One of the Outer Limits episodes airing tonight on Pluto Tv was The Galaxy Being. Disc Jockey and station co-owner, Buddy Maxwell (Lee Philips), realizes that his brother, the station engineer and co-owner, Allan Maxwell (Cliff Robertson), has drained power in the area while researching microwave background noise using a device powered from the radio station. An alien from Andromeda appears on the three-dimensional television screen and is brought to Earth when a substitute deejay turns up the power in the broadcast studio. In the course of all the chaos and destruction, the radio tower crashes to the ground. The substitute jock is killed. He violated FCC rules by turning up the power after sunset. Darn fool!
The radio station is KXKVI in Los Feliz, a neighborhood of Los Angeles. Dial position 1820. That’s beyond the Outer Limits of the AM band.
Here is a clip from the program, taking you inside the KXKVI studio…
October 25, 2024 at QZVX
kevin Malin says:
I’ve been trying to DX this station since it first came on the air. Would love to receive a QSL card from them. Probably the rarest catch in all of radio broadcasting.
October 25, 2024 at QZVX
Lou Robbins says:
I heard they lost their license and went dark in 1963 after some violations due to unauthorized power increases, illegal television transmissions (KXKVI was not licensed for tv) and destruction of the transmission tower, all due to crazy actions by the engineer/co-owner of KXKVI.
August 11, 2024 at QZVX
Dave Lascko says:
My absolute favorite episode of The Outer Limits I always wondered if the interior shots were done at KTTV studios or actually done at KXKVI KCBH back then today known as KYSR
For over a year when I first saw this episode as I was only 11 I couldn’t go upstairs to bed alone Yes true story
This was so daring considering it was the early 60’s
August 11, 2024 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
My guess, based on the microphone just setting on the board rather than being a boom mic setup, this was recreated in the CBS Television studio. Outside shots may have been at the station.
https://qzvx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/Marv-Collins-who-started-at-KCBH-FM-in-1954.jpg (photo from https://kcbh-fm.org/)
August 11, 2024 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
Hmmm, Maybe this was filmed at the studio after all. https://qzvx.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/dougnelson.jpg (Doug Nelson at the KCBH studio)
May 7, 2023 at QZVX
Jason Remington says:
I couldn’t do a 4-hour shift without headphones. Buddy Maxwell was a real laid-back pro.