The Outer Limits
The Probe
TV Flash files “The Probe” as a desk essential hour — The Outer Limits (1963–1965) on ABC, season 2, episode 17, aired 1965-01-16, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E17: listed hour 49 of 49 in the The Outer Limits guide, last listed hour of season 2. It aired 1965-01-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Premonition” (S02E16). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “The Probe”. The Probe closes the ABC run: two seasons of seized television, more monster than civics lesson, still hop-friendly.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A charter plane crashes in the eye of a hurricane... and the passengers find themselves inside a giant alien space probe.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Probe sit in the The Outer Limits guide?
S02E17 is listed hour 49 of 49 — last listed hour of season 2, season 2 episode 17.
When did The Outer Limits S02E17 air?
The Probe aired 1965-01-16 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…