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YOUR FAVORITE EPISODE OF ALL TIMES??

posted 20 years ago by mtordai
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I was about 12 in 1995, when the series sttared so I was pretty young when I began watching The Outer Limits. I didn't even know it was a Canadian series until a few years ago, but I remember alot of the old ones like Heist with a young pre-Saving Private Ryan Barry Pepper and that pretty freaky epsiode with Brent Spiner who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation. I also remember there was another epsiode where aliens had abducted a street block or something, can't remember precisly. But of all my absolulte favorite of all times is Abduction. Not only because I'm in love with Meghan Ory (SP) but because it is a very, very good lession about school shootings that I think all people adults and kids alike should watch. Heck why not even show it to a high school class and get then to discuss the topics that the epsiode presents. Anyways, I like sharing, so what's yours? Another one I also liked stared John Spencer from the West Wing and Micheal Ironside it was called "Summit".

Mark

[–] erdguz 19 years ago

I hadn't even heard of Outer Limits until today! I posted a question on trekunited.com asking if anyway knew what this movie or episode was called or what it was from. I explained what I remember about it. I saw it late one night about 8 or 9 years ago but for some reason it was stuck in my head. After about 20min within my post someone replied and told me it was an episode from the new Outer Limits but the person couldn't remember which episode it was. After Another 20min of searching and guess work by clicking on titles of eps I thought would be the one i found it!

QUALITY OF MERCY would have to be my favourite ep. But now I wan't to see more some of the episodes sound interesting.

[–] w22nuschler 19 years ago

I agree with the other guy that liked Alyssa Milano's episode best. The episode was called Caught in the Act. I remember subscribing to Showtime just for this episode. It did not disappoint me at all. It was a very sex charged episode and it was the first time I got to see Alyssa Milano's tits. She looked great naked. If you have not seen it you are missing one of Alyssa's finest performances.

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[–] BenGardnersHead 19 years ago

Tribunal - just saw it last night and wow- what a quality episode - good acting, high production values (Concentration camp was obviously a large set with lots of convincing extra) and as satisfying an ending as I've seen since Shawshank Redemption. Plus Nazis always make great villains. I'll remember this one for a long time.

[–] jr_4444 19 years ago

Does anybody know the name of the episode where there is a man and a woman in a alien prison and they take the girl and it appears that they are changeing her into an alien but in the end she learns the mans' secret and then we learn they were actually chainging her back into in alien. I think the secret was that the humans had a hidden fleet of ships behind the sun.

[–] shadowsheep_0 19 years ago

The episode where the man and the woman are in the alien prison and they change her back when he thinks that she is being changed into an alien from an original human form is my favourite episode, it's called 'Quality of Mercy' , I am fairly sure it was the first episode i ever watched, because my dad got a box set of 3 videos like AGES ago, and there were 3 eps on each, and i watched that one first and thought it was SOOOOOOOO good, i mean COME ON ITS THE BEST! the one about the boogey man isn't half bad either it's calledl ike 'Under the Bed' or something :D

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[–] TalsarrisN 19 years ago

The Choice. One of the early episodes and its always stuck with me.

[–] dustin-stephens 19 years ago

Nobody Said Trial by Fire, One of my favorites.

[–] morley2010 19 years ago

Yes "Trial By Fire" is one of my top 2 episodes, along with "Think like a dinosaur". I haven't got any on tape so I will definately buy all the season sets. I haven't seen this episode for about 8-10 years but I remember it clearly, I just looked up the title on tv.com. Any other Australians out there who used to rememeber watching this show at 9:30 Monday nights after Millennium on Ch 7?

[–] insaneweasley 19 years ago

I haven't seen all of the episodes, but my favorite from what I have seen is probably the Sentence, which I watched a few years ago. It was one in the morning, and all of the sudden, 'they have control of my TV.' So, since I was tired and only half-thinking, I started to become afraid. But once the episode started, I was hooked. It was so brilliant, I almost cried. And then the next day, I couldn't stop talking about it. People thought I was crazy. Heh. Like I can possibly be crazy...

And I sort of liked The Voyage Home, too...

[–] K4nchi-1 19 years ago

What's the episode where the girl gets a song over the internet from a friend and spreads it around, causing people to enter a trance, then get sick after listening to it? Then the doctors realize that the song is a gift from aliens, transforming the people that listen to it in order to protect them from the rays of the sun.

Another episode is about the sun dying and the world freezing over. Anyone know the name of it?

[–] SurreDeth 19 years ago

Dead's Man Switch is the only one that really made any kind of impression on me.

