Pulse of Cinema
Out of the Unknown (1965-1971) series poster
Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama

Out of the Unknown

1965-1971 4 seasons 49 episodes
61 Pulse
7.5 IMDb
Long haul 41 hours
Loading community rating
Your rating

Plot

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

Credits

Created by: Irene Shubik

Cast: Geoffrey Palmer, Charles Tingwell, Peter Copley, Michael Danvers-Walker, David Langton, Keith Buckley

How the Pulse Score works

For series, Pulse starts from the IMDb rating shrunk by vote count, then applies FORMAT CALIBRATION. Series score systematically higher than films on IMDb, so using the raw number would unfairly push a show like Out of the Unknown to the top of a film catalogue. Calibration maps the series distribution onto the film one; meaning 61 is COMPARABLE to a film with the same Pulse.

One more difference from films: Letterboxd does not track series, so series Pulse derives from a single source (IMDb) rather than two.

How did this series move you?