The Outer Limits

2 Seasons 1963 - 1965 TV-PG 51m 8.2

An anthology series of insightful science fiction tales.

Anthology type science fiction program with a different cast each week. Tending toward the hard science, space travel, time travel, and human evolution it tries to examine in each show some form of the question, "What is the nature of man?"

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Episodes:

Episode 1 The Galaxy Being

1. The Galaxy Being

Aired: Sep 16, 1963

A scientific technician working at a radio station makes first contact with a...

Episode 5 The Sixth Finger

5. The Sixth Finger

Aired: Oct 14, 1963

A scientist hires a miner to be the human subject in an experiment to speed-u...

Episode 7 O.B.I.T.

7. O.B.I.T.

Aired: Nov 3, 1963

At the top secret Cypress Hills Research Center, scientists are kept under co...

Episode 8 The Human Factor

8. The Human Factor

Aired: Nov 10, 1963

On a military base, in the frozen vastness of Greenland, an army psychiatrist...

Episode 9 Corpus Earthling

9. Corpus Earthling

Aired: Nov 17, 1963

Enabled by the metal plate in his head, Dr. Paul Cameron can overhear the imm...

Episode 10 Nightmare

10. Nightmare

Aired: Dec 1, 1963

A stranded team of soldiers are captured and experimented on by demonic-looki...

Episode 12 The Borderland

12. The Borderland

Aired: Dec 15, 1963

After a scientist appears to invent a machine which can contact the afterlife...

Episode 13 Tourist Attraction

13. Tourist Attraction

Aired: Dec 22, 1963

Tycoon John Dexter spears a dolphin-like sea creature off San Blas in the Car...

Episode 14 The Zanti Misfits

14. The Zanti Misfits

Aired: Dec 29, 1963

Aliens from the planet Zanti decide to make Earth a penal colony for their cr...

Episode 15 The Mice

15. The Mice

Aired: Jan 5, 1964

Dr. Thomas Kellander, Director of Neo-Kinematics, is in charge of a machine t...

Episode 18 ZZZZZ

18. ZZZZZ

Aired: Jan 26, 1964

An entomologist develops a machine to communicate with bees. Unknown to him, ...

Episode 19 The Invisibles

19. The Invisibles

Aired: Feb 2, 1964

Three nobodies volunteer to become part of a new world order by allying with ...

Episode 20 The Bellero Shield

20. The Bellero Shield

Aired: Feb 9, 1964

A humble laser scientist's maniacally ambitious wife brings ruin to her husba...

Episode 22 Specimen: Unknown

22. Specimen: Unknown

Aired: Feb 23, 1964

Fast-growing space lilies take root aboard a space station, imperiling five h...

Episode 23 Second Chance

23. Second Chance

Aired: Mar 1, 1964

Thanks to an alien bird-man, the outer space ride at a carnival becomes frigh...

Episode 24 Moonstone

24. Moonstone

Aired: Mar 8, 1964

A lunar exploration team from Earth encounters alien life, and must make a di...

Episode 25 The Mutant

25. The Mutant

Aired: Mar 15, 1964

A scientist visits an isolated expedition on a planet plagued by radioactive ...

Episode 26 The Guests

26. The Guests

Aired: Mar 22, 1964

A drifter enters a lonely house, unaware that it is actually an alien creatur...

Episode 27 Fun and Games

27. Fun and Games

Aired: Mar 29, 1964

For entertainment, a superior alien pits an Earth pair against a Caligo Galax...

Episode 28 The Special One

28. The Special One

Aired: Apr 5, 1964

The parents of a child science prodigy are approached by a mysterious officia...

Episode 29 A Feasibility Study

29. A Feasibility Study

Aired: Apr 12, 1964

The inhabitants of a typical suburban street find that they've been abducted ...

Episode 31 The Chameleon

31. The Chameleon

Aired: Apr 27, 1964

To penetrate the spaceship of secretive alien visitors, a compromised agent i...

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Current Status: Ended

Network: ABC

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy