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The Outer Limits - Episode Guide

Season 1

The Galaxy Being

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 16, 1963

The Galaxy Being

Engineer Allen Maxwell draws power from his brother's radio station to contact an alien explorer in a distant galaxy. However, when the transmission is overloaded, the Being is transported to Earth with disasterous results.

The Hundred Days of the Dragon

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 23, 1963

The Hundred Days of the Dragon

An Asian despot successfully infiltrates an imposter for an American Presidential candidate... and the imposter is elected President.

The Architects of Fear

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Sep 30, 1963

The Architects of Fear

A group of scientists choose one of their number to be surgically altered into an alien so that he'll scare the nations of the world into cooperating before the Doomsday Clock strikes midnight.

The Sixth Finger

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 14, 1963

The Sixth Finger

A Welsh miner volunteers for an experiment to advance him 20,000 years up the evolutionary ladder.

The Man Who Was Never Born

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 28, 1963

The Man Who Was Never Born

A mutant from a doomed future travels back in time to the present day, to stop the series of events that lead to his world. However, he falls in the love with the fiancee of the man he intends to kill.

O.B.I.T.

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Nov 4, 1963

O.B.I.T.

A senator conducts a hearing into a murder at a Military Department research center, and soon uncovers a conspiracy intended to demoralize humans and prepare them for alien invasion.

The Human Factor

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Nov 11, 1963

The Human Factor

A psychiatrist at a U.S. military base in Greenland uses an experimental procedure to explore the mind of an unstable soldier... and the two switch minds.

Corpus Earthling

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Nov 18, 1963

Corpus Earthling

After he's concussed in a lab accident, surgeon Paul Cameron hears two nearby rocks discussing their plans to conquer Earth.

Nightmare

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Dec 2, 1963

Nightmare

In the war between the planets Ebon and Earth, the Ebonites capture several enemy prisoners and put them through a series of grotesque tortures to determine what they know.

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Dec 9, 1963

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

An unstoppable and insatiable energy cloud is created at a physics center in California... and the director attempts to control it no matter the cost in human life.

The Borderland

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Dec 16, 1963

The Borderland

A scientist seeks to create a doorway between dimensions, and asks an industrial CEO to finance his experiments and provide the electrical power necessary.

Tourist Attraction

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Dec 23, 1963

Tourist Attraction

In South America a U.S businessman and adventurer captures a humanoid ichthyosaur, and the local dictator plans to use it to bring tourists to the area. However, the creature--and a school of creatures like it--have plans of their own.

The Zanti Misfits

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Dec 30, 1963

The Zanti Misfits

Alien beings, the Zanti, send their criminals to Earth because they are morally opposed to killing them. They instruct the U.S.military not to approach the Zanti spacecraft... but a man and woman break through the cordon, risking the destruction of Earth.

The Mice

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Jan 6, 1964

The Mice

Life inmate Chino Rivera volunteers for a teleportation experiment as scientists make contact with an alien planet ten years away, and whose inhabitants want to exchange high-ranking officials ... once they exchange test subjects to make sure the teleportation process works.

Controlled Experiment

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Jan 13, 1964

Controlled Experiment

Two undercover Martians use a time-control device to analyze the quaint human custom of murder.

Don't Open Till Doomsday

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Jan 20, 1964

Don't Open Till Doomsday

In 1929, a local scientist delivers a mysterious present to newlyweds, with the note "Don't Open Till Doomsday" on it. The groom Harvey Jr. disappears shortly thereafter, and his bride Mary waits over 35 years until a new set of newlyweds comes along.

ZZZZZ

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Jan 27, 1964

ZZZZZ

A swarm of bees transform its queen into a human female so that she can mate with an entomologist studying them and conquer the world.

The Invisibles

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Feb 3, 1964

The Invisibles

Alien parasites plan the conquest of Earth by attaching themselves to the spinal columns of men in power. They recruit disaffected loners to spread their infection... unaware that one of the loners is a government agent sent to infiltrate them.

The Bellero Shield

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Feb 10, 1964

The Bellero Shield

When Judith Bellero's father-in-law refuses to grant her scientist husband--Richard Jr.--control of his company, Judith sees a way to win Richard acclaim by murdering an alien that he accidentally summoned to Earth and claiming that Richard invented the protective shield device it wears.

The Children of Spider County

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Feb 17, 1964

The Children of Spider County

Four scientists have disappeared, and the Space Security Agency discovers that they all were born in a small town in Spider Country and are extraordinary physical and mental speciments... and a fifth man meeting the same criteria is still there and being held on a murder charge.

Specimen: Unknown

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Feb 24, 1964

Specimen: Unknown

A five-man space station crew encounter an outer space plant... which spreads with amazing speed and emits poison spores that slowly kill the people that encounter them.

Second Chance

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Mar 2, 1964

Second Chance

An alien from a doomed world converts an amusement park spaceship into a working model and abducts seven people to save his planet.

Moonstone

Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Mar 9, 1964

Moonstone

A moonbase expedition takes in alien refugees who are faced with opponents of vastly superior power.

