How anyone could have considered any of those "monsters" scary is beyond me. Especially scary enough to be deemed scary enough to require it to be censored. There is zero approximation to anything real, and not an obvious costume. How naive were people, who are still alive today in many cases, that those costumes to could induce anything other than incredulity. Even with so called horror today, I can't divorce my mind from the knowledge that it's CGI and fake. Then, after seeing what passed for horror, I'm gobsmacked at how hokey it all is
@@nomdeplume7537 It was a different time. People today have become more desensitized to horror after seeing more sophisticated forms of the fantastic. Back then this was all brand new.
@@brendab.5111 My parents took me to see the '74 Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the Drive In... I was 8 A Navy/USMC medic and 30 yrs as a Trauma RN ... I've seen TRUE horror
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It always amazes me on how much the Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone depended on quality writing than special effects. The horror was more in your mind rather than on the screen.
Like the late great film producer Alfred Hitchcock depended very effectively according to some, on building suspence to the audience. Thus earning Mr. Hitchcock the moniker • " The Master of Suspence."
I saw the episode, "The architects of fear" at age 10. It frightened me so badly I couldn't sleep that night. I lied and told my Dad that the show didn't scare me or I would not have been allowed to continue watching it. The stories stayed with me for years. The show dug deep into our psyches unearthing our greatest fears and showed what we can do to ourselves and others when fear, whether rational or not, a projection or owned, is not addressed and resolved.
Me too. For a while I really believed the voice that said it "controlled the audio and video". I was afraid to touch the tv. Loved the show's though. Such imagination with just enough truth to make an 8 year old child think, yeah it COULD be real.
The ironic and schadenfreude part of the story is that every sci-fi fan in the world knows The Outer Limits, while the network executives who cancelled the show are forgotten non-entities who have disappeared into the past as if they never existed.
GOOD POINT. Few years ago I stumbled upon some background on how the original Star Trek came to be and was stunned to find Desilu studios was open-minded enough to greenlight. In fact, Lucille Ball herself, far as I recall, made a critical decision overriding other execs that wanted no part of it. Ms Ball was NOT a SF fan but recognized its potential. Likely shakey on finer details but sure that's the core of it.
@@mvtv-montanavigilantetv5976 .....just as interesting - Desilu Studios also produced Mission Impossible. In the beginning, Lucile Ball wasn't sure that audiences would be able to follow the premise of the show. With so many twists and turns in the story lines - and advanced ideas of espionage and technical gadgets. However, as we all know now, it became a very successful show and went on to be high in the ratings. I have a few seasons on DVD and the show still holds up. Thanks Desilu ...... you provided great T.V. !
@@urbanurchin5930 Wow. Even more to salute. Same with ST how they described Lucille didn't care to understand science fiction besides sensing it would be right. I did a hack puppet version (long winter, ok?) of the entire Doomsday episode. I put Lucille Ball in one of the little screens above the consoles and constantly asked why. Yet KNEW those who DID ... er, WOULD. Cheers.
I loved watching The Outer Limits I was just a small kid. I am now 62 years old. This is one show that has all elements of something great. A story, suspense, horror, eerie music, love and romance once in a while, sci-fi, originality, and direction.
Oh,and mortality tales too. I was raised on these too..as a small kid, thought I could NOT change the channel. I watched mesmorized, scared, sometimes empathized with the frightening monsters too.
Well there's an old saying I learned in the Army never volunteer because a lot of so called classified medical experiments ends up in failure and that's that the case File is closed the files are buried or destroy the result? You the guinea pig is forgotten about. That's not how it works in the United States government you with nothing but a lab experiment gone wrong. Don't believe me you don't have to
I saw this episode when it was first broadcast - uncensored where I lived (the DC metro area). The mutual sign he and his wife used was a finger to the forehead. Probably one of the most powerful things I've ever seen on TV. It made an impression on me that has never faded. The idea of a man sacrificing his marriage and family for a misbegotten attempt to unify the people of our planet is tragic to the extreme. Properly done, it would make a powerful movie even today.
This is also one of my favorite episodes (and I do own the complete series on DVD), along with the Zanti Misfits. In the Architects of Fear, the final scene where he finally sees his wife one last time before dying of his gunshot wound, and his wife experiences her beloved man's death a second time, is so gut wrenching that it brings tears to my eyes even today, and I've seen the episode so many times I know exactly how it's going to end. Magnificent episode!
Another thing that made a permanent impression on me was in the conclusions of each episode, a narrator would give a commentary on the story. The one I remember most vividly was the end of Nightmare, where Earth soldiers in the future are taken prisoners of war and taken to an alien POW camp, run by aliens called the Ebonites. The prisoners experience torture to extract information. But in the end, it turns out that the alien's initial attack on Earth was a mistake, and offered that they would do anything to amend for their error. It was Earth's military leaders who then asked the Ebonites to make a "training exercise" out of a POW experience to see how well our soldiers would hold up against a horrifying and unknown enemy. Such a twisted thing to put our own people through, and for what? One of our people was killed and others severely injured by the exercise. On the end, the narrator says, " ... perhaps, they may have learned - something" Or maybe not ... Many of these episodes were dark commentaries on human nature, as contrasted with oftentimes higher moral natures of the aliens themselves (who look like "monsters" but are perhaps better beings than we humans). I'm also reminded of the Zanti leaders final comment on why they sent their own criminals to Earth: because we are "accomplished executioners."
As a kid the Outer Limits were terrifying, much more so than Twilight Zone, although I loved both, watching them as a grown up was a completely different experience.
Twilight Zone was more about the unexpected twist ending such as The Invaders, or Time Enough at Last. I felt Twilight Zone was more thought provoking. However, the Outer limits I feel had better stories over all. I don't consider one better than the other even though Twilight Zone had Rod Serling, and nobody could top him. They were both great in their own way.
I was only four years old when “The Outer Limits” aired in 1963, but I was instantly mesmerized by it and wanted to understand all of the complex ideas it brought to light, especially Harlan Elison’s “Demon with a Glass Hand,” and Joseph Stefano’s “A Feasibility Study.”
@@davidwebster8004 I liked the OSB where the guy had an image/premonition that he would be killed by a lion. He thought he was safe in the city. But not from a statue. lol
*NOTHING ever prepared me growing-up in the '60's for 'What was to come'* *I never dreamed that 'mental patients screeching endless hate' would have a voice in anything or that any media would pander to them*
I was fortunate that, by the time Outer Limits was broadcast in 1963, my parents bought a small B/W TV for me. So, while they watched Jackie Gleason (or some other show) on Saturday evenings, I could watch the Outer Limits. - "We now return the control…"
Thanks for sharing - great story. I can imagine that happening back then, because it was the early days of TV & the show had all that we control the horizontal, etc.
I was a kid and took what they said literally and would not attempt to change the channel and literally stood by the TV until I could not stand any longer, and would call my grandma to come watch with my sister and me...and each time I was proud I survived the terrifying yet intriguing ordeal.
Remember Episode "The Guests" from 1964? A new guest learns that a boarding(?) house’s occupants have been there for decades but haven’t aged; it’s only if they leave that their years will catch up with them. They'll quickly age and shrivel to bones. As in Hotel California: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave
Love saved the new arrival. Tess, his love, realized he wasn't going to leave her. By sacrifice for his freedom, Tess proved that the alien will probe this unique experience in a mathematics equation to solve the riddle of love
@@DenitaArnold Yaz! As Todd Rundgren prolifically sang , "Light of the world, shine down on me, Love is the answer!" The alien brain is perplexed by mankind and its gift to show unconditional love as the supreme sacrifice to save someone from a lifetime of being an alien's lab experiment.
“It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” was a great episode. A cleaning lady, vacuuming during an electrical storm at a military facility, inadvertently unleashes a bizarre energy creature that kills her and anyone else it comes near....I felt so bad for the victims, watching this when it when in first came out in the ‘60’s....
"The Architects of Fear" was a very interesting episode, about level with "The Man Who Was Never Born." Instead of using Space/Time travel, creating a "United Earth" enemy out of a Human was heart breaking. ("District 9," anyone?)
@@madsteve9 That's what annoyed me when I saw the film: they removed the "Architects of Fear" plot but kept in the "Outer Limits" opening like in the comic. "The inside joke wasn't there anymore so why keep that in?" I thought at the time...
The one that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid was The Zanti Misfits . Even though I’m 68 and have all the dvds , it still sends a chill. Great video
Agreed! those Zantis were really horrifying. But the punchline when the Zantis acknowledge the "eathlings" of their 'achievement': "WE THANK YOU!!" NOW, THAT'S REAL HORROR...
@@ProjectFlashlight612 That "underrated _Hundred Days of The Dragon_ "was what apparently happened to the Presidency of the US: It became like an Imperial Chinese administration with candidate Nixon as the Emperor.
The Outer Limits was one of the greatest shows EVER on TV. My favorite episode was “A Feasibility Study”, which was later remade in the newer series. Let’s hope they can remake something this good again. 😳
Seems like anything good on T.V. or movies is nothing but remakes or reruns ? I believe that it's hard for writers to come up with anything original ...
@@rickymcginnis7300 Even though there's more shows and more networks than ever, there seems to be less talent than ever too. The main problem, I believe, is the old-time producers went by their experience whereas the younger ones go by mostly what they've seen on TV. Same is true for movies - not very much good anymore.
@rickymcginnis7300 The one Outer Limits episode that could be called a comedy (I can't remember the title) was the one where two Martians disguised as humans (one of who was Carroll O'Connor) were assigned to observe a woman (played by Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek's Yeoman Janice Rand) shoot her cheating boyfriend. For The Outer Limits, it was pretty funny, and I always enjoyed watching it.
Can't believe I'm crying just listening to you describe' The Architects of Fear' damn. I'm 60 & you're right once you see it you never forget it. Also " a lesson in feasibility" or '' test in feasibility' I 4get right now.. man oh man .Zanti Misfits . plus being a little girl always considered weird for loving sci-fi. Thank goodness for my brother we shared this love . Your channel is awesome so many memories. Literally made my son watch T Zone & Outer Limits lol so happy when found him watching Twilight Zone on his own . You learn so much about humanity( or lack there of) these were special shows .✌️
No one has mentioned the Music...it was so ahead of its time! I listen to a cd of that music and it is so good! Lots of favorite episodes but "The Guest" really had an impact on me as a 9 year old.
