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Summary: THE BEST SCI FI SERIES EVER
Review: BELIEVE IT OR NOT I OWN A AUDIO CD OF THE MUSIC FROM THE FIRST SEASON.RELICED IN 1993 ON CRESCENDO CD ALL ORIGINAL FROM VIC PERRIN CONTROL VOICE TO MUSIC FROM NIGHTMARE,THE MAN WHO WAS NEVER BORN,HUNDRED DAYS OF THE DRAGON.THE BEST SHOW WAS THE ARETECTS OF FEAR.
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Summary: Outer Limits!
Review: I just ordered this set. My old set of outer limits recorded back in 1989-90 (TNT monster vision) are getting pretty poor in the image quality catagory. This set will change that. Read this review ... concerning image/sound quality and content.
I watched OL in the early 60's as a young kid when my dad would let me. He thought most of the episodes were to scary for a 6 year old kid. My favorite episodes include the galaxy being, the premonition, demon with a glass hand, the 6th finger, and the man who was never born. I can't wait to get this set, and hopefully the next season will follow soon.
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Summary: OK - Where is Demon With A Glass Hand?
Review: I feel a bit silly reviewing something that hasn't been released but unless they really mess things up this set will be the best classic TV ever on DVD. I grew up with the Outer Limits and can remember how shocking some of the episodes were in that less sophisticated time. As with pop music, I can't think of anything today that compares with what we had back then. Certainly not the "new" Outer Limits, which is not deserving of the name I'm a big fan; I have the bootleg tape with the Unknown pilot and the ABC spots. While it would be a thrill to see these on DVD I won't hold my breath. Let's just hope this sells well enough to get Turner to put the remaining episodes, especially the finest hour, Demon With A Glass Hand, on DVD.
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Summary: Can't wait!
Review: There are some great episodes in this set. I've collected some of them on VHS and laser disc. It will be great to have them all together on DVD. However, I still think that "Demon With The Glass Hand" from the second season, written by Harlan Ellison, was the best episode of the entire series. Let's hope the second season follows soon.
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Summary: There is nothing wrong with your television set.
Review: There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We can reduce the focus to a soft blur, or sharpen it to crystal clarity. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. You are about to experience the awe and mystery, which reaches from the inner mind to - The Outer Limits. The first season, 32 episodes, are contained on 4 disks. Running time is listed as 1642 minutes. Disc 1
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1) The Galaxy Being: In the first episode, Cliff Robertson plays Allan Maxwell, the owner of a radio station, who ignores his wife and friends while he explores the heavens with his microwaves and his 3D TV scanner. 2) The Hundred Days of the Dragon: A Far East government plots to overthrow the U.S. by replacing key figures with duplicates. The deed is aided with a special drug that allows the skin to become like putty and can be reshaped into any form. 3) The Architects of Fear: Robert Culp undergoes surgery to turn him into an alien creature so that the world can unite against a "common" enemy. 4) The Man with the Power: A would be scientist allows an experimental-chip to be surgical place within his brain, which gives him special power. Once he discovers he can't control his power, he finally destroys himself with that power. 5) The Sixth Finger: A coalminer allows himself to be transformed into a superhuman that man won't reach for another million years. 6) The Man Who Was Never Born: Martin Landau is Andro, who is sent back in time to kill the mother of man who made a mess of the future. 7) O.B.I.T.: OBIT is an electronic device that allows the user to spy on anyone no matter where they are. 8) The Human Factor: A psychiatrist has a device that will allow him to read the minds of others. In a freak accident his mind is switch with one of his patients. Disc 2
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9) Corpus Earthling: Aliens that are really rocks want to control the human mind. 10) Nightmare: Soldiers believe they are on another planet millions of miles from Earth. They are being tested for real battle. 1) It Crawled Out of the Woodwork: A cleaning woman accidentally creates an energy cloud monster with her vacuum cleaner. 12) The Borderland: A research team opens a window into another dimension. The team receives funding from a wealthy man who is looking for his son in the other dimension. 13) Tourist Attraction: A giant "lungfish" is captured and other of it kind come to free the captured one. The lungfish look like giant frogs. 14) The Zanti Misfits: Prisoners from the planet Zanti are sent to Earth as a criminal colony. The creatures are ant-like and have human faces. 15) The Mice: A prisoner exchanges his "life in prison" sentence to be a guinea pig for a scientific experiment which is an exchange of inhabitants between earth and a planet named Chromo. 16) Controlled Experiment: A couple of Martians investigate a murder on Earth. One has been here a while and is familiar with Earth culture (e.g., smoking cigarettes, drinking coffee, kissing, etc.). Disc 3
