The narrator says that this series holds up and is still 'watchable". Is he kidding? Some of the best episodes of this series (and there are many -especially in the first season) blow away many standard TV shows today. The unique combination of gothic horror and science fiction, the masterful cinematography and lighting, the powerful and atmospheric music, and especially the literary and allegorical stories and scripts make the Outer Limits one of the greatest TV shows ever made.

"Your ignorance makes me ill, and angry." A line which I can use frequently these days.

Nothing today could put a candle to The Outer Limits. The acting, the plots, storyline, a who's who of well known actors getting their start, and especially the music. I was 6 and 7 years old when this came out and it scared me shitless. But I had to keep watching

Without question, this was my favorite episode of the Outer Limits. Saw it as a kid in the 60's. Always wanted to evolve like David McCallum.

I have to tell you a story related to this. After this episode aired, one of my uncle's friends (Eugene) did a very good job of recreating the make-up for Halloween. We were all over my grandmother's apartment in Newark NJ. The apartment had 2 doors to the hallway, one in the kitchen and one in the living room. One set of trick or treaters knocked on the kitchen door and we had Eugene answer the door. They took one look at him, screamed and ran down the hall. He closed the door and a moment later we heard a knock on the other door. Of course Eugene answered that door too. They screamed all the way down the stairs from the 4th floor to the street. :) 🤣🤣🤣

Excellent episode. Most of The Outer Limits episodes still hold up 60 years later.

This show scared me too much growing up, but now it's in my collection and I love it. Every single episode is a compelling human drama, usually with great characters (and actors), an interesting premise, a frightening "bear" of the week, and themes that are still relevant today. Some of my favorites include: yes, The Sixth Finger, The Man Who Was Never Born, Nightmare, The Zanti Misfits, The Bellero Shield, Specimen: Unknown, A Feasibility Study, Demon With a Glass Hand, and I, Robot.

One of the strongest Outer Limits episodes, due primarily to McCallum's excellent acting.

The original Outer Limits was a great series. There was so much depth in these stories.

"The Sixth Finger" is one of my favorite OL episodes. I love the wordless acting where, after Cathy has brought Gwyllm back, they face each other and a tear glistens on her cheek. He touches the tear, it adheres to his fingertip, he looks at it, and realizes (without a word of dialogue being spoken) just what it means to be human. No longer animals, but not yet gods, either. All we can do is love each other. Her love brings him back to the realm of the human.

Almost all of the episodes of this sci-fi series blow away current shows. The creativity, the music, the format, the pacing, and Vic Perrin's great intro and outro pieces make this a super-classic of TV.

I thought that "Demon With A Glass Hand" had the best feel of being an actual dream the way it was shot, and how it progressed. Great episode!

This show had the creepiest sound effects. Even the music was scary. I loved this show as a child, 50+ years ago...

My favorite episode bar none. The writers nailed it when it comes to how intellect effects a human and how they act and react. Just as Willam is about to destroy the police, he evolves past anger, which is absolute genius on the writers part.

As a child, the show's opening alone scared the hell out of me! The episode that particularly scared me presented this scenario: For those who remember when TV signals were received strictly via an antenna, there were times when you just had a screen full of static. When you were tuning in the signal you would get a ghost outline of human figures that would become more pronounced and turn into recognizable people as the picture cleared. In this episode, that ghostlike static figure stepped out of the TV screen and was walking around amongst us! I still get the chills just thing about it.

Back then as a 7-year old, "The Outer Limits" and "The Twilight Zone" were among my favorite television shows. Wah Chang's creation in "The Keeper of the Purple Twilight" was to me, the epitome of what a bipedal alien would look like.

The Outer Limits scared me to death as an 11 year old. The Galaxy Being set the tone for the series and it just kept getting better and scarier I loved some of the avant garde shows,interesting photography, plot lines and first rate actors made this a wonderful sci fi series.

"The whole town must be utterly destroyed. An example must be made." Anytime I hear something stupid on the news, i walk up to a window, look out, and speak this line. Sometimes with coffee, sometimes with alcohol. It is mine to know which and when.