It's amazing to think that the rubber suit they used for that creature was considered so incredibly scary. But, I have to admit, I was 5 years old when this came on the air and I just ate this stuff up. The scarier the better to me.
Boomers had the best time growing up. Everything was wide open and imagination went wild. From the Outer Limits to Star Trek, War of the Worlds to Forbidden Planet, the 60s were awesome to be a kid.
I got to see these wonderful shows as a young child, only because of my beloved mother. My mom loved a good foot massage. In turn I could stay up and watch these shows with her . My mom would say, " you're gonna miss me when I'm gone". Mommie, you ain't never lie. Love you always 😘😘😘😘😘
I agree with you, Courtney. Two other good scary shows were One Step Beyond and Boris Karloff Presents Thriller. I don't remember One Step Beyond and I only discovered The Outer Limits in reruns. I was born in 1957, but I'm sure if I watched The Outer Limits, it would have scared, me as well as One Step Beyond would have. Another good Saturday night show was Thriller Theatre. Ah, those were the days!
@@michaelhughes432 You were born in '57 and you didn't watch "The Outer Limits"? It was perfect since we only had a B&W tv set anyway. Born in '58, btw. Yes, those WERE the days. I feel bad for the kids nowadays. Our technological dreams are their commonplace tools. They have them at their fingertips. And all the shit that came with them.
I remember the one with the diamond turtles and one jumped on this archeologists or scientists face and he ran around screaming........scared the crap out of me sitting all of 18" from the front of a Black and White Motorola TV............
I was born in 63. Oh geez. The one with the ants with those human faces. I'm 57 and I still get the chills. Another was Night Gallery. The one with the mermaid. I actually screamed at the end!!!!!!!
Excellent video RerunZone. Very well done. As to episodes - I like them all - but "O.B.I.T." is a favourite, especially in this day and age of instant communication and Facebook. Our views will soon become those of that episode where observing others in detail is seen as a threat, rather than a boon. The Outer Limits was brilliant in every way.
When I was just a little fellow, "The Zanti Misfits" scared the bejeebers out of me. I was 16 years old before I could bring myself to watch it again.😬
@Leslie Anderson , Oh man, those things looked like giant potato bugs with a human/demon hybrid face! That episode was utterly terrifying when I was a kid! If you've never seen any of the 1995 Outer Limits series, the first episode of season one was called "The Sandkings", and even though it was a different story it immediately made me think of "The Zanti Misfits". It's worth watching. In fact, the whole the revial series (1995-2001) was surprisingly good.
Upon reading most of the reviews. The Zant’is . Seem to be THE most Beloved. And you will get no objections from me. I also must watch a few episodes of “one step beyond “ again!
Say whatever else you want about Harlan Ellison, but he was a GREAT screenwriter! Can you imagine what "City on the Edge of Forever" might have been like if Roddenberry had let Ellison's screenplay stand?
Any network back then changed time slots to compete against a hit show obviously didn’t like the show and wanted it canceled. I actually loved that show.
@@alpha-omega2362 Right! My bedtime was 9pm and too often I only got to listen to the second half of the show. I loved Star Trek. Saw Gene Roddenberry at Nassau Community College when I was about 14. My older brother, a Trekkie himself, took me. He had some great stories and showed the original pilot episode with Captain Pike, "Amok Time" and a blooper reel. We had all the James Blish books too. A sci-fi household.
This episode was the basis for the comic and later movie 'The Watchmen', by Alan Moore. In fact, this episode is on the TV playing in the background during the comic.
Except it wasn't. Moore claims he never saw this episode until after he'd written Watchmen. The reference to it in the comic was added to acknowledge the similarity.
I noticed that when I read Watchmen. I was a little put off--"What, they're ripping off Outer Limits?" But then they acknowledged the reference, which made it better. Still, I feel the movie version got it right, the world thinking Dr. Manhattan was watching them from beyond.
You'd have another collisions with all...eh hem...then comes more theories... like the infamous prison guard prisoner...now it's just got a bunch of pist off people...yet still wanting to compete and such,😓, it's already had it's big bite chunk that affected alot of us prefusely... having thrown around like a fkg dammed if you do dammed if you don't....
I recall seeing the Zanti Misfits when I was about 10. The Control Voice with that background electronic tone really creeped me out to begin with but when those ant like creatures appeared I thought I was going to have a heart attack! Watching more recently, it all seemed very tame but well worth watching. Quality TV.
Yeah , the Outer Limits was totally badass ! I dug the optical fx creatures most , like Eck , the radio transmission dude that glowed and emitted damaging energy ( but was actually a good guy) , the It Came Out Of The Woodwork thing was awesome....while looking vaguely anthropoid , it was made of "smoke clouds with lightning inside" and the way it moved around....wow. I could go on , but.... Some shows were better than others , of course , but all were watchable and entertaining. 💀🎱💀
One of the main reason why the Outer Limits episode The Architects Of Fear works is because of the love between Robert Culp and Geraldine Brooks. Both actors portray a love that you can feel through their performances. Its astounding to watch. Geraldine Brooks is largely forgotten today so here's a brief history on the lovely actress. Geraldine Brooks was one of many actresses who rose to stardom in the mid-to-late 1940's. Geraldine Strook was born on October 29, 1925 in New York City. In was in New York, that Geraldine studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and at the Neighborhood Playhouse before she apprenticed in summer stock productions. In a pre-Broadway tryout of "Follow the Girls" in 1944, Geraldine subsequently went with the show to Broadway in May of that same year and enjoyed a nine-month run. Following her role as "Perdita" in "A Winter's Tale" at the Theater Guild which opened at the Cort Theater on January 15, 1946 and closed after just 39 performances on February 16th. the 20 year-old actress was noticed by a talent scout from Warner Brothers. Later a representative from Warner Brothers signed to a contract. Geraldine decided, at this point, to take the surname of "Brooks" professionally. That name was also the name of her father's costume company. The 20 year old actress was noticed by a talent scout from Warner Brothers and signed to a long-term changing her name to Geraldine Brooks changing her name from the Dutch Strook to the contemporary Brooks which was the name of her costume business. Brooks made her film debut promisingly as a second lead actress in the mystery thriller/noir Cry Wolf (1947) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn, where she got to play Julie Demarest, Errol Flynn's hysterical, conniving niece who gives trouble to Barbara Stanwyck, which added some suspense to the film. For her screen debut she received good notices. Her second film at Warner Brothers was another noir, Possessed (1947), released just three weeks before Cry Wolf, on July 26, 1947 and was, again, reviewed in New York Times, on May 30th. This time, she billed in fourth place, behind top-tier stars Joan Crawford and Van Heflin and third-billed Raymond Massey. A much more vulnerable character than the poised, imperturbable one she played in Cry Wolf, she had a number of heavy dramatic confrontations with the overwrought character played by Joan Crawford (who received an Oscar nomination for the role) and became a lifelong friend of the eighteen-years-older star, and spoke at her memorial service in May 1977, just five weeks before her own death on June 19, 1977. Seeing the young actress for the first time in the latter film, Bosley Crowther (New York Times) described her as "a newcomer who burns brightly as Miss Crawford's sensitive step-daughter". Very quickly, she was becoming an actress to be noticed, and her next film, Embraceable You (1948, Warner Brothers), opposite Dane Clark, she was cast in her first lead role, playing Maria Willens. After one more film, The Younger Brothers, a color Western not released until May 1949, Brooks asked for, and received, a release from her studio contract in July 1948, after two years and four films. Now a freelancer, she had a strong fourth-billed (following Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien and Florence Eldridge) in the dramatic role in An Act of Murder (1948, Universal), playing the daughter of March and Eldridge, who were married in real life, and the anguish that the husband, a judge, endures when he contemplates ending the life of his terminally ill wife. It was released in December 1948, but the downbeat film, although receiving positive notices, was not a financial success. For The Reckless Moment (1949, Columbia), directed by Max Ophuls, she was third-billed behind James Mason and Joan Bennett. Brooks, aged 24, was cast as Bennett's 17-year-old daughter, whose reckless affair with a seedy, older art dealer puts her and her mother on a collision course with a blackmailer with worse to come. The Columbia film was released in December 1949, a year after her previous screen appearance in An Act of Murder. Her final American film of the 1940's was Challenge to Lassie which was photographed in Technicolor at MGM. In mid-1949, with no immediate movie or stage prospects, Geraldine Brooks accepted an offer from an Italian production and distribution companies, Itala Film and Artisti Associati, for roles in two projects to be filmed on location, co-starring top native-born romantic leading men, Rossano Brazzi and Vittorio Gassman. Similar in tone, both are doom-laden melodramas depicting the tragic price women paid for descending into prostitution in the midst of the hunger, deprivation and moral corruption prevailing in postwar Italy. The first film was released as: Streets Of Sorrow and , the second film Volcano was directed by Academy Award-nominated (for 1937's The Life of Emile Zola) director, William Dieterle, and two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Rossano Brazzi. Brooks returned to Broadway in the Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo in 1952, and in 1970 she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the play for Brightower, which closed after its opening night performance. Brooks appeared mostly on television after 1950. Brooks guest starred on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and The Fugitive, both starring David Janssen. Her other credits included Johnny Staccato, Have Gun - Will Travel, Adventures in Paradise, Perry Mason, Ironside, The Defenders, Dr. Kildare, Stoney Burke, Mr. Novak, Ben Casey, Get Smart, Gunsmoke, The Outer Limits (one of the best episodes was "Architects Of Fear") , Combat! (in the episode "The Walking Wounded"), Bonanza, It Takes A Thief, Daniel Boone and Kung Fu (in the episode "Nine Lives"). She played the role of Arden Dellacorte in 1971 on the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and starred as the overweight owner of a delicatessen opposite James Coco in the short-lived 1976 situation comedy The Dumplings, her final role. Geraldine Brooks died of a heart attack while battling cancer at Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead, New York. She was either 51 years old, or, per her New York Times obituary, 52. Her interment was in Mount Sinai, New York's cemetery, Washington Memorial Park. But its her work in The Outer Limits' episode The Architect's Of Fear (1963) that Geraldine Brooks can ever get enough credit for playing so masterfully a fully aware, intelligent, completely in love and passionate woman caught in a horrible tragedy. She was a marvelous actress who died much too young, but especially thanks to this episode of Outer Limits that her stunning talent and vibrant presence will live on forever.
