The Outer Limits

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1. #001

   The first-season finale, The Forms of Things Unknown (1964), starring David McCallum, Vera Miles, Cedric Hardwicke and Barbara Rush, was originally intended as a pilot episode that series creator Joseph Stefano presented to network executives. When it was rejected, he used it as an episode of the series.

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2. #002

   Many scenes and the entirety of some episodes were shot at "Villa Di Stefano," the house from which series creator Joseph Stefano's production company took its name.

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3. #003

   Cinematographer Conrad L. Hall, who shot many episodes of the first season, later received ten Oscar nominations and won three Academy Awards for Best Cinematography.

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4. #004

   Many of the series' guest stars had been victims of the blacklist a decade earlier. For many of them, this was their first work in front of a camera in years. Among them were Jeff Corey, Marsha Hunt, Curt Conway, Lloyd Gough, Howard Da Silva and Sam Wanamaker.

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5. #005

   The series is an example of a television network deliberately killing a popular show by moving it to an unsuitable time slot. The series drew particular interest among younger viewers. For the second season, ABC moved it from Monday nights to 7:30 p.m. on Saturdays. This was not only an unsuitable time slot for younger viewers, it also served as the lead-in for The Lawrence Welk Show (1955) and was scheduled against the highly popular Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1962) on CBS. The series was pulled at the halfway point of the second season due to low ratings.

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6. #006

   The first season of the series was scored by Dominic Frontiere and Robert Van Eps. Frontiere composed new music and reused his music from earlier television programs such as Stoney Burke (1962). The second season's music was again handled by Harry Lubin, who composed new music and reused his music from earlier television programs such as One Step Beyond (1959).

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7. #007

   Gene Roddenberry was a big fan of the series and a regular visitor to the set. He would go on to use much of the crew, actors, costumes and sets from it on Star Trek (1966).

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8. #008

   Nightmare (1963) was originally scheduled to air on 25 November 1963. However, it was postponed by a week because of the broadcast of President John F. Kennedy's state funeral.

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9. #009

   The Duplicate Man (1964) features the famous Chemosphere House. Designed by architect John Lautner, the house appears in several exterior shots, but the interior scenes were shot on a film set designed to resemble the home's interior.

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10. #010

    Leonard Nimoy, David McCallum, Cliff Robertson, Barbara Rush and Peter Breck are the only actors who appeared in both this series and The Outer Limits (1995).

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11. #011

    In the spring of 1964, Stevens, the creator of The Outer Limits (1963), came to work at Daystar Productions and found on his desk a $700 invoice that ABC believed Daystar owed. Instead of properly forwarding the invoice to Outer Limits executive producer Dominic Frontiere, Stevens called ABC's New York offices and spoke harshly about the invoice to a low-level accountant. When the accountant told Stevens that Daystar was responsible for the invoice, Stevens told the accountant that if ABC did not pay the invoice immediately, the next installment of The Outer Limits would never arrive. By then, relations between Stevens and ABC executives, who disliked the series and its failure to appeal to mainstream and older viewers, were already tense. Although Frontiere acknowledged that the invoice was not Daystar's responsibility, he told Stevens that unless he called ABC management and apologized, it would probably mean the end of their relationship with The Outer Limits. Stevens did not apologize, and although he retained his credit as executive producer as the series' creator, ABC would no longer accept scripts from him or from the series' other main writer, Psycho (1960) writer Joseph Stefano. Several crew members loyal to Stevens were fired before the start of the second season, and Stefano resigned when ABC moved the series from its popular Monday night slot to Saturdays, opposite the highly popular Jackie Gleason: American Scene Magazine (1962). Frontiere, Stevens's confidant, was fired, so although new producer Ben Brady liked the first-season theme composed by Frontiere, ABC pressured for the series to take on a different look from the first season, so Brady arranged a new theme for the second season.

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12. #012

    Five episodes (including a two-part story) were remade as episodes of The Outer Limits (1995): I, Robot (1964) was remade as I, Robot (1995), A Feasibility Study (1964) was remade as Feasibility Study (1997), Nightmare (1963) was remade as Nightmare (1998), and The Inheritors Part I (1964) and The Inheritors Part II (1964) were remade as The Inheritors (1999). The Human Factor (1963) and The Human Factor (2002) have no connection beyond the title.

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