The Outer Limits: Season One DVD - Classic Sci-Fi TV Series for Collectors & Fans | Perfect for Binge-Watching & Nostalgic Entertainment

Kino Lorber's Blu Ray release of "THE OUTER LIMITS" was years overdue, especially after MGM Home Video's official (and disastrous) 2002-2003 DVD releases, where the studio put the material onto these cheaply manufactured made blank discs which were highly flawed and defective. But a decade later, the newer and superior update by Kino Lorber made the wait well worth the time! the 1963-1965 ABC series from United Artists Television and Leslie Stevens' Daystar Productions and Joseph Stefano's Villa Di Stefano Productions was, without any doubt, the maximum superior of TV science fiction, even equaling its CBS rival, "THE TWILIGHT ZONE". the anthology series first TV season (1963-1964) was a fantastic journey into the realms of science fiction, beginning with the debut episode, "The Galaxy Being" (actually modified from its original TV pilot title, "Please Stand By" that Daystar Productions and United Artists TV filmed in 1962) and with other episodes like "The One Hundred Days of The Dragon" , a political thriller involving the abduction and assassination of a US Presidential candidate by Chinese agents using a serum that alters the human skin through the science of molecular plasticity, and the third episode of the series, "The Architects Of Fear", featuring guest star Robert Culp, in the first of three guest appearances on "THE OUTER LIMITS"-playing a scientist that volunteers to be surgically altered as an Extra Terrestrial being, so frightening (for its time) that many ABC affiliates had censored the creature footage of the "Theatan" being, the first of many impressive alien makeup designs that were used in the series throughout its first ABC season-and, the creatures that were created by the "Projects Unlimited" production people were that good, that some of them were even used on episodes of NBC's "STAR TREK" (including "The Cage" TV pilot in 1964), and one was also used on an episode of CBS' "THE MUNSTERS". But of the first 32 episodes of "THE OUTER LIMITS", producer Joseph Stefano used a really eerie, but stylish quality that made the show stand out, especially with the music of Dominic Frontiere, who, in addition to his superior Film and TV musician skills, was also a production executive and eventually an associate producer for the series through Daystar Productions. but when ABC announced their Fall 1964 schedule, their decisions to move "THE OUTER LIMITS" from its cherished Monday evening timeslot to make room for Irwin Allen's "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA" TV series to Saturday evenings did not sit well with Joseph Stefano, so he left the show along with Frontiere and filmed a TV pilot called "THE HAUNTED" that was a United Artists produced TV pilot for The CBS Network, but they passed. When "THE OUTER LIMITS" returned for its second season in Fall 1964, the show was a totally different version, with Ben Brady producing the series and composer Harry Lubin ("ONE STEP BEYOND") doing the music, but the quality of "OUTER LIMITS" still continued to get better, but despite such accomplishments like the two Harlan Ellison stories, plus the exceptional two-parter, "The Inheritors", "THE OUTER LIMITS" met a ratings' death, opposite "JACKIE GLEASON" on CBS, and the series ended its run in January 1965, replaced the following week with ABC's variety show, "THE KING FAMILY". and, with a total of 49 episodes, "THE OUTER LIMITS" was still a strong and robust science fiction anthology series that flourished in syndication after its cancelation by ABC. 30 years after the original series, Showtime and MGM Television created a "revived" version of "THE OUTER LIMITS" in March 1995 and ran until 2000, and by no means was this 90s remake in any way was a successor the original series. Kino Lorber's Blu Ray release of the original series is worth the money and the time for fans of vintage TV and classic science fiction, and it gets no better than the original!