Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3164 in DVD
• Released on: 2005-07-11
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Full Screen, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Dutch
• Number of discs: 8
• Running time: 999 minutes

Synopsis
The original television series from the 60s. Episodes include: The Galaxy Being', 'The Human Factor', 'The Borderland', 'The Mutant', 'The Special One' and 'The Forms Of Things Unknown'.

Customer Reviews

could be better
There are some good episodes, and some terrible. All the best episodes that I remember seeing on BBC from my school days are here, but I think 'the best of the outer limits' would have been better, drawn from the whole 1960's show. Despite the B/W and the rubber suits, some of the effects are quite good, and generally better than the new series, in story and atmosphere. I especially like 'The Mutant, The Guests, The man who was never born, Nightmare, Don't open till doomsday, and Forms of things unknown. Episodes which should have been left out.. ZZZZZ, Controlled experiment, Tourist attraction.
32 episodes in total.

Poor Special Effects, Outstanding Stories...
while todays version is just the opposite: color, great (?) CGI effects, and snooze inducing stories that weve seen before. A dozen times at least.
WHY on earth do they have to call it the 'Outer Limits'? THAT show was on in 1963.

This new program-call it 'Weird Stories' or 'Tales of the Strange' etc.

But why call it The Outer Limits? Dont sully the name of a legendary program.

Despite it being B&W-the stories had an air of Paranoia about them (which was justified, as we find out today)
And I loved the stories about Physics gone mad-theres your source for DONNIE DARKO.
All with the eerie music building to a climax, by Dominic Frontiere.
Stories that made you THINK-something that is missing from todays versions.
The program was just a little too much for the network boys trying to push laundry detergent, Barbie dolls, and back then, Cigarettes!

THE Sci-fi Anthology show.(With a Gothic Twist)
The originality of this show is outstanding, it is the yardstick by which all other Sci-Fi Anthology shows have to be measured. Nearly every episode is an absolute Gem.
I can still remember as a child having to go out the room when "The Children of Spider County's","Bear" appeared. (Well I was a nervous child.)
Stefano was pressurised by "external forces" to include a monster of the week even when the story was strong enough not to need one.
One of those monsters the Zanti's have got to be THE most weird and wackiest aliens that have ever been shown on TV.
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This show had the guts to step outside the formulaic format and take risks.
(Example :~ comedy episodes like Controlled Experiment.)
Everything from the directing,the editing,the filming and the lighting are so stylishly done, you find yourself overlooking plot deficiencies.
This show is only worthy of praise.
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32 episodes,Originally broadcast:~16/9/63-4/5/64.
I have both Region 1 & 2 versions plus a few NTSC Videotapes.
On my region 2 version the 8 disc's are single sided.
THIS IS HOW TV SCI-FI SHOULD BE MADE!