I've started something I wanted to do for ages. Years in fact.
I want to watch the American Outer Limits TV series, which aired from 1963 onwards. I was only 2 back then so won't have seen them first time round. I've seen the monsters on cards and comics for years since then so I do know what a few look like. They seem iconic to me now.
Fortunately the first episode, The Galaxy Being, was available on Daily Motion and I had the pleasure of the radioactive alien this afternoon. I did fall asleep for 10 minutes in the middle but that was my age rather than the show!
By way of marking off the episodes I see I am going to post the Topps card image of the monster shown [courtesy of Ebay images] and unlike the TV version these are in colour! For some reason Topps didn't put the correct name, the Galaxy Being, opting for the more alliterative Television Terror.
Have you watched the original Outer Limits? Were there any toys, games, books or models?
Ah, the original Outer Limits! I have a long history with that program. Saw several of them first run on TV (and they scared the dickens out of me) and then caught them on rerun and later in VHS tapes and finally DVD. Some hold up better than others, but my favorites are The Architects of Fear, The Borderland, The Mice, It Crawled Out of the Woodwork, The Guests, The Zanti Misfits, all first season. Second season was more straight Sci-Fi, but I enjoyed I Robot and The Duplicate Man a great deal. Enjoy these classics - nothing like them today!
ReplyDeleteAlso, Controlled Experiment, Corpus Earthling, Don’t Open til Doomsday, Tourist Attraction...
DeleteBellero Shield, Cry of Silence, Production and Decay of Strange Particles, Wolf 359...
DeleteOddly enough, I was never a fan of Demon with a Glass Hand, which is considered the one great OL episode.
DeleteThanks for the tips Zigg. I can see you're a OL fan!
DeleteI lived for OL back in the day...
DeleteI wonder if that was a T Shirt Zigg? I Live for OL! My only real memory is seeing the huge clawed monster towering over biuldings on the cover of Famous Monsters and thinking Wow!
DeleteI watched them all when BBC2 aired them at something stupid like 1am in the late 70's or early 80's. Loved them, so atmospheric.
ReplyDeleteI didn't catch them then either Kev!
DeleteHaving just picked up a remaindered Mego style figure of Ted Cassidy as the Twilight Zone "To Serve Man" alien (complete with cook book accessory!) I thought the Galaxy Being might be out there too.
ReplyDeleteAll I could find was this statue...
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/outer-limits-galaxy-model-150423883
I like that statue Looey. Did they say he was from Andromeda?
DeleteI was lucky enough to find a dvd box set of these a while back and watched them for the first time. Prior to that, back in the mid sixties, I was given an album with the full card set in it, all colour and they scared the bejeezus out of me. Especially, the TV Terror, The Glob and The Zanti Misfits, which to my untrained childhood eyes, looked way too real. Watching the series as an adult, I was a bit underwhelmed as my initial fears were clearly not justified and the show was all in b/w which detracted from the effect! But taken in context, as classic sci-fi, they are great and well worth hunting down. Demon with a Glass Hand was a Harlan Ellison script as I recall and many others were scripted by now famous writers.
ReplyDeleteYeah, pity its B/W and the cards are in colour! Do you still have that album Wote?
DeleteYes, well worth watching. The pictures on the cards apparently bore no relation to the TV series episodes. I had an Outer Limits comic-style annual as a kid.
ReplyDeleteWow, an Annual Andy! How cool was that back then!
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