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The Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 7

Every episode of The Outer Limits Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 7!

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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 263 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".

  • Family  Values
    7.4/10263 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

  • Patient Zero
    8.0/10337 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

  • A New Life
    7.2/10238 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

  • The Surrogate
    6.8/10195 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

  • The Vessel
    6.7/10174 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

  • Mona Lisa
    7.3/10230 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

  • Replica
    7.6/10233 votes

    #7 - Replica

    Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2001

    A biogeneticist illegally clones his comatose wife.

    Director: Brad Turner

    Writer: Sam Egan

  • Think Like a Dinosaur
    7.2/10231 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

  • Alien Shop
    7.4/10252 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

  • Worlds Within
    6.5/10185 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

  • In the Blood
    5.9/10188 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

  • Flower Child
    6.6/10211 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

  • Free Spirit
    6.1/10172 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

  • Mindreacher
    6.7/10233 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

  • Time to Time
    7.3/10240 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

  • Abduction
    7.5/10279 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

  • Rule of Law
    7.3/10199 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

  • Lion's Den
    6.3/10191 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

  • The Tipping Point
    6.5/10178 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

  • Dark Child
    6.0/10157 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

  • The Human Factor
    6.4/10168 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

  • Human Trials
    5.5/10176 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