The Outer Limits Time and Time Again Cast

Television show filmed in Vancouver

The Outer Limits (1995)
The Outer Limits opening title (2002)
Genre	Science fiction Nighttime fantasy Horror Drama Mystery fiction Suspense
Starring	Diverse
Narrated by	Kevin Conway (Command Vocalisation)
Music past	John Van Tongeren Daryl Bennett Jim Guttridge
Country of origin	United states Canada[1] [2]
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	152 (list of episodes)
Product
Product locations	Vancouver, British Columbia Victoria, British Columbia
Running fourth dimension	43–44 minutes
Production companies	Brotherhood Atlantis Communications Atlantis Films Showtime Networks Trilogy Entertainment Group CFCF-TV CanWest Global Communications Global Television Network The Moving picture Network SuperChannel
Distributor	MGM Television
Release
Original network	Kickoff (1995–2000) Sci Fi (2001–2002) Trans TV (2003-2005) TV7 (2006-2007) Antv (2008-2009) Global Boob tube (2010-2012) Cyberspace. (2013-2015) RTV (April 9, 2021-nowadays)
Audio format	Dolby Surround 2.0
Original release	March 26, 1995 (1995-03-26) – Jan eighteen, 2002 (2002-01-eighteen)

The Outer Limits is a television series that originally aired on Showtime, Syfy and in syndication between 1995 and 2002. The series is a revival of the original The Outer Limits series that aired from 1963 to 1965.

The Outer Limits is an anthology of singled-out story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the stop. The revival series maintained an album format, simply occasionally featured recurring story arcs that were then tied together during flavour-finale prune shows.

History [edit]

After an effort to bring back The Outer Limits during the early on 1980s, information technology was finally relaunched in 1995. The success of television receiver speculative fiction such every bit Star Expedition: The Side by side Generation, The X-Files, and anthology shows such as Tales from the Crypt convinced rights holder Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to revive The Outer Limits. A deal was made with Trilogy Productions, the company behind such cinema hits as Backdraft and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. The show would run on the pay-Tv channel Showtime (Trilogy, a Los Angeles- and Canada-based company, is credited with creating the 1995 series).^{[one] [two] [3]}

The episodes appeared in syndication the following flavour (the same arrangement as MGM/Showtime serial Stargate SG-1 and Poltergeist: The Legacy). It continued on Offset until 2001, when Sci-Fi quietly took over production for the 7th and terminal season. As a result, that season, unlike the previous ones, was completely complimentary of any swearing or nudity. It was canceled in 2002, afterwards a total of 154 episodes—far more the original incarnation of the prove.^[4] In the revived bear witness, the Command Voice was supplied by Kevin Conway. The new series distanced itself from the "monster of the week" mandate that had characterized the original series from its inception; while at that place were plenty of aliens and monsters, they dramatize a specific scientific concept and its outcome on humanity.^[5] Examples of this include "Nighttime Rain" (biochemical warfare causing worldwide sterility), "Final Exam" (discovery of applied cold fusion power), "A Stitch in Time" (a time traveler tinkers with history), as well equally two episodes revolving around a human mutation known equally Genetic Rejection Syndrome (humans mutating into violent creatures) as a result of an outlawed eugenics endeavor to create superior children.^{[ citation needed ]}

The show tin currently be seen on the Free-to-air idiot box network Comet.

Production [edit]

The series was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia and Victoria, British Columbia. Stories by Harlan Ellison, A. E. van Vogt, Eando Folder, Larry Niven, Richard Matheson, George R.R. Martin, Stephen King, and James Patrick Kelly were adapted.

Leslie Stevens was a program consultant for the first 4 seasons (until his death), while Joseph Stefano served equally an executive consultant and later senior counselor throughout the whole series. Stefano also remade his episode "A Feasibility Study", retitling it "Feasibility Study" for the 3rd flavor. John Van Tongeren and Mark Mancina composed new music different from that of Dominic Frontiere and Harry Lubin. John Van Tongeren scored x episodes for the first season and continued through flavor 6. The musical theme for the modern Outer Limits serial is credited to John Van Tongeren and Mark Mancina.

In nearly seasons there was a clip prove that intertwined the plots of several of the prove'due south episodes (see "The Vocalization of Reason" for an instance). At each commercial interval, the Control Voice can be heard saying "The Outer Limits...please stand by".

A number of episodes from seasons 1–vi characteristic nudity and other adult content. Though originally broadcast uncensored, those episodes take been edited for commercial syndication.

Episodes [edit]

Home media [edit]

Betwixt 2002 and 2006, half dozen themed DVD anthologies of The Outer Limits, with six episodes each, were released by MGM in the US: Aliens Among Us, Death & Beyond, Fantastic Androids & Robots, Mutation & Transformation, Sex activity & Science Fiction and Time Travel & Infinity. These DVDs all incorporate the original uncut episodes, every bit originally aired, and were collected in a box set, The Outer Limits: The New Series (2006). The Aliens and Sex titles were also released past MGM in the UK and Benelux (2005).

• Aliens Among U.s.a.
  • S01E13: "Quality of Mercy"
  • S02E15: "Afterlife"
  • S05E04: "The Grell"
  • S04E06: "Relativity Theory"
  • S07E09: "Conflicting Shop"
  • S02E06: "Across the Veil"
• Death & Beyond
  • S01E04: "The 2nd Soul"
  • S05E05: "The Other Side"
  • S03E11: "New Lease"
  • S05E18: "Essence of Life"
  • S07E22: "Human Trials"
  • S04E25: "Black Box"
• Fantastic Androids & Robots
  • S01E18: "I, Robot"
  • S04E02: "The Hunt"
  • S02E02: "Resurrection"
  • S03E07: "The Army camp"
  • S06E12: "Glitch"
  • S05E03: "Modest Friends"
• Mutation & Transformation
  • S01E14: "The New Breed"
  • S05E14: "Descent"
  • S04E13: "The Joining"
  • S03E12: "Double Helix"
  • S06E02: "The Gun"
  • S05E17: "The Inheritors"
• Sex & Scientific discipline Fiction
  • S01E16: "Caught in the Human activity"
  • S03E01: "Bits of Love"
  • S01E02: "Valerie 23"
  • S05E07: "The Human being Operators"
  • S06E03: "Peel Deep"
  • S07E12: "Bloom Child"
• Time Travel & Infinity
  • S02E01: "A Stitch in Time"
  • S05E12: "Tribunal"
  • S06E17: "Gettysburg"
  • S07E15: "Fourth dimension to Time"
  • S05E16: "Déjà Vu"
  • S07E02: "Patient Nil"

Season 1 was released uncut and with actress features on DVD in the Usa (MGM, 2005), UK (20th Century Fox, 2007) and Frg (Fox/MGM, 2008). Because sales of the set did not run into expectations no further seasons were released.

In 2010, Canada's Brotherhood Home Amusement released all vii seasons on DVD. Flavour 1 mirrored the content of the earlier MGM fix, while season 2 was also uncensored, with the exception of one episode, "Paradise".^[vi] Seasons iii–6 all contain numerous censored episodes, Season vii contains the original unedited episodes, as different the previous seasons, information technology was produced with no nudity or swearing.

In 2013, TGG Direct released the seventh season in the US, once more unedited but of marginally junior visual quality than the Alliance season 7 DVDs.^[seven] The five-disc set is titled The Outer Limits: The Consummate Terminal Flavor, and in 2014 information technology was split and re-released equally 3-disc Volume 1 and 2-disc Volume Two sets.^{[ citation needed ]}

DVD name	Ep#	Release date
The Consummate First Flavor	22	May 4, 2010
The Consummate Second Season	22	May 4, 2010
The Complete 3rd Season	xviii	June 1, 2010
The Complete Fourth Season	26	July vi, 2010
The Complete 5th Season	22	August three, 2010
The Consummate 6th Flavor	22	September 7, 2010
The Consummate Seventh Season (final)	22	October 5, 2010

DVD name	Ep#	Release date
The Final Season	22	December 3, 2013

Until June 2020, all seven seasons of the serial were bachelor uncut on Hulu, until January 2021 and selectively edited on Amazon Video^{[ citation needed ]} and seasons 1-7 are uncut on "The Roku channel" on Roku devices.

