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The Outer Limits

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The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

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Episodes

2 seasons · 49 episodes
Season 132 ep. · 1963–1964
  1. Episode 1: The Galaxy Being

    Sep 16, 1963 · 52 min

    A radio station engineer named Allan Maxwell establishes contact with an alien being. But when the station's power is turned up, the alien is teleported to Earth where its radioactive nature causes havoc.

  2. Episode 2: The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    Sep 23, 1963 · 52 min

    A sinister foreign power replaces the President of the United States with its own agent via the use of a powerful drug allowing the skin to be temporarily molded into any likeness.

  3. Episode 3: The Architects of Fear

    Sep 30, 1963 · 52 min

    A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.

  4. Episode 4: The Man with the Power

    Oct 7, 1963 · 51 min

    A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.

  5. Episode 5: The Sixth Finger

    Oct 14, 1963 · 52 min

    A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.

  6. Episode 6: The Man Who Was Never Born

    Oct 28, 1963 · 52 min

    An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.

  7. Episode 7: O.B.I.T.

    Nov 4, 1963 · 52 min

    A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

  8. Episode 8: The Human Factor

    Nov 11, 1963 · 52 min

    At a military base far in the arctic, a man invents a machine which allows two minds to contact one another. An earthquake causes a malfunction and two men wake up to find that their minds have switched bodies.

  9. Episode 9: Corpus Earthling

    Nov 18, 1963 · 52 min

    A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?

  10. Episode 10: Nightmare

    Dec 2, 1963 · 52 min

    In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.

  11. Episode 11: It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

    Dec 9, 1963 · 52 min

    An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.

  12. Episode 12: The Borderland

    Dec 16, 1963 · 52 min

    A scientist named Ian Fraser invents a machine which can pierce the borderland between this world and... The Afterlife? Maybe. Fraser convinces an industrialist to finance future experiments with the possibility of contacting the rich man's dead son.

  13. Episode 13: Tourist Attraction

    Dec 23, 1963 · 52 min

    In a South American country a group of explorers discover a prehistoric monster in an ancient lake. The discovery leads them into conflict with the country's dictator.

  14. Episode 14: The Zanti Misfits

    Dec 30, 1963 · 52 min

    Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.

  15. Episode 15: The Mice

    Jan 6, 1964 · 52 min

    A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.

  16. Episode 16: Controlled Experiment

    Jan 13, 1964 · 52 min

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

  17. Episode 17: Don't Open Till Doomsday

    Jan 20, 1964 · 52 min

    A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.

  18. Episode 18: ZZZZZ

    Jan 27, 1964 · 52 min

    A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.

  19. Episode 19: The Invisibles

    Feb 3, 1964 · 52 min

    A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.

  20. Episode 20: The Bellero Shield

    Feb 10, 1964 · 52 min

    A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.

  21. Episode 21: The Children of Spider County

    Feb 17, 1964 · 52 min

    Four scientists disappear in one day. All were born in the same county, on the same day. A fifth scientist is in jail and a federal agent is assigned to the case. The fifth man is sprung from jail by a mysterious stranger who says he's the young man's father.

  22. Episode 22: Specimen: Unknown

    Feb 24, 1964 · 52 min

    Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.

  23. Episode 23: Second Chance

    Mar 2, 1964 · 52 min

    A group of people board an amusement park ride. Then they (and their surprised "captain") find that they're really going on a space jaunt.

  24. Episode 24: Moonstone

    Mar 9, 1964 · 52 min

    Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.

  25. Episode 25: The Mutant

    Mar 16, 1964 · 52 min

    A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.

  26. Episode 26: The Guests

    Mar 23, 1964 · 52 min

    After discovering an elderly man dying by the side of the road, a young man finds a strange house where some people are kept prisoner and ageless by an alien intelligence.

  27. Episode 27: Fun and Games

    Mar 30, 1964 · 52 min

    Two Earth people are transported to an alien planet, along with two aliens. The are told by their abductors that they will fight each other to the death. The stakes are high: the homeworld of the losers will be destroyed slowly, for the further amusement of their captors.

  28. Episode 28: The Special One

    Apr 6, 1964 · 52 min

    Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.

  29. Episode 29: A Feasibility Study

    Apr 13, 1964 · 52 min

    The people of Earth surprise their alien captors when an entire neighborhood is transported to another planet as part of a plan to enslave the human race.

  30. Episode 30: Production and Decay of Strange Particles

    Apr 20, 1964 · 52 min

    An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.

  31. Episode 31: The Chameleon

    Apr 27, 1964 · 52 min

    A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.

  32. Episode 32: The Forms of Things Unknown

    May 4, 1964 · 52 min

    Two women with a body in their car trunk come upon a house by chance wherein a crazed inventor has a machine that can bring back the dead.

Season 217 ep. · 1964–1965
  1. Episode 1: Soldier

    Sep 19, 1964 · 52 min

    Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.

  2. Episode 2: Cold Hands, Warm Heart

    Sep 26, 1964 · 52 min

    After returning from a mission to Venus, an astronaut can't seem to stay warm enough and has strange dreams about encountering a wraith-like being outside his spaceship window.

  3. Episode 3: Behold, Eck!

    Oct 3, 1964 · 52 min

    A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.

  4. Episode 4: Expanding Human

    Oct 10, 1964 · 52 min

    A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.

  5. Episode 5: Demon with a Glass Hand

    Oct 17, 1964 · 52 min

    Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with a glass hand and no memory of his past.

  6. Episode 6: Cry of Silence

    Oct 24, 1964 · 52 min

    A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.

  7. Episode 7: The Invisible Enemy

    Oct 31, 1964 · 52 min

    A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planet's sandy soil.

  8. Episode 8: Wolf 359

    Nov 7, 1964 · 52 min

    A college professor recreates the environment of a distant planet in a lab in order to study its evolution... which happens quickly.

  9. Episode 9: I, Robot

    Nov 14, 1964 · 52 min

    A robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.

  10. Episode 10: The Inheritors Part I

    Nov 21, 1964 · 52 min

    After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.

  11. Episode 11: The Inheritors Part II

    Nov 28, 1964 · 52 min

    An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.

  12. Episode 12: Keeper of the Purple Twilight

    Dec 5, 1964 · 52 min

    An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.

  13. Episode 13: The Duplicate Man

    Dec 19, 1964 · 52 min

    A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.

  14. Episode 14: Counterweight

    Dec 26, 1964 · 52 min

    Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.

  15. Episode 15: The Brain of Colonel Barham

    Jan 2, 1965 · 52 min

    A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.

  16. Episode 16: The Premonition

    Jan 9, 1965 · 52 min

    An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.

  17. Episode 17: The Probe

    Jan 16, 1965 · 52 min

    After flying into a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane bound for Tokyo is captured by an alien space probe.