Following our successful run over at A Thriller A Day, Peter and I knew we couldn't just stop dead in our tracks. This time out, we're going to set our sights on one of the most popular of the fantastic television shows of the 60s, The Outer Limits.
We're already hard at work preparing for the official launch of this blog on 1/1/11, so now's the time to pick up the reasonably priced complete series of the original Outer Limits on DVD if you haven't already. Just think what a great Christmas gift it would make, along with the URL to the blog.
Whether you're a long term aficionado of the show (like our Outer Limits companion, David J. Schow, who just happens to be the author of The Outer Limits Companion), someone who has only seen a handful of episodes, or someone yet to experience any of them at all, we hope you'll join us on this 49-episode journey from the inner mind to The Outer Limits.
Yes I survived all 67 episodes of THRILLER with Peter and John as the witty commentators. I'm ready for OUTER LIMITS, another great show. I'll be there January 1, 2011, unless my wife kills me first.
ReplyDeleteNo, man -- the BEERS, I said bring on the BEERS!
ReplyDeleteAt least this blog I can read without fear of spoilers since I have seen most, if not all of these!
Historical fact: The "we're taking control of your TV" opening did kind of creep me out when I was a little kid. But not as much as most TV creeps me out now... ;-)
Looking forward to this, guys. I'm a huge fan of OL's 1st season in particular--I think it includes some of the most disturbing (in a good way of course) TV ever unleashed.
ReplyDeleteLet the madness begin!
Can't wait! Good luck!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the link, and glad to hear you guys are keeping up the momentum. OL lives!
ReplyDeleteWow! This blog looks awesome! I'm in the "have only seen a handful of episodes," category, having watched only 5.
ReplyDeleteLook forward to finally watching them all as you guys will help keep me from skipping around.
Can't wait? I CAN wait!
ReplyDelete... because the possibilities are monumental, the subject matter is close to my ancient TV-lovin' heart, and therefore, this increases fourfold my terror of fucking up a great opportunity.
I have been blathering on about THE OUTER LIMITS for, pretty much, for over thirty years. Now let's see if I've learned anything.
I've already been at JS & PE about ways to sweeten the pot. Bring it on.
TOL Redux. Oh yeah - When Schow Speaks - people listen. I'll be cracking open my old TOL Newsletters I published some 30 years ago ...or so.
ReplyDeleteSteve Streeter, The Outer Limits Newsletter/Fan Club
Damn! I was sure Blamire had talked you into A GUNSMOKE A DAY.
ReplyDeleteI tried, Richard, I tried...
ReplyDeleteWe'll tackle Gunsmoke as soon as Scoleri gets Dark Shadows out of his system, so...
ReplyDeleteComing January 1, 2022 The Smell-My-Gunsmoke blog.
Per my left-over THRILLER notes and Eugene Paul's book, Paul notes that the THRILLER crew used to refer to GUNSMOKE (shooting just over the hill) as "Gun Schmuck."
ReplyDeleteCan STONEY BURKE A DAY be far behind? Looking forward to being part of the awe and mystery.
ReplyDeleteStoney Burke will follow The Love Boat. There's a natural progression to these things and there's only so much of us to go around, Christa. We're booked through Labor Day, 2021.
ReplyDelete2021? Does that mean you're ready to watch Dark Shadows in its entirety?
ReplyDeleteLeave it to DjS to add such insightful and wonderfully nebulous tracts to the field. Love it man. Once a fan always a fan. Mr Schow: 'You are no John Kennedy!'
ReplyDeleteYou are Zeno!
Dark Shadows has 1225 episodes. If you cover 24 a week, you'll be done in a year, no sweat.
ReplyDeleteWow! Can't wait for this! OL has been my one of my all-time top favorites and most-watched since FOREVER. Grew up watching them syndicated on KTTV in L.A., programmed them on TNT cable network when we got them in a package more than a decade ago -- have I watched them a hundred times each? Probably so! We will link to you at our The Flaming Nose TV Blog!
ReplyDeleteHm. Well, if you howled at the dogs among the THRILLERS...I do love the original "Nightmare," and do fondly remember watching as many TOLs as I could before the CREATURE DOUBLE FEATURE on Boston's Channel 56 in the early '70s...but, goodness, even Wah Chang couldn't begin to make up for some of these. Or maybe as a Bloch partisan I've got it in for Stefano.
ReplyDeleteEveryone wants you to do the GUNSMOKE magazine issues. That's a quick task, even with the Giants.
ReplyDeleteA commenter (sorry, forgot who) left word on a Twilight Zone blog. I listened to the first batch of shows and have to recommend this to those interested. Not a lot of humor (which is good most of the time) but very professional. This Brit comes off as a very good commentator. Here's the link again:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thetwilightzonepodcast.com/
Great idea! Unlike with THRILLER, I've seen just about all of these already. Will definitely be back in January.
ReplyDeleteFor Todd Mason: Don't wax too harsh -- Bloch actually presented the Mystery Writers of America "Edgar" Award to Stefano, for PSYCHO, at the ceremony for same. Both men got trapped not by any mutual dislike, but by dumb interviewers boiling questions down to "who wrote PSYCHO?" while rarely specifying book-or-movie. I'd even say it's a fair assessment that BOTH men reaped very rewarding careers as a result of PSYCHO.
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