7.5/10 1,346 votes#1 - 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
7.2/10 1,007 votes#2 - 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
7.6/10 1,049 votes#3 - 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
7.2/10 835 votes#4 - 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
8.0/10 1,030 votes#5 - 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
8.1/10 1,001 votes#6 - 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
7.3/10 776 votes#7 - 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
6.9/10 676 votes#8 - 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
6.9/10 717 votes#9 - 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
7.7/10 786 votes#10 - 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
7.2/10 721 votes#11 - 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
6.6/10 646 votes#12 - 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
6.1/10 605 votes#13 - 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
7.8/10 905 votes#14 - 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
6.7/10 585 votes#15 - 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
7.1/10 683 votes#16 - Controlled Experiment
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1964
Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
7.0/10 642 votes#17 - 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
7.0/10 677 votes#18 - 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
7.4/10 608 votes#19 - 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
8.0/10 717 votes#20 - 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
6.2/10 532 votes#21 - 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
6.8/10 544 votes#22 - 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
7.2/10 584 votes#23 - 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
6.8/10 519 votes#24 - 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
6.8/10 514 votes#25 - 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
The Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 1
Every episode of The Outer Limits Season 1 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 1!
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:ABC
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Galaxy Being" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits" season 1. It scored 7.5/10 based on 1346 votes. Directed by Leslie Stevens and written by Leslie Stevens, it aired on 9/16/1963. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "The Hundred Days of the Dragon".