The Outer Limits (1963) Complete Series DVD Box Set (Nov 4)

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"The best program of its type ever to run on network TV!" -Stephen King

At the beginning of each episode of this anthology series the picture on the TV screen started to do funny things and the deep unemotional "control voice" intoned:

"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat, there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits." — Opening narration – The Control Voice – 1960s

On November 4, MGM Home Entertainment will release a complete box set of the original, 49-episode classic 1960's sci-fi television series THE OUTER LIMITS, celebrating the show's 45th anniversary (SRP $59.98).

The special effects were good, the alien costumes were interesting, and the plots inventive, often leaving viewers with a sense of unease that was either relieved or exacerbated by the moral/commentary the control
voice gave at the end of each episode just before returning control of your television.

Historical Info:

The Outer Limits is an American television series. Similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, though tending more to science fiction than to fantasy, The Outer Limits is an anthology of discrete story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist. The original incarnation ran two seasons, from 1963 to 1965, and was broadcast on ABC. It was made in black-and-white, often artistically well-used. In 1995, it was revived, running for seven seasons, until 2002.

Leslie Stevens created it, and was one of many series influenced by The Twilight Zone and Science Fiction Theatre, though it ultimately proved influential in its own right. In the un-aired pilot, the series was titled "Please Stand By", but ABC rejected it; Stevens retitled it The Outer Limits. With a few changes, the pilot aired as the premiere episode, "The Galaxy Being".

Writers for The Outer Limits included creator Stevens and Joseph Stefano (screenwriter of Psycho), who was the series' first-season producer and creative guiding force. Harlan Ellison wrote "Demon With a Glass Hand" and "Soldier" for the more cautious second season. After James Cameron revealed in an interview that the inspiration for Terminator had come from Ellison's work, Ellison sued and was awarded several hundred thousand dollars in damages, and an end-credits mention in The Terminator (1984), stating the creators' wish to acknowledge the works of Harlan Ellison. The courts also awarded Ellison the right to an acknowledgement of his works appended to all future versions of the film.

Like The Twilight Zone, THE OUTER LIMITS had an opening and closing narration to almost every episode — the "Control Voice" (Vic Perrin) – and distinctive music by Dominic Frontiere, who doubled as Production Executive; the second season featured music by Harry Lubin. The dramatic thrust of the two programs was different. The Twilight Zone used irony; the protagonist would achieve his goal, but not in the manner desired. The Outer Limits was straight action that often deeply delved into philosophical problems within a science fiction context. Many of the stories asserted the triumph of the human spirit, often in confrontation with dark existential forces within or without (hence, the "...mystery which reaches from the inner mind to... The Outer Limits").

Presented on 7 discs - Contents:

Disc 1: Side A
1. The Galaxy Being
2. Hundred Days of the Dragon
3. The Architects of Fear
4. The Man with the Power

Disc 1: Side B
6. Sixth Finger
7. The Man Who Was Never Born
8. O.B.I.T.
9. Human Factor

Disc 2: Side A
10. Corpus Earthling
11. Nightmare
12. It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
13. The Borderland

Disc 2: Side B
14. Tourist Attraction
15. The Zanti Misfits
16. The Mice
17. Controlled Experiment

Disc 3: Side A
18. Don't Open Till Doomsday
19. ZZZZZ
20. The Invisibles
21. The Bellero Shield

Disc 3: Side B
22. The Children of Spider County
23. Specimen: Unknown
24. Second Chance
25. Moonstone



Disc 4: Side A
26. The Mutant
27. The Guests
28. Fun and Games
29. The Special One


Disc 4: Side B
30. A Feasibility Study
31. Production and Decay of Strange Particles
32. The Chameleon
33. The Forms of Things Unknown

Disc 5: Side A
34. Soldier
35. Cold Hands, Warm Heart
36. Behold, Eck!
37. Expanding Human


Disc 5: Side B
38. Demon With A Glass Hand
39. Cry of Silence

Disc 6: Side A
40. The Invisible Enemy
41. Wolf 359
42. I, Robot
43. The Inheritors (Pt 1)

Disc 6: Side B
44. The Inheritors (Pt 2)
45. Keeper of the Purple Twilight

Disc 7: Side A
46. The Duplicate Man
47. Counterweight
48. The Brain of Colonel Barham
49. The Premonition

Disc 7: Side B
50. The Probe