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The Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 2

Every episode of The Outer Limits Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 2!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 1 - Soldier
    7.8/10(855 votes)

    #1 - Soldier

    S2:E1

    Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Harlan Ellison

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  2. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 2 - Cold Hands, Warm Heart
    6.6/10(654 votes)

    #2 - Cold Hands, Warm Heart

    S2:E2

    After returning from a mission to Venus, an astronaut can't seem to stay warm enough and has strange dreams about encountering a wraith-like being outside his spaceship window.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Milton Krims, Daniel B. Ullman

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  3. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 3 - Behold, Eck!
    6.9/10(576 votes)

    #3 - Behold, Eck!

    S2:E3

    A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.

    Director:Byron Haskin
    Writers:John Mantley, William R. Cox

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  4. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 4 - Expanding Human
    6.7/10(513 votes)

    #4 - Expanding Human

    S2:E4

    A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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  5. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 5 - Demon with a Glass Hand
    8.6/10(1274 votes)

    #5 - Demon with a Glass Hand

    S2:E5

    Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with a glass hand and no memory of his past.

    Director:Byron Haskin
    Writer:Harlan Ellison

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  6. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 6 - Cry of Silence
    6.7/10(579 votes)

    #6 - Cry of Silence

    S2:E6

    A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Louis Charbonneau, Robert C. Dennis

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  7. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 7 - The Invisible Enemy
    6.5/10(597 votes)

    #7 - The Invisible Enemy

    S2:E7

    A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planet's sandy soil.

    Director:Byron Haskin
    Writer:Jerry Sohl

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  8. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 8 - Wolf 359
    6.6/10(530 votes)

    #8 - Wolf 359

    S2:E8

    A college professor recreates the environment of a distant planet in a lab in order to study its evolution... which happens quickly.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writers:Seeleg Lester, Richard H. Landau

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  9. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 9 - I, Robot
    8.0/10(690 votes)

    #9 - I, Robot

    S2:E9

    A robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.

    Director:Leon Benson
    Writers:Robert C. Dennis, Otto Binder

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  10. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 10 - The Inheritors Part I
    8.3/10(770 votes)

    #10 - The Inheritors Part I

    S2:E10

    After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writers:Seeleg Lester, Sam Neuman

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  11. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 11 - The Inheritors Part II
    8.4/10(730 votes)

    #11 - The Inheritors Part II

    S2:E11

    An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.

    Director:James Goldstone
    Writers:Seeleg Lester, Ed Adamson, Sam Neuman

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  12. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 12 - Keeper of the Purple Twilight
    6.9/10(512 votes)

    #12 - Keeper of the Purple Twilight

    S2:E12

    An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Milton Krims, Stephen Lord

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  13. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 13 - The Duplicate Man
    6.8/10(499 votes)

    #13 - The Duplicate Man

    S2:E13

    A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writers:Clifford D. Simak, Robert C. Dennis

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  14. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 14 - Counterweight
    6.2/10(463 votes)

    #14 - Counterweight

    S2:E14

    Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writers:Milton Krims, Jerry Sohl

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  15. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 15 - The Brain of Colonel Barham
    6.6/10(442 votes)

    #15 - The Brain of Colonel Barham

    S2:E15

    A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Robert C. Dennis, Sidney Ellis

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  16. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 16 - The Premonition
    7.4/10(584 votes)

    #16 - The Premonition

    S2:E16

    An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writers:Ib Melchior, Samuel Roeca

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  17. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 17 - The Probe
    6.6/10(495 votes)

    #17 - The Probe

    S2:E17

    After flying into a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane bound for Tokyo is captured by an alien space probe.

    Director:Felix E. Feist
    Writers:Seeleg Lester, Sam Neuman

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Soldier" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 855 votes. Directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Harlan Ellison, it aired on 9/19/1964. This episode is rated 1.2 points higher than the second-best, "Cold Hands, Warm Heart".