thermometer
Air Humidity Sensor
Geiger Counter
Soli sensor
The Outer Limits: There is no science fiction any more. It’s here…
Yes with A.I.
The eerie sounds in the background are scary.
Everything surrounding the Outer Limits when it was produced was truly amazing! I remember it well growing up in LA in the 1960s.
"It's called Facebook Sir. No, no coercion needed. They all do it voluntarily oh and Tik Tok and Instagram too. Yes Sir recording every movement and transaction they make until needed by us against them in the future
Meyer Dolinsky provided an excellent teleplay, Gerd Oswald directed it skillfully, but the cast elevated the episode to top rank. Peter Breck is certainly arrogant and ambitious, but he is also relentless, has a Columbo-like "one more thing," and his suspicion turns out to be justified. Harry Townes fears he has become insane. Alan Baxter fears that he's being driven insane. Jeff Corey does the most. He's firm and in control at the beginning, distracted when testifying from the console, eager to tell how powerful the device is, but denying that he invented it and in the dark about his own hiring, and literally swaggering with arrogance when he's exposed. His final gesture is priceless: it says "Gotta go!" without words.
And beware those Le Corbusier/Roger Stone spectacles! Such fearful symmetry!
Robert, good observation of the veteran cast in this excellent episode.
Corey's character appears resigned to his fate from the get-go. And his perceived swagger is a play on how his undisguised form walks. But this is without doubt the most prescient of The (original) Outer Limits episodes.
@@johnfraraccio99, Fate? What do you think that was, as depicted? I don't believe there's any indication that he just didn't return to the alien's lair or wherever, but not that he died or anything of the nature.
@@mitchellmelkin4078 That was indeed my first Stateside impression. I figured (and still do) that if the invaders could simply teleport (à la the episode A Feasibility Study) then they needn't have bothered softening things up by way of having O.B.I.T.s built for them by the locals.
@@johnfraraccio99, I only broached the aliens' ability to get around in that manner, as it relates to Lomax having been safely able to get out of Dodge, so to speak.
I'm not sure how that tracks to the aliens' strategy of making the machines available to any and all takers (presumably, all over the world). Whether they can teleport (individually or en masse), wouldn't be a substitute for the mechanism the aliens chose to subvert and undermine Earth's civilization, for it to be overcome without any direct conflict being required.
Not to get too far into the weeds, but your comments seem to be jumping from one issue to another. 🤔 🤔 🤔
The actor manipulating the machine has a halting style of delivery that reminds me of Jeff Goldblum.
VERY well-chosen clip from an episode I probably watched as a kid in Los Angeles. We watch it now with pained understanding.
This episode, given our new world social media nonsense, is absolutely unreal!!
If our armed forces perform in war as well as Colonel Grover performs on the stand, we're doomed.
O.B.I.T
The Obselete Man
The Machine stops
Are the best 60s nightmarish visions of our future I've seen especially O.B.I.T and the Machine stops that predicted a lot that's come true.
"The Machine Stops" was originally published in 1909!
@@lesnyk255 yes and there was a BBC adaptation from a series called Out Of The Unknown which expanded upon it and was arguably a better version.
Another classic episode from the brilliant first season.
"The Defense Department." News flash: it's very big department! Colonel Grover is in it, so he's a logical next witness.
This episode was pretty creepy-I remember watching it back in the day-LOL
Jeff Corey (1914-2002) was an incredible actor, who even went on to direct episodes of NBC's "NIGHT GALLERY" in the early 1970s, but his guest star role on ABC-TV's "THE OUTER LIMITS" in 1963, was both exceptional- and scary! In "O.B.I.T.", (an acronym for Outer Band Individuated Teletracer), he plays "Byron Lomax", who is part of the personnel of a US Military base, while a Senatorial hearing is held after a mysterious murder on the base. It is gradually revealed, that a unique surveillance device is being used on the base, and it has contributed to a morale decline, but later, it also reveals an even scarier and sinister purpose that the device is also the invention of Aliens from another galaxy! brilliantly scripted by Meyer Dolinsky, the episode was another great "scarefest" of "THE OUTER LIMITS", during its Monday nights on ABC in the 1963-64 TV season. The OBIT console later became the communications computer in NBC's "THE MAN FROM UNCLE" series, and "The Helosian" alien was later used in an episode of CBS's "THE MUNSTERS". Jeff Corey later guest-starred in "Short Circuit', a 1972 episode of the NBC series, "SEARCH", in which Leslie Stevens (the creator of "THE OUTER LIMITS") had created and produced for Warner Bros.Television. Corey played "Dr. Earl Moen", the former designer of "Probe Control", who invents an electronic jamming device that emits microwave frequencies that destroys anything with electrical circuitry within a two-mile range. Probe Control dispatches "CR Grover" (Doug McClure) to track down the scientist before he destroys the Probe Control unit with his jamming device. slightly similar to the Lomax character from OBIT, but in a more different storyline!
O.B.I.T. is one of my very favorite episodes and Jeff Corey is a sight to behold for his riveting performance, especially for the alien speech he delivers at the episode’s climax. I also enjoyed his stellar performance as Dr. Miles Talmadge in the premiere episode, “The Dead Man”. He directed two of my favorite episodes of the series: “Lindemann’s Catch” and “The Academy”.
Acting is so good. It's exactly how mundane government types try to make secret projects sound to this very day. Also that subtle wrinkle of what's really going on in this episode.
Yes, this actor played it perfectly.
