One of the best intro ever. Always gave me chills and I was always hooked to the TV when it was on. I remember that The Outer Limits was followed by The X Files. Best fridays ever. :)
Were these shows on the same channel, or are we a similar age with similar dads? Because I really don't remember Outer Limits being on a cable network, I feel like it was on HBO or something, but I do remember watching X-Files directly after it every time. I feel like it was my dad switching channels though. I'll ask him but I think honestly these were not on the same channel lol.
i was scared as hell on the couch and would be too scared to watch that intro without muting or changing channel or leaving the room if i was alone and it was dark. i was little when this came out, gonna nostalgia watch again someday
This was seriously one of the scariest things I've ever seen as a child! I like this show but there are times where I couldn't even get past the intro I got so scared.
This show never scared me as a child the show that freaked me out was " Unsolved Mysteries" the intro that show still scared me to this day and I'm almost 34🤦🤦
@The Lawnmower Ix. 091 no it doesn't scare me at all I actually get super super excited when I know it's on I love Outer Limits. I've always loved the Intro I love the music. As to where Unsolved Mysteries the intro always scared me and Robert Stacks voice in the beginning and when the music first starts always scared me as a child. And Outer Limits never did.
@The Lawnmower Ix. 091 nooope I don't think it's scary one bit. Dude I was desensitized as a child when it came to horror anything thanks to my father. I grew up watching Freddy Kruger n Jason n Child's Play.
The intro by itself is devastatingly effective. But hearing it over the end credits after the climax of a terrifying episode, often times in the dark on a late syndicated airing, while you think about what you just witnessed is the closest think to pure terror I have ever experienced.
This intro and show traumatized me as a child. My Dad loved this show and always watched it and literally ALWAYS fell asleep and my brother and I had to watch it scared shitless by ourselves. (We were too curious about every episode and always regretted not changing the channel by the end hahaha)
I understand you and I wish they would but sadly you know what the world is like now, you could never get things like this on television without some kind of outcry, I think people have been complaining about Little Britain and Come fly with me sadly.
+LicoriceLain it's a Jerry Uelsmann image. He is (was?) an innovative photographer who had a darkroom at home and would put two images together in artful ways on the same piece of photo paper. like the tree roots and the house. He has many other surreal yet beautiful images he's created; you should check him out.
My mom used to watch this show. I would watch it with her. And when the intro played, I didn't get scared one bit. Oh and when I used to watch it, I meant when I was 8
I liked the ep with Kevin Nealon where that Military guy got stuck in an infinite time loop where he is bracing himself for an explosion, the idea of being stuck in a state like that for infinity creeped me out, a fate worse then hell.
There was too I remember really well that standout 1 the people that was stuck in a house and could never leave and then when one left the youngest girl she just turned into a really old person and then turned to dust when she finally escaped. And the other one was alien dieting have this force shield that protected him and this guy befriended him but then ended up killing him to get his shield and then he activated it but you couldn't turn off and then he was trapped inside it and then the alien was still alive and appeared and reached inside a little opening and turn the force shield off and then he and the score should disappeared but the guy was still trapped
Delia Tijerino It's also one of the best opening sequences of all time. That monologue is genius. It takes the original monologue from the sixties and makes more immediate and memorable.
This is what SCI-FI is really about. Not what it is lately becoming. I really wish more current shows and movies would explore the myriad of contemplative issues that the future has already, and will continue to bring to us.
Having understood how you make music scary, I have to say, 0:25 has everything. The deep chords are close together and ascending slowly, the middle notes are disharmonious and quiet and the high notes are the most disharmonious and shrill like a scream. It's brilliant. Gives me goosebumps every time I hear it.
Specifically, it’s driven by the key change in the strings at 0:26 imparting the feeling of escalating fear and anxiety. We think we have a handle on the mood of a song in the first 10 seconds. But moments like that make the emotional bottom drop out.
@@excrono I'm not sure I would call that a key change, because this piece makes no attempt to establish a key outside of the final measure, but you are right that the tonality shift is part of that drama.
this intro was the freakiest part of the entire show, I mean the music creeped out as a kid, and still mangages to make the hairs on my neck stand up....I love it
I have vague memories of catching marathons of this and Beyond Belief Fact or Fiction while I was home sick from school and channel surfing for something interesting. That was the beginning of my love for SciFi and horror anthology shows.
this scared me as a kid. the intro still scares the hell out of me as an adult - it summarizes people that can't think for themselves and the TV is god
The more I analyze this intro... the more it makes me think, that this is what saved me from the mass formation psychosis of 2020-202x... I somehow understood the message when I was a wee lad, and I started to keep a very VERY watchful eye on all that is deemed "reality". It broke me out of the matrix. "We can delude you with a 1000 channels, or expand a single image to crystal clarity... and beyond. We can shape your vision to ANYTHING our imagination can conceive... We will control all that you see and hear." What a powerful message.
Do you control the narrative of your life or does the controller? A hyper relevant message in 2023. Think for yourself and come to you own conclusions. Even if they put you in harms way. True freedom requires risk. Resist!
