Yep. I'm thinking this is the episode that brought us V'ger from the first Star Trek Motion Picture.

I grew up on The Twilight Show. I'm 25 and this is my first time watching this show, but man, does it kick ass. At least ONE person in the current generation finds this stuff to be brilliant. Cheers!

I just finished watching all the episodes of "The Outer Limits - Original Series", in order. (thanks, Hulu!)For the most part, I loved watching these episodes now. As a kid, the show was on after my bedtime, and the times I snuck to watch, it gave me nightmares. Sure, the special effects are crude by today's standards, but more is done by playing with your imagination. Many of the stories are thought experiments that deal with human instincts and ideas that are timeless. It's also fun to look up each episode on IMDB.com while watching them to see what fruitful careers these actors had. The Outer Limits certainly pulled in a lot of talent!That being said, it was sad to watch this last episode, "The Probe". Not just because it's the end of this series, but also because it really pales in comparison to the rest. Peggy Ann Garner was a child actor more than twenty years before appearing in this show, and for whatever reason, her character here is extremely annoying. Maybe if she didn't have her mouth gaping open all the time, or wasn't looking and nodding at everyone in such a contrived way... but perhaps at this point the director knew the show had been cancelled and didn't care about keeping up the quality of performances of earlier shows.IOverall though, the "Outer Limits - Original Series", is a great example of television from that era. It's delightful to have it access to it again, and for new generations of viewers to discover it.

The original Outer Limits episodes WERE morality plays for the most part. The purpose was to show that human beings must use their brains and have compassion when dealing with the unknown, or they will be doomed by fear and stupidity. The beings who built the probe HAD the brains and compassion to understand that their probe accidentally picked up both intelllgent life forms and mutated, dangerous ones, so they destroyed their probe to avoid contaminating other planets. Perhaps Mr. Terrific prefers pages of scientific gibberish in the dialogue to make the story SEEM like its real, or like many people who watch "Sci-Fi" TV and movies nowadays, he prefers 98% special effects, 1% story and 1% acting. Go play some violent video games kids, and leave the classics to those who can appreciate them.