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Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 2 - Frankenstein Mark II
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    #1 - Frankenstein Mark II

    S2:E2

    A stranger calls at the home of divorcée Anna Preston, asking to collect some of her ex-husband's belongings. Anna agrees, but is suspicious, and tries to contact her 'ex' at the space-research establishment where he worked. But none of his colleagues can tell her where he is and the authorities block all her efforts to find out. Anna grows more convinced that he is in danger, but the truth is more horrifying than even she can imagine.

    Director:Peter Duguid
    Writer:Hugh Whitemore

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  2. Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 5 - Second Childhood
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    #2 - Second Childhood

    S2:E5

    Charles Dennistoun, a 60-year-old contestant on 'You Bet a Million' - a quiz show for millionaires - wins the jackpot prize, a course in rejuvenation. But his friends and family have mixed feeling, and the repercussions have blackly comic effects on all concerned.

    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 6 - The World in Silence
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    #3 - The World in Silence

    S2:E6

    College student Sarah Richards is alone in fearing and disliking the new teaching machines but even she does not foresee the terrifying situation that arises when her supervisor, Stephen Kershaw, re-arranges the machines to conform with revised fire regulations.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 7 - The Eye
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    #4 - The Eye

    S2:E7

    Julian Clay is accused of murdering Andrew Maddox - a charge he cannot deny because 'The Eye', a device which records the past, saw him do it, However, the law affords one loophole.

    Director:Peter Sasdy
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 9 - The Fastest Draw
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    #5 - The Fastest Draw

    S2:E9

    Amos Handworthy's grandfather was quick on the draw: as a U.S marshal it was a job requirement if you wanted to stay alive. But now Amos has built a gun-slinging robot, programmed to be a split second slower than him in a gunfight, so that he can perpetuate the myth and glory of his grandfather's frontier past. But will Amos bet his life on a duel with real bullets?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 10 - Too Many Cooks
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    #6 - Too Many Cooks

    S2:E10

    Dr Andrew Cook, inventor of a process for making living replicas of human beings, has unwittingly duplicated himself and becomes a secret weapon in the Solar System's struggle for economic survival against a powerful alien culture, the Sentients.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hugh Whitemore

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  7. Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 11 - Walk's End
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    #7 - Walk's End

    S2:E11

    Dr Saint's offer of a free place in his comfortable old-folks' home appears entirely philanthropic to Miss Claythorpe. However he is suspiciously vague about the treatment that goes with it.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 13 - The Prophet
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    #8 - The Prophet

    S2:E13

    Robot QT-1, aboard an orbiting space-station, controls the massive energy beam which transmits the sun's power to receivers on Earth. But QT-1 (Cutie) has some strange bees in his positronic bonnet. How could weak creatures of protoplasm create a nearly invincible, totally logical entity like himself? It is up to his human supervisors, Powell and Donovan, to convince Cutie of his niche in creation before his new robot theology becomes a threat to all life on Earth.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Out of the Unknown Season 3 Episode 5 - Something in the Cellar
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    #9 - Something in the Cellar

    S3:E5

    Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his basement, much to the concern of his friend, Dr Pugh.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Out of the Unknown Season 3 Episode 10 - The Fosters
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    #10 - The Fosters

    S3:E10

    Mr Foster and his sister live quietly in the suburbs but are not what they seem, possessing scientific knowledge far in advance of humanity.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. Out of the Unknown Season 3 Episode 11 - Target Generation
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    #11 - Target Generation

    S3:E11

    The Ship contains a generation, and only one inheritor knows what must be done when the tremor is felt throughout the metal cylinder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Clive Exton

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  12. Out of the Unknown Season 4 Episode 1 - Taste of Evil
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    #12 - Taste of Evil

    S4:E1

    Stephen Chambers, a new master of Warby Stones school for the 'ultra-intelligent boys', finds strange things happening to him. Reason tells him that they must be linked with the boys' Psychic Phenomena Club.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Out of the Unknown Season 4 Episode 5 - The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow
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    #13 - The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow

    S4:E5

    The small East Anglian village of Plampton has one distinction - a famous unsolved murder. A cynical journalist decides to go there to see what he can stir up. But Plampton is a community linked by telepathy and led by a witch.

    Director:Gerald Blake
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Out of the Unknown Season 4 Episode 7 - The Last Witness
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    #14 - The Last Witness

    S4:E7

    A man, Harris, wakes up in a hotel on a small island after a shipwreck. He keeps recognising flashes of what he sees, until he realises his visions are of actions yet to come - culminating in murder.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Out of the Unknown Season 4 Episode 11 - The Shattered Eye
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    #15 - The Shattered Eye

    S4:E11

    A chance meeting with an old tramp brings a violent force into a young painter's like.

