The original The Outer Limits was an incredible science fiction series. A lot of people compare it unfavorably to The Twilight Zone (and I mean the original Twilight Zone from the same era as this show, not the movie or remake series that are quite honestly very inferior to the original). But this show is in my opinion as good (or at least almost as good, so much so that it's practically equally) to Rod Serling's classic. Definitely check this show out, it's on DVD now. And this, the remake of The Outer Limits is also fantastic (not as good as the original but much better than say the remake of Twilight Zone). Check them both out if you like dark TV sci-fi. There's a lot of great actors you will certainly recognize and this is a great example of Canadian sci-fi at its best. Also check out the original movie The Cube (the sequels of that movie stink, skip them).

Yeah, there were a few slip-ups, but all most all of the time, this is one of the very best series for acting, story lines and (even when it's a re-make of a 1960s episode), screen writing put on television. It's the one that convinced me to stick to writing about what I know, and to short stories, also. It also gets my "Creepier Than Thou" award for desimplifying how we see our existence. Also, they have some really good looking actresses; really loved "Mary 25".The whole series is available from Amazon, but I think I'll be satisfied with just a couple of episodes.

All but a handful of the shows could have easily fit into a 30 minute TV time slot. They stretched things out with filler dialog that added little or nothing to the story line. I liked the old 1960's version better, discounting the limited special affects of the time period. It was a better time of society, it came through in the shows.

When the series first started I was looking forward to it. I'd seen some of the original series on late night TV while working night shifts and hoped the new version would live up to its predecessor. In a word no. Some episode were genuinely thought provoking and despite the tedious and extremely patronising ending monologues I gave it a real go. However, after seeing the world end for the 50th unoriginal time, I had stop watching. For example, at the end of the FIRST series an episode called The Voice of Reason , has Aliens in human form hearing stories of how other alien invasions threatened their own evil schemes. Thats right, they had so many earth's gonna get it soon episodes to pool from, they could make a repeats show based solely on that premise, and that was from the first season only! And they didn't stop there, trust me. As I said there were some really good ideas here and there but you had to wade through a lot of crap to get to them. I gave it 2/10 cause that was the good to bad episode ratio in my opinion.