The Outer Limits
Season 1
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"The Outer Limits" was an anthology type science fiction program with a different cast each week. Tending toward the hard science, space travel, time travel, and human evolution it tries to examine in each show some form of the question, "What is the nature of man?"
Where to Watch Season 1
32 Episodes
- The Architects of Fear
E3The Architects of FearA secret group of scientists decides to surgically alter one of their members into an 'alien' in order to convince the world that an alien invasion is imminent. They hope that such a threat will force all governments to make peace with one another. Such a complex plan, however, has many vulnerabilities... including the wife of the volunteer. - The Sixth Finger
E5The Sixth FingerA scientist experimenting with speeding up human evolution hires an uneducated, but bright, Gwyllim from the nearby Welsh mining town. He proves a devoted lab assistant, but not content to stick to animal subjects, Gwyllim speeds up his own evolution, becoming a super genius with 6 fingers and a huge cranium. With such mental powers, does the rebellious former coal miner acquire equivalent wisdom and maturity, too ? - The Man Who Was Never Born
E6The Man Who Was Never BornEarth awaits a terrible fate in the far future, so a 20th Century astronaut and a typically hideously malformed future Earthling go back in time hoping to change history. They target a beautiful young woman just before she gives birth to the scientist who created the bio-warfare agent which ravages the future Earth and all humans. But how can the repulsive Andro succeed when he's likely to be shot on sight? - Corpus Earthling
E9Corpus EarthlingA parasitic advance guard from outer space strives to kill a physician, the only human who can hear them. The physician believes he's gone insane, first hearing the aliens right after suffering a knock out from a lab explosion. While his wife, the laboratory's assistant, comforts him, the lab's geologist is targeted for takeover by the parasites. - The Mice
E15The MiceAn advanced civilization contacts the U.S. to test both worlds' experimental teleportation systems by exchanging citizens. Fearing the matter transport will fail, the U.S. military selects a prisoner serving a life sentence, not caring over a murderer set loose on Chromos because it's ten light years away; but, in the narrow window when the planets are aligned, will the ex-boxer escape before the exchange is completed? - Don't Open Till Doomsday
E17Don't Open Till DoomsdayA tiny space creature, bent on destruction, is captured by the scientist Mordecai Spazman. His rival, professor Harvey Kry, convinces the media that Spazman's claims are bogus. The vengeful Spazman boxes up the invader's miniature spacecraft as a wedding gift, presenting it to Kry's son. The alien imprisons Harvey Jr. inside the ship to force Dr. Kry to help it complete its mission. - ZZZZZ
E18ZZZZZEntomologist Prof. Benedict O. 'Ben' Fields hires an assistant to help him while he develops a machine to communicate with bees. The Queen Bee Regina takes human form and applies to the position. Ben's wife Francesca Fields finds the situation strange but her husband hires Regina. Ben does not know that Regina has the intention to seduce Ben to mate with him and create a better hybrid species. Will she succeed? - The Invisibles
E19The InvisiblesAliens plan to take over the U.S. by recruiting disaffected loners who are themselves "invisible" to normal society. The alien crab-like creatures attach themselves to human hosts and control them. The recruits are assigned low-level jobs of highly appointed government officials so they can get the alien in close proximity to them. A U.S intelligence agent infiltrates the alien organization, but it may be too late. - The Children of Spider County
E21The Children of Spider CountyFour 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. - Second Chance
E23Second ChanceCarnival space ride becomes frighteningly real when an alien bird-man secretly rigs it with actual rockets. The ominous bird-man carefully picks his unknowing crew, including the carny ride captain who's a closet intellectual, an angry middle-aged man, and a star high school quarterback accompanied by his adoring buddy and his steady girl. - Fun and Games
E27Fun and GamesTwo Earth people are transported to an alien planet, along with two aliens. The are told by their abductors that they will fight each other to the death. The stakes are high: the homeworld of the losers will be destroyed slowly, for the further amusement of their captors. - The Chameleon
E31The ChameleonTo save Earth from invasion, scientists alter a human into a replica of one of several visiting aliens. The human subject Mace is a remorseless killer who easily adapts to any personality required. Giving up his body and life means little to him. He relishes this ultimate test of his chameleon powers, but how much loyalty will the vicious Mace have for his fellow humans? - The Forms of Things Unknown
E32The Forms of Things UnknownTwo female friends poison a sadistic blackmailer, then while fleeing happen upon an isolated house containing a time machine. Kasha, his lover, and Leonora, the daughter of the blackmail target, fight to bury him before the idealistic inventor Tone Hobart is able to re-animate the murdered man, by tilting him back into the past.
