THE OUTER LIMITS COLLECTION VOLUME ONE - 13 DVD-R - 25 FILMS - 1964 - 1965 - Total Playtime: 21:23:10
The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965 at 7:30PM Eastern Time on Mondays. The series is often compared to The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction stories (rather than stories just dealing with fantasy or supernatural matters). The Outer Limits is an anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end. Each show would begin with either a cold open or a preview clip, followed by a "Control Voice" narration that was mainly run over visuals of an oscilloscope. Using an Orwellian theme of taking over your television, the earliest version of the narration ran as follows: "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." A similar but shorter monolog caps each episode: We now return control of your television set to you. Until next week at the same time, when the control voice will take you to The Outer Limits. Later episodes used one of two shortened versions of the introduction. The first few episodes began simply with the title screen followed by the narration and no cold open or preview clip. The Control Voice was performed by actor Vic Perrin.
FILMS LIST
25 The Mutant
26 The Guests
27 Fun and Games
28 The Special One
29 A Feasibility Study
30 Production and Decay of Strange Particles
31 The Chameleon
32 The Forms of Things Unknown
33 Soldier
34 Cold Hands, Warm Heart
35 Behold, Eck!
36 Expanding Human
37 Demon with a Glass Hand
38 Cry of Silence
39 The Invisible Enemy
40 Wolf 359
41 I, Robot
42 The Inheritors – Part 1
43 The Inheritors – Part 2
44 Keeper of the Purple Twilight
45 The Duplicate Man
46 Counterweight
47 The Brain of Colonel Barham
48 The Premonition
49 The Probe
These films were originally produced long before the advent of High Definition TV, therefore they are best viewed on a small screen. HD TVs tend to stretch and skew the picture. Set your HD TV on 4:3 aspect ratio. (That was the old TV format). Please do not expect DVD or Commercial level DVDs from these films. Email us for any additional info.
