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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 13 - Tourist Attraction
    6.1/10(691 votes)

    #1 - Tourist Attraction

    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.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writer:Dean Riesner

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  2. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 30 - Production and Decay of Strange Particles
    6.2/10(568 votes)

    #2 - Production and Decay of Strange Particles

    S1:E30

    An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.

    Director:Leslie Stevens
    Writer:Leslie Stevens

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

    #3 - 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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  4. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 21 - The Children of Spider County
    6.3/10(582 votes)

    #4 - The Children of Spider County

    S1:E21

    Four scientists disappear in one day. All were born in the same county, on the same day. A fifth scientist is in jail and a federal agent is assigned to the case. The fifth man is sprung from jail by a mysterious stranger who says he's the young man's father.

    Director:Leonard Horn
    Writer:Anthony Lawrence

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

    #5 - 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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  6. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 12 - The Borderland
    6.6/10(733 votes)

    #6 - The Borderland

    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.

    Director:Leslie Stevens
    Writer:Leslie Stevens

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

    #7 - 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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  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 15 - The Brain of Colonel Barham
    6.6/10(442 votes)

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

    #10 - 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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  11. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 15 - The Mice
    6.7/10(660 votes)

    #11 - The Mice

    S1:E15

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

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Bill S. Ballinger, Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim

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  12. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 22 - Specimen: Unknown
    6.7/10(608 votes)

    #12 - Specimen: Unknown

    S1:E22

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

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Stephen Lord

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

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

    #14 - 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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  15. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 24 - Moonstone
    6.8/10(576 votes)

    #15 - Moonstone

    S1:E24

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

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writers:William Bast, Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim

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  16. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 25 - The Mutant
    6.8/10(577 votes)

    #16 - The Mutant

    S1:E25

    A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Robert Mintz, Allan Balter, Jerome B. Thomas

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

    #17 - 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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  18. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 8 - The Human Factor
    6.9/10(767 votes)

    #18 - 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.

    Director:Abner Biberman
    Writer:David Duncan

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  19. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 9 - Corpus Earthling
    6.9/10(809 votes)

    #19 - 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?

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writers:Louis Charbonneau, Orin Borsten

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  20. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 17 - Don't Open Till Doomsday
    6.9/10(729 votes)

    #20 - Don't Open Till Doomsday

    S1:E17

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

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Joseph Stefano

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

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

    #22 - 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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  23. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 16 - Controlled Experiment
    7.1/10(770 votes)

    #23 - Controlled Experiment

    S1:E16

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

    Director:Leslie Stevens
    Writer:Leslie Stevens

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  24. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 18 - ZZZZZ
    7.1/10(754 votes)

    #24 - ZZZZZ

    S1:E18

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

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Meyer Dolinsky

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  25. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 28 - The Special One
    7.1/10(564 votes)

    #25 - The Special One

    S1:E28

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

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Oliver Crawford

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Tourist Attraction" is the worst rated episode of "The Outer Limits". It scored 6.1/10 based on 691 votes. Directed by László Benedek and written by Dean Riesner, it aired on 12/23/1963. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Production and Decay of Strange Particles".