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YOUR FAVORITE EPISODE OF ALL TIMES??

posted 19 years ago by mtordai
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I was about 12 in 1995, when the series sttared so I was pretty young when I began watching The Outer Limits. I didn't even know it was a Canadian series until a few years ago, but I remember alot of the old ones like Heist with a young pre-Saving Private Ryan Barry Pepper and that pretty freaky epsiode with Brent Spiner who played Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation. I also remember there was another epsiode where aliens had abducted a street block or something, can't remember precisly. But of all my absolulte favorite of all times is Abduction. Not only because I'm in love with Meghan Ory (SP) but because it is a very, very good lession about school shootings that I think all people adults and kids alike should watch. Heck why not even show it to a high school class and get then to discuss the topics that the epsiode presents. Anyways, I like sharing, so what's yours? Another one I also liked stared John Spencer from the West Wing and Micheal Ironside it was called "Summit".

Mark

[–] fin_gene 18 years ago

Season 2, episode 11: The Refuge.
I just love the ending, almost brings tears to my eyes. Also the storyline and good beating evil (which doesn't happen so often so clearly in outerlimits) was outstanding.

[–] FadedOut 18 years ago

That episode with the weird alien gun that connects to a mans arm as he kills making him a almost invincible except this other guy is given the gun to protect his daughter and grandson and kills the First man then the alien at the end to check out the mayhem he caused.Then he disappears and you see him at another gun sale selling the weapon again. Or the the one with the immortal girlfriend of the son of the guy who saved her and that crazy old dude injects himself with her blood and reverting back to goo after getting younger and younger. Finally the final episode with the trial 20 years after a nuclear war of the time traveller for using technology (the woman who kills the murderers before they murder normal self) and another time traveller comes and holds them hostage with a cold fusion bomb find out the ending for yourself.
Most episodes are great but a toss up between these as my favourate.

[–] bookworm696 18 years ago

i think it was lions den...it had shawn asmore in it... i realyl liked it.

Fate is what you call it when you don't know the name of the person screwing you over.

[–] Axenna 18 years ago

can anybody tell me the name of the episode where the aliens had moved the city block to another planet and then the people got infected and started becoming aliens? Or for that matter, what was the name of the episode where the people were building the transportation device in a warehouse so they could get back to their own planet?
thankya

"you have to save yourselves from yourselves."
-Cube

[–] WalletGuy 18 years ago

^The first episode was Feasability Study, but the didn't become aliens, they contracted an alien disease that killed them.

I think the second episode is "The Inheritors" a remake of a TOS OL episode.

[–] Asgard_Fenrir1 18 years ago

Right now my two favorites are

Under the Bed
&
THe Conversation

You break a curse the same way you break Everything Else with a Baseball Bat & a lot of Violence

[–] tjp12 18 years ago

Quality of Mercy is my favourite - it's stayed with me since the first time I saw it. Always loved twist endings as long as they aren't dumb .. :)

And of course Caught In The Act has to get special mention for Alyssa!

[–] dansolo96 18 years ago

Mind Over Matter (The one starring Mark Hamill with the girlfriend in a coma) was always a favourite of mine. (s2 ep5)
Pretty sad though.

[–] LunchTruckProductions 18 years ago

Inconstant Moon. Freaked me out. Every time the moon is brighter than usual I think the world is going to end soon.

[–] DesertViper83 18 years ago

Can't say I have a favorite of all time, beacuse I pretty much loved them all so i'll do as someone else did, and list as few of my most favorite episodes, the top 10 of them :)

1) Sandkings 1&2

2) Mind Over Matter

3) The Refuge

4) Dead Mans Switch

5) Bits of Love

6) Voice of Reason

7) Valerie 23

8) The Hunt

9) Caught in the Act

10) Flower Child

[–] rococo_123 18 years ago

What was the Ep where aliens contacted us with a msg and they had to decide if it was peaceful or not? think it ends with humans blowing up the planet??

[–] WalletGuy 18 years ago

I think you are talking about the episode "Trial by Fire".

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[–] december2032 18 years ago

SPOILER........yeah it is definately Trial by fire - It has the Americans spending the first 40 minutes or so trying to work out what the alien's intentions are and what the message means as the alien ship gets closer they decide to attack (along with 1 other country -probably Russia. Pretty much after that the missiles are released they work out the message is a friendly one and the Aliens come in peace. Then they see the missiles on the radar have their target destination changed to where the countries which released them and the missiles hit America and Russia. It was a great episode-hopefully Season 2 will be released by September. I think that is enough of a wait.

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[–] darren_steven 18 years ago

I remember watching an episode where a man has some form of Alien ant like creatures in a case in a barn. They start out quite unsophisticated but evovle very quickly, spliting into 2 distinct groups. I think they build a hive? that looks like the mans face.
This one always stuck in my mind but I have no idea what its called?

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[–] zwanbc 18 years ago

can anyone remember an episode where angels come to earth or something but they look like devils. i cant remember what happen. can anyone help me out?

[–] WalletGuy 18 years ago

That episode is from the first season and is called "Corner of the Eye".

[–] zwanbc 18 years ago

what happened in it i cant remember?

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[–] Lccrusher 18 years ago

The Sand Kings, I and II. It had all 3 generations of the Bridges family in it. This was the first ep, the first one I saw too, which got my hooked.

[–] Equivocator75 18 years ago

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Without doubt "Quality Of Mercy" where the shock doesn't come until the word "back" at the very end. That episode really made an impression on me and disturbs and depresses me to this day.:(

[–] J_Connor 18 years ago

There was an episode that i really liked and made me feel really strange. It's the one where a guy kills most of his associates in a firm then runs away and meets some beggar type guy in a bar and they talk for most of the time and right at the end he gave him the choise to start all over and trated their places... Aspecially the music in the end was really great.. Does someone know the name of that episode?

[–] WalletGuy 18 years ago

^That episode is from season 2 and is called "The Conversion".

[–] Lccrusher 18 years ago

And if I remember correctly, the name of the song at the end was Return to Innocence by Enigma.

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[–] stealthman 18 years ago

My favorite episodes are;
The Quality Of Mercy
The Light Brigade
Dead Man's Switch
Relativity Theory

"WE HAVE MET THE ENEMY AND THEY IS US"
POGO

[–] scottrotondo 16 years ago

That one is my absolute favorite. And you're right, the "return to innocence" song at the end, really caps it off.

[–] phylum_chordata 18 years ago

Valerie 23, every nerds dream come true.

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