"Your ignorance makes me ill and angry." A line I lifted from this episode and used my whole life.

Yes this was an outstanding episode. The script and dialogue was excellent. Too many favorites to list, but Architects of Fear, A Feasibility Study and Nightmare are some favorites.

This is my favorite episode of Outer Limits. Bar none.. hands down. The line "Your ignorance makes me ill and angry" has always stuck with me and I have actually used it. Thank you for bringing this to me today. 🌹

In this world of digital everything. You can now truly appreciate what the "Outer Limits" crew were able to create. Outstanding! A true American treasure.

There were many fine episodes of The Outer Limits. The first episode, The Galaxy Being, starred Cliff Robertson who was a brilliant actor. My favorite, by far, was the 2 part story entitled The Inheritors. It had top-notch actors and a fantastic story. The directors of the show had a way of working with the actors, cameramen, etc to create some enduring episodes. Great show.. The low budget for special effects was no problem. In the episode Demon with a glass hand, the invaders from the future wore shower caps, lots of make up and cheap fake gold medallions. They were plenty creepy and believable!

To this science-fiction loving kid, every episode was pure gold. "The Mutant" and "The Zanti Misfits" gave me nightmares like you wouldn't believe. Had a complete set of Outer Limits trading cards. Wish I still had those and my "Mars Attacks" cards. I believe you can get inexpensive reprints now, I think I'll do that.

"Controlled Experiment" with Carrol O'Conner and Barry Morse, is the episode I always think of when someone mentions The Outer Limits.

The Outer Limits is the best science fiction show ever made and The Sixth Finger is great. I've been a fan since the early sixties and I'm now lucky enough to have the series on DVD. I liked how the lab assistant said "your ignorance makes me angry and ill", funny how correct that line is now in this present world enviroment. My all time favorite is "A Feasibility Study" from 1964, I was scared and intrigued at the same time. Thanks for all your work on the cool shows from the good ol' days, there's always something great to find out about these shows...my shows.

"Your ignorance makes me ill and angry." Such a great line!!!! Definitely in my top five favorite OL episodes along with The Bellaro Shield, It Crawled Out of the Woodworks, Don't Open Till Doomsday and Production and Decay of Strange Particles (which scared the crap out of me when I was a kid) Runner up: O.B.I.T.

I never missed Outer Limits; it was a TV program way ahead of its time. This episode was one of my favorites, along with the Robert Culp episode where his character is a robot who must wait for a future date 200 years away, as he has the entire population of future Earth converted to a digital signal on a wire in his robot hand. Thanks for sharing this.

They should have won an Emmy for the writing in this episode. This and Zanti Misfits are my favorites.

The people who post comments concerning "The Outer Limits" were all kids when it was first shown - like me - and inevitably remember being petrified with fear over one episode or another. For me, it was the one where Robert Culp was turned into a faux alien, and as he was dying in the lab at the end, he fell to the floor suddenly in front of his wife, who was able to recognize him because of how he touched her face with his finger. The alien make-up was scary, but it was more unsettling to me that he willingly and knowingly submitted to the surgery and permanent physical alterations while keeping the change secret from his wife.

One of my favorites. Man produces little that is truly lasting. Like this episode of Outer Limits.

Absolute gem of a show. Holds a candle to 95% of the 2022 shows, easily.

Fun fact about Janos Prohaska's Horta costume: It's a re-use of his "Mikey the Microbe" costume from the Outer Limits episode "The Probe."

McCallum was also in the last episode of the first season with Sir Cedric Hardwick in a beautiful piece of dark, Gothic fantasy. This was also a pilot for a series unsold. Both McCallum episodes are excellent.

The 5-minute sequence where an artificially evolved Gwyllm plays a complex Bach concerto is superb. Lends an authentic touch, considering that David McCallum was an accomplished pianist before becoming an actor. The original script of "The Sixth Finger" had a lot of graphically violent scenes deleted from it. For example, where Gwyllm uses his mental powers to vaporize the mining boss, or kills the two motorcycle police. 🙀😱 TOL wasn't excessively violent for its time, but it did have a moral of the story ending with each episode. These were cautionary tales that made you think. 🤓🤔

One of the best TV programs ever done.

