History Recap / TheOuterLimits1963S1E32TheFormsOfThingsUnknown

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Not so poorly disguised, actually, but: there were two slightly different versions made of "The Forms of Things Unknown." One was intended as a pilot for ''The Unknown'', a straight suspense anthology that wasn't picked up. The PointOfDivergence: In "Forms", the "[[TimeMachine Time Tilter]]" actually works, while in ''The Unknown'' it doesn't.

* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Not so poorly disguised, actually; but there were two slightly different versions made of "The Forms of Things Unknown." One was intended as a pilot for ''The Unknown'', a straight suspense anthology that wasn't picked up. The PointOfDivergence: In "Forms", the "[[TimeMachine Time Tilter]]" actually works, while in ''The Unknown'' it doesn't.

* * PoorlyDisguisedPilot: Not so poorly disguised, actually; but there were two slightly different versions made of "The Forms of Things Unknown." One was intended as a pilot for ''The Unknown'', a straight suspense anthology that wasn't picked up. The PointOfDivergence: In "Forms", the "[[TimeMachine Time Tilter]]" actually works, while in ''The Unknown'' it doesn't.

After two desperate women (Creator/VeraMiles, Barbara Rush) kill the playboy who's blackmailing them (Scott Marlowe), they come across the home of an inventor (Creator/DavidMcCallum) whose "time tilter" can bring people back from the dead.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: How could a contraption made of strings hooked up to a bunch of mechanical clocks possibly control ''time itself''? Your guess is as good as ours. It sure ''looks'' nifty though, in a ClockPunk sort of way.

After two women kill the playboy who's blackmailing them, they come across the home of an inventor (Creator/DavidMcCallum) whose "time tilter" can bring people back from the dead.

* DarkAndTroubledPast: Hinted at with Tone. His mother died when he was a child, which drove him to devote his life to find a way to resurrect the dead.

* CreepyGood: Tone is generally a good guy - he wants to bring people's loved ones back to life with his invention -, but he is ''very'' creepy.

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Tone when he realizes he resurrected an evil, amoral man.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: The opening scene has Andre recklessly speeding through the French countryside in his Rolls-Royce while Cassia lights his cigarette. In ''The Outer Limits'' version this is heavy {{Foreshadowing}}, as Andre dies by crashing his car at the end.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: The opening scene has Andre recklessly speeding through the French countryside in his Rolls-Royce while Cassia lights his cigarette.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: How could a contraption made of strings hooked up to a bunch of mechanical clocks possibly control ''time itself''? Your guess is as good as ours.

* AssholeVictim: Andre is an amoral, arrogant, narcissistic, sadistic blackmailer whose murder drives the story.

* AssholeVictim: Andre is an amoral, narcissistic blackmailer whose murder drives the stoi

* {{Blackmail}}: Andre is planning to extort a large amount of money from Leonora's father. Tassia was involved in the scheme, but soured on the idea and came up with the idea of poisoning Andre.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: The opening scene has Andre recklessly speeding through the French countryside in his Rolls-Royce.

* DrivesLikeCrazy: The opening scene has Andre speeding through the French countryside in his Rolls-Royce.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: How could a contraption made of strings hooked up to a bunch of clocks possibly control ''time itself''? Your guess is as good as ours.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: How could a contraption made of strings connected to a bunch of clocks possibly control time itself? Your guess is a good as ours.

After two women kill the playboy who's blackmailing them, they come across the home of an inventor (Creator/DavidMcCallum) whose invention can bring people back from the dead.

After two women kill the playboy who's blackmailing them, they come across the home of an inventor whose invention can bring people back from the dead.