The Outer Limits
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
TV Flash files “Keeper of the Purple Twilight” as hour 44 of 49 in the TV Flash guide — The Outer Limits (1963–1965) on ABC, season 2, episode 12, aired 1964-12-05, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E12: listed hour 44 of 49 in the The Outer Limits guide, hour 12 of 17 in season 2. It aired 1964-12-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Inheritors (2)” (S02E11). Next is “The Duplicate Man” (S02E13).
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Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A alien offers advance knowledge to a scientist in exchange for his various emotions that the alien knows nothing about.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Keeper of the Purple Twilight sit in the The Outer Limits guide?
S02E12 is listed hour 44 of 49 — hour 12 of 17 in season 2, season 2 episode 12.
When did The Outer Limits S02E12 air?
Keeper of the Purple Twilight aired 1964-12-05 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…