THE OUTER LIMITS invents the first bottle episode
THE OUTER LIMITS invents the first bottle episodeDescription
The Outer Limits: "Controlled Experiment"
There is nothing wrong with your podcast app. We are controlling transmission. It's another Gimmicks historical deep dive as we explore TV's very first bottle episode--a term coined by Outer Limits creator Leslie Stevens! We dig into what "bottle episode" actually means and how this installment of the sci-fi anthology series used cleverness and camera tricks to produce a quick and cheap but still compelling and funny episode about Martians (The Fugitive's Barry Morse and Archie Bunker himself, Carroll O'Connor) who try to scientifically determine why humans commit murder.
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Sources:
Vulture's article on bottle episodes (which is NOT by the same author as that awful Lost article)
The Outer Limits: The Official Companion
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