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The Outer Limits premieres on ABC

When: 16 Sep 1963
Sources: 2 public sources

ABC publicity photo from The Outer Limits episode Nightmare, 1963 ABC Television, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

ABC premiered Leslie Stevens' science fiction anthology The Outer Limits with The Galaxy Being, about a radio engineer who contacts an alien made of energy. Its February 1964 episode The Bellero Shield was later cited by skeptic Martin Kottmeyer in discussing the Hill abduction account.

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OtherWe Are Controlling Transmission: The Outer Limits (opens in a new tab)UCLA Library (UCLA Film & Television Archive) / 2023-03-18
OtherOuter Limits, The (opens in a new tab)The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (Clute and Langford)

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