Astronaut Finds Alien Life | The Outer Limits

[@fw1421]

Shatner was on a lot of shows like this a lot in the early 60’s. Amazing that he’s still with us all these years later. God bless him.🙏🏻

[@ralphthomasbarbour847]

Watch him on "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in the late 1950s.

[@casanovafrankenstein8538]

My favorite actor

[@floridaray3380]

Twilight Zone also.

[@fw1421]

@@floridaray3380 yea,the gremlin on the airliners wing!

[@larryyeadeke2953]

@@fw1421 And the fortune telling machine in the roadside diner.

[@demongo2007]

This episode scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. It was this specific scene, with that creepy creature bouncing toward the ship out of that mist...literally gave me nightmares.

[@yvwic50]

I'm with ya.

[@TexasNightRider]

Same thing happened to me. Scarred me for life and I became an underachiever.

[@kirnpu]

Oh yeah, it was creepy creepy!

[@imaman774]

Me too, the first time I saw it back in the mid-60s.

[@randybarnett2308]

I would've tried to make friends with it, and if that didn't work, I'd just shoot it !!🤠🤠🤠

[@kali3665]

Now the funny thing is, he's in charge of "Project Vulcan" in the episode.... 🤣🤣

[@robertcampbell6349]

It's synchronicity.

[@VS-rv4tr]

No, the funny part is: you're in outer space trying to meet aliens, you do, instead of saying "Howdy!" you scream in terror??? Why are you out there, idiot????😂

[@MightyJonE]

He went where no man’s been before!

[@Crunkboy415]

And he's scared of a monster when he looks into a window 🤣

[@randybaumery5090]

Gene probably used that term on purpose.

[@josemoreno3334]

That part were the alien coming toward him scared the hell out of me when I first saw on TV living in Los Angeles in the early 1960's. William Shatner is one of my favorite actors.

[@davidpanetta6400]

I was 8 when I saw this and it freaked me out! I was talking to a buddy of mine just a few weeks ago, and we were discussing the scariest thing we ever saw in movies or on tv. That alien, by today's standards is the scariest thing I ever saw then and now.

[@0therun1t21]

I think he's a great leading man, Incubus is one of my favorite movies.

[@tonray9395]

60 years later and LA residents still scared of aliens...

[@josemoreno3334]

@@tonray9395 That's why I left LA 15 years ago. LOL.

[@luislaplume8261]

I agree since instead of walking or crawling in floated in the air towards him. I was terrified but that was what made TV so interesting in those days, there were no standards of what alien life for a might look like. I think I was in the second grade when this episode aired.

[@pschroeter1]

Wow, I can't believe I've forgotten Kirk was in the original Outer Limits. And talking to Vulcan Control no less. I could easily rattle off a dozen of my favorite episodes of the series starting with Soldier, but have forgotten this one for some reason.

[@IanP1963]

He was in Twilight Zone too where he plays a character on a plane who sees a figure walking on the wings of the plane through his window !!!!

[@jonbradley4789]

For a contract actor, he really knew (knows) how to sell a performance. Quite the range.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

This was when he was Ensign Kirk.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

@@IanP1963 John Lithgow recreated the role in a twilight zone remake. When Shatner guest starred as “The Big Giant Head” in “Third Rock from the Sun,” his character got off a plane and said “I thought I saw a monster on the wing!” Lithgow (Dick Solomon,) replied “So did I!”

[@sandraclowdus6549]

do not adjust your television screen,you are not in control

[@voicetube]

So wild to think that William Shatner - the actual dude - is one of the few people, in this section of human history, to actually go up in a rocket to the edge of space. Wild!

[@sandraclowdus6549]

time is backwards

[@thenov1944]

Connections & $ $ $ $ ' s ! ! !

[@dst1311]

Crazy that people still believe that we went to the moon

[@ContentWizard]

@@dst1311 ...and the Earth is flat, right.

[@claudiocorleone7856]

@@dst1311 you may want to check with the other countries that tracked the Apollo missions such as India, China, Japan and the Soviet Union. The last being enemies . If your enemy acknowledges that the mission was a success well you figure it out! Don’t you think they would have taken the opportunity to deny? What’s incredible is the amount of difficulty they have today to actually do it! I guess that’s the world we live in . Technologically superior but we lack in every other human quality mainly courage.

