Outer Limits Galaxy Being Special Effect

[@walterfechter8080]

This is my favorite OL episode. I remember watching with my Ma, Pop and siblings when this episode first premiered on ABC TV. My Pop knew a lot about photography. He was very impressed by the use of negative to positive photographic effects. I pity the actor in that suit! He must have been sweating buckets! Both my uncles met and talked with Cliff Roberston (at an air show). They talked briefly about this episode. Cliff was a great guy, a very talented actor and aviator. Cliff Roberston (RIP)

[@bandfromtheband9445]

The very first episode I saw when I was 4 years old! It scared the hell out of me! It's a brilliant debut!

[@wandawong]

Excellent. I saw this as a child when it came out on Sept. 16, 1963. I was frightened to death and couldn't sleep well for days. Now it's a fond memory. Thanks for uploading.

[@keithmckinnon7047]

HaHaHa, same shit bro but talked dad into letting me watch.

[@lassitc]

@@keithmckinnon7047 Same here. Dad got pissed at me for getting too scared to go to bed. I had to plead with him a week later to let me watch another episode.

[@dynjarren8355]

I remember this glowing alien and thinking how weird he was. This was special effects back then. And this was one of the better episodes.

[@tboltjohn]

Very metaphoric. A living nightmare with immense power but was good. Shook me to the core back in ' 63.

[@leonardgarcia722]

Because I've seen this episode countless times as an adult, I take for granted just how brilliantly eerie it was for its time. The atmospheric music has NEVER been duplicated on TV, movies or anywhere else. Personally I'm partial to the first season.

[@Cyber_Smoke]

The web of fear The invasion

[@normkirk65]

I was 25 years old when I first saw this and it scared the heck out of me lol !! Really ! But it is one of the greatest episodes !!

[@zaneblackwell7759]

I saw this when I was around 4 or 5, and it still stands out in my mind decades later, they did their job.

[@alexburford1637]

I was a Boy in 1963 when this show first aired. The Being and the music was SO eerie and SCARY for me that I slept with my Parents. Now, as an Adult, I find that I not only understand the shows story more but I like that the same Feeling of eeriness is STILL there due to the music and how it has a quality that can't be put into words. Although a low budget TV show, "The Outer Limits" had boundless Imagination.

[@captebbtide]

My favorite Outer Limits monster/alien.

[@vx633]

This episode scared the living sh.t out of me when I saw it. I remember him saying ,"do not turn up the micro waves".

[@SPak-rt2gb]

I was 6 at the time, I was more fascinated than scared when I watched this

[@kidtexaus1]

As simple as the effect was, combined with the music and sound effects, it's still the scariest monster in the series. Thanks for posting!

[@allenjones3130]

He isn't really a monster, though.

[@kidtexaus1]

@@allenjones3130 True, although to the 10-year old me he was certainly "monstrous".

[@FRANK1FM]

WOW!I saw this first episode on tv when I was a kid.I was hooked.

[@5809AUJG]

Wonderful! And such a memory for me, who watched this as an 11 year old child so many years ago....these folks were wonderfully creative, and broke ground in TV and film special effects whose impact remains with me today. Scared hell out of me then, but I was also awed by them. This series was intelligent, brilliantly written by some of the best, like the great Harlan Ellison..those writing for film and TV these days could learn much from them. Many thanks!!!

[@OdinsNavel]

One of the best episodes. Funny how when I watched this around the age of ten years old it scared the daylights out of me. I love this series so dearly. A few years back, I purchased the entire series on DVD. Upon way

[@Titan52berg]

I loved this series when it originally aired back in the '60's! Even today, over half a century later, the ingenious design of the various aliens and unspeakably weird monstrosities that filled the evening hours with terror could easily be termed ' the stuff of nightmares!' I own all three seasons of "The Outer Limits" ( Original series ) on DVD! Some the most unforgettable science-fiction television entertainment ever created!

[@curbozerboomer1773]

The one program that disturbed my teen brain, was "One Step Beyond"...mainly because the creepy host of the show would remind us that it was based on reality!