Mark, thank you for an in depth bio on Ms. Brooks. She was so good on that episode, and I remember my heart break when she recognized her horribly disfigured and dying husband. A truly great performance from both Robert Culp and her.
Thank you so much for the biography of Geraldine Brooks! It was so interesting to read about! Her performance in The Architects Of Fear is indeed incredible. Watching her find out that she is pregnant and waiting to tell her husband when he returns from his "mission" was heartbreaking.
I remember watching 'The Galaxy Being' at home with my cousin and a friend who lived down the street. My friend was so scared we had to walk him home. Then my cousin and I ran back home as fast as we could!
That perfectly sums up what I felt. You don't appreciate your life as much until u have gone thru an event of feeling you might lose your life...a rollercoaster, near accident and having your mind terrorized and then feel you now could return to your mundane life right afterwards. Lol
When you compare the Original Outer Limits and Twilight Zones to their later remakes, you can see the vast difference in quality between the two eras. The later versions, IMHO, were inferior to the originals.
The Reason The Monsters Where Called "Bears" Was That The Producer Of "THE OUTER LIMITS" Was One Of The Few Survivors Of The Vaudeville And Burlesques Era And That In Some Theaters, In Those Days, Instead Of Using The Large And Infamous "Giant Hook" To Remove Bad Acts Off The Stage, They Had Someone In A Bear Costume Come Out And "Estcourt" The Performer Off The Stage And Out The Back Door To Be Unceremoniously Thrown Out Onto The Street! (And The Reason The Chant Of 'BRING OUT THE BEAR!-BRING OUT THE BEAR!" Would Sometimes Be Heard From Audiences Fed Up With Such Lousy Acts!)
They substituted "The King Family"---a typical boring musical variety show of the era, for one of the most unique and exciting shows in TV history. I was one ticked off kid.
Yet till this very day, the 60s, and even more so the 70s. Had so very few entertaining and original content. I could probably name my top 10 favorite series. And then practically everything else crapped out precipitously. Especially, The 70s!! With one bullshit spin off after the other. To me, it was a obvious implication of the complete lack of imagination, in most of our society. Anything outside of the box, with out a disturbing. Continual loop of the same laugh track was an insult. Compared to today’s hundreds of selections, there seems to always be something interesting to view.
As a 3 or 4 year old,I had a little red wooden rocking chair- child sized,the kind that came with a music box attached to one of the back rockers so that it played a tune with every rock.Needless to say ,it was quickly removed!.But I stayed with my grandmother usually in the evenings while my mother worked...after my bath. On "Outer Limits ' nights,I couldn't wait until it came on,to drag my little red rocking chair right front of the t.v....to watch -enrapt!.....for the whole hour! My grandmother told how funny she found that and it tickled her... this story about how much I loved it, at that age. I guess she was amused that I liked such scary and serious science-y stuff!1 .I'm 60 now and still love them!
Me too and combining the two no wonder I kept "hearing things" during the daytime while out of school for Summer , staying by myself at home while my parents worked. I also remember my brother who was almost 9 years older than me had gone to a local church one night and gotten "saved" Upon hearing this all I could think of was the fear that he would no longer want to watch The Outer Limits with me at nighttime anymore. It was an unwarranted fear that didn't come true. While having watched every episode of The Twilight Zone, I still have not watched a lot of The Outer Limits but am doing so slowly on several channels using my Roku.
The Outer Limits was...profound. That's the most descriptive word I can come up with. It was eerie, but always made you think, long after the show. I loved it back then, and love it still. 'Zone was pretty good overall, but 'Limits was the king....!
Imagine Being High On Mary Jane And Watching It?? I Can Imagine How Trippy The Minds Of Those Who Were Stoners, Very Young In Their Teens And A Little Older Wow!! No Wonder My Older Brother Was Always SoOoOoO Spaced Out( A Hardcore Blend Of Sci-fi Flicks And Pot I Guess) Lured His Expanding Mind----- Journeying Out To His Bizarre 'n Wildest Hallucinations I Guess!! And Then After Growing Older Into My Teen Years I Was More Able To Understand How So Very Weird And Creepy My Beloved, Late Brother Named Fernando Really Was Big Time!! May He RIP "Can You Hear The Drums Fernando" By ABBA LoL 😂🤣🤣🤣👍 When We Watched It Together In Our Very Dark Den!!! Bcos My Brother Always Turned The Lights Off On Purpose Just So I'd Be Much More Scared!!👍👍 Nevertheless I Truly Loved 'n Literally Enjoyed Being Scared; Greatest Sensations Of My Life!!!! Aaaaaaahahahahaaaaaa!!!! P.S. I Perfectly Recall The Whole Scenarios Watching The Programs Attentively, And Every Once In A While I Would Glimps At Him Seated About 4 Yards Away From Me On His Couch Potato Couch While I Always Wanted Front Seats ( On The Carpet Floor That Is About one Yard From Our B&W TV Set---- Stretched Out On My Stomach Like An Iguana; And Literally Glued To The Tube; In That Switching My Eyeballing Between The T.V. And Him Enhanced My Inner Terror And Frightened Both Mind And Heart Bcos That Blend Of Him Looking So Scared, Suspicious Like, Eerie, Glossy And Red Eyes Wide Open Coupled With Intervals Of Eyeballing Pensively Around The Whole Place And The Ceiling,At Me Was Super Creepy!!👍👍 Scared The CRAP OUT OF ME Fteeken BIG TIME!!!! I Did Not Even Want To MOVE from Where I Was Laying Down, Get Up To Go To Bed When It Was All Over Bcos The Twilight Zone Glued To My Brain And His More Than Just Weird And Creepy Look On His Face, Stone Cold Hardened Like A Very Hard, Tough Rock, And Him Having A Chiseled Face--- Pussy Hole Chin Crowned With A Set Of Two Big Jet Black Eyes, SoOoOoO BLACK As A Super Dark Night When There's A Power Outage Right In The Outskirts Of A Little Town Where You Cannot Even See A Foot Away At Any Any Object Nor Anything Moving! Scary To The Max That I Will Never Forget Now @ 61 Years Young 'n Beyond!! CLASSIC!!!👍👍
@@tioalexcandelarianewmexico1707 To each his own, my dude:-) I got all the way "out there" without any drugs at all - my own head is/was my only drug, conjuring up the eldritch and the fantastical. What a great and terrible thing is the mind. 'A terrible thing to waste' - or just...a terrible thing....?
In the 1950's, there were 92 ( ! ) western series on television. Then, in 1959, The Twilight Zone debuted. It's success spawned other series. The Outer Limits started in 1963 with a dedicated fan base. I enjoyed both.
Which show was it that had the storyline about a book titled “Ways to Serve Man,” I believe? Turns out to be a cookbook at the end! Always loved that episode.
I was 9 when this show aired.I remember this episode . I thought it was brilliant . Even the the hokey monster I understood the bond and intimate jester between the man and wife. And incorporated it into my show of affection. Thank you for this post.
TV was a lot more dorky back then, but it was hyper-creative because it was such a new media. Loved this show, and the others, very much. Not just entertainment or thrills, but also morals, ethics, and more!
I saw "The Architects of Fear" on TV when it first came out. As the host of this presentation says, the episode is unforgettable. It's a science fiction horror-tragedy rolled into one. Robert Culp is terrific in it. The episode is permanently etched in my mind especially because only months after I saw it, the nation was plunged into a real life horror-tragedy with the murder of the young and popular President John F. Kennedy. There were always important life lessons featured in the original Outer Limits Series and presented at the end of each episode. "The Architects of Fear" had this message: "Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together. There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque, it would at least have been a lesson. A lesson, at last, to be learned."
Hearing this intro music at about 7 pm every night as a kid in 1967-68 it was drilled into my subconscious mind! It was creepy back in the day! It's super creepy even today as a 59 yr old man ,which modern movie makers can't match for creepiness and the level of horror that the " outer limits" creates in the viewer! I watch this episode of outer limits at 1 am and it was still pretty scarry indeed ! The more mature you are...the creepier the movie ,because you understand more and have more awareness as you watch ! Take it easy....mike Edwards Crowley Louisiana.
Pretty much mirrors my feelings when just hearing the Outer Limits music. The show itself evokes a horrific feeling and this episode in particular is still hard for me to watch.
THE OUTER LIMITS had profitated from the fascination with dark fantasies Serling had introduced the viewers to. If he really was a strong influence on the classical SCIENCE FICTION popularity is discussable in my eyes as a hard core fan of this literature but shure he had introduced many viewers to Fantasy oriented shows as X FILES, FRINGE, WAREHOUSE 13 and GRIMM. For those kind of shows, I don´t call Science Fiction, Serling with his THE TWILIGHT ZONE was a true ground braker THE OUTER LIMITS had refilled this niche after Serling had become tired of the ongoing uphill battles against the Film Industry Management.
I remember this when I as 10 years old 12 little kids all cousin sitting in front of the big 27 inch Tv at grandmas house watching the first episode of the outer limits I can still hear the screams lol lol
I distinctly remember watching Outer Limits and the show's sound kept playing but the screen said that the picture would be shown after the 10 o'clock news (Cleveland, Ohio). When the internet came along and Outer Limits was available, I looked for this episode to see what I missed.
I remember that ending and my Mother explaining what the hand gestures meant...he points to his eye....than to his heart.....than to his wife......meaning "I love you"... that was almost 60 years ago and I remember it clearly....from then on I used to do that to Mother or any other person I loved (love).....
