The Form of Things Unknown part one

[xadam2dudex]

what sorta bush was that ?? I know a few people that need killin'

[Nguli34689]

It looked like an oleander leaf to me. I also know that oleander poisoning is one of the first things a toxicologist in forensics looks for. I like part two of this series where one of the ladies has this morbid dream about a woman reaching for the flowers on the coffin and then with angry emotion throws it at the both of them.

[PRINCESAPHIR]

L'action se déroule à.... Aix les Bains !!!!!

[oluham]

the opening music souds like the theme from the invaders!

[AlexDraco]

@oluham Yes, they used the same theme, apparently ; i also heard this particular OL episode was at first supposed to be the pilot episode for a new series of the same kind.

[lrd9999]

I had seen enough other episodes of "The Outer Limits" that when this one came on the MGM channel, I could tell it was much different. The others were scary in a fun, sometimes cheesy way. But this is a work of film noir art. Just the lighting, camera angles and strange dialog patterns kept my eyes glued to the screen. There was no need to add creepiness in the form of monsters and aliens, this is permeated with it. Thanks for uploading it!

[gomro]

This was created as a pilot for a new anthology, which would have been called THE UNKNOWN (Larry Cohen borrowed the title design and music from the UNKNOWN version for his own SF legend, THE INVADERS). ABC nixed it, so it was aired as an OUTER LIMITS (I almost wrote OUTRE Limits, which would have been on the nose) minus its original credits and music, and with some scenes altered.

[b4ihang]

If I had to choose which would actually alter time, a room full of mysterious clocks and strings that seem to come out of no where, or some CGI of a boring and predictable computerized time machine which is based on current scientistic beliefs which combine probability theory with quantum physics to get alternate universes, I'm siding with the clocks and strings. And it's the alternate universe theory that gets my LOL long before I'll laugh at those clocks and strings.

[wrght9185]

Vera Miles & Barbara Rush are really attractive women. They both look so good in this episode. I think both of them are better actresses than they were ever given credit for. Thanks for the upload.

[glimmer2158]

I need some M. And I need some M now.

[OrmEmber]

A string of bare lightbulbs, a long perspective shot, and you have a scary scene in the Outer Limits style. Only the Outer limits could make a bunch of cookoo clocks with strings attached to them seem scary.

Tho. it is a bit silly that the girl would run screaming from them down the hallway.....

[Danielspamjam]

what an AMAZING show!

[Nikolaii257]

Can YOU pass the acid test?

This episode reminds me of the mind control experiments of the early 1960's when LSD research was a respected science before a well known pied piper took it out of the scientific context and the rest was a disaster for scientific inquiry.

[Jackalman99]

fast acting shit the ladies gave him? I wish I knew what that plant was I'd slip an asshole I know some, if I knew where he was now.

[barflewk]

Thought I saw every ep of the Outer Limits, this is unfamiliar to me. I do like the way he be treating his bee-otches "Tasha will pour, Leonora will serve"

[riker388]

the woman is scared of the clocks lol the beginging

[scotpens]

Ah, the perfect dry martini. Shaken, not stirred -- and for that special touch, a garnish of POISON!

How does Leonora know those leaves are poisonous? Does she have a degree in botany, or is it something she learned in the Girl Scouts?

[dreamybluemeany]

well they teach you that sort of thing in the Brownies in Britain :) Training to kill off mean evil men with drinks: it's what the organsiation is for.

[SuperOmnicron]

@dreamybluemeany Great episode! Directed by Gerd Oswald, who immigrated from Germany to America to go on to direct fairly compelling episodes of Star Trek. This was very much classic psychological storytelling. The self-induced hypnosis that Tone put himself under....very intriguing.

[invincibleironman3]

yeah, the gothic aspect was european in nature. Gerd Oswald wrote this episode, and he wrote "Brainwashed" in Germany, previously. Joseph Stefano also contributed on Hitchcock's Psycho.

[lostindreams3]

For a minute I thought the guy was naked

[unclepatrick2]

This episode has the most gothic feel of any of them. One of the things that make Outer Limit a classic is the sense of Gothic that Stefano put in the series.

[scotpens]

"Don't Open Till Doomsday" and "The Guests" also have strong Gothic elements, with the mostly incomprehensible science-fiction bits seemingly written in as an afterthought.

[OrmEmber]

Yes, there's nothing quite like a bunch of clocks tied together with string to induce horror in a girl....

Of course, a room full of deep fried twinkies might have the same effect....

[bigal2024]

Ding Dongs would probably be scarier

[fromthesidelines]

This episode was supposed to serve as a spin-off for a horror/suspense anthology series to have been produced by Joseph Stefano called "THE UNKNOWN", which ABC rejected for the 1964-'65 season. An alternate version of this episode (as "THE UNKNOWN") exists, with slightly different scenes and a VERY different ending...

[wahoo76]

That video was once posted on youtube, but now it seems to have vanished...

[abby495]

Ilya Kuriakin yes I remember Vera Miles was also in U.N.C.L.E One of our Spies is missing and her name is Casha? here. I think this is the best outer limits episode ever and I love the character of Leonora.

[secretagentjohndrake]

Great to see this one again, best watched on a dark and stormy night, also has the theme from "The Invaders" TV show and U.N.C.L.E agent Ilya

[BoilingPoint212F]

Guess you really couldn't say the theme was  from the Invaders since the Invaders first episode was 3 or 4 years after this episode.

[scotpens]

Dominic Frontiere's music for this episode was later used as the main title theme of "The Invaders." The ripping-paper effect in the title graphics of "The Unknown" (the unsold pilot version of this episode) was also re-used for "The Invaders."