I know the younger generation raised with CGI will dismiss a lot of the creatures in the Outer Limits as "Cheesy" but to me they are endless classics. The stories, the film noir look, the music scores, the sound effects are still timeless and incredible -
You are correct about the younger generation. According to an Interview with Robert Culp , what they don't know is that the Outer Limits staff in some Episodes used whatever they had or find in the studio to come up with for props and monster make up. They were brilliant.
Over time I think people have kinda gotten tired of CGI. A lot of these monsters are scarier to me (a child of the 90s) because they're clearly actually _there_, not something without substance added later.
@@DinsRune I agree on the CGI fatigue- that's why Top Gun Maverick was such a hit - largely practical effects that have a visceral quality that still can't be duplicated 100% with CGI
Young people these days will never understand just how good these television shows were in their time. Pure imagination and great writing. Special effects we're basically just rubber suits but it was the cutting edge.
Man with the Super Sight (sunny side up eggs), and Parasite The Invisibles (furry crab), really freaked this 7 year old out. Totally campy today, but this show was so bad, it's GREAT! Wonderful stories- low budget. The perfect show to smoke a doobie, escape, and enjoy your leisure years..
Many of these monsters scared the daylights out of me as a child of 7 and 8. As I look back the monsters were so much better than the “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”/“Lost in Space” Irwin Allen creatures. The one I found most disturbing was the Chrominite from “The Mice”
Agreed! I called it 'The Jelly Monster'. Remember the scene showing it feeding itself by the shore of a lake with those lobster claws. Nightmarish stuff; I was 7 years old then too.
Outer limits was way ahead of it’s time. I remember staying up late as a small boy watching this show with my older brother. It scared the daylights out of me. Yes, looking back on it now it was a bit primitive, but at the time it was truly frightening. The writing was excellent, the music & sound effects were truly scary & it was all shot in black-and-white, which made it even scarier. Such good memories of this series.
From the age of 7 in 63 my folks let me watch all the Monster movies i could & Twilight Zone, but this show was & will always remain my favorite. I still have my original collection of the Bubble Gum cards from the show & though they did rerelease them at one point the originals are worth quite a bit, but the memories are priceless. The Galaxy Being & The Chameleon were my most loved episodes. They had no bad stories or writers & actors which made the series just that much better than any other sci fi series.
Amazing work for its day & limited budget. It shows what can be created thru handcrafting & imagination. One of the timeliness TV programs of days long ago.
"THE OUTER LIMITS" was the ultimate in science fiction, and the collection of its Alien creatures seen each week on Monday evenings in the 1963-1964 TV season on ABC-TV gave TV viewers an impressive collection of some of the finest Alien creature makeups ever created for Television. And, in fact, some of these chilling creations later were used in other TV shows, like "The Helosian" being from "O.B.I.T.", which was later used in an episode of CBS's "THE MUNSTERS", while a few of them later turned up on "STAR TREK", but re-created and slightly altered, like the beings from the classic Outer Limits episode, "Fun and Games", in which the main costume was altered to become a creature that a Talosian had mentally used on "Christopher Pike" (Jeffery Hunter) in "THE CAGE", and the huge microbe used in the very last episode of the series, "The Probe" later became altered to become "The Horta" in "STAR TREK"s "The Devil In The Dark" in 1967, but one creature that totally put some ABC viewers in a tizzy, was "The Bear," a term that producer Joseph Stefano used to describe the creatures on the show, from "The Architects of Fear", which many ABC affiliates had to censor because the network and its other stations found it too scary, but this was 1963, and things were a bit different back then! the second to the last episode of the first season of "OUTER LIMITS" was "The Chameleon", with Robert Duvall (who later returned in season two's "The Inheritors") as secret agent "Louis Mace", who became a derelict in Mexico, who was recruited for an assignment to infiltrate a pair of Aliens who crash landed on Earth. the creature makeup was exceptional and creative, especially after the episode, "A Feasibility Study", while the final episode of the show's first season was "The Forms Of Things Unknown", which was also a series TV pilot called "THE UNKNOWN", about two scheming women (Vera Miles and Barbara Rush) who poison a blackmailer (Scott Marlowe) with a poisonous plant that they put into his drink. the two women, while driving their car in the rain, come across a house, where an egnomatic madman (David McCallum) tampers with a strange device-wired to a dozen of clocks, who brings back the murdered blackmailer back to life. hardly an exciting episode, but that's how the first season ended, while McCallum, who didn't have far to go, was at MGM, where this final episode was filmed, and he shortly took on another role-UNCLE agent, "Illya Kuryakin'" for NBC's "THE MAN FROM UNCLE" (1964-1968). But the creatures on "THE OUTER LIMITS" was the first of its kind for Network Television, which made the ABC series so immensely popular! Makeup artist John Chambers, along with Fred B. Phillips (who later worked in "STAR TREK" and "THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS") were among the key makeup people, who, along with Project Unlimited, who created these great alien beings. John Chambers later went on to design the makeup for 20th Century Fox's original "PLANET OF THE APES" (1968).
