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The Outer Limits : Season 1
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Air date: 16 Sep '63 - 32 episodesThe 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.
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List of Episodes (32)
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1. The Galaxy Being
16 Sep '63A 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 is radioactive nature causes havoc.
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2. The Hundred Days of the Dragon
23 Sep '63""An oriental power"" develops a radical medical advance that temporarily makes skin malleable. They then manage to replace a Presidential candidate with one of their own.
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3. The Architects of Fear
30 Sep '63A group of intellectuals decides that the best way to avoid World War III is to give us all a common enemy. To that end, they transform a man into an alien creature.
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4. The Man With the Power
07 Oct '63A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
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5. The Sixth Finger
14 Oct '63A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.
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6. The Man Who Was Never Born
28 Oct '63An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.
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7. O.B.I.T.
04 Nov '63A new invention allows one to spy on anyone, anywhere.
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8. The Human Factor
11 Nov '63At 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.
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9. Corpus Earthling
18 Nov '63A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But all he sees are a bunch of rocks.
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10. Nightmare
02 Dec '63In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
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11. It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
09 Dec '63A young man and his big brother drive across country to the latter's new job site. At the end of his first week of work, he returns strangely changed. A bathroom accident kills the older brother by shorting out his pacemaker. The fact that big brother had a perfectly healthy heart leads the younger brother and a police detective, Sgt. Sirolio, to dig further. Sirolio finds that Norco hides a secret. They've been experimenting with a dangerous being of pure energy. This was how the older
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12. The Borderland
16 Dec '63A 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.
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13. Tourist Attraction
23 Dec '63In a South American country a group of explorers discover a prehistoric monster in an ancient lake. The discovery leads them into conflict with the country's dictator.
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14. The Zanti Misfits
30 Dec '63The arrival of some VIPs from the planet Zanti is complicated by the intrusion of outsiders. After a fierce fight with the creatures we find that they were actually criminals who had been sentenced to death. The Zantis are too civilized to execute them on their own, so they left it to us barbarous Earthlings.
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15. The Mice
06 Jan '64A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.
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16. Controlled Experiment
13 Jan '64Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
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17. Don't Open Till Doomsday
20 Jan '64Eloping lovers come on a strange house. There they find an old woman still despairing over the loss of her fiance on their wedding day many years ago. Little does she know that one of her wedding presents is responsible for the disappearance of the groom: the present with the card that reads ""Don't Open Till Doomsday"".
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18. ZZZZZ
27 Jan '64A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
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19. The Invisibles
03 Feb '64A government agent infiltrates a secret organization known as ""The Invisibles"" who attach parasites to the spinal chords of their victims. And, in doing so, they hope do (dare I say it?) take over the world!
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20. The Bellero Shield
10 Feb '64A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
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21. The Children of Spider County
17 Feb '64Four 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 mans father.
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22. Specimen: Unknown
24 Feb '64Scientists on a space station discover and unusual and dangerous plant.
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23. Second Chance
02 Mar '64A group of people board an amusement park ride. Then they (and their surprised ""captain"") find that they're really going on a space jaunt.
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24. Moonstone
09 Mar '64Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
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25. The Mutant
16 Mar '64A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.
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