[@danawilkes6174]

I wish you were right. It was on for not quite two seasons.

[@Laceykat66]

They really did a lot on a limited budget. This episode always gave me nightmares.

[@TRINZINI]

One of the best scenes in the whole series !

[@luthermcgee432]

You said what I was thinking. I was remembering when I first saw this episode . The piolet episode- the Galaxy being. I was only 9.

[@sonnyroy497]

@@luthermcgee432 I was nine also when I saw this, scared the heck outta me.

[@luthermcgee432]

@@sonnyroy497 , yeah, especially when he came out of the store and approached the camera just before the scene changed.

[@dusterdude238]

the poor person must have almost roasted in that wet suit under the hot studio lights. but for a low budget show, the effects were ingenious for back in the day!

[@jimpierce3138]

What I remember about this show is the music. It was so eerie. Perfect for The Outer Limits.

[@Cissy2cute]

There is a CD available with the music from the series.

[@randyacuna3248]

Jim Pierce totally agree, the second season music for the most part pales in comparison . Memorable first season score .

[@Cissy2cute]

@Cactus Rose Me too.

[@Drumcam]

Dominic Frontiere was a master movie composer, who started as a recording artist on the Accordion!

[@loge10]

Couldn't agree more. About 10 years later, during my first year of college, I heard a piece of music for the first time that convinced me that Dominic Fontiere, the composer, must have been familiar with an inspired by - Bartok's 2nd piano concerto, 2nd Movement. Check it out on KZbin to see what I mean.

[@kabkab8441]

I'm glad they left it in the negative format. It's much more eerie that way

[@stephendupree5702]

The show was very well done black and white is perfect for sci-fi.

[@luthermcgee7297]

I love the music. It exudes a sense of mystery. They don't have music quite like this anymore.

[@rmo52]

Guys knew how to write back then.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Dominic frontiere. :)

[@therealwolfspidertoo]

Still looked pretty creepy even that way. This was definitely one of the scariest TV shows that I ever saw as a little kid.

[@moosefactory133]

When this first aired I was a very young child. I remember one night hearing the house settle thinking this creature was walking though it making the noises. I know, silly

[@penelopesnopes6852]

Still gives me chills!

[@webjammer1]

I convinced my parents to let me watch that when I was eight years old and it scared me so bad I had to sleep with the light on for at least six months.

[@johnheyden7277]

My creative talents for working on movies and television was influenced by this and other early special effects and writing. Excellent.

[@fordpickup40]

I saw this when I was six years old on our old Zenith T.V. in 1964. This episode pilot feature gave me a nightmare!

[@nickschor]

Scared the heck out of me too! I remember watching it in rerun (1964), I was so convinced that the Galaxy Being was going to pop out of our tv some night. This episode became a favorite of mine years later, and I have it on VHS. Being in media, I got a chance to meet Cliff Robertson a few years ago. Gushed about this episode and practically recited the dialogue word by word...He just smiled and called me a nerd....LOL

[@pequeajim]

Yep, this is one of my favorite episodes along with the Zanti Misfits!

[@EphemeralProductions]

So funny. :) ❤

[@randyacuna3248]

Way ahead of its time for being the first episode. Excellent.

[@rmo52]

The entire series was way ahead. Then they went up against The Jackie Gleason Show since they moved to Saturdays and that got them canceled. Too bad. Brilliant stuff.

[@randyacuna3248]

@@rmo52 sadly when limits moved from Monday to Saturday evening it lost much of its audience plus ABC executives were not big on the show and sadly the quality of the show suffered when many first season technicians and writers left after the first season and the second season suffered with a low quality look. Having to compete against rating giant jackie Gleason on Saturday night, the show had low rating. Season one was truly incredible science fiction for many reasons . In my view , still the greatest science fiction television 📺 show of all time.

[@malirabbit6228]

The galaxy being scared the hell out of me!

