The Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 1

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

Director: James Goldstone

Writer: Ellis St. Joseph

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim

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

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

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

Director: John Erman

Writer: Joseph Stefano

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 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

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

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.

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Joseph Stefano

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Joseph Stefano

A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Meyer Dolinsky

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

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

Director: László Benedek

Writer: Jerome Ross

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 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

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

Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

Director: Leslie Stevens

Writer: Leslie Stevens

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Oliver Crawford

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

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

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Stephen Lord