[@alexp3752]

60 years in his profession and still active! Bravo, Mr. Shatner!

[@agriperma]

More importantly, he actually went to space, bet he never imagined at that time he would someday go to space.

[@williamjordan5554]

More than 60.

[@bobjohnson1587]

@@williamjordan5554 He started off in Canada doing Shakespearian theatre. He got his big break one night when Christopher Plummer couldn't go on stage and Bill - being his understudy - filled in. The rest is history.....

[@sandraclowdus6549]

zoned. twilight,,repeat, zoned.,repeat,

[@siggyretburns7523]

Nobody has that look of panic like William Shatner.

[@thefallenslavesusall1857]

That's probably the look he had headed to bezos rocket 🚀 ride

[@siggyretburns7523]

@@thefallenslavesusall1857 Lol. "Me? Get in that thing?!?!"

[@GreenDani18]

@@thefallenslavesusall1857 🤣🤣🤣 shat his pants

[@donaldhicks3359]

Except that dog on the cover of National Lampoon magazine from the seventies where they are holding a gun to the dog's head and saying " buy this magazine or we will shoot the dog" . if you look at the expresion on the dog's face you see real fear

[@siggyretburns7523]

@@donaldhicks3359 I think one of the funniest satire articles was in National Lampoon magazine. It was about an amusement park. Called ???? Abusement park. It featured a ferris wheel where the seats didn't pivot. So when your seat got to the top, it was completely inverted. Needless to say it had no seatbelts. But there was something that made riding it worth it. If you landed in another seat on your way down, your second ride was free. 🤣😆🤣😂

[@michaelproctor8100]

Everytime Shatner looks out a window he sees a monster!

[@brianarbenz7206]

That’s why bridge on the Enterprise is windowless.

[@thefallenslavesusall1857]

Remember Bezos

[@georgehunter2813]

Classic observation. Yes, that's him...Jim. Remember the jet airliner monster outside on the wing doing damage to the wing as Shatner looks out his window port in horror? Was it a 'Twilight Zone' episode? I forget.

[@brianarbenz7206]

@@georgehunter2813 Yes, it was a Zone. One of two Shatner was in.

[@georgehunter2813]

@@brianarbenz7206 There was also a Star Trek episode where Capt Kurk was lost and drifting between realms of spacetime helplessly awaiting rescue by starship Enterprise. Same face and space suite as this video thumbnail. Weak, vulnerable and helpless. James Tibirius Kurk! Overacter. That's him Jim.

[@Bobster986]

Little did William Shatner know then that someday he would travel to space in a similar looking rock as in this movie. Live long and prosper 🖖

[@joevicmeneses8918]

"This are the voyage's of the Starship Enterpise".

[@luckybag6814]

@Bobster 986 Live long and prosper. So far, I'm managing to live long, prospering is a little more tricky.

[@glassontherocks]

Really? We still are still using fossil fuels to get to space. Think about what you just said. If it isn't real... it isn't real. What is similar?

[@megsmith596]

He has.

[@ronaldrobertson2332]

He should've started screaming when he was looking out the window when he was in orbit!

[@karmicselling4252]

Quite amazing, the life William Shatner has had.

[@donaldhicks3359]

he could take any role and make it work

[@jackhydrazine1376]

@@donaldhicks3359 As long as he uses enough commas in his lines for dramatic effect!

[@silverado2004]

LOL 😂😆..Tell me about it..He has had some very strange encounters.. LOL 😅😆

[@bonniebairn844]

I believe he trained as a young Shakesperean actor in Canada.

[@silverado2004]

@@bonniebairn844 Right on!!..

[@robertzeurunkl8401]

3:48 - For the 1960s, that was some pretty spectacular special effects. That looks pretty good even by today's standards, the way the smoke slowly became a distinguishable moving figure.

[@stevebishop9468]

The creature was actually a puppet submerged in a tank of water...it was a very effective trick.

