glennmartonic yep.....old sci movies of the 1950's, followed up by the best decade of science fiction TV......the 60's. So much was going on and busting out. star trek, land of the giants, the invaders, time tunnel. twilight zone was in full swing by then. My fascination though was with Outer Limits. I'm like 9 years old, to me it was a great age to be wowed, and scared outta my buster browns. I wished i still had my outer limits card set. I've seen them on eBay, and am tempted, but for now my DVD collection works for me. The stories were fun, scary, and made even a 9 year old think. My favorites are invisible enemy, Z anti Misfits and the inheritors. The music score, and sound effects etched in my brain forever like in granite.What an age of science fiction TV, and what a great show......."we are controlling transmission".......Outer Limits.

chrisart47 James Camerons AVATAR owes a debt to The Chameleon from the OLD outer limits! Robert Duvall portrayed the spy who's DNA was combined with aliens to produce an Alien-like being who then infiltrates an alien hideout to spy and kill the alien beings. The spy eventually sides with the alien-enemy and becomes one of them and leaves the earth to explore new horizons. Avatar is a composite of A man called hoarse. Dances with wolves. Fern-gully. This episode was a classic. The producers also gave us PSYCHO and FORBIDDEN PLANET! James Camerons AVATAR owes a debt to The Chameleon from the OLD outer limits! Robert Duvall portrayed the spy who's DNA was combined with aliens to produce an Alien-like being who then infiltrates an alien hideout to spy and kill the alien beings. The spy eventually sides with the alien-enemy and becomes one of them and leaves the earth to explore new horizons. Avatar is a composite of A man called hoarse. Dances with wolves. Fern-gully. This episode was a classic. The producers also gave us PSYCHO and FORBIDDEN PLANET!

johcafra Having lately commented on The (original) Twilight Zone I would be remiss to not mention the other Stateside television series that premiered on another network during the original Zone's final season and carried the torch ever so briefly.The (original) Outer Limits was an anthology series of one-hour episodes that ran for only two seasons. You could argue its second, truncated season was vastly different from the first—but the same. Study the credits of its producers and directors. A bevy of proved actors and upcoming stars. Joseph Stefano in charge of scripts; Robert Towne and Harlan Ellison contributors. The principal DP later won three Oscars. For their time fairly exotic visual FX filmed in glorious black-and-white. Music and sound FX that did not get out of your head. Makeup artists who doubtless had a sparkling wit.What TOL lacked in the heightened insight and occasional subtlety provided by the original Zone was more than made up for with style, passion, and the tease of each episode's "bear." Not quite as ahead of its time as pitched, for the extrapolated science it appeared to rely on was always suspect. In hindsight the episodes are even less prophetic, except perhaps for "O.B.I.T." It's as easy to tick off a list of episodes I disliked. (Another user correctly points out some episodes take their sweet time getting to the end.) Some first came across as pretty d'd strange by any standard. But the ones that connected did so quite viscerally. If you keep an open mind they still do.The pilot episode, "The Galaxy Being," and "The Architects of Fear" remain truly unique treatments of First Contact. "The Inheritors," a two-parter, is the cleverest and most thoughtful episode and probably the best introduction for anyone who frightens easily. "A Feasibility Study," "Corpus Earthling," "Cry of Silence," "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork," "The Man Who Was Never Born," "Specimen: Unknown" and "The Zanti Misfits" kept me awake long after viewing.I commend the performances of John Hoyt in "The Bellero Shield" and David McCallum in "The Sixth Finger" as brilliant in more ways than one. Watch the first five or so minutes of George Macready's performance in "The Invisibles" and you won't think quite the same way about him ever again. You see a lot of Robert Culp and Robert Duvall; one could creep you out simply by flaring his nostrils and the other just by keeping a straight face.The Nineties successor series only proved it's all too easy now, and that's probably the best reason I still appreciate the original.

fexil I love both series of 'The Twilight Zone' I enjoyed 'Star Trek' the 60s series & many of the ITC series. But this series to one who has never seen it on TV before (under 40) is a real dull clunker! Very dry sci-fi with no personality. Tedious stories that you find yourself doing something else (reach for a book to read etc) instead of watching as it does not catch the imagination.I tried the highest IMDb rated episodes too: also really dull & interest was never found in any of them. The first episode is so ordinary in style & pace & so lacking in anything to inspire the viewer, even with what could have been a good story if used in other shows.The very annoying & patronising start 'We are taking over your TV' appears to mindlessly brainwash viewers into thinking this junk is worthy. It amazingly gets compared to the brilliant 'The Twilight Zone' too by many, who obviously can't see the boring directing & pacing of this series for what it really is.No wonder it was very cheap on Amazon! 2/10