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[–] LoWang99 19 years ago

The internet song from the aliens is called Music of the Spheres

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[–] abbysomething 19 years ago

Without question "Afterlife".

A convicted killer (Clancy Brown) is given the choice between dying by lethal injectionor becoming part of a secret military experiment. He soon regrets choosing life when he discovers he's slowly and painfully being turned into an alien lifeform.

It's one of the first episodes I had ever seen. I turned it on not knowing it was the Outer Limits and I was hooked on that story from the beginning. I didn't move a muscle until it was over and I remember thinking, this is better than anything you see in the theatres for your money.

[–] mrpumpkin 19 years ago

My favorites are Tribunal and The Other Side. I'm trying to remember the name of one in which a woman gets electrocuted at the beginning and then realizes she can hear the (disturbing) thoughts of the other residents of her apartment building. Can anyone help?

[–] andrew-668 18 years ago

Sounds like What Will The Neighbours Think?.

[–] personn 15 years ago

I've just seen this episode and the ending stopped my breath instantly, this one is ULTRA magnificent piece!

[–] mrpumpkin 19 years ago

"Which is the one where this scientist's brother is an evil corporate type who tries to kill him, and then at the end the brother develops some kind of wasting disease, and begs the scientist to kill him?"

That's Blood Brothers. It first aired in season 1 (1995).

[–] mawsis 19 years ago

My favorite: "The Voyage Home"

The true measure of a hero is when a man lays down his life with the knowledge that those he saves, will never know.

[–] Hired-Goons 19 years ago

This show was one of the best sci fi shows there isnt many eps that I dont like but here are my personal favs..(I dont know the ep names so I will just give a brief description)

1. Conversion (guy shoots up xmas party goes to a restaurant learns a lesson)

2. the guy from 2 and half men travels 10 years forward in time repeatatively

3. The highschool shooting ep (AWESOME EPISODE!!!)

4. Blind university prof gets implants falls in love with alien

5. Human Operators (dude being a slave for an AI space craft)

6. I also like the eps that had this old bald guy dont know his name but he was a time traveler one ep he helped a guy trying to find a nazi war criminal. another ep had the bald guy playing some alien or something that had a store that sold things to teach people a lesson

The telephone is so impersonal. I prefer the hands-on touch you only get with hired goons

[–] dazada 19 years ago

Don't know the names of the episodes

-The one were Aliens took over Earth, and the guy buried in the bunker deep underground, has to keep pushing a reset button so that the planet won't explode, but the aliens take over anyway, and use the president as a puppet, telling him to never stop pushing the button.

-And the one were the guy injects nano-machines into himself to cure his illness. It improves his vision, streghthens his muscles, and imporves his mind, but the nano-machines start to give him unwanted features. Whenever they (nanos) find out that he can't breathe underwater, they give him gills. And when they figure out that he can't see behind him, they give him eyes in the back of his head (my #1 favorite "Outer Limits" scene ever).

"If people only knew that Olivia had a penis." -The Game

[–] needcatscan 19 years ago

I don't know how everyone here feels about d/ling tv episodes, but if you don't care (like me) go to www.isohunt.com. Look up torrents for outer limits, you can get every season except 5. Much cheaper than paying the outrageous prices that seasons of tv eps go for.

[–] Justifer 18 years ago

Everyone has their own opinions about downloading, thus it would be useless to debate wether or not that should be encouraged. Also everyone who downloads episodes, music etc. propably knows where and how to get them, still I am almost certain that IMDB's policy isn't about advertising where one can download pirated copies of movies and tv wpisodes.

[–] davidmarchuk343 18 years ago

There is one episode I haven't seen for years that i still remember that I really want to see taht one of you meantioned: The one were Aliens took over Earth, and the guy buried in the bunker deep underground, has to keep pushing a reset button so that the planet won't explode, but the aliens take over anyway, and use the president as a puppet, telling him to never stop pushing the button.

Ya man I remember there were at first a few ppl in this deep underground station around the world, but slowly each of them died until only that one guy was left. One of them froze, another one had aliens kill her i think.

I wouln't say this episode is my favourite, it's just one i haven't seen for a while that i miss. Oh that spider one i miss too lol, still remember the ending. I got the first season box set so obviously i remember those well.

[–] rlem20 19 years ago

My Fave's we're

1) Voice of Reason - really had you thinking about who was in on the conspiracy

2)Stitch in Time - the professor tracking down sexual predators was great!

3)Special Edition - This one really makes you wonder what the government can do

4)Ripper - with Cary Elwes just well acted

5) Gettysburg - very thought provoking

6) The Refuge - True love in so many different facets

7) Time to Time- time traveland its implications are amazing