The Outer Limits

The Best Episodes of The Outer Limits

Genre:Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:ABC

Every episode of The Outer Limits ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Outer Limits!

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
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  1. 8.6/10(1.2k votes)

    #1 - Demon with a Glass Hand

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    S2:E5

    A man with a glass hand attempts to unravel the mystery of who he is.

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  2. 8.4/10(689 votes)

    #2 - The Inheritors Part II

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    S2:E11

    An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.

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  3. 8.3/10(733 votes)

    #3 - The Inheritors Part I

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    S2:E10

    After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.

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  4. 8.1/10(1.0k votes)

    #4 - The Man Who Was Never Born

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    S1:E6

    An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.

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  5. 8.0/10(1.1k votes)

    #5 - The Sixth Finger

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    S1:E5

    A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.

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  6. 8.0/10(739 votes)

    #6 - The Bellero Shield

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    S1:E20

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

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  8. 7.9/10(666 votes)

    #7 - A Feasibility Study

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    S1:E29

    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.

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  9. 7.9/10(640 votes)

    #8 - I, Robot

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    S2:E9

    A robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.

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  10. 7.8/10(941 votes)

    #9 - The Zanti Misfits

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    S1:E14

    Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.

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  11. 7.8/10(804 votes)

    #10 - Soldier

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    S2:E1

    Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.

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  12. 7.7/10(821 votes)

    #11 - Nightmare

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    S1:E10

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

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    Director:John Erman
  13. 7.6/10(1.1k votes)

    #12 - The Architects of Fear

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    S1:E3

    A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.

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  14. 7.6/10(545 votes)

    #13 - The Chameleon

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    S1:E31

    A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.

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  15. 7.5/10(1.4k votes)

    #14 - The Galaxy Being

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    S1:E1

    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.

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  16. 7.5/10(676 votes)

    #15 - The Forms of Things Unknown

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    S1:E32

    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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  17. 7.4/10(625 votes)

    #16 - The Invisibles

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    S1:E19

    A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.

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  18. 7.4/10(546 votes)

    #17 - The Premonition

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    S2:E16

    An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.

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  19. 7.3/10(805 votes)

    #18 - O.B.I.T.

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    S1:E7

    A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

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  20. 7.3/10(608 votes)

    #19 - The Guests

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    S1:E26

    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.

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  21. 7.2/10(1.0k votes)

    #20 - The Hundred Days of the Dragon

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    S1:E2

    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.

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  22. 7.2/10(868 votes)

    #21 - The Man with the Power

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    S1:E4

    A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.

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  23. 7.2/10(748 votes)

    #22 - It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

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    S1:E11

    An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.

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  24. 7.2/10(595 votes)

    #23 - Second Chance

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    S1:E23

    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.

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  25. 7.2/10(567 votes)

    #24 - Fun and Games

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    S1:E27

    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.

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  26. 7.1/10(708 votes)

    #25 - Controlled Experiment

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    S1:E16

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

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Best Episodes Summary

"Demon with a Glass Hand" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits". It scored 8.6/10 based on 1193 votes. Directed by Byron Haskin and written by Harlan Ellison, it aired on 10/17/1964. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Inheritors Part II".