The Outer Limits (Season 1)

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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.

  • Poster for The Galaxy Being

    The Galaxy Being 7.1

    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.

  • Poster for The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    The Hundred Days of the Dragon 7.0

    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.

  • Poster for The Architects of Fear

    The Architects of Fear 7.1

    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.

  • Poster for The Man with the Power

    The Man with the Power 7.0

    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.

  • Poster for The Sixth Finger

    The Sixth Finger 7.8

    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.

  • Poster for The Man Who Was Never Born

    The Man Who Was Never Born 7.0

    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.

  • Poster for O.B.I.T.

    O.B.I.T. 4.5

    Air date: 1963-11-04

    Runtime: 52 min

    Overview: A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

  • Poster for The Human Factor

    The Human Factor 7.0

    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.

  • Poster for Corpus Earthling

    Corpus Earthling 7.0

    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?

  • Poster for Nightmare

    Nightmare 7.3

    Air date: 1963-12-02

    Runtime: 52 min

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

  • Poster for It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

    It Crawled Out of the Woodwork 7.0

    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.

  • Poster for The Borderland

    The Borderland 5.0

    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.

  • Poster for Tourist Attraction

    Tourist Attraction 6.0

    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.

  • Poster for The Zanti Misfits

    The Zanti Misfits 7.3

    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.

  • Poster for The Mice

    The Mice 5.0

    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.

  • Poster for Controlled Experiment

    Controlled Experiment 5.0

    Air date: 1964-01-13

    Runtime: 52 min

    Overview: Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

  • Poster for Don't Open Till Doomsday

    Don't Open Till Doomsday 5.0

    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.

  • Poster for ZZZZZ

    ZZZZZ 9.5

    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.

  • Poster for The Invisibles

    The Invisibles 5.0

    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.

  • Poster for The Bellero Shield

    The Bellero Shield 7.5

    Air date: 1964-02-10

    Runtime: 52 min

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

  • Poster for The Children of Spider County

    The Children of Spider County 4.0

    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.

  • Poster for Specimen: Unknown

    Specimen: Unknown 0.0

    Air date: 1964-02-24

    Runtime: 52 min

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

  • Poster for Second Chance

    Second Chance 8.0

    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.

  • Poster for Moonstone

    Moonstone 8.0

    Air date: 1964-03-09

    Runtime: 52 min

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

  • Poster for The Mutant

    The Mutant 0.0

    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.

  • Poster for The Guests

    The Guests 6.0

    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.

  • Poster for Fun and Games

    Fun and Games 7.5

    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.

  • Poster for The Special One

    The Special One 6.0

    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.

  • Poster for A Feasibility Study

    A Feasibility Study 9.0

    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.

  • Poster for Production and Decay of Strange Particles

    Production and Decay of Strange Particles 0.0

    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.

  • Poster for The Chameleon

    The Chameleon 8.0

    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.

  • Poster for The Forms of Things Unknown

    The Forms of Things Unknown 0.0

    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.

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