• Air date: 19 Sep '64 17 episodes
      The Outer Limits is an American television series that aired on ABC from 1963 to 1965. The series is often compared to The Twilight Zone, but with a greater emphasis on science fiction stories. The Outer Limits is an anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end. The series was revived in 1995, airing on Showtime from 1995 to 1999, then on Sci-Fi Channel from 1999 until its cancellation in 2002. In 1997, the episode "The Zanti Misfits" was ranked #98 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
  • List of Episodes (17)
    • 1. Soldier

      19 Sep '64
      Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.
    • 2. Cold Hands, Warm Heart

      26 Sep '64
      After 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.
    • 3. Behold, Eck!

      03 Oct '64
      A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.
    • 4. Expanding Human

      10 Oct '64
      A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.
    • 5. Demon with a Glass Hand

      17 Oct '64
      A man with a glass hand attempts to unravel the mystery of who he is.
    • 6. Cry of Silence

      24 Oct '64
      A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.
    • 7. The Invisible Enemy

      31 Oct '64
      A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planets sandy soil.
    • 8. Wolf 359

      07 Nov '64
      A college professor recreates the environment of a distant planet in order to study it's evolution... which happens quickly.
    • 9. I, Robot

      14 Nov '64
      A robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.
    • 10. The Inheritors - Part 1

      21 Nov '64
      A soldier falls in Vietnam, felled by an unusual bullet. Miraculously, he survives long enough to be sent to the US for an operation. Adam Ballard, the Assistant to the Secretary of Science, apprises his boss of the situation. Lt. Minns survived, but now has a second brainwave pattern, much stronger than his own. Just like the other three. All four experience dramatic increases in intelligence, over 200. And new interests: biochemistry, metallurgy, physics and finance. And each seem to be driven
    • 11. The Inheritors - Part 2

      28 Nov '64
      In Part Two, Ballard follows up on a lead from Minns' apartment: a list of names. He finds that they're all children -- special children. Minerva Gordon is blind, Danny Masters is a deaf mute, others are handicapped in various ways. He makes preparations to protect the kids from Minns, to no avail. He then sets up a series of roadblocks on the road to Wichita, where a spaceship is being built. Ballard and Minns have a confrontation at the warehouse. At first, Minns and the others are in the dark
    • 12. Keeper of the Purple Twilight

      05 Dec '64
      An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.
    • 13. The Duplicate Man

      19 Dec '64
      A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.
    • 14. Counterweight

      26 Dec '64
      Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.
    • 15. The Brain of Colonel Barham

      02 Jan '65
      A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.
    • 16. The Premonition

      09 Jan '65
      "The Premonition" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 9 January 1965, during the second season.
    • 17. The Probe

      16 Jan '65
      Enroute to Tokyo, a plane flies into a storm and the pilot is forced to ditch the plane into the eye of a hurricane. The crew and passengers awake on a life boat on a floor of solid plastic. Light beams carve off a chunk of the boat and whisk it away, and the group soon realizes that they have been captured by an alien space probe. Dodging an alien ""microbe"", they find telemetry equipment sending the probe's findings to some distance source. As the probe prepares to depart Earth, the