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17) Don't Open Till Doomsday: An alien wants to blow up the universe. 18) ZZZZZ: A queen bee is transformed into a human in order to mate and produce offspring's. 19) The Invisibles: Alien parasites are using humans as hosts. 20) The Bellero Shield: An alien is transported to earth and Sally Kellerman kills it in order to steal its technology. 21) The Children of Spider County: An alien comes back to earth to pick up his children 22) Specimen: Unknown: Astronauts, returning to earth, discover they are bringing deadly spores back with them. Once on Earth the spores grow rapidly and it is the simple thing that kills them. 23) Second Chance: At an amusement park a selected group of people get on a space ride and it turns out to be the real thing. 24) Moonstone: The folks stationed on the moon find tiny fugitive aliens trying to find shelter from their oppressors. Disc 4
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25) The Mutant: Reese Fowler is caught in a rain of radioactive isotopes that turns him into a big-eyed mutant. His condition drives him insane and he torments his crewmen. 26) The Guests: A young man goes to a nearby house to get help for an old man he finds on the side of the road. He soon discovers the house is nothing more than an alien looking for answers about humans. 27) Fun and Games: A man and woman are transported to another planet to fight a couple of aliens (male and female). If they win the earth is saved otherwise the earth will be destroyed. 28) The Special One: Mr. Zeno recruits a gifted student into a government-sponsored program for "gifted" children. It is soon discover that Mr. Zeno is not a government educator, but part of an invasion force preparing the Earth for conquest. 29) A Feasibility Study: The feasibility study is undertaken by Luminoids, who have stolen a neighborhood block and brought it back to Luminos to see whether earthlings are suitable as slaves. 30) Production and Decay of Strange Particles: In a nuclear research laboratory the creation of a new isotope is made and it takes on a life of it's own. 31) The Chameleon: The government turns Robert Duvall into an alien, just like the ones that landed, and then chase him to the alien spaceship. The government needs to determine if the alien have nuclear weapons. 32) The Forms of Things Unknown: Two women murder their blackmailer but when they take refuge in an old house, they meet a scientist that brings the dead back to life.
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Summary: Simple answers from the Outer Limits
Review: Hey people!
What is coming out on DVD is the entire FIRST season of the Outer Limits. Back in the good old days they actually produced 32 episodes per year.
With any luck, when MGM puts out the complete second season, they'll include nice copies of the original " Please Stand By" version of "The Galaxy Being" and the unseen pilot version of "The Unknown" which is an alternate version of " Forms of Things Unknown"
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Summary: I can't wait to own it...
Review: When I was in the 3rd grade, I used to come to school after the weekend, Outer Limits was on Sunday night, and I would ask all of my buddies "Did you see the Outer Limits last night?", invariably someone did and we would argue the merits of the monster and so forth (very sophisitcated 3rd graders and very liberal parents!). Since then, occasional glimpses into that stark black and white world peopled with stars and monsters and questions and answers, both disturbing and tempting all at the same time. A few years back, I began to collect the VHS releases, then the LaserDisc set, but it was prohibitively expensive at the time. Now grubbing around on Ebay and occasionally landing a deal. When I found out this series was going to be available on DVD, I dove in and ordered it. To settle the debate over the content here is what I know: There are a total of 1642 minutes of running time, now with 32 episodes in the set, that means 51 minutes and 31 seconds per episode, which figures, minusing out commercial slots. There are 4 discs, double sided of course, so each side holds 8 episodes. They are all there folks. Now as to the number 32..yes there are more episodes, but these are the original 32 that were produced before plot disputes and directional differences forced a change in producers, resulting in less intersting episodes (in my opinion). Here are the contents of the DVDS:
Disc 1
The Galaxy Being,
The Hundred Days of the Dragon
The Architects of Fear
The Man with the Power
The Sixth Finger
The Man Who Was Never Born
O.B.I.T.