[@marklipson]

Someone here describes the special effects here as half-assed and schlocky. I don't see them that way at all. They're not only completely terrifying, but they're as imaginative and brilliantly effective as just about any other I've ever seen in any TV show or movie... Oh, I've seen more elaborate, more expensive, fancier and more "realistic" SFX, especially the big-budget photo-realistic CGI we see nowadays. But I don't think that's necessarily "better"... And what the hell would *REALISM* have to do with almost anything here...? The SFX team were told to come with a "Galaxy Being" -- you can't exactly Google a photo of one of those as a model, or pick one up down at your local Walmart. Even now, let alone almost 60 years ago. Which is my whole point: This is almost entirely about *IMAGINATION*...The stuff the SFX artists used to create this wildly original, creepy representation of something alien, unknown and mysterious, AND the stuff we're supposed to use when we engage with it.

[@mikesilva3868]

Love this show 📼

[@phonejunky1]

Outstanding job!!!!...This episode aired in Sept of 1963...Their "pilot",,,episode,,,actually one of their very best episodes also...A shorlty run series but packed with many quality..maybe lower budget but quality work just the same!!! Again great job on the positive negative variation...

[@EphemeralProductions]

To me, this being was the most startling and scary in appearance of all the "monsters" in the series, with Eck, and the zanti misfits, following closely. (Eck being the alien that appeared to be made of electricity and zanti misfits the giant ants).

[@milliemax100]

I remember this from when I was small. Until I found the episode a few years ago, I thought the 'monster' had climbed out of a television. Excellent episode.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

David Lynch kind of ripped off this monster situation, in his Twin Peaks episodes...."Judy" appeared in some sort of magic box.

[@bmmathison]

As. a kid growing up in the 50's and 60's the galaxy being made everything b4 that was scarry obsolete... Almost fifty years later it is a data mark for all that is terrifying. ~Greg

[@dennisbiernat8708]

This is the best one. Love the music sound track.

[@BrianBattles]

The half-assiness of the primitive cheap old effects kinda made it extra creepy and eerie, like you were having some screwed-up dream. Ever have nutty dreams when you were sick as a kid and you had a fever? Also, schlocky horror effects have a bizarre charm, like the rickety old hand-painted Laff In The Dark rides at carnivals in the 1960s and '70s, before everything became fancy and computerized.

[@audiophile55]

It had the same effect on me as a child except its voice was what frightened me. Then, a little over ten years later, in 1973, I bought the album Brain Salad Surgery by Emerson, Lake and Palmer and on it is a song called Karn Evil 9 3rd Impression which is about human beings going to war with our creation of the computer, and the voice of the computer in the song is created by the same effect used on the "Galaxy Being" voice, which is a Moog Ring Modulator. I now own one of my own!

[@comicbookal]

This was and still is the best science fiction anthology series ever produced for television. Nothing before or since has come close to equaling the writing, direction, acting, and overall production quality of this show. I still continue to watch many of the episodes to this very day and would put them up against any of the so called science fiction series that have been produced since that time. It's untimely and unfortunate cancellation by the ABC television network after the decision was made to move it from it's Monday night time period to Saturdays opposite The Jackie Gleason show on CBS was the proverbial "nail in the coffin".

[@allenjones3130]

TV networks have been known to make foolish decisions.

[@williambrown4587]

I remember this and it scared me to death

[@routeman680]

MGM issued 2 boxed sets of DVDs, one for each season, 32 episodes and 17 episodes, of the 1960s show, in 2005. Not cheap, at least in Europe, but well worth it, good quality picture and sound. In fact better quality than we saw on our little monochrome TV screens in the 1960s!

[@bohemoth1]

My dad had me pissing when he told me how scared he was when he first saw this. He has every episode. But this one, I laugh no more it was scary in 2013 which with the first time I saw it. The MANSTOR was also scary!

[@XMIR10C]

The Sixth Finger was and still is the epitome of horror, love, humanity and the future of mankind...

[@debammann5861]

OMG this is so creepy. I remember this being on of the first scary movies I ever saw & this image really stuck in my brain of this creature on a screen. I was 4 yrs old!

