7.1/101,142 votes#1 - The Sandkings
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/1995
Scientist Simon Kress finds himself the master of a colony of Sandkings -- creatures from Mars that look like insects, but have the intelligence of much higher beings.
Director: Stuart Gillard
Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass, George R. R. Martin
7.4/10935 votes#2 - Valerie 23
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/1995
Frank Hellner, a lonely paraplegic, takes part in a top-secret project -- allowing an "inorganic human," or robot named Valerie, to be his companion for a week. The experiment goes awry when Valerie, unable to control her programmed emotions, becomes jealous and threatens the life of Frank's physical therapist and close friend Rachel.
Director: Timothy Bond
Writer: Jonathan Glassner
6.4/10587 votes#3 - Blood Brothers
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/1995
Two diametrically opposed brothers, wrestle for control of a million-dollar pharmaceutical company. A vaccine that could hold the secret to eternal life, becomes the object of the brothers' bitter struggle.
Director: Tibor Takács
Writer: Brad Wright
6.9/10595 votes#4 - The Second Soul
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 4/14/1995
Man's first encounter with beings from another planet -- the N'Tal -- appears to be a mutually rewarding arrangement. But a leery doctor/scientist must decide whether the N'Tal are friend or foe.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Alan Brennert
6.1/10537 votes#5 - White Light Fever
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 4/21/1995
An experiment at St. Peter's Hospital threatens nature's order of existence, when billionaire Harlan Hawkes pays a brilliant cardiologist, Dr. "Mac" McEnerney to help him cheat death.
Director: Tibor Takács
Writer: N/A
6.5/10535 votes#6 - The Choice
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/1995
A young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, while her parents must decide what's ultimately best for their child.
Director: Mark Sobel
Writer: Ann Lewis Hamilton
6.6/10503 votes#7 - Virtual Future
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/1995
A brilliant young scientist discovers a way to see the future, but gets caught up in a billionaire's ambitious political schemes, and must alter the future to save his own life.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: Shawn Thompson
6.4/10457 votes#8 - Living Hell
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/1995
Ben Kohler's life is saved after having an experimental chip implanted in his brain, but when he starts seeing and experiencing violent images, it becomes clear something is desperately wrong.
Director: Graeme Campbell
Writer: Melinda M. Snodgrass, Pen Densham
6.7/10491 votes#9 - Corner of the Eye
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 5/19/1995
A disillusioned priest is given healing power by aliens who use him as they attempt to save their own planet by destroying all human life.
Director: Stuart Gillard
Writer: David J. Schow
6.4/10468 votes#10 - Under the Bed
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 5/26/1995
When a little boy is abducted the only witness, his sister, claims that someone or something under the bed took him.
Director: René Bonnière
Writer: Lawrence Meyers
6.8/10496 votes#11 - Dark Matters
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 6/2/1995
Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.
Director: Paul Lynch
Writer: Alan Brennert
7.7/10712 votes#12 - The Conversion
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 6/9/1995
Henry Marshall is a greedy man who has paid for his greed with a prison sentence but has yet to learn his lesson. His life abruptly changes when he encounters visitors from another planet who instill new sense of compassion for others.
Director: Rebecca De Mornay
Writer: Brad Wright
8.1/10846 votes#13 - Quality of Mercy
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 6/16/1995
Major John Skokes is taken prisoner by the enemy during a savage galactic war and a seemingly undefeatable alien race. The tension increases when his cellmate, a cadet named Pri, is being transformed into one of them. Skokes must find an escape to save his cellmate and to avoid a disturbing revelation of the course of this war.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Brad Wright
7.9/10586 votes#14 - The New Breed
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 6/23/1995
The discovery of a gifted scientist falls into the wrong hands, bringing what at first appears to be a lifesaving miracle, but ultimately the untimely death of his closest friend.
Director: Mark Sobel, Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
7.1/10467 votes#15 - The Voyage Home
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 6/30/1995
When an astronaut returning from Mars discovers an alien aboard ship, he must face the loss of his shipmates, and make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prevent the alien from reaching Earth.
Director: Tibor Takács
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
6.8/10561 votes#16 - Caught in the Act
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 7/1/1995
A chaste co-ed is enveloped by a strange power that gives her an insatiable sexual appetite, which is perpetuated by encounters with consenting men who, after making physical contact, morph into her body and disappear.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Grant Rosenberg
7.2/10460 votes#17 - The Message
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 7/16/1995
A deaf woman with a transplanted device, which is supposed to enable her to hear, turns into a transmitter for aliens, who are crying for help.
Director: Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer: Brad Wright
7.5/10533 votes#18 - I, Robot
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 7/23/1995
Adam, a powerful robot, kills his creator when the scientist attempts to convert him into a military killing machine by destroying his more human qualities.
Director: Tibor Takács, Adam Nimoy
Writer: Brad Wright
6.7/10438 votes#19 - If These Walls Could Talk
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 7/30/1995
Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman whose strength and faith help him unravel the mystery of a haunted house.
Director: Tibor Takács
Writer: Eric Estrin, Manny Coto
7.1/10431 votes#20 - Birthright
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 8/13/1995
An environmentally-friendly U.S. Senator's life changes drastically after a freak accident, when he realizes he's actually an alien in disguise, with a "mission" to surreptitiously reconfigure the earth's atmosphere.
Director: William Fruet
Writer: Eric Estrin
6.0/10388 votes#21 - The Voice of Reason
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 8/20/1995
A civilian with strong ties to the military tries desperately to use concrete evidence to convince a high level committee that alien forces are trying to overcome the human race.
Director: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brad Wright
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Season 1 Ratings Summary
"The Sandkings" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits" season 1. It scored 7.1/10 based on 1142 votes. Directed by Stuart Gillard and written by Melinda M. Snodgrass, George R. R. Martin, it aired on 3/26/1995. This episode is rated 0.3 points higher than the second-best, "Valerie 23".