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The Worst Episodes of The Outer Limits

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The Worst Episodes of The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

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  1. Background image for Specimen: Unknown
    NaN/10(0 votes)

    #1 - Specimen: Unknown

    S1:E22

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

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    Director:Gerd Oswald
  2. Background image for The Mutant
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    #2 - 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.

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  3. Background image for Production and Decay of Strange Particles
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    #3 - 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.

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  4. Background image for The Chameleon
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    #4 - The Chameleon

    S1:E31

    A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.

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  5. Background image for The Forms of Things Unknown
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    #5 - The Forms of Things Unknown

    S1:E32

    Two women with a body in their car trunk come upon a house by chance wherein a crazed inventor has a machine that can bring back the dead.

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  6. Background image for Cold Hands, Warm Heart
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    #6 - 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.

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  8. Background image for Cry of Silence
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    #7 - Cry of Silence

    S2:E6

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

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  9. Background image for Wolf 359
    0.0/10(1 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.

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  10. Background image for Keeper of the Purple Twilight
    0.0/10(1 votes)

    #9 - 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.

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  11. Background image for Counterweight
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    #10 - Counterweight

    S2:E14

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

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  12. Background image for The Premonition
    3.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - 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.

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  13. Background image for The Children of Spider County
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #12 - 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.

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  14. Background image for The Probe
    4.0/10(1 votes)

    #13 - 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.

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  15. Background image for O.B.I.T.
    4.5/10(1 votes)

    #14 - O.B.I.T.

    S1:E7

    A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

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  16. Background image for The Borderland
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #15 - 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.

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  17. Background image for The Mice
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #16 - The Mice

    S1:E15

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

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  18. Background image for Controlled Experiment
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #17 - Controlled Experiment

    S1:E16

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

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  19. Background image for Don't Open Till Doomsday
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #18 - Don't Open Till Doomsday

    S1:E17

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

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  20. Background image for The Invisibles
    5.0/10(2 votes)

    #19 - The Invisibles

    S1:E19

    A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.

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  21. Background image for The Invisible Enemy
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #20 - The Invisible Enemy

    S2:E7

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

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    Director:Byron Haskin
    Writer:Jerry Sohl
  22. Background image for The Duplicate Man
    5.0/10(1 votes)

    #21 - 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.

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  23. Background image for Tourist Attraction
    6.0/10(2 votes)

    #22 - 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.

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  24. Background image for The Guests
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #23 - The Guests

    S1:E26

    After discovering an elderly man dying by the side of the road, a young man finds a strange house where some people are kept prisoner and ageless by an alien intelligence.

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  25. Background image for The Special One
    6.0/10(1 votes)

    #24 - The Special One

    S1:E28

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

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  26. Background image for The Hundred Days of the Dragon
    7.0/10(4 votes)

    #25 - The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    S1:E2

    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.

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Specimen: Unknown" is the worst rated episode of "The Outer Limits". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Gerd Oswald and written by Stephen Lord, it aired on 2/24/1964. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "The Mutant".