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Post by geode on Mar 24, 2017 18:48:20 GMT
Top episodes as rated on TV.com House of the Dead Season 2 - Episode 37 6/7/60 9.9 A British army officer stationed in Hong Kong frantically searches for his missing Oriental wife before his scheduled return to the US. In desperation he seeks the help of an old Chinese man . . . who writes a cryptic note on paper and tells him to look for his wife in the "House of the Dead" . The Death Waltz Season 3 - Episode 3 10/4/60 9.8 An Army commander's daughter manipulates two suitors to do her will, not happy with one of the suitors she asks her father to send him away on a mission so she can attend the dance with the other. The unwanted suitor returns for the first and last dance. The Hand Season 2 - Episode 15 12/29/59 9.7 New Orleans piano player Tom Grant kills his girlfriend with a broken bottle. A drunk, found near the girl's body is held for the murder. Goodbye Grandpa Season 2 - Episode 38 6/14/60 9.6 Life is worth living even in this three-room shack in the middle of the prairie, says Grandpa to young Doug. Then Grandpa dies without keeping a promise. Brainwave Season 2 - Episode 3 10/6/59 9.6 A World War II cruiser comes under attack and the ship's captain is gravely injured. The Pharmacist's mate must perform the surgery, he is currently in the brig on charges of drunken behavior. He must pull himself together in order to save the captain by communicating with a nearby ship's Medical doctor who will guide him thru the procedure. Forests of the Night Season 2 - Episode 18 1/19/60 9.6 A Chinese box with alleged powers creates havoc for three men on a hunting trip. The Prisoner Season 3 - Episode 29 5/2/61 9.6 The survivor of a concentration camp receives a visit from a German officer who is dead. Delusion Season 2 - Episode 1 9/15/59 9.5 A man with a rare blood type is asked to save a young lady's life by donating blood. He refuses, claiming that each time he has given blood to someone in the past, he became psychically connected to them. After relenting and saving the young lady's life, he foresees her death and becomes obsessed with protecting her. Episodes
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Post by Deleted on Mar 24, 2017 21:37:45 GMT
I watched every episode when it was on Netflix a few years back. I dug it.
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 27, 2017 16:48:13 GMT
...I own the entire DVD collections of both the OSB and TZ...IMO, the OSB episodes are more unnerving than anything from the TZ...I would compare the TZ episodes to the original Outer Limits...
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Post by geode on Aug 8, 2017 4:27:42 GMT
The Face is truly haunting, Geode, I agree. This is where OSB really differed from the Twilight Zone. It almost doesn't matter whether the story is true. What makes it work is that uncanny fetishistic quality that was sort of an OSB trademark. They,--Newland, I guess deserves most of the credit--really knew how to zoom in on One Big Thing, which could be visual or a theme and, well, sort of wring its neck. Then Harry Lubin's Fear kicks in and it's goosebumps time. This is a link to "The Face" ... The Face
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Post by telegonus on Aug 9, 2017 6:08:28 GMT
The Face is truly haunting, Geode, I agree. This is where OSB really differed from the Twilight Zone. It almost doesn't matter whether the story is true. What makes it work is that uncanny fetishistic quality that was sort of an OSB trademark. They,--Newland, I guess deserves most of the credit--really knew how to zoom in on One Big Thing, which could be visual or a theme and, well, sort of wring its neck. Then Harry Lubin's Fear kicks in and it's goosebumps time. This is a link to "The Face" ... The FaceThanks for the link, Geode. I've watched a few OSB episodes on-line. They're still good and hold up nicely but the quality of the prints is dreadful. Many,--most?--prints are PD, and they look it. The show could use a cleaning up.
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Post by geode on Sept 22, 2017 19:10:42 GMT
This is a link to "The Face" ... The FaceThanks for the link, Geode. I've watched a few OSB episodes on-line. They're still good and hold up nicely but the quality of the prints is dreadful. Many,--most?--prints are PD, and they look it. The show could use a cleaning up. Hopefully the 35mm negatives still exist and can be used to master a release of all episodes some day. I think they existed for the official first season release
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Post by telegonus on Sept 23, 2017 6:21:03 GMT
We can always hope, Geode. OSB seems in some ways sort of a "damned" show where reruns and old prints are concerned. It's had all kinds of problems, issues, going back many years.
