I was very little when the original The Outer Limits was shown on TV; too little, actually, to watch it or understand most of the stories. I remember that I wanted to, though–my liking for ghosts and monsters and “scary stuff” started young.
Even though I don’t think I ever got through an episode, I remember little snips and scenes, like one of the invading Zanti bugs, and that crypto-critter that looked like Flipper and the Creature From The Black Lagoon had a baby together…and this, if I’m not just remembering a scary dream:
A woman lying on the floor with an awful Thing crawling on her face. It was amorphous and had lots of like tentacles or hairy legs and it had obviously done something awful to that lady and it was crawling on her face…:eek::eek::eek:
Like I said, I was too little to watch that, and it freaked me out.I don;t know if I actually saw this on T.O.L. or dreamed it. Either way it’s a vivid memory.
I’m sure there are people here who were/are great fans of the original* The Outer Limits* and have seen every episode several times. Was there really an actual T.O.L. episode that had that image of the awful Thing on the lady’s face, or have I confused it with a nightmare I had way back then?
Sounds like CORPUS EARTHLING, with Robert Culp: after we’ve seen it on a guy, we see it on the face of a supine woman, which is when it crawls like you’d expect.
Similar to the OP, I have a memory of a snippet of an Outer Limits episode* from when I was a kid, and have always wondered if it was real or imagined. All I remember is that there was some little girl and her sheepdog trapped in another dimension where everything was all swirly, and the adults were trying to get her back. (Kinda like Poltergeist when the little girl gets sucked into the TV and they go after her.)
Possibly Twilight Zone, but I’ve seen a lot of TZ reruns over the years and it has never come up.
I watched that same episode when I was a little kid and had trouble sleeping that night. My parents forbade me from watching The Outer Limits again, the only time they ever restricted my TV privileges that I remember.
A quick Googling shows me that the episode that gave me nightmares was “The Invisibles”. I don’t remember the plot, but I sure as hell remember the horrible crab-aliens crawling on people’s backs.
Every time I catch part of one of the new episodes, i find myself asking “is this the one where the humans destroy Earth by mistake?” because it seemed like that idea came up a lot.
Was there a ‘time keepers’ episode? Somehow someone got ‘out of synch’ with time and saw what happened between the seconds , with a whole crew of people moving things about (think stop motion) - and it was explained somewhere in the episode
“Know when you go looking for the keys and they aren’t where you left them, and then you go back and there they are? Thats us”
A great episode, written by Harlan Ellison. I was in L.A. about a year ago and went to the building where that was shot; an interesting bit of science-fiction history.