[@scotth6814]

Yeah but that rocket ship... they never got the idea of turning the camera sideways so that the exhaust plume came straight out instead of rising after exiting the nozzle. Even a 12 year old would think of that trick.

[@floydlooney6837]

@@scotth6814 tons of movies had that same issue

[@jonbradley4789]

@@floydlooney6837 so true, and yet it was super fun to see for the first time. Then... physics.

[@irishjoe5868]

I agree. I thought the effects were awesome for that time period. I bet a lot of kids had nightmares after this show.

[@johnburns1902]

I love how he reached Venus in just a few minutes.

[@harpfully]

And you can see earth's continents from venus at 3:20 and no radio delay.

[@sandraclowdus6549]

her Uranas.wink,nod,wink

[@sandraclowdus6549]

rocket plane. solved.

[@georgehenderson7783]

@@harpfully That's Venus' moon, it just so happens to look like Earth with no clouds. 😅

[@georgehenderson7783]

He used the moon's gravity to slingshot around it and gain speed. Later on in Star Trek 4 he used the same technique to slingshot a Klingon ship around the sun, but this time to time travel. 😅

[@pentameteriamb6196]

Heart warming acts of love and kindness always make the best stories.

[@lindaeasley5606]

This scared me as a kid watching it in reruns in the late '60s. The original Outer Limits was innovative as it pushed the envelope with it's monsters

[@TIME_LORDS]

Good old Bill Shatner, Boldly going where no man has gone before..

[@robertcampbell6349]

He finally was able to go for real.

[@faerieSAALE]

To boldly go and take a dump in his Space Suit!

[@faerieSAALE]

To boldly go and take a dump in his Space Suit!

[@robertcampbell6349]

@@faerieSAALE Get back on the short school bus. This isn't your stop.

[@toddolson573]

@@robertcampbell6349 And where did he supposably go for real, Bob.

[@johnbarry5036]

Shatner is what, 92? What a amazingly long life and career, so happy for him.

[@johnholliday5874]

91 this year and still kicking.

[@Linchpin_TF]

I wonder if Shatner is trying to break Christopher Lee's record as the longest-lived actor? 🤔

[@johnholliday5874]

@@Linchpin_TF Norman Lloyd died a year ago at 106. Olivia de Haviland in 2020 at 104. Kirk Douglas 103. Bob Hope made it to 100.

[@mydogbrian4814]

> You have to factor in Einstein's *time dialaton* at warp factor speeds to get his true age.

[@mydogbrian4814]

@@johnholliday5874 It's not the length but the quality of life that really matters. Many can't deferentiate between living & just existing.

[@georgecoventry8441]

If it had only been a female alien, Shatner would have been able to work out some kind of friendly agreement in no time flat.

[@jamesmurray8558]

She would not had a chance.

[@SSN515]

The Shatner left a string of broken hearts across the entire Galaxy.

[@robertmayott5835]

Intergalactic VD.

[@imaman774]

Actually, the alien does look rather womanly. It's gotta be a she.

[@tomflynn2912]

It is a female

[@hendrsb33]

It's just amazing that William Shatner, of all his contemporaries, has come closest to realizing many of the characters he's played over the decades. The only one to look back at the Earth from the edge of space.

[@michaelproctor8100]

Are you referring to his recent trip to space?

[@hilaryc3203]

When they landed back on Earth, he got out and tried to tell the camera how meaningful the trip was for him, and the rest of the team were acting like out of control five year olds. I was embarrassed for him that he had to share that trip with morons.

[@christopherfranklin4760]

@@hilaryc3203 One of those "morons" was Glen de Vries, a multi-millionaire. Unfortunately he died in a small plane crash in New Jersey a month after his space ride.

[@sandraclowdus6549]

the edge/of,over--acting. Great Scott,Jim,,dont do it. (beam me up)

[@Dan-ud8ob]

This episode gave me nightmares for a week .. I was 7 years old.. ive never been so shook up after watching this one

[@demongo2007]

Yup, same here…this scene made me afraid of the dark for years, along with nightmares…

[@scottprather5645]

Yeah I think I'd be freaking out too

[@davannacarter]

I would be frightened too if I saw a sock puppet coming at me at a deadly pace while in outer space.

