This Episode of THE OUTER LIMITS TV SHOW was CENSORED For Being TOO DISTURBING 

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The outer limits ,twilight zone & night gallery were and still are some of the best TV out there !

It always amazes me on how much the Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone depended on quality writing than special effects. The horror was more in your mind rather than on the screen.

I saw the episode, "The architects of fear" at age 10. It frightened me so badly I couldn't sleep that night. I lied and told my Dad that the show didn't scare me or I would not have been allowed to continue watching it. The stories stayed with me for years. The show dug deep into our psyches unearthing our greatest fears and showed what we can do to ourselves and others when fear, whether rational or not, a projection or owned, is not addressed and resolved.

The ironic and schadenfreude part of the story is that every sci-fi fan in the world knows The Outer Limits, while the network executives who cancelled the show are forgotten non-entities who have disappeared into the past as if they never existed.

This show scared the crap out of me when I was a kid. Outstanding

I loved watching The Outer Limits I was just a small kid. I am now 62 years old. This is one show that has all elements of something great. A story, suspense, horror, eerie music, love and romance once in a while, sci-fi, originality, and direction.

I was only four years old when “The Outer Limits” aired in 1963, but I was instantly mesmerized by it and wanted to understand all of the complex ideas it brought to light, especially Harlan Elison’s “Demon with a Glass Hand,” and Joseph Stefano’s “A Feasibility Study.”

I saw this episode when it was first broadcast - uncensored where I lived (the DC metro area). The mutual sign he and his wife used was a finger to the forehead. Probably one of the most powerful things I've ever seen on TV. It made an impression on me that has never faded. The idea of a man sacrificing his marriage and family for a misbegotten attempt to unify the people of our planet is tragic to the extreme. Properly done, it would make a powerful movie even today.

Really miss this old stuff, it was so original and scary.

My best friends grandmother was convinced that once that show started you couldn't change the channel.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 True story !!!!!!

As a kid the Outer Limits were terrifying, much more so than Twilight Zone, although I loved both, watching them as a grown up was a completely different experience.

When I was a kid The Outer Limits & Twilight Zone were never miss shows at my house. Also Hitchcock hour.

I was fortunate that, by the time Outer Limits was broadcast in 1963, my parents bought a small B/W TV for me. So, while they watched Jackie Gleason (or some other show) on Saturday evenings, I could watch the Outer Limits. - "We now return the control…"

The Outer Limits and The Twilight Zone were my first babysitters. Still love them, and they helped prepare me for the 21st century carnival of freaks.

Remember Episode "The Guests" from 1964? A new guest learns that a boarding(?) house’s occupants have been there for decades but haven’t aged; it’s only if they leave that their years will catch up with them. They'll quickly age and shrivel to bones. As in Hotel California: You can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave

The Outer Limits was a excellent series. Worlds above what is produced today.

A genuinely brilliant series, with some extremely weird stories. The Zanti Misfits aliens were f**&ing terrifying.

"The Architects of Fear" was a very interesting episode, about level with "The Man Who Was Never Born." Instead of using Space/Time travel, creating a "United Earth" enemy out of a Human was heart breaking. ("District 9," anyone?)

I’m old enough to have seen this episode in the 60’s.

“It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” was a great episode. A cleaning lady, vacuuming during an electrical storm at a military facility, inadvertently unleashes a bizarre energy creature that kills her and anyone else it comes near....I felt so bad for the victims, watching this when it when in first came out in the ‘60’s....

The one that scared the crap out of me when I was a kid was The Zanti Misfits . Even though I’m 68 and have all the dvds , it still sends a chill. Great video

I was 5 years old when this show first aired. It created my love for horror/science fiction which I carry to this day.

The Outer Limits was one of the greatest shows EVER on TV. My favorite episode was “A Feasibility Study”, which was later remade in the newer series. Let’s hope they can remake something this good again. 😳

This show creeped me out when I was a kid. And I loved every minute of it.

"The Galaxy Being" -- my favorite episode. "The Zanit Misfits" -- my favorite "creepy-crawler" episode.

When I was just a little fellow, "The Zanti Misfits" scared the bejeebers out of me. I was 16 years old before I could bring myself to watch it again.😬

The Architects of Fear and Demon With A Glass Hand are two of my favorite Outer Limits episodes. Robert Culp was brilliant in both of them.

