The Outer Limits
The Brain of Colonel Barham
TV Flash files “The Brain of Colonel Barham” as hour 47 of 49 in the TV Flash guide — The Outer Limits (1963–1965) on ABC, season 2, episode 15, aired 1965-01-02, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E15: listed hour 47 of 49 in the The Outer Limits guide, hour 15 of 17 in season 2. It aired 1965-01-02 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Counterweight” (S02E14). Next is “The Premonition” (S02E16).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
An experiment to use a human brain to control and direct a future flight to another world is undertaken for a developing space project. Colonel Barham, who has been gravely crippled in the past and is dying of a disease, volunteers for the project to his brain as a merging of human and machine. However things go awry as unexpected consequences of the project occur.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Brain of Colonel Barham sit in the The Outer Limits guide?
S02E15 is listed hour 47 of 49 — hour 15 of 17 in season 2, season 2 episode 15.
When did The Outer Limits S02E15 air?
The Brain of Colonel Barham aired 1965-01-02 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…