[@rodfrancis9160]

so that's where my other sock went...

[@nhennessy6434]

@@rodfrancis9160 It takes ACTING to make us all fear the sock puppet.

[@Martin48964]

The original Outer Limits certainly should have been around for more than a season and a half. ABC really dropped the ball when they moved it to Saturday night from its Monday night berth.

[@gsk5161]

Saw this around age 5 and the martian monster scared me for ever. Was in my 40s when I saw the episode that scared me as a kid. I had that creature in back of my mind for years.

[@charles1964]

@Martin Beneteau Yeah, but there was nothing We could do about it because: They Controlled the Transmission...They Controlled the Horizontal and the Vertical....We just had to Sit Quietly while They Controlled All that We Saw or Heard.....

[@Martin48964]

@@charles1964 yes, you're right! Lol

[@sandraclowdus6549]

ball?,,there aint no,ball.

[@wesmcgee1648]

Old uncle Willie. He kept me entertained during my childhood and beyond.

[@kevinpittman2517]

yep imagine how disappointed i was to see him advertising Margarine When he got done with his 5 yr tour of the Galaxy.... :(

[@thefallenslavesusall1857]

Why that stuff was made in space.

[@nunyabizness6595]

"Promise!"

[@bartonpercival3216]

I loved the Outer Limits as a kid in the 60's. Great music too, that made you panic. I remember some of my favorite episodes. Children of spider county, The energy being, The Interrogator, The sixth finger, The Chemolean, Something in the Vacumn cleaner. All great episode's and terrific music. "We will contol all that you see and hear, there is no need to fix your television set!!!!!!!!!! 👍😱

[@michaelschramm1064]

“Something in the vacuum cleaner”…they should have used that for the title, ha! “It Crawled Out of the Woodwork” was the episode title.

[@bartonpercival3216]

@@michaelschramm1064 yeah that's right I forgot the title. I also wrote down the Interrogator, but the episode was actually called Nightmare. 😆 But they all scared the crap out of a 8 year old child 😱

[@GabrielW386]

Makes me think of watching Doctor Who as a kid. The episodes were broadcast in States a few years after BBC aired them. My classmates could name all four ninja turtles but didn't know the Doctor.

[@MrGchiasson]

We always popped JiffyPop popcorn just before the Outer Limits came on the TV. Adjust the rabbit ears for best reception...

[@rpbajb]

Demon with a Glass Hand was my favorite.

[@oddjob7821]

It wasn't the creature that made him scream in fright. He had a vision of Discovery.

[@mitchypdx]

Cool, when did you submit your pilot to Paramount for a new Trek show?

[@MrGchiasson]

And we joined him in that scream!

[@bluetopguitar1104]

Can't watch that. Enough already. Just write a new show

[@rossdawgsbrokenspirit9038]

@@mitchypdx I could submit dog feces and it would be superior to Disco

[@sandraclowdus6549]

ouch.! that's a true hurt. lol.😊

[@fredderf3207]

B&W TV show from before Star Trek and Shatner is commanding a spacecraft talking with Vulcan Control. Shades of things to come! Too funny!

[@billganahl7151]

And his name is Jim.

[@klackon1]

As electronics technicians, my mates and I always joked about steam radios from this era. We were wrong! They were better than we ever imagined, they provided instantaneous comms all they way from Venus. Something we can't do with current voice comms. No expense spared on making the alien, then. I used to love the original Outer Limits when I was a kid, followed by the original Strar Trek with Bill Shatner, I almost didn't reconise him with his helmet on, but there is no mistaking his voice.

[@sandraclowdus6549]

Fire the box,heap on more coal. Steam power. oh,,stream.nevermind.

[@michaelschramm1064]

While not one of the better S2 episodes, it is still memorable for this scene and the presence of both Shatner and Malachi Throne, who Shatner would be reunited with a few years later in Star Trek’s “The Menagerie”. Harry Lubin reprises and embellishes a theme used in “One Step Beyond” to chilling effect. As a side note, the communications with ground control back on Earth would not be instantaneous-there would be a delay of approximately 40 seconds owing to the distance between Earth and Venus.