The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits on a Saturday night along with Chiller Theatre loved it!!

I was 10 when this show came out and there were a number of episodes that scared the shit out of me

It's amazing to think that the rubber suit they used for that creature was considered so incredibly scary. But, I have to admit, I was 5 years old when this came on the air and I just ate this stuff up. The scarier the better to me.

Demon with a glass hand is my all time favorite. Still watch the series and I'm in my 60's.

So many great visionary shows got bullied off the air by Hollywood politics and power brokers

Wah Ming Chang's "Keeper of the Purple Twilight" alien has got to be the best-looking extraterrestrial creature of the entire series.

Never missed this show when it came on

No one has mentioned the Music...it was so ahead of its time! I listen to a cd of that music and it is so good! Lots of favorite episodes but "The Guest" really had an impact on me as a 9 year old.

One of the main reason why the Outer Limits episode The Architects Of Fear works is because of the love between Robert Culp and Geraldine Brooks. Both actors portray a love that you can feel through their performances. Its astounding to watch. Geraldine Brooks is largely forgotten today so here's a brief history on the lovely actress. Geraldine Brooks was one of many actresses who rose to stardom in the mid-to-late 1940's. Geraldine Strook was born on October 29, 1925 in New York City. In was in New York, that Geraldine studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Art and at the Neighborhood Playhouse before she apprenticed in summer stock productions. In a pre-Broadway tryout of "Follow the Girls" in 1944, Geraldine subsequently went with the show to Broadway in May of that same year and enjoyed a nine-month run. Following her role as "Perdita" in "A Winter's Tale" at the Theater Guild which opened at the Cort Theater on January 15, 1946 and closed after just 39 performances on February 16th. the 20 year-old actress was noticed by a talent scout from Warner Brothers. Later a representative from Warner Brothers signed to a contract. Geraldine decided, at this point, to take the surname of "Brooks" professionally. That name was also the name of her father's costume company. The 20 year old actress was noticed by a talent scout from Warner Brothers and signed to a long-term changing her name to Geraldine Brooks changing her name from the Dutch Strook to the contemporary Brooks which was the name of her costume business. Brooks made her film debut promisingly as a second lead actress in the mystery thriller/noir Cry Wolf (1947) starring Barbara Stanwyck and Errol Flynn, where she got to play Julie Demarest, Errol Flynn's hysterical, conniving niece who gives trouble to Barbara Stanwyck, which added some suspense to the film. For her screen debut she received good notices. Her second film at Warner Brothers was another noir, Possessed (1947), released just three weeks before Cry Wolf, on July 26, 1947 and was, again, reviewed in New York Times, on May 30th. This time, she billed in fourth place, behind top-tier stars Joan Crawford and Van Heflin and third-billed Raymond Massey. A much more vulnerable character than the poised, imperturbable one she played in Cry Wolf, she had a number of heavy dramatic confrontations with the overwrought character played by Joan Crawford (who received an Oscar nomination for the role) and became a lifelong friend of the eighteen-years-older star, and spoke at her memorial service in May 1977, just five weeks before her own death on June 19, 1977. Seeing the young actress for the first time in the latter film, Bosley Crowther (New York Times) described her as "a newcomer who burns brightly as Miss Crawford's sensitive step-daughter". Very quickly, she was becoming an actress to be noticed, and her next film, Embraceable You (1948, Warner Brothers), opposite Dane Clark, she was cast in her first lead role, playing Maria Willens. After one more film, The Younger Brothers, a color Western not released until May 1949, Brooks asked for, and received, a release from her studio contract in July 1948, after two years and four films. Now a freelancer, she had a strong fourth-billed (following Fredric March, Edmond O'Brien and Florence Eldridge) in the dramatic role in An Act of Murder (1948, Universal), playing the daughter of March and Eldridge, who were married in real life, and the anguish that the husband, a judge, endures when he contemplates ending the life of his terminally ill wife. It was released in December 1948, but the downbeat film, although receiving positive notices, was not a financial success. For The Reckless Moment (1949, Columbia), directed by Max Ophuls, she was third-billed behind James Mason and Joan Bennett. Brooks, aged 24, was cast as Bennett's 17-year-old daughter, whose reckless affair with a seedy, older art dealer puts her and her mother on a collision course with a blackmailer with worse to come. The Columbia film was released in December 1949, a year after her previous screen appearance in An Act of Murder. Her final American film of the 1940's was Challenge to Lassie which was photographed in Technicolor at MGM. In mid-1949, with no immediate movie or stage prospects, Geraldine Brooks accepted an offer from an Italian production and distribution companies, Itala Film and Artisti Associati, for roles in two projects to be filmed on location, co-starring top native-born romantic leading men, Rossano Brazzi and Vittorio Gassman. Similar in tone, both are doom-laden melodramas depicting the tragic price women paid for descending into prostitution in the midst of the hunger, deprivation and moral corruption prevailing in postwar Italy. The first film was released as: Streets Of Sorrow and , the second film Volcano was directed by Academy Award-nominated (for 1937's The Life of Emile Zola) director, William Dieterle, and two of Italy's biggest stars, Anna Magnani and Rossano Brazzi. Brooks returned to Broadway in the Arthur Laurents' play The Time of the Cuckoo in 1952, and in 1970 she was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in the play for Brightower, which closed after its opening night performance. Brooks appeared mostly on television after 1950. Brooks guest starred on Richard Diamond, Private Detective, and The Fugitive, both starring David Janssen. Her other credits included Johnny Staccato, Have Gun - Will Travel, Adventures in Paradise, Perry Mason, Ironside, The Defenders, Dr. Kildare, Stoney Burke, Mr. Novak, Ben Casey, Get Smart, Gunsmoke, The Outer Limits (one of the best episodes was "Architects Of Fear") , Combat! (in the episode "The Walking Wounded"), Bonanza, It Takes A Thief, Daniel Boone and Kung Fu (in the episode "Nine Lives"). She played the role of Arden Dellacorte in 1971 on the CBS daytime soap opera Love of Life and starred as the overweight owner of a delicatessen opposite James Coco in the short-lived 1976 situation comedy The Dumplings, her final role. Geraldine Brooks died of a heart attack while battling cancer at Central Suffolk Hospital in Riverhead, New York. She was either 51 years old, or, per her New York Times obituary, 52. Her interment was in Mount Sinai, New York's cemetery, Washington Memorial Park. But its her work in The Outer Limits' episode The Architect's Of Fear (1963) that Geraldine Brooks can ever get enough credit for playing so masterfully a fully aware, intelligent, completely in love and passionate woman caught in a horrible tragedy. She was a marvelous actress who died much too young, but especially thanks to this episode of Outer Limits that her stunning talent and vibrant presence will live on forever.

