EPISODE
SEASON
The Outer Limits - Season 1 (1963)
An anthology series of insightful science fiction tales.
10 November 1904, Ungvár, Austria-Hungary [now Uzhhorod, Ukraine]
7 May 1903, Landsberg an der Warthe, Germany [now Gorzów Wielkopolski, Lubuskie, Poland]
March 16, 1926 in Detroit, Michigan, USA
7 March 1931, New York City, New York, USA
14 February 1916, Richmond [now Staten Island], New York City, New York, USA
15 June 1909, New York City, New York, USA
19 March 1935, Queens Village, Long Island, New York, USA
13 February 1931, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
10 January 1921, Sacramento, California, USA
March 29, 1935 in Monmouth, Oregon, USA
13 November 1926, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 May 1937, Ohio, USA
11 August 1902, San Francisco, California, USA
29 June 1930, Dallas, Texas, USA
August 24, 1937 in Dallas, Texas, USA
May 27, 1952 in USA
26 March 1931, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
25 April 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
1931 in Illinois, USA
24 August 1926, New York, USA
April 26, 2018
After Rod Serling's original The Twilight Zone became a hit on CBS, it didn't take long for other TV sci-fi anthology shows to pop up on television. The Outer Limits was one of the best.April 25, 2018
The Outer Limits set the bar in many ways, and set it high.April 25, 2018
The Outer Limits boasted scary, gruesome alien creatures, innovative scripts by such noted sci-fi writers as Harlan Ellison, and such guest stars as Gloria Grahame, Miriam Hopkins, Martin Landau, Sally Kellerman, David McCallum and Lloyd Nolan.May 17, 2018
Screenwriting is a strong point of the series, and many of the episodes display a philosophical streak that more than makes up for what they lack in terms of convincing special effects.April 24, 2018
While Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone is generally considered the more intellectual of the two, The Outer Limits boasted something more blunt and effective: monsters.April 25, 2018
Three of the season's best episodes -- "O.B.I.T.," "Nightmare," and "The Guests" -- are merciless classics of the sci-fi and horror genres, metaphorically examining our surveillance and torture states in their infancy.April 26, 2018
Not all of the Limits episodes have aged well; the best -- and [The Zanti Misfits] is among them -- are those that mix a little moralizing into their sci-fi. Good stuff.April 24, 2018
Twilight Zone never looked better.April 25, 2018
Nearly all of the best episodes were from the show's far superior first season.April 27, 2018
The result is a B-movie-inspired anthology series that looks like a European art film -- one that's aged surprisingly well.April 25, 2018
Don't pass up a chance to see "Demon With a Glass Hand," the best episode of the black-and-white series, which ran for two seasons starting in 1963 and boasted top writers, directors and actors of the time.