[@rancidpitts8243]

Instant communication made for better Drama. The underinformed never caught it.

[@MichaelMMiddleton098]

You’re ignoring the invention if subspace communications…

[@michaelschramm1064]

@@MichaelMMiddleton098 This episode though is rooted in 1960s era technology…not that of Star Trek’s 23rd century.

[@stevebishop9468]

Remember the invisible enemy,they had come up with a new laser communication method.

[@johnchildress6717]

And the rocket would not stay burning in space.

[@agriperma]

Later, Kirk, nailed that space vixen too.

[@chrisb.1214]

Wow...Kirk really is a living legend in space.

[@sandraclowdus6549]

exploring alien females. inner-outer,,,,green.

[@Wildstar40]

When Captain Kirk screams ... sorry ... when Jeff Barton screams all I think of hearing right after is Doctor McCoy saying loudly and dramatically "Snap out of it Jim ! It's just a Muppet !" and then Spock with a tricorder "Captain, The tricorder readings are confirming the alien consists of 92% cotton, 5% polyester and 3% nylon ... it is indeed, a Muppet."

[@johnfirth6541]

Whoa, could you imagine the horror…. If it had been…. Miss Piggy? 😱

[@UncleDoug]

It's safe to say that the special effects expenses did not run over budget for this "gem".

[@digidrum2003]

Yep....safe to say...that might have been the first Muppet 😁

[@MrGchiasson]

A little duct tape, gray paint...and funky music... and ya got it. I watched these episodes when they were 1st run...b&w TV, rabbit ears...all that good stuff.

[@UncleDoug]

@@MrGchiasson So did I, Mr.G, and I swear they seemed a lot better back then ;)

[@UncleDoug]

@@SSN515 Thanks for the info, John. I guess in this episode, the majority of the budget went for Shatner's helmet......and the remaining $5 went for the creature.

[@00bikeboy]

Good storytelling has nothing to do with special effects, something that the current generation of filmmakers, and audiences, need to learn.

[@rickhobson3211]

You know, between all the wing-walking ghouls, shadowy aliens, demonic entities in airplane cargo bays and Ernest Borgnine as the Devil, Wil's characters were kind of the ultimate red shirts weren't they?

[@willmfrank]

Of course, in all those older B/W episodes, we couldn't tell what colour shirt he was wearing...🤔😉🤨🖖

[@bcgrittner8076]

I remember when this first aired, late 1963, maybe early 1964. He boldly went where no man had gone before.

[@walterfechter8080]

Cold hands, Warm heart -- and, in the end, true love triumphs over fear and the unknown.

[@egosumhomovespertilionem]

"Help, Scotty! The Guild Navigators have got me! Ahhhhhhhhhhh!"

[@robertprosper8506]

I loved this as a kid and still do, but The Outer Limits was always really weak on its science. And yet - there has been serious discussion in recent years that the atmosphere of venus may harbor life. Which it does in this episode.

[@fmlazar]

They had to fit the story within a finite broadcast time so they could not have two-minute pasues in the conversation. Sometimes you gotta slide a bit on exact adherence to the science for the purposes of telling the story in a given format.

[@thefallenslavesusall1857]

No one told him he was part of an astronaut exchange program.

[@SallySallySallySally]

"Science" was an easy sell in 1964. Besides, the "science" part was just a platform to tell the stories, which were uniformly excellent and conveyed worthy messages. Shatner was 33 years old here (this was the only TOL that had Shatner) and he's 91 years old as I write this!

[@christopherfranklin4760]

@@SallySallySallySally Remember (if you are old enough), that if you were interested in science, outer space, engineering, or math, you were branded as a nerd in school. I proudly survived those school years and had a successful career in the Defense industry, nerdiness notwithstanding. And I am a total sci-fi fan.

[@steadynumber1]

"Its a primitive precursor of muppet Jim, but not as we know it."

[@nunyabizness6595]

"Vulcan control, do you read me, over?" Wow. That's some foreshadowing right there.

[@rawhidewolf]

Now I know where he got the experience over-acting. I don't know how this guy became so successful but the we all have benefited. Thanks Bill.

