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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.

The Galaxy Being

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.

The Hundred Days of the Dragon

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

The Architects of Fear

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

The Man with the Power

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

The Sixth Finger

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

The Man Who Was Never Born

A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

O.B.I.T.

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.

The Human Factor

A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?

Corpus Earthling

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

Nightmare

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

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

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.

The Borderland

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.

Tourist Attraction

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

The Zanti Misfits

A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.

The Mice

Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

Controlled Experiment

A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.

Don't Open Till Doomsday

A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.

ZZZZZ

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

The Invisibles

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

The Bellero Shield

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.

The Children of Spider County

Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.

Specimen: Unknown

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.

Second Chance

Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.

Moonstone

A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.

The Mutant

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.

The Guests

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.

Fun and Games

Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.

The Special One

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.

A Feasibility Study

An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.

Production and Decay of Strange Particles

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

The Chameleon

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.

The Forms of Things Unknown

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

Soldier

After returning from a mission to Venus, an astronaut can't seem to stay warm enough and has strange dreams about encountering a wraith-like being outside his spaceship window.

Cold Hands, Warm Heart

A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.

Behold, Eck!

A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.

Expanding Human

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

Demon with a Glass Hand

A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.

Cry of Silence

A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planet's sandy soil.

The Invisible Enemy

A college professor recreates the environment of a distant planet in a lab in order to study its evolution... which happens quickly.

Wolf 359

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

I, Robot

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

The Inheritors Part I

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

The Inheritors Part II

An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.

Keeper of the Purple Twilight

A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.

The Duplicate Man

Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.

Counterweight

A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.

The Brain of Colonel Barham

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

The Premonition

After flying into a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane bound for Tokyo is captured by an alien space probe.

The Probe

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

The Best Seasons of The Outer Limits

The Best Seasons of The Outer Limits

Season 1

Season 2