The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 1
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Movie Reviews of The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 1
Movie Review: Great series from a hardcore Twilight Zone fan
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw these at the local library and thought I'd check them out. I'd only seen every episode of the "Twilight Zone," but just one or two "Outer Limits" episodes. So far I've enjoyed "Nightmare" and "It Came Out of the Woodwork." "Corpus Earthling," though had to be the worst hour of television ever produced. How does the Mexican dude outside the rented house not hear the woman screaming bloody murder inside? He's just sleeping? Yeah, right.
I decided to set this up on an old 1978 13" Sony Trinitron I got from Goodwill. I don't enjoy watching old TV shows or anything in 4:3 on my widescreen. That's the thing: watch these old shows on an old black and white TV that they were made for. Watch them late on a Saturday night. Since the screen is so small I set it up on the kitchen table. If you have a color analog TV, then reduce the color to zero. It will improve the picture. Watch it in pure black and white. Some have complained of the sound. It's in mono. My JVC XV-N420B DVD player has a feature that allows you to turn off/on the dynamic compression. I turned it off and also set it to "TV." Instantly sounded louder and better even through the one little speaker in my 13" Sony. Check different audio configurations in the player while the disc is running. You may be able to improve the sound. Watch it on the appropriate TV: movies on your widescreen, old TV shows on your analog.
Movie Review: THE Sci-fi Anthology Show. (With a Gothic twist.)
Summary: 5 Stars
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.)
Joseph 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.
See my customer image if you haven't seen them.
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There must have being some kind of conspiracy among TV Sci-fi writers in the 60's, about having insectoid life forms beginning with the letter Z. The Outer Limits had it's Zanti's, and Doctor Who had it's Zarbi's.
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!
Movie Review: The Best TV Show Ever, Bar None!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is my favorite TV show of all time. From it's haunting music to it's beautiful and eerie b&w cinematography to the awe inspiring photographs of Galaxies, it inspired a child's imagination. This show helped pique my interest in astronomy, it made me wonder what could really be out there among the stars, and although it contained an alien "monster" in every episode, it was always about what it means to be human.Movie Review: Seminal Sci-Fi Series now on DVD....
Summary: 5 Stars
One can dismiss The Outer Limits as pulp and the lesser cousin to Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, but the series really showcases some of the best writing in science fiction.
Consider, for example, Harlan Ellison's "Soldier" and "Demon with a Glass Hand," all stellar examples of science fiction's Golden Age. The Outer Limits successfully blended science fiction and Gothic horror into literate teleplays contrary to the typical, bland weeknight fare aired in 1963.
Yes, the SFX and monster costumes were crude, cheap and somewhat laughable today in the wake of today's slick CGI, Industrial Light & Magic and George Lucas. What Rod Serling was to the Twilight Zone, producer and writer Joseph Stefano and Leslie Stevens were to the Outer Limits.
The strength of The Outer Limits came from the imagination with the monsters, or "bears" as Stefano called them, who occupied the deep recesses of our dreams and our nightmares. The first season, represented in this set, is generally considered the stronger of the two. In addition to the actors who were then guest stars in the series would later become, quite literally, household names (Martin Landau, Warren Oates, Cliff Robertson, Donald Pleasance, Robert Culp, Martin Sheen.) The series is really the genesis of science fiction and fantasy successfully blended together that has not only withstood the harsh test of time, but infused TV with a great adventure.
Many episodes of the first season deserve repeated viewing: "The Architects of Fear," "A Hundred Days of the Dragon," (a Cold War thriller, rather than a sci-fi tale--similar to John Frankenheimer's "Seconds"), "A Feasibility Study," and several others all presented in glorious black & white!
Movie Review: terrible soundtrack
Summary: 3 Stars
This collection of the greatest science fiction show ever IMHO, is almost ruined by the lousy sound quality. It's incredible that the engineers allotted so much bandwidth to the video and only (seeminlgly) 1 or so KHz to the audio. Still, what can you do - you need this collection if you're a mature sci fi fan.