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Post by geode on Sept 24, 2017 13:23:34 GMT
We can always hope, Geode. OSB seems in some ways sort of a "damned" show where reruns and old prints are concerned. It's had all kinds of problems, issues, going back many years. I thought that after finally getting an official release of the first season that the others would follow. I guess the sales disappointed. Perhaps it is a vicious circle in that it is not as well known it is ignored, but if not released it will remain less well known. It is so much better than dozens of better-known series that have been released. Others from its era such as Thriller and the Outer Limits all got released. I think back in the day when it was being broadcast I favored it over all the others, including The Twilight Zone. Do you think we can start a writing campaign might nudge things? Just talking a bit about it here may help a tad.
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Post by telegonus on Sept 24, 2017 16:23:48 GMT
That might help. Geode, although I think that some of the problems with the other seasons are related to legal issues of some kind that keep it in a sort of limbo. Maybe something like a damned if you do, damned if you don't loophole that makes it next to impossible to profit from a print restoration. John Kenneth Muir's book on the series may explain some of this. It's very good.
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Post by tresix on Sept 28, 2017 15:40:40 GMT
One that REALLY scared the crap out of me was the one where a man has just remarried after the death of this wife. Through dialogue, we learn that the couple had poisoned the previous wife. When they return from their honeymoon, the couple discover a stain on one of the walls. They try to remove it and cover it up, but the stain remains. After a while, it begins to take on the shape of a skull and the husband realizes what's happening: it's the deceased wife coming back for revenge. The new wife isn't believing this and poo-poos. Until the final shot, when the skull now has a face and piercing eyes staring out of the previously empty eye sockets! I think it ended with the new wife dropping dead from fright and the husband, though confessing to the murder, being declared insane. Doris Dowling, who played Alan Ladd's unfaithful wife (and murder victim?) in "The Blue Dahlia", played the new wife in this episode.
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Post by geode on Sept 28, 2017 16:47:53 GMT
One that REALLY scared the crap out of me was the one where a man has just remarried after the death of this wife. Through dialogue, we learn that the couple had poisoned the previous wife. When they return from their honeymoon, the couple discover a stain on one of the walls. They try to remove it and cover it up, but the stain remains. After a while, it begins to take on the shape of a skull and the husband realizes what's happening: it's the deceased wife coming back for revenge. The new wife isn't believing this and poo-poos. Until the final shot, when the skull now has a face and piercing eyes staring out of the previously empty eye sockets! I think it ended with the new wife dropping dead from fright and the husband, though confessing to the murder, being declared insane. Doris Dowling, who played Alan Ladd's unfaithful wife (and murder victim?) in "The Blue Dashlia", played the new wife in this episode. The episode ... Image of Death
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Post by tresix on Oct 1, 2017 2:22:42 GMT
One that REALLY scared the crap out of me was the one where a man has just remarried after the death of this wife. Through dialogue, we learn that the couple had poisoned the previous wife. When they return from their honeymoon, the couple discover a stain on one of the walls. They try to remove it and cover it up, but the stain remains. After a while, it begins to take on the shape of a skull and the husband realizes what's happening: it's the deceased wife coming back for revenge. The new wife isn't believing this and poo-poos. Until the final shot, when the skull now has a face and piercing eyes staring out of the previously empty eye sockets! I think it ended with the new wife dropping dead from fright and the husband, though confessing to the murder, being declared insane. Doris Dowling, who played Alan Ladd's unfaithful wife (and murder victim?) in "The Blue Dashlia", played the new wife in this episode. The episode ... Image of Death I was wrong: turned out the husband got the death penalty after all.
