Outer Limits Season 1 DVD Review

Ahhh to be 6 again! Gawd, what is that? 43 years ago! Eep! And yet... I remember The Outer Limits when others fade from memory. I remember crawling under my magic monster-proof blanket at night after being allowed to stay up late to watch this when it first aired. I remember vividly what I then perceived as bad guys. I also remember being afraid after one episode where the Alien being crashed thru the screen... I knew one was gonna crash thru my TV anytime, so I made my little brother sit on the floor between me and the TV whenever we watched it.

So many memories. You can imagine my shear delight when I opened my presents one Christmas to find The Outer Limits: Season 1. This series first aired in 1963 and the nation was quickly hooked. This is the series that inspired much better known masterpieces such as Twilight Zone. Although I watched that religiously also, nothing ever compared to TheOuter Limits in my own mind.

The DVDs are set up with 4 episodes on each side, in chronological order, with 8 episodes total per disc. A tad annoying as I like to load the trays and just go on a watching spree... this makes me get up to flip the disk. A minor inconvenience in this case though seeing as how after watching 4 episodes it's time to go refill whatever I'm drinking and stretch anyway. There are 32 total episodes in this set. (Yup, this is gonna be a loooong one)

Disc 1
The Galaxy Being - Air Date 9/16/63. This is the premier, the one that hooked me and everyone else. Cliff Robertson owns a radio station and stumbles upon a radio wave that sucks an Alien into our world.

The Hundred Days of the Dragon - Air Date 9/23/63. A serum is developed that allows rapid feature change, with the idea of replacing the current President.

The Architects of Fear - Air Date 9/30/63 Robert Culp (of I Spy fame) plays a scientist who transforms into an Alien with the hope of creating a common fear to prevent war.

The Man With The Power - Air Date 10/07/63. Donald Pleasance plays Harold Finley, a man who develops a thingy that can manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum, which develops a mind of it's own...