The Outer Limits

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The Outer Limits"There is nothing wrong with your television set." That famous line opens each episode of the classic science fiction anthology series as part of a narration that makes people think their TVs are being controlled. Episodes of the series, which numbered 49 over the course of two seasons, range from a mix of sci-fi and horror that feature "scary monster" motifs to episodes focused on the sci-fi aspects of the stories. Episode writers include such notables as series creator Leslie Stevens and Harlan Ellison.
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S2, EP17 "The Probe"The inhabitants of an airplane that crashed in the eye of a hurricane find a floating alien laboratory.
S2, EP16 "The Premonition"A test pilot (Dewey Martin) and his wife are trapped in limbo after his plane exceeds previously known speeds.
S2, EP15 "The Brain of Colonel Barham"Scientists decide that the ideal instrument for space exploration would be a computer activated by a human brain.
S2, EP14 "Counterweight"A frightened alien tries to force a passenger on a simulated space flight to end the test. With Michael Constantine.
S2, EP13 "The Duplicate Man"To recapture a murderous space creature, a 21st-century space anthropologist creates a duplicate of himself.
S2, EP12 "Keeper of the Purple Twilight"A scientist (Warren Stevens) exchanges emotions for an alien's technical knowledge.
S2, EP11 "The Inheritors"Soldiers made geniuses by bullets made from meteorite ore kidnap children. With Robert Duvall, Steve Ihnat.
S2, EP10 "The Inheritors"Soldiers struck by bullets made from the meteorite ore become geniuses. With Robert Duvall, Steve Ihnat.
S2, EP9 "I Robot"A gentle, but huge and grotesque, robot (Red Morgan) is tried for killing its creator, a small-town research scientist.
S2, EP8 "Wolf 359"A scientist's (Patrick O'Neal) wife (Sara Shane) works to destroy a creature escaped from a miniature, artificial planet.
S2, EP7 "Invisible Enemy"A Mars expedition arrives to discover its predecessor's fate and loses a crewman in a sea of sand. With Adam West.
S2, EP6 "Cry of Silence"In a remote canyon, a couple (Eddie Albert, June Havoc) is stalked by animated tumbleweeds possessed by an alien intelligence.
S2, EP5 "Demon With a Glass Hand"Alien soldiers seek the last human survivor of a future war, a man with a glass hand. With Robert Culp. Written by Harlan Ellison.
S2, EP4 "Expanding Human"A drug gives a professor (Skip Homeier) heightened awareness, hypnotic power and super-strength. With James Doohan.
S2, EP3 "Behold Eck"An eye specialist (Peter Lind Hayes) creates lenses that allow wearers to see a two-dimensional alien.
S2, EP2 "Cold Hands, Warm Heart"An astronaut (William Shatner) returns from a successful orbit around the scorching planet Venus to find that he can't keep himself warm.
S2, EP1 "Soldier"An ultimate future soldier hunts an enemy into the present. With Lloyd Nolan, Michael Ansara. Written by Harlan Ellison.
S1, EP32 "The Forms of Things Unknown"After killing a blackmailer, two women come across an elusive and enigmatic madman who has devised a machine that can "tilt" time and bring the dead back to life.
S1, EP31 "The Chameleon"The Army suspects the defection of an agent (Robert Duvall) sent to infiltrate the crew of a crippled alien ship.
S1, EP30 "Production & Decay of Strange Particles"After a nuclear reactor goes out of control, a flood of radiation is released in the form of near-human creatures.
S1, EP29 "A Feasibility Study"Six city blocks are transported intact to an alien planet. With Sam Wanamaker, David Opatoshu.
S1, EP28 "The Special One"An agent (Richard Ney) from the planet Xenon is tutoring brilliant Earth children for a special project... the conquest of Earth.
S1, EP27 "Fun & Games"A man (Nick Adams) and woman (Nancy Malone) battle an alien duo on a distant world to decide the fate of Earth.
S1, EP26 "The Guests"Lovers decide whether to stay in a strange place and keep eternal youth or to return to their true ages.
S1, EP25 "The Mutant"A scientist mutated by rainfall on an alien world holds colleagues hostage and demands to return to Earth.
S1, EP24 "Moonstone"A staff of military and scientific personnel on the moon discovers a strange object that is round, smooth -- and alive.
S1, EP23 "Second Chance"An amusement park attraction turns out to be an actual spaceship commandeered by an alien captain (Simon Oakland).
S1, EP22 "Specimen: Unknown"Space station crewmen encounter mushroom-like organisms that emit a lethal gas and multiply with astounding rapidity.
S1, EP21 "Children of Spider County"An investigation reveals the link between the disappearances of four scientists born