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3 unusual facts about The Outer Limits


Michael Tolan

He had a recurring role on three episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and made guest appearances on such television series as Mannix, Kojak, The Outer Limits, McMillan and Wife, and Law & Order.

The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits: Flight of Fear, former name of an enclosed launched roller coaster built at two Cedar Fair parks

The Outer Limits (double act), featuring Nigel Planer and Peter Richardson, later members of The Comic Strip


Adam Nimoy

His credits include episodes of NYPD Blue, The Practice, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, Sliders, Gilmore Girls, and The Outer Limits where he directed his father in the episode "I Robot".

Arlene Martel

Martel appeared in the 1967 Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Amok Time" (as T'Pring) and the original The Outer Limits episode "Demon with a Glass Hand" (1964) written by Harlan Ellison.

Chantal Conlin

She has also had numerous guest appearances in TV series such as The Outer Limits, So Weird, Hope Island, The Twilight Zone and most recently Tru Calling.

Charles F. Haas

Ultimately, however, he settled in television, directing episodes of such popular series as Bonanza, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Outer Limits, and The Man from U.N.C.L.E.

Clay Tanner

He began his career with roles in various TV productions such as Bonanza, The Fugitive, Get Smart, Perry Mason, McHale's Navy, The Outer Limits, The Virginian, and Stoney Burke.

Eric A. Morris

Star Trek: Voyager, JAG, Xena: Warrior Princess, The Pretender, and The Outer Limits.

Gail Z. Martin

Other influences included The Twilight Zone, Night Gallery, The Outer Limits and Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Gardner Goldsmith

Named "Libertarian of the Year" by the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire in 2006, Goldsmith has spent time in the script departments of "Star Trek: Voyager" and "The Outer Limits".

Geoffrey Horne

His screen credits include The Bridge on the River Kwai, Bonjour Tristesse, The Strange One, Two People, The Twilight Zone episode "The Gift" in 1962, and as Wade Norton in "The Guests" episode of The Outer Limits.

George Wyman

The Bradbury Building has also featured as a location in several other Hollywood films, including Double Indemnity, "Marlowe", D.O.A., Chinatown, The Perfect Sleep, "Wolf" and Lethal Weapon 4 and TV shows like City of Angels and The Outer Limits.

Geraint Wyn Davies

He has guest-starred in episodes of Katts and Dog, Highlander: The Series, Kung Fu: The Legend Continues, The Outer Limits, RoboCop: The Series, The Hidden Room, Matrix, Diamonds, Sweating Bullets, 1-800-Missing and many more.

Gerd Oswald

His television credits include Perry Mason, Bonanza, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive, Star Trek, Gentle Ben, It Takes a Thief, and The Twilight Zone.

Godfellas

Billy West states on the audio commentary that the voice of "God" is based on Vic Perrin's "Control Voice" from The Outer Limits.

Grant Rosenberg

Grant Rosenberg is a writer and producer who has worked on such television series as XIII-The Series, Fear Itself, Eureka, Masters of Science Fiction, Masters Of Horror, The Outer Limits, and Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman.

Is It ... Man or Astroman?

Alien Visitors contains dialogue audio samples from the b-movies Earth vs. the Flying Saucers, Plan 9 from Outer Space, and the television series The Outer Limits.

Jack Sparling

For Western's Gold Key Comics, Sparling illustrated comic book adaptations of the television series Family Affair and The Outer Limits.

Jeff Corey

His best-known science fiction appearances were in "O.B.I.T.", an episode of The Outer Limits; "The Cloud Minders", a third-season episode of Star Trek, in which he played High Advisor Plasus; and "Z'ha'dum", the third-season finale of Babylon 5, in which he played Justin, and as Caspay in Beneath the Planet of the Apes.

Jeffrey Hirschfield

Further writing credits include The Outer Limits, I Was A Sixth Grade Alien, Oliver's Adventures, and Starhunter.

John M. Nickolaus, Jr.

Together with Conrad Hall, he helped establish the visual style of the original The Outer Limits (1963 – 1965).

Leslie Stevens

Stevens also wrote for the revival show of The Outer Limits between 1996 and 1997, and wrote the play The Lovers, which became the film The War Lord.

