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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 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.
  1. 9.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - ZZZZZ

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    S1:E18

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

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    Director:John Brahm
  2. 9.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - A Feasibility Study

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    S1:E29

    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.

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  3. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Second Chance

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    S1:E23

    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.

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  4. 8.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Moonstone

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    S1:E24

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

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  5. 7.8/10(5 votes)

    #5 - The Sixth Finger

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    S1:E5

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

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  6. 7.5/10(2 votes)

    #6 - The Bellero Shield

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    S1:E20

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

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  8. 7.5/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Fun and Games

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    S1:E27

    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.

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  9. 7.3/10(3 votes)

    #8 - Nightmare

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    S1:E10

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

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    Director:John Erman
  10. 7.3/10(3 votes)

    #9 - The Zanti Misfits

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    S1:E14

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

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  11. 7.1/10(9 votes)

    #10 - The Galaxy Being

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    S1:E1

    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.

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  12. 7.1/10(6 votes)

    #11 - The Architects of Fear

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    S1:E3

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

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  13. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - The Hundred Days of the Dragon

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    S1:E2

    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.

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  14. 7.0/10(4 votes)

    #13 - The Man with the Power

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    S1:E4

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

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  15. 7.0/10(6 votes)

    #14 - The Man Who Was Never Born

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    S1:E6

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

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  16. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #15 - The Human Factor

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    S1:E8

    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.

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  17. 7.0/10(2 votes)

    #16 - Corpus Earthling

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    S1:E9

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

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  18. 7.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

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    S1:E11

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

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  19. 6.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Tourist Attraction

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    S1:E13

    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.

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  20. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #19 - The Guests

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    S1:E26

    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.

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  21. 6.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Special One

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    S1:E28

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

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  22. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - The Borderland

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    S1:E12

    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.

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  23. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #22 - The Mice

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    S1:E15

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

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  24. 5.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - Controlled Experiment

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    S1:E16

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

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  25. 5.0/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Don't Open Till Doomsday

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    S1:E17

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

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  26. 5.0/10(2 votes)

    #25 - The Invisibles

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    S1:E19

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

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Season 1 Ratings Summary

"ZZZZZ" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits" season 1. It scored 9.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by John Brahm and written by Meyer Dolinsky, it aired on 1/27/1964. This episode is rated 0.5 points higher than the second-best, "A Feasibility Study".