Outer Limits The Architects of Fear Part Six

[denberg2]

What is the monkey for in this story? What is its purpose? Why is it being kept? Thanks.

[49bobbyk]

The ultimate cold war television show. The fears in us all were brought forth in these episodes. A great television classic.

[5355vbxjbj76rvn]

I want to know how they undertook all that surgery on his head without destroying the brain.

[Bladerunner93]

Wow. Good closing narration. Thanks for posting, I really enjoyed this

[team10leader]

You think maybe there is some true meaning to that moral? That peace isn't built upon a shared fear, but through more positive attributes, like the ones shared by families?

[clockworktim]

I could never figure out the design of the creature - was it's fanged mouth with breathing tube part of its "face" or was it an entire breathing apparatus clamped down over the lower half of its face?  I remember trying to draw this alien as a child.

[puck30]

In "The Architects of Fear", the monstrously-altered Leighton, was judged by some local stations to be so frightening that the creature's eyes were obscured on some prints at the time of broadcast. yes by today's standards, no biggie. Ah! The good old days!

[clockworktim]

@puck30  Very cool trivia, puck30! What did the "obscured eyes" look like? Please post any other details of this episode you remember. Thanks!

[harwicke]

This episode is one of the best moments in Television history.

[XMIR10C]

I'd rather be married to a scarecrow than the Cluntin.

[ishman2006]

Thankyou for the upload!

[SuperOmnicron]

Outstanding...awaiting the Outer Limits remake, this one, the invisibles and Forms of things Unknwon

[almore1999]

I had no idea this existed. Excellent piece, way better handled, specially at the end, than Watchmen...

[johnnythunder19]

I heard that Alan Moore specifically changed the original ending of Watchmen at the last minute fearing it would be too similar to this. Although I cannot prove that rumor's veracity it is cool to think of this as a sort of alternate ending to Watchmen.

[fuckpetelarson]

I haven't heard that; I know that while he was writing part 10 he read about this and noticed the similarity which is why The Outer Limits is on the tv right at the end of the last comic

[NevTheDeranged]

The first time I saw this ep was way back... they said the alien was so disturbing that some channels blanked out the face... I was hoping for something really creepy, but I guess by the time I saw it the effects were no longer state of the art, and it was just goofy looking, and I was disappointed. The novel _Man Plus_ by Frederick Pohl, is similar to this, where the scientists rebuild a man to survive on Mars unassisted, and he ends up looking like a demon. He also seeks out his wife.

[mikepalomino]

Thanks for sharing these vids - I too came here because of its mentioned connection to Watchmen.

I wonder if Ronald Reagan could have possibly been aware of this program/episode when he made his (somewhat) famous speech at the UN about the powers of the world uniting to fight an "extraterrestrial threat."

[tupello9]

Cool video - thanks for uploading- I watched all of this because this episode is reference in the Watchmen...

[Spartacus217]

Architects of Fear. The Bush Administration must have learned from this episode.

[kikuchiyoh]

Kind of turned out the same way in the end...

[XMIR10C]

Your a fool. It was Clinton who needed to learn man - a cheatin president no less.

[Spartacus217]

I didn't approve of his 'cheating', but that was his own business not ours.

[CaptainVideo890]

It... didn't... work. Wow. Rorschach must be happy.

[JablesMcLovin]

OMG this is crazy, complete opposite of how it happens in Watchmen.

[BlakeVII]

I really enjoyed watching all the parts to this episode. Thanks for uploading.

[jandy1]

Conrad Hall!!!

[jayjayjay]

Actually a pretty neat episode and plot by today's standards, especially the "Oh crap all that work and it failed" ending.Thanks for the upload!

[soppdrake]

Thanks for putting this up. I have enjoyed it. Alan Moore "recognises" its similarity to Veidt's idea in Watchmen by mentioning this Outer Limits episode in the graphic novel's last chapter.

Again, thanks!

[ClamLuvr]

Oh so that's why there are wars in the world now - because this project failed.