    Director:Peter Hammond
    Writer:David T. Chantler

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  16. Out of the Unknown Season 4 Episode 9 - The Chopper
    4.0/10(9 votes)

    #16 - The Chopper

    S4:E9

    The vengeful spirit of a dead motorcyclist is reluctant to leave his wrecked machine and manifests itself to a woman journalist as motorbike noise.

    Director:Peter Cregeen
    Writer:Nigel Kneale

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  17. Out of the Unknown Season 2 Episode 3 - Lambda I
    5.5/10(45 votes)

    #17 - Lambda I

    S2:E3

    Why take the Great Circle route to Australia when you can tunnel through the very molecules of the solid earth itself in a TAU-mode shuttle? When a routine TAU-shuttle becomes entombed in solid rock miles under the earth, the only means of rescue may be the wildly experimental LAMBDA-mode shuttle; and even its creator has no idea how it will behave, or whether its pilot can keep his sanity during the rescue mission.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Bruce Stewart

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  18. Out of the Unknown Season 4 Episode 8 - The Man in My Head
    6.2/10(28 votes)

    #18 - The Man in My Head

    S4:E8

    A team of soldiers break into an enemy missile base. Such is the secrecy of their mission, they have been hypnotically programmed with their orders and will only remember each stage of the operation when they hear a pre-arranged signal. It seems foolproof, but gradually doubt and paranoia begin to overtake them.

    Director:Peter Cregeen
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Out of the Unknown Season 1 Episode 1 - No Place Like Earth
    6.3/10(70 votes)

    #19 - No Place Like Earth

    S1:E1

    Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. Perhaps the isolated outpost on Venus retains something which could satisfy this hunger; or has the madness which shattered a world merely settled in a new location?

    Director:Peter Potter
    Writer:John Wyndham

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  20. Out of the Unknown Season 1 Episode 6 - Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come... ?
    6.6/10(50 votes)

    #20 - Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come... ?

    S1:E6

    Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby; with an attention to detail which is, perhaps, closer to an obsession. The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife. Is there more going on in the greenhouse than could safely be exhibited at the next Battersea Flower Show?

    Director:Paddy Russell
    Writer:Mike Watts

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  21. Out of the Unknown Season 4 Episode 2 - To Lay a Ghost
    6.6/10(50 votes)

    #21 - To Lay a Ghost

    S4:E2

    Eric and Diana Carver move into a new home in the country, but a series of strange events soon cause Diana to suspect the house is haunted by the ghost of a man. A ghost who seems to be interested in her particularly. She was sexually assaulted when she was a schoolgirl and ever since has had a complex about sex and intimacy. When they call in Dr Philmore, a paranormal expert, he suspects that Diana subconsciously wants to the dominated by this supernatural intruder.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Michael J. Bird

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  22. Out of the Unknown Season 1 Episode 7 - Sucker Bait
    6.8/10(45 votes)

    #22 - Sucker Bait

    S1:E7

    An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a strange, intense teenager called Mark Annuncio, raised to be a kind of human computer, able to make connections between different specialisms. Disliked by the crew, Mark nevertheless may be the only person capable of saving the ship when they land and scientists begin dying mysteriously.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Meade Roberts

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  23. Out of the Unknown Season 3 Episode 9 - 1 + 1 = 1.5
    6.8/10(7 votes)

    #23 - 1 + 1 = 1.5

    S3:E9

    The population of the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century is static, thanks to computerized population control, but the wife of the Population Officer becomes pregnant for the second time.

    Director:Michael Ferguson
    Writer:Brian Hayles

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  24. Out of the Unknown Season 1 Episode 2 - The Counterfeit Man
    6.9/10(67 votes)

    #24 - The Counterfeit Man

    S1:E2

    On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. But perfect enough to escape discovery on the long return trip to Earth? Can the deadly counterfeit be detected and stopped before its hunger for new life can endanger an entire planet?

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Philip Broadley

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  25. Out of the Unknown Season 3 Episode 4 - Beach Head
    7.0/10(22 votes)

    #25 - Beach Head

    S3:E4

    On his thirty-seventh mission, Commandant Tom Decker and his colleague Ensign Warner-Carr become alarmed at what they find when their spaceship lands on Planet 0243/B.

    Director:James Cellan Jones
    Writer:Robert Muller

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Frankenstein Mark II" is the worst rated episode of "Out of the Unknown". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Peter Duguid and written by Hugh Whitemore, it aired on 10/13/1966. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Second Childhood".