Comments on: Outer Limits trading cards

By: CognitiveDissident

CognitiveDissident — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 23:09:00 +0000

Great show!
I’m on Season 2, Disc 3 the last disc :-(
Sometimes cheesy makeup/special effects, but usually GREAT stories.
Ol’ Bug Eyes/Homer-Simpson-Wannbee in the picture is none other that Warren Oates.

By: Brad Cleveland

Brad Cleveland — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 14:40:00 +0000

I think that is the Honeyzoid Badger…in the Outer Limits Reboot.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 01:07:00 +0000

Megazoid don’t care, cause Megazoid is crazy. Megazoid hungry? Megazoid just takes, cause Megazoid’s badass. Megazoid don’t give a shit. Oh look, he’s running in slow motion…

By: Brad Cleveland

Brad Cleveland — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 23:32:00 +0000

I didn’t see the Megasoid listed.

That episode was actually about a man making an (illegal) clone of himself and was kind of deep. A little supsension of disbelief was in order because the memories are also copied over and the duplicate is similarly aged.

The overall point was: by having your appearance and your memories is he really you (or maybe a better one?)

Too bad the kind of stupid ‘bear’ or monster of the week requirement sort of watered this down.

Maybe in the episode ”they” labeled the Megasoid as dangerous for political reasons. (ha ha). It could communicate telepathically. Not, “Me hungry. Eat human.” but something thought provoking.

By: Halloween_Jack

Halloween_Jack — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:22:00 +0000

That bug-eyed dude used to give me nightmares, not because I’d actually seen the episode (I wasn’t allowed to watch shows like The Outer Limits at that age) but because the TV station had aired a promo for it which contained the big reveal, when the guy takes the goggles off to show his eyes. This would have been after the original run of the show by at least a few years, so I guess that they would have decided, “Hey, no need to worry about spoilers, here’s something to scar your kids for life, ha ha.”

By: Antinous / Moderator

Antinous / Moderator — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 21:20:00 +0000

I thought that was Peter Lorre.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 19:40:00 +0000

I rebuke you Sans Serif and your demonic kerning!

By: Norm Tedford

Norm Tedford — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 18:19:00 +0000

Mea culpa. I should have done my research before the above post. Turns out, David Lynch was eighteen years old when the episode came out, and would not be “prepubescent”, unless he was an exceedingly late bloomer.

By: Norm Tedford

Norm Tedford — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:58:00 +0000

I can see a prepubescent David Lynch having nightmares from this particular episode. Nightmares which proved to be excellent fuel for his later film oeuvre.

By: sdnative1958

sdnative1958 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:34:00 +0000

Agreed, and one of my top favorite episodes to show people who never saw The Outer Limits – it’s one of the most odd and disturbing things ever to be on television. Although only 5 years old when the series began, I’m grateful that reruns introduced me to TOL later on in my youth, and the series now holds a place of honor on my DVD shelf. I never tire of it.

Oh, the MUSIC throughout can still elicit goosebumps!

By: Mister44

Mister44 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 17:04:00 +0000

The opening from “Do Not Open Until Doomsday” still creeps me the hell out.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:45:00 +0000

Like “Signs,” people forget to take their umbrella to protect against the lethal rain.

By: Preston Sturges

Preston Sturges — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:43:00 +0000

Here’s one of many monster compilation from TOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDKRzs5dC8I

I liked the Zanti Misfits, and the The Demon With A Glass Hand featuring Robert Culp in a Harlan Ellison story set in the Bradbury Building.

By: Stefan Jones

Stefan Jones — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 15:00:00 +0000

These must have been just a bit before my time. I remember Mars Attacks cards (probably a reprint series, late 60s) and event he first run of Wacky Packages (on cardstock).

The guy with the big eyes isn’t technically an alien. He was a human settler who became a big-eyed “Mutant” when doused with rain on a colony world. Spent most of the episode wearing oversized sunglasses.

By: snagglepuss

snagglepuss — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 13:29:00 +0000

I remember being in 3rd grade, showing some of these cards around my catholic school before class began and some tattletale jeebus-freak fellow student turning me in for it, as if the cards were acts of blasphemy. All the kids who’d gaped at them clammed up and left me to hang.

Cards were confiscated, never returned, and I was punished for bringing “filth” to school. I remember thinking afterwards, “I’d rather have this fake TV show than this phony “school”.”

By: Nathan Hornby

Nathan Hornby — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 10:53:00 +0000

Great artwork, but what’s with the diabolical copy?

By: Lemoutan

Lemoutan — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 09:12:00 +0000

I remember the bubblegum turning to ashes in my mouth as they banned them.

By: heni nuraeni

heni nuraeni — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:16:00 +0000

i don’t understand about this picture , can you help me to desribe this picture ??

By: fergus1948

fergus1948 — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:08:00 +0000

Just a reminder of Keith Bates’s hi-res scans of his full set of Mars Attacks cards.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/31558613@N00/sets/72157625601126001/show/

By: planettom

planettom — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 07:41:00 +0000

Before the pilot episode of THE OUTER LIMITS (“THE GALAXY BEING”) aired in September 1963, magazines like TV GUIDE had an ad featuring this artwork. This was reprinted in the 1977 STARLOG #4.