[@70gabino]

Finally! I have been looking for this for years!!!

[@MONGOOSE1ful]

Cold Hands, Warm Heart" from the second season of ABC's "THE OUTER LIMITS" in Fall 1964, featured a nightmarish creation, courtesy of Project Unlimited, the special effects company that Daystar-Villa Di Stefano Productions used. "The Venusian" being that "Jeff Barton" (William Shatner) encountered, was actually a marionette puppet that was filmed inside of a water tank to create an unearthly effect , but this was also THE scariest creature used in "THE OUTER LIMITS", and like some of the other commenters here, this gave many of us serious nightmares, and way more scarier then The Gremlin that William Shatner encountered in the "Nightmare At 20,000 Feet" episode of CBS's "THE TWILIGHT ZONE" which was a guy with a William Tuttle makeup and a shaggy bear-like bodysuit, which wasn't as scary as the Venusian from "OUTER LIMITS", even though its a puppet! The Project Unlimited people knew their business when creating Aliens for this anthology series, and, although these were low budget special effects, they still did their job rather well! The "star field' effects used in this sequence are a pretty similar effect that "STAR TREK" would use, and the partial galaxy effects/visuals were originally used in the end credits of "PLEASE STAND BY", the unaired TV pilot to "THE OUTER LIMITS". But what was more coincidental about "Cold Hands, Warm Heart", was the storyline which used the term, "Project Vulcan", which William Shatner would be well acquainted with one year after this episode, when Desilu Productions began filming TREK's second TV pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before" which James Goldstone directed in 1965, while OUTER LIMITS creator, Leslie Stevens was directing William Shatner in his horror movie, "INCUBUS" (which was theatrically released on October 26. 1966) that was filmed, using the Esperanto language. The Venusian from "Cold Hands, Warm Heart" later became part of the syndication promo that United Artists Television used in their presskits for the series, which shows how seriously spooky that this being is!

[@whats20buks23]

This scene always creeped me out

[@evm6177]

Boy for a 1960's experimental TV show check out all those impressive details , and the accurate launch shot.

[@MrGchiasson]

At least it wasn't a stock V2 rocket launch...again!

[@CopiousJohn]

@@MrGchiasson But I *think* the view from the rocket looking back down at the earth was V2 footage from when we were testing V2s at White Sands in the years immediately after WW II. "You too can be a big hero, Once you learn to count backwards to zero...." "Werner Von Braun", by Tom Lehrer

[@robertfolkner9253]

I think the launch was of a Vanguard rocket.

[@johnbarone8948]

Shatner is always having bad experiences in any aircraft he's flying in, I see a pattern emerging here, maybe he should keep his feet on terra firma. LOL 😆

[@TheSteveSteele]

He just needs a ship of his own with a crew, and green alien women. Like a Captain of a galactic starship. He’d probably do much better.

[@radongal]

This episode and the Zanti Misfits scared the crap out of me as a kid.

[@donaldhicks3359]

Love that one

[@KC-sb2sm]

Kirks early training

[@jefflockaby702]

& ironically Mission Control's callsign was Vulcan 🤣🤣

[@KC-sb2sm]

Didn’t catch that, that’s hilarious

[@thunderace4588]

Thank you for showing us this clip. I am looking forward to watching this episode when it premiers.

[@bbbailey47]

This old episode is available free online on Pluto TV. Just do a search and you’ll see it. I’m watching this episode right now.

[@vaasnaad]

GREAT episode! I saw the Venusian when I was a wee lad and to think, it scared the ever lovin' crap out of me! That and Nightmare at 20000 Feet. Shatner had some good episodes.

[@joecamel6835]

I got scared and shat meself .

[@GabrielW386]

Colour television had been out for a while even when I was a kid I saw this Outer Limits episode and that alien blew my mind.

[@antarcticorb9197]

He was in another episode where he couldn't get warm after returning from space.

[@peterruiz6117]

Shatner could play a totally convincing bunny rabbit vampire, from the future..... Greatest actor.

[@saltycreole2673]

William Shatner can still chew up the set even when wearing a space helmet that shows only half his face!

