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29 April 2013 9:29 AM, PDT | Horror News | See recent Horror News news »

“There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. We control the horizontal, we control the vertical. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control what you see and hear. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to…The Outer Limits.”

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- Nigel Honeybone

20 March 2013 1:50 AM, PDT | SoundOnSight | See recent SoundOnSight news »

Star Trek – and we’re talking the original 1966-69 series here – was a lousy TV show. I was 11 years old when the series debuted on NBC and I thought it was a lousy show then.

That’s why I couldn’t stand the Trekkies even back before there was a name for them. My first run-in with a pre-Trekkie Trekkie was Vincent DePalma. In seventh grade, Vincent had his mother make a sparkly Star Fleet emblem for a corduroy pullover to make it look like the uniform blouses on the show. He wore it to school which I thought was him begging to get his ass beat. He’d built a full-sized replica of the helm/navigation console from the Enterprise bridge in his basement. His father worked for Bell Telephone and had gotten him banks of light-up buttons that really worked. His dream was to eventually recreate the entire bridge in his basement. »

- Bill Mesce

8 March 2013 12:00 AM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

This vintage sci-fi treat is that rarest of TV shows – a knock-off that often equals what it was knocking off

The Outer Limits is usually regarded as being in the shadow of its more popular predecessor The Twilight Zone. While it did ape Tz's format, it was still a format that regularly struck gold: get the best writers and actors you can and knock out a different, richly imaginative story every week. In fact, it did this so well that many an argument has broken out over which story belonged to which show.

The Outer Limits is that rare thing: a knock-off that often equalled what it was knocking off. That even goes for its eerie introduction. "There is nothing wrong with your television set," says a voice, as the screen goes through flickering convulsions. "Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission."

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- Phelim O'Neill

25 February 2013 10:03 AM, PST | Comicmix.com | See recent Comicmix news »

In 1984, The Terminator was a relatively low budget ($6.5 million) action-adventure film starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, hot off Conan and Linda Hamilton pre-Beauty and the Beast. Written by James Cameron and Gale Anne Hurd, it was a fun little science fiction film of a potential future that needed to be avoided. Things blew up and Arnold stoically told a cop and the audience, “I’ll be back.” No one knew at the time that the film would trigger such an enthusiastic response, giving us sequels, comics, novels, and a television series. Suddenly, SkyNet, John Conner, Sarah Conner and the Terminator T-800 model would become a part of the social fabric of pop culture. It also got Cameron sued by Harlan Ellison, who successfully argued that the story lifted a lot from the classic “Soldier” story penned for The Outer Limits. Little wonder then, that when Blu-ray discs started showing up, it »

- Robert Greenberger

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