History Trivia / TheOuterLimits1963

** Creator/LeonardNimoy played Konig in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E29ProductionAndDecayOfStrangeParticles Production and Decay of Strange Particles]]" and Judson Ellis in "I, Robot". He also played Thurman Cutler in the remake of "I, Robot" in the revival.

** Creator/LeonardNimoy played Konig in "Production and Decay of Strange Particles" and Judson Ellis in "I, Robot". He also played Thurman Cutler in the remake of "I, Robot" in the revival.

** "The Forms Of Things Unknown" was written by Joseph Stefano with one eye on making it his directorial debut, but it ended up being helmed by Gerd Oswald. (Stefano's only directorial effort came after he left the series, with the unsold pilot ''The Ghost Of Sierra De Cobre''.)

* BillingDisplacement: When the series was released on VHS, the tape packages sometimes gave top billing to well-known actors who played supporting characters (such as Creator/EdwardAsner in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E11ItCrawledOutOfTheWoodwork It Crawled Out of the Woodwork]]", Creator/BruceDern in "The Zanti Misfits", Creator/JamesDoohan in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E4ExpandingHuman Expanding Human]]", and ''Series/HappyDays''' Marion Ross in "The Special One").

** Gerd Oswald, the series' most prolific director, liked many of the episodes he worked on, but not "Specimen: Unknown" ("It was a very weak story") or "Expanding Human" ("It's a case of saying you'll try to do your best with a story... and then you can't come up with much").

** Also affected were writers Meyer Dolinsky and Sonya Roberts with "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E18Zzzzz ZZZZZ]]" and "Second Chance" respectively. They had their scripts changed by rewrites they didn't do, with [[AlanSmithee Roberts taking her name off the finished product in favour of a pseudonym]].

** The control panel from "O.B.I.T." became a similar high-tech device in ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE''.

* SimilarlyNamedWorks: Although some of the [[Series/TheOuterLimits1995 revival]] episodes (like "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E10Nightmare Nightmare]]", "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E29AFeasibilityStudy A Feasibility Study]]" and "The Inheritors") are remakes of TOS episodes, "The Human Factor" is ''not'' one of them. It has the same title as a TOS episode, but a completely unrelated story.

** The 1998 version of ''The Outer Limits Companion'' includes an appendix which provides detailed plot synopses of TOS scripts and premises that were never filmed. It also has details on rewritten and {{Deleted Scene}}s from the finished episodes, such as "The Man Who Was Never Born" originally ending on a ''much'' more upbeat (if still bittersweet) note, but this was changed due to time constraints.

** Robert Culp starred in three of the most acclaimed episodes ("[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E3TheArchitectsOfFear The Architects of Fear]]", "Corpus Earthling" and "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E5DemonWithAGlassHand Demon With a Glass Hand]]"), becoming the actor most associated with the series.
** Creator/DavidMcCallum played Gwyllim Griffiths in "The Sixth Finger" and Tone Hobart in "The Forms of Things Unknown". He also played Joshua Hayward in "Feasibility Study" - the remake of another original series episode - in the revival.
** Creator/MartinLandau played Andro in "The Man Who Was Never Born" and Richard Bellero, Jr. in "The Bellero Shield".
** Neil Hamilton played General Hilary J. Clarke in "The Invisibles" and Richard Bellero, Sr. in "The Bellero Shield". The two episodes were broadcast consecutively.

** Sally Kellerman played Ingrid Larkin in "The Human Factor" and Judith Bellero in "The Bellero Shield".
** Kent Smith played Dr. Bloch in "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" and human!Aabel in "The Children of Spider County".
** Henry Silva played General Juan Mercurio in "Tourist Attraction" and Chino Rivera in "The Mice" (which was brodacast only two weeks later).

** Ben Wright had two onscreen roles (in "Nightmare" and "Wolf 359") and two voiceover roles where he played aliens (in "Moonstone" and "A Feasibility Study").
** John Hoyt played Emmett Balfour in "Don't Open Till Doomsday", the Bifrost alien in "The Bellero Shield" and Professor Hebbel in "I, Robot".

*** Cliff Robertson played Alan Maxwell in "The Galaxy Being", the first episode of the original series, and Theodore Harris in "Joyride" in the revival.

* DuelingShows: With ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', though both were in production only during ''Twilight Zone's'' final season. In the end, ''Twilight Zone'' lasted for five years while ''The Outer Limits'' ended after two. On the other hand, [[Series/TheOuterLimits1995 the 1990s revival]] of ''The Outer Limits'' lasted nearly twice as long as [[Series/TheTwilightZone1985 both]] [[Series/TheTwilightZone2002 revivals]] of ''The Twilight Zone'' combined.

** The crashed spaceship created for "Specimen: Unknown" shows up in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS5E129Probe7OverAndOut Probe 7 - Over and Out]]".

* CreatorBacklash: David J. Schow's ''The Outer Limits Companion'' makes it clear that several contributors weren't universally pleased with how episodes turned out.

** Producer Joseph Stefano singled out "The Mutant" as the worst episode of the series.
--->"'The Mutant' was probably the worst show we did. Just terrible. I didn't care for the cast on it, either."

* BillingDisplacement: When the series was released on VHS, the tape packages sometimes gave top billing to well-known actors who played supporting characters (such as Creator/EdwardAsner in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E11ItCrawledOutOfTheWoodwork It Crawled Out of the Woodwork]]", Creator/JamesDoohan in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E4ExpandingHuman Expanding Human]]", and ''Series/HappyDays''' Marion Ross in "The Special One").

-->"'The Mutant' was probably the worst show we did. Just terrible. I didn't care for the cast on it, either."

