6.1/10 605 votes#1 - Tourist Attraction
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1963
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
6.2/10 532 votes#2 - The Children of Spider County
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1964
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
6.2/10 412 votes#3 - 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
6.3/10 521 votes#4 - Production and Decay of Strange Particles
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/20/1964
An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
6.5/10 540 votes#5 - 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
6.6/10 646 votes#6 - The Borderland
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1963
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
6.6/10 581 votes#7 - 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
6.6/10 471 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
6.6/10 396 votes#9 - 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
6.6/10 443 votes#10 - 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
6.7/10 585 votes#11 - The Mice
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1964
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
6.7/10 522 votes#12 - 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
6.8/10 544 votes#13 - Specimen: Unknown
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1964
Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Stephen Lord
6.8/10 519 votes#14 - Moonstone
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1964
Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, William Bast
6.8/10 514 votes#15 - The Mutant
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1964
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
6.8/10 464 votes#16 - 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
6.9/10 676 votes#17 - The Human Factor
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1963
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
6.9/10 717 votes#18 - Corpus Earthling
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1963
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
6.9/10 523 votes#19 - 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
6.9/10 455 votes#20 - 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
6.9/10 441 votes#21 - 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
7.0/10 642 votes#22 - Don't Open Till Doomsday
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1964
A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
7.0/10 677 votes#23 - ZZZZZ
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1964
A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
7.1/10 683 votes#24 - Controlled Experiment
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1964
Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
7.1/10 505 votes#25 - The Special One
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1964
Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Oliver Crawford
The Worst Episodes of The Outer Limits
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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
Lowest Rated Episodes Summary
"Tourist Attraction" is the worst rated episode of "The Outer Limits". It scored 6.1/10 based on 605 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, "The Children of Spider County".