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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.
The Outer Limits (Season 1)
The Galaxy Being (Episode 1) 7.1
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Air date: 1963-09-16
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
The Hundred Days of the Dragon (Episode 2) 7.0
Writer: Robert Mintz
Air date: 1963-09-23
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
The Architects of Fear (Episode 3) 7.1
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
Air date: 1963-09-30
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.
The Man with the Power (Episode 4) 7.0
Writer: Jerome Ross
Air date: 1963-10-07
Runtime: 51 min
Overview: A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
The Sixth Finger (Episode 5) 7.8
Writer: Ellis St. Joseph
Air date: 1963-10-14
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.
The Man Who Was Never Born (Episode 6) 7.0
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
Air date: 1963-10-28
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.
O.B.I.T. (Episode 7) 4.5
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
Air date: 1963-11-04
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.
The Human Factor (Episode 8) 7.0
Writer: David Duncan
Air date: 1963-11-11
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Corpus Earthling (Episode 9) 7.0
Writer: Louis Charbonneau
Air date: 1963-11-18
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?
Nightmare (Episode 10) 7.3
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1963-12-02
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork (Episode 11) 7.0
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1963-12-09
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.
The Borderland (Episode 12) 5.0
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Air date: 1963-12-16
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Tourist Attraction (Episode 13) 6.0
Writer: Dean Riesner
Air date: 1963-12-23
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
The Zanti Misfits (Episode 14) 7.3
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1963-12-30
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.
The Mice (Episode 15) 5.0
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger
Air date: 1964-01-06
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.
Controlled Experiment (Episode 16) 5.0
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Air date: 1964-01-13
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
Don't Open Till Doomsday (Episode 17) 5.0
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1964-01-20
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.
ZZZZZ (Episode 18) 9.5
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
Air date: 1964-01-27
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
The Invisibles (Episode 19) 5.0
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1964-02-03
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.
The Bellero Shield (Episode 20) 7.5
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1964-02-10
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
The Children of Spider County (Episode 21) 4.0
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
Air date: 1964-02-17
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Specimen: Unknown (Episode 22)
Writer: Stephen Lord
Air date: 1964-02-24
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.
Second Chance (Episode 23) 8.0
Writer: Lin Dane
Air date: 1964-03-02
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Moonstone (Episode 24) 8.0
Writer: William Bast
Air date: 1964-03-09
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
The Mutant (Episode 25)
Writer: Robert Mintz
Air date: 1964-03-16
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.
The Guests (Episode 26) 6.0
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
Air date: 1964-03-23
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Fun and Games (Episode 27) 7.5
Writer: Robert Specht
Air date: 1964-03-30
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
The Special One (Episode 28) 6.0
Writer: Oliver Crawford
Air date: 1964-04-06
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.
A Feasibility Study (Episode 29) 9.0
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1964-04-13
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Production and Decay of Strange Particles (Episode 30)
Writer: Leslie Stevens
Air date: 1964-04-20
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.
The Chameleon (Episode 31) 8.0
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1964-04-27
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.
The Forms of Things Unknown (Episode 32)
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Air date: 1964-05-04
Runtime: 52 min
Overview: 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.
Seasons
Episodes 32
Episodes 17
Episodes 2