# Question about \*The Outer Limits\*--did I \*really\* see this? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 21, 2019, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076 "2019-10-21T10:32:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/1 "2019-10-21T10:32:46Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/2 "2019-10-21T10:51:24Z")
Sounds like CORPUS EARTHLING, with Robert Culp: after we’ve seen it on [a guy,](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/df/7c/50df7c0158b20bd83f006341a0ec00c3.gif) we see it on the face of [a supine woman,](http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/OB4kRn5sduHC/giphy.gif) which is when it crawls like you’d expect. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/3 "2019-10-21T12:03:49Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/4 "2019-10-21T12:10:00Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > 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. That sounds like “Little Girl Lost,” a Twilight Zone episode, which aired March 16, 1962. Plot summary [here](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Girl_Lost_(The_Twilight_Zone)). [IMDB page.](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0734585/) > [@](#): > > Awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of his daughter, a father enters the girl’s room to find that she has vanished - even though he can still hear her crying out for help. Whenever anything gets lost in my house, I assume that’s where it’s gone. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/5 "2019-10-21T12:27:23Z")
I’m sure that’s it. Thanks **ThelmaLou**! ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/6 "2019-10-21T13:12:28Z")
The original Outer Limits scared the crap out of me when I was a kid - especially “Cold Hands, Warm Heart” starring Shatner. It looks really cheesy now, but it still gives me a little tingle. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/7 "2019-10-21T19:20:53Z")
I still get a knuckle-punch in the throat at the end of “Demon With A Glass Hand.” ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/8 "2019-10-21T19:46:49Z")
The Zanti Misfits, It Crawled out of the Woodwork, and The invisible Enemy are the ones that stuck with me over the decades. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/9 "2019-10-21T19:51:15Z")
> [@El\_DeLuxo](#): > > . . . A woman lying on the floor with an awful _ **Thing** _ crawling on her face. . . 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. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/10 "2019-10-21T20:39:44Z")
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](https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/theouterlimits/images/2/26/TheInvisibles1.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20161116052341) crawling on people’s backs. ---
**Author:** ![El\_DeLuxo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_deluxo/32/9043_2.png) [@El\_DeLuxo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_DeLuxo)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/11 "2019-10-21T20:59:43Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > Sounds like CORPUS EARTHLING, with Robert Culp: after we’ve seen it on [a guy,](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/50/df/7c/50df7c0158b20bd83f006341a0ec00c3.gif) we see it on the face of [a supine woman,](http://giphygifs.s3.amazonaws.com/media/OB4kRn5sduHC/giphy.gif) which is when it crawls like you’d expect. I looked up that episode title on Google, and what i found on the image search page confirms your answer. Thanks a boatload. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/12 "2019-10-21T22:16:56Z")
> [@El\_DeLuxo](#): > > I looked up that episode title on Google, and what i found on the image search page confirms your answer. Thanks a boatload. Hey, any time I can help somebody relive getting terrified… ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2019, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/13 "2019-10-21T22:23:12Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/14 "2019-10-22T01:34:38Z")
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” (or something to that affect). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/15 "2019-10-22T01:46:17Z")
> [@simster](#): > > 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” > > (or something to that affect). I think that was [“A Matter Of Minutes”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Minutes), from the ‘80s **Twilight Zone**. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/16 "2019-10-22T02:11:32Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I think that was [“A Matter Of Minutes”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Minutes), from the ‘80s **Twilight Zone**. Based on “Yesterday was Monday” by Theodore Sturgeon. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/17 "2019-10-22T02:56:24Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > I still get a knuckle-punch in the throat at the end of “Demon With A Glass Hand.” 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. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/18 "2019-10-22T15:29:10Z")
The Bradbury building, setting for [many](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_Building#In_popular_culture) a movie and TV episode. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [October 22, 2019, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/19 "2019-10-22T18:07:44Z")
> [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](#): > > I think that was [“A Matter Of Minutes”](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Matter_of_Minutes), from the ‘80s **Twilight Zone**. That’s it - thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2019, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076/20 "2019-10-23T02:33:01Z")
> [@DesertDog](#): > > The Bradbury building, setting for [many](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradbury_Building#In_popular_culture) a movie and TV episode. I know, but only one was relevant to the thread. Have you been there? It doesn’t look like much from the outside, but the inside is spectacular. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-the-outer-limits-did-i-really-see-this/842076.md?page=2)