The Outer Limits - Doomsday (1-17)
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- Опубликовано: 15 сен 2024
- From The Episode "Don't Open Till Doomsday"
Description From IMDB - A tiny space creature, bent on destruction, is captured by the scientist Mordecai Spazman. His rival, professor Harvey Kry, convinces the media that Spazman's claims are bogus. The vengeful Spazman boxes up the invader's miniature spacecraft as a wedding gift, presenting it to Kry's son. The alien imprisons Harvey Jr. inside the ship, to force Dr. Kry to help him complete his mission.
“The Outer Limits” was always best when it dabbled in gothic, bizarre and offbeat themes, peripheral to science fiction. That’s what makes Joseph Stefano’s writing so special, as witnessed here. The great triad of talent on full display in this episode: Stefano, Conrad Hall as cinematographer and Gerd Oswald as director. And to top it off an original Dominic Frontiere score…just sublime!
@@reesefowler40 Yes, the gothic nature of “The Guests” is primarily the result of producer Joseph Stefano wanting to seek out a writer who understood this unique element in television work, so he hired Donald S. Sanford on the strength of his similarly themed treatments for Boris Karloff’s “Thriller”. Not a favorite episode of mine because of the slow pacing, but it is wonderfully atmospheric and Stefano was pleased with the result. The “brain on the hill” opening is the only holdover from a rejected Charles Beaumont script that might have potentially been shot had not Sanford’s script been chosen.
The episode, I think is one of only two that feature no before/after Vic Perrin voiced narration, the other being “The Forms of Things Unknown”.
A woman I know says that when she was a girl, her parents would watch The Outer Limits but she was not allowed to watch it and had to stay out of the room. So she watched the show through a crack in the door. I’m sure watching it that way only added to the terror.
One of the scariest Outer Limits episodes I remembered .the thought that you were in that box for all those years and could never get out completely frightened the hell out of me.
Probably the scariest thing made for network TV in the entire 1960s!!!
Yeah another great episode
Like being stuck in high school detention for 25 years. But worse.
@@thiscorrosion900 Ha! Good one.
@@thiscorrosion900 Rumor has it Bender still goes to detention every Saturday.
I watched this a s a kid and it scared me half to death. All I could remember was people peering into a peep hole and seeing this horrible blob. I thought it was a movie or the Twilight Zone. Took me 50 years to find it again. Much scarier the first time but Im glad to have found it.
The production crew named that monster “Turdo” while this episode was being filmed.
My grandma said that!! She thought it was the Twilight Zone and as a child it scared her half to death too 😂😂😂
I love finding videos of shows or bits of shows that I remember from my childhood. I watched "The Outer Limits" when I was a kid, but I have vague memories of only two episodes. One was when a neighborhood was transported to a different planet, and the other one is hard to describe. I hope to find it when I search the descriptions.
@@cosybully "A Feasibility Study" is the one with the neighborhood being teleported to another planet.
I used to watch the reruns of Outer Limits in NY in the 70s, one day this episode came on, had never seen this one, all I remember was sitting there one afternoon watching the opening bit here, and seeing someone open the package with the box and looking into the opening or whatever, and I lost my nerve and turned the TV off!! Didn't see the whole
episode until the 80s or 90s as it happens. I was all of six years old so I couldn't deal with it. C'mon when you see that fucking box and hear that noise, it's time to split, Jack.
There are still two Outer Limits episodes that scared me so much as a kid that I will not watch them even today, and I am 67 years old. Superb science fiction.
In its season-and-a-half The (original) Outer Limits traveled from the inner mind to...well, some of it was mundane, some of it scared you to next Tuesday, some of it made you pray to see "the bear" early and get it over with, and some were certifiably Out There. This episode falls squarely Out There. And I count myself fortunate for having viewed its Stateside premiere on a wonderfully B&W television set with rabbit ears.
I did, too. This is one of my favorite episodes. The quintessential OL episode, of course, is "O.B.I.T."--more relevant today than it was when first shown almost 60 years ago.
Only true OL afficionados will know the meaning of the acronym. :)
@@josepherhardt164 ...and the only episode that I'd call prescient, in hindsight of course!
@@josepherhardt164 Yes, quite…”Outer Band Individuated Teletracer”. As Byron Lomax exclaimed, “The machines are everywhere…!”
@@michaelschramm1064 Ironically, Jeff Corey, who played Lomax, had recently re-emerged after being prohibited from working because of the 50's Red Scare--he'd been put on the Hollywood Black List.
@@josepherhardt164 Yes, oddly enough I just relayed this in detail on Instagram for a post showcasing the anniversary of his birth today.
And the music is perfect... Moody and frightening
His scream was very realistic.
Outer Limits and Star Trek were the awesome.
@jazzynet1 Well , you’re half right , not a Star Trek fan , , just an opinion, have a nice day
Outer limits was more like twilight zone than like Star Trek
I was just commenting on the two shows. Outer limits was a completely different alien dimension.
The eternal closet of childhood nightmares opens to welcome you back when you watch stuff like this. Don't get to close to it.
Miriam Hopkins did a fantastic job with her role in this episode "Don't Open til Doomsday". From what I have read, she did her own make-up for the part.
She reminded me of a 'take' on Betty Davis!!!
@@johnhummer265 Yes, especially Bette's title role in "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ?"
"For the newlyweds." How nice A monster in a box so ugly that if you see it you go insane. "The Colour From Space.' HP Lovecraft. And Star Trek TOS. "Spock your glasses!"
Steaming one eyed turd in a box monster. Man they made some wierd looking monsters on this show
I'm still laughing at your spot-on description of this particular "bear"....."steaming one-eyed turd in a box monster" 😂 !!! That's a classic and hilarious way of putting it. Thanks so much for that ! Made my day ! Cheers. 👌🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾😊🤣🤣
Yes, please someone upload this episode. Scared me too watching this when I was 6 years old! Would love to watch it now though.
I remember i was watching a Outer limits show one night and i got totally freaked out and could not sleep and my father told me i could not watch it for a few weeks. Man this shit these guys were creating in black n white back then was off the hook. A few of the episodes scared the shit out of me. Heck i dont even think i was 7. whew!
B&W is super effective for any kind of noir film. Add SF or fantasy to the mix, and you have The Outer Limits. It's almost impossible to create the same kind of effect in color.
@@josepherhardt164 you are absolutely right. Sometimes I look at Night Gallery and think if this episode was in black and white, it would be much more effective.
@@randyacuna3248 - You can get black and white very easily on any color TV by turning the Intensity control all the way down. Maybe drop the brightness a bit, too.
Outer limits was better than the twilight zone
Way better. The Twilight Zone was a collection of half-hour irony porn shorts. The Outer Limits were episodes of actual _adventure_ .
@@josepherhardt164 disagree. creepy aliens outer limits
How to make a great series?: Give the creators freedom, money and don't interfere.
I still remember as a kid..I'm 61 years old now..how the outer limits scared me half to death..check out o.b.i.t..another scary episode
O.B.I.T. was _the_ quintessential Outer Limits episode, even more important to watch _today_ than when it aired. Side Note: Jeff Corey, who played the human form of the main Helosian, was banned from work during the Red Scare--an additional irony.
@@josepherhardt164 Yes, Corey endured a lot being on the hot seat during the days of HUAC trials. He took it all in stride, never taking the questions particularly seriously and even went so far as to critique and imitate his interrogators when he was being grilled.
Outer Limits was my favorite Saturday afternoon program. And this episode was the hardest one to figure out. Where IMBD got the summary is interesting, because I never could find out what the plot line was. Thanks for the synopsis.
Same here, no beginning where the creature was caught or the conflict between the two scientists. Just the man showing up with the wedding gift.
Do NOT attempt to adjust your TV set. WE control transmission now.........
Scared the living shit out of me then and still does now, stuff the worst nightmares are made of:-)
I remember watching this during it's original airing and it scared the heck out of me. I back again hoping for the same scare!
I used to think whomever looks in that box... They would get their eye stuck on it. Hahaha
Scenes like this really made a big impression on my six year old mind.
The man's screams was terrifying enough, but, that one eyeball half hidden in the shadow made me at the age of 5 hide my face.
He sounds like he saw hell.
Horrifying episode , love it
Amazing episode. So surreal.
I didn’t finish looking at the comments but wanted to say it’s a good version of Pandora’s Box.
If any writers had any talent; even close to this today, we'd have something to watch..
AMEN BROTHER!
Yes , it begins with good writing.
A reason we dont, is, because writers have been raised with visuals, like TV
This one was unique and spookie.. Plus as a kid I didn't realize this had a time zone.. It was crazy. Still I never understood why this thing was sent. As adult you see things differently. All I saw were the monsters back then. Lol
Classic. 2022
From the Wikipedia article on this episode: "Later, the young bride's father arrives on location to take his wayward daughter back with him, and is also abducted by the alien, finding himself inside the box-actually, a pocket dimension occupied by an amorphous, one-eyed creature from an anti-matter universe, who is bent on destroying our universe." Pocket dimension? Oh my God, it's string theory! We're doomed!
Where did i get the idea that this episode was called 'Camera Obscura'?
Because both boxes look similar.
www.photoion.co.uk/blog/camera-obscura/
Camera Obscura is an episode in the Night Gallery TV series hosted by Rod Serling.
Is that the camera out by the Cliff House in San Francisco near the old Playland at the Beach?
Today's writers are sadly lacking the skills and imagination to match these old shows. Pity.
Not just writers, also today's actors cannot match the A-listers from the old days.
That's what Shakespeare aficionados say about anything written after 1616.
You're right on the money no originality rehashing the same old same old
I totally agree with you, but to be fair, the actors at the time of shows like the outer limits were all staged trained when we had small theaters in local towns for stage plays . Sadly that has disappeared. Downtown New York and Hollywood and small cities still have theatrical plays. There is not as much theatres now days for training.
"The Annihilation Frequency"!
The creature is in fact bigger than the humans that it teleports into it's 'Box'!
Don’t open til’ Doomsday
What a title! 😧
He didn't heed the warning! Awesome show! Love it!!!
The warning was "Don't open til doomsday." How was he to know when that was?
I would have opened it too, lol.
I haven't seen the rest of this. What happens next? No, don't tell me, another channel which has been uploading full episodes of The Outer Limits will probably upload this soo enough!
This episode scared the crap out of me as a kid.
Understandably so my friend television was a new medium back then and of course the Twilight Zone it bed no equals it was scary as hell
I've been searching for this episode for years. But I thought it was from The Twilight Zone.
Above and beyond. The best Outer Limits episode ever
Disagree, The Sixth Finger, n The Galaxy Being were the best........
@@johnhummer265 they were the most 'sciencey' and certainly made an impression on me to study science and imagine what the future might hold or what advanced alien civilizations might look like and act. But 'The Man Who Was Never Born' has such a melancholy aspect to it, and the music and lighting and camera shots, its my favorite. The ending makes me cry every time.
Note to self: Never open a box, that creepy sounds are coming out of.
Never could figure this one out-can you post the full episode?
...."You are no place".....
The one with the ants and the woman who was a queen bee and the worst one was the one with some kinda energy cloud that was trapped in a vacuum. That shit scared the fuck out of me! :D Shit man the wizard of oz was bad cause i thougt that witch was flying around in my room! I got older took a trip on blotter and it was all null and void! :D
The episode with the crazy ants with the human faces was called "The Zanti misfits" and that electric cloud that came out of the Vacumn cleaner was called "It crawled out of the woodwork" Ed Asner from The Mary Tyler Moore show was in that episode
The father of the bridegroom was a scientist who did not get along with his research partner. This is how the latter got even.
Never was there a series scarier than supposedly, but wrongly, true, "One Step Beyond". I started believing in poltergeist, ESP. fate, and karma. lol😈😈😈
Who'd have thought doomsday would be a pile of shit in a box?
Where can I find TOL so that I can watch old rerunsm
This episode freaked me out as
a young boy.
DAM WISH SOMEONE WOULD UPLOAD THIS EPISODE!!
You could always splash out on the DVD?
How about showing the whole episode?
No one can upload full episodes, the copyright police will get you. You can buy whole seasons on Amazon or itunes
You might not like what you find inside...
Awww... What an adorable creature! 😉🤣
And all he wanted to do was “un-create the Universe” 😮
@@michaelschramm1064 Wouldn't that also uncreate himself and his buddies? Makes zero fucking sense.
They should put it in the zoo, so thousands/millions of people get to see it.
Love that show👍👍👍
Poop emoji origin story.
There needs to be a feculent blob with penile head and pendulous breasts emoji.
I saw this as a kid...and laughed because somebody gave them a pile of dookey for a present, and if you looked at it you got trapped in the box with it.
Love the Outer Limits.
So where is the rest of the show?
I've got to think on this one a little more .to understand the underlying message saw it in the 60's
HIW DID THE SFX ENGINEERS MAKE THAT BOX SOUND???
SO WHERES THE REST 1- 7 IT SAID
Thanks for this post . I have an old tape of this I watch this afternoon. My favorite is O.B.I.T. but this one is fun to watch with the one eyed pro active nihilist guy in the box who didn't know how drive his trans dimensional / time traveling space craft, got lost, and ended up saving everything by killing himself . He must have been the one his buddies would send out for coffee when there some was real planning to be done . I still dig how the writers got the big concepts over in just a few lines of dialogue. To the FUTURE! Patent 3190554 .
I like obit too. But you would think the aliens would at least shave their hands....