Same. The writing on many episodes of Outer Limits is imaginative, but the Bug-Eyed Monsters give it a hokey 1950s sci-fi creature-feature feel. It's hard to get invested in the themes when you're going "Oh please..." at some Boglin-looking glove-puppet.
I grew up watching this show and the others; Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond. Television was still pretty new, as far as special effects and make-up. Those particular elements were being invented as they were making these programs. What looks hokey to you now was cutting-edge stuff at the time. Yeah, there were some disappointing monsters but it was part of the fun too.
@@olddoggeleventy2718 You may be correct about some of the monsters. Some were good and some were very very very very bad. The radio frequency monster was good; the swamp monster (garbage eater) was bad.
Favorite 5 Outer Limits episodes: 1) A Feasibility Study 2) Nightmare 3) The Man Who was never Born 4) The Bellero Shield & 5) Second Chance. #1 About sacrifice, #2 Analogous to what happened in Korean War, #3 Consequences of time travel, #4 Consequences of greed, #5 Aliens provide 2nd chance for people with broken lives.
Favorite 11 episodes of Twilight Zone: 1) A 100 Yards over the Rim, Cliff Robertson 2) The Hitchhiker, Inger Stevens 3) Mirror Image, Vera Miles 4) The Old Man in the Cave, James Coburn 5) Perchance to Dream, Suzanne Lloyd 6) The Lonely, Jack Warden 7) The Four of us are dying, Beverly Garland 8) Execution, Albert Salmi 9) Of late I Think of Cliffordville, Julie Newmar & 10) Living Doll & 11) The After Hours, Anne Francis.
@@alphega1983 It makes you wonder if this episode was swirling in the back of his mind. Regardless, it was still quite a profound statement to make in front of the UN.
@@nicoleknight9412 It's on Dailymotion. I'd provide the link. But, youtube has been getting weird about providing links to other sites lately. Just google The Outer Limits-The Architects of Fear
Time changes has ruined more shows. NBC made that same mistake with Star Trek - changed the time to a less-than-desirable slot. And the same thing happened - some of the principals left the show to greener pastures.
The Outer Limits episode “Nightmare” was the most memorable and impressionable on me as a ten year old. The scenes of a hideous looking Ebonite interrogating Earth star troopers along with having them drugged and tortured were very powerful to me.
With its almost bare stage, Nightmare is the one episode that could be effectively staged as a live theatrical production. You could even preserve the 'we control all that you see and hear' opening by shutting the theatre doors and putting fearsome guards in front of them. It could be terrifying and heartbreaking in the right hands.
Thank you for this. when I was 5 , I remember the night " It crawled out of the woodwork" aired. Watching it move around in the room and the noise it made was impressive for a child. That night sleeping I had nightmares about it and I remember my Father coming in to me to calm me down. This was 59 years ago and to this day I will not forget it. The Outer Limits I still watch to this day. It made a Statement to me and many other people.
Seeing that episode nowadays it's laughable that they would censor it for being "too disturbing", but we have to remember that in this day and age we have been desensitized for decades and basically nothing shocks us anymore. I always loved both the Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits but felt that the hour long format of the latter sometimes necessitated putting in a lot of unnecessary filler to stretch it out to that full time slot. On the other hand, some Twilight Zone episodes could have used some more screen time to flesh out the story. Such is the nature of television. On a similar note, I like that many shows on streaming services vary wildly in length per episode since they can be cut to exactly what they need to be to tell the story and are not confined to a particular length. I like this because it doesn't force them to use filler to make it longer or make important scene cuts to make it shorter: It is, ideally, as long as it needs to be. No more. No less.
What I really like about these old shows is the number of supporting actors who would later become movie stars. Well, you have to get a start somewhere.
I was a young child when these shows were running on tv. I was drawn to them. They changed my perspective on storytelling, and set me on the path of a lifelong interest in sci-if. They did provide me with many nightmares. One must remember, unlike today, the effects of violence were shown with very little realism. Much was left to our imaginations. I had never seen the actual effects of gunshots on the human body until “Bonnie and Clyde.” I was shocked.
NBC did the same thing to Star Trek! Fans campaign after 2nd season cancellation forced NBC to renew it but gave it a terrible time slot. Gene Roddenberry gave up and so did most of the others. The third season was mostly terrible but enough episodes were filmed to get it life in syndication and with more favorable time slots, the series became a cult classic but it wasn't until George Lucas' Star Wars that a Star Trek movie was finally made in 1979.
When I was about 6 years old or so, my brothers and sister were watching Outer Limits and would not let me watch because it was too scary. I did see one scene where a guy is trapped in a corridor and a fire advances, he is screaming and trying to escape, to no avail.
The one that stands out for me is from the second run. It was an episode about two aliens trapped on earth that could disguise themselves as beautiful women in order to find husbands, but eventually the facade always broke down. One of the aliens had fallen in love with her current husband and believed he would accept her the way she truly was..."We all wear masks" explained the control voice as the episode came to a close.
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How anyone could have considered any of those "monsters" scary is beyond me. Especially scary enough to be deemed scary enough to require it to be censored. There is zero approximation to anything real, and not an obvious costume. How naive were people, who are still alive today in many cases, that those costumes to could induce anything other than incredulity.
Even with so called horror today, I can't divorce my mind from the knowledge that it's CGI and fake. Then, after seeing what passed for horror, I'm gobsmacked at how hokey it all is
@@nomdeplume7537 It was a different time. People today have become more desensitized to horror after seeing more sophisticated forms of the fantastic. Back then this was all brand new.
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My parents took me to see the '74 Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the Drive In... I was 8
A Navy/USMC medic and 30 yrs as a Trauma RN ... I've seen TRUE horror
@@nomdeplume7537 I saw that hideous movie as a young woman. It was unbearable.
The outer limits ,twilight zone & night gallery were and still are some of the best TV out there !
How about chiller theater ?
You forgot One Step Beyond. Where Twilight was fiction, One step, its sister show, was nonfiction.
And tales from the darkside
, Liberty sounds good just was back in the day the performance of TV and that s*** in the outer limit and 45 card some of the best renew s*** back in the day today like Sabrina the Teenage Witch and all that crap you know why because all of it excellent writing thing from the theater of the of the Mind
@@jullietowner2226 tales wasnt on that level
It always amazes me on how much the Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone depended on quality writing than special effects. The horror was more in your mind rather than on the screen.
Like the late great film producer Alfred Hitchcock depended very effectively according to some, on building suspence to the audience. Thus earning Mr. Hitchcock the moniker • " The Master of Suspence."
I saw the episode, "The architects of fear" at age 10. It frightened me so badly I couldn't sleep that night. I lied and told my Dad that the show didn't scare me or I would not have been allowed to continue watching it. The stories stayed with me for years. The show dug deep into our psyches unearthing our greatest fears and showed what we can do to ourselves and others when fear, whether rational or not, a projection or owned, is not addressed and resolved.
This show scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Outstanding
Kid? Are you a goat? If so how did this comment get done? A human did it. GOD created animals (kid) first. Adam/Eve were next. You're not an animal.
It was fun and so scary as a kid
Me too.
Me too. For a while I really believed the voice that said it "controlled the audio and video". I was afraid to touch the tv. Loved the show's though. Such imagination with just enough truth to make an 8 year old child think, yeah it COULD be real.
"Friends"scared me ......
Those people were creepy at
The ironic and schadenfreude part of the story is that every sci-fi fan in the world knows The Outer Limits, while the network executives who cancelled the show are forgotten non-entities who have disappeared into the past as if they never existed.
GOOD POINT. Few years ago I stumbled upon some background on how the original Star Trek came to be and was stunned to find Desilu studios was open-minded enough to greenlight. In fact, Lucille Ball herself, far as I recall, made a critical decision overriding other execs that wanted no part of it. Ms Ball was NOT a SF fan but recognized its potential. Likely shakey on finer details but sure that's the core of it.
And justly so.
A line from A.E. Housman comes to mind: "...And the name died before the man..." from "To an athlete dying young".
@@mvtv-montanavigilantetv5976 .....just as interesting - Desilu Studios also produced Mission Impossible. In the beginning, Lucile Ball wasn't sure that audiences
would be able to follow the premise of the show. With so many twists and turns in the story lines - and advanced ideas of
espionage and technical gadgets. However, as we all know now, it became a very successful show and went on to be high in
the ratings. I have a few seasons on DVD and the show still holds up. Thanks Desilu ...... you provided great T.V. !
@@urbanurchin5930 Wow. Even more to salute. Same with ST how they described Lucille didn't care to understand science fiction besides sensing it would be right. I did a hack puppet version (long winter, ok?) of the entire Doomsday episode. I put Lucille Ball in one of the little screens above the consoles and constantly asked why. Yet KNEW those who DID ... er, WOULD. Cheers.
You are so correct, Herr Kronader.
I loved watching The Outer Limits I was just a small kid. I am now 62 years old. This is one show that has all elements of something great. A story, suspense, horror, eerie music, love and romance once in a while, sci-fi, originality, and direction.
Oh,and mortality tales too. I was raised on these too..as a small kid, thought I could NOT change the channel. I watched mesmorized, scared, sometimes empathized with the frightening monsters too.
Wow, you must have not even been in school yet when this show came on.
Really miss this old stuff, it was so original and scary.
Yeah it kept you on the edge of your seat and then BAM! It knocked you off your seat and made you say what the Hell did I just watch?
Well there's an old saying I learned in the Army never volunteer because a lot of so called classified medical experiments ends up in failure and that's that the case File is closed the files are buried or destroy the result? You the guinea pig is forgotten about. That's not how it works in the United States government you with nothing but a lab experiment gone wrong. Don't believe me you don't have to
@@charlesneely7995 that doesn't surprise me at all
@Craig Nedoff they're on the Roku Chanel
Not like today’s shows far from it
I saw this episode when it was first broadcast - uncensored where I lived (the DC metro area). The mutual sign he and his wife used was a finger to the forehead. Probably one of the most powerful things I've ever seen on TV. It made an impression on me that has never faded. The idea of a man sacrificing his marriage and family for a misbegotten attempt to unify the people of our planet is tragic to the extreme. Properly done, it would make a powerful movie even today.
