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TOL Spin-Offs

posted 11 years ago by powersroc
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According to TOL Companion Book,ABC wanted to try an unscience fiction TV series that would be scary,mysterious, & called Joe Stefano.He was asked to take the script for the proposed new show,called The Unknown,& do it for TOL.One version with sf,another without.The episode for TOL would be "The Forms Of Things Unknown." Writer Seeleg Lester intended the episode that he wrote with Sam Neuman,"The Inheritors,"as a kind of pilot.He had an idea of having a Secretary of Science on TI.The plan was that in his spin-off show,"Century 21,"where there would be a team that would go out & investigate things of a scientific nature.Those things would be sf in nature of course.

[–] KobiyashiMauru 11 years ago

I thought My Mother the Car and the Flying Nun were spin offs from the Outer Limits.

[–] DarkVulcan29 11 years ago

Demon With A Glass Hand would have been like a sci fi version of The Fugitive, I wish they could have continued that story.

[–] KobiyashiMauru 11 years ago

A Feasibility Study was a science fiction version of Green Acres.

[–] silovik812 11 years ago

Although he didn't link it to "A Feasibility Study", a friend of mine said that Green Acres was a science-fiction series about an ordinary human couple being studied by a group of aliens disguised as small-town country folk. That would explain the pig who can operate a TV set, the duck who speaks Hungarian, and the moon-cuisine that Lisa keeps coming up with (from cookbooks planted by the aliens?), among other weirdness. Oliver Douglas and his first wife had a previous encounter with aliens, shown in the Outer Limits episode "Cry of Silence", and that's likely how they got interested in him as a test subject.

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[–] Times_Up 11 years ago

Harlan Ellison, the writer of that episode, did continue that story with further tales.

It's what people know about themselves inside that makes 'em afraid. - The Stranger

[–] powersroc 11 years ago

My understanding is that once Ellison has written a story for either TV or a book,he has no desire to continue with it in sequels of any kind.