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If the Andersons knew that Patrick Wymark (a terrific actor) and Ian Hendry had reputations as heavy drinkers, and that issue would negatively affect production, then why hire them in the first place ...

I really wanted to like this film so much more than I did. It should have had the pacing & thrills like Fantastic Voyage & Ice Station Zebra had. Instead, we are dragged down into melodramati ...

From good ol' IMDB:

Michael Dorn was very upset that his character of Worf had so little to do.

Sir Patrick Stewart was paid for his part in this film nearly as much as he had made on his entir ...

Thank you, Bud. I am embarrassed to write that I have read posts on All Sci-Fi with interest by others and have not always left a word of appreciation. I promise to do better in the future.

DYK? According to Buddy Hackett during an interview on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, he was offered the opportunity to be a stooge in the Three Stooges comedy team, after Curly Howard fell ill ...

"ZZZZZ" Broadcast 27 January 1964.
Written by Meyer Dolinsky. Additional material by Joseph Stefano.
Directed by John Brahm.

"I commissioned 'ZZZZZ' because of Joanna Frank,&quo ...

And conversely, episodes that were designed in order to save money can result in some of the finest stories.

Arguably, Outer Limits' best-written show, "Nightmare" is a tour de force o ...

"Tourist Attraction" December 23, 1963. Written by Dean Riesner. Directed by Laslo Benedek.
Guest stars: Ralph Meeker, Janet Blair, Jay Novello, Henry Silva, Henry Delgado (Later changed ...

Well, they say that everyone has a twin, Bud. And your mom & Doris certainly prove it. Both lovely looking ladies.

March 24, 1979 TV Guide Review of Salvage-1 by Robert MacKenzie.

Once you have been to the moon, some astronauts say, everything afterward is a letdown.

That should have provided a clue to the ...

This was a television pilot co-produced by Columbia Pictures and Hammer Film Productions.

Curt Siodmak was hired as the writer/producer for this pilot.

"The Face in the Tombstone Mirror&qu ...

From a magazine article.

Joseph Stefano wrote some of the most poetic dialogue and narrations in all of television as the original producer of The Outer Limits. Stefano liked to shine a light on d ...

Brian Henson & Rockne O'Brien discussing Farscape.

Farscape was meant to break the mold of typical space exploration and story telling.

Aside from their ingenious integration of animatronic ...

Eugene Lourie never considered stop-motion animation for his Gorgo film, even though he had directed The Beast From 20,000 Fathoms & The Giant Behemoth, both of which utilized stop-motion animati ...

Director Eugene Lourie said in an interview that while Fred Freiberger & Lou Morheim did hone & polish the script, it was Lourie and a third writer who drafted 80% of the screenplay for Beast. ...