"The Outer Limits" (1963) TV series 1963-1965

Seasons:

1 | 2

Release Date:

16 September 1963 (USA)

Genre:

Fantasy | Horror | Sci-Fi | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Tagline:

There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.

Plot:

Anthology type science fiction program with a different cast each week. Tending toward the hard science...

Plot Keywords:

Anthology | Cult Favorite | Psychotronic | Alien | Supernatural

Awards:

1 win & 1 nomination

Cast

Vic Perrin	...	Control Voice / ... (28 episodes, 1963-1965)
Bob Johnson	...	Anthean / ... (11 episodes, 1963-1964)

Also Known As:

Beyond Control (USA) (working title)
Please Stand By (USA) (working title)

Runtime:

51 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Netherlands:12 | USA:TV-PG | UK:PG | Australia:PG | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Bradbury Building - 304 S. Broadway, Downtown, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Villa Di Stefano

Trivia:

Many scenes and some entire episodes of the series were filmed on location at series creator Joseph Stefano's home called Villa Di Stefano, from which the production company took its name.

Quotes:

The Control Voice: It is said that if you move a single pebble on the beach, you set up a different pattern, and everything in the world is changed. It can also be said that love can change the future, if it is deep enough, true enough, and selfless enough. It can prevent a war, prohibit a plague, keep the whole world... whole.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Fanalysis (2002)

One of the top five science fiction series of the 60's

If you wanted to know what really good,really spectacular effects along with a good story for maximum effort,then this show set the standard for all science fiction shows as we know it today. And for good reason. For one the stories were based on science fiction subjects ranging for nuclear explosions,aliens and extraterrestials from another world(and some of the most scariest monsters on TV back then!),and creatures from beyond the depths of imagination,and secondly humans who tried to communicate beyond the point of other dimensions and other lifeforms. This show came along with the status of other science fiction shows that domination TV sets throughout the 1960's,with titles like "The Twilight Zone", "Boris Karloff's Thriller","Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea","Lost in Space","Star Trek",and the UFO series "The Invaders". In my opinion about this show it scares the daylights out of me every time I see it. The new version doesn't have a clue to what the original was like,and to me the original rules. Point Blank. Even though it ran for two astounding seasons on ABC(from 1963-65),and brought some of the most electrifying special effects ever devised for TV(it would have really fantastic if the original series were in color in 65 but the entire series was shown in black and white). I happed to catch one of the episodes recently(the one I saw featured Leonard Nimoy,aka Mr. Spock years later on Star Trek)and others that made up the guest star roster each week which included David McCallum,Sally Kellerman,Robert Culp, Michael Ansara,Eddie Albert,and Cliff Robertson.