Anybody else a Fan of "The Outer Limits"?

[Mystic]

Originally Posted by Sandy G

No, not the PC 1990s-2000 version, either...The Original 1963-65 Scare-the-P!ss-Outta-You Leslie Stevens-Joe Stefano series...Odd, murky cinematography...Odd, murky scripts...Hysterical music...$1.98 EFX (but they were good for 1963)... Actually, it WAS an excellent series, some of the most talented people in Hollywood at the time worked in it. ABC, perennially in 3rd place in those days, didn't know quite what to do w/the show, kept cutting the budgets & moving it around. Even after Stevens & Stefano left/got kicked out at the beginning of the 2nd season, they STILL managed to pull off several excellent shows. I think I know why all the revivals of shows like this fail-They attempt to impose a modern-day sensibility on them-try to show "Compassion", "Tolerance", "Relevance", all that other happy horseshit. The people that watch these kinds of shows could care less about seeing a woman as the boss-they watch 'em for one reason & one reason only-To get the living daylights scared out of themselves. Anyhow, anybody else have a soft spot for "Outer Limits" like me ?

[outshined]

I have DirecTV and I think they've played a few original episodes just once or twice.
But, I was wondering if anyone knows if the following stories are from the OL?
Been so long since I saw them, but here's the gist...

A man (Jack Warden?) finds himself in the world where everything and everyone seems to be frozen in time, except they aren't; they are all moving imperceptibly slowly. He realizes that a truck will hit a little girl on a trike and fashions the emergency brake to activate with the seat belts from the truck that he cut out. Sound familiar?

The other is something about 2 small cubes in a lab setting. They are moving very slowly towards each other. If someone doesn't do what's required, then they will touch and the world will blow to bits or some such thing?

Thanks.

Originally Posted by outshined

I have DirecTV and I think they've played a few original episodes just once or twice.
But, I was wondering if anyone knows if the following stories are from the OL?
Been so long since I saw them, but here's the gist...

A man (Jack Warden?) finds himself in the world where everything and everyone seems to be frozen in time, except they aren't; they are all moving imperceptibly slowly. He realizes that a truck will hit a little girl on a trike and fashions the emergency brake to activate with the seat belts from the truck that he cut out. Sound familiar?

The other is something about 2 small cubes in a lab setting. They are moving very slowly towards each other. If someone doesn't do what's required, then they will touch and the world will blow to bits or some such thing?

Thanks.

I happen to remember that first one! The title was "Premonition" and the actor was David Garcia, where the solution involved a seat beat cleverly tied between the truck wheel and emergency brake lever. That was Season 1 Episode 8 on One Step Beyond

"Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond" ran from 1959-1961 and I was 8 years old when I saw it. For some reason that episode has remained stuck in my head all these years...

Sorry, but the two cubes don't ring a bell at the moment.

[outshined]

Thanks, sleddogman. It crossed my mind that it could have been an episode from One Step Beyond, which is another favorite that I haven't seen in many years, but I thought it was more of an Outer Limits type story.

These favorite episodes, whether from Outer Limits, 'Zone and One Step Beyond tend to get fuzzy after so many years of not watching them.

As far as I know, only The Twilight Zone is on on a regular basis.

Maybe it's time to buy the DVD box sets.

[Holst]

Originally Posted by sleddogman

I happen to remember that first one! The title was "Premonition" and the actor was David Garcia, where the solution involved a seat beat cleverly tied between the truck wheel and emergency brake lever. That was Season 1 Episode 8 on One Step Beyond

"Alcoa Presents: One Step Beyond" ran from 1959-1961 and I was 8 years old when I saw it. For some reason that episode has remained stuck in my head all these years...

Sorry, but the two cubes don't ring a bell at the moment.

The Preminition outshined would be thinking of is OL, the second to the last one aired, Dewey Martin was an X-15 pilot who broke the time barrier and saves his kid with the seat belt trick. OSB's premintion involved a falling chandelier (spelling?)

[outshined]

Originally Posted by Holst

The Preminition outshined would be thinking of is OL, the second to the last one aired, Dewey Martin was an X-15 pilot who broke the time barrier and saves his kid with the seat belt trick. OSB's premintion involved a falling chandelier (spelling?)

Thanks for the clarification. I have been looking at the OSB dvd's, but there isn't much in the way of plot outlines. I thought it was an episode from The Outer Limits.

With two series of the same genre, and two episodes with the same name, I can see how this can become a little confusing, but sleddogmans response is appreciated nontheless.

Originally Posted by Holst

The Preminition outshined would be thinking of is OL, the second to the last one aired, Dewey Martin was an X-15 pilot who broke the time barrier and saves his kid with the seat belt trick. OSB's premintion involved a falling chandelier (spelling?)

Oops. My bad...

[Mark W.]

Both Series. Granted the new one is a little PCish but I've seen a few of those that were while not scary like the ones I saw when I was a little kid or the reruns or the reruns. But at least as good as anything Stargate Atlantis and such have come up with.

[Ashfan]

The show first aired when I was 6. There was one episode that scared the CRAP out of me back then. Couldn't remember its name, other than it something to do with radioactive particles. Found a VHS tape on ebay with the title Production and Decay of Strange Particles and decided to gamble that it was the one and buy it, to see if I had the same reaction. It was the episode I remembered and although it was creepy, it didn't quite have the same effect. Still, there was a nice frisson between the 50 year old me and and 44 year old memory.

I also found a stack of VHS tapes for $.49 each at a thrift late last year, so picked up about 15 episodes that way.

There is a nice discussion of the show in Stephen King's Danse Macabre