What a wonderful book! I love watching the old horror programs on television, such as Karloff's Thriller, The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits. What I enjoy most is watching each program, and then spend a few minutes reading up on the production history and trivia about the program, thanks to books like this. I just spent the last three years reading "The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion" by Grams and Wikstrom and watched each and every episode of the Hitchcock TV series one by one. What a fascinating program. So logically, I purchased this book and am done the first season. With each viewing I turn to this book and find out trivia I did not know, and other neat facts. That's what tells me if the book is a good book or not. A must-have.

I have the 1986 original version of this book and I always thought that there was no need for this new reprint, also for its steep price.
One day after being one more time enthusiast of this Great Series I ordered it and I couldn't believe when I finally saw it, I was amazed! ^_^
It's got almost the same text of the original but it is totally filled with new pictures with incredible crystal clear quality, excellent paper, new interviews and brand new chapter. Every episode has 3/4 big-sized (and rare) pictures at least while
the old one had 1 only and sometimes 2. The old one was quite
small and this one is Giant-Sized! Love was surely put again in this new revision. It is like having a totally new and book!
The old one was an excellent treatment of the Series but they improved on it dramatically and thankfully didn't include the New 1995 Series!!!
It's totally worth its price and a must for any fan of the series even if already owning the original companion.
Buy it while you can and before it goes out of print again!

This book is a reworking of the 1986 release (also by Schow). The first OL Companion was an inexpensive, small book with lower quality paper. The more recent edition is a massive edition, with more pages, more photos, beautiful paper with a luster, and most important more info. This is the only book available about Outer Limits, no one would dare try to top this. An easy choice for fans.

This has to be one of my three favorite books. The other two are "The Twlight Zone Companion" by Marc Scott Zicree and "The Alfred Hitchcock Presents Companion" by Martin Grams. Like those books, The Outer Limits Companion covers the complete background production, synposis and episode guide, rare photos, and magnificent documentary approach. To make it short and sweet (and I mean this literally) this the hands-down, ultimate book on the subject. Buy it!

Back in the era of Black and White television, a dark and scary show was broadcast that controlled our television sets and placed fear in our minds about the unknown and the possibility that alien life forms could be lurking around the corner. The Outer Limits worked on those fears and produced new phobias! An ordinary vacumn cleaner picks up a dust ball in the corner and produces an indestructable and violent electrical monster that can make you disappear! A saucer ride in an amusement park is producing mysterious sounds at 3AM in the morning and a lonely security guard checks it out only to find out that the spaceship is REAL and there is an alien on-board! Our poor guard is zapped into eternity! Micro waves combined with radio station power contact a creature from the Andromeda galaxy, who is drawn in by a power surge to haunt our neighborhood. I saw these episodes one by one and as a result....stayed clear of vacumn cleaners, especially industrial type shop vacs being operated by maids and always left balls of dust in corners alone, I never went on a single ride in an amusement park...it may be a source for alien abduction ... I stayed away from Radio stations with large towers. I also stayed away from old victorian houses in the country, because one episode featured an alien who was upstairs and the house was a trap for the alien to infest your mind and hold you prisoner, possibly forever! As each episode was broadcast, it was one more ordinary thing to stay away from! Thank God it did not last too many seasons or I might have been housebound forever! Anyway, this is a great book about the series and covers every angle about the writers, music and work that went into the show about special effects and scripts. One of the most innovative and challenging shows ever to broadcast, this book is the final word on the subject. Well recommended, but don't go near any amusement parks!