Guess they didn't have too with their ability to cloud men's mind with " hypnotic suggestion! " Just like Dr. Andrew in Man Who Was Never Born . To convince Noel that he looks like a 30 year old Martin Landau instead of a Martin Landau cover in latex with just a hard look into her eyes is pretty cool and a handy way to pay the rent . Stealing Noel away via rocket ship was a nice touch but leaving her stranded in orbit was kind of sad . Captain Cabot must have had a hard time telling his in-laws that he got jilted at the alter when his bride ran of with this dude she had just met for a rocket ride to the future. Wonder if that would work now as pick up line in Silicon Valley . " Hey babe, want to take a rocket ride to the future with me ? " If I was one hundred years younger I might try it . To the FUTURE! Patent 672256
@@ufoengines yes dude. A great episode. The man who never was. One of the earlier episodes I think. They were shown in england in 1964 ish.. . My favourite episode was demon with a glass hand with the brilliant Robert Culp (who also starred in the merchants of fear. Another iconic episode. ). I was only 10 watching the programme and it made me a lifelong fan of scifi. At the time there was nothing like it in england except maybe quatermass but I was too young to see that on tv.
Now I'm going to watch my copy of Glass Hand this afternoon. Two things I really likes about this story was Marla Mantel kept getting better looking through out the show ruclips.net/video/QXQ0KhTM3Ps/видео.html and the scene where she is told by the hand how to reboot Trent . Now a days the glass hand would be a "have all the answers smart phone" and that doesn't seem as cool . Bummer Trent never got to crossed paths with Kirk or Picard. Dig this , patent 3190554 , the FLOWDAC , a digital computer that computes with compressed air . If Babbage had this tech he could have had the pipe organ guys build his Analytic Engine for him and Lady Lovelace could have invented COBOL . Phantom of the Opera meets Babbage / Lovelace? To Infinity !
My brother and I ran across this old flick on late night T.V. sometime in 1975. ruclips.net/video/0Zoz9MN0-Y4/видео.html A true hoot ! Super smart cockroaches coming to earth to surgically and genetically alter some apes to take over earth by proxy . So Cool! Now that big sci- fi !
SO CAN SOMEONE EXPLAIN THE ENDING?
The one-eyed monster "uncreates" himself and the house but the young bride and groom manage to flee in the nick of time. Doomsday has been postponed one more day.
the outer limits should have been in color with today,s tech for a classic b&w sci-fi which was ahead of it,s time and great special effects and storytelling that puts most horror movies to shame is now on blu-ray disc season 1 and season 2 available in
November by kino lorber at amazon.com
It is hard, hard, HARD to get a "film noir" effect in color. B&W is the medium of choice.
Also, the OL guys knew to keep a cheesy monster obscured and not put it in broad daylight. This is why the host in "The Guests" works but the (exact same!) monster in "The Mice" doesn't work as well.
Edit: As far as that goes, the primitive screen resolution of NTSC TV probably contributed to the noir effect by having you have to imagine the details. A super-sharp B&W image likely would not have worked as psychologically well. I'm sure there's some film- or video-studies Ph.D. in the audience here who might care to comment.
@@josepherhardt164 Excellent points. Thank you. 👍🏼
Lady sora
They saw yoh lady sora
Has a great look but not one of my personal faves..
What?
You don't like the look of a poop monster?
NO 1-17
how stupid is it when the old man at the end agrees to the alien's demands, then when the alien lets him out of the box, he says "I'M NOT GOING TO DO IT".....like, what did he expect would happen?...the alien ZAPPED him right back into the box! Couldn't he have waited until he at least got OUT OF THE ROOM before saying that?...that was very stupid....also, at the end, when the alien realized these people were not going to help him, he says, "i must UNCREATE myself...and you", i wondered why did it take him over 30 YEARS to make that decision?.....if he has THAT MUCH patience, why couldn't he just wait ANOTHER 30 years for the next couple?......stupid aliens....some of the OL stories were just plumb goofy
This is an example of "handing a character the idiot ball"--where a writer needs a character to do a stupid thing to further the plot. The only saving excuse here is that the alien would have no way of truly understanding humans, so his/her/its error could be excusable that way.
They never told us why the old man delivered the box and where it came from. Still pisses me off
The old man apparently captured the monster and put it in a box and delivered it to the house of his rival (or crush--can't remember) as vengeance. There's a brief newspaper clip in the episode about a scientist warning about an invasion; this gives a clue.
@@josepherhardt164 if it was his rival why their house? Who was his rival?
@@jamielthashepherd6870 His rival was the one who stole his crush from him. Now, I'm going by OLD memories of this episode, but that's what I recall.
@@josepherhardt164 oh you mean the groom?
@@jamielthashepherd6870 Yes.
To nosey for his own good
Reminds me of Dr. Zaius at the conclusion of “Planet of the Apes”: “Don’t go looking for it, Taylor…you may not like what you find”.
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leeches of lore
Exactly how did you know, still on the earth today
BILLY BATHLAZAR
Yes, Obama was indeed a frightful sight.
Oh please. 🙄
PAULA JEAN
This was one DUMB story.