7.4/10264 votes#1 - Family Values
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 3/16/2001
A man believes all his family problems will be solved when he purchases a robot to help around the house.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: James Crocker
- 8.0/10338 votes
#2 - Patient Zero
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 3/23/2001
A desperate man from the future travels back to the present to find and kill the carrier of a deadly plague that threatens to annihilate humankind.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: James Crocker
- 7.2/10240 votes
#3 - A New Life
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 3/30/2001
A stressed out businessman and his girlfriend leave town to join an influential cult.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: Mark Stern
6.8/10197 votes#4 - The Surrogate
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 4/6/2001
A struggling artist signs up for a surrogate birth program.
Director: Ken Girotti
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10175 votes
#5 - The Vessel
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 4/13/2001
The lone survivor of a space shuttle disaster discovers he is indestructible and has become spiritually linked to an alien living within himself.
Director: Jim Kaufman
Writer: Sam Egan
- 7.3/10231 votes
#6 - Mona Lisa
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 4/20/2001
An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: John Schulian
- 7.6/10235 votes
#7 - Replica
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2001
A biogeneticist illegally clones his comatose wife.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Sam Egan
- 7.3/10232 votes
#8 - Think Like a Dinosaur
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 6/15/2001
One human is the only permanent occupant of a station located on a vast empty plain of the moon. His companions are an emotionless lizard-like alien species who have developed a highly advanced means of long distance travel by 'jumping' through space.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Mark Stern
- 7.4/10255 votes
#9 - Alien Shop
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 6/22/2001
An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook (Jonathon Schaech) accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way that money not earned comes at a price.
Director: Peter DeLuise, Jorge Montesi
Writer: Alan Brennert, Pen Densham
- 6.5/10188 votes
#10 - Worlds Within
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 6/29/2001
A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to save him from secret government manipulation.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Michael Sloan
- 5.8/10192 votes
#11 - In the Blood
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 7/6/2001
An exploratory mission into space passes through a quantum hole torn into the very fabric of the universe and enters another continuum, a trans-space just beneath its surface.
Director: Jorge Montesi
Writer: Alan Brennert
- 6.7/10214 votes
#12 - Flower Child
Season 7 Episode 12 - Aired 7/21/2001
A seductive woman challenges a young couple's ideas of commitment and monogamy.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Jeffrey Hirschfield
- 6.2/10175 votes
#13 - Free Spirit
Season 7 Episode 13 - Aired 7/28/2001
A strange entity possesses schizophrenics in a mental asylum.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Danny McBride
- 6.8/10236 votes
#14 - Mindreacher
Season 7 Episode 14 - Aired 8/4/2001
A doctor puts her sanity on the line when testing a psychological tool allowing her to enter her patients' minds.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: N/A
- 7.3/10243 votes
#15 - Time to Time
Season 7 Episode 15 - Aired 8/11/2001
A dedicated daughter trips back in time to change her Dad's destiny.
Director: James Head
Writer: Sam Egan
- 7.5/10283 votes
#16 - Abduction
Season 7 Episode 16 - Aired 8/18/2001
An alien makes an offer to five high school students.
Director: Mario Philip Azzopardi
Writer: James Crocker
- 7.3/10203 votes
#17 - Rule of Law
Season 7 Episode 17 - Aired 8/25/2001
A circuit court judge goes to a frontier planet that has never known the judicial system. His first trial is of an alien accused of being in an attack where several humans were killed.
Director: Mike Rohl
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/10194 votes
#18 - Lion's Den
Season 7 Episode 18 - Aired 9/8/2001
A high-school wrestling team takes new drugs which cause some unexpected changes.
Director: Matthew Hastings
Writer: N/A
- 6.6/10180 votes
#19 - The Tipping Point
Season 7 Episode 19 - Aired 9/15/2001
A project to develop a universal computer language may lead to all the computers in the world to link and form an artificial intelligence that one computer whiz feels that he must destroy or risk world domination.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/10159 votes
#20 - Dark Child
Season 7 Episode 20 - Aired 1/4/2002
An alien abductee 17 years ago copes with a teen daughter.
Director: Steve Anker
Writer: Michael Sloan
- 6.4/10170 votes
#21 - The Human Factor
Season 7 Episode 21 - Aired 1/11/2002
In the year 2059 humans fight an android who's artificial intelligence has determined that the spread of colonization by destructive humans must be stopped.
Director: Robert Habros
Writer: Grady Hall, Steve Aspis
- 5.6/10178 votes
#22 - Human Trials
Season 7 Episode 22 - Aired 1/18/2002
A decorated soldier undergoes life-and-death tests for a mysterious mission.
Director: Brad Turner
Writer: Mark Stern
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Season 7 Ratings Summary
"Family Values" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits" season 7. It scored 7.4/10 based on 264 votes. Directed by Mike Rohl and written by James Crocker, it aired on 3/16/2001. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "Patient Zero".