One of the stunt people who performed the "Allen Leighton" created creature in "The Architects of Fear" episode of "THE OUTER LIMITS" was Hungarian born stuntman, Janos Prohaska (1914 -1974) who also played the Intelligent monkey in "The Sixth Finger". Prohaska also performed the huge mutated microbe in the series finale' "The Probe", and also played a bird-like alien being in the "Forbidden World" episode of CBS's "LOST IN SPACE" in 1966, and played "The Mugato" in "STAR TREK"s "A Private Little War", and later, as "The Horta" in "The Devil In The Dark" (the costume was originally used as "The Microbe" in "The Probe", but was altered ), and, as the rock lifeform, "Yarnek" in "The Savage Curtin". Prohaska also played the White Gorilla in the "Fatal Cargo" episode of ABC's "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA" in 1967, and also played Apes in several "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" episodes, and as a "Do-Do Bird" in an episode of ABC's "BEWITCHED" in 1972.
@@MONGOOSE1ful he knew his craft better than anyone. It's therefore important to note that when interviewed about the famous Patterson-Gimblin Bigfoot footage of 1967 , he claimed it would be impossible to have faked. He would know better than anyone.
The early 60s was a time when we first orbited the earth . Kennedy was president and The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock show was on television then the Outer Limits appeared on our screens. Television didn't have massive budgets or effects back then it was the story's and the cinematography in this show that held us in our seats . Such a rich Era.
Back in the day it was seen by most people on a relatively small screens (21” or smaller) and over an antenna some noise/static, so the make up flaws were not as noticeable. The imagination filled in the rest. Also there were no fancy color CGI to compare it to. Today, to me even the DVD versions look damn good. The Chrominite of “the Mice” is especially disturbing!
The aliens in Nightmare, wearing tights and awkward headgear, look pretty 'costume-party' to modern eyes, but the acting in that episode is amazing. A crew of young method actors knocking themselves out to make it all real.
If you can get any more Outer Limit episodes I would love to see the very first one in this video! I cant remember the name unfortunately. That episode was ingenious as well as heartbreaking! Thank you for channel😊
Galaxy Being with Cliff Robertson ! I am long-time fan of what is now considered an almost 😅 “ Cult Classic TV series “. What was interesting was the being was played by the son of a Court 🧑⚖️! 🎭🔬
I really liked the eerie theme music by Dominic Frontier ; he later did the theme to Vegas with Robert Urich. Who was also looking in MagnumForce with Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry Callahan! 😃
My Father would not allow my brother & I to watch "the Outer Limits!". Too scary. I found out later that Dissonance in the Music Score wears on the Nervous system.- Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺, Georgia Perimeter College and GSU 😮
I seem to recall TV critics of the 1970s when reviewing The Outer Limits series years after its run on ABC would say that the show was pretentious but the audience for science fiction could see past that simple judgement and now most everyone can see it for the classic TV series that it is. It's truly a great TV program.
There are some absolutely brilliant episodes that reach far deeper than weird makeup and such. Morality tales comprise the majority of the stories, e.g., The Inheritors, parts 1 & 2. Just brilliant.
I watched this show in Chicago, IL on WGN channel 9 almost 50 years ago! I sound almost ancient now- Ha, Ha ! Thanks for posting this show on CZcams ! You left out so many others😢 like the invisible Enemy, Cold 🙌; Warm Heart and others I recall! Somewhere I think I have that whole series on DVD I think? The Invisibles creature reminded me of the face-hugger from ALIEN! Which scared the @&$ out of me in the movie 🎥 🎭 ! Thanks ☺️ for a brief trip down memory lane ! Maybe do Night Gallery someday ? :0
these classic b&w 1963 episodes of the outer limits should be in color for a new sci-fi viewing audience with great stories and special effects that were ahead of their time like demon with a glass hand and the galaxy being just to name a few.
