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The Outer Limits
1963 - 1965 7.8 (149 votes) 2 Seasons
Genres
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Networks
ABC
Created By
Leslie Stevens

The Outer Limits

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Overview

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

Key Crew

Producer: Lou Morheim, Sam White

Top Cast

Vic Perrin
Vic Perrin

Control Voice (voice) (uncredited)

Seasons

Season 1 poster
Season 1 (1963)

No overview available.

32 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: 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.

Runtime: 51 min
Episode 5: The Sixth Finger
1963-10-14

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 7: O.B.I.T.
1963-11-04

A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 8: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 9: 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?

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 10: Nightmare
1963-12-02

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 11: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 12: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 13: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 14: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 15: The Mice
1964-01-06

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 16: Controlled Experiment
1964-01-13

Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 17: Don't Open Till Doomsday
1964-01-20

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 18: ZZZZZ
1964-01-27

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 19: The Invisibles
1964-02-03

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 20: The Bellero Shield
1964-02-10

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 21: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 22: Specimen: Unknown
1964-02-24

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 23: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 24: Moonstone
1964-03-09

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 25: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 26: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 27: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 28: The Special One
1964-04-06

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 29: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 30: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 31: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 32: The Forms of Things Unknown
1964-05-04

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.

Runtime: 52 min
Season 2 poster
Season 2 (1964)

No overview available.

17 episodes

Episodes
Episode 1: Soldier
1964-09-19

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 2: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 3: Behold, Eck!
1964-10-03

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 4: Expanding Human
1964-10-10

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 5: Demon with a Glass Hand
1964-10-17

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 6: Cry of Silence
1964-10-24

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 7: The Invisible Enemy
1964-10-31

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 8: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 9: I, Robot
1964-11-14

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 10: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 11: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 12: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 13: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 14: Counterweight
1964-12-26

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 15: The Brain of Colonel Barham
1965-01-02

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

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 16: 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.

Runtime: 52 min
Episode 17: 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.

Runtime: 52 min

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