lukewarmwater

Never seen and episode of outer limits and only seen a few episodes of twilight zone.

What are the best ones??

was outer limits as good as twilight zone??

clemente

Old school or 90's remakes?

lukewarmwater

Old school.

didn't the 90's remakes all suck?

DVD Josh

I love I, Robot on TOL.

Big fan of the TZ ep with Martin Sheen on "Mars" and the "people" in the cylinder, and of course, the cornfield people episode (as you can see, I'm shit with the ep names).

But honestly, even the bad eps are still pretty decent. Definitely worth a rental (once you know the twists, they have no replay value, to me at least).

lukewarmwater

dont have the titles by any chance?

Charlie Goose

From the IMDB

Season 1, Episode 1: Where Is Everybody?
2 October 1959
A man finds himself in a town devoid of people and with no memory of who he is.

Season 1, Episode 2: One for the Angels
9 October 1959
A pitchman (Ed Wynn) is visited by Death and is forced to get his priorities in order.

Season 1, Episode 3: Mr. Denton on Doomsday
16 October 1959
The town drunk in the old-west faces his past when Fate lends a hand.

Season 1, Episode 4: The 16mm Shrine
23 October 1959
A forgotten star of the thirties uses films of her old movies to re-create the spirit of her heyday.

Season 1, Episode 5: Walking Distance
30 October 1959
A man makes a time travel to his childhood, when he's just a few miles away from his native town.

Season 1, Episode 6: Escape Clause
6 November 1959
A hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for one million years of immortality.

Season 1, Episode 7: The Lonely
13 November 1959
A convict, living alone in an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.

Season 1, Episode 8: Time Enough at Last
20 November 1959
A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.

Season 1, Episode 9: Perchance to Dream
27 November 1959

Season 1, Episode 10: Judgment Night
4 December 1959

Season 1, Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened
11 December 1959

Season 1, Episode 12: What You Need
25 December 1959
A small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.

Season 1, Episode 13: The Four of Us Are Dying
1 January 1960

Season 1, Episode 14: Third from the Sun
8 January 1960

Season 1, Episode 15: I Shot an Arrow into the Air
15 January 1960

Season 1, Episode 16: The Hitch-Hiker
22 January 1960

Season 1, Episode 17: The Fever
29 January 1960
An elderly man catches gambling fever from a slot machine that he believes is calling his name.

Season 1, Episode 18: The Last Flight
5 February 1960
A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air force base in France 42 years in the future.

Season 1, Episode 19: The Purple Testament
12 February 1960

Season 1, Episode 20: Elegy
19 February 1960

Season 1, Episode 21: Mirror Image
26 February 1960

Season 1, Episode 22: The Monsters Are due on Maple Street
4 March 1960
On a peaceful city street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stokes the residents' paranoid to disastrous intensity.

Season 1, Episode 23: A World of Difference
11 March 1960

Season 1, Episode 24: Long Live Walter Jameson
18 March 1960

Season 1, Episode 25: People Are Alike All Over
25 March 1960

Season 1, Episode 26: Execution
1 April 1960

Season 1, Episode 27: The Big, Tall Wish
8 April 1960

Season 1, Episode 28: A Nice Place to Visit
15 April 1960

Season 1, Episode 29: Nightmare as a Child
29 April 1960

Season 1, Episode 30: A Stop at Willoughby
6 May 1960

Season 1, Episode 31: The Chaser
13 May 1960

Season 1, Episode 32: A Passage for Trumpet
20 May 1960
A suicidally despondent trumpet player finds himself in a bizarre world where he seems to be the only moving being, except for one helpful other musician.

Season 1, Episode 33: Mr. Bevis
3 June 1960
An eccentric loser gets a new life from his guardian angel, but there is a price to keeping it.

Season 1, Episode 34: The After Hours
10 June 1960

Season 1, Episode 35: The Mighty Casey
17 June 1960

Season 1, Episode 36: A World of his Own
1 July 1960


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Season 2
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Season 2, Episode 1: King Nine Will Not Return
30 September 1960

Season 2, Episode 2: The Man in the Bottle
7 October 1960

Season 2, Episode 3: Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
14 October 1960

Season 2, Episode 4: A Thing About Machines
28 October 1960

Season 2, Episode 5: The Howling Man
4 November 1960

Season 2, Episode 6: Eye of the Beholder
11 November 1960

Season 2, Episode 7: Nick of Time
18 November 1960

Season 2, Episode 8: The Lateness of the Hour
2 December 1960

Season 2, Episode 9: The Trouble with Templeton
9 December 1960

Season 2, Episode 10: A Most Unusual Camera
16 December 1960

Season 2, Episode 11: The Night of the Meek
23 December 1960

Season 2, Episode 12: Dust
6 January 1961

Season 2, Episode 13: Back There
13 January 1961

Season 2, Episode 14: The Whole Truth
20 January 1961

Season 2, Episode 15: The Invaders
27 January 1961

Season 2, Episode 16: A Penny for Your Thoughts
3 February 1961

Season 2, Episode 17: Twenty Two
10 February 1961

Season 2, Episode 18: The Odyssey of Flight 33
24 February 1961

Season 2, Episode 19: Mr. Dingle, the Strong
3 March 1961

Season 2, Episode 20: Static
10 March 1961

Season 2, Episode 21: The Prime Mover
24 March 1961

Season 2, Episode 22: Long Distance Call
31 March 1961

Season 2, Episode 23: A Hundred Yards over the Rim
7 April 1961

Season 2, Episode 24: The Rip Van Winkle Caper
21 April 1961
After successfully stealing a gold shipment, a group of criminals and their scientist accomplice put themselves in suspended animation in a remote desert cave. When they awaken decades later, complications ensue when their truck is destroyed.

