The Outer Limits Gum Cards

[dalekshire]

Believe it or not I have the full set of these still from collecting em as a 7 year old

[woolcroft]

@dalekshire They are worth a lot of money. Look after them!

[TheDada707]

got the full set + extra good 2 mint con. open 2 offers .

[jay55also]

Respond to this video... When I was a kid , I tried to collect all of the Outer Limit cards,but I kept getting a lot of doubles,sort of pissed me off too. I remember there were some cards that weren't really related to show though,I guess the creator of the series had something to with those movies. I remember a card had a picture of a giant human brain with eyes attached to it.

[jay55also]

@Great8Earthquake The Outer Limits was a cool show,it Crawled out of the woodwork,ha ha ha,was a Brillo steel wool pad,then it got sucked into a vacuum cleaner and became an energy monster,sort of a storm cloud. Johnny Quest had a similar monster,it was invisible until Dr. Quest and Race threw paint on it,it had one eye and screamed alot and needed electricity to live too.

[nyc88s]

Thanks so much for posting this!!! It really brings back memories of when I was 9 and 10 years old. I had about half of these cards, but as a fan of the tv show I was annoyed at the stories on the backs of the cards which had zero to do with the actual stories. Now I find them rather quaint, as I do the crude coloring. This was a great blast from the past!

[woolcroft]

@nyc88s I wonder how many young imaginations were inspired by this great series. Thanks for your comments :)

[krelllabs]

Hans Salter



[pmoholland]

lol i think they liked the pictures and ditched the original stories and came up with there own which some was preaty decent ideas but some where rediculous lol

[GodzillaSr]

did the card have any idea what the actual episodes were really about or they just looked at the pictures and came up with there own descriptive?? I have the entire collection of the outerlimits dvd and there is no conection

[woolcroft]

@Great8Earthquake The mind can conjure up more horror than any CGI or FX ever created. Thanks for your coment :)

[teamsterbrian]

This is unbelievable to me! I was a kid who studied + worshiped these monsters! seeing that these stories + cards dont match is like saying Santa Claus + the Easter Bunny are your parents!!!!!!!

[monsterwaxguy]

The stories on the back were different because they had a license to print the images, but not rights to the stories. They would often disguise the actors face with a beard or something to avoid needing to pay for his likeness as well. But the masks and monsters were all included in the license.

[PhiloYT1]

I was (and continue to be) a big fan of "The Outer Limits," but I had no idea these cards even existed! And it's so strange that they have the images from the shows, but the stories have nothing to do with them!

I kept pausing your video to read the cards - "The Zanti Misfits," "The Man Who Was Never Born," "Nightmare," "The Sixth Finger," - the colorized images are great, but the stories are all wrong! Must have been some sort of copyright issue, I'll bet.

Thanks for sharing, woolcroft.

[woolcroft]

@PhiloYT1 I was seven when these and the 'Mars Attacks' gum cards came out and the pictures on them nearly scared me as much as the tv series which I watched from behind the sofa. The image I remember that disturbed me most was from 'The Hundred Days Of The Dragon' where the secret service agent drags his fingers down the putty like face of the man impersonating the President. Ugh! Tanx for your great comments.

[jay55also]

@woolcroft A classic episode,I really think the network or United Artist wanted to just purposely wanted to cancel the show ,because of the waning popularity of the Sci-fi anthology. I think that if they hadn't cut the production budget of the show ,it could have at least made it to 3 full seasons.

[pmoholland]

@PhiloYT1 ..... yeah i had these cards when i was a kid and they was awsome wish i still had them be worhtmoney""" but the stories on the back of the cards had absolutely nothing to do with there tv story counter parts was like they came up with a continuing story what happens after the tv story line on some of them others no match at all but the pics was great

[TheStupedCat]

Wow I haven't seen those cards in years ,they realy bring me back to my childhood.. Thank you so very much for posting this..

[woolcroft]

@TheStupedCat Tanx for your comments. Glad you enjoyed see these cards again

[spacepatrolman]

This is cute because you are seeing something in color that you are used to seeing in black and white [ you can put saran wrap on your tv screen and color it in with magic markers ] .

[spacepatrolman]

the explinations on the backs of the cards are totaly wrong for the plots of the episodes .