[@setonix850]

I was about 8 or 9 when I saw this first episode. It was more than scary & it freaked me out, however most of that horror was attenuated when my Dad kept telling me the alien was friendly and didn't want to harm anyone. What I remember the most was it had no mouth with those electrode eyes, three large fingers and a torso built up at chest level. With this the creators were able to give the 'creature' an eerie gait with its head tilted downwards. Nearly 60 years later The Galaxy Being is exactly how I remembered it.

[@tuffypuff]

I love the old effects, Awesome,,, Thanks

[@juanborjas6416]

Thanks for this, it is really interesting. The Outer Limits is one of my favorite shows.

[@darkstarcren293]

I remember this like it was yesterday,LMOAF, I was in the second grade! This is great, thanks!

[@BonafideGail]

Outstanding!

[@EphemeralProductions]

The actor did this perfectly. With his movements, he quite convincingly showed the alien's curiosity and innocence as he looked at each thing in the pawn shop. He made it so that the alien was cute and endearing in his own way. :)

[@scotpens]

tall32guy Incidentally, the actor who played the alien was William O. Douglas Jr., son of the famous Supreme Court justice.

[@EphemeralProductions]

Yes I know. :)

[@allenjones3130]

@@scotpens The Being's speaking voice was provided by series creator Leslie Stevens.

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@allenjones3130cool

[@Diskoboy1974]

I remember seeing this episode for the first time when I was 12 years old, back in the mid 80's. It scared the absolute SHIT out of me. And to this day, it still holds up well.

[@wecontrolthevideo]

Diskoboy1974 I was almost 10 when I saw it originally air on ABC and yes it was scary!!

[@Diskoboy1974]

@@wecontrolthevideo- His voice creeped me out more than anything. Great use of radio frequency modulation. If this episode were made again today, it would still be just as effective.

[@mirimar69]

Outer limits arrived in Australia about 67'. Scared the shit of me...Use to be on Friday night after Bob Dyer and Combat. I can even remember the Mortein ads featuring "Louie the Fly" Lever and Kitchen were dominating the air time. . And in Oz all of this was in B&W and owning a TV incurred a Tax permit back then..I remember my folks use to put up curtains to prevent TV light emission in case there were inspectors out and about...don't think there were any, but the 60's were paranoia of a different kind not previously seen by the average Aussie household :)

[@keithorr3327]

Producer/co-writer Joseph Stefano gave his production team one simple edict: Make sure each episode of The Outer Limits had what he referred to as a "BUG" and by that, of course, he was referring to weird aliens, monsters, and various other bugaboos.

[@deanbianco4982]

Stefano wasn't the one who made an edict requiring the monsters and aliens. It was ABC! They demanded that each episode had a BEAR---not a bug as you called it. The Bear was like a device used in old entertainment like vaudeville or the circus---bring out the trained bear to keep the audience from falling asleep. Stefano hated this edict. He believed many of the OL stories did NOT require any monsters as some of he stories were so well-written that they weren't needed, e.g. OBIT, Demon With A Glass Hand.

[@larrybrown8180]

Very nice comparison of the sequence in negative and positive! This pilot episode was a fantastic prelude to the awe and mystery of the excellent series.

[@wesleymccurtain166]

I remember seeing this as a kid on some rerun classic channel being scared crapless, and later in my 20s when it reran again, I thought of how it looked like pajamas colored with glow paint. :)

[@keithorr3327]

I find that I concur. The Sixth Finger was everything you mentioned. But The Feasibility Study also challenged mankind's basic humanity.

[@742East3rd]

Ah so that how you did it...I loved this show when iI was a kid.Yea, this was one of the scariest!

[@audiophile55]

The full 51 minute video is available here on You Tube, under the title "Original Outer Limits : Galaxy Being " . : )

[@OdinsNavel]

(Comment continued, damned iPad!) UPON WATCHING the old series today, many of the effects look a bit hokey. But in their day they were the most inventive. TV's cutting edge.