I remember sitting and watching this show with my Dad and brother when it was airing live. It was my dad's favorite TV series. It and the Twilight Zone were both way ahead of their time and are iconic TV shows that have passed the test of time. Great stuff. I remember seeing most of these episodes as they debuted during it's live run. Lot's of good stuff on TV back in the day. It's all pretty much woke garbage now.
Lol, I love the subjective names that MGM gives the monsters in this video. It's like the old trading cards that had completely wrong, fake summaries of the episodes. Annoying for a fan, but amusing in this instance.
Always enjoyed the opening theme and dialog - after a while it seemed that the producers were trying to do things on the cheap and it lost its novelty.........
Your opening titles for the clips have nothing to do with the actual stories. Did you ever watch an entire episode? It would have been better to leave the titles out, for they mostly make no sense.
Yuk Yuk Yuk Yuk , Hardy Har Har Har Har , L o L L O L You Make a Good Point , But We Can't Tell If The Monsters Have " Orange Faces " filmed In B & W ! ! !
Of course you realize that the generation that grew up watching this stuff is slowly making its exit from God's green earth. As a direct consequence, the drug companies that calmed and treated the neurosis, paranoias, psychosis, depression and anxiety, of said generation, are all about to hit the brick wall of bankruptcy. This due to no longer having any clientele who have been effected by this programming during childhood. To quote Emporer Palpatine: "And once again we will have peace in the galaxy".
Back in the day , I could never get enough of " The Outer Limit s" , what a blessing to have U tube.
I make mine your worlds
Outer limits always delivered--the only place to go to get your monsters.
I know the younger generation raised with CGI will dismiss a lot of the creatures in the Outer Limits as "Cheesy" but to me they are endless classics. The stories, the film noir look, the music scores, the sound effects are still timeless and incredible -
You are correct about the younger generation. According to an Interview with Robert Culp , what they don't know is that the Outer Limits staff in some Episodes used whatever they had or find in the studio to come up with for props and monster make up. They were brilliant.
yes special effects on the early movies was really appreciated when first seen
Over time I think people have kinda gotten tired of CGI. A lot of these monsters are scarier to me (a child of the 90s) because they're clearly actually _there_, not something without substance added later.
@@DinsRune I agree on the CGI fatigue- that's why Top Gun Maverick was such a hit - largely practical effects that have a visceral quality that still can't be duplicated 100% with CGI
You are correct. These are classic episodes and stories with great writers and actors.
Young people these days will never understand just how good these television shows were in their time. Pure imagination and great writing. Special effects we're basically just rubber suits but it was the cutting edge.
I remember watching this in the 60s and I couldn't miss an episode. I thought it was really amazing.
Warren Oates did a terrific job portraying the title character in 'The Mutant'.
The Galaxy Being was a brilliant idea of a alien creature, it’s a being that’s of cosmic energy that can’t be contained.
I remember waiting anxiously for the fall TV season to begin.
Man with the Super Sight (sunny side up eggs), and Parasite The Invisibles (furry crab), really freaked this 7 year old out. Totally campy today, but this show was so bad, it's GREAT! Wonderful stories- low budget. The perfect show to smoke a doobie, escape, and enjoy your leisure years..
Glorious! Back then they did a lot more with a lot less! There is a lesson in this for Hollywood today!
Cgi can't beat this.. Was actual human work
Many of these monsters scared the daylights out of me as a child of 7 and 8. As I look back the monsters were so much better than the “Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”/“Lost in Space” Irwin Allen creatures. The one I found most disturbing was the Chrominite from “The Mice”
Agreed! I called it 'The Jelly Monster'. Remember the scene showing it feeding itself by the shore of a lake with those lobster claws.
Nightmarish stuff; I was 7 years old then too.
I too was a child of 7 and 8 The Outer Limit Monsters Terrified me too!!😮
Come on, the cooked lobster with the human face (“Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea”), didn't freak you out? Me neither.
Is it just me, but, does it seem scarier in black and white?
