Conference noted::sf

    re:.0
    
    First of all, please use upper *and lower* cases when entering
    notes. All upper case is more difficult to read and it looks like
    you're shouting.
    
    The episode with the "ants" was called "The Zanti Misfits" and
    starred Bruce Dern (yes, *that* Bruce Dern) and a bunch of people
    I've never heard of.
    
    As far as I know, only the first three episodes have been released
    on videotape. They are:
    
    "The Galaxy Being", starring Cliff Robertson as radio station
    engineer who makes contact with a creature from another planet.
    And accidental boost in signal power causes the alien to be
    teleported to Earth, where its mere presence causes destruction.
    
    "The Hundred Days of the Dragon" is about an Asian power that
    develops a serum that can make flesh into putty so that a person's
    face can be reshaped. They change an agent of theirs into a double
    of a US Presidential candidate, who ends up winning the election.
    
    "The Architects of Fear" is probably one of the most well-known
    episodes. It stars Robert Culp as a scientist who is chosen to
    be bio-engineered into a copy of a alien lifeform in order that
    he may make the Earth nations band together by making them think
    that a alien race may obliterate them.
    
    --- jerry

    
    re:.1
        Thank you for the advice,Jerry,will do.
        Found out last nite that there have been three more 
          released,The Sixth Finger (David MacCallum),The
        Inheritors,and one other starring Mr. MacCallum based
        on a man obsessed with time while bringing men back 
        to life
                                               Karl

    re:.2
    
    Incidentally, the last-named McCallum one (I'm surprised that
    they aren't releasing the rest in order), "The Forms of Things
    Unknown" was a pilot for a different, unsold series called
    THE UNKNOWN.
    
    There is a trade paperback available, the title and author of
    which escape me at the moment, that's all about THE OUTER LIMITS.
    It came out about a year ago.
    
    --- jerry

    re:.3
    
    Jerry,
        Do you happen to know what was the pilot episode and the
    date it was released.Can't recall!
                                                  Karl

    	In Note 296.24, a fellow SF Noter was kind enough to make available
    numerous files which give brief synopsies of every episode of some
    of the most popular SF television series, of which THE OUTER LIMITS
    is included.  Just COPY over the files to your account from his
    pointer in that Note.

        There is also an excellent book out in the mass-market
    bookstores which goes into intimate detail on all of THE OUTER LIMITS
    episodes, plus a background history of the series.  It is done in a 
    format similar to the book on THE TWILIGHT ZONE, which came out in 1984. 
    
        Larry
               

    re:.4
    
    The pilot episode was "The Galaxy Being", which I synopsized in
    548.1.
    
    Incidentally, I've seen at least one other TOL tape out: "The Man
    with the Power" (the fourth episode), starring Donald Pleasance.
    
    The book that Larry mentions in .5, and I mentioned in .3 is:
    
    THE OUTER LIMITS: THE OFFICIAL COMPANION by David J. Schow and
    Jeffrey Frentzen, Ace Books [trade paperback] 0-441-37081-0,
    1986, $8.95.
    
    --- jerry

    	Topic 53 in the UCOUNT::TV Conference has a discussion going
    on THE OUTER LIMITS, including the latest news on available videotapes
    featuring TOL.  In fact, there are a number of SF TV series discussed
    in TV to a much greater degree than in this Conference.  Hmmm...
    
    	Press the KP7 or SELECT key to add TV to your Notebook.
    
    	Larry
    

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From: [email protected] (Walter Chapman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf-lovers
Subject: Video Releases  (Outer Limits and oldies !!)
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Date: 29 Jan 88 15:47:18 GMT
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    The latest flyers I have from distributors show the following:
 
    The Outer Limits  (retail $ 14.95 each)
 
  Demon With A Glass Hand  (Robert Culp escapes `back from the future'
         to save 70 billion people from outer space invaders
  Keeper of the Purple Twilight  (An all-powerful alien creature falls
         prey to the most potent power of them all -- love)
  The Zanti Misfits  (Bruce Dern is the first victim of a bizarre alien
         race which chooses Earth as a prison colony for it's most
         hardened criminals)
  The Form of Things Unknown  (no blurb)
  The Galaxy Being  (no blurb)
  The Hundred Days of the Dragon  (no blurb)
  The Inheritors  (no blurb)
  The Man With the Power  (no blurb)
  The Sixth Finger  (no blurb)
 
    From MGM/UA Home Video, expected shipping date is March 29th. 
These are the only episodes I know of that have been released (the
last six mentioned having been released earlier than the above
shipping date). 
  

    Re .8 (Larry):
    
    For What it's worth,
    
    _The Galaxy Being_ was the first episode telecast.  It involved
    a powerful radio station broadcasting in the Pacific Coast and a
    form of teleportation.
    
    _The Sixth Finger_ was the story of a person who gets "mutated"
    to later stages of human evolution, growing a sixth finger/hand
    in the process.  The bitter young man who plays the role of the
    experimental subjecty isd David McCallum, of _Man From U.N.C.L.E._
    fame.
    
    Steve Kallis, Jr.

    Moved by author.  Hope you can help!
    
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TUNER::FLIS                                          15 lines  14-APR-1988 12:03
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    Yo!  I couldn't find a topic on the Outer Limits, so I thought I'd
    start one with a question.  (if there *is* such a topic please feel
    free to move this or ask me to)
    
    I am looking for the quoted opening of the Outer Limites (at least
    *I* think it was the outer limites.  The opening where your tv screen
    screws up and a narator says something like "there is nothing wrong
    with your TV set..."
    
    I am looking for the exact quote, start to finish.  Can anybody
    help???
    
    thanx,
    jim
    

    There are two version, one longer, one shorter. The shorter one
    goes something like this:
    
    "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt
    to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. We will
    control the horizontal. We will control the verticle. We can change
    the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the
    next hour, sit back quietly and we will control all that you see
    and hear. You will experience the awe and mystery which reaches
    from the inner mind to...The Outer Limits."
    
    The longer version adds a couple of sentences about making the
    picture larger and smaller, but I don't recall the exact wording.
    The above is from memory. I'll have to check my copy of THE OUTER
    LIMITS COMPANION to get the whole thing.
    
    --- jerry

    There is going to be an "Outer Limits" Marathon on the TNT cable
channel on Saturday night (7/27/91) starting at 8:00 pm and running to
6:00 am (total of 10 hours).

Gentlemen, Start your VCR's...


Tom Deane

I noticed that there are now about 20 to 25 titles available for sale
at a local video store.  How many episodes were produced altogether?

    I subscribed to the Columbia House collection.  They send me a tape of
    two episodes every month or so, for $19.95.  I think there are
    something like 44 or 46 episodes total available.  I don't know how
    many were actually produced.
    
    len.