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I loved the Outer Limits! Next to the Twilight Zone it was my fav. I could only watch it when my mom was working nights - Dad would let us but mom thought that it was too scary. I love your podcast hopefully some other folks will find you.

Hello downhill:
Thanks so much for joining The B-Movie Cast Forums. I think you’re actually the first member. I hope we can make a community out of this much like they did at Sci-Fi Digg.com. I think my next podcast will be about the 1934 film The Black Cat with  Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi. I have never seen it yet but my wife got me The Bela Lugosi Collection (Murders in the Rue Morgue / The Black Cat / The Raven / The Invisible Ray / Black Friday) (1934) for Valentine’s Day. It’s one I have been waiting to see for a long time. Good bit of history with this one. Stay tuned.

Never a big fan of The Outer Limits or Twilight Zone (old and new) but I've probably seen a hell of a lot more episodes than I actually realise over the years. I seem to have trouble with anthology type shows losing interest in Masters of Horror half way through and in the case of OL/TZ I never like the depressing endings, the "hero" or the human race never seemed to come out ahead

I think thats what I liked about them. Have not seen Masters of Horror yet. Is it on DVD?

I think that the darkness was a sign of the times. I can remember hiding under my desk with the other kids at school as part of a drill. Sometimes we were herded into the BOYS bathroom because it had no windows. LOL
As a child of the times I rather liked the darkness, the hope did not come until later with Star Trek and others shows like that.

Your are right about that. I’m also from that era. I remember the cold war and duck and cover videos. I can remember me and a friend digging a fall out shelter in the back yard. We had a book from the civil defense that had all the stuff you need to put in the shelter to survive. Getting back to The Outer Limits. Remember the episode  “The Hundred Days of the Dragon”

A drug which makes flesh plastic enables a foreign agent to impersonate a US presidential candidate.

No one knows, but the President is not who he appears to be.  In a
terrifying timely story of genetic engineering and East-West powerplay,
"The Hundred Days of the Dragon" stars Sidney Blackmer (Rosemary's
Baby) as a popular American President who puts into place a master
plan to slowly and steadily destroy the United States.  Only the
President's daughter can stop him--if she can uncover his secret before it's too late.  A classic chiller from the TV series that influenced
a generation of horror and suspense films.

That has cold war times written all over it.

Indeed I remember it well - it scared the hell out of me. LOL

It's been released as individual volumes or double ep packs on R1 and in two volumes on R2.
They really have twisted the knife in an effort to exploit the fans