 However, Sydney Newman elected to broadcast the story as part of "Armchair Theatre" the week before "Out of This World" made its debut.The play ended with an epilogue by Boris Karloff introducing and previewing the new spin-off series.The first episode, "The Yellow Pill", attracted 11 million viewers, placing "Out of This World" eleventh in the television ratings for that week and beating the popular police drama series "Z-Cars".