I was 7 when I watched this episode, almost shit my pants and couldn't sleep for days after seeing it! Hats off to the "The Outer Limits". Possibly the best Sc-fi Horror series ever done!!!
Amazing, as with so many of the OL episodes, it had good writing, good acting, very good cinematography and just enough special effects (especially for the time) that this is still a very compelling work. Scared the hell out of me as a nine year old!
No silly monsters, rubber outfits, no idiotic premise, this was an ingenious episode with wonderful writing and true suspense. Of course, having an old film actor in the lead gives the episode some remarkable acting. You really had to think about what was taking place, why it was taking place and the possibility of it ever happening. This story spooked me the most of all Outer Limits' episodes except for the one about the "being" from another dimension that transmits itself into our world. I think that was the first episode. That was excellent. Outer Limits had its cheesy episodes but many were first rate sci-fi novellas. And the two different music themes it used -- both were dramatic and potent.
John I saw your comment and had to reply.I saw this episode on tv when I was 13.You said,"the possibility of it ever happening."Let me tell you something you would have no way of knowing unless you had a lot of time on your hands(like me)and that this indeed "DID' happen but on a different scale.The Super Collider in CERN Switzerland actually made a "breach" to either another dimension or universe.This is no joke.Look it up on youtube or GOOGLE.That's what they're trying to do now in Switzerland.People don't know because they don't follow it like I do.In fact the breach they made was worse than this episode.The breach only lasted a "micro" second.You should see what's recorded on the photo plate.Look it up on youtube.No fake.Real.
It had elements of inter-dimensionality and other sci-fi themes, that wouldn't be seen in TV SF programs until Star Trek Next Generation nearly 30 years later.
The Galaxy Being was the first episode. The alien was from our dimension but from a planet in the Andromeda galaxy. It used a trans-dimensional communication device that gave it instantaneous transportation to our planet when someone on here on Earth boosted the juice up on Cliff Robertson's experimental transmitter.
Do they have a name for this kind of coincidence, where the actor’s future role, either in film or real life, is for shadowed? I seem to come across it all the time. I find it “fascinating”!
This ep and "It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork" were the 2 that gave me nightmares! And I don't scare easily. Runners-up were "Don't Open Til Doomsday", "The Zanti Misfits" (OMG...giant ants with human faces and that noise they made), "Moonstone" and "The Mutant".
The scene at 1:10 was replicated for Nimoy in ST:TMP as he neared Viger in the EVA suit. The lights dancing on the clear faceshield. The writers would also homage this in Wrath of Khan with him sacrificing himself in the radiation chamber. SF writers love to do this stuff. Reference older and obscure material for their current productions.
Great episode. That tackled themes of inter-dimensionality and alien possession that were DECADES ahead of it's time. Just one curious thing, a few minutes later there's a scene where you can clearly see in the background the rotating "disco ball" they were using for the light fx.
The Galaxy Being, The Man Who Was Never Born and The Borderland were some of the great sci-fi TV episodes of The Outer Limits 1963-65 - and yet, this particular episode (Season 1, Episode 30), titled "Production and Decay of Strange Particles," was and still is one of the scariest sci-fi film/video piece I've ever watched ... there's somethin' about those 'strange' particles that scares you, deeply! DGM/Termite Cat Productions Ltd., Los Angeles, California/
One of four episodes written by series creator Leslie Stevens. He had a penchant for writing about pioneers in science exploring the nether reaches of time and space.
And bones. They were vaporized into that fog, I guess. I eventually got the idea that, from their behavior, the sentient energy was actually very uncomfortable here in our dimension, and was itself just trying to get back home. Remember, towards the end, the energy zombies took the H-bomb back into the core, closer to the reaction. They might have been trying to build one themselves, which was why they were working their way to where Marshall ended up building it and leaving it for them to find.
I always felt kind of cheated that they never showed what happened to the men as they were taken over by the energy being(s). It would have been a great special effect to show the human body (at least in the faceplate) being consumed, rather than simply showing an empty helmet "turning on".
I was 7 when I watched this episode, almost shit my pants and couldn't sleep for days after seeing it! Hats off to the "The Outer Limits". Possibly the best Sc-fi Horror series ever done!!!
I was 5 when I saw this episode back in '63. Watched it in the dark. Scared sh!tless afterwards.
Amazing, as with so many of the OL episodes, it had good writing, good acting, very good cinematography and just enough special effects (especially for the time) that this is still a very compelling work. Scared the hell out of me as a nine year old!
No silly monsters, rubber outfits, no idiotic premise, this was an ingenious episode with wonderful writing and true suspense. Of course, having an old film actor in the lead gives the episode some remarkable acting. You really had to think about what was taking place, why it was taking place and the possibility of it ever happening. This story spooked me the most of all Outer Limits' episodes except for the one about the "being" from another dimension that transmits itself into our world. I think that was the first episode. That was excellent.
