The Worst Episodes of The Outer Limits

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

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

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

Director: Paul Stanley

Writer: Jerry Sohl, Milton Krims

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

Director: Leslie Stevens

Writer: Leslie Stevens

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

Director: Byron Haskin

Writer: Jerry Sohl

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

Director: Charles F. Haas

Writer: Robert C. Dennis, Sidney Ellis

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

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

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

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

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

Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.

Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, Bill S. Ballinger

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

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Stephen Lord

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

Director: Robert Florey

Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, William Bast

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

Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.

Writer: Robert Mintz, Allan Balter, Jerome B. Thomas

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Francis M. Cockrell

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

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Louis Charbonneau, Orin Borsten

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

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

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

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Joseph Stefano

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Meyer Dolinsky

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

Director: Gerd Oswald

Writer: Oliver Crawford

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.

Director: Byron Haskin

Writer: Robert Mintz, Allan Balter