"The Zanti Misfits" was the one that scared the heck out of me. "Soldier", "Do Not Open Til Doomsday" and "The Bellero Sheild" also stand out as personal favs for me

Absolutely, this and the Robert Culp episodes are my favorites.

One of best episodes of The Outer Limits. My fav: "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork". The energy-monster was completely original then, and still today.

McCallum was also in the episode "Forms of Things Unknown" which is a great episode and one of my favorites. Also probably one of the weirdest Outer Limits episodes.

"The Sixth Finger" is one of the more memorable episodes of The Outer Limits. 👽

I loved that show at age 11 in 1963. For some reason It was shown at 6:00 a.m. on Saturday morning. I would get up super early to watch it and other Sci-Fi shows. Now all the Sci-Fi /Horror shows are just blood and guts ,the gorier the better they think. THESE made you think and imagine.

David McCallum's character looks suspiciously like a Talosian in the pilot of the original Star Trek series, "The Cage" The ability to read minds and perform telekinesis were also features of the Talosians in Star Trek as well. Is this where they drew inspiration from, or just a case of recycling?

Sadly, David McCallum died yesterday at age 90. He was a gifted man whose intelligence always shined through in roles he played. I think this may be my favorite Outer Limits episode. It gives hope that perhaps sometime in the future, humans may outgrow their animal impulses and become compassionate, wise beings - just as Willem became at his most advanced stage. One can only hope our species and the planet, last long enough for this to happen.

Yes, one of my favorites. Others are: "The Architects of Fear", "Demon with a Glass Hand", "Corpus Earthling", "O.B.I.T.", "Nightmare", "The Belero Shield", and "The Forms of Things Unknown".

Along with "The Man Who Was Never Born", this is my favorite OL episode. David MaCallum and Martin Landau, 2 outstanding actors.

I'm 67 and I remember watching this episode on our B&W TV. This is one of my all time favorite episodes.

RIP David McCallum. The quote: " What is knowledge without intelligence" has remained with me for 60 years.

My personal favorite was “Demon with a Glass Hand” with Robert Culp. But they are many others.

My favorite is "The Galaxy Being" episode. It scared the heck out of me as a kid in the late 60's. It looked to me that the space monster had come out of the scientist's TV. Terrifying!!!

Not only was it my favorite episode, it remains my favorite hour of non-comedy television in my life....Saw it as a riveted 11 year old in Oct 1963...great music including a sort of love theme used at the beginning and end with harp and celeste, etc. Great spiritual overtones as well....Ellis St. Joseph was an amazing writer..

I was 12 years old when this aired. I never missed an episode. This was one of my favorites. Thank you for bringing it to us.

Yup. I never missed the Outer Limits and yes, this is an extraordinary episode. Art Garfunkel. Y'all funny.

When I was kid, this show and the Twilight Zone would put the scare into me. The Outer Limits opening monologue really told me some scary shit was in store! Thanks for sharing.

“Your ignorance makes me ill, and angry” reminds me of the ending of “The Day the Earth Stood Still.” Great stuff.

This has to be one of the best science fiction movies ever made. I have watched it many many times. The girl Cathy sure was pretty.

Yes, one of my favorite episodes! I always thought that big cranium made him look like Art Garfunkel :)

I vividly remember this excellent episode, particularly Stefano's addition, when McCallum rips through a Bach piece, and then says, "These hands have never before touched the keys of a piano." I once met Cliff Robertson and we talked for about half an hour, and I mentioned "Galaxy Being," which he remembered warmly. My favorite Outer Limits of all time though is Robert Culp in "The Demon With the Glass Hand." That was an outstanding screenplay.

I was 8 years old when this episode first came out. It scared the bejesus out of me, The other one that really got to me was the very first one, where the glowing alien materialized in the control room monitor and then broke the screen to fall into the room.