Season 2, Episode 25: The Silence
28 April 1961

Season 2, Episode 26: Shadow Play
5 May 1961

Season 2, Episode 27: The Mind and the Matter
12 May 1961

Season 2, Episode 28: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
26 May 1961

Season 2, Episode 29: The Obsolete Man
2 June 1961


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Season 3
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Season 3, Episode 1: Two
15 September 1961

Season 3, Episode 2: The Arrival
22 September 1961

Season 3, Episode 3: The Shelter
29 September 1961

Season 3, Episode 4: The Passersby
6 October 1961

Season 3, Episode 5: A Game of Pool
13 October 1961

Season 3, Episode 6: The Mirror
20 October 1961

Season 3, Episode 7: The Grave
27 October 1961

Season 3, Episode 8: It's a Good Life
3 November 1961

Season 3, Episode 9: Death's Head Revisited
10 November 1961

Season 3, Episode 10: The Midnight Sun
17 November 1961

Season 3, Episode 11: Still Valley
24 November 1961

Season 3, Episode 12: The Jungle
1 December 1961

Season 3, Episode 13: Once Upon a Time
15 December 1961

Season 3, Episode 14: Five Characters in Search of an Exit
22 December 1961

Season 3, Episode 15: A Quality of Mercy
29 December 1961

Season 3, Episode 16: Nothing in the Dark
5 January 1962
An old woman has fought with death a thousand times and has always won. But now she finds herself afraid to let a wounded policeman in her door for fear he is Mr. Death. Is he?

Season 3, Episode 17: One More Pallbearer
12 January 1962

Season 3, Episode 18: Dead Man's Shoes
19 January 1962

Season 3, Episode 19: The Hunt
26 January 1962

Season 3, Episode 20: Showdown with Rance McGrew
2 February 1962
The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.

Season 3, Episode 21: Kick the Can
9 February 1962

Season 3, Episode 22: A Piano in the House
16 February 1962

Season 3, Episode 23: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
23 February 1962

Season 3, Episode 24: To Serve Man
2 March 1962
An alien race comes to earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A linguist and his team set out to translate the alien's language, using a book who's title they deduce is "To Serve Man".

Season 3, Episode 25: The Fugitive
9 March 1962

Season 3, Episode 26: Little Girl Lost
16 March 1962

Season 3, Episode 27: Person or Persons Unknown
23 March 1962

Season 3, Episode 28: The Little People
30 March 1962

Season 3, Episode 29: Four O'Clock
6 April 1962

Season 3, Episode 30: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
13 April 1962
A rural gas station attendant given to telling tall tales about himself is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's leading intellects.

Season 3, Episode 31: The Trade-Ins
20 April 1962

Season 3, Episode 32: The Gift
27 April 1962

Season 3, Episode 33: The Dummy
4 May 1962

Season 3, Episode 34: Young Man's Fancy
11 May 1962

Season 3, Episode 35: I Sing the Body Electric
18 May 1962

Season 3, Episode 36: Cavender Is Coming
25 May 1962

Season 3, Episode 37: The Changing of the Guard
1 June 1962


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Season 4
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Season 4, Episode 1: In His Image
3 January 1963

Season 4, Episode 2: The Thirty-Fathom Grave
10 January 1963

Season 4, Episode 3: Valley of the Shadow
17 January 1963

Season 4, Episode 4: He's Alive
24 January 1963

Season 4, Episode 5: Mute
31 January 1963

Season 4, Episode 6: Death Ship
7 February 1963

Season 4, Episode 7: Jess-Belle
14 February 1963

Season 4, Episode 8: Miniature
21 February 1963

Season 4, Episode 9: Printer's Devil
28 February 1963

Season 4, Episode 10: No Time Like the Past
7 March 1963
A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past.

Season 4, Episode 11: The Parallel
14 March 1963

Season 4, Episode 12: I Dream of Genie
21 March 1963

Season 4, Episode 13: The New Exhibit
4 April 1963

Season 4, Episode 14: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
11 April 1963

Season 4, Episode 15: The Incredible World of Horace Ford
18 April 1963

Season 4, Episode 16: On Thursday We Leave for Home
2 May 1963

Season 4, Episode 17: Passage on the Lady Anne
9 May 1963

Season 4, Episode 18: The Bard
23 May 1963


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Season 5
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Season 5, Episode 1: In Praise of Pip
27 September 1963

Season 5, Episode 2: Steel
4 October 1963

Season 5, Episode 3: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
11 October 1963
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.

