The Outer Limits was created by Leslie Stevens, a self-identifying “hack writer” who had written, produced, and directed several TV shows prior to 1963. Unlike The Twilight Zone, The Outer ...

When talking about The Outer Limits, comparisons to The Twilight Zone are unavoidable. Not only were they contemporaries, but the shows were similar in style, content and tone. Rod Serling's The ...

The hallmark of The Twilight Zone has always been its unpredictability. Each instalment starts off normal, and then becomes ...

Scully: Maybe it's another show, like the Outer Limits? Mulder: Confuse the Twilight Zone with Outer Limits? DO YOU EVEN KNOW ME???

Science-Fiction anthology shows have been around nearly as long as television has. Rod Serling's still-unmatched The Twilight Zone first used television and the tropes of sci-fi to express the ...

Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone is back, an occasion that made us think of another 1960s anthology series that’s been put through the remake machine: The Outer Limits. With its emphasis on sci-fi ...

But while it was nowhere near as long-lived as “The Twilight Zone” or as much of a fan fave as “Star Trek,” “The Outer Limits” has nonetheless maintained a small, fiercely dedicated ...

The Outer Limits employed severable notable scribes, such as screenwriters Joseph Stefano (Psycho) and Robert Towne (Chinatown.) (Harlan Ellison famously penned a pair of episodes for the second ...

Filled With Monsters, Suspense, and Moral Dilemmas The Outer Limits often earns comparisons to The Twilight Zone, considering it was an anthology series focused on curious sci-fi stories.

Like The Twilight Zone, the other famous anthology series from that era, the show had a well-known opening with a narrator telling viewers, “There is nothing wrong with your television set.