Any network back then changed time slots to compete against a hit show obviously didn’t like the show and wanted it canceled. I actually loved that show.

This episode was the basis for the comic and later movie 'The Watchmen', by Alan Moore. In fact, this episode is on the TV playing in the background during the comic.

The Outer Limits very successfully freaked me out as a young kid.

The "Zanti Misfits" always reminded me of the bugs you tried to build in "The Game of Cootie". The game came out in 1949.

The hair still stands up when that music starts! And I remember the stuff getting sucked into the vacuum cleaner during the storm.

'Demon With a Glass Hand' and 'Soldier' were inspirations for the Terminator films.

The Reason The Monsters Where Called "Bears" Was That The Producer Of "THE OUTER LIMITS" Was One Of The Few Survivors Of The Vaudeville And Burlesques Era And That In Some Theaters, In Those Days, Instead Of Using The Large And Infamous "Giant Hook" To Remove Bad Acts Off The Stage, They Had Someone In A Bear Costume Come Out And "Estcourt" The Performer Off The Stage And Out The Back Door To Be Unceremoniously Thrown Out Onto The Street! (And The Reason The Chant Of 'BRING OUT THE BEAR!-BRING OUT THE BEAR!" Would Sometimes Be Heard From Audiences Fed Up With Such Lousy Acts!)

THE ARCHITECTS OF FEAR is what influenced Alan Moore's plot for WATCHMEN, the episode is even mentioned at the end of the graphic novel/ series.

When you compare the Original Outer Limits and Twilight Zones to their later remakes, you can see the vast difference in quality between the two eras. The later versions, IMHO, were inferior to the originals.

