Movie Reviews for The Outer Limits (The Original Series) - Volume 3

The Outer Limits (The Original Series) - Volume 3

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Movie Reviews of The Outer Limits (The Original Series) - Volume 3

Movie Review: Great memories with this set
Summary: 4 Stars

I seldom see reruns of The Outer Limits broadcast, so it's nice to have my own copies now. Unlike certain other reviewers, my disks have excellent playback and the picture quality is clean and sharp.
Only one minor annoyance with the packaging: There are two episode index lists - on the back of each disk case and on the back of the set slipcase. The back of the slipcase states the correct order.

Movie Review: I am just glad that the episodes are availabe...
Summary: 4 Stars

I don't know about any of the other sets that may have been available, but I purchased these and was very please with their quality. My biggest complaint about this particular set is that the episodes are in different order than is described on the packaging.
This is the CORRECT order and disc number with the description of each episode as described on the set.

Disc 1-Side A

Soldier
A soldier who knows nothing but killing and warfare struggles to adapt when he is transported back in time to a more peaceful era.

Cold Hands, Warm Heart
After returning from a successful orbit of Venus, a young astronaut is plagued by lurid nightmares as he prepares for his next mission.

Behold, Eck!
The fate of the Earth is at stake when an optometrist discovers special lenses enabling him to see a frightening and otherwise-invisible two-dimensional creature.

Expanding Human
A consciousness-expanding drug provides a professor with superhuman abilities and endangers the lives of his associates.

Disc 1-Side B

Demon With A Glass Hand
An amnesic man with a a strange glass hand is pursued by alien assasins as he seeks the key to his true identity.

Cry Of Silence
Otherworldly forces are at play as a couple of motorists find themselves roadblocked and trapped by animated tumbleweeds.

Disc 2-Side A

The Invisible Enemy
An encounter with extreme terror awaits a crew sent to Mars to investigate the disappearance of an earlier expedition.

Wolf 359
When a scientist reproduces the atmosphere of a distant planet, its accelerated rate of evolution suggests a shocking future for mankind.

I, Robot
A grotesque, yet gentle robot is placed on trial for the murder of his creator.

The Inheritors-Part 1
After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius I.Q. and begins working fervently towards a mysterious scientific goal.

Disc 2-Side B

The Inheritors-Part 2
An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.

Keeper Of The Purple Twilight
An alien being endangers the world when he trades his scientific knowledge for a man's emotions.

Disc 3-Side A

The Duplicate Man
A government agent creates a duplicate of himself in order to find and destroy a menacing creature consumed by hatred.

Counterweight
An Alien invader unleashes fear and panic aboard a simulated flight to a distant planet.

The Brain Of Colonel Barham
A dying space explorer agrees to have his brain implanted into the body of a robot.

The Premonition
An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.

Disc 3-Side B

The Probe
After flying into a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane bound for Toky is captured by an alien space probe.

Movie Review: Nice Packaging and Artwork
Summary: 5 Stars

I wouldn't call this a classic, IT'S A TREASURE, and how lucky are we that it's on DVD

Movie Review: Outer Limits Season Two Review (Vol. 3)
Summary: 4 Stars

There's something about the original Outer Limits series that can never quite be captured by science fiction producers of the 21st century, as if a rare window were opened during an odd little era in the 20th century, a window to the unknown that can never be opened again. Why was the Outer Limits canceled during its second season? There's no way anyone who lived during that time and saw the series will agree that it had anything to do with low ratings. No, it wasn't low ratings that killled the original Outer Limits series, so what was it?

Call me a conspiracy theorist, but I think its possible they were getting too close to the truth about some things, maybe too close for any semblance of comfort, such that the mighty authoritarian keepers of the zoo known as human civilization might have decided to put a lid on it before it went any further. But that's just my theory, for what it's worth.

That note aside, Season Two may not have had anything quite like Season One's "The Galaxy Being", "The Sixth Finger", "The Man Who Never Was", or "Controlled Experiment", but it's ability to explore the boundaries of human speculation continued quite well, by delving into some equally odd and mysterious subjects, such as the far-future post-nuclear wastelands in "Soldier", the realm of an intelligent two-dimensional being accidentally caught in the 3-dimensional world of humans (Behold, Eck!), human scientific experimentation with organic and synthetic mind-enhancing drugs (Expanding Human), an experiment to create a planetary microcosm of life similar to primeval Earth (Wolf 359), a speculative projection upon the possibility of how premonitions may occur during a sudden snap-shot stop-action upon reality (The Premonition), and a close encounter with an alien probe by humans lost in a storm at sea (The Probe).

All ten other episodes are equally entertaining, in the atmosphere of unknown mystery that exists now in a long forgotten era, somewhere quite beyond the dog-eat-dog rat-race known all too well by the vast majority of humans. I was a bit disappointed by the typical 50s outer-space attitude of "The Invisible Enemy", but i suppose that's because I've been spoiled by Star Trek. While old space-ships in retro series suffer the wear and tear of future upgrades, other areas of science-fiction weather the changes fairly well. "Soldier" still does well, despite the rather ancient looking armor that the future soldier was wearing. "Behold, Eck!" would have no problem in any era, as would "Expanding Human", or "Keeper of the Purple Twilight", etc...

The concept of "The Inheritors" still does well, up until the point at which we see the space-ship, which seems like a big project that was scaled down to a low-budget, unfortunately, which might also explain why the series didn't quite complete its second season. "I, Robot" really isn't all that bad, despite the early concept of a mechanical man, since after all, the idea of a robot has always been evolving and an early version might just have been created during that era.

I can't quite decide which are my favorites, since I enjoy them all so much, but I suppose "The Premonition" ranks highest, as I've always been fascinated by the concept of time and how the human consciousness relates to it through reality. I also really enjoyed "Behold, EcK!", because the concept of an intelligent 2-dimensional being is also quite fascinating. "Wolf 359" was also one of the most unique sci-fi concepts I've ever seen in any sci-fi series and the strange creature that evolved out of the experimental culture was truly an epitome of mystery in the unknown.

All I can say is, despite some of the earlier bad reports about this package, I have no problems with it. All the Dvds are working quite well, no flaws on any of them. I was slightly confused by some errors in the packaging details, but that has no effect upon the condition of the discs, which appear to be fine. My tiny bit of advice about future improvements with this package would simply be to include a play-all function on the discs, if they are ever reformatted. I love sci-fi serial Dvds with the "play-all" option, because I can just let them all play through the afternoon or night without having to reset them. It makes sci-fi "marathons" so much easier that way. I love science-fiction marathons on a long weekend.

Finally, I'd like to thank the other reviewers for the warnings about this product. Luckily, I purchased the entire first season in one box set during a local 2-for-1 sale on Dvds, so I didn't bother with the volumes and rather than purchase season 2 in the box-set, I did a careful study of each package deal and thanks to the warnings, realized it was safer to go with Volume 3, rather than the season 2 box-set.