Outer Limits

Amazingly good despite a very low budget.Today they spend a lot more to make much worse.

Ahead of its time. Thoughtful and innovative

Loved it as a kid. The Twighlight Zone was aimed more at the adult crowd. The Outer Limits took advantage of the younger audiences' fascination with monsters and kicked it up a notch. I don't think the writing was the greatest but the younger teens enjoyed it enough to keep it around awhile.

opening was scarier than anything on tv at the time ... including it's own episodes.

Well written, and as political as entertainment TV got back then. Worth the effort to watch. There are some dud shows, but a lot of the writing is pretty solid, and there are some good performances. The special effects (in the context of the era) range from very good to laughable, but its really the content of the scripts that gave the show its strength

I have been watching this show for years. It never fails to grab my attention. The story lines are filled with twists and turns and you are usually left with a surprise ending. Very simplistic show with minimal special effects and yet, it holds a captive audience even to this day.

Today, I find it kind of dated and not as good as the Twilight Zone. But when I was young and the show originally aired, just hearing the theme made me shreik and cry. It didn't help that my older brothers and cousins would chase me around the house and scream "The OUTER LIMITS...The OUTER LIMITS." My mother was always impressed that, even at age 4, I knew when to hide just minutes before the show would air.

Although I've never been a big fan of science fiction as a genre, this is still one of my all-time favorite TV shows. Watching it again recently, I noticed that a lot of the episodes had a tendency to fall flat, but the best of them are true classics. Among them- "Demon With A Glass Hand" based on a story by Harlan Ellison and starring Robert Culp, "O.B.I.T" starring Jeff Corey and featuring a storyline probably more relevant now than when it first appeared back in the early 60's, "The Sixth Finger" starring David McCallum and Jill Haworth, and "The Guests" starring the great Gloria Grahame.

Some may call it a "twilight zone" clone but what about the shows on now? It was one more stepping stone to shows like "Night Gallery" and others. Give it credit for what it was at the time and part of the foundation we just take as a standard today.

best sci fi show until the x files

This was a rather short lived science fiction anthology that had lots of stars walking through the series. In the show where William Shatner appeared, he played an astronaut on a fly-by mission to Venus. His mission was called project Vulcan. Was this shades of the future?

While the Twilight Zone was a program where the stories had morals to them, Outer Limits was just good old fashioned science fiction and had less of a social conscience overall. As has been the case with a number of programs with small budgets, it's the writing and the acting that allows the viewer to overlook a program's flaws. Those of us who love Outer Limits know full well that there is a two legged man underneath the rubber and cardboard dragon outfit, we know that it is an animation that is trying to show a ray that came out of a space gun, or that someone's glowing eyes were drawn in, we know that and we accept that. But so many stories are good and the acting is usually well done that we'll just wink at the TV and pretend that the guy with the curly hair that has a large wax candle made to look like a third arm really is a man from Mars who can heal all of our diseases but only if the local sheriff doesn't kill him first.................

This was quite a good show, and I never missed it as a kid, though I'm not sure how well it would hold up with the passage of time ... interesting stories, sometimes with a depth quite unusual for television. If there were something with this much substance on today, I might turn the damned thing on more often. We now return control of your set to you.

Recently watched some re-runs on the Sci-fi channel here in L.A. I like this show because it was filmed on location, in other words these are real offices, schools etc. I'm sure some sets are used but it's mostly real backgrouds.

A knock-off of The Twilight Zone that wasn't too bad a good deal of the time, although often the plots were too contrived and implausible to pass muster. The production values were slick and the series often casted some good actors in the roles, but the writing could have been better.

This is probably my all time favorite show...since I like science fiction and horror this show combined both and they had such great stories! Too bad it was such low budget..but despite that it was still great.

Pretty scary for it's time. Some episodes seemed "graphic" back then...just because of some blood or violence...

I've only seen two episodes, but they were both so bizarre that you had to love it. "ZZZZZZ," about the queen bee turned human is definitly on the oddball side, and "The Invisibles" has one heck of a confusing plot and some of the worst special effects in TV history, but all that's funny and makes this show worth a look.

Zone wannabe but it still had its moments. I especially remember the open – something like “We are taking over your TV…we control the horizontal, we control the vertical.” Pretty creepy from a little kid’s point of view! A couple of the eps stick out in my mind too – but certainly not the way the great Rod Serling’s stuff did!

IMHO the best show of the 60s. I have spent many hours watching the marathons. I'd sure like to see this come back again.