I personally own both seasons on DVD and this is on of my favorites. It was a bold statement on humanity, compassion, and love v.s. the progress of genetic intellect and biological evolution. A lot of people here wonder why he needed the girl in the end to to help him make the final step to the future. I think he needed to know it was O.K. from her to go. The journey into evolution needs to be taken together..men and women working together;..or not at all. Men and women together = humanity
I always had a question about the end of this episode: I he could control everything with his evolved mind, why did he need the girl to move the lever?
Maybe I missed something...
Nonetheless, enjoyed this episode--some fine acting...
Saw it in the early 1990s and loved it, just downloaded it on iTunes. There are funny parts, of course. Evolution occurs through generations by birth, not in individuals and there's no ultimate goal, just adaptation to the environment. Then there's the forward-backward lever which nowadays seems totally over the top. But I liked what it tried to say about humanity and the acting. Amazed it's never been remade though that's probably just as well. It was done perfectly the first time.
He had a mind evolved over a million years into the future of mankind and he couldn't figure out a way to work the machine on his own from inside the chamber...lol. He must have wanted her to turn him back.
@funis2sk8 alright your saying that a twilight zone episode always has a twist ending wher characters are disapointed in the outer limits the charcters achieve symetry with the future
47 years after i first watched this,doctors still do not know how are brain and chemicals really work. what a chilling reality. of course these doctors are just bone, blood and muscle, and they havnt any answers and will die. what a masquerade they play, its crazy, to hold this false perception of them. they have a white uniform and everyone is hypnotized by a false belief. is anyone else awake? i am....thats whats scary.
Who's to say that this would be the evolutionary path mankind will take within a span of a million years or so, provided they do not destroy themselves over the course of time.
@aikicinema Lots of animals have pointed ears, dogs, cats, etc. Shaping the ear more like the cross-section of a cone probably picks up more frequencies. Heh but then again who needs to hear when one can throw people across a room just by giving em a dirty look? : )
This is a great episode of "The Outer Limits" truly one of my favorites and I like the make up as well as the special effects in this episode too, Thank you so much for posting this.
These old Sci Fi scientists never seem to even consider the many laws and ethical proscriptions regarding human experimentation, not to mention that real scientific testing would require more than one subject.
@viralshadow David McCallum is best known for his past roles on American television as Kuryakin in the spy drama "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and his current role as "Ducky" Mallard, the chief ME in the detective show "NCIS". To what extent these programs are SF is debatable; they both certainly make high use of some fantastic technology. He did do a short lived SF series in the UK called "Sapphire and Steel".
@viralshadow he did 2 outer limits episodes and a remake of one also an ivisible man series war movies like the great escape and some nonsense like sex and the city
Wasn't there an old story where some guy does a similar experiment and evolves himself into a giant brain, then finally becomes a puddle of protoplasm?
@ReverendSyn Yes, it's "The Man Who Evolved," a 1931 story by Edmond Hamilton. You can find it in the anthology "Before the Golden Age," edited by Isaac Asimov.
@ReverendSyn donavans brain had lew ayres and nancy reagen about a millionaire that wants to live forever and puts his brain in a jar [ironic because lew ayres was a conscientious objector in world war 2 that was a medic in 6 battles and nancy reagen was married to presedint reagan who wasnt exactly a peace nik
@spacepatrolman the other part of the story is carl wilson of the beach boys was a conscientios objector tn the vietnam war james watt through the beach boys out of washington dc concerts reagen called him up and said you idiot now 9 million people that like the beach boys wont vote for me and invited them to the white house
@runner305 There was a rubber halloween mask issued in the 1970s it looked really good it goes over your head with the big ears and all but this is not a halloween story this is a love story the coal miner volenteers for an experiment in an evolution machine evolves through a violent faze to a more peaceful faze when he he wants to push the lever to infinity his girlfriend brings him back at the last moment [ gary raymond turned down the part he said i am a serious actor then he did the rat
@spacepatrolman patrol on ABC the outer limits was a united artists series united artists was started by dw griffith and mary pickford in the silent movie days some say thrt silent movies had the best acting when david mcallum is in the evolution machine he is silent movie acting
IN AMERICA OR ANY COUNTRY BELOW
eye2eyeize 1 week ago
NO 2 NDAA NO 2 SOPA NO 2 ACTA NO 2 FEMA CAMPS JAILS GHOST!
