The Outer Limits
Soldier
TV Flash files “Soldier” as a desk essential hour — The Outer Limits (1963–1965) on ABC, season 2, episode 1, aired 1964-09-19, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E01: listed hour 33 of 49 in the The Outer Limits guide, first listed hour of season 2. It aired 1964-09-19 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Forms of Things Unknown” (S01E32). Next is “Cold Hands, Warm Heart” (S02E02).
Essential hour: “Soldier”. Soldier opens season two as a taut war-of-the-future hour — anthology dread without needing a recap of the galaxy.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A soldier from a future Earth is blasted back through time to the present day and must learn how his new world works. Meanwhile, his opposite number also travels back in time.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Soldier sit in the The Outer Limits guide?
S02E01 is listed hour 33 of 49 — first listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 1.
When did The Outer Limits S02E01 air?
Soldier aired 1964-09-19 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any Control Voice cold open is the contract: do not adjust the picture. Pick a monster-forward hour from the Stefano stretch if you want literate pulp; the series is anthology, so order is optional.
In the series
Why this series still plays
There is nothing wrong with your television set — except Leslie Stevens is about to seize it. ABC's Outer Limits delivered creature-driven sci-fi anthology dread with a Control Voice cold open that still raises neck hair. The darker twin bill to Twilight Zone: more monster, slightly less sermon, two seasons that stamped a later revival.
There is nothing wrong with your television set — except Leslie Stevens is about to seize it. ABC's *The Outer Limits* (1963–1965) ran **two seasons, 49 episodes** of science-fiction anthology dread: monster-of-the-week creatures, Cold War paranoia, and a Control Voice cold open (Vic Perrin) that still raises neck hair. Joseph Stefano's producing stretch pushed literate pulp. Budget monsters became beloved anyway. Rex will twin-bill it with Serling and call the decade a sermon. Where Serling moralized, *Outer…
Filed against
- Vic Perrin as Control Voice
Vic Perrin’s Control Voice seized The Outer Limits before the picture started — there is nothing wrong with your television set, except Leslie Stevens is about to take it. ABC’s creature-driven sci-fi anthology, a cold open that still…