Behind the Scenes - A 12th Gallery

2001 A Space Odyssey  (1968)

 

Moontrap 1989

 

 The Quatermass Experiment 1953

 

Outer Limits - Moonstone 1964

 

Outer Limits - Moonstone 1964

 

 

Steve

The Outer Limits - The Joining (1998)

From the fourth Series of The Outer Limits reboot, Episode 13 is called The Joining and tells a tale about the survivor of a crashed transport ship who returns home, but not unscathed, as his body now craves radiation and is sprouting new limbs.

Helmet looks a bit 2001 in style

Steve

The Outer Limits - Joyride (1999)

 

Season 5, episode 6 of the rebooted Outer Limits TV show.

A retired astronaut decides to head back into space one last time in an attempt to figure out where his life stopped being fulfilling

A couple of suits here, costume hire I would imagine so both have probably popped up in other places.

Steve

The Outer Limits - The Voyage Home (1995)

"The Voyage Home" is an episode of the rebooted The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 30 June 1995, during the first season.

A manned expedition to Mars is in its 315th and final day on the surface when the crew discover a cave containing strange alien writing and a capsule. The capsule suddenly opens and the crew is knocked unconscious......

 

Thanks to Tim again for the find


Steve

The Outer Limits - Specimen Unknown (1965)

Another episode from the first series of The Outer Limits.  Specimen Unknown most definitely features those Men into Space helmets.

Steve

The Outer Limits - The Premonition (1965)

The Premonition is the penultimate episode from the second series of The Outer Limits and features a helmet that seems close to one of those Men into Space helmets but I'm not quite sure

 

 

Steve

The Outer Limits - Moonstone (1964)

Moonstone an episode from the first season of sci-fi anthology show The Outer Limits.  Featuring those Men into Space helmets

 

 

Steve

The Outer Limits - The Invisible Enemy (1964)

The Invisible Enemy is the 7th episode of the 2nd series of  the US cult sci-fi anthology show; The Outer Limits.  And this is probably one of my favourite episodes of the whole series.

Astronauts land on the seemingly lifeless Mars and are attacked by something unseen.  A rescue mission is sent to find out what occurred and it all starts happening again.  There’s something under the ground; A sort of Martian sand shark.  Brilliant stuff.  This has to be the inspiration for the Tremors film and it’s such a cool idea I’m surprised nobody referenced it before that.

And the space suits are kind of cool too.  By the looks of it, it’s the same helmet as seen in Cold hands, Warm Heart and The Invisible Enemy, possibly the same suits too.

They’ve jazzed them up a bit with corrugated tubing around the arms and legs, though oddly, not over the joints which is where they used to put them on real pressure suits so that the high altitude pilots could actually bend their arms and legs.  So it’s just a design affectation but it still works for me

It all adds up to give them the look of the Major Matt Mason action figures but a couple of years ahead of the toys release

Steve

The Outer Limits - Cold Hands, Warm Heart (1964)

The 2nd episode of the 2nd season of The Outer Limits is called Cold Hands, Warm Heart.

Yeah! It’s William Shatner in a pre-Star Trek appearance as Jefferson Barton, first man to orbit Venus and return to earth unharmed and well....Who’re we kidding, this is The Outer Limits, there would be no story if it was all that simple.  Barton starts to change, to recall a previously forgotten encounter in the planet’s atmosphere and thus does it all begin to unravel for him.

That space helmet looks a bit familiar.

Steve

The Outer Limits - The Man who was Never Born (1963)

The Man who was Never Born was the 6th episode of the first season of The Outer Limits.

An astronaut returning to Earth finds himself flung into the distant future of 2148, where he meets the last mutated remnants of humanity living alone on a ruined Earth.

In an attempt to prevent this future from happening, spaceman Reardon takes Andro the mutant with him, returning through the time rift intent on altering history.  From there on it all goes a bit pear-shaped before coming good at the very end but with a cost that’s somewhat spelled out in the story's title. 

Note the design of the helmet and suit then keep watching

Steve