This is also one of my favorite episodes (and I do own the complete series on DVD), along with the Zanti Misfits. In the Architects of Fear, the final scene where he finally sees his wife one last time before dying of his gunshot wound, and his wife experiences her beloved man's death a second time, is so gut wrenching that it brings tears to my eyes even today, and I've seen the episode so many times I know exactly how it's going to end. Magnificent episode!
Another thing that made a permanent impression on me was in the conclusions of each episode, a narrator would give a commentary on the story. The one I remember most vividly was the end of Nightmare, where Earth soldiers in the future are taken prisoners of war and taken to an alien POW camp, run by aliens called the Ebonites. The prisoners experience torture to extract information. But in the end, it turns out that the alien's initial attack on Earth was a mistake, and offered that they would do anything to amend for their error. It was Earth's military leaders who then asked the Ebonites to make a "training exercise" out of a POW experience to see how well our soldiers would hold up against a horrifying and unknown enemy. Such a twisted thing to put our own people through, and for what? One of our people was killed and others severely injured by the exercise. On the end, the narrator says, " ... perhaps, they may have learned - something"
Or maybe not ...
Many of these episodes were dark commentaries on human nature, as contrasted with oftentimes higher moral natures of the aliens themselves (who look like "monsters" but are perhaps better beings than we humans). I'm also reminded of the Zanti leaders final comment on why they sent their own criminals to Earth: because we are "accomplished executioners."
As a kid the Outer Limits were terrifying, much more so than Twilight Zone, although I loved both, watching them as a grown up was a completely different experience.
I totally agree. Outer Limits raised the bar on scary!
Twilight Zone was more about the unexpected twist ending such as The Invaders, or Time Enough at Last. I felt Twilight Zone was more thought provoking. However, the Outer limits I feel had better stories over all. I don't consider one better than the other even though Twilight Zone had Rod Serling, and nobody could top him. They were both great in their own way.
@@vintagethunderbirdrepair9426 👍👍 Indeed!✌️
I agree. I adored The Twilight Zone, but The Outer Limits scared the living daylights out of me.
Exactly! I've always considered The Outer Limits superior to TW Zone!
I was only four years old when “The Outer Limits” aired in 1963, but I was instantly mesmerized by it and wanted to understand all of the complex ideas it brought to light, especially Harlan Elison’s “Demon with a Glass Hand,” and Joseph Stefano’s “A Feasibility Study.”
When I was a kid The Outer Limits & Twilight Zone were never miss shows at my house. Also Hitchcock hour.
Same here. This show scared me to death. I loved it.
Also ONE STEP BEYOND TV SERIES
@@davidwebster8004 I liked the OSB where the guy had an image/premonition that he would be killed by a lion. He thought he was safe in the city. But not from a statue. lol
One Step Beyond was another never miss in my home
Corine, same here in Finland 🇫🇮 late 60's & 70's. 🥰
The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone were my first babysitters. Still love them, and they helped prepare me for the 21st century carnival of freaks.
Like trump? The most toxic freak of them all!
@@beowulfvladmax7710 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah... He's living rent free in your head!
@@beowulfvladmax7710 now little baby dont pee your panties
*NOTHING ever prepared me growing-up in the '60's for 'What was to come'*
*I never dreamed that 'mental patients screeching endless hate' would have a voice in anything or that any media would pander to them*
Oh oh oh, I don't think we can use that word anymore😅🤣😂🤣😅🤣😂
I was fortunate that, by the time Outer Limits was broadcast in 1963, my parents bought a small B/W TV for me. So, while they watched Jackie Gleason (or some other show) on Saturday evenings, I could watch the Outer Limits. - "We now return the control…"
My best friends grandmother was convinced that once that show started you couldn't change the channel.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
True story !!!!!!
Thanks for sharing - great story. I can imagine that happening back then, because it was the early days of TV & the show had all that we control the horizontal, etc.
I always wondered about that. 🤔
My 11 year old brother (although laughing) would stand next to the tv.when the tv station would broadcast
"Please Stand By"
If you changed the channel you'll get smacked. LOL!
I was a kid and took what they said literally and would not attempt to change the channel and literally stood by the TV until I could not stand any longer, and would call my grandma to come watch with my sister and me...and each time I was proud I survived the terrifying yet intriguing ordeal.
Remember Episode "The Guests" from 1964? A new guest learns that a boarding(?) house’s occupants have been there for decades but haven’t aged; it’s only if they leave that their years will catch up with them. They'll quickly age and shrivel to bones. As in Hotel California: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave
Love saved the new arrival. Tess, his love, realized he wasn't going to leave her. By sacrifice for his freedom, Tess proved that the alien will probe this unique experience in a mathematics equation to solve the riddle of love
I've only watched these as reruns, but I remember seeing this episode. The house turned into a brain, I think
@@DenitaArnold Yaz! As Todd Rundgren prolifically sang , "Light of the world, shine down on me, Love is the answer!" The alien brain is perplexed by mankind and its gift to show unconditional love as the supreme sacrifice to save someone from a lifetime of being an alien's lab experiment.
I’ve always thought of that episode whenever I hear “Hotel California”.
I loved this episode.
I always think of this episode when I see the melting house in the intro.
“It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” was a great episode. A cleaning lady, vacuuming during an electrical storm at a military facility, inadvertently unleashes a bizarre energy creature that kills her and anyone else it comes near....I felt so bad for the victims, watching this when it when in first came out in the ‘60’s....
"The Architects of Fear" was a very interesting episode, about level with "The Man Who Was Never Born." Instead of using Space/Time travel, creating a "United Earth" enemy out of a Human was heart breaking. ("District 9," anyone?)
The source of Alan Moore's Watchmen storyline.
@@madsteve9 That's what annoyed me when I saw the film: they removed the "Architects of Fear" plot but kept in the "Outer Limits" opening like in the comic. "The inside joke wasn't there anymore so why keep that in?" I thought at the time...
@@dianheffernan2435 Wrong WW2 leader. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
@@dianheffernan2435 It's okay. I after double check all the time, on people's quotes.
The Man Who Was Never Born is my favorite Outer Limits episode. With the great Martin Landau.
The one that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid was The Zanti Misfits . Even though I’m 68 and have all the dvds , it still sends a chill. Great video
Agreed! those Zantis were really horrifying. But the punchline when the Zantis acknowledge the "eathlings" of their 'achievement': "WE THANK YOU!!" NOW, THAT'S REAL HORROR...
@@brunoghezzi5957 Don't forget when the alien said Humans are "Practiced Executioners" just after that epic "shootout" ending...
Definitely one of the scariest episodes, and one that was talked about by everyone at high school the next day...but loved it!
Well what about Bill gates and his Jim Jones Juice
@@olandofuller5588 Unfortunately,that is science fiction that came to reality...
A genuinely brilliant series, with some extremely weird stories. The Zanti Misfits aliens were f**&ing terrifying.
The Best episode of the bunch...also loved" The Sixth Finger", " The Man Who Was Never Born", and the underrated "The Hundred Days of the Dragon"...
My two favorite episodes over the course of the series were "The Sixth Finger," and "Cry Of Silence."
@@williamanthony9090 Both excellent choices
. That was one of the most terrifying episode I remember as a kid. Me and my childhood school friends called them "Wa-wa bugs".😆.
@@ProjectFlashlight612 That "underrated _Hundred Days of The Dragon_ "was what apparently happened to the Presidency of the US: It became like an Imperial Chinese administration with candidate Nixon as the Emperor.
"The Galaxy Being" -- my favorite episode. "The Zanit Misfits" -- my favorite "creepy-crawler" episode.
The Outer Limits was a excellent series. Worlds above what is produced today.
I’m old enough to have seen this episode in the 60’s.
Born 1958. Very cool and groovy time to grow up.
@@liman42 me too 1960
1957 here..outer limits was otherworldly...
@@liman42 Word
This show creeped me out when I was a kid. And I loved every minute of it.
The Outer Limits was one of the greatest shows EVER on TV. My favorite episode was “A Feasibility Study”, which was later remade in the newer series. Let’s hope they can remake something this good again. 😳
Seems like anything good on T.V. or movies is nothing but remakes or reruns ? I believe that it's hard for writers to come up with anything original ...
@@rickymcginnis7300 Even though there's more shows and more networks than ever, there seems to be less talent than ever too. The main problem, I believe, is the old-time producers went by their experience whereas the younger ones go by mostly what they've seen on TV. Same is true for movies - not very much good anymore.
@rickymcginnis7300 The one Outer Limits episode that could be called a comedy (I can't remember the title) was the one where two Martians disguised as humans (one of who was Carroll O'Connor) were assigned to observe a woman (played by Grace Lee Whitney, Star Trek's Yeoman Janice Rand) shoot her cheating boyfriend. For The Outer Limits, it was pretty funny, and I always enjoyed watching it.
I was 5 years old when this show first aired. It created my love for horror/science fiction which I carry to this day.
Can't believe I'm crying just listening to you describe' The Architects of Fear' damn. I'm 60 & you're right once you see it you never forget it. Also " a lesson in feasibility" or '' test in feasibility' I 4get right now.. man oh man .Zanti Misfits . plus being a little girl always considered weird for loving sci-fi. Thank goodness for my brother we shared this love . Your channel is awesome so many memories. Literally made my son watch T Zone & Outer Limits lol so happy when found him watching Twilight Zone on his own . You learn so much about humanity( or lack there of) these were special shows .✌️
No one has mentioned the Music...it was so ahead of its time! I listen to a cd of that music and it is so good!
Lots of favorite episodes but "The Guest" really had an impact on me as a 9 year old.
It's amazing to think that the rubber suit they used for that creature was considered so incredibly scary. But, I have to admit, I was 5 years old when this came on the air and I just ate this stuff up. The scarier the better to me.
The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits on a Saturday night along with Chiller Theatre loved it!!
Boomers had the best time growing up. Everything was wide open and imagination went wild. From the Outer Limits to Star Trek, War of the Worlds to Forbidden Planet, the 60s were awesome to be a kid.
