The Borderland ''Outer Limits.''

=The Borderland Outer Limits.=

"The Borderland" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It was the second episode to be produced, and first aired on 16 December 1963, during the first season.

The storyline involves a team of scientists who use an incredibly strong magnetic field to open a door to another dimension. Their success, however, leads to a bizarre tragedy.

Opening narration
The mind of man has always longed to know what lies beyond the world we live in. Explorers have ventured into the deeps and the heights. Of these explorers some are scientists, some are mystics. Each is driven by a different purpose. The one thing they share in common is a wish to cross the Borderlands that lie beyond the Outer Limits.

Plot
The story begins showing the ending where Alfred Ryder tries to sabotage the experiment and the British millionaire dissappears in an explosion with mechines waves.

Openning Lines The mind of man alway longed to know what belongs beyond the world we will in.Explorers have ventured into the deeps and the heights.These explorers some are scientist,some are mystics,each is driven by a different purpose.The one thing they share in common,is a wish to cross the borderlands that lie beyond the Outer Limits.

A scientist encounters a magnetic field that reverses the form of living matter.This lead to two other scientist,involved a millionaire trying contact his dead son and two phoney famous psychic,trying to sabotage their attempts to travel to the other side.

Frasier and the other scientist are trying adjust their equiptment,to survive the power adjustment.Accidently Frasier,the head scientist on the poject,get his hand caught in some of the equiptment and the others have shout off,so he can remove his hand again.The scene end with Frasier yelling my god look at my hand. A British millionaire Dwight Hartley has engaged a famous psychic to establish contact with his dead son,Glenn but she is exposed as a fraud by scientist Ian Frasier Peter Mark Richman,Lincoln Russell and Eva Fraser.Lincoln Russell gets up and suddently switches on the lights,before contact with otherworld is over.Frasier discovers an illunimous clothe earlier ridge to be drawn out of hole in the table clothe.The phoney physhic attempt save her reputation,before she thrown of the millionaires home,by saying that must gain the belief of her clients in this manner.by saying she contacted his son and describes perfectly.Lincoln Russell,Ian Frasiers partner tells her,that Mister Hartley's son's picture in the next room for everyone to see and describe.Mrs. Palmer insist,that she never saw any picture. Alfred Ryder Mister Edgar Price protest [[Alfred Ryder] ,he has involved in the proffesion of clarevouence research for years and she powers beyond the normal world.Benson Sawyer ask the two phychics to leave.As they,that try to Dwight Hartley,that they cannot help contact his son these hostile indiviuals around as they leave. Dwight Hartley then wonder the did this and his freind Price,says for the oldest of reasons money.The millionaire says that didn't for money,but Edgar Price informs that they wouln't directly.They's have an intermediate party ask it,such his son,Glen Hartley,to which Dwight Hartley would anything for.Hartley feels grateful Lincoln Russell and why he wishes to his finacial resourse and spitical guardian .Price because of clalitans such as this.Hartley wishes explore other worlds-the borderlands of this world .Hartley answers then that Mister Lincoln wishes appropriate fund other ways to contact other worlds and use his finances to fund such research at Erics Electronics,which is head chairman of the board of Directors.Lincold reminds that Ian Frasier has developed some fantastic findings at electroic research and his wife Nina is an excellent mathmatician.Dwight Hartley,already knows ofcours,having read reports of their work.Ian Frasier goes to explain amazing forces in nature so powerful,but so simply children play them everyday.He produces two bar magnets explaining as he shows Hartley,how magnetic forces attrack each other by the magnetic poles.But turn the around and mysterious forces also repell one another,he shows the two bar magnets pushing one away from the other.Harley response the magnetic forces are mysterious,but dosent understand how this relates any of this.Ian Frasier tries tell about magnetic forces such as magnet is a smaller version of everything in the universe-the earth,the sun,galaxies and their research has lead them finding a doorway into other worlds,such as the fourth dimension. Frasier insists that he has developed a method that can pierce "The Borderland"; a dimensional plane between this world and another; which may be the afterlife. But he needs all the energy of a metropolitan power grid to do so. The rich and influential man agrees to arrange the situation if Fraser will attempt to contact the dead son. Frasier agrees and the experiment begins, but at the crucial moment the psychic and her associate reappear, planning to expose the scientists as frauds.

