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A [[Recap/TheOuterLimits recap page]] is in progress.
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* BeepingComputers: Commonplace in the original series.
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* HalfHumanHybrid: "ZZZZZ", "The Children of Spider County".
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* HalfHumanHybrid: "ZZZZZ", Regina in "ZZZZZ" and the titular characters in "The Children of Spider County".
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The casting director must have made a deal with Satan because there is at least one of these in EVERY episode, often two, sometimes three, and occasionally (like in the Showtime series finale) even more.
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* HostileTerraforming: One episode of the new ''TheOuterLimits'' had this with a new model of car that would poison the atmosphere for infiltrated aliens.
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* HostileTerraforming: One episode of the new ''TheOuterLimits'' revival had this with a new model of car that would poison the atmosphere for infiltrated aliens.
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* SeekerWhiteBloodCells: In an episode of the new series, a spaceship crew punches a hole into another dimension, which they assume to be [[SubspaceOrHyperspace hyperspace or subspace]]. The main character, who is descended from {{Magical Native American}}s, starts to believe that it is actually the bloodstream of the living universe. What they originally thought to be asteroids turn out to have a similar structure to human white blood cells, except they use gravity to kill infection.
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* ResistanceAsPlanned: Part of the twist ending of the episode "[[spoiler:The Deprogrammers]]."
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* WalkThroughTheCamera: Trent does this during "Demon with a Glass Hand".
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* WalkThroughTheCamera: Trent does this twice during "Demon with a Glass Hand".Hand". Wade Norton does it in "The Guests".
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* ExecutiveMeddling
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* {{Hoist by Her Own Petard}}: The fate of scheming, murderous Judith Bellero in "The Bellero Shield".
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* {{Hoist by Her Own Petard}}: HoistByHerOwnPetard: The fate of scheming, murderous Judith Bellero in "The Bellero Shield".
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: In Joseph Stefano's scripts, characters sometimes make fleeting
references to their pasts that are never explained.
references to their pasts that are never explained.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: In Joseph Stefano's scripts, characters sometimes make fleeting
fleeting references to their pasts that are never explained.
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* CrypticBackgroundReference: In Joseph Stefano's scripts, characters sometimes make fleeting
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references to their pasts that are never explained.
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** Creator/KimCoates played two different, unrelated characters, ''seven years'' apart.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Than most shows at the time.
* LighterAndSofter: The second season, while not lighthearted, generally lacked the darkness and moral ambiguity found in many season one episodes, and took far fewer risks.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: The casting director must have made a deal with Satan because there is at least one of these in EVERY episode, often two, sometimes three, and occasionally (like in the Showtime series finale) even more.
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* InsectQueen: Classic episode "ZZZZZ". A giant mutant queen bee takes human form so she can mate with a human male. She can control her fellow bees and make them attack people, such as the wife of the man she wants to seduce.
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*** Some of the TOS aliens went barefoot as well ("O.B.I.T", "The Children of Spider County", "The Chameleon").
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*** Some of the TOS aliens went barefoot as well ("O.B.I.T", T.", "The Children of Spider County", "The Chameleon").
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* TheAmericanCivilWar: The setting of most of the {{Revival}} episode "Gettysburg" (better known as The One With Music/MeatLoaf), complete with one of the characters plotting to assassinate AbrahamLincoln.
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* TheAmericanCivilWar: The setting of most of the {{Revival}} episode "Gettysburg" (better known as The One With Music/MeatLoaf), complete with one of the characters plotting to assassinate AbrahamLincoln.UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln.
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*** Some of the TOS aliens went barefoot as well ("The Children of Spider County", "The Chameleon").
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*** Some of the TOS aliens went barefoot as well ("The ("O.B.I.T", "The Children of Spider County", "The Chameleon").
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* DrivenToSuicide: At the climax of "The Man with the Power", [[spoiler:Harold Finley, who has gained deadly new mental powers, declares that "If I have this power, then I don't want to live" and turns it on himself]].
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* DrivenToSuicide: At the climax of "The Man with the Power", [[spoiler:Harold Finley, who has gained deadly new mental powers, powers that [[PowerIncontinence he can't consciously control]], declares that "If I have this power, then I don't want to live" and turns it on himself]].
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* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: There were two versions of "The Forms of Things Unknown"; one was intended as a pilot for ''The Unknown'', a straight suspense anthology that wasn't picked up. The difference: In "Forms", the "[[TimeMachine Time Tilter]]" actually works, while in ''The Unknown'' it doesn't.
