The Outer Limits (The Original Series) - Volume 1
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Actor: Outer LimitsBrand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 736 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-06-05
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Movie Reviews of The Outer Limits (The Original Series) - Volume 1
Movie Review: Excellent sci-fi television show! (Episode Guide)
Summary: 5 Stars
Disc 1 Side A
The Galaxy Being
A radio station engineer uses an experimental receiver to contact an extraterrestrial being, but the radioactive alien poses a deadly threat when it is inadvertently tele-ported to Earth.
The Hundred Days Of The Dragon
A sinister foreign power replaces the President of the United States with its own agent via the use of a powerful drug allowing the skin to be molded into any likeness.
The Architects Of Fear
A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plans an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.
The Man With The Power
An experimental brain surgery gives a mild-mannered professor telekinetic powers and unleashes the dark side of his unconscious mind.
Disc 1 Side B
The Sixth Finger
There are unforeseen consequences when a brilliant but guilt-ridden scientist performs an evolutionary enhancement procedure on an embittered miner.
The Man Who Was Never Born
A horribly mutated man from Earth's bleak future travels back in time in an attempt to alter the past and save mankind from its hideous fate.
O.B.I.T.
The suspicious murder of a security guard sparks an investigation unveiling an insidious and far-reaching monitoring device, the ramifications of which are truly frightening.
The Human Factor
A remote outpost in Greenland is endangered when an experiment is disrupted, causing the mind of a psychiatrist to be switched with that of a madman.
Disc 2 Side A
Corpus Earthling
A doctor with a steel plate in his head questions his own sanity when he begins hearing the conversations of a strange race of alien rock creatures intent on conquering the world.
Nightmare
A band of Earth soldiers is captured and ruthlessly tortured---both physically and psychologically---by their alien captors.
It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork
An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a a research laboratory and hides a deadly secret.
The Borderland
A man hoping to contact his dead son becomes involved in an experiment designed to open a gateway to the fourth dimension.
Disc 2 Side B
Tourist Attraction
The capture of a dolphin-like creature stirs up trouble in a small republic as the country's dictator plans to use the thing to attract tourists.
The Zanti Misfits
Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.
The Mice
A convicted felon volunteers for an interplanetary cultural exchange program and chaos ensues when a bizarre alien materializes here on Earth.
Controlled Experiment
Two Martians conduct an investigation at the scene of a murder to try to determine why humans kill one another.
Summary of The Outer Limits (The Original Series) - Volume 1
There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. Anthology type science fiction program with a different cast each week. Tending toward the hard science space travel time travel and human evolution it tries to examine in each show some form of the question "What is the nature of man?"Run Time: 821 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 027616077691 Manufacturer No: M107769From 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 two double-sided DVDs, these 16 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," and "The Architects of Fear" (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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