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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.

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  1. Background image for The Man Who Was Never Born
    8.1/10(1.1k votes)

    #1 - The Man Who Was Never Born

    S1:E6

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

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  2. Background image for The Sixth Finger
    8.0/10(1.1k votes)

    #2 - The Sixth Finger

    S1:E5

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

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  3. Background image for The Bellero Shield
    8.0/10(748 votes)

    #3 - The Bellero Shield

    S1:E20

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

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  4. Background image for A Feasibility Study
    7.9/10(670 votes)

    #4 - A Feasibility Study

    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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  5. Background image for The Zanti Misfits
    7.8/10(955 votes)

    #5 - The Zanti Misfits

    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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  6. Background image for Nightmare
    7.7/10(830 votes)

    #6 - Nightmare

    S1:E10

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

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    Director:John Erman
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  8. Background image for The Architects of Fear
    7.6/10(1.1k votes)

    #7 - The Architects of Fear

    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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  9. Background image for The Chameleon
    7.6/10(551 votes)

    #8 - The Chameleon

    S1:E31

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

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  10. Background image for The Galaxy Being
    7.5/10(1.4k votes)

    #9 - The Galaxy Being

    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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  11. Background image for The Forms of Things Unknown
    7.5/10(680 votes)

    #10 - The Forms of Things Unknown

    S1:E32

    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.

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  12. Background image for O.B.I.T.
    7.3/10(814 votes)

    #11 - O.B.I.T.

    S1:E7

    A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

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  13. Background image for The Invisibles
    7.3/10(632 votes)

    #12 - The Invisibles

    S1:E19

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

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  14. Background image for The Guests
    7.3/10(613 votes)

    #13 - The Guests

    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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  15. Background image for The Hundred Days of the Dragon
    7.2/10(1.1k votes)

    #14 - The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    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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  16. Background image for The Man with the Power
    7.2/10(877 votes)

    #15 - The Man with the Power

    S1:E4

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

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  17. Background image for It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
    7.2/10(758 votes)

    #16 - It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

    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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  18. Background image for Second Chance
    7.2/10(601 votes)

    #17 - Second Chance

    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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  19. Background image for Fun and Games
    7.2/10(572 votes)

    #18 - Fun and Games

    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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  20. Background image for Controlled Experiment
    7.1/10(717 votes)

    #19 - Controlled Experiment

    S1:E16

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

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  21. Background image for ZZZZZ
    7.1/10(705 votes)

    #20 - ZZZZZ

    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
  22. Background image for The Special One
    7.1/10(524 votes)

    #21 - The Special One

    S1:E28

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

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  23. Background image for Don't Open Till Doomsday
    7.0/10(675 votes)

    #22 - Don't Open Till Doomsday

    S1:E17

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

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  24. Background image for The Human Factor
    6.9/10(710 votes)

    #23 - The Human Factor

    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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  25. Background image for Corpus Earthling
    6.9/10(750 votes)

    #24 - Corpus Earthling

    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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  26. Background image for Specimen: Unknown
    6.8/10(564 votes)

    #25 - Specimen: Unknown

    S1:E22

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

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    Director:Gerd Oswald

Season 1 Ratings Summary

"The Man Who Was Never Born" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits" season 1. It scored 8.1/10 based on 1055 votes. Directed by Leonard Horn and written by Anthony Lawrence, it aired on 10/28/1963. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "The Sixth Finger".