Reception [edit]

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The Outer Limits revival currently has a rating of vii.8/x on IMDB.

Tie-in books [edit]

Between 1996 and 1997Prima Publishing published 3 books which served every bit compilations of mostly prose adaptations for episodes from the 1963 and 1995 series.

Between 1997 and 1999, a series of books based on the prove merely aimed towards younger readers was published by Tor Books, penned by genre fiction author John Peel. The showtime, The Zanti Misfits, was a loose adaptation of the eponymous 1963 series episode, while the second was based on the episode The Selection from the new series. The other ten books were original stories.^[8]

1. The Zanti Misfits
2. The Selection
3. The Time Shifter
4. The Lost
5. The Invaders
6. The Innocent
7. The Vanished
8. The Nightmare
9. Beware the Metal Children
10. Conflicting Invasion from Hollyweird
11. The Payback
12. The Change

Author Stan Timmons also wrote 2 tie-in original novels in 2003 entitled Always Darkest and Dark Matters respectively.

Possible movie and revival TV series [edit]

In 2014, it was reported that a feature pic directed by Scott Derrickson based on the series was in development.^{[nine] [x]} As of April 2019, a revival is in the works at a premium cablevision network.^[eleven]

Theme park attractions [edit]

Two identical indoor roller coasters named The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear opened in 1996 at Paramount'due south Kings Rule in Richmond, Virginia and Paramount's Kings Island in Cincinnati, Ohio.^[12] Loosely based on several episodes of The Outer Limits, both rides are heavily themed to an conflicting invasion, with riders entering the fictional Federal Bureau of Paranormal Activity and somewhen boarding an alien ship. Although the Paramount Parks were purchased by Cedar Fair Entertainment Company in 2006, both rides continue to operate with most of their original theming still intact, minus the Outer Limits branding.^{[thirteen] [14]}

See also [edit]

• The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)
• List of The Outer Limits (1963 Idiot box series) episodes
• Scientific discipline fiction on television

References [edit]

1. ^ ^{a b} "MGM Worldwide Television and Trilogy Entertainment Group enter sectional, multiyear television deal". 1997-02-07.
2. ^ ^{a b} "Speakers – Toronto Screenwriting Conference". 2011. Archived from the original on January 18, 2012.
3. ^ "Pen Densham". Retrieved July 16, 2015.
4. ^ Frank Garcia; Marking Phillips (10 December 2008). Scientific discipline Fiction Idiot box Series, 1990-2004: Histories, Casts and Credits for 58 Shows. McFarland. pp. 169–. ISBN978-0-7864-9183-iv.
5. ^ Gary Westfahl (one January 2005). The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Science Fiction and Fantasy: Themes, Works, and Wonders. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 1193–. ISBN978-0-313-32953-1.
6. ^ "Outer Limits, The (New) - Season 2 (CAN) Review". TVShowsOnDVD.com at the Wayback Motorcar. Archived from the original on 2016-09-20.
7. ^ Cadet Naked. "Client Review". Amazon.com. Retrieved 2016-11-03 .
8. ^ "Outer Limits Books". Innermind.com . Retrieved 11 Dec 2018.
9. ^ "'The Outer Limits' Moving-picture show in the Works From MGM, Scott Derrickson (Sectional)". The Hollywood Reporter. xix June 2014.
10. ^ Kid, Ben (twenty June 2014). "Cult archetype The Outer Limits to invade cinemas with big-screen revival". The Guardian.
11. ^ "'The Twilight Zone' Rides Goggle box Horror Anthology Wave". April 2019.
12. ^ Kraft, Randy. "Kings Dominion Reaches 'The Outer Limits'". The Morning Call . Retrieved eleven March 2021.
13. ^ Wilkerson, David. "Cedar Off-white to purchase Paramount Parks". MarketWatch . Retrieved xi March 2021.
14. ^ "Flight of Fear". Kings Dominion . Retrieved 11 March 2021.

External links [edit]

• The Outer Limits at IMDb

The Outer Limits Time and Time Again Cast

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Outer_Limits_(1995_TV_series)

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