Outer Limits had its cheesy episodes but many were first rate sci-fi novellas. And the two different music themes it used -- both were dramatic and potent.
John I saw your comment and had to reply.I saw this episode on tv when I was 13.You said,"the possibility of it ever happening."Let me tell you something you would have no way of knowing unless you had a lot of time on your hands(like me)and that this indeed "DID' happen but on a different scale.The Super Collider in CERN Switzerland actually made a "breach" to either another dimension or universe.This is no joke.Look it up on youtube or GOOGLE.That's what they're trying to do now in Switzerland.People don't know because they don't follow it like I do.In fact the breach they made was worse than this episode.The breach only lasted a "micro" second.You should see what's recorded on the photo plate.Look it up on youtube.No fake.Real.
It had elements of inter-dimensionality and other sci-fi themes, that wouldn't be seen in TV SF programs until Star Trek Next Generation nearly 30 years later.
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The Galaxy Being was the first episode. The alien was from our dimension but from a planet in the Andromeda galaxy. It used a trans-dimensional communication device that gave it instantaneous transportation to our planet when someone on here on Earth boosted the juice up on Cliff Robertson's experimental transmitter.
@@JAMESLEVEE - That's right James. Thanks.
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well played, sir, well played!
"I got the reference."
Do they have a name for this kind of coincidence, where the actor’s future role, either in film or real life, is for shadowed? I seem to come across it all the time. I find it “fascinating”!
One of my favorite episodes of the Outer Limits original series.
This ep and "It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork" were the 2 that gave me nightmares! And I don't scare easily. Runners-up were "Don't Open Til Doomsday", "The Zanti Misfits" (OMG...giant ants with human faces and that noise they made), "Moonstone" and "The Mutant".
"The man with the power" energy cloud being was also shit my pants scary.
Most excellent original Outer Limits 1963-65 episode ... DGM/
The least quoted OL episode ever. Great Nimoy.
One of my favorite and one of the weirdest OL episodes, very dreamlike and nightmarish. Absolutely the most surreal episode.
- and with perfect use of real nuclear test footage to show both the explosion and implosion.
The scene at 1:10 was replicated for Nimoy in ST:TMP as he neared Viger in the EVA suit. The lights dancing on the clear faceshield.
The writers would also homage this in Wrath of Khan with him sacrificing himself in the radiation chamber.
SF writers love to do this stuff. Reference older and obscure material for their current productions.
So tragic, Leonard Nimoy bravely tries to save his fellow scientist and tragically dies trying to"CONTROL" the energy monster isotope.
One of the scariest episodes of the entire series.
Great episode. That tackled themes of inter-dimensionality and alien possession that were DECADES ahead of it's time. Just one curious thing, a few minutes later there's a scene where you can clearly see in the background the rotating "disco ball" they were using for the light fx.
State-of-the-art special effects for 1963
The Galaxy Being, The Man Who Was Never Born and The Borderland were some of the great sci-fi TV episodes of The Outer Limits 1963-65 - and yet, this particular episode (Season 1, Episode 30), titled "Production and Decay of Strange Particles," was and still is one of the scariest sci-fi film/video piece I've ever watched ... there's somethin' about those 'strange' particles that scares you, deeply! DGM/Termite Cat Productions Ltd., Los Angeles, California/
TaraTownsend check out , it crawled out of the woodwork,,, uncomfortably scary episode w the unknown
I agree, but I would have to add the "Sixth Finger" to your list.
One of four episodes written by series creator Leslie Stevens. He had a penchant for writing about pioneers in science exploring the nether reaches of time and space.
Classic episode😊
The radiation from the isotope must’ve disintegrated their flesh turning them into sentient fogs controlling the suits
And bones. They were vaporized into that fog, I guess. I eventually got the idea that, from their behavior, the sentient energy was actually very uncomfortable here in our dimension, and was itself just trying to get back home. Remember, towards the end, the energy zombies took the H-bomb back into the core, closer to the reaction. They might have been trying to build one themselves, which was why they were working their way to where Marshall ended up building it and leaving it for them to find.
The alien needs bodies to inhabit story done very well. Many times copied, never bettered, IMHO.
Spock dies the prequel,no kill me now jim.won ending,well he did use the ship computer.
I always felt kind of cheated that they never showed what happened to the men as they were taken over by the energy being(s). It would have been a great special effect to show the human body (at least in the faceplate) being consumed, rather than simply showing an empty helmet "turning on".
Budget and limited SFX technology in the '60's. The reboot OL had better effects but shitty stories.