The Mutant

Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Mar 16, 1964

The Mutant

Psychiatrist Evan Marshall is sent to investigate disturbing reports from an expeditionary team on a small planet.. and discovers that one of the team members has mutated into a radioactive humanoid whose touch is fatal and whose telepathy protects him from any attack.

The Guests

Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Mar 23, 1964

The Guests

A drifter finds an old man dying by he side of the road and goes to a nearby house to seek help... and discovers that he and the guests can't leave.

Fun and Games

Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Mar 30, 1964

Fun and Games

A crook and a divorced wife are abducted from Earth to participate in a battle of life and death against two aliens. The stakes: the winners' planet will be spared while the other is destroyed as entertainment for the aliens responsible for the game.

The Special One

Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Apr 6, 1964

The Special One

A mysterious tutor shows up at the apartment of a mentally-gifted boy and says that he's with the government, but the father soon realizes that things don't add up.

A Feasibility Study

Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: Apr 13, 1964

A Feasibility Study

An alien race teleports away six square blocks of a city in the hopes that they can use the residents as slaves.

Production and Decay of Strange Particles

Episode: 1x30 | Airdate: Apr 20, 1964

Production and Decay of Strange Particles

Exposing a quasi-stellar sample to nuclear radiation opens a crack between universes, allowing entities from another dimension to enter this world, infuse the suits of the workers, disintegrate their bodies, and animate the suits. Now the beings intend to set off a nuclear explosion to widen the crack.

The Chameleon

Episode: 1x31 | Airdate: Apr 27, 1964

The Chameleon

A government assassin is given a unique assignment: undergo alien DNA grafts to "become" an alien, infiltrate their ship which crashed on Earth, and find out if they pose a threat.

The Forms of Things Unknown

Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: May 4, 1964

The Forms of Things Unknown

Two women poison their blackmailing lover Andre and then haul the body away. They end up at the mansion of Tone Hobart, a demented scientist who believes that he's found a way to "tilt" time and bring the dead back to life.

Season 2

Soldier

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 19, 1964

Soldier

A soldier from a future Earth is blasted back through time to the present day and must learn how his new world works. Meanwhile, his opposite number also travels back in time.

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 26, 1964

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

An astronaut returns from a one-man expedition to Venus with an insatiable craving for heat, and begins transforming into an alien life form.

Behold Eck!

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 3, 1964

Behold Eck!

After making special pairs of glasses out of meteorite material, an optical scientist sees a two-dimensional energy being that has become trapped in the third dimension. He then tries to help the creature to get home.

Expanding Human

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 10, 1964

Expanding Human

A doctor's experiments with mind altering drugs leads to a changed body and consciousness as he starts using more and more of his brain.

Demon with a Glass Hand

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 17, 1964

Demon with a Glass Hand

A man named Trent travels from future Earth to the present via a time mirror. Aliens who have invaded Earth come after him, seeking the secrets of Trent's glass hand,,,which will reveal where Earth's population has disappeared to.

Cry of Silence

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 24, 1964

Cry of Silence

When a couple goes to look at where they will be buying a new farm to move to, they accidentally hit a rock, then start to have encounters with very strange tumbleweeds.

The Invisible Enemy

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 31, 1964

The Invisible Enemy

On a world of unending sand, Earth astronauts are picked off one by one by an unseen killer.

Wolf 359

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Nov 7, 1964

Wolf 359

Scientists create a miniature replica of Wolf 359 in the laboratory to test its potential for terraforming, and get unexpected results.

I, Robot

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Nov 14, 1964

I, Robot

A sentient robot is put on trial for the crime of murder.

The Inheritors (1)

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Nov 21, 1964

The Inheritors (1)

Four soldiers come back to military bases wounded in the head by bullets, it is discovered that each of the four men have a second set of brain waves. The men then vanish off the military base and the U.S. government tries to find out what they are up to.

The Inheritors (2)

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1964

The Inheritors (2)

Minns gathers several handicapped children and the men's project continues, as the government agents try to stop their plans.

Keeper of the Purple Twilight

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1964

Keeper of the Purple Twilight

A alien offers advance knowledge to a scientist in exchange for his various emotions that the alien knows nothing about.

The Duplicate Man

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1964

The Duplicate Man

A scientist sends an illegally-created duplicate of himself to destroy a dangerous alien Megasoid on the loose.

Counterweight

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Dec 26, 1964

Counterweight

Six subjects undertake a simulated space flight to determine if the months in isolation of a real trip to the target planet of Antheon are psychologically and emotionally endurable. They're unaware that someone--or something--in the simulation intends them to fail.

The Brain of Colonel Barham

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1965

The Brain of Colonel Barham

An experiment to use a human brain to control and direct a future flight to another world is undertaken for a developing space project. Colonel Barham, who has been gravely crippled in the past and is dying of a disease, volunteers for the project to his brain as a merging of human and machine. However things go awry as unexpected consequences of the project occur.

The Premonition

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1965

The Premonition

Air force test pilot Jim Darcy crashes and discovers that everyone is in a time warp except for him and his wife Linda. They investigate the local air force base Jim is stationed out of and discover a terrible event is about to happen that will affect both their lives.

The Probe

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1965

The Probe

A charter plane crashes in the eye of a hurricane... and the passengers find themselves inside a giant alien space probe.

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