The Outer Limits Gum Cards

A complete set 50/50 of "The Outer Limits" bubblegum cards issued in 1964. I remember seeing these at the time and having nightmares about the monsters depicted on them. These cards and the infamous "Mars Attacks" had a big impact on my young imagination. The stories on the back have absolutely nothing to do with the images on the front as they appeared in the tv series.
Music by Hans J. Slater and William Lava

Category:

Film & Animation

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• The
• Outer
• Limits
• Monsters
• SciFi
• Television
• Horror
• Bubblegum
• Card
• Collection
• Woolcroft

[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!

[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 :)

[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.

[TheDada707]

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

[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.

[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.

[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