That is a lineup that will never be duplicated !
I got to see these wonderful shows as a young child, only because of my beloved mother. My mom loved a good foot massage. In turn I could stay up and watch these shows with her . My mom would say, " you're gonna miss me when I'm gone". Mommie, you ain't never lie. Love you always 😘😘😘😘😘
I agree with you, Courtney. Two other good scary shows were One Step Beyond and Boris Karloff Presents Thriller. I don't remember One Step Beyond and I only discovered The Outer Limits in reruns. I was born in 1957, but I'm sure if I watched The Outer Limits, it would have scared, me as well as One Step Beyond would have. Another good Saturday night show was Thriller Theatre. Ah, those were the days!
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You were born in '57 and you didn't watch "The Outer Limits"? It was perfect since we only had a B&W tv set anyway. Born in '58, btw. Yes, those WERE the days. I feel bad for the kids nowadays. Our technological dreams are their commonplace tools. They have them at their fingertips. And all the shit that came with them.
I was 10 when this show came out and there were a number of episodes that scared the shit out of me
yup i was there too......this was twilight zone on roids.............
I think I was 11. Zanti Misfits did me in!
I remember the one with the diamond turtles and one jumped on this archeologists or scientists face and he ran around screaming........scared the crap out of me sitting all of 18" from the front of a Black and White Motorola TV............
I was born in 63. Oh geez. The one with the ants with those human faces. I'm 57 and I still get the chills. Another was Night Gallery. The one with the mermaid. I actually screamed at the end!!!!!!!
@@leecourtney9968 LOL, I had to turn off Night Gallery the other night. Too scary - I'm almost 70!
Wah Ming Chang's "Keeper of the Purple Twilight" alien has got to be the best-looking extraterrestrial creature of the entire series.
Excellent video RerunZone. Very well done. As to episodes - I like them all - but "O.B.I.T." is a favourite, especially in this day and age of instant communication and Facebook. Our views will soon become those of that episode where observing others in detail is seen as a threat, rather than a boon. The Outer Limits was brilliant in every way.
My favorite episode also .
When I was just a little fellow, "The Zanti Misfits" scared the bejeebers out of me. I was 16 years old before I could bring myself to watch it again.😬
I watch it but shut my eyes at relevant moments!
@Leslie Anderson , Oh man, those things looked like giant potato bugs with a human/demon hybrid face! That episode was utterly terrifying when I was a kid!
If you've never seen any of the 1995 Outer Limits series, the first episode of season one was called "The Sandkings", and even though it was a different story it immediately made me think of "The Zanti Misfits". It's worth watching. In fact, the whole the revial series (1995-2001) was surprisingly good.
@IAMWARTHOG I agree. The new anthology picked up the mantle where the first one passed, and went on to some excellent storytelling in its own right.🙂
Upon reading most of the reviews. The Zant’is . Seem to be THE most Beloved. And you will get no objections from me. I also must watch a few episodes of “one step beyond “ again!
The hair still stands up when that music starts! And I remember the stuff getting sucked into the vacuum cleaner during the storm.
Demon with a glass hand is my all time favorite. Still watch the series and I'm in my 60's.
Say whatever else you want about Harlan Ellison, but he was a GREAT screenwriter!
Can you imagine what "City on the Edge of Forever" might have been like if Roddenberry had let Ellison's screenplay stand?
Arlene Martel was beautiful.
I liked the sixth finger👍
Any network back then changed time slots to compete against a hit show obviously didn’t like the show and wanted it canceled. I actually loved that show.
yes, they did that to "Star Trek"....I loved it on Thursday nights at 8:30 it was perfect, then I was heartbroken when it moved to Friday nights....
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Right! My bedtime was 9pm and too often I only got to listen to the second half of the show. I loved Star Trek. Saw Gene Roddenberry at Nassau Community College when I was about 14. My older brother, a Trekkie himself, took me. He had some great stories and showed the original pilot episode with Captain Pike, "Amok Time" and a blooper reel. We had all the James Blish books too. A sci-fi household.
This episode was the basis for the comic and later movie 'The Watchmen', by Alan Moore. In fact, this episode is on the TV playing in the background during the comic.
Except it wasn't. Moore claims he never saw this episode until after he'd written Watchmen. The reference to it in the comic was added to acknowledge the similarity.
@@talon12020 Seems legit, lol. I'm sure he's telling the truth.
I noticed that when I read Watchmen. I was a little put off--"What, they're ripping off Outer Limits?" But then they acknowledged the reference, which made it better. Still, I feel the movie version got it right, the world thinking Dr. Manhattan was watching them from beyond.
So many great visionary shows got bullied off the air by Hollywood politics and power brokers
I know, right?
You'd have another collisions with all...eh hem...then comes more theories... like the infamous prison guard prisoner...now it's just got a bunch of pist off people...yet still wanting to compete and such,😓, it's already had it's big bite chunk that affected alot of us prefusely... having thrown around like a fkg dammed if you do dammed if you don't....
The Outer Limits very successfully freaked me out as a young kid.
I recall seeing the Zanti Misfits when I was about 10. The Control Voice with that background electronic tone really creeped me out to begin with but when those ant like creatures appeared I thought I was going to have a heart attack! Watching more recently, it all seemed very tame but well worth watching. Quality TV.
Yeah , the Outer Limits was totally badass ! I dug the optical fx creatures most , like Eck , the radio transmission dude that glowed and emitted damaging energy ( but was actually a good guy) , the It Came Out Of The Woodwork thing was awesome....while looking vaguely anthropoid , it was made of "smoke clouds with lightning inside" and the way it moved around....wow. I could go on , but....
Some shows were better than others , of course , but all were watchable and entertaining. 💀🎱💀
One of the main reason why the Outer Limits episode The Architects Of Fear works is because of the love between Robert Culp and Geraldine Brooks. Both actors portray a love that you can feel through their performances. Its astounding to watch. Geraldine Brooks is largely forgotten today so here's a brief history on the lovely actress. Geraldine Brooks was one of many actresses who rose to stardom in the mid-to-late 1940's. Geraldine Strook was born on October 29, 1925 in New York City. In was in New York, that Geraldine studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and at the Neighborhood Playhouse before she apprenticed in summer stock productions. In a pre-Broadway tryout of "Follow the Girls" in 1944, Geraldine subsequently went with the show to Broadway in May of that same year and enjoyed a nine-month run. Following her role as "Perdita" in "A Winter's Tale" at the Theater Guild which opened at the Cort Theater on January 15, 1946 and closed after just 39 performances on February 16th. the 20 year-old actress was noticed by a talent scout from Warner Brothers. Later a representative from Warner Brothers signed to a contract. Geraldine decided, at this point, to take the surname of "Brooks" professionally. That name was also the name of her father's costume company. The 20 year old actress was noticed by a talent scout from Warner Brothers and signed to a long-term changing her name to Geraldine Brooks changing her name from the Dutch Strook to the contemporary Brooks which was the name of her costume business.
Brooks made her film debut promisingly as a second lead actress in the mystery thriller/noir Cry Wolf (1947) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn, where she got to play Julie Demarest, Errol Flynn's hysterical, conniving niece who gives trouble to Barbara Stanwyck, which added some suspense to the film. For her screen debut she received good notices. Her second film at Warner Brothers was another noir, Possessed (1947), released just three weeks before Cry Wolf, on July 26, 1947 and was, again, reviewed in New York Times, on May 30th. This time, she billed in fourth place, behind top-tier stars Joan Crawford and Van Heflin and third-billed Raymond Massey. A much more vulnerable character than the poised, imperturbable one she played in Cry Wolf, she had a number of heavy dramatic confrontations with the overwrought character played by Joan Crawford (who received an Oscar nomination for the role) and became a lifelong friend of the eighteen-years-older star, and spoke at her memorial service in May 1977, just five weeks before her own death on June 19, 1977. Seeing the young actress for the first time in the latter film, Bosley Crowther (New York Times) described her as "a newcomer who burns brightly as Miss Crawford's sensitive step-daughter". Very quickly, she was becoming an actress to be noticed, and her next film, Embraceable You (1948, Warner Brothers), opposite Dane Clark, she was cast in her first lead role, playing Maria Willens. After one more film, The Younger Brothers, a color Western not released until May 1949, Brooks asked for, and received, a release from her studio contract in July 1948, after two years and four films.
Now a freelancer, she had a strong fourth-billed (following Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien and Florence Eldridge) in the dramatic role in An Act of Murder (1948, Universal), playing the daughter of March and Eldridge, who were married in real life, and the anguish that the husband, a judge, endures when he contemplates ending the life of his terminally ill wife. It was released in December 1948, but the downbeat film, although receiving positive notices, was not a financial success.
For The Reckless Moment (1949, Columbia), directed by Max Ophuls, she was third-billed behind James Mason and Joan Bennett. Brooks, aged 24, was cast as Bennett's 17-year-old daughter, whose reckless affair with a seedy, older art dealer puts her and her mother on a collision course with a blackmailer with worse to come. The Columbia film was released in December 1949, a year after her previous screen appearance in An Act of Murder. Her final American film of the 1940's was Challenge to Lassie which was photographed in Technicolor at MGM.
In mid-1949, with no immediate movie or stage prospects, Geraldine Brooks accepted an offer from an Italian production and distribution companies, Itala Film and Artisti Associati, for roles in two projects to be filmed on location, co-starring top native-born romantic leading men, Rossano Brazzi and Vittorio Gassman. Similar in tone, both are doom-laden melodramas depicting the tragic price women paid for descending into prostitution in the midst of the hunger, deprivation and moral corruption prevailing in postwar Italy. The first film was released as: Streets Of Sorrow and , the second film Volcano was directed by Academy Award-nominated (for 1937's The Life of Emile Zola) director, William Dieterle, and two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Rossano Brazzi.
Brooks returned to Broadway in the Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo in 1952, and in 1970 she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the play for Brightower, which closed after its opening night performance. Brooks appeared mostly on television after 1950.
