Did anyone watch this when it originally aired?
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Erik-Bloodaxe — 11 years ago(February 15, 2015 03:33 AM)
I watched it in the UK and I think it was on Channel 5 very late at night. I don't think it was very popular here as whenever I mention to people they have never heard of it.
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mbell-14 — 11 years ago(March 01, 2015 11:19 PM)
Yes. I watched it during its original run on Showtime and even videotaped the thing way back when. I did not like it consistently enough to ever go back and watch them again. They're in a box somewhere. (Had the same reaction to Star Trek: The Next Generation.) It was popular enough to last five years on a pay cable channel, but not as successful as Stargate SG1 would soon prove to be. I remember Showtime had this thing about wanting nudity in every show, and, until that network pretty much went to shows that were only about indulgent sex, most of the time those efforts were odd as they just seemed forced and out of place. SG1 had the same problem, and it is evident in their pilot, but those guys soon ignored the Showtime network bosses and wound up moving to the Sci-Fi Channel (pre SyFy) for its final five seasons. As a science fiction fan, I watched the revival of The Outer Limits regularly waiting for something really good to show up. It happened sometimes, but not much really. Fortunately, it was seldom awful. But when compared to the original Outer Limits, it suffered from a lack of any real style (visual or narrative) at all.
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spaceagegal — 10 years ago(June 27, 2015 12:25 AM)
I remember the first season being all the rage because they had some awesome actors involved and there was a big push in season 2 because Mark Hamil was in an episode ("Mind Over Matter") and I did catch some of the episodes here and there. So yeah, it was semi-popular but never the classic of the original.
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Sweet_Serial_Killer — 10 years ago(July 13, 2015 08:12 PM)
I used to try to catch it, but it seemed like it was never on at a consistent time. I remember watching it Saturday mornings most of the time, but sometimes it wouldn't be on and I'd randomly catch it at a different time.I was a kid, so I might not be remembering things correctly, but as far as I know, it was not popular at all. It was one of my favorites though.
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milatchi — 10 years ago(November 27, 2015 04:34 PM)
I watched
The Outer Limits
in first-run syndication in the late '90s. My local Fox station would broadcast
The Outer Limits
weekly at either 11:00 p.m. Saturday night, or 12:00 a.m. Sunday morning. If you were unpopular in high school or a nerd in general you were probably aware of it. Otherwise you would probably be unaware of the show as the only commercials for it were the promos for the next week's episode after the current episode ended.
In retrospect the '80s and '90s were probably the golden age of television sci-fithere was even a channel that showed just sci-fi (no wrestling) and was phonetically spelled correctly: SciFi Channel.
Think, three Star Trek series in syndication,
The X-Files
, Twilight Zone and Outer Limits revivals,
Sliders
,
Time Trax
,
Babylon 5
,
Perversions of Science
,
M.A.N.T.I.S.
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darkness_surroundz — 10 years ago(January 24, 2016 12:14 AM)
i could never understand why it was called THE OUTER LIMITS, and not STRANGE STORIES or something like that.
it simply did not have the eerie paranoid feeling of unease that the original TOL had-and thus was a different set of stories altogether.
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Tjanssen411 — 9 years ago(June 12, 2016 11:43 AM)
IIRC it started on Showtime (Premium Pay cable; like Stargate SG-1) and either finished in syndication or the re-runs quickly showed up in syndication
as a syndicated show it would air anytime between 10p Friday and 6am Monday depending on the market (my local region was Saturday afternoons I believe)- however if the local Affiliate had a deal with a local sports team, it was often subject to being pre-empted and put at an even more odd time
I would watch when I could, but between the inconsistent UHF signal and those pre-emptions it was rare to catch 2 episodes in a row
- however if the local Affiliate had a deal with a local sports team, it was often subject to being pre-empted and put at an even more odd time
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ca_giddens — 9 years ago(June 24, 2016 07:48 PM)
I had constant 'parties' at my apartment while attending college at a major Univ. near OKC (won't say which butBoomer Sooner!). After seeing several trailers I really wanted to watch this show and decided to turn off the music and tune into the OL. Other than that I did not watch much TV. Basically I started having 'watch parties' as soon as TOL came out, long before Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, or Game of Thrones had the same thing. At first it was me and maybe 4 or 5 others. Then girlfriends of friends and other friends of friends started coming over to watch the series. At some point I had close to 20 people coming over to watch TOL once a week, including GFs that hated it at first, but then insisted on coming over to watch it, whether their boyfriend wanted to or not. It went on this way for the first 2 seasons until I moved. So yeah, it was popular for those that made it great to watch. It may have not been the greatest sci-fi or thriller in the 90's, but I had enough people over to make it's existence justifiably watchable at the time.
BTW: I cannot remember what day or time or channel it came on. I've slept much since the original (1995) series came out, but Valerie 23 was the first for me.