Binding: DVD
Number Of Items: 16
Region Code: 1
Sales Rank: 131163
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Rating:  - Ridiculous price and glad for the review warnings
I have season one of the new series and would have liked to have had 2-4 to go with it, but $140 for a sanitized, incomplete and amateur copied version is absolutely ridiculous.
Thanks for the warnings!
Amazon needs to get this perpetrator off of their vendor list. I thought there was a law about making pirated copies.
I ran into another vendor who was doing the same thing with cheap, home copies of the last Dallas TV sequel movie which he could not resist filling with advertising for his business on his pirated TV recorded transfer DVD.
Beware when they say NEW and sealed.... that can be a pirated cheap copy. Look for factory sealed or manufacturer sealed and words like Original... etc. And check the vendor's ratings.
Rating:  - An excellent series, but recorded from TV
I'm one of the few who still prefers the original Outer Limits--and, God forbid, even Star Trek, though the later versions had special effects astromically--pun intended--better. (Note that a few of the episodes of the new Outer Limits series are remakes--immeasurably better, though I still like the originals--of some from the original series, "Nightmare" for example.)
I saw these episodes when they came out in the mid-1990s and waited patiently for them to be released in DVD. Yeah, the originals are good, but the new ones are brilliant. And I can't resist a sci fi fable! The first season came out. Then the third season--though one of my favorites came out during the second season.
When this package was released I was happy--and my spouse ordered them for me and gave them to me a couple of Christmases ago.
Well, the recording quality is nominal at best. I can survive that. But there are television logos that are on the screen, I believe a Canadian Sci-Fi channel, and that makes them offensive. (I could have used my original tapes...as I did, more on that in a moment.)
At least one other reviewer commented that some were missing. I corroborate. I went through the whole list, even here on the Internet, and found several missing. And at least one DVD didn't work, not necessarily the one with the missing episodes. Indeed, I e-mailed the company from which I ordered the package and, if I recall, called then and never received a response.
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Rating: - Incomplete Collections
Not only are these episodes edited for commercial television (the original prints were shown on Showtime), but these boxes do not contain the *complete* seasons.
The first box contains episodes from Seasons 1 & 2. Out of a total of 43 episodes, you get 20. The second box contains episodes from Season 3, and this is almost complete --- 20 out of 22 episodes.
It's unfortunate that the U.S. release of this series was botched --- first by releasing "theme anthologies" when every other TV show was being issued in complete season boxes; then finally using the complete first season shortly thereafter, forcing collectors to buy episodes they already owned. More than two years have gone by and we're still waiting to see if the rest of the series will ever be released on DVD.
Since that's far from certain, you may want to buy one of these Canadian sets; but remember that you're getting edited versions (with nudity deleted) and you may not get some of your favorite episodes. Also, the video and sound on these versions is not as good as the U.S. releases.
Rating:  - yes, it's sanitized but...
If you are an outer limits fan you know how frustrating MGM's senseless delay in releasing the remaining episodes has been. After much searching I became aware of the existence of seasons 2 - 4 as a Canadian release. They were available on Amazon Canada some time ago but I was late looking and they were no longer available. When I saw these were available I ordered them knowing that they would be the sanitized Canadian releases. I am very happy with the quality of the DVD's (beats recording episodes on Showtime or Sci-Fi). If you are not willing to wait for MGM to get its act together and can deal with the edited versions of the series (hey, keep them around to show the kids) I recommend these highly. If you need the full unedited episodes (as I hope to have at some point) contact MGM. You'll pobably get the same response I did - nothing.
Rating: - BEWARE! heavily censored Canadian versions!
ALERT! These are the "sanitized" "PG" drastically mutilated versions with no extras. Don't be devastated like I was when I discovered that I had paid a King's Ransom for these Canadian rip-offs. WAIT for the new MGM releases of seasons 2 thru 7 that are coming out eventually. NETFLIX has just listed them, but without release dates. I'm assuming that the MGM's will be intact because their first 2 sets are complete and the "extras" etc are superb...
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