[@rainlori]

... and no glass on the front

[@sandraclowdus6549]

Best fake stunts. No one can take a punch like his stunt double.

[@javiermiranda6135]

🤔 The astronaut looks like he's ready to boldly go where no man has gone before!!

[@royalspin]

Knowing Kirk probably yeah 😂 Add another alien to the list of aliens he's shagged. To boldly go and spread STDs to new worlds and new civilizations .😷

[@tesorodigger.2596]

This is Captain Jim Kirk, training to become the captain of the enterprise spaceship 🚀 it was like he destined to be captain of the enterprise, meanwhile, Mr. Spock another galaxy probably living other adventures😂😂😂😂

[@matthewanderson3750]

One of the greatest TV shows ever! Who'd have thought a sine wave on an oscilloscope could be so iconic? And call me crazy, but between you, me, and the Zanti on the wall, I kinda wonder if one of the reasons Forensic Files became so popular isn't that Peter Thomas's narration reminds us Boomers of our old friend the Control Voice?

[@sandraclowdus6549]

do not touch your dial,do not attempt to adjust your controls.

[@RichardGardee-eq9qi]

Entry, got his OWN leader SHIP ⚓😊😮❤

[@charlestaylor253]

Wow, stock footage of a Pershing 1A missile launch and a young William Shatner over acting his ass off as usual. Great episode!...😊👍🏻

[@raygamma36]

Isn't that a Vanguard rocket?

[@7flag]

such great shows back then!

[@FanelFabien-rk9jp]

This Is A Nightmare Boy.

[@OutrageHarvester]

"Dammit Jim, it's a marionette!"

[@IanP1963]

Prophetic !!!!

[@tracynation2820]

This guy can look forward to a lifetime of seeing things through his vessels windows. 💙 T.E.N.

[@jerry8273]

To this day the outer limits series even the 90's reboot are underrated. I'm still waiting that netflix,amazon or hulu pick up the series and bring it back to life.

[@silverado2004]

What a classical career Mr.Shatner has had.. From this strange encounter from the Outer Limits to Nightmare at 20,000 feet from the the Twilight Zone and countless other's on Star Trek.. I'm surprised he didn't encounter this strange creature again when he went into space last year LOL.. What a awesome life Mr.William Shatner has had..God Bless..

[@4thdoctor284]

You may want to go back and re edit this. The name is SHAT NER not Shanter

[@silverado2004]

@@4thdoctor284 Thanks.. My spell check was wrong..All good..

[@pastorrich7436]

Did I hear that right? "Vulcan control?"

[@inahypier1646]

Yes!! 🖖😆😆😆🖖

[@jayjay-bz3rr]

The cinematography is ahead of it’s time

[@Firebrand55]

" Special effects!..the final frontier!..these are the attempts to find better dialogue.....to explore strange, elusive,sensible new scripts!...to boldly go where there are realistic set models.....!!"

[@RJS1966USMC]

Is no one else recognizing that he was communicating with "Vulcan Control" over his radio?

[@deanstevenson1649]

3:06 spared no expense on the astronaut gloves there

[@billymatthews7346]

We had to go to damn bed, and missed most of these episodes, because of school nights, and what’s even worst, had to wait 40 years to see the rerun….

[@uweinhamburg]

The pauses between questions and answers!!! At the closest distance, the waiting time should be around 4 minutes 😉

[@sandrataylor2323]

He boldly went where no one had gone before...lol...before Star Trek was even thought of. Good for you, William Shatner.

[@cmacdhon]

Imagine how the poor alien must have felt. "Oh crap. Those morons found us!"

[@donaldhicks3359]

Exactly , Nothing ruins a neighborhood like an influx of Democrats

[@raygamma36]

@@donaldhicks3359 - Not as bad as fascist theocrat publicans moving in though... 😆😆

[@bigantplowright5711]

Oh shit it is Shatner.

[@jacksonwilliams4717]

@@raygamma36 < < Triggered

[@mikerodgers7620]

Republicans are not fascists. And the nation has a theocratic backbone. Fascism is left-wing.

