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Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season One

Philip Abbott (Actor), Gladys Cooper (Actor), Abner Biberman (Director), Alan Crosland Jr. (Director) | Rated: NR (Not Rated) | Format: DVD
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (113 customer reviews)

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From the moment Vic Perrin's omniscient "Control Voice" first proclaimed, "There is nothing wrong with your television set," on September 16, 1963, The Outer Limits was destined for greatness. The dazzling, long-beloved series was a daring experiment in "omnibus" TV, trading the speculative fantasies of The Twilight Zone for farther-out sci-fi concepts. Producers Leslie Stevens and Joseph Stefano had risen as gifted writers from (respectively) Broadway and Hollywood; Stevens rebounded from his previous canceled series, while Stefano had scripted Hitchcock's Psycho and was eager to expand his creative horizons. With an executive order for scary monsters and cold war thrills, their fruitful symbiosis was preceded by the superb Stevens-directed pilot "Please Stand By," named after the series' once-proposed title and changed to "The Galaxy Being" for its broadcast premiere.

Cliff Robertson launched an impressive succession of guest stars, and on meager, oft-exceeded budgets of $120,000 per episode, The Outer Limits became a showcase for shoestring ingenuity. The "blue ribbon crew" (as Stevens called it) included cinematographer Conrad Hall, whose Oscar®-winning skills were honed on the series' cramped TV-studio sets. Packed onto four double-sided DVDs, these 32 episodes (out of a total 49) comprise the series' dynamic first season of moody, frequently paranoid black-and-white adventures. Repeat performers Martin Landau, Robert Culp, and Sally Kellerman excel (respectively) in the fan-favorite episodes "The Man Who Was Never Born," "The Architects of Fear," and "The Bellero Shield" (and who can forget the insect-like menace of "The Zanti Misfits"?). There are a few clunkers, of course, but the series' quality (and parade of monsters) is remarkably consistent, and DVD compression does not compromise its technical achievement. These eerily seductive shows invite repeated viewing, supporting Stephen King's oft-quoted remark that The Outer Limits was "the best program of its type ever to run on network TV." --Jeff Shannon

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You hold in your hands an artifact from a time now vanished forever - a compendium of portals into worlds unknown. A four-disc set that controls over 27 hours of transmission from the 1963-64 series, this vessel has sought you out for one specific purpose: to expand your mind to "The Outer Limits"!

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5.0 out of 5 stars The Sci-fi anthology show.(With a Gothic twist.), May 24 2007
This review is from: Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season One (DVD)
The originality of this show is outstanding, it is the yardstick by which all other Sci-Fi Anthology shows have to be measured. Nearly every episode is an absolute Gem.
I can still remember as a child having to go out the room when "The Children of Spider County's","Bear" appeared. (Well I was a nervous child.)
Stefano was pressurised by "external forces" to include a monster of the week even when the story was strong enough not to need one.
One of those monsters the Zanti's have got to be THE most weird and wackiest aliens that have ever been shown on TV.
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This show had the guts to step outside the formulaic format and take risks.
(Example :~ comedy episodes like Controlled Experiment.)
Everything from the directing,the editing,the filming and the lighting are so stylishly done, you find yourself overlooking plot deficiencies.
This show is only worthy of praise.
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32 episodes,Originally broadcast:~16/9/63-4/5/64.
I have both Region 1 & 2 versions plus a few NTSC Videotapes.
On my region 2 version the 8 disc's are single sided.
I've also reviewed season 2.
THIS IS HOW TV SCI-FI SHOULD BE MADE!
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5.0 out of 5 stars One of the Best Sci Fi Series Ever, July 1 2004
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This review is from: Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season One (DVD)
Ah, remember the good old days when you had to stay up until 2am to see repeats of your favorite TV series? The advent of the VCR made insomnia unnecessary. However, aren't those copies a bit fuzzy? Finally, the ultimate version has arrived. OUTER LIMITS is one of those series that gets better with age. As children, we could not appreciate the marvelous score, lighting, moody atmosphere and intelligent scripts. We just wanted to see the monster. Watching these episodes now, the monster is not as important, and of course, technically is not as impressive.

But let's forgive this 1963-1965 anthology series its shortcomings. The low budgets and tight schedules made the creators use their imagination and bring us a world truly magical. We have a man traveling through time, another trying to scare earth into behaving by impersonating an alien, alien forces inhabiting inanimate objects, and many other stories that don't depend entirely on effects, they are simply fascinating stories.

Creator Joe Stephano admits the network wanted a monster each week, to attract a core audience of youngsters. How clever of him to inject some class into a series that lasted only 49 episodes due to network ignorance, but has been shown over 40
years due to the genius of Stephano and producer Leslie Stevens.

The younger generation may be surprised to see how sophisticated science fiction could be in the early 60's!

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1.0 out of 5 stars I was sadly disappointed., Jun 24 2004
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This review is from: Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season One (DVD)
I loved this show when I was a kid and was very excited when it came out on DVD. I have to say though, that I found most of the episodes virtually unwatchable - which surprised me as I love watching old television shows. This series really has not aged well - unlike the Twilight Zone, which is as good now as when it originally aired. I think that the special effects that made the Outer Limits so cutting-edge for it's time have turned out to be it's major weakness. Where the Twilight Zone used relatively few special effects and relied more on irony and plot twists, the Outer Limits' special effects now look cheap and ridiculous. I enjoyed a few of the episodes, but mostly for nostalgic reasons. Unfortunately, I couldn't sit through most of them.
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