I loved THE OUTER LIMITS. It didn't scare me ... I found the chills it sent up and down my spine to be quite pleasurable and exhilarating.

Will never forget the beginning and ending of each show with the Voice of Control. Scary stuff for a young kid then!

I loved this show and watched it religiously as a kid growing up in the sixties.

Yeah , the Outer Limits was totally badass ! I dug the optical fx creatures most , like Eck , the radio transmission dude that glowed and emitted damaging energy ( but was actually a good guy) , the It Came Out Of The Woodwork thing was awesome....while looking vaguely anthropoid , it was made of "smoke clouds with lightning inside" and the way it moved around....wow. I could go on , but.... Some shows were better than others , of course , but all were watchable and entertaining. 💀🎱💀

Which show was it that had the storyline about a book titled “Ways to Serve Man,” I believe? Turns out to be a cookbook at the end! Always loved that episode.

I'm glad the NY station chose to not censor that episode. I was a devoted fan, being 11 years old. And the closing music them is one of my favorites.

I remember this when I as 10 years old 12 little kids all cousin sitting in front of the big 27 inch Tv at grandmas house watching the first episode of the outer limits I can still hear the screams lol lol

TV was a lot more dorky back then, but it was hyper-creative because it was such a new media. Loved this show, and the others, very much. Not just entertainment or thrills, but also morals, ethics, and more!

I still remember the one where Giant Ants come out of the ship...

What I really like about these old shows is the number of supporting actors who would later become movie stars. Well, you have to get a start somewhere.

As a kid i watched every Twilight Zone. But Outer Limits scared the pants off of me!

I saw "The Architects of Fear" on TV when it first came out. As the host of this presentation says, the episode is unforgettable. It's a science fiction horror-tragedy rolled into one. Robert Culp is terrific in it. The episode is permanently etched in my mind especially because only months after I saw it, the nation was plunged into a real life horror-tragedy with the murder of the young and popular President John F. Kennedy. There were always important life lessons featured in the original Outer Limits Series and presented at the end of each episode. "The Architects of Fear" had this message: "Scarecrows and magic and other fatal fears do not bring people closer together. There is no magic substitute for soft caring and hard work, for self-respect and mutual love. If we can learn this from the mistake these frightened men made, then their mistake will not have been merely grotesque, it would at least have been a lesson. A lesson, at last, to be learned."

The Outer Limits was...profound. That's the most descriptive word I can come up with. It was eerie, but always made you think, long after the show. I loved it back then, and love it still. 'Zone was pretty good overall, but 'Limits was the king....!

Conrad hall was amazing .. was a privilege to see Road To Perdition in theaters before he passed

Yes the alien creature the Thetan, is truly a frightening character. I remember having dreams of this "alien" !

THE OUTER LIMITS had profitated from the fascination with dark fantasies Serling had introduced the viewers to. If he really was a strong influence on the classical SCIENCE FICTION popularity is discussable in my eyes as a hard core fan of this literature but shure he had introduced many viewers to Fantasy oriented shows as X FILES, FRINGE, WAREHOUSE 13 and GRIMM. For those kind of shows, I don´t call Science Fiction, Serling with his THE TWILIGHT ZONE was a true ground braker THE OUTER LIMITS had refilled this niche after Serling had become tired of the ongoing uphill battles against the Film Industry Management.

When I was a kid, I thought they said "The Control Boys", as in "the boys in the control room" at the TV station.

Thank you so much! That's one of my very favorite episodes!

I was 9 when this show aired.I remember this episode . I thought it was brilliant . Even the the hokey monster I understood the bond and intimate jester between the man and wife. And incorporated it into my show of affection. Thank you for this post.

When I was about 6 years old or so, my brothers and sister were watching Outer Limits and would not let me watch because it was too scary. I did see one scene where a guy is trapped in a corridor and a fire advances, he is screaming and trying to escape, to no avail.

I remember that ending and my Mother explaining what the hand gestures meant...he points to his eye....than to his heart.....than to his wife......meaning "I love you"... that was almost 60 years ago and I remember it clearly....from then on I used to do that to Mother or any other person I loved (love).....

Culp was da man. When I was young, it aired at midnight in Atlanta. That's when I got hooked.

I remember the episode where the wife recognized the monster by his hand signal just before he died. VERY moving.