[@yannickmadec2050]

Les "aliens" et autres monstres de The Outer Limits étaient les plus réussis de l'époque. Un soin particulier était apporté à la conception des créatures de l'espace (ou des mutants) et les maquillages étaient très réussis. On ne ferait pas mieux aujourd'hui ! J'aime particulièrement l'alien de cet épisode ainsi que le style du cinéaste qui sait tirer parti du noir et blanc pour créer des effets de lumière et jouer avec la profondeur de champ de la caméra. Meilleure série et grande anthologie de la science fiction. On ne fera jamais mieux dans ce domaine !

[@mariusmoore]

William Shatner, the guy typecast for seeing weird shit outside his window

[@vincepeterson5761]

That alien coming towards him was pretty cool

[@marauderhot]

The funny thing is, he really did go into space on a rocket on 10/13/21.

[@Haseeb2-q8d]

One of the most terrifying scenes ever made in television history ... I was so traumatised by this scene that I had to be put on medications and intensive therapy after I saw it.

[@rayberger2694]

So how did this show end ? Did the creature get him ? What episode is this, ?

[@maxxcherry6955]

I loved this program. Still do !

[@doug8525]

There’s another spacesuit that’s going to need a serious cleaning!

[@NeoMoonSevin]

Shatterner scored his role on star trek through this debut role in the Outer limits Mr shatterner himself forgot he was apart of the outer limits afew years ago when outer limits fans showed him himself on the Outer limits all those years ago.

[@michaelschramm1064]

Yes, true Bill stated he has no memory of appearing in this role.

[@theoddfather7647]

I remember this episode as a child of 7. Gave me nightmares for a week.

[@parsareshite1]

His acting style never changed in all those years.

[@MrJackmandew]

Shatner once again goes where no man has gone before

[@billyworkman4204]

Now this is good television, tv was serious acting.

[@sandraclowdus6549]

tune in ,next week,same channel. sweet dreams untill then.

[@louismatassa8489]

Great TV show and William shatner is a movie and TV legend

[@nickoutram6939]

Scariest Muppet they could find...

[@OdeeOz]

Gosh how I miss the early Space Race. So glad to have been there from just before it started. So disgusted that we never colonized the Moon and beyond, while we had the technology, energy and drive to do so, too.

[@sandraclowdus6549]

factoid = russia beat us.

[@OdeeOz]

@@sandraclowdus6549 you suck that Fake News down like soda pop, huh?

[@jonbradley4789]

I was hoping for the full episode, but perhaps I was spared from something truly frightening.

[@stevensaussey8680]

"Oops - wrong human, I was looking for Doctor Smiiiiiiiith!!!!"

[@racookster]

Even a practical effect with a cheap puppet is creepier than slick CGI. I've noticed the same thing in dark rides: Disney's Haunted Mansion isn't scary, but some two-bit carnival dark rides are genuinely scary. At least one was found to have a real dead body hanging in it. Anything could be in there.

[@BillBird2111]

Vulcan Control, eh? Looks like Gene Roddenberry came up with a good idea! Is it Picasso who came up with the line, "great artists steal?"

[@TheAirplaneDriver]

He gets all the way to Venus and sees the Grinch that stole Christmas staring at him through a window! And then he gets back to earth, hops on a plane to go home with his wife and sees yet another disgusting creature staring at him through the window on his airplane! What are the odds!

[@MichaelSHartman]

Lands, and gets hooked on a fortune telling machine.

[@thefallenslavesusall1857]

Then he rode on another spaceship and a bezos was looking at him through a window! What are the odds...indeed!

[@kennethlongsr4009]

No delay whatsoever in their radio communication to venus, thats pretty good

[@paulppchristman5827]

Jeeze, Cap'n Kirk !! Screamin' like a little girl just because ya see a monster. How'd ya ever graduate Star Fleet academy ??!

[@inahypier1646]

Ele trapaceou. 😁

[@chuckwyble7719]

I recognized a lot of special effects from Star Trek ToS.

[@tommytillman]

Long Live William Shatner !!! .... ( I love the strings on the puppet Alien !!!!! ... straight from the Gerry Anderson playbook ! )

[@thenov1944]

That Music , Sound Effects ! ! !