7.8/10784 votes#1 - Soldier
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1964
Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Harlan Ellison
6.6/10591 votes#2 - Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1964
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
Writer: Milton Krims, Daniel B. Ullman
6.9/10529 votes#3 - Behold, Eck!
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1964
A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: John Mantley, William R. Cox
6.8/10471 votes#4 - Expanding Human
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1964
A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Francis M. Cockrell
8.6/101,164 votes#5 - Demon with a Glass Hand
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1964
A man with a glass hand attempts to unravel the mystery of who he is.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Harlan Ellison
6.7/10528 votes#6 - Cry of Silence
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1964
A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: Louis Charbonneau, Robert C. Dennis
6.5/10545 votes#7 - The Invisible Enemy
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1964
A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planet's sandy soil.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Jerry Sohl
6.6/10477 votes#8 - Wolf 359
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1964
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
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Richard H. Landau
7.9/10626 votes#9 - I, Robot
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1964
A robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.
Director: Leon Benson
Writer: Robert C. Dennis, Otto Binder
8.3/10717 votes#10 - The Inheritors Part I
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1964
After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Sam Neuman
8.4/10673 votes#11 - The Inheritors Part II
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1964
An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Sam Neuman, Ed Adamson
6.9/10461 votes#12 - Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1964
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
Writer: Stephen Lord, Milton Krims
6.9/10449 votes#13 - The Duplicate Man
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1964
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
Writer: Robert C. Dennis, Clifford D. Simak
6.2/10419 votes#14 - Counterweight
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1964
Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Jerry Sohl, Milton Krims
6.5/10401 votes#15 - The Brain of Colonel Barham
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1965
A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.
Director: Charles F. Haas
Writer: Robert C. Dennis, Sidney Ellis
7.4/10535 votes#16 - The Premonition
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1965
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
Writer: Ib Melchior, Samuel Roeca
6.6/10446 votes#17 - The Probe
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1965
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
Writer: Seeleg Lester, Sam Neuman
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!
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
Genres:DramaSci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:ABC
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Soldier" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits" season 2. It scored 7.8/10 based on 784 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".