[@Oddamo63]

The monster was actually wearing a diving suit and they used the negatives after filming his scenes. They did a lot of weird shit, but it worked!

[@gordonm7038]

Great closing wisdom

[@leonardgarcia5320]

ABC, in their freaking ultimate wisdom, canceled it after two seasons

[@historybuff66]

One and one-half seasons actually! ABC stupidly slotted the show in S2 opposite the hugely popular Jackie Gleason Show.

[@TTULangGenius]

So, when I was about 12 in the early 90s, this was one of the first episodes of the OG Outer Limits I ever watched. My dad had gone to pick up my mom from her job in the early evening while my sister was at a friend’s house. I was alone in the trailer house I grew up in until I was 14 when this episode came on. The scene at about 1:35 (where the Galaxy Being is walking toward the camera until its face fills the screen) was what simultaneously got me hooked on this show and scared me out my wits! I was scared so poopless by the Galaxy Being’s intense-looking face and presentation that I actually ran out the front door and watched the show through the screen door at the top of the stairs that led to the front door. The TV was at an angle I could watch it across the living room. About 10 minutes into the episode, my dad pulled up with my mom into the driveway. They got out of my dad’s truck and looked at me funny. My dad started laughing and went: “What’s the matter, son? You scared of the Outer Limits?” I then frantically explained to him that the Galaxy Being was scary AF and made all the hair on the back of my neck and arms stand up straight. My dad and my mom thought it was the funniest thing ever . My dad sat down and watched the rest of the episode with me. It’s one of the funniest memories I have of my dad in particular. (He’s still here, and I cherish every minute I get to spend with him and my mom) Hope y’all enjoyed that silly story. Cherish the small things in life, because they can be sources of immense joy! Take care, everyone! I wish y’all the very best in your lives! ❤❤❤

[@robertomichelson5839]

William O. Douglas Junior, appeared in a total of four episodes and inhabited three different monster/alien gets-up ( his fourth appearance was actually a human character.) 1) The Ghost of Private Gordon/The Ice Ghost ("The Human Factor") 2) Andy the Andromedan (" The Galaxy Being") 3) Henry Castle ("The Invisibles") 4) Aabel of Eros (" The Children of Spider County")

[@BrianBattles]

Roberto Michelson I bet that gig was a hoot, I would have loved doing that!

[@allenjones3130]

Actually the Galaxy Being had no name.

[@EphemeralProductions]

❤️. He did each one well.

[@indridcold8433]

I feel like I need a safety word to watch the positive video.

[@fitzcademere7979]

Me, too!

[@MrRaffaro]

My favorite !

[@critchley3819]

Mine as well..

[@chauxone]

The original "Outer Limits" was The greatest true science fiction anthology TV series of all time. Pounyent and original stories.

[@randyacuna3248]

Though provocative. Got to say only the first season. Yes it IS the greatest science fiction t v show of all time. But season 2 has what is arguably the outer limits finest episode, the inheritors.

[@dannysalata]

i agree

[@BELCAN57]

Genius special effects!

[@RomanZeNine]

I love old school film like this.

[@slayerone61]

The Outer Limits was far superior to the Twilight Zone in so many ways, particularly the stories.

[@capnvancouver]

that was a scary one for sure. I remember it well

[@mtsflorida]

Phil Carroll ..wasn't that the one that centered around a radio station and a scientist that was communicating to the alien and the D.J. wouldn't listen and increased the power bringing the alien to Earth. Sadly he said the punishment for communicating to Earth was death but yet he thought the benefit was greater in talking to the scientist.

[@gregoryjgg1]

Yes, Mike that is the episode. The series is carried on Hulu now.

[@themagus5906]

I've never seen this before, (the negative-reversal, not the episode) and it is truly amazing! Thanks! By the way, the Galaxy Being was acted by William O. Douglas, Jr., son of Supreme Court justice William O. Douglas! (Probably someone else did the voice.)

[@PracticalKnow]

The Galaxy Being voice was provided by the writer, director, and creator of the Outer Limits, Leslie Stevens.