As a loyal viewer over many years since childhood of the outer limits this was one of my favorite episodes, your coverage of the episode of the material are outstanding and I thank you so very much!

Watched Outer Limits and never got tired of the sound FX. Totally molded my imagination along with Twilight Zone, Thriller, One step beyond, Chiller and many others. Outer Limits was the most Sci Fi, actually gave me dreams.

The episode that really scared me was "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork." My dad had a shop vacuum just like the one in the episode. It was months before I would go anywhere near that thing again. (Hey, I was eight years old.)

As a child in '63: The Outer Limits was my absolute favorite TV show! I couldn't wait, every week, for each new episode to air! Later, I grew to appreciate this episode the best! Other favorites were: "Nightmare", "The Bellero Shield", and "The Guests". So many were good; and the acting and stories were great! The Outer Limits is a classic!

One of the most riveting, profoundly captivating episodes of the original The Outer Limits TV series is the first season episode entitled “The Form Of Things Unknown” which as you undoubtedly already know was actor David McCallum’s second performance in the series. I find that particular episode exceptionally more brilliantly crafted on every last level, and facet than this one you reviewed. It is an exceedingly unforgettable experience when an episode of an anthology television series of the nature, and genre known as science fiction is so beautifully, and so exquisitely fashioned in such a unique, impactful way that every element stands viscerally on its own while at the very same time cohesively producing what can only be referred to as truly high art of a simple and yet profound, thought provoking nature. For me the entirety of the production since the very first airing which I was privileged to view, has played through my mind at several points throughout my life as a very strange dream like subtle melody encapsulated in the episode’s most dreamlike theme music as an underscore in the background of my thoughts. Every single one of the exceptionally gifted actors, and actresses in the episode imbue its story with just the right touches via their individual, exceptional performances. To put everything I’ve described in the most succinct manner, the production is high art of the first caliber - worthy of the highest of recognitions.

I remember that episode. McCullum went on to play in the re-make 1980's Outer Limits. He was in some of their best episodes!

Yes, as a 15-year-old in the fall of 1963, this was one of my favorite episodes. The entire show was a weekly favorite of mine. Expanding Human was another favorite episode of mine.

Too many OL episodes to name, but this is probably my favorite. The humanity of touching her tear before dying was so poignant~

I was a huge fan of the Outer Limits back in '63 as a freshman in High School.

Yes, this was one of my favorites along with the Mutant and Architecs of Fear.

I love The Outer Limits, and I definitely love this episode in particular.

The Outer Limits is still the greatest science fiction show ever put on network television. The remakes in the '80s were almost insulting. Despite the low budgets, they had great writers, stories and you can't forget the superb Dominic Frontiere music scores for the first season (Harry Lubin's 2nd season was much inferior). I still watch these originals on DVD every August.

I've seen this episode on dailymotion around 2008 when i discovered the original show and this episode is still in my heart... I love everything in this episode, the speech in the end left me speechless when i was younger. This episode is a diamond... from outer limits. Thanks to you for your video !

This episode terrified me as a kid !!! The other "Outer Limits" episode that was equally scary was "The Bellero Shield" with Martin Landau !! Great Video......Thanks.........

Outer Limits was the finest sci-fi/horror series of all time. Bar none. Sorry, T. Zone.... And they still hold up even better than when they first aired, in my opinion...

I showed a few of these Outer Limits episodes to some friends who are significantly younger than I am. I told them how this used to scare the hell out of us. They had difficulty understanding why. I told them that there had never been anything like it before.

Amazing actor... loved even his small parts, like in A Night To Remember... he has been in so much, but it is still not enough... thank you for posting this.

David himself has stated in THE OUTER LIMITS COMPANION that he doesn't play the piano at all bu he taught himself to fake it.

I was in High School then and loved the show. I have a complete Dvd set of it as well as "The Twilight Zone".

I just stumbled across this KZfaq channel and this episode. I had to watch and comment. When I was a kid, the local station that aired "Outer Limits" used a scene from The Sixth Finger in ads that aired many times. I heard McCallum say "the whole town must be utterly destroyed... an example must be made" so many times that it's stuck firmly in my brain for more than half a century.

