The Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 1

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

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

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

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

Director: László Benedek

Writer: Jerome Ross

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

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

Director: Leonard Horn

Writer: Anthony Lawrence

A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Meyer Dolinsky

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

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

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

Director: John Erman

Writer: Joseph Stefano

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

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

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

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

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

Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

Director: Leslie Stevens

Writer: Leslie Stevens

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Joseph Stefano

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Meyer Dolinsky

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Joseph Stefano

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim

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

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Stephen Lord

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

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

Director: Robert Florey

Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, William Bast

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