I know I've seen the OBIT machine during the closing stills in Man From UNCLE episodes, but isn't that paneled wall seen in a Star Trek episode? In any case, jack Poplin's set decorations are one of the dozens of reasons why I can't get enough of Outer Limits-both seasons, as different as they are.
@ 02:33 Jeff Corey as the Alien: "PEOPLE WHO HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE, HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR" Is the all purpose justification given to destroy people's privacy which can be then used to blackmail them and create an environment of distrust and paranoia, When that is achieved, their conquest is absolute.
One of my all time favorite episode. I don't any of us would want to be watched to have the gov seeing our private lives.
Or massive corporations who seem to have more and more power over laws written that govern citizens of those countries while taking away their rights to privacy.
No doubt that the government has a machine like this by now.
This has been used on me, I tested it at Daimler Chrysler. A nasty supervisor gave me so much grief, that I imagined a scene from a horror movie in my head and cast him as the victim in my thoughts.
soon after i passed his desk...
and he was red, covered in sweat and frantically filling out paperwork.
Soon after that I was forced to go talk to the company psychologist. I played like, what is this all about? They acted the same. It went no where. He was on a warpath to label me crazy and dangerous just based on those thoughts that day that he saw on some technology. It all was dead ended. Know this...nothing this technology gathers is admissible in court because they have to deny this technologies existence. You can play them like a violin just using creative thought and they fall for it every time because they think you're dumb and dont know about it. Their arrogance is the hole in their armor.
That's Peter Breck from The Big Valley I think. The man at the console later played a part on a great Star Trek episode. If I'm in error it's because I try not to look everything up but use my memory. Keeps my brain sharp I hope.
A very prescient episode for 1964.
The OBIT operator, Lomax, actor here was awesome.
Accurate depiction of our reality
And it’s 60+ years ago!
Wow that's awesome! Wonder if our blessed government has such a machine. God help us all!
No, but you do.
It's called your "smart phone".
They don't need one. Facebook does it for them.
“People with nothing to hide have nothing to fear from O.B.I.T.” A quote that could well be made by the current administration.
The guy behind obit screen, was a creepy one eyed alien in costume
@@kathleenking47 Yes, an Helosian in fact.
Trump is an insurrectionist. Holding him accountable is no comparison to this episode of Outer Limits. You are talking nonsense.
Today we call this technology “Google.”
“People with nothing to hide have nothing to fear from Google…”
@@michaelschramm1064 And, "The Google community must of necessity employ many secret devices."
Imagine "Byron Lomax" providing the Defense Department with the cutting edge Nike-Zeus ABM and Colonel Grover spilling the beans: the ABM carries a neutron bomb that destroys an incoming ICBM's nuclear warhead by detonating and showering it with neutrons! Pray that it happens at high altitude! This is about what happened in February 1960.
Today we call it a cell phone
Hah! "Human beings too." That was the giveaway." The turning point comes when Colonel Grover returns to the stand. It's big. A good real world counterpart would be the point in early 1995 when the Archbishop of Washington decided that the cover-ups would end and the reasons for the suspensions of priests would be given. Cardinal Law was asleep at the time.
What’s the frequency Kenneth?
"...not to mention my wife!" Imagine if your wife had one of these! As the song goes, "That's my story and I'm sticking to it." 🤣
Get out of the dark Colonel!
Look at some other series of the 60's. You'll see the same console used for the OBIT used by Mr. Waverly as the communications console in The Man From U.N.C.L.E sans the "mixing bowl" screen.
One of the better episodes.
Shoot we are there............................
Concept then. Fact now!
Love the sounds they always use 😂 especially this episode, they really put on a show with the electrical magnetics/static instrument's and wands/ futuristic sound machines 👾 😳👌
Klaus Schwab of the WEF recently stated that “people who have nothing to hide have nothing to fear” 2:30
Now how about that for “Life imitating Art”?
That senator is a tough pill to swallow.
One of my fav episodes
Mine too. It has teeth. Also really liked "Nightmare".....
@@lesnyk255 I lked a bunch of them, like : ruclips.net/video/6XSnuVW1I2g/видео.html I"m still in love with Marla Martell
Carlos Cabrera pon el capítulo completo suptitulado como este clip gracias.
Buttons and dials are a lot smaller today .
And transistors/integrated circuits too I imagine…
Scifi classic 🍦
Dam...
Now, Google ... Will
BUY
OBIT!
This means***
That all those mis Take on the gps
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Just a cover...
2 prove---
that they don't have this Device?
sound in only one channel
Since this show was made, we have developed a technology that is hundreds of times more addictive and intrusive as OBIT. It is called social media.
Why dont the Spanish channels have English captioning?
Smartphones and GPS?
Wake up sheeple..were her now.
Jeff Corey!
The nerdy scientist is the evil alien.
Man, those glasses
O.B.I.T. then equals Yuval Harari today ?
Jeff Cory
this is how Facebook got started
Those glasses 👓
Hear.
China developed OBIT for real and has it in operation right now.
Who’s to say our own NSA hasn’t had a version operating for some years now in the US?
Yeah....they call it Tik-Tok
Peter Breck
ME... WELL MOST LIKELY
WOULD GET STUCK IN
A DAMN ROCK ....
Weed Me
It would be nice to see whole episodes. Clips are a lazy way of getting clips based on other people’s creative work.
❤ think FISA -> people who are innocent have nothing to worry about ??? -LOL
crap
Nothing's changed.