Season 5, Episode 4: A Kind of a Stopwatch
18 October 1963

Season 5, Episode 5: The Last Night of a Jockey
1963

Season 5, Episode 6: Living Doll
1 November 1963

Season 5, Episode 7: The Old Man in the Cave
8 November 1963

Season 5, Episode 8: Uncle Simon
15 November 1963

Season 5, Episode 9: Probe 7, Over and Out
29 November 1963

Season 5, Episode 10: The 7th Is Made up of Phantoms
6 December 1963

Season 5, Episode 11: A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
13 December 1963

Season 5, Episode 12: Ninety Years Without Slumbering
20 December 1963
An old man believes that his life will end the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.

Season 5, Episode 13: Ring-A-Ding Girl
27 December 1963

Season 5, Episode 14: You Drive
3 January 1964

Season 5, Episode 15: The Long Morrow
10 January 1964

Season 5, Episode 16: The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
17 January 1964

Season 5, Episode 17: Number 12 Looks Just Like You
24 January 1964

Season 5, Episode 18: Black Leather Jackets
31 January 1964

Season 5, Episode 19: Night Call
7 February 1964

Season 5, Episode 20: From Agnes - with Love
14 February 1964

Season 5, Episode 21: Spur of the Moment
21 February 1964

Season 5, Episode 22: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
28 February 1964

Season 5, Episode 23: Queen of the Nile
6 March 1964

Season 5, Episode 24: What's in the Box
13 March 1964

Season 5, Episode 25: The Masks
20 March 1964

Season 5, Episode 26: I am the Night - Color Me Black
27 March 1964

Season 5, Episode 27: Sounds and Silences
3 April 1964

Season 5, Episode 28: Caesar and Me
10 April 1964

Season 5, Episode 29: The Jeopardy Room
17 April 1964

Season 5, Episode 30: Stopover in a Quiet Town
24 April 1964
A young couple, the Fraziers, leave a party after having a little too much to drink. They wake up to find themselves in Centreville, a small town where no one lives: where the houses are empty, the trees are props, the food is plastic ... and the only train comes right back to Centreville.

Season 5, Episode 31: The Encounter
1 May 1964

Season 5, Episode 32: Mr. Garrity and the Graves
8 May 1964

Season 5, Episode 33: The Brain Center at Whipple's
15 May 1964
A heartless CEO completely automates his factory and lays off almost all of his workers over the objections of his employees.

Season 5, Episode 34: Come Wander with Me
22 May 1964

Season 5, Episode 35: The Fear
29 May 1964

Season 5, Episode 36: The Bewitchin' Pool
19 June 1964

das Monkey

To answer your question, no, The Outer Limits was not as good as The Twilight Zone.

Great Zones to consider: "Where is Everybody?", "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", "Nick of Time", "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge", "A Game of Pool", "On Thursday We Leave for Home", "The Midnight Sun", "Third from the Sun", "The Hitch-Hiker", "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street". For humor: "A World of His Own", "A Penny for Your Thoughts", and maybe "The Bard". Also, some "classics" that have to be seen at least once: "Time Enough at Last", "The Eye of the Beholder", "The Masks", "To Serve Man", and "The Howling Man".

das

obscurelabel

I have fond memories of the original TOL from when I saw them in syndication in the 80s. Upon viewing most of them on the MGM DVD sets (later pressings of both volumes are defective and I couldn't get all of them to play), I am struck by how many of them have ten minutes stories (if that) stretched to 50 minutes and rely heavily on creating a creepy atmosphere. If you don't get caught up in the atmosphere, at the end of a lot of episodes you'll be saying "is that it?" and being unsatisfied.

That said, Demon with a Glass Hand, from the generally weaker (and shorter at 17 episodes vs. 32 for season one) is very good. Written by Harlan Ellison and featuring Robert Culp, who was in The Architects of Fear (also a good episode, although it is characteristically stonger on atmosphere than story).

enrage

the new outer limits episodes kept my attention. i think they're pretty good

rw2516

Favorite TZs- "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up" and Night of the Meek'

Harlan Ellison also wrote the OL episode "The Soldier". i believe it was this story he claimed Terminator was ripping off.

Other good OLs- "Invisible Enemy" with Adam West where astronauts crash on sand planet and get picked off by monster in the sand. "Specimen:Unknown" about killer flowers from outer space.

Both shows are must haves for me.

moocher

I was just saying the same thing the other day (about TZ). I watched one with Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery. CB said very little and merely walked around town for almost the entire ep. EM did not have a single spoken line. I believe the point was that two "soldiers" from opposite sides could become friends/lovers. A 5 minute story that dragged on and on and on. I'm sure there are some eps that are good but many of the ones I have seen have very simplistic plots and are extremely padded for time with many worthless/boring scenes.

The remakes of Outer Limits on the other hand are excellent. I have seen many of those and most seem to be very well written and interesting.

The Valeyard

Time Enough At Last

GoldenJCJ

The definition of "irony"