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Although ABC commissioned ''The Outer Limits'' to cash in on the late 50s/early 60s monster boom, the network never really understood it, which helps explain why it was [[Too Good to Last]]. When ABC announced that during the series' second season in 1964, it would be [[Screwed by the Network|moved to a suicidal Saturday night time slot]] against ''[[The Jackie Gleason Show]]'', Stevens, Stefano and much of their production team left in protest. The network replaced them with a new team headed by ''[[Perry Mason]]'' vet Ben Brady, who tried to save the series by making it (somewhat) less artsy and more commercial. ABC didn't help matters by reducing the series' already low production budget. Despite this, the second season produced several memorable episodes (most notably [[Harlan Ellison]]'s two scripts, "Soldier" and "Demon With A Glass Hand", and the two-part "The Inheritors"), but it did no good. After a few months of predictably bad ratings, ABC canceled ''The Outer Limits'' after only 49 episodes.
However, that wasn't quite the end. Despite its status as a short-lived, black and white anthology series, ''The Outer Limits'' remained popular enough to stay in constant syndication for nearly four decades. This resulted in a made-for-cable [[revival]] series helmed by producer Pen Densham, which far outlasted the original, beginning its seven-season run in 1995. A few of the new series' episodes were [[
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