Both Robert Culp episodes were outstanding. The Demon one was my favorite. Sadly, IMHO, as entertaining as Robert Culp was, in the 1970's for some reason morphed into a terrible actor. His delivery was disturbingly unwatchable when he was the villain. It was as though he went to the William Shatner school of acting and graduated last.

when I was a kid in 60's the scariest episode to me was "Queen Bee" or similar name.

I distinctly remember watching Outer Limits and the show's sound kept playing but the screen said that the picture would be shown after the 10 o'clock news (Cleveland, Ohio). When the internet came along and Outer Limits was available, I looked for this episode to see what I missed.

I thought most of the “monsters” were crap, but I liked the series. And yes the episode with Culp as the Alien is unforgettable.

I remember the show as a kid, the reruns anyway. It was delivered in a unsettling way. But a good SI-FI show for the times.

The Birds disappointed me, as did The Blair Witch Project. The Ring and The Grudge, though, were truly horrifying to me.

I remember my parents didn't want me to watch it. Of course, I did when I could.

Well, the human race of the world coming together to unite against this alien…is very interesting. Remember this video.

Forever a favorite of mine. Can never watch it too many times.👽

From a time when originality in si-fi, as well as experimental music was in a crescendo. Today we live in a creative drought in both art forms.

As a 10th grader my friends would come over every Monday might and we would watch The Outer Limits. We loved it.

The Outer Limits episode “Nightmare” was the most memorable and impressionable on me as a ten year old. The scenes of a hideous looking Ebonite interrogating Earth star troopers along with having them drugged and tortured were very powerful to me.

I can't believe that monster was flagged, I saw its first run and it didn't faze me. However, the monster on another episode gave me nightmares for days.

As I recall, the music was very engaging and dramatic!

My two favorite episodes have to be "architects of fear" and "the sixth finger"

This show gave me the creeps when I was a kid. Sounds like the Outer Limits premiered exactly 21 yearsre Miami Vice did.

The older Outer Limits was/is 10 times better than some of the stuff they have on today, Old scary stuff like this, Twilight Zone, Hitchcock, and Thriller didn't need gore. The black and whites are still the best

I always thought "The Galaxy Being" was the first one.

I was in my parents room and yelled that I could not turn off the television. I was freaked, what a childhood.

I always thought it was named "The Thing in the Box". It was the very best of all episodes.

The Outer Limits ruled. Some of the best science fiction Terror stories ever written for television. I watch this as a kid and I can remember some really good Stories.

I remember that episode you mentioned in particular. It was very touching. Great series ! Thanks for posting.

I'd like to suggest a 60's TV show called "The Sixth sense". .... Also, how about "Night Gallery" Or even "Voyage to the bottom of the sea"...OK.. Last one.. How about "Johnny Quest"... Keep up the good work!

I'm about to watch all the episodes this is crazy . thank u for sharing

I was a young child when these shows were running on tv. I was drawn to them. They changed my perspective on storytelling, and set me on the path of a lifelong interest in sci-if. They did provide me with many nightmares. One must remember, unlike today, the effects of violence were shown with very little realism. Much was left to our imaginations. I had never seen the actual effects of gunshots on the human body until “Bonnie and Clyde.” I was shocked.

The Veil, Thriller, One Step Beyond, Twilight Zone, 'Way Out, and The Outer Limits. These were the best in late 1950's to the early 1960's...

Thank you for this. when I was 5 , I remember the night " It crawled out of the woodwork" aired. Watching it move around in the room and the noise it made was impressive for a child. That night sleeping I had nightmares about it and I remember my Father coming in to me to calm me down. This was 59 years ago and to this day I will not forget it. The Outer Limits I still watch to this day. It made a Statement to me and many other people.

What freaked me out more than ‘The Twilight Zone’ and ‘The Outer Limits’? ‘The Night Gallery’ ‘The Cemetery’ is my favorite ‘The Night Gallery’ episode...ever.

The Zanthi Misfits aliens in the introduction were bizarre and creepy, easily the stuff of weird nightmares. I really thought you were going to discuss that episode. Great work though!

*feasibility study was also pretty unnerving...they even made an updated version of it for the 1995 series*

I used to love this show, I used to watch in syndication in my teens, it came on very late night. I wish they could've done a remake.