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The Outer Limits

Season 1 · 32 episodes · Sep 16, 1963

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    Episode 1

    The Galaxy Being

    Sep 16, 1963

    A 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.

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    Episode 2

    The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    Sep 23, 1963

    A 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.

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    Episode 3

    The Architects of Fear

    Sep 30, 1963

    A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.

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    Episode 4

    The Man with the Power

    Oct 7, 1963

    A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.

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    Episode 5

    The Sixth Finger

    Oct 14, 1963

    A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.

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    Episode 6

    The Man Who Was Never Born

    Oct 28, 1963

    An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.

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    Episode 7

    O.B.I.T.

    Nov 4, 1963

    A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

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    Episode 8

    The Human Factor

    Nov 11, 1963

    At 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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    Episode 9

    Corpus Earthling

    Nov 18, 1963

    A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?

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    Episode 10

    Nightmare

    Dec 2, 1963

    In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.

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    Episode 11

    It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

    Dec 9, 1963

    An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.

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    Episode 12

    The Borderland

    Dec 16, 1963

    A 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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    Episode 13

    Tourist Attraction

    Dec 23, 1963

    In 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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    Episode 14

    The Zanti Misfits

    Dec 30, 1963

    Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.

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    Episode 15

    The Mice

    Jan 6, 1964

    A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.

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    Episode 16

    Controlled Experiment

    Jan 13, 1964

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

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    Episode 17

    Don't Open Till Doomsday

    Jan 20, 1964

    A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.

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    Episode 18

    ZZZZZ

    Jan 27, 1964

    A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.

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    Episode 19

    The Invisibles

    Feb 3, 1964

    A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.

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    Episode 20

    The Bellero Shield

    Feb 10, 1964

    A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.

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    Episode 21

    The Children of Spider County

    Feb 17, 1964

    Four 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.

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    Episode 22

    Specimen: Unknown

    Feb 24, 1964

    Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.

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    Episode 23

    Second Chance

    Mar 2, 1964

    A 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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    Episode 24

    Moonstone

    Mar 9, 1964

    Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.

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    Episode 25

    The Mutant

    Mar 16, 1964

    A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.

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    Episode 26

    The Guests

    Mar 23, 1964

    After discovering an elderly man dying by the side of the road, a young man finds a strange house where some people are kept prisoner and ageless by an alien intelligence.

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    Episode 27

    Fun and Games

    Mar 30, 1964

    Two 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.

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    Episode 28

    The Special One

    Apr 6, 1964

    Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.

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    Episode 29

    A Feasibility Study

    Apr 13, 1964

    The 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.

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    Episode 30

    Production and Decay of Strange Particles

    Apr 20, 1964

    An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.

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    Episode 31

    The Chameleon

    Apr 27, 1964

    A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.

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    Episode 32

    The Forms of Things Unknown

    May 4, 1964

    Two women with a body in their car trunk come upon a house by chance wherein a crazed inventor has a machine that can bring back the dead.