It does seem that way. Colorizing this series would be a grave mistake.
Outer limits was way ahead of it’s time. I remember staying up late as a small boy watching this show with my older brother. It scared the daylights out of me. Yes, looking back on it now it was a bit primitive, but at the time it was truly frightening. The writing was excellent, the music & sound effects were truly scary & it was all shot in black-and-white, which made it even scarier. Such good memories of this series.
This must have been super fun for sci-fi fans in the early sixties!
Better than many of the cheesy CGI effects today.
Best TV show ever. Then Combat!. Gunsmoke is next.
The Untouchables
Twilight Zone
Gunsmoke & T . L. Zone ! !
One Step Beyond (from 976-CREOLEMAN)!
From the age of 7 in 63 my folks let me watch all the Monster movies i could & Twilight Zone, but this show was & will always remain my favorite. I still have my original collection of the Bubble Gum cards from the show & though they did rerelease them at one point the originals are worth quite a bit, but the memories are priceless. The Galaxy Being & The Chameleon were my most loved episodes. They had no bad stories or writers & actors which made the series just that much better than any other sci fi series.
The Zanti Misfits episode scared the Hell out of me when Bruce Dern was being terrorised by those scary looking bug type creatures!!!
🎯🎯🎯😬😵💫😱!!!
Amazing work for its day & limited budget. It shows what can be created thru handcrafting & imagination. One of the timeliness TV programs of days long ago.
These are some good one's especially 'The sixth finger. My favorite is in the second season, the aliens, Ikar in 'keeper of the purple twilight'.
"THE OUTER LIMITS" was the ultimate in science fiction, and the collection of its Alien creatures seen each week on Monday evenings in the 1963-1964 TV season on ABC-TV gave TV viewers an impressive collection of some of the finest Alien creature makeups ever created for Television. And, in fact, some of these chilling creations later were used in other TV shows, like "The Helosian" being from "O.B.I.T.", which was later used in an episode of CBS's "THE MUNSTERS", while a few of them later turned up on "STAR TREK", but re-created and slightly altered, like the beings from the classic Outer Limits episode, "Fun and Games", in which the main costume was altered to become a creature that a Talosian had mentally used on "Christopher Pike" (Jeffery Hunter) in "THE CAGE", and the huge microbe used in the very last episode of the series, "The Probe" later became altered to become "The Horta" in "STAR TREK"s "The Devil In The Dark" in 1967, but one creature that totally put some ABC viewers in a tizzy, was "The Bear," a term that producer Joseph Stefano used to describe the creatures on the show, from "The Architects of Fear", which many ABC affiliates had to censor because the network and its other stations found it too scary, but this was 1963, and things were a bit different back then! the second to the last episode of the first season of "OUTER LIMITS" was "The Chameleon", with Robert Duvall (who later returned in season two's "The Inheritors") as secret agent "Louis Mace", who became a derelict in Mexico, who was recruited for an assignment to infiltrate a pair of Aliens who crash landed on Earth. the creature makeup was exceptional and creative, especially after the episode, "A Feasibility Study", while the final episode of the show's first season was "The Forms Of Things Unknown", which was also a series TV pilot called "THE UNKNOWN", about two scheming women (Vera Miles and Barbara Rush) who poison a blackmailer (Scott Marlowe) with a poisonous plant that they put into his drink. the two women, while driving their car in the rain, come across a house, where an egnomatic madman (David McCallum) tampers with a strange device-wired to a dozen of clocks, who brings back the murdered blackmailer back to life. hardly an exciting episode, but that's how the first season ended, while McCallum, who didn't have far to go, was at MGM, where this final episode was filmed, and he shortly took on another role-UNCLE agent, "Illya Kuryakin'" for NBC's "THE MAN FROM UNCLE" (1964-1968). But the creatures on "THE OUTER LIMITS" was the first of its kind for Network Television, which made the ABC series so immensely popular! Makeup artist John Chambers, along with Fred B. Phillips (who later worked in "STAR TREK" and "THE MAN FROM ATLANTIS") were among the key makeup people, who, along with Project Unlimited, who created these great alien beings. John Chambers later went on to design the makeup for 20th Century Fox's original "PLANET OF THE APES" (1968).
I remember Illya Kuryakin from the man from Uncle ... great show and I still remember his name. I was just a boy when I watched it.
