Three years before Star Trek ’s original series transformed television, a groundbreaking sci-fi show called The Outer Limits debuted on ABC. Sadly, this show isn’t widely known today outside of avid science fiction fans. Yet, it was just as important to screen sci-fi as Captain Kirk and Mr. Spock, or The Twilight Zone before it.

Over the past half-century, plenty of new TV shows have tried to be new Star Trek . What most people don’t realize is that Star Trek itself was, in some respects, the new Outer Limits of television in the 1960s. This anthology series had opened up a window into another world for the Starship Enterprise to fly through.

We should count it among the best sci-fi shows of all time , alongside Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The

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