The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits is a television series from the United States. In its original incarnation it ran for two seasons from 1963 to 1965 in black-and-white. It was revived in 1995 and ran for seven seasons until 2002. Similar in style to the earlier The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits is an anthology science fiction show in which each episode is a self-contained story with a plot twist.

1995-2002

After an aborted attempt to bring back The Outer Limits during the early eighties, it was finally reborn in 1995. The success of television science fiction such as Star Trek and Babylon 5 and anthology shows such as Tales from the Crypt convinced the rights-holders, MGM, to revive it. A deal was made with Trilogy Productions, the company behind such cinema hits as Backdraft and ', and the show would run on the pay-tv channel Showtime. It continued on Showtime until 2001, when the U.S. Sci Fi channel quietly took over production. It remained in production until 2002 before finally being cancelled, after a total of 154 episodes — far more than the original incarnation of the show. In the revived show, the Control Voice was supplied by Kevin Conway.

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1995 - Star Trek - Babylon 5 - Tales from the Crypt - MGM - Trilogy Productions - Backdraft - Showtime - U.S. Sci Fi channel - 2002 - Kevin Conway

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Filmed in Canada, the show used many Canadian actors and featured many familiar faces from other successful science fiction TV shows:

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• Stargate SG-1
• Michael Shanks
• Don S. Davis
• Tom McBeath
• Star Trek
• Michael Dorn
• Leonard Nimoy
• Rene Auberjonois
• Nicole de Boer
• Robert Duncan McNeill
• Robert Picardo
• Nana Visitor
• Marina Sirtis
• The X-Files
• William B. Davis
• Robert Patrick
• Babylon 5 — Bruce Boxleitner

In every season there is a clip show that connects the plots of several of the season's episodes (see "The Voice of Reason" for an example). The revived series contains more adult content than the original. Several DVD anthologies have been released: Sex & Science Fiction, Aliens Among Us, Death and Beyond, Fantastic Androids and Robots, Mutation and Transformation, Time Travel and Infinity.

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Clip show - The Voice of Reason - DVD

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