One of the stunt people who performed the "Allen Leighton" created creature in "The Architects of Fear" episode of "THE OUTER LIMITS" was Hungarian born stuntman, Janos Prohaska (1914 -1974) who also played the Intelligent monkey in "The Sixth Finger". Prohaska also performed the huge mutated microbe in the series finale' "The Probe", and also played a bird-like alien being in the "Forbidden World" episode of CBS's "LOST IN SPACE" in 1966, and played "The Mugato" in "STAR TREK"s "A Private Little War", and later, as "The Horta" in "The Devil In The Dark" (the costume was originally used as "The Microbe" in "The Probe", but was altered ), and, as the rock lifeform, "Yarnek" in "The Savage Curtin". Prohaska also played the White Gorilla in the "Fatal Cargo" episode of ABC's "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA" in 1967, and also played Apes in several "GILLIGAN'S ISLAND" episodes, and as a "Do-Do Bird" in an episode of ABC's "BEWITCHED" in 1972.
@@glantern3 and the movie "The Great Escape".
@@MONGOOSE1ful he knew his craft better than anyone. It's therefore important to note that when interviewed about the famous Patterson-Gimblin Bigfoot footage of 1967 , he claimed it would be impossible to have faked. He would know better than anyone.
The early 60s was a time when we first orbited the earth . Kennedy was president and The Twilight Zone and Alfred Hitchcock show was on television then the Outer Limits appeared on our screens. Television didn't have massive budgets or effects back then it was the story's and the cinematography in this show that held us in our seats . Such a rich Era.
Martin Sheen couldn't talk. Best career move he ever made!
I no longer have any need for sleep...
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The guy with the huge eyes, that is a pretty seamless makeup job.
Two great episodes they left out, The Chemeleon and It crawled out of the woodwork
a brief Clip from the Chamelion at 12:19 above ... a Fantastic Episode :)
Brilliantly atmospheric camera work. Genuinely chilling.
Wow they really new how to make great tv shows back then
I think it was more scary back in the day because it was in black and white
& Viewing Today It's Still B & W ! ! !
Back in the day it was seen by most people on a relatively small screens (21” or smaller) and over an antenna some noise/static, so the make up flaws were not as noticeable. The imagination filled in the rest. Also there were no fancy color CGI to compare it to. Today, to me even the DVD versions look damn good. The Chrominite of “the Mice” is especially disturbing!
The Outer Limits, to me, was never about the 'monsters'. It was about the lessons taught.
Exactly
🎯🎯🎯👏👏👏!
Nice collection of bears.
Written,directed & starring some of Hollywood's finest T.O.L. The show sent a message to viewers as well as the creatures & monsters depicted.
The aliens in Nightmare, wearing tights and awkward headgear, look pretty 'costume-party' to modern eyes, but the acting in that episode is amazing. A crew of young method actors knocking themselves out to make it all real.
The Spider-People faced things!!👹😱🤣
The sound effects are always the best part! The Creature has what sounds like a dental drill slowed down.
Creatures from my youth.
If you can get any more Outer Limit episodes I would love to see the very first one in this video! I cant remember the name unfortunately. That episode was ingenious as well as heartbreaking! Thank you for channel😊
The galaxy being
The Galaxy Being | Full Episode S01E01 | The Outer Limits
czcams.com/video/M3_5f1tXWEU/video.html
Galaxy Being with Cliff Robertson ! I am long-time fan of what is now considered an almost 😅 “ Cult Classic TV series “. What was interesting was the being was played by the son of a Court 🧑⚖️! 🎭🔬
I really liked the eerie theme music by Dominic Frontier ; he later did the theme to Vegas with Robert Urich. Who was also looking in MagnumForce with Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry Callahan! 😃
The episode you’re thinking of is “The Architects of Fear”.
My Father would not allow my brother & I to watch "the Outer Limits!". Too scary. I found out later that Dissonance in the Music Score wears on the Nervous system.- Michael McClary, Professor of Trumpet 🎺, Georgia Perimeter College and GSU 😮
I grew up loving sci-fi because of The Outer Limits and my parents watching every week.
I seem to recall TV critics of the 1970s when reviewing The Outer Limits series years after its run on ABC would say that the show was pretentious but the audience for science fiction could see past that simple judgement and now most everyone can see it for the classic TV series that it is. It's truly a great TV program.
