Why The Outer Limits was such a Great Television Show
Why were the OUTER LIMITS so wonderful? Let's just look at this one episode "The O.B.I.T." The ‘all-seeing eye’ has been a source of science fiction for many years. Consider George Orwell’s 1948 classic, 1984. The Outer Limits episode, O.B.I.T. (which initially aired during the first season of the classic sci-fi television series on 4 November in 1963) takes the idea to an even more sinister level. Wikipedia gives a very nice synopsis of the episode: Opening narration: In this room, twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, security personnel at the Defense Department’s Cypress Hills Research Center keep constant watch on its scientists through O.B.I.T., a mysterious electronic device whose very existence was carefully kept from the public at large. And so it would have remained but for the facts you are about to witness. Plot: While inquiring into the murder of an administrator at a government research facility, a U.S. senator is confronted with paranoia, secrecy, an