Brooks guest starred on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and The Fugitive, both starring David Janssen. Her other credits included Johnny Staccato, Have Gun - Will Travel, Adventures in Paradise, Perry Mason, Ironside, The Defenders, Dr. Kildare, Stoney Burke, Mr. Novak, Ben Casey, Get Smart, Gunsmoke, The Outer Limits (one of the best episodes was "Architects Of Fear") , Combat! (in the episode "The Walking Wounded"), Bonanza, It Takes A Thief, Daniel Boone and Kung Fu (in the episode "Nine Lives"). She played the role of Arden Dellacorte in 1971 on the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and starred as the overweight owner of a delicatessen opposite James Coco in the short-lived 1976 situation comedy The Dumplings, her final role.
Geraldine Brooks died of a heart attack while battling cancer at Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead, New York. She was either 51 years old, or, per her New York Times obituary, 52. Her interment was in Mount Sinai, New York's cemetery, Washington Memorial Park.
But its her work in The Outer Limits' episode The Architect's Of Fear (1963) that Geraldine Brooks can ever get enough credit for playing so masterfully a fully aware, intelligent, completely in love and passionate woman caught in a horrible tragedy. She was a marvelous actress who died much too young, but especially thanks to this episode of Outer Limits that her stunning talent and vibrant presence will live on forever.
Mark, thank you for an in depth bio on Ms. Brooks. She was so good on that episode, and I remember my heart break when she recognized her horribly disfigured and dying husband. A truly great performance from both Robert Culp and her.
Mark Kagan, Fantastic!!!👍👍 Thank You!!✌️
@@tomcartwright7134 Simon!!👍👍 He Said It. Lol 😂✌️
Thank you so much for the biography of Geraldine Brooks! It was so interesting to read about! Her performance in The Architects Of Fear is indeed incredible. Watching her find out that she is pregnant and waiting to tell her husband when he returns from his "mission" was heartbreaking.
The "Zanti Misfits" always reminded me of the bugs you tried to build in "The Game of Cootie". The game came out in 1949.
That’s wild that’s the first time I thought about that game in like 40 years.
Thank you
I remember watching 'The Galaxy Being' at home with my cousin and a friend who lived down the street. My friend was so scared we had to walk him home. Then my cousin and I ran back home as fast as we could!
Will never forget the beginning and ending of each show with the Voice of Control. Scary stuff for a young kid then!
I loved THE OUTER LIMITS. It didn't scare me ... I found the chills it sent up and down my spine to be quite pleasurable and exhilarating.
That perfectly sums up what I felt. You don't appreciate your life as much until u have gone thru an event of feeling you might lose your life...a rollercoaster, near accident and having your mind terrorized and then feel you now could return to your mundane life right afterwards. Lol
When you compare the Original Outer Limits and Twilight Zones to their later remakes, you can see the vast difference in quality between the two eras. The later versions, IMHO, were inferior to the originals.
'Demon With a Glass Hand' and 'Soldier' were inspirations for the Terminator films.
Written by the brilliant writer Harlan Ellison, who also wrote the famous Star Trek episode, "City on the edge of Forever".
THE ARCHITECTS OF FEAR is what influenced Alan Moore's plot for WATCHMEN, the episode is even mentioned at the end of the graphic novel/ series.
The Outer Limits generic opening is playing on a TV at the end of the movie. Never read the comic but I recognized the reference instantly.
The Reason The Monsters Where Called "Bears" Was That The Producer Of "THE OUTER LIMITS" Was One Of The Few Survivors Of The Vaudeville And Burlesques Era And That In Some Theaters, In Those Days, Instead Of Using The Large And Infamous "Giant Hook" To Remove Bad Acts Off The Stage, They Had Someone In A Bear Costume Come Out And "Estcourt" The Performer Off The Stage And Out The Back Door To Be Unceremoniously Thrown Out Onto The Street! (And The Reason The Chant Of 'BRING OUT THE BEAR!-BRING OUT THE BEAR!" Would Sometimes Be Heard From Audiences Fed Up With Such Lousy Acts!)
I loved this show and watched it religiously as a kid growing up in the sixties.
They substituted "The King Family"---a typical boring musical variety show of the era, for one of the most unique and exciting shows in TV history. I was one ticked off kid.
Yet till this very day, the 60s, and even more so the 70s. Had so very few entertaining and original content. I could probably name my top 10 favorite series. And then practically everything else crapped out precipitously. Especially, The 70s!! With one bullshit spin off after the other. To me, it was a obvious implication of the complete lack of imagination, in most of our society. Anything outside of the box, with out a disturbing. Continual loop of the same laugh track was an insult. Compared to today’s hundreds of selections, there seems to always be something interesting to view.
As a 3 or 4 year old,I had a little red wooden rocking chair- child sized,the kind that came with a music box attached to one of the back rockers so that it played a tune with every rock.Needless to say ,it was quickly removed!.But I stayed with my grandmother usually in the evenings while my mother worked...after my bath. On "Outer Limits ' nights,I couldn't wait until it came on,to drag my little red rocking chair right front of the t.v....to watch -enrapt!.....for the whole hour! My grandmother told how funny she found that and it tickled her... this story about how much I loved it, at that age. I guess she was amused that I liked such scary and serious science-y stuff!1
.I'm 60 now and still love them!
As a kid i watched every Twilight Zone. But Outer Limits scared the pants off of me!
Me too and combining the two no wonder I kept "hearing things" during the daytime while out of school for Summer , staying by myself at home while my parents worked. I also remember my brother who was almost 9 years older than me had gone to a local church one night and gotten "saved" Upon hearing this all I could think of was the fear that he would no longer want to watch The Outer Limits with me at nighttime anymore. It was an unwarranted fear that didn't come true. While having watched every episode of The Twilight Zone, I still have not watched a lot of The Outer Limits but am doing so slowly on several channels using my Roku.
I was a kid when this show came out. I watched 1 episode and was so scared I was forbidden to watch it by my Parents.
I liked TZ more. Probably why I still prefer fantasy movies and tv shows and don't watch horror much at all.
@@misterinadequate3518 why?
Me too!
I was in my parents room and yelled that I could not turn off the television. I was freaked, what a childhood.
The Outer Limits was...profound. That's the most descriptive word I can come up with. It was eerie, but always made you think, long after the show. I loved it back then, and love it still. 'Zone was pretty good overall, but 'Limits was the king....!
Imagine Being High On Mary Jane And Watching It?? I Can Imagine How Trippy The Minds Of Those Who Were Stoners, Very Young In Their Teens And A Little Older Wow!! No Wonder My Older Brother Was Always SoOoOoO Spaced Out( A Hardcore Blend Of Sci-fi Flicks And Pot I Guess) Lured His Expanding Mind----- Journeying Out To His Bizarre 'n Wildest Hallucinations I Guess!! And Then After Growing Older Into My Teen Years I Was More Able To Understand How So Very Weird And Creepy My Beloved, Late Brother Named Fernando Really Was Big Time!! May He RIP "Can You Hear The Drums Fernando" By ABBA LoL 😂🤣🤣🤣👍 When We Watched It Together In Our Very Dark Den!!! Bcos My Brother Always Turned The Lights Off On Purpose Just So I'd Be Much More Scared!!👍👍 Nevertheless I Truly Loved 'n Literally Enjoyed Being Scared; Greatest Sensations Of My Life!!!! Aaaaaaahahahahaaaaaa!!!!
P.S. I Perfectly Recall The Whole Scenarios Watching The Programs Attentively, And Every Once In A While I Would Glimps At Him Seated About 4 Yards Away From Me On His Couch Potato Couch While I Always Wanted Front Seats ( On The Carpet Floor That Is About one Yard From Our B&W TV Set---- Stretched Out On My Stomach Like An Iguana; And Literally Glued To The Tube; In That Switching My Eyeballing Between The T.V. And Him Enhanced My Inner Terror And Frightened Both Mind And Heart Bcos That Blend Of Him Looking So Scared, Suspicious Like, Eerie, Glossy And Red Eyes Wide Open Coupled With Intervals Of Eyeballing Pensively Around The Whole Place And The Ceiling,At Me Was Super Creepy!!👍👍 Scared The CRAP OUT OF ME Fteeken BIG TIME!!!! I Did Not Even Want To MOVE from Where I Was Laying Down, Get Up To Go To Bed When It Was All Over Bcos The Twilight Zone Glued To My Brain And His More Than Just Weird And Creepy Look On His Face, Stone Cold Hardened Like A Very Hard, Tough Rock, And Him Having A Chiseled Face--- Pussy Hole Chin Crowned With A Set Of Two Big Jet Black Eyes, SoOoOoO BLACK As A Super Dark Night When There's A Power Outage Right In The Outskirts Of A Little Town Where You Cannot Even See A Foot Away At Any Any Object Nor Anything Moving! Scary To The Max That I Will Never Forget Now @ 61 Years Young 'n Beyond!!
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@@tioalexcandelarianewmexico1707 To each his own, my dude:-) I got all the way "out there" without any drugs at all - my own head is/was my only drug, conjuring up the eldritch and the fantastical.
What a great and terrible thing is the mind. 'A terrible thing to waste' - or just...a terrible thing....?
In the 1950's, there were 92 ( ! ) western series on television. Then, in 1959, The Twilight Zone debuted. It's success spawned other series. The Outer Limits started in 1963 with a dedicated fan base. I enjoyed both.
Which show was it that had the storyline about a book titled “Ways to Serve Man,” I believe? Turns out to be a cookbook at the end! Always loved that episode.
It was the twilight zone
Yep
Too scary....as an eight year old I would be afraid to go to bed after watching an episode!
I was 9 when this show aired.I remember this episode . I thought it was brilliant . Even the the hokey monster I understood the bond and intimate jester between the man and wife. And incorporated it into my show of affection. Thank you for this post.
I'm glad the NY station chose to not censor that episode. I was a devoted fan, being 11 years old. And the closing music them is one of my favorites.
I still remember the one where Giant Ants come out of the ship...
TV was a lot more dorky back then, but it was hyper-creative because it was such a new media. Loved this show, and the others, very much. Not just entertainment or thrills, but also morals, ethics, and more!