The scientist Ian Frasier sends inanimate objects, as well as flowers and white rats, into the other dimension. Meanwhile, phony psychics plot to wreck his experiments. While the Doctor Ian Frasier is in the fourth dimension, a psychic disrupts the power supply. The scientist's wife pulls him out of the other dimension. Desperate to contact his dead son, the rich man enters the inter-dimensional chamber, disappearing.

REVIEW
Director/Writer Leslie Stevens' THE BORDERLAND is an unusually convincing tale of inter-dimensional travel.

Mark Richman ("The Probe") is compelling as a man determined to explore another dimension, even at the risk of his life.His character is somewhat similar to the Fantastic Foursleader Reed Richards,in his thirst travel other dimensions. With his glittering eyes and lean, muscular face, Richman, under Stevens' taut direction, brings just the right degree of intensity to lines like, "And what we have discovered, in this invisible field, is a doorway, a doorway into the fourth dimension."

Actress and acting coach, Nina Foch ("Tales of the City") is vivid as Richman's mathematician wife. She is convincing, as being both a dedicated scientist and as a woman, very much in love with her knowledge seeking, risk taking husband.

Veteran character actors, Gladys Cooper ("The Twilight Zone") and Alfred Ryder ("Star Trek") play two phony psychics, determined to wreck Richman's authentic attempt to reach the other side. As representatives of the "old school" of extra-scientific investigation, Cooper and Ryder seem right at home.

Director Steven's Teleplay achieves a balance rare in Sci-Fi fables. The character development and the pseudo-science stuff are given equal time.Director of Photography, John M. Nickolaus, Jr., is resourceful. Visually striking is an overhead shot of Richman's dimensional chamber, and it's nearby horse-shoe shaped control panel.

The music is mostly recycled stuff, including the trumpet-flavored score usually heard over the series' end credits. Dominic Frontiere is the responsible party.

Closing narration
There are worlds beyond worlds within which the voyager must travel, but there here is one power which seems to transcend space and time, life and death. It is a deeply human power which holds us safe and together when all other forces combine to tear us apart — we call it the power of love.

Cast

 * Mark Richman – as Ian Fraser
 * Nina Foch – as Eva Fraser
 * Barry Jones – as Dwight Hartley
 * Philip Abbott – as Lincoln Russell
 * Gene Raymond – as Benson Sawyer
 * Gladys Cooper – as Mrs. Palmer
 * Alfred Ryder – as Edgar Price
 * Noel de Sousa – as Dr. Sung (uncredited)
 * Vic Perrin – as Scientist (uncredited)

Analysis
Booker observes that the engineer and the Galaxy Being are variations of the television and science fiction tropes of the mad scientist and the invading alien, albeit with a reversal typical of The Outer Limits that both the scientist and the alien are benevolent, and it is the ordinary human beings of Earth who are the villains in the story.

The story itself dramatized what had been several decades of speculation as to whether other planets could be contacted via radio, developing this further into a story about electronic existentialism. It tapped into themes prevalent in U.S. culture at the time, including the televisation of the space race and the fascination with television transmission in general. The Galaxy Being itself echoed the contemporary words of NASA with lines such as "You must explore. You must reach out.".

The story also had elements of horror. As did another Outer Limits story, "The Borderland", it addressed the idea of an electronic limbo that exists when television signals cease transmission, or are broadcast out into space, raising questions such as where the Galaxy Being goes when he turns off the transmitter. This horror of oblivion was to occur in several other Outer Limits episodes.