[@curbozerboomer1773]

Wow! that is just strange and weird too!

[@curbozerboomer1773]

@@PracticalKnow I am guessing that his thoughts about the afterlife, was what spurred him on to make this episode.

[@only257]

Saw this series when I was 13 in 1997👻

[@nwo2cool]

That alien creature looked like the bird men from the film, Beastmaster. You know, those half-bird half human who dissolves their prey.

[@josephebacon]

Brilliant!

[@allenjones3130]

The 1963/64 TV season was a good one for sci-fi enthusiasts. CBS had "The Twilight Zone", ABC had "The Outer Limits", and NBC had "Fireball XL5".

[@Sam53148]

The creature looked scarier at the end, they should have left it like that

[@marktorak5578]

I saw this first episode by myself 6, or 7 years old downstairs tv starting having nightmares way back then watching the outer limits

[@Bubbies-777]

how the heck did he breath in that thing?

[@jonp4846]

​@Cory Haffly And if I don't look closely? This is a problem with the current generation commenting on what was a great sci-fi series. Have to focus on every little detail. Have to figure everything out. Have to explain everything. It's virtually impossible to enjoy stuff anymore with everyone having to question every little bit of minutia and then someone has the answer for everything. An unwillingness to just let it go and let the imagination take you.

[@EphemeralProductions]

@@jonp4846exactly. Couldn’t have said it better myself.

[@BobStein]

What surprises me about this new double-negative look is how much creepier it is. The original, single-negative guy I had rather fond memories of - a benevolent energy being made of light. But in this second half it looks like some dark, angry, bug-eyed guy out to kill someone before he suffocates in his slimy wet suit.

[@Barbarra63297]

Does anyone know where you can watch this episode in full? It's my favorite.

[@budhaldeman4761]

I watched it on Hulu yesterday!

[@Diskoboy1974]

It's on dailymotion as well. Just Google outer limits galaxy being and it should be the first video that pops up.

[@octoberskye1049]

Hey! That's my violin! 🐯

[@EphemeralProductions]

Them eyes in the "regular" part almost remind me of big owl eyes. Lol

[@Raptorman0909]

This 'effect' scared the crap out of MANY people.

[@alex1970ization]

I am sure this inspired David Lynch for the first new Twin Peaks episode

[@Jakob1951]

Can you post the full episode of this?

[@seabeastbv]

great documentary; now how's about all the full episodes from 1963-64.

[@jimpierce3138]

Brian, check at your local library. They should have all the episodes on DVD. At least they do at my library.

[@editdave]

That's fantastic!

[@billthestinker]

It is very important Not to use the toilet when this guy is around ⚡️

[@p0k7lm]

really great sci-fy

[@marktorak5578]

Tv was so much better back then. You dont see anything like this now days ,60 yrars ago

[@ThBigEZsCadillacJack]

There’s nothing like the Outer Limits theme, Perhaps haunting a childhood dream; As ECK visits my old age’s scene, Only thing missing is a black and white TV screen… 🤔

[@lazyrrr2411]

#MeToo The Galaxy Being scared the living hell right out of me ... even though ℹ couldn't see him , ℹ KNEW he was standing right outside my bedroom window !

[@armandwilliamgreenjr.8949]

Scared me so much that I had to go and sleep between my mother and father that night... I just knew the Galaxy Being was walking outside of our house!

[@curtiswilson8402]

I have often felt that "The Galaxy Being" + Klatuu of "The Day the aeart astood Still"--fused--might have beem partal inspiratiin for Jack Kirby's "The Silver Surfer"...

[@xcalibur1011]

i,ve actually seen two episodes of the original outer limits episodes in color on tnt years ago. the galaxy being and demon with a glass hand and it would be great if they could be in color with their special effects on dvd and eventually blu-ray disc.

[@pavelsarneki354]

What's with the spinning instruments 🎷🎸🎺🎻📯?🤷🏼‍♂️🤓😎✌🏻

[@XMIR10C]

so wheres the full?