The Outer Limits

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

Creators and Cast

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Leslie Stevens

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Vic Perrin

Control Voice (voice) (uncredited)

Episodes

Specials

2 episodes

S0 E1 · Please Stand By - The Outer Limits Documentary

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S0 E2 · The Unknown

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Season 1

32 episodes

S1 E1 · The Galaxy Being

1963-09-16

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.

S1 E2 · The Hundred Days of the Dragon

1963-09-23

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.

S1 E3 · The Architects of Fear

1963-09-30

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

S1 E4 · The Man with the Power

1963-10-07

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

S1 E5 · The Sixth Finger

1963-10-14

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

S1 E6 · The Man Who Was Never Born

1963-10-28

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

S1 E7 · O.B.I.T.

1963-11-04

A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

S1 E8 · The Human Factor

1963-11-11

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.

S1 E9 · Corpus Earthling

1963-11-18

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

S1 E10 · Nightmare

1963-12-02

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

S1 E11 · It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

1963-12-09

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

S1 E12 · The Borderland

1963-12-16

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.

S1 E13 · Tourist Attraction

1963-12-23

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.

S1 E14 · The Zanti Misfits

1963-12-30

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

S1 E15 · The Mice

1964-01-06

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

S1 E16 · Controlled Experiment

1964-01-13

Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

S1 E17 · Don't Open Till Doomsday

1964-01-20

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

S1 E18 · ZZZZZ

1964-01-27

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

S1 E19 · The Invisibles

1964-02-03

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

S1 E20 · The Bellero Shield

1964-02-10

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

S1 E21 · The Children of Spider County

1964-02-17

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.

S1 E22 · Specimen: Unknown

1964-02-24

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

S1 E23 · Second Chance

1964-03-02

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.

S1 E24 · Moonstone

1964-03-09

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

S1 E25 · The Mutant

1964-03-16

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

S1 E26 · The Guests

1964-03-23

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.

S1 E27 · Fun and Games

1964-03-30

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.

S1 E28 · The Special One

1964-04-06

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

S1 E29 · A Feasibility Study

1964-04-13

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.

S1 E30 · Production and Decay of Strange Particles

1964-04-20

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

S1 E31 · The Chameleon

1964-04-27

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

S1 E32 · The Forms of Things Unknown

1964-05-04

A crazy man invents a machine that can tilt time and bring the dead back to life.

Season 2

17 episodes

S2 E1 · Soldier

1964-09-19

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

S2 E2 · Cold Hands, Warm Heart

1964-09-26

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.

S2 E3 · Behold, Eck!

1964-10-03

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

S2 E4 · Expanding Human

1964-10-10

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

S2 E5 · Demon with a Glass Hand

1964-10-17

A man with a glass hand attempts to unravel the mystery of who he is.

S2 E6 · Cry of Silence

1964-10-24

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

S2 E7 · The Invisible Enemy

1964-10-31

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

S2 E8 · Wolf 359

1964-11-07

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

S2 E9 · I, Robot

1964-11-14

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

S2 E10 · The Inheritors Part I

1964-11-21

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

S2 E11 · The Inheritors Part II

1964-11-28

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

S2 E12 · Keeper of the Purple Twilight

1964-12-05

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

S2 E13 · The Duplicate Man

1964-12-19

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

S2 E14 · Counterweight

1964-12-26

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

S2 E15 · The Brain of Colonel Barham

1965-01-02

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

S2 E16 · The Premonition

1965-01-09

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

S2 E17 · The Probe

1965-01-16

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