The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 2

The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 2
by Byron Haskin, Charles F. Haas, Felix E. Feist, Gerd Oswald, James Goldstone

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Actor: Ben Wright, Dabney Coleman, Patrick O'Neal, Peter Haskell, Sara Shane
Director: Byron Haskin, Charles F. Haas, Felix E. Feist, Gerd Oswald, James Goldstone
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 870 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

DVD Reviews of The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 2

DVD Review: Outer Limits season 2
Summary: 3 Stars

Season 2 only lasted 17 episodes and was then canceled.
Two of the best episodes are on this season, "I Robot" and "The Demon with a Glass Hand" !
Some of the later episodes turned in monster of the week and went away from the Science Fiction.
Had no problems with my disks from about 1999.

DVD Review: Not working properly
Summary: 3 Stars

This edition does not work fully. The seller offered a refund, but Fox Consumer division offered to exchange it. I'll get the exchange because I want these shows. Don't buy it without knowing about this hassel.

DVD Review: Great series, wish they had run longer
Summary: 5 Stars

I had been waiting for this series to come to DVD, and after watching all the episodes I had loved as a kid I am glad for the purchase. It is true the small budget led to some hokey special effects, and some of the production values were not up to those expected for the time. I still enjoyed the stories, and I think any fan of sci-fi will do so.

DVD Review: OK, I'm scared. (Including a suggestion)
Summary: 1 Stars

Having just finished watching the complete first season on DVD--and having been an OL fan since being glued to the TV as a 10-year-old kid during its original run--I found myself in the position of jonesing for the complete 2nd season and being prepared to pay for it.

Glad I came to Amazon first before I did. What's all this BS about the second season product being defective and Sony/MGM not doing anything about it? It seems like a lot of OL fans like me got royally ripped off, and I feel for you. How sad that the powers that be appear to be thumbing their noses as their customers.

My suggestion, for whatever it might be worth: Have any of you who received defective disc sets and did not receive quality replacements considered reporting Sony/MGM to the Better Business Bureau? I honestly don't know what, if any, good this might do, but the BBB needs to hear about matters like this. They've helped me in dealing with other ripoff situations, and for me this would seem to be a classic example of "nothing ventured, nothing gained."

I loved the original OL series (and I seem to be one of the few who liked the remake series of the 90's as well) and it infuriates me that because of what I've read here, I can't (or to be more accurate, WON'T) order the 2nd season on DVD. Thank God I kept most of the VHS copies of the 2nd series instead of giving them away, as I almost did. I will keep an eye on this review column to see if any of you find out about quality reissues of this set. This really, really saddens me...especially when you consider that those resposible for this travesty are not taking responsibility for their actions. A real sign of the times if ever there was one.

DVD Review: Disc 2 defective
Summary: 1 Stars

As many other people I have also received the same bad batch with a defective disc 2 for the second time. If you look at the disc you can clearly see it is defective. Why doesn't Amazon demand a new batch? They must getting sick and tired of all the returns. MGM is so freaking cheap and greedy it's absolutely pathetic. How much more could it possibly cost to press better quality discs?

Description of The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 2

You hold in your hands an artifact from a time now vanished forever - a compendium of portals into worlds unknown. A three-disc set that controls over 14 hours of transmission from the 1964-65 series, this vessel has sought you out for one specific purpose: to expand your mind to "The Outer Limits"!

Despite forced changes in executive and creative personnel, plummeting ratings and the constant threat of cancellation, the truncated second season of The Outer Limits (1964-65) yielded some of the series' finest episodes. While The Twilight Zone was fading fast on CBS, the bean-counters at ABC used focus groups and ratings statistics to enforce their previous mandate for a "monster of the week" format for their flagging science-fiction series, and after a few promising episodes early in the season, Outer Limits settled into a regrettable routine of reduced budgets and rubber-suit creatures that wouldn't pass inspection at a drunken Halloween party. A former network executive with minimal creative input, Perry Mason producer Ben Brady struggled to keep the doomed series alive while coproducer Seeleg Lester sought legitimacy by courting respected writers and material.

As Harlan Ellison observes in David J. Schow's indispensable book The Outer Limits Companion, weak ratings allowed quality episodes to slip under the radar of ABC executives. Ellison's own classic teleplays--"Soldier" (which would later inspire The Terminator and subsequent legal squabbles) and "Demon with a Glass Hand"--yielded the season's finest stand-alone episodes, while the two-part "The Inheritors" (featuring the young Robert Duvall) fulfilled the series' neglected potential for longer-form plotlines. While these highlights redeem the season, "Wolf 359" (a title that would later factor in Star Trek: The Next Generation) is eerily effective despite low-tech restrictions, and "Behold Eck!" is the "best" (relatively speaking) of the tepid monster-themed shows that ABC demanded. It wasn't enough: After 17 episodes against the Saturday-night dominance of The Jackie Gleason Show, the greatest science-fiction anthology series of the 1960s was mercifully canceled, primed for phenomenal success in syndication and eventual revival as the "new" Outer Limits in 1995. --Jeff Shannon

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