-->"The first season, I thought, was garbage, the usual monster bullshit. They were doing 'the bear on the beach', in which you open with a bear on a beach, then you ask how the bear got on the beach. It was a lot of funny rubber masks, and basically silly ideas. Until [second season producer Ben] Brady came in, there were no science fiction writers working for the show."
** He also expressed dissatisfaction with how his episode "Soldier" turned out.
-->"In TV they don't understand the subtleties of character. When a script runs long, or has production problems, the first things cut are the scenes that deepen characterization. Those changes tore the gut out of that show. That's why, for me, it's a less attractive or interesting show than 'Demon With a Glass Hand.'"

** Robert Duvall starred as Louis Mace in "[[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E31 The Chameleon The Chameleon]]" and Adam Ballard in "The Inheritors".

** Creator/EdwardPlatt played Dean Radcliffe in "The Man with the Power", Mr. Terrence in "The Special One", and David Hunt in "Keeper of the Purple Twilight".

** Also affected were writers Meyer Dolinsky and Sonya Roberts with "ZZZZZ" and "Second Chance" respectively. They had their scripts changed by rewrites they didn't do, with [[AlanSmithee Roberts taking her name off the finished product in favour of a pseudonym]].

** Robert Duvall starred as Louis Mace in "The Chameleon" and Adam Ballard in "The Inheritors".

* BillingDisplacement: When the series was released on VHS, the tape packages sometimes gave top billing to well-known actors who played supporting characters (such as Creator/EdwardAsner in "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork", Creator/JamesDoohan in "Expanding Human", and ''Series/HappyDays''' Marion Ross in "The Special One").

** Kent Smith played Dr. Bloch in "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" and Aabel in "The Children of Spider County".

** Henry Silva played General Juan Mercurio in "Tourist Attraction" and Chino Rivera in "The Mice" (only two episodes after "Tourist Attraction").

** Creator/DavidMcCallum played Gwyllim Griffiths in "The Sixth Finger" and Tone Hobart in "The Form of Things Unknown". He also played Joshua Hayward in "Feasibility Study" - the remake of another original series episode - in the revival.

*** Barbara Rush played Leonora Edmond in "The Form of Things Unknown" in the original series and Barbara Matheson in "The Balance of Nature" in the revival.

** Creator/MartinLandau played Andro in "The Man Who Was Never Born" and Richard Bellero in "The Bellero Shield".

** Not only did Don Gordon star in two episodes ("The Invisibles" and "Second Chance"), he almost tied with Culp by starring in a third. He was the original lead in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E16ThePremonition The Premonition]]", but got sick the night before shooting began; he was replaced by Dewey Martin mere hours before the cameras started rolling.

*** Barbara Rush played Leonora Edmond in "The Form of Things Unknown" in the original series and Barbara Matheson in "Balance of Nature" in the revival.

** Not only did Don Gordon star in two episodes ("The Invisibles" and "Second Chance"), he almost tied with Culp by starring in a third. He was the original lead in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E16ThePremonition The Premonition]]"), but got sick the night before shooting began; he was replaced by Dewey Martin mere hours before the cameras started rolling.

** Robert Culp starred in three of the series' most acclaimed episodes ("[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E3TheArchitectsOfFear The Architects of Fear]]", "Corpus Earthling" and "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E5DemonWithAGlassHand Demon With a Glass Hand]]"), becoming the actor most associated with the series.

** Robert Culp starred in three of the series' most acclaimed episodes ("[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E3TheArchitectsOfFear The Architects of Fear]]", "Corpus Earthling" and "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E5DemonWithAGlassHand Demon With a Glass Hand]]"), becoming the actormost associated with the series.
** Creator/DavidMcCallum played Gwyllim Griffiths in "The Sixth Finger" and Tobe Hobart in "The Form of Things Unknown". He also played Joshua Hayward in "Feasibility Study" - the remake of another original series episode - in the revival.

** Robert Culp starred in three of the series' most acclaimed episodes ("[[/Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E3TheArchitectsOfFear The Architects of Fear]]", "Corpus Earthling" and "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S2E5DemonWithAGlassHand Demon With a Glass Hand]]"), becoming the actormost associated with the series.

** Creator/NeilHamilton played General Hilary J. Clarke in "The Invisibles" and Richard Bellero, Sr. in "The Bellero Shield". The two episodes were broadcast consecutively.
** Leonard Nimoy played Konig in "Production and Decay of Strange Particles" and Judson Ellis in "I, Robot". He also played Thurman Cutler in the remake of "I, Robot" in the revival.
** Creator/EdwardPlatt played Dean Radcliffe in "The Man with the Power", Mr. Terrence in "The Special One" and David Hunt in "Keeper of the Purple Twilight".

* YouLookFamiliar: Many instances, but most notably with Robert Culp, who starred in three episodes.
** David [=McCallum=] played Gwyllim Griffiths in "The Sixth Finger" and Tobe Hobart in "The Form of Things Unknown". He also played Joshua Hayward in "Feasibility Study" - the remake of another original series episode - in the revival.
** Martin Landau played Andro in "The Man Who Was Never Born" and Richard Bellero in "The Bellero Shield".
** Neil Hamilton played General Hilary J. Clarke in "The Invisibles" and Richard Bellero, Sr. in "The Bellero Shield". The two episodes were broadcast consecutively.

** Edward Platt played Dean Radcliffe in "The Man with the Power", Mr. Terrence in "The Special One" and David Hunt in "Keeper of the Purple Twilight".

*** Cliff Robertson played Alan Maxwell in "The Galaxy Being", the first episode of the original series, and Theodore Harris in "Joyride" in the original series.

** David [=McCallum=] played Gwyllim Griffiths in "The Sixth Finger" and Tobe Hobart in "The Form of Things Unknown".

** Leonard Nimoy played Konig in "Production and Decay of Strange Particles" and Judson Ellis in "I, Robot".