Thursday, March 22, 2018

The original 'Outer Limits' is coming to Blu-ray









(Reviving an old blog of mine.)

The first season of the original "The Outer Limits" from 1964 is coming to Blu-ray (and back on DVD) on March 27 from Kino Lorber Home Video. The new seven-disc set release includes a 40 page booklet essay by David J. Schow and audio commentaries from film and TV historians.

Guest stars include Ed Asner, Macdonald Carey, Dabney Coleman, Robert Culp, Bruce Dern, Robert Duvall, Mimsy Farmer, Don Gordon, Harry Guardino, Gloria Grahame, Signe Hasso, Miriam Hopkins, Richard Jaeckel, Sally Kellerman, Shirley Knight, Martin Landau, George Macready, John Marley, David McCallum, Ralph Meeker, Gary Merrill, Vera Miles, Leonard Nimoy, Simon Oakland, Warren Oates, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Pleasence, Cliff Robertson, Ruth Roman, Barbara Rush, Martin Sheen, Henry Silva and more.

Special features include "There is Nothing Wrong With Your Television Set", a 40 page essay by David J. Schow, and audio commentaries by David J. Schow (The Outer Limits Companion), Tim Lucas (Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark; Video Watchblog), Craig Beam (My Life in the Glow of the Outer Limits), Dr. Reba Wissner (We Will Control All That You Hear: The Outer Limits & The Aural Imagination), Gary Gerani (Fantastic Television), Michael Hyatt (film historian), and Steve Mitchell (King Cohen: The Wild World of Filmmaker Larry Cohen).

This series was spooky. Maybe more so than "The Twilight Zone."  Starting with the opening.