I love this '90s version of THE OUTER LIMITS; after all, it's the one with which I grew up. I remember being chilled by this intro as a kid! It does feel like it's trying a little too hard compared to the stark simplicity of the '60s show's intro, but it still carries some power. :)
I remember an episode where a guy had some wishes and he squandered the first wishes. There was a Nuclear War and he used his last wish to freeze time to stop the attack. He went outside and the whole world was frozen in time even a nuclear missile a few feet away from hitting the ground frozen in time and the man realised he was in a frozen world on the brink of total destruction and he had no more wishes to fix the problem. Saw lots of episodes of this show it was really good really made you think for days after each episode. I also remember the Native American carving and the toy soldiers that came to life.
And then the reprise of the main theme rolls on the end credits, while you sit there in silence, thinking critically about that ending. Like: “Too bad his final wish wasn’t to change the laws of physics on earth to make nuclear fission impossible.” That would be my very first wish if I was given that opportunity. For me that is when this theme is most effective, when you react to the art and your beliefs and values are challenged. That is its intent and purpose, I don’t feel the Outer Limits is pure entertainment.
I wish this show had not been cancelled so abruptly. It was well written, directed and high minded. Some of the producers went on and did some other great TV, like Deep Space Nine.
Everytime I watch this intro, I get chills upon chills. I remember in my early years of high school tryin' to stay up crazy early in the morning to watch episodes of this on NBC. Then it moved to Sci-Fi channel. It actually got me hip to the older black & white episodes. That intro/outro narrator voice always was the illest in the way he makes the episodes like an event each time, @ the same time sounding like the epitome of impending doom. Even making lighthearted moments cautionary.
@user-ub3wk8ov1u Oh trust when I tell ya, it was for me. It was never advertised, I guess because of the 2AM-ish time slot. I found out about it on vacation with the fam, and I was glued ever since. Nowadays, it's on Amazon Prime.
Good series The Outer Limits. It was a good 'What if?' scenario. I thought it be good to make a note of just the introduction narrations, and conclusion narrations of each episode. And, then put that together, as a transcribe collection. And, one not necessarily having watched the episodes first.
This intro always scared the hell out of me as a kid, to say nothing of the show itself. I used to switch to the news or something completely mundane afterward, because I was too scared to go to bed right afterwards.
@@samanthakittle Bill Cipher is not enough eerie and mysterious and spiritual for the kind of this serie. He too loud, noisy, vulgar, childish, to fit in.
I remember this used to (and still does) creep the fuck out of me when I was a kid. It was this show, unsolved mysteries, and the X-files. They all had those creepy intros that would have me scared and give me nightmares. I still to this day skip the intro part every time I watch the x-files...but that was good TV back then
Tales from the Darkside and The Outer Limits were my favorite shows on SciFi. It may sound wierd but one of my reasons for loving these shows was because they didn't have a happy ending. I was going off the fact that life does not always give you a happy ending.
I watched this series in my early teens. This series was one of the forces that shaped me as a person. Not everything was pleasant and good... but knowledge has a very high price.
Love this intro definitely one of the best they gotta bring this show back awesome short stories damn miss this show Damn good show deserves to come back we the fans deserve for it to have it back on tv
i always remember the episode where this one scientist i think his wife was sick dying, so he invented some nanobots that repair lost or ill tisue, and one night he cut himself and they entered his body and instead just healing him they improved him, he grew claws, thorns, eyes on his back and some other stuff, turned him into a monster actualy
When I was little, my dad always fell asleep with the tv on and every time I woke up at night, this would be playing. After the show ended, the tv would sign off. Nothing but static if I didn't change the channel or turn the tv off. 0_o
as a kid i always had to change the channel away from the openings to this and the x-files, even though i liked the shows. i would watch commercials instead lmao. i'd still watch the eps but the openings freaked me out
There was 1 episode which made me sad. Of a scientist who fell in love with a cyborg that his laboratory created. And he decided to deactivate her because he programmed her to be just like a regular woman. But in the end when she was going to die she told him... I'm scared and that shocked him because he never thought that she can feel as humans do..whatever maybe I'm being melodramatic
sounds similar to the original TZ episode that had the guy on Mars, and had to live there with a robot the supply ship dropped off, and he ended up falling in love with her. lol
I remember watching this as a kid and it scared the hell out of me but I also found it hilarious how on the show Arthur on PBS , whenever something strange or crazy would happen on the show they would play a similar melody in the background 😂.
I randomly woke up at 5:30 in the morning and remember this intro from when I was a kid. Shouldn't there be a line at the end that says, "please stand by"?
I live in FRANCE, 15 years ago "outer limits" (au-delà du réel) was and still is my favorite series. They have not published in this DVD series. I miss it
Unsolved Mysteries was awesome too! BTW anyone else see the Illuminati eye at about :18 seconds and at :41 on the left? Not that I'm a conspiracy nut but couldn't help notice.
The house with the roots under it was my phone background for years lol. Always something strange about that image. Its a grey sky, lonely abandoned house on a hill and then bleeding into the ground
