All Episodes of The Outer Limits
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Season 1
7.5/101,364 votesLoading...The Galaxy Being
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1963
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.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
7.2/101,022 votesLoading...The Hundred Days of the Dragon
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1963
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.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Robert Mintz, Allan Balter
7.6/101,064 votesLoading...The Architects of Fear
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1963
A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
7.2/10848 votesLoading...The Man with the Power
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1963
A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
Director: László Benedek
Writer: Jerome Ross
8.0/101,045 votesLoading...The Sixth Finger
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1963
A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: Ellis St. Joseph
8.1/101,013 votesLoading...The Man Who Was Never Born
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1963
An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
7.3/10786 votesLoading...O.B.I.T.
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1963
A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
6.9/10684 votesLoading...The Human Factor
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1963
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.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: David Duncan
6.9/10725 votesLoading...Corpus Earthling
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1963
A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Louis Charbonneau, Orin Borsten
7.7/10797 votesLoading...Nightmare
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1963
In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
Director: John Erman
Writer: Joseph Stefano
7.2/10733 votesLoading...It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1963
An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
6.6/10656 votesLoading...The Borderland
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1963
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.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
6.1/10617 votesLoading...Tourist Attraction
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1963
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.
Director: László Benedek
Writer: Dean Riesner
7.8/10917 votesLoading...The Zanti Misfits
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1963
Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Joseph Stefano
6.7/10594 votesLoading...The Mice
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1964
A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, Bill S. Ballinger
7.2/10692 votesLoading...Controlled Experiment
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1964
Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
7.0/10651 votesLoading...Don't Open Till Doomsday
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1964
A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
7.0/10684 votesLoading...ZZZZZ
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1964
A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
7.4/10613 votesLoading...The Invisibles
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1964
A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
8.0/10725 votesLoading...The Bellero Shield
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1964
A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim
6.2/10538 votesLoading...The Children of Spider County
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1964
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.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
6.8/10550 votesLoading...Specimen: Unknown
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1964
Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Stephen Lord
7.2/10588 votesLoading...Second Chance
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1964
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.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Lou Morheim, Lin Dane, Sonya Roberts
6.8/10525 votesLoading...Moonstone
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1964
Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, William Bast
6.8/10519 votesLoading...The Mutant
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1964
A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Robert Mintz, Allan Balter, Jerome B. Thomas
7.3/10598 votesLoading...The Guests
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/23/1964
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.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
7.2/10564 votesLoading...Fun and Games
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/30/1964
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.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Robert Specht
7.1/10512 votesLoading...The Special One
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1964
Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Oliver Crawford
7.9/10655 votesLoading...A Feasibility Study
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/13/1964
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.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Joseph Stefano
6.3/10526 votesLoading...Production and Decay of Strange Particles
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/20/1964
An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
7.6/10537 votesLoading...The Chameleon
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/27/1964
A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, Robert Towne
7.5/10666 votesLoading...The Forms of Things Unknown
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/4/1964
A crazy man invents a machine that can tilt time and bring the dead back to life.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano