Science Fiction TV Series:

The Outer Limits: Complete Original Series

14 Disc Box Set
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"Time for a nostalgic trip down memory lane."
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It was nice to receive this and start viewing it. I vaguely remember watching the series on TV all those years ago, and now get a kick out of watching up and coming young stars do there thing. You will be amazed who stars in the episodes. I love it and so will you.

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The Outer Limits TV series is an American sci-fi anthology show that aired 1963 to 1965. The series is often compared to The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction (rather than simply bizarre or supernatural) stories.

“THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH YOUR TELEVISION SET. DO NOT ATTEMPT TO ADJUST THE PICTURE. WE ARE CONTROLLING TRANSMISSION…
You are about to embark on an unforgettable journey that reaches from the inner mind to the Outer limits. Presented here is the complete collection of this landmark series – All episodes are as compelling and relevant today as when originally broadcast. Dare to walk through the subconscious. Experience the fear and mystery that lurk just below the surface. Sit back and, once again, let us control all that you see and hear..”

14 disc complete TOS collection boxed set, over 41 hours of content!

The Outer Limits TV Show Reviews

“On September 16, 1963, a television series entitled The Outer Limits debuted on the ABC network. For two years, it would entertain and thoughtfully provoke viewers intelligent enough to appreciate its, for the most part, finely-written and well-acted episodes. The series owed its initial acceptance by the network to the prior success of The Twilight Zone, but The Outer Limits was no clone of that fine series. It was more focused on hard science fiction than fantasy and it had the benefit of a full hour for each program to develop characters and plot lines more fully. Unfortunately, as with all really good science fiction shows, there were not enough perceptive viewers to enable the series to persist as long as it deserved. Subsequently, the series did very well in syndication and in the 1990s spawned a new series of shows under The Outer Limits title. While commercially successful, the new series lacked the artistic quality and thoughtful content of the original for the most part…Anybody interested in intelligent science fiction should have no difficulty in finding plenty to entertain them..Recommen­ded.” DVD Verdict (season 1)

“The creepiest series in TV history combined existential inquiry with a memorable monster menagerie…while it was nowhere near as long-lived as “The Twilight Zone” or as much of a fan fave as “Star Trek,” “The Outer Limits” has nonetheless maintained a small, fiercely dedicated following since its cancellation…Most intriguing of all, its echoes can be detected in such disparate cinematic works as each of the four Alien movies, both Terminators, and arguably the paranoiac oeuvres of David Lynch and Kiyoshi Kurosawa…” Salon.com

“Obviously, at first blush The Outer Limits is a science fiction series. However, it shares closer DNA with the horror genre. More often than not it uses familiar science-fictional tropes — alien invaders, human-ET contact, time travel, science gone Horribly Wrong, etc. — as the means to tell stories, not as ends in themselves. These stories are often stark or poignant excursions into "the human condition.” They're told with bravado via gothic creepers, Old Dark House mysteries, cautionary tales, taut dramas, and even a comedy. If you were a kid in that pre-Star Trek age, this was the show that you recounted with your friends the following day in the schoolyard, even if you watched it from behind the couch or while clutching Mom's hand. That is, if you were allowed to watch it at all, because although many episodes play off of childhood fears, The Outer Limits was that rare and precious TV life-form: a fantastical series aimed at grown-ups. Even today the best of these scripts strike us as unusually literate and sophisticated, and while they can be talky by today's flash-cut standards, they display a refreshing tendency to not talk down to the audience…So, which was better, The Outer Limits or The Twilight Zone? Tribal wars have broken out over lesser questions. There's no doubt that The Twilight Zone has earned its status as one of the all-time high points of television history. But if The Outer Limits had known Zone's perpetual syndication status and word-of-mouth PR, would the debate be even more heated among genre cognoscenti, or might The Outer Limits edge out its famous competitor on CBS as the more sure-footed of the two series? It's an apples-and-oranges argument that isn't fairly stacked. ABC's homicidal network broadcast time-shifting and other interference sliced into The Outer Limits' hamstrings…No less an aficionado than Stephen King (in his nonfiction book on the horror genre, Danse Macabre) makes a case for The Outer Limits being the purer manifestation of its vision, unburdened by Zone's tendency toward “smarmy,” “simplistic,” or “almost painfully corny” moral tales that were “really sentimental riffs on old supernatural themes.” Not that the question is important in any case. The heyday of anthology fantasy/horror brought us both shows, and television became a better thing because of them." DVD Journal (season 1)

Release date NZ
November 29th, 2013
Movie Format
DVD Region
  • Region 4
Edition
Aspect Ratio
  • 1.33 : 1
Boxed Set
Yes
Director
Language
English
Length (Minutes)
2515
Studio
Supported Audio
  • Dolby Digital Mono
Number of Discs
14
Country of Production
  • USA
Genre
Original Release Year
1963
Box Dimensions (mm)
140x190x50
UPC
5021456196951
Product ID
21721151

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