Mini-Hijack: Anybody ready for a new Twilight Zone: The Movie? I want Ayckroyd back in there!
Also, I’m a huge fan of Tales From The Crypt. Way overdue, IMHO!
Quasi (gettin’ into the spirit of the month!)
Remember “Thriller”? Anyone, anyone?
That is interesting. I didn’t know they had done a version of that story on television. I heard the story on an episode of radio’s X-Minus One. I suppose it started as a short story, most of X-Minus One’s stories were taken from sci-fi magazines.
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With Boris Karloff as the narrator/host? Or the Michael Jackson/Vincent Price collaboration?
I’m afraid (!) I remember both! 
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That was one sexy bee, huh?
Was that one of those “Howard-Hughes” bras she had on? I mean, them bad boys were out there, doods!
Sorry! I have a thing for 60’s broads! I used to fantasize to Ventures album covers!
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Yes, especially the ep with the slot machine.
It’s worth pointing out (or maybe not, who cares?) that the 1990s Outer Limits’ “Control Voice” (i.e. the narrator) was Kevin Conway, who played Kahless the Unforgettable on Star Trek: The Next Generation as well as Ryan and Cyril’s scumbag father on Oz.
The short story “The Cold Equations” was written by Tom Godwin and originally appeared in the August, 1954 issue of Astounding magazine.
I can’t recall if it was on the TZ, OL, or Night Gallery, but I remember an episode where astronaughts are sitting in the capsule, having landed on the moon, and they look out the window to see a giant mouse! The moon was, indeed, made of green cheese.
Sounds like NG. When an episode ran short, it would be followed by a short piece of comedy.
I’m with RealityChuck on this one. I’ll go even further and call the original Outer Limits my favorite TV show ever.
So what if the monsters and effects don’t always look good. that was the lits of the technology at the time. The strength was in the mise-en-scene–the writing, directing, acting, photography and music.
OL never resorted to lame comedy or cheap schmaltz, as TZ too often did. It always leaves me with the feeling that we are all alone on a tiny planet in an infinite universe full of creatures and forces far beyond our understanding and (at best) indifferent or (at worst) hostile to our existence.
I gave up on the new version several years ago when they tried to tie up a bunch of different episodes into one big X-Files type conspiracy. Bleh.
Not entirely by coincidence, I started off this morning by watching my DVD of Incubus, which was made by some of the people behind The Outer Limits.
Another great episode of the Outer Limits: “Hundred Days of the Dragon” in which an “Asian country” (China) creates a formula that makes the skin elastic and moldable. They intend on replacing all the top leaders in DC with their agents.
“Demon With the Glass Hand” was shot in the same building where Bladerunner was shot.
Feasibility Study was the episode that I’ll always remember. The scene at the end where all the people who were abducted grasp each other’s hand, knowing that in doing so, they will be infected with an alien disease can still make me cry.
Some of the episodes were not so good, but some were just awesome. I want the dvd’s some day…
The ‘slot machine’ was a Twilight Zone. I’ve had my share of ‘was it a TZ or an OL’ arguments. I usually win.
Sadly.
Anyway, since nobody mentioned my favorite OL, I will. “The Man Who Was Never Born” with Martin Landau as the ‘bear’. A fine science fiction love story.
I agree to a point.
The last season or so has had WAY too many clip shows. I think I’ve caught 5 episodes lately, 1 of them was a repeat from an early season, 2 of the others were wholly clip shows, one had clips from earlier episodes, while being mostly new material.