# Help With an old "Outer Limits" Episode? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 16, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-old-outer-limits-episode/740609 "2015-12-16T14:36:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![botsgotme](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@botsgotme](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/botsgotme)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-old-outer-limits-episode/740609/1 "2015-12-16T14:36:00Z")
I cannot recall the name of this one, hopefully somebody remembers it. basically, it relates to a weird old house that a young couple stops at-inside the house, time has stopped-the woman was about to be married, and an astronomer brings by a box with a lens in it-the groom looks into it, and somehow gets trapped inside-with an alien monster! Anybody know the name of the episode? and, what was the conclusion of this? it was all very weird. ---
**Author:** ![CrimeThink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/90db22/32.png) [@CrimeThink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrimeThink)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-old-outer-limits-episode/740609/2 "2015-12-16T14:40:58Z")
Don’t Open Till Doomsday > [@](#): > > [Don't Open Till Doomsday - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_Open_Till_Doomsday) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-old-outer-limits-episode/740609/3 "2015-12-16T16:23:27Z")
For a while, there was talk of an **Outer Limits** movie, just as there had been a **Twilight Zone** movie, and other movies based on TV shows. Joseph Stephano, who wrote this episode (and many others for the series) wanted to base it on this episode. Imagine how THAT would have turned out. To mem, this represented the series at its worst, although Stefano thought this the best episode. It’s filled with quasi-jelled Freudian themes (the Thing in the Box is phallic yet vaginal. The long-delayed marriage is symbolic of…something), and it doesn’t make a helluva lot of sense. Read the linked WEikipedia page, or go to the description in _TYhe Outer Limits Companion_ ( [http://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Companion-David-Schow/dp/0966516907](http://www.amazon.com/Outer-Limits-Companion-David-Schow/dp/0966516907) ) Neither is much help. I see that there’s now discussion of a different Outer Limits movie now, to be bbased on Harlan Ellison’s script **Demon with a Glass Hand**. If they don’t screw it up, that would be something worth seeing – DWAGH is my all-time favorite episode of _any_ sf TV drama. But Hollywood has a long track record of Screwing Up Harlan Ellison scripts. > **[‘The Outer Limits’ Movie in the Works From MGM, Scott Derrickson (Exclusive)](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/outer-limits-movie-works-mgm-713214/)** > > The movie will be based on the classic episode “Demon With a Glass Hand,” written by Harlan Ellison. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-old-outer-limits-episode/740609/4 "2015-12-16T17:17:29Z")
I know that the late Robert Culp long wanted to get “Demon” made into a film. Well, if it happens at least they’ll be able to show the Khyben as something other than pasty-faced bushy-eyebrowed guys. ---
**Author:** ![stosh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@stosh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stosh)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2015, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-with-an-old-outer-limits-episode/740609/5 "2015-12-16T19:27:38Z")
You guys are right, DWAGH is a great story and is my favorite too. I, also, agree that Hollywood would screw it up. They will throw in a bunch of tits and ass, a lot of special effects and lose the story.