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* PoorlyDisguisedPilot: There were two versions of "The Forms of Things Unknown"; one was intended as a pilot for ''The Unknown'', a straight suspense anthology that wasn't picked up. The difference: PointOfDivergence: In "Forms", the "[[TimeMachine Time Tilter]]" actually works, while in ''The Unknown'' it doesn't.
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* ConspicuousGloves: In the episode "Demon with a Glass Hand", the man with the glass hand wears a glove over it, only removing it to speak to it or add a finger as he finds them.
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* ConspicuousGloves: In the episode "Demon with a Glass Hand", the Trent (the man with the glass hand hand) wears a glove over it, only removing it to speak to it or add a finger as he finds them.
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* CourtroomEpisode: "O.B.I.T.", "I, Robot".
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* DarkIsNotEvil: [[spoiler:The Ebonites in the TOS version of "Nightmare".]]
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* HumansThroughAlienEyes: "Controlled Experiment".
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*** Oh, and some of the TOS aliens went barefoot as well ("The Children of Spider County", "The Chameleon").
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*** Oh, and some Some of the TOS aliens went barefoot as well ("The Children of Spider County", "The Chameleon").
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* WhatNowEnding: "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork". [[spoiler:The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as a policeman notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with hit.]]
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* WhatNowEnding: "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork". [[spoiler:The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as a policeman notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with hit.it.]]
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* WhatNowEnding: "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork". [[spoiler:The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as a policeman notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''. No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with hit.]]
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* WhatNowEnding: "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork". [[spoiler:The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as a policeman notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''.moment''". No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with hit.]]
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* WhatNowEnding: "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork". [[spoiler:The deadly energy monster is confined again, but as a policeman notes, "It's under control--''for the moment''. No one knows how (or if) it can be destroyed, or how else to deal with hit.]]
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* YouLookFamiliar: The {{Revival}} had several episodes featuring the time-traveler Nicholas Prentice, played by Alex Diakun. Alex Diakun also played unrelated characters in unrelated stories, most confusingly the store owner in "Alien Shop", which aired after two Nicholas Prentice episodes had established character continuity.
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* YouLookFamiliar: Both series did this.
** The {{Revival}} had several episodes featuring the time-traveler Nicholas Prentice, played by Alex Diakun. Alex Diakun also played unrelated characters in unrelated stories, most confusingly the store owner in "Alien Shop", which aired after two Nicholas Prentice episodes had established character continuity.
** The {{Revival}} had several episodes featuring the time-traveler Nicholas Prentice, played by Alex Diakun. Alex Diakun also played unrelated characters in unrelated stories, most confusingly the store owner in "Alien Shop", which aired after two Nicholas Prentice episodes had established character continuity.
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* TimeIsDangerous: In one {{revival}} episode, the result of RippleEffectProofMemory is that an entirely new lifetime's worth of memories gets added onto the existing one, which could result in brain damage.
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* TimeIsDangerous: TimeIsDangerous:
** In one {{revival}} episode, the result of RippleEffectProofMemory is that an entirely new lifetime's worth of memories gets added onto the existing one, which could result in brain damage.
** In one {{revival}} episode, the result of RippleEffectProofMemory is that an entirely new lifetime's worth of memories gets added onto the existing one, which could result in brain damage.
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* PoorCommunicationKills: In his ''Outer Limits Companion'', David J. Schow identifies this as a plot flaw in two TOS episodes, "The Mice" and "Second Chance". He notes that both episodes feature "a lone alien on a mission that is terminated because the aliens do not bother to ask for what they want."
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* PoorCommunicationKills: PoorCommunicationKills:
** In his ''Outer Limits Companion'', David J. Schow identifies this as a plot flaw in two TOS episodes, "The Mice" and "Second Chance". He notes that both episodes feature "a lone alien on a mission that is terminated because the aliens do not bother to ask for what they want."
** In his ''Outer Limits Companion'', David J. Schow identifies this as a plot flaw in two TOS episodes, "The Mice" and "Second Chance". He notes that both episodes feature "a lone alien on a mission that is terminated because the aliens do not bother to ask for what they want."
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* DrivenToSuicide: At the climax of "The Man with the Power", [[spoiler:Harold Finley, who has gained deadly new mental powers, declares that "If I have this power, then I don't want to live" and turns it on himself]].
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* AGodAmI: "The Sixth Finger", pictured above.
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* AGodAmI: "The Sixth Finger", pictured above.above, and "The Brain of Colonel Barham".
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The setting of "Nightmare", "Specimen: Unknown", "Moonstone", "The Duplicate Man" and some episodes of the {{Revival}}.
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* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture: The setting of "Nightmare", "Nightmare" [TOS version], "Specimen: Unknown", "Moonstone", "The Duplicate Man" and some episodes of the {{Revival}}.