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Post by telegonus on Oct 6, 2017 8:14:49 GMT
[ One Step Beyond broadcast alert: Decades TV, according to a website I visit, shall be airing OSB starting this coming Saturday the 7th of October, from 1PM to 1AM (Sunday morning). That's just the first season stuff, and much of it very good. I can't vouch for anything else,--print quality, commercials, whether they'll show the original credits, how edited it will be (if at all), but there it is. Had to share...
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Post by geode on Oct 10, 2017 16:35:52 GMT
[ One Step Beyond broadcast alert: Decades TV, according to a website I visit, shall be airing OSB starting this coming Saturday the 7th of October, from 1PM to 1AM (Sunday morning). That's just the first season stuff, and much of it very good. I can't vouch for anything else,--print quality, commercials, whether they'll show the original credits, how edited it will be (if at all), but there it is. Had to share... So how was it?
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Post by telegonus on Oct 10, 2017 17:01:56 GMT
[ One Step Beyond broadcast alert: Decades TV, according to a website I visit, shall be airing OSB starting this coming Saturday the 7th of October, from 1PM to 1AM (Sunday morning). That's just the first season stuff, and much of it very good. I can't vouch for anything else,--print quality, commercials, whether they'll show the original credits, how edited it will be (if at all), but there it is. Had to share... So how was it? It played very well. In fact I watched more of OSB than Duel, airing on another sub-channel. Excellent print quality, not too many commercials, especially as compared to some other channels like it, alas, I wished they'd showed more. Near the end they aired a couple of third season episodes, including, weirdly, one that was really from a very early TV show and titled Midnight. It was a strange one,--just two sets--and fascinating to watch. No John Newland, before or aft! They also showed the UFO one, Encounter, very good. It's the one that featured "angel hair" from an alien space ship. I saw it first run when I was quite young, or maybe in the initial rerun, when OSB was still on ABC.
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Post by telegonus on Oct 10, 2017 17:06:10 GMT
One that REALLY scared the crap out of me was the one where a man has just remarried after the death of this wife. Through dialogue, we learn that the couple had poisoned the previous wife. When they return from their honeymoon, the couple discover a stain on one of the walls. They try to remove it and cover it up, but the stain remains. After a while, it begins to take on the shape of a skull and the husband realizes what's happening: it's the deceased wife coming back for revenge. The new wife isn't believing this and poo-poos. Until the final shot, when the skull now has a face and piercing eyes staring out of the previously empty eye sockets! I think it ended with the new wife dropping dead from fright and the husband, though confessing to the murder, being declared insane. Doris Dowling, who played Alan Ladd's unfaithful wife (and murder victim?) in "The Blue Dahlia", played the new wife in this episode. They showed it last week and it played very well. Obvious and yet creepy. Max Adrian as the Marquis was excellent. Good use of some very familiar MGM sets, it's a better looking entry than most.
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Post by geode on Oct 10, 2017 19:21:11 GMT
It played very well. In fact I watched more of OSB than Duel, airing on another sub-channel. Excellent print quality, not too many commercials, especially as compared to some other channels like it, alas, I wished they'd showed more. Near the end they aired a couple of third season episodes, including, weirdly, one that was really from a very early TV show and titled Midnight. It was a strange one,--just two sets--and fascinating to watch. No John Newland, before or aft! They also showed the UFO one, Encounter, very good. It's the one that featured "angel hair" from an alien space ship. I saw it first run when I was quite young, or maybe in the initial rerun, when OSB was still on ABC. Oh dear, for several years now the John Newland parts have been at least as important to me as the actual body of an episode. I would have really missed not seeing him.
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Post by geode on Jan 17, 2018 15:41:55 GMT
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Post by geode on Jan 12, 2019 20:08:06 GMT
This one has a different intro and exit. Robert Blake stars....
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Post by forca84 on Jan 16, 2019 21:10:35 GMT
I have about 20 episodes on dvd. I think for what it is it's a well done show. Maybe not as scary as "Twilight zone". (At least from the episodes I have.) But slower paced.
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