The Outer Limits

Season 2

TV-PG

"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 2

17 Episodes

Soldier
E1
SoldierA soldier from the far future is accidentally teleported back to 1964. The philologist assigned to examine him realizes that he has been bred purely as a killing machine. While he believes he can reawaken the warrior's humanity, a second soldier arrives, dedicated to hunting and killing his enemy.
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
E2
Cold Hands, Warm HeartAfter returning from a mission to Venus, an astronaut can't seem to stay warm enough and has strange dreams about encountering a wraith-like being outside his spaceship window.
Behold, Eck!
E3
Behold, Eck!Eck, a visually compromised accidental 2-D visitor in our 3-D world, needs to return home and seal his passageway before a bird, plane or anything else passes through and destroys our world. Only those with meteoric quartz eyeglasses can see him. It befalls an observant optician to design lens that can enable Eck to see his way home and stop his unintentional havoc.
Expanding Human
E4
Expanding HumanTrying to chemically tap into Man's full brain potential, a scientist recklessly experiments on himself. He indeed gains super intelligence and new abilities but at the cost of his morality and humanity
Demon with a Glass Hand
E5
Demon with a Glass HandDays ago, Trent awoke with no memory of his past. Since then, sinister men have pursued him constantly. He manages to stay one step ahead of them by following the advice of his hand. Made of glass and apparently capable of speech, Trent's hand can answer many of his questions, but it cannot tell him who he is or why his enemies seek him until he finds all of its fingers. The only trouble is that they're in the hands of his enemies.
Cry of Silence
E6
Cry of SilenceA married couple enters a remote valley where an unseen intelligence brings about attacks around a farm from tumbleweeds (that explode), frogs (that dissolve) and rocks (that kill). As a farmer starts losing his mind and the wife goes into hysterics, the husband tries to fathom any reason behind these unprovoked assaults.
The Invisible Enemy
E7
The Invisible EnemyThe first manned colonization landing on Mars ends in disaster and mystery. A second probe is sent three years later to investigate what happened. As screaming men continue to disappear, a computer suggests there's an enemy and that this unseen enemy is invisible.
Wolf 359
E8
Wolf 359A scientist creates a tiny model of another solar system's planet, seeding it with life to study planetary development. The miniaturization allows the simulation's evolution to advance much faster. A ghostly bat-like creature hovers on the in-closed model, watching the humans while emitting waves of fear terrifying them.
I, Robot
E9
I, RobotUnder circumstantial evidence, a robot is brought before a hearing under a charge of murder, the scope of which indicts society itself for its ability to control what it creates. Due to its unusual circumstances, final judgment will be rendered without need of trial.
The Inheritors Part I
E10
The Inheritors Part IFour soldiers have been shot in the head by bullets made from the fragment of a meteorite. As a result, they have developed genius level IQs. Three of them have disappeared, one remains in hospital. Adam Ballard, Assistant Secretary of Science, believes the men have been taken over by an alien intelligence, and that they are working to bring some evil plan to fruition.
The Inheritors Part II
E11
The Inheritors Part IIFour soldiers have been shot in the head by bullets made from the fragment of a meteorite. As a result, they have developed genius level IQs. Three of them have disappeared, one remains in hospital. Adam Ballard, Assistant Secretary of Science, believes the men have been taken over by an alien intelligence, and that they are working to bring some evil plan to fruition.
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
E12
Keeper of the Purple TwilightAn unearthly being offers a driven scientist an exchange of his alien intelligence in return for the experience of human emotions. Their experiment, however, has unforeseen consequences for both of them, and soon a team of alien enforcers arrives to destroy them both and the scientist's girlfriend.
The Duplicate Man
E13
The Duplicate ManWhen a dangerous alien creature called a Megasoid escapes, the scientist who smuggled it to Earth creates an illegal clone of himself to hunt it down, but his plan is complicated when his neglected wife begins to fall in love with his duplicate.
Counterweight
E14
CounterweightSix men and two women volunteer to be locked into a mock spacecraft and undergo a simulated space mission to a distant planet; however, a series of strange events lead to paranoia and suspicion growing between them.
The Brain of Colonel Barham
E15
The Brain of Colonel BarhamA dying astronaut volunteers his mind be linked to a supercomputer, to enable the U.S. to beat the Soviet Union to Mars. His wife and an Air Force psychiatrist oppose the brain removal, fearing that the arrogant spaceman's brain won't adapt, making his death futile, but the Cold War space race takes precedence, so the experiment proceeds, despite eerie developments.
The Premonition
E16
The PremonitionWhen a test pilot crashes in his experimental X-15 plane, he and his wife discover they are in a reality where time has slowed down almost to a standstill. Returning to the airbase, they are horrified to see their daughter standing in the path of a moving truck and they seem to be unable to prevent her death.
The Probe
E17
The ProbeWhen an airplane crashes into the sea, its crew awakes to find themselves inside a large plastic chamber. Soon their bewilderment is replaced by fear when they come under attack by a huge machine and large blob-like creature.