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 Galaxy Being
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Episode 1The Galaxy BeingA radio station engineer named Allan Maxwell establishes contact with an alien being. But when the station's power is turned up, the alien is teleported to Earth where its radioactive nature causes havoc.
The Hundred Days of the Dragon
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Episode 2The Hundred Days of the DragonA 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.
The Architects of Fear
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Episode 3The 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 Man with the Power
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Episode 4The Man with the PowerA radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
The Sixth Finger
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Episode 5The 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
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Episode 6The 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?
O.B.I.T.
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Episode 7O.B.I.T.At the top secret Cypress Hills Research Center, scientists are kept under constant watch through O.B.I.T., Outer Band Individuated Teletracer, a mysterious electronic device that tunes in on the different wave lengths of the human body.
The Human Factor
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Episode 8The Human FactorAt a military base far in the arctic, a man invents a machine which allows two minds to contact one another. An earthquake causes a malfunction and two men wake up to find that their minds have switched bodies.
Corpus Earthling
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Episode 9Corpus 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.
Nightmare
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Episode 10NightmareIn a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
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Episode 11It Crawled Out of the WoodworkAn incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.
The Borderland
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Episode 12The BorderlandA 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.
Tourist Attraction
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Episode 13Tourist AttractionTycoon John Dexter spears a dolphin-like sea creature off San Blas in the Caribbean. It appears to be dead but, on shore, it comes to life and begins to make shrill, whistling sounds, which have a pattern and can be decoded.
The Zanti Misfits
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Episode 14The Zanti MisfitsExiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.
The Mice
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Episode 15The 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?
Controlled Experiment
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Episode 16Controlled ExperimentTwo Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
Don't Open Till Doomsday
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Episode 17Don'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
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Episode 18ZZZZZEntomologist 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
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Episode 19The 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 Bellero Shield
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Episode 20The Bellero ShieldA scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
The Children of Spider County
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Episode 21The 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.
Specimen: Unknown
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Episode 22Specimen: UnknownAstronauts on an orbiting space station discover a strange and deadly type of plant life. Higher ups consider if the craft should be destroyed with the four men aboard or allowed to land, knowing that the plants could potentially destroy all of mankind.
Second Chance
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Episode 23Second 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.
Moonstone
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Episode 24MoonstoneWorkers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
The Mutant
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Episode 25The MutantA scientist visits an isolated expedition on a planet plagued by radioactive dust storms. He discovers that one of the team has been mutated by the dust and gained telepathic powers, which he is using to terrorize the rest of the colony.
The Guests
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Episode 26The GuestsA drifter enters a lonely house, unaware that it is actually an alien creature in disguise. Soon he realizes that he is a prisoner, along with several other half-mad inhabitants, but he is determined to escape.
Fun and Games
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Episode 27Fun 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 Special One
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Episode 28The Special OneThe parents of a child science prodigy are approached by a mysterious official called Mr. Xeno, who offers to give him special private tutoring. Unknown to them, Mr. Xeno is an alien who wants to use their son's talents for evil.
A Feasibility Study
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Episode 29A Feasibility StudyThe people of Earth surprise their alien captors when an entire neighborhood is transported to another planet as part of a plan to enslave the human race.
Production and Decay of Strange Particles
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Episode 30Production and Decay of Strange ParticlesAn accident at a nuclear research facility creates a dimensional doorway in which aliens need to widen to invade our world. A scientist races to discover a way to reverse the damage and close the doorway.
The Chameleon
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Episode 31The 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
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Episode 32The 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.