Absolutely one of my favorite episodes. I was just talking to my friend's daughter who didn't know about this show at all. I feel like generations after Boomers missed out on something special. The 60s was a great time to grow up, even with that stupid war.

The only one I remember was a Outer Space monster came out of the screen in the Control Centre. Scared me to death at the age of 8 years old.

By coincidence I watched this for the first time last week. It was on a most excellent channel called Talking Pictures which shows old programmes. I missed the opening scene, but loved it so read up on it. It had an unusual collection of accents. It was meant to be set in a Welsh village, but there was a strong Yorkshire accent, maybe a Lancashire one, and others.

Yes, this Outer Limits episode was the most memorable for me. Thanks for the background details!

It was a rare treat growing up and having control of the TV, turning the channel to suddenly find the Outer Limits.

The one episode that freaked me out .. and became my favorite also.. is the Zanti Misfits episode. I got used to how bizarre they looked but the high pitch voice that talked in english was offset with the harsh insect buzzing noises they made as they crawled around, that still kinda haunts me as an adult.

It wasn't just the pointed ears that brought Star Trek to mind. "Where No Man Has Gone Before" had a character who developed advanced intelligence and psychic abilities, and read everything. At the beginning of this video, that first look at "The monster of the week" immediately said "Star Trek."

I have the entire series on DVD... I'll NEVER have to WAIT to watch it again.

Watched these as a kid along with twilight zone. Some great thought provoking TV back then! This was a fantastic episode!

The Outer Limits, "The Sixth Finger" was and is one of my favorite sci-fi's of all times. I wanted to see more as well as well as more episodes of the same kind. But I realized that humanity is not evolved enough to understand.

This is definitely one of my favorite OL episodes. The one that really lodged in my brain as a child though was the Zanti Misfits. They were wild!

This was definitely my favorite Outer Limits episode. Thanks!

I love your channel. Its great to look back to rhe days of quality television.

Great ! I remember the gum and trading cards when i was just a kid then. This one creeped me out.

Leslie Stevens and Joseph Stefano hated the "monster" gimmick and did everything they could to get around it. Probably the show's best story, The Inheritors, had nothing that could even remotely be called a monster. The Sixth Finger was an outstanding and startlingly intelligent episode, although the staging was sometimes crude by modern standards. I'm surprised that writer Ellis St. Joseph didn't go on to do many great things in his career. David McCallum was marvelous, and I was quite taken by Jill Haworth, who was only 18 at the tine. Television could have done much more with her.

Yes, I always remembered this episode.

Outer Limits was one of my favorite shows as a kid. The Sixth Finger, The Zanti Misfits, The Galaxy Being, Corpus Earthling, Nightmare and Fun and Games are all my favorites with Zanti Misfits being on top. Never cared for season 2. The Outer Limits Companion book by David Schow is a excellent book that covers every episode in detail and full of other interesting stuff that every fan of Outer Limits would appreciate. Twilight Zone, Lost In Space, Land of The Giants and Time Tunnel all are shows from the past that got me through my young age. Also have the music CD of Outer Limits, good stuff. Well done.

This is a memorable one. And that Mrs Ives- the actress always seems to play a housekeeper ala North by Northwest.

"The Sixth Finger" is one of my favorite episodes with two of my favorite actors. David McCallum was in "A Night to Remember" and "The Great Escape" before "The Man from U.N.C.L.E.," "The Invisible Man," and "N.C.I.S." Edward Mulhare was in "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" and "Knight Rider." I recognized the actress who played the housekeeper too.

Dr. RerunZone, I enjoy your work and am happy to have discovered your series. This particular program in the series is one of my favorites. Signed, Peabody and his Boy.

I think it came on around 7 pm in 1963. I still remember the warm Summer breeze blowing in the west facing front door next to the b&w TV as the sun was setting . When your 9 , everything is so fresh and pungent including these scifi shows.