I saw "The Architects of Fear" on TV when it first came out. As the host of this presentation says, the episode is unforgettable. It's a science fiction horror-tragedy rolled into one. Robert Culp is terrific in it. The episode is permanently etched in my mind especially because only months after I saw it, the nation was plunged into a real life horror-tragedy with the murder of the young and popular President John F. Kennedy. There were always important life lessons featured in the original Outer Limits Series and presented at the end of each episode. "The Architects of Fear" had this message: "Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together. There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque, it would at least have been a lesson. A lesson, at last, to be learned."
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Hearing this intro music at about 7 pm every night as a kid in 1967-68 it was drilled into my subconscious mind! It was creepy back in the day! It's super creepy even today as a 59 yr old man ,which modern movie makers can't match for creepiness and the level of horror that the " outer limits" creates in the viewer! I watch this episode of outer limits at 1 am and it was still pretty scarry indeed ! The more mature you are...the creepier the movie ,because you understand more and have more awareness as you watch ! Take it easy....mike Edwards Crowley Louisiana.
Pretty much mirrors my feelings when just hearing the Outer Limits music. The show itself evokes a horrific feeling and this episode in particular is still hard for me to watch.
THE OUTER LIMITS had profitated from the fascination with dark fantasies Serling had introduced the viewers to. If he really was a strong influence on the classical SCIENCE FICTION popularity is discussable in my eyes as a hard core fan of this literature but shure he had introduced many viewers to Fantasy oriented shows as X FILES, FRINGE, WAREHOUSE 13 and GRIMM.
For those kind of shows, I don´t call Science Fiction, Serling with his THE TWILIGHT ZONE was a true ground braker
THE OUTER LIMITS had refilled this niche after Serling had become tired of the ongoing uphill battles against the Film Industry Management.
The Architects of Fear is the basis for the main plot of Alan Moore's 'The Watchmen' and is playing on a TV at the conclusion of the comic.
When I was a kid, I thought they said "The Control Boys", as in "the boys in the control room" at the TV station.
I watched this series as a kid and the monsters scared the hell out of me but I kept watching!
I remember this when I as 10 years old 12 little kids all cousin sitting in front of the big 27 inch Tv at grandmas house watching the first episode of the outer limits I can still hear the screams lol lol
6:31 yup that one gave me nightmares. Rabbit-sized criminal ants from outer space.
I distinctly remember watching Outer Limits and the show's sound kept playing but the screen said that the picture would be shown after the 10 o'clock news (Cleveland, Ohio). When the internet came along and Outer Limits was available, I looked for this episode to see what I missed.
I remember that ending and my Mother explaining what the hand gestures meant...he points to his eye....than to his heart.....than to his wife......meaning "I love you"... that was almost 60 years ago and I remember it clearly....from then on I used to do that to Mother or any other person I loved (love).....
Thank you so much! That's one of my very favorite episodes!
I thought most of the “monsters” were crap, but I liked the series. And yes the episode with Culp as the Alien is unforgettable.
Same. The writing on many episodes of Outer Limits is imaginative, but the Bug-Eyed Monsters give it a hokey 1950s sci-fi creature-feature feel. It's hard to get invested in the themes when you're going "Oh please..." at some Boglin-looking glove-puppet.
I grew up watching this show and the others; Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond. Television was still pretty new, as far as special effects and make-up. Those particular elements were being invented as they were making these programs. What looks hokey to you now was cutting-edge stuff at the time. Yeah, there were some disappointing monsters but it was part of the fun too.
@@olddoggeleventy2718 You may be correct about some of the monsters. Some were good and some were very very very very bad. The radio frequency monster was good; the swamp monster (garbage eater) was bad.
Favorite 5 Outer Limits episodes: 1) A Feasibility Study 2) Nightmare 3) The Man Who was never Born 4) The Bellero Shield & 5) Second Chance. #1 About sacrifice, #2 Analogous to what happened in Korean War, #3 Consequences of time travel, #4 Consequences of greed, #5 Aliens provide 2nd chance for people with broken lives.
Favorite 11 episodes of Twilight Zone: 1) A 100 Yards over the Rim, Cliff Robertson 2) The Hitchhiker, Inger Stevens 3) Mirror Image, Vera Miles 4) The Old Man in the Cave, James Coburn 5) Perchance to Dream, Suzanne Lloyd 6) The Lonely, Jack Warden 7) The Four of us are dying, Beverly Garland 8) Execution, Albert Salmi 9) Of late I Think of Cliffordville, Julie Newmar & 10) Living Doll & 11) The After Hours, Anne Francis.
From a time when originality in si-fi, as well as experimental music was in a crescendo. Today we live in a creative drought in both art forms.
That episode scarred me for life
Well, the human race of the world coming together to unite against this alien…is very interesting. Remember this video.
Well said!
Ronald Reagan made a speech about a scenario exactly like that
@@alphega1983 It makes you wonder if this episode was swirling in the back of his mind. Regardless, it was still quite a profound statement to make in front of the UN.
@@Doc_Valparaiso I wonder if this episode can be downloaded?
@@nicoleknight9412 It's on Dailymotion. I'd provide the link. But, youtube has been getting weird about providing links to other sites lately. Just google The Outer Limits-The Architects of Fear
Time changes has ruined more shows. NBC made that same mistake with Star Trek - changed the time to a less-than-desirable slot. And the same thing happened - some of the principals left the show to greener pastures.
The Outer Limits episode “Nightmare” was the most memorable and impressionable on me as a ten year old. The scenes of a hideous looking Ebonite interrogating Earth star troopers along with having them drugged and tortured were very powerful to me.
I agree. I saw that episode when I was really young and it disturbed me. It was very well directed.
With its almost bare stage, Nightmare is the one episode that could be effectively staged as a live theatrical production. You could even preserve the 'we control all that you see and hear' opening by shutting the theatre doors and putting fearsome guards in front of them. It could be terrifying and heartbreaking in the right hands.
@@majkus Bravo! Like it.
Martin Sheen was in that one
Yes..scary as hell..and believe it or not my cousin had a bubblegum card with that alien.."You Can't Stop Me!" was written under him.
Thank you for this. when I was 5 , I remember the night " It crawled out of the woodwork" aired. Watching it move around in the room and the noise it made was impressive for a child. That night sleeping I had nightmares about it and I remember my Father coming in to me to calm me down. This was 59 years ago and to this day I will not forget it. The Outer Limits I still watch to this day. It made a Statement to me and many other people.
The Birds disappointed me, as did The Blair Witch Project.
The Ring and The Grudge, though, were truly horrifying to me.
The Grudge is especially creepy and disturbing.
As a 10th grader my friends would come over every Monday might and we would watch The Outer Limits. We loved it.
Seeing that episode nowadays it's laughable that they would censor it for being "too disturbing", but we have to remember that in this day and age we have been desensitized for decades and basically nothing shocks us anymore. I always loved both the Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits but felt that the hour long format of the latter sometimes necessitated putting in a lot of unnecessary filler to stretch it out to that full time slot. On the other hand, some Twilight Zone episodes could have used some more screen time to flesh out the story. Such is the nature of television.
On a similar note, I like that many shows on streaming services vary wildly in length per episode since they can be cut to exactly what they need to be to tell the story and are not confined to a particular length. I like this because it doesn't force them to use filler to make it longer or make important scene cuts to make it shorter: It is, ideally, as long as it needs to be. No more. No less.
What I really like about these old shows is the number of supporting actors who would later become movie stars. Well, you have to get a start somewhere.
Robert Redford in The Twilight Zone episode, "Nothing In The Dark", for one. David McCallum and Robert Culp in different episodes of Outer Limits.
Yes the alien creature the Thetan, is truly a frightening character. I remember having dreams of this "alien" !
I was a young child when these shows were running on tv. I was drawn to them. They changed my perspective on storytelling, and set me on the path of a lifelong interest in sci-if. They did provide me with many nightmares. One must remember, unlike today, the effects of violence were shown with very little realism. Much was left to our imaginations. I had never seen the actual effects of gunshots on the human body until “Bonnie and Clyde.” I was shocked.
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This show gave me the creeps when I was a kid. Sounds like the Outer Limits premiered exactly 21 yearsre Miami Vice did.
NBC did the same thing to Star Trek! Fans campaign after 2nd season cancellation forced NBC to renew it but gave it a terrible time slot. Gene Roddenberry gave up and so did most of the others. The third season was mostly terrible but enough episodes were filmed to get it life in syndication and with more favorable time slots, the series became a cult classic but it wasn't until George Lucas' Star Wars that a Star Trek movie was finally made in 1979.
when I was a kid in 60's the scariest episode to me was "Queen Bee" or similar name.
The title of the episode starring Joanna Frank as a queen bee which had transformed to human was " ZZZZZZ ".
That is one of my favorite episodes
@@jimimarlatt7086 was that the one with the entamologist character Ben Fields?
Joanna Frank was beautiful.
My parents wouldn't let me watch those shows - because I was too sensitive and frightened easily. I'd freak out in other words!
As I recall, the music was very engaging and dramatic!
This series used to scare me so much as a kid I would watch it through my fingers with my hands over my face. No kidding.
I always thought it was named "The Thing in the Box". It was the very best of all episodes.
Don't Open Til Doomsday.
When I was about 6 years old or so, my brothers and sister were watching Outer Limits and would not let me watch because it was too scary. I did see one scene where a guy is trapped in a corridor and a fire advances, he is screaming and trying to escape, to no avail.
That was "It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork". A great episode.
I remember that episode you mentioned in particular. It was very touching. Great series ! Thanks for posting.
I saw the OL episode with the Thetan and you're right once seen you'll never forget it.
I remember the episode where the wife recognized the monster by his hand signal just before he died.
VERY moving.
All the Architects succeeded in doing was destroying something beautiful - their marriage.
The one that stands out for me is from the second run. It was an episode about two aliens trapped on earth that could disguise themselves as beautiful women in order to find husbands, but eventually the facade always broke down. One of the aliens had fallen in love with her current husband and believed he would accept her the way she truly was..."We all wear masks" explained the control voice as the episode came to a close.