eye2eyeize 1 week ago
David does play a great alien, he did it again in sapphire and steel
moxie96 1 month ago
is there any youtube video were there isn't countless people arguing ? If so can someone please give me the link to it. Good episode.
pxndxprincess1 2 months ago 2
I personally own both seasons on DVD and this is on of my favorites. It was a bold statement on humanity, compassion, and love v.s. the progress of genetic intellect and biological evolution. A lot of people here wonder why he needed the girl in the end to to help him make the final step to the future. I think he needed to know it was O.K. from her to go. The journey into evolution needs to be taken together..men and women working together;..or not at all. Men and women together = humanity
zenjim007 2 months ago
47:02 lol
mpjgbx 3 months ago in playlist Season 1
@Azraelbaxtalo we are standing at the crossroads of evolution right now
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
I always had a question about the end of this episode: I he could control everything with his evolved mind, why did he need the girl to move the lever?
Maybe I missed something...
Nonetheless, enjoyed this episode--some fine acting...
vonzigle 5 months ago
Saw it in the early 1990s and loved it, just downloaded it on iTunes. There are funny parts, of course. Evolution occurs through generations by birth, not in individuals and there's no ultimate goal, just adaptation to the environment. Then there's the forward-backward lever which nowadays seems totally over the top. But I liked what it tried to say about humanity and the acting. Amazed it's never been remade though that's probably just as well. It was done perfectly the first time.
TheBronzeSkull 5 months ago
If this was the Twilight Zone, she would have gone too far, he would have become a cave man ( or an ape) and the machine would have broken.
MrK623 5 months ago in playlist Season 1
@MrK623 Apes and man are thought to have had a common ancestor, not
present man evolving from apes.
forcelifeforce 4 months ago
@forcelifeforce what is the common ancestor insects wars are left over from the insect faze of our evolution
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
Dude evolved into the Great Gazoo.
GraveMistake1 6 months ago
The whole town must be utterly destroyed, an example must be made!!
albatross7677 6 months ago
I would never want to be that intellegent.....would get boring knowing everything.
MzSunnyJeep 7 months ago
He had a mind evolved over a million years into the future of mankind and he couldn't figure out a way to work the machine on his own from inside the chamber...lol. He must have wanted her to turn him back.
funis2sk8 7 months ago
@funis2sk8 NO he said you wouldnt want to go back to being an ape but she pulls him back at the last minute
spacepatrolman 7 months ago
@spacepatrolman I dont think you understood what I said at all...
funis2sk8 5 months ago
@funis2sk8 alright your saying that a twilight zone episode always has a twist ending wher characters are disapointed in the outer limits the charcters achieve symetry with the future
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
47 years after i first watched this,doctors still do not know how are brain and chemicals really work. what a chilling reality. of course these doctors are just bone, blood and muscle, and they havnt any answers and will die. what a masquerade they play, its crazy, to hold this false perception of them. they have a white uniform and everyone is hypnotized by a false belief. is anyone else awake? i am....thats whats scary.
hypnoboy3 7 months ago
who is this blonde woman, damn's she's gorgeous
ATENakaATON 8 months ago
indiana come visit on vacation and leave on probation,if your poor stay out of dearborn county indiana, i have been trapped here for twenty years.
troytblevins 8 months ago
Who's to say that this would be the evolutionary path mankind will take within a span of a million years or so, provided they do not destroy themselves over the course of time.
TimelordR 9 months ago
That has got be Gould playing Bach's Prelude No. 5 in D BWV 850a. Nobody plays it like that.
THEHORNBECK123 10 months ago
If you pulled a Sixth Finger would you get a brain fart?
