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November 10, 2025 at 9:59 PM
#TheOuterLimits Ep 2.14 cont'd.
So this is TOLs main problem. I commend this being from a sci-fi mag as I have already proven that when it comes to anthology sci-fi TV that literature makes for better TV than stories written straight for TV. But the TOL writers lost too much sense from the prose.
November 10, 2025 at 1:04 AM
#TheOuterLimits TV ep 2.14 "Counterweight" (26-Dec-64).
Adapts a story by Jerry Sohl in "Worlds of If" (Nov-59). However the adaptation didn't get it right as it's not clear if space travel has been invented or if this is on Earth or in actually in space. It's messy.
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November 10, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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November 4, 2025 at 9:20 PM
#TheOuterLimits TV 2.13 cont'd.
Why the alien returned to the place it was being held in captivity is unclear esp as we never see its lodgings. I imagine the short story covers this?
Also why the dupe was left in the museum to begin with? Did James know it was in the next room? So why use a dupe?
November 2, 2025 at 4:13 PM
#TheOuterLimits TV 2.13 cont'd.
The impressive location in this ep where the former pilot with the half-mask lived was a real life building just recently built in L.A. called The Chemosphere which has its own funicular.

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November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
#TheOuterLimits Ep 2.13 cont'd.
Ok the monster in this is a bit silly looking but the ep isn't about the monster. It took longer than I care to admit to work out that it was hiding in the zoo as no one suspected it to be real. Having the monster talk was a mistake as it just muddied the waters.
November 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
#TheOuterLimits Ep 2.13 cont'd.
As ever with TOL the good eps send me down rabbitholes the bad eps sinkholes.
The superior prose story adapted here is "Goodnight, Mr James" by Clifford D. Simak published in Galaxy Magazine (Mar-1951).

Real #DimensionX territory eh!

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November 2, 2025 at 4:01 PM
#TheOuterLimits Ep 2.13 cont'd.
If you like your TV sci-fi cinematic with a scary monster then S1 is the season for you but if you like your TV sci-fi charming and intelligent then S2 is the season for you.
Christ are we in the Trad V Rad #DoctorWho debate territory here!
November 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
#TheOuterLimits TV ep #2.13 "The Duplicate Man" (19-Dec-64).
To test my theory S2 is better than S1 I must count and compare the eps in each that originate from sci-fi literature. Anthology sci-fi on both TV & radio is always superior if adapted from prose. This ep is a good example of the latter.
November 2, 2025 at 3:49 PM
November 2, 2025 at 1:27 AM
#TheOuterLimits TV ep #2.12 "Keeper of the Purple Twilight" (05-Dec-64).
Despite a good cast and decent monster/effects the story was inane trash.

Dem #TwilightZone fans tell me their show is far better than TOL so boy am i gonna rip #TwilightZone a new hole if it dares serve me up crap like this.
November 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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October 31, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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October 30, 2025 at 10:12 PM
#TheOuterLImits TV ep #2.12 "The Inheritors [2]" (28-Nov-64).
I commend the creators on trying a 2-parter but it was a minor success. This was oddly unmoving.
A children in jeopardy plot didn't deliver enough emotion. Nor did the moral dilemma of the ep get you overly engaged.
But yes it tried.
October 30, 2025 at 11:50 AM
#TheOuterLimits TV ep #2.11 "The Inheritors [1]" (21-Nov-64).
The only 2-parter the original show ever did.
TOL has issues with being essentially a 30 minute show painstakingly stretched to 60 minutes so can TOL accommodate a story of 2x60 minutes duration?
Based on this first ep it possibly can.
October 29, 2025 at 5:19 AM
#TheOuterLimits TV 2.09 cont'd.
Are there The Outer Limit's fans that prefer Season 1? Ok Season 1 has more money and scale to it. It's more filmic but for me bar that ghastly ep #2.08 none of Season 2 eps have turned me off (much). Over half of S1 eps lost my interest lpng before the end.
October 29, 2025 at 3:15 AM
#TheOuterLimits TV 2.09 cont'd.
Rabbithole #5
Same question but Radio:

#DimensionX ep #2 "With Folded Hands" (15-Apr-50)
#DimensionX ep #6 "Almost Human" (13-May-50)
#TalesOfTomorrow ep #8 "Watchbird" (19-Feb-53)
#XMinusOne ep #45 "How-2" (03-Apr-56)
#Suspense ep #915 "The Doom Machine" (04-Mar-62)
October 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
#TheOuterLimits TV 2.09 cont'd.
Rabbithole #4.
What robotics TV eps (ie not just containing robots) existed prior?
Earliest I've seen is #TalesOfTomorrow TV ep #2.31 "Read to Me, Herr Doktor" (20-Mar-53).
This similar in places TOL ep feels like the new flag bearer for exploring robotics on US TV!
October 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
#TheOuterLimits TV 2.09 cont'd.
Rabbithole #3 needs a bit of work....
In "The Tenth Planet" when the Cybermen first appear in 1966 the American general's name is Cutler? Is that a homage to this robotics story put in by Kit Pedler?
I must look that up?
October 29, 2025 at 2:47 AM
#TheOuterLimits TV 2.09 cont'd.
That was my first rabbit hole.
Leonard Nimoy was in this ep too as the journo. Presumably immediately prior to the 1964 #StarTrek pilot? This ep will get remade in the 1990s version of TOL and Nimoy will be in that too. I wonder what role?
OK that's rabbit hole #2!
October 29, 2025 at 2:45 AM