The Human Factor Disc 2
Corpus Earthling
Nightmare
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
The Borderland
Tourist Attraction
The Zanti Misfits
The Mice
Controlled Experiment
Disc 3
Don't Open Till Doomsday
ZZZZZ
The Invisibles
The Bellero Shield
The Children of Spider County
Specimen: Unknown
Second Chance
Moonstone Disc 4
The Mutant
The Guests
Fun and Games The Special One
A Feasibility Study
Production and Decay of Strange Particles
The Chameleon
The Forms of Things Unknown And as a final note, I loved the long intro and felt they cheapend it by shortening the Vic Perrins dialog. My favorite Outer Limits Ep. is still "The Sixth Finger", with "100 Days of the Dragon" a close second.
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Summary: You are about to experience .... The Outer Limits !
Review: The original Outer Limits set the standards for all the others. You WILL enjoy this series. And check out the second series. We've got 'em all now! Yea, I know, there aren't any extras. Blah, blah, blah. But we've got the shows. That's enough to be happy about right there!
The show was well acted and scripted. Even the lesser shows like "Behold Eck" are enjoyable. The control voice of Vic Perrin says it all. "You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to The Outer Limits!"
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Summary: Abducted By Aliens!
Review: Executive producer Leslie Stevens created a show absolutely unique in the annals of television history, when he came up more than a third of a century ago with The Outer Limits. The vast majority of its episodes concerned alien abduction, which wasn't popularly discussed for about another two decades. Those few stories that didn't deal with that subject dealt instead with first contact scenarios, and did so in highly intelligent and mature fashion. Stevens was himself a second generation military intelligence man, whose father was an MIT graduate admiral and the inventor of airplane arresting gear on aircraft carriers, begging the question of how many of Outer Limits' stories were derived from actual intelligence files on the UFO subject. The scripts are all highly literate, and genuinely poetic. The guest stars, almost all at that time virtual unknowns, include a roster of now-famous names: Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, David McCallum, Robert Duvall, Carroll O'Connor, William Shatner, Martin Sheen, Leonard Nimoy, Bruce Dern, Gloria Grahame, and Sally Kellerman, to name but a few. Famous early film star Miriam Hopkins even lent her presence to "Don't Open Till Doomsday," as a woman gone mad in lifelong service to an evil alien abductor. Even the lesser entries spotlighted unique talents in fabulous performances, such as Joanna Frank in the role of a psychopathic invader attempting to create a hybrid human species with her own kind in "Zzzzz," and Richard Ney - later famous for his own financial show, The Ney Report, on CNN - as an alien tutor of gifted Earth children, toward the purpose of serving as an invasion vanguard, in "The Special One." Outer Limits served as a springboard in high places: Harvard's drama department once performed the semi-prophetic OL script "O.B.I.T.," about paranoiac government self-monitoring and spying, and Ronald Reagan twice used OL plots and phrases in his speeches, the "anti-weapon" of "The Bellero Shield" being his own term for the SDI Star Wars defense shield, and his proposition for extraterrestrial invaders uniting the U.S. and U.S.S.R. being the subject of "The Architects of Fear." Aside from all these fascinating observations, the show itself - simply as a production - was superior. OL's moody, stark black and white cinematography is now legendary. The music scores, from Dominic Frontiere's and Harry Lubin's majestic opening theme strains to Robert Van Eps's unsettling melodramatic chords, was so effective that it was recycled in part by at least two other T.V. series - The Rat Patrol and The Invaders - and a small handful of now lesser-known horror movies. This is a series simply not to be missed by any genuine student of sci-fi or horror cinema, or those more interested in intelligently examining the serious real-life questions of extraterrestrial contact.
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Summary: They're here!
Review: I was hoping that somebody somewhere would someday realize that these 49 groundbraking SF episodes were cruelly absent in DVD form. And, as DVD blacks and whites can be so sharp and clear, it is very likely to feel like viewing them for the first time with all the improvements. I do hope that the remaining episodes will not remain in limbo forever (hint! hint! MGM).And that extraordinary soundtrack too... Well, it finally got there among my X-Files, Secret Agent (Danger Man) and Star Trek TNG sets, and it was definitely worth the wait. Such nostalgia, watching these fabulous episodes in a clearer, sharper fashion than you did the first time in the early sixties! (I hope the remaining episodes qet there fast, too!) All in all, this set is a royal treat for SciFi nostalgia lovers...GET IT NOW!
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