ReverendSyn 1 year ago 2
What possible evolutionary purpose could pointy ears serve?
aikicinema 1 year ago
@aikicinema You can hear better when your playing the piano with your 12 fingers
spacepatrolman 1 year ago 2
@aikicinema Lots of animals have pointed ears, dogs, cats, etc. Shaping the ear more like the cross-section of a cone probably picks up more frequencies. Heh but then again who needs to hear when one can throw people across a room just by giving em a dirty look? : )
frenchmarky 8 months ago
@aikicinema better to attract a mate
ATENakaATON 8 months ago
@aikicinema aerodynamics............hehe
jacopman 6 months ago
This episode is also a real classic Sci fiction episode I always love the classics.
tvjeff53 1 year ago
This is a great episode of "The Outer Limits" truly one of my favorites and I like the make up as well as the special effects in this episode too, Thank you so much for posting this.
tvjeff53 1 year ago
this muthafucka is so ugly
Spongebiby 1 year ago
These old Sci Fi scientists never seem to even consider the many laws and ethical proscriptions regarding human experimentation, not to mention that real scientific testing would require more than one subject.
PraiseDivineMercy 1 year ago
Don't forget Edward Mulhare, from "The Ghost & Mrs. Muir"!
LShackley 1 year ago
David McCallum did a lot of these old Sci-Fi show didn't he?
viralshadow 1 year ago
@viralshadow David McCallum is best known for his past roles on American television as Kuryakin in the spy drama "The Man from U.N.C.L.E." and his current role as "Ducky" Mallard, the chief ME in the detective show "NCIS". To what extent these programs are SF is debatable; they both certainly make high use of some fantastic technology. He did do a short lived SF series in the UK called "Sapphire and Steel".
MrEoin2 8 months ago
@viralshadow he did 2 outer limits episodes and a remake of one also an ivisible man series war movies like the great escape and some nonsense like sex and the city
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
Your ignorance makes me ill and angry. But your outfits make me want to play "YMCA."
toddclapp 1 year ago 8
Wasn't there an old story where some guy does a similar experiment and evolves himself into a giant brain, then finally becomes a puddle of protoplasm?
Im trying to remember the title but no dice.
ReverendSyn 1 year ago
@ReverendSyn Yes, it's "The Man Who Evolved," a 1931 story by Edmond Hamilton. You can find it in the anthology "Before the Golden Age," edited by Isaac Asimov.
patrickmorrisberry 1 year ago
@ReverendSyn donavans brain had lew ayres and nancy reagen about a millionaire that wants to live forever and puts his brain in a jar [ironic because lew ayres was a conscientious objector in world war 2 that was a medic in 6 battles and nancy reagen was married to presedint reagan who wasnt exactly a peace nik
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
@spacepatrolman the other part of the story is carl wilson of the beach boys was a conscientios objector tn the vietnam war james watt through the beach boys out of washington dc concerts reagen called him up and said you idiot now 9 million people that like the beach boys wont vote for me and invited them to the white house
spacepatrolman 1 year ago
@spacepatrolman I was looking for "The Man Who Evolved."
And Reagan was awesome.
ReverendSyn 1 year ago
@ReverendSyn Ah, yes. That's it. Thank you.
ReverendSyn 1 year ago
One of my favs.
Legion1937 1 year ago
I always thought the special effects and make-up for this episode were so awesome for their time! Wish they'd do a remake of this...
runner305 1 year ago 7
@runner305 There was a rubber halloween mask issued in the 1970s it looked really good it goes over your head with the big ears and all but this is not a halloween story this is a love story the coal miner volenteers for an experiment in an evolution machine evolves through a violent faze to a more peaceful faze when he he wants to push the lever to infinity his girlfriend brings him back at the last moment [ gary raymond turned down the part he said i am a serious actor then he did the rat
spacepatrolman 4 months ago
@spacepatrolman patrol on ABC the outer limits was a united artists series united artists was started by dw griffith and mary pickford in the silent movie days some say thrt silent movies had the best acting when david mcallum is in the evolution machine he is silent movie acting
spacepatrolman 4 months ago