Practical effects were the best. The creep factor goes through the roof.
Thank you Sir
Wish I could watch all of them,full length
I’ve been rewatching all of these on Daily Motion …monsters look cheesy today of course but there are some damn good episodes
There are some absolutely brilliant episodes that reach far deeper than weird makeup and such. Morality tales comprise the majority of the stories, e.g., The Inheritors, parts 1 & 2. Just brilliant.
I watched this show in Chicago, IL on WGN channel 9 almost 50 years ago! I sound almost ancient now- Ha, Ha ! Thanks for posting this show on CZcams ! You left out so many others😢 like the invisible Enemy, Cold 🙌; Warm Heart and others I recall! Somewhere I think I have that whole series on DVD I think? The Invisibles creature reminded me of the face-hugger from ALIEN! Which scared the @&$ out of me in the movie 🎥 🎭 ! Thanks ☺️ for a brief trip down memory lane ! Maybe do Night Gallery someday ? :0
Cold Hands Warm Heart was from Season 2.
Fender Twin Tremolo on the monsters voice ?
I kinda want to watch these now.
Excellent costuming and special effects for back in the day.
The Galaxy being was my favorite.."End Transmission"
My question is how did they teach those real life aliens to act?
A wonderful…and…superlative….collection…of….extraordinary beings….not….monsters…..but….better than us monsters…on the Earth right now 😔
I'm sure that if James Dean was still alive then he would have been exquisite in portraying in this series. Or Montgomery Clift or Rock Hudson.
It is a pity they are not put up full episodes.
Good anthology show.
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For me the most terrifying and convincing creatures in the divine Outer Limits TV show was The Sanity Misfits, very nightmarish.
Zanti…but, yes.
@@michaelschramm1064 Santi sorry.
these classic b&w 1963 episodes of the outer limits should be in color for a new sci-fi viewing audience with great stories and special
effects that were ahead of their time like demon with a glass hand and the galaxy being just to name a few.
I Born in 1963
No, the black & white is what made it so erie and perfect
I remember sitting and watching this show with my Dad and brother when it was airing live. It was my dad's favorite TV series. It and the Twilight Zone were both way ahead of their time and are iconic TV shows that have passed the test of time. Great stuff. I remember seeing most of these episodes as they debuted during it's live run. Lot's of good stuff on TV back in the day. It's all pretty much woke garbage now.
Actually kinda scary.
This is the way i look when i see gas prices!
Yuk Yuk Yuk Yuk , Hardy Har Har Har , L o L L o L ! ! !
Lol, I love the subjective names that MGM gives the monsters in this video. It's like the old trading cards that had completely wrong, fake summaries of the episodes. Annoying for a fan, but amusing in this instance.
📌The Whitehouse knows.🛸
Always enjoyed the opening theme and dialog - after a while it seemed that the producers were trying to do things on the cheap and it lost its novelty.........
that was season 2. Season 1 was a great effort, some bizarre themes and creatures.
What was the episode where the clam creatures attacked the military base where the guy in the wheelchair tries to get away.?
Don’t know that one. 99% sure it was not a 1963/64 outer limits.
Your opening titles for the clips have nothing to do with the actual stories. Did you ever watch an entire episode? It would have been better to leave the titles out, for they mostly make no sense.
The first alien looked so cheesy and that alien suit did not make any sense….
And yet many stations back in 1964 refused to show this episode..
It did, but the story snd before it’s stark reveal was fantastic. It was a good episode l.
Freaks me out
Biden on a good day
Watching that was like seeing a tRump "rally".
Go watch any disaster movie and you have Biden's America.
Yuk Yuk Yuk Yuk , Hardy Har Har Har Har , L o L L O L You Make a Good Point , But We Can't Tell If The Monsters Have " Orange Faces " filmed In B & W ! ! !
Of course you realize that the generation that grew up watching this stuff is slowly making its exit from God's green earth. As a direct consequence, the drug companies that calmed and treated the neurosis, paranoias, psychosis, depression and anxiety, of said generation, are all about to hit the brick wall of bankruptcy.
This due to no longer having any clientele who have been effected by this programming during childhood.
To quote Emporer Palpatine:
"And once again we will have peace in the galaxy".