Mark McCracken

His television credits include Ellen, Miami Vice, and The Outer Limits.

Melinda M. Snodgrass

She has also contributed produced scripts for the series Odyssey 5, The Outer Limits, SeaQuest DSV, and Reasonable Doubts; she was also a consulting producer on The Profiler.

Nancy Sorel

Her roles in television includes TV series Murder, She Wrote, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, Cold Squad, Da Vinci's Inquest, Stargate SG-1 and The 4400.

Naren Shankar

As a writer Shankar has contributed with works for Farscape, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Night Visions, The Outer Limits, The Chronicle, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, seaQuest 2032, Grimm and Star Trek: Voyager.

Night Slaves

The teleplay was co-written by Robert Specht who had contributed to the TV series The Outer Limits and The Immortal.

Phillip Pine

In a career that spanned seven decades, Pine was best known for portraying the character Colonel Phillip Green in the classic Star Trek episode "The Savage Curtain" Pine was in the second episode of "The Outer Limits" entitled "The Hundred Days of the Dragon".

Sam Egan

His credits include writing and producing for such shows as: Quincy, M.E., The Incredible Hulk, The Fall Guy, Northern Exposure, The Outer Limits, Sanctuary and Jeremiah.

The All-Night Show

The All-Night Show generally showed reruns of classic series such as The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, and The Prisoner, and filled the space in between with music videos (including old Scopitones), old movie shorts, and comedic banter.

The Sandkings

"The Sandkings" is the first episode of the revived 1960s science-fiction television series The Outer Limits, based on the short story Sandkings by George R. R. Martin, first published in Omni Magazine August 1979.

This Man... This Monster!

Some of the elements in this story, such as a scientist trapped in another dimension, are similar to an episode of The Outer Limits called "The Borderland."

Wah Chang

In addition, Chang built the artificial creature in "The Architects of Fear" episode of the original The Outer Limits, some props for the original Planet of the Apes film, the frightening skeleton animated in The Power, the flying machine in The Master of the World, and the dinosaurs in Land of the Lost.


see also

Adam Link

"I, Robot" and "The Trial of Adam Link, Robot" were the basis of two episodes of The Outer Limits, one from the original series "I, Robot" in 1964, and one from the revival series "I, Robot" in 1995.

Bao Bolong Wetland Reserve

Farafenni, with a population of more than 30,000 being the division's largest city, lies roughly 18 km outside the outer limits of BBWR to the east.

Dawning Star

At the outer limits of the solar system, the evacuation fleet interacts with a Tentaari gateway device.

Nicole de Boer

She was featured in episodes of the Canadian-produced SF series The Outer Limits alongside Robert Patrick (The Quality of Mercy) and Harry Hamlin (Monster).

Obit

O.B.I.T., an episode of the original "The Outer Limits" television show

Sam Egan

He is the son of a holocaust survivor and based The Outer Limits episode "Tribunal" on his father's experience in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp where his father's first wife and daughter were killed by the Nazis.

Sandkings

"The Sandkings", an episode of The Outer Limits based on the novelette of the same name

The Sandkings

In 1996 The Outer Limits TV-series was nominated to the prize Gemini Awards, including Beau Bridges received a nomination in the category "Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series", and episode "SandKings" was nominated in the category "Best TV Movie or Mini-Series" and "Best Sound in a Dramatic Program or Series".

Tony Biggs

Tony Biggs has been the drummer in bands such as The Black Assassins, Never Again, Hell To Pay (Ian and Cathy from X (Australian band) with Spencer P. Jones), The Outer Limits (who opened in Brisbane for Iggy Pop on his 1979 Australian Tour with the New Christs), The Fuck Fucks and The Love Addicts.

Transport in Ashford, Kent

With the introduction of domestic train services along High Speed 1 between St Pancras railway station, Stratford International station in east London and Ashford, it is expected to pull the outer limits of the London commuter belt to the town and beyond, as travel time from Ashford to London is reduced from 83 to about 37 minutes.

Yashar

The track features a sample "There's 70 billion people of Earth; where are they hiding?" from the Outer Limits episode "Demon with a Glass Hand".