The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits was a TV series that ran on ABC from the fall of 1963 to early 1965. It was similar to the more widely popular The Twilight Zone . As a youngster, I saw a few episodes of The Twilight Zone , but since I was only 2 years old when the first episode of The Outer Limits aired, and not to mention that we couldn't pick up ABC on our family's television set, I can't say that I saw any of the original broadcasts. It would be many years later when I first heard of The Outer Limits. Of course, most amateur astronomers in the 1980s and 1990s became familiar with the old TV series, mainly because of its closing credits that were superimposed onto pictures of some of the best deep-sky objects taken by the world's largest telescopes. As I mentioned in an earlier post (or two), the average person didn't get to see many pictures of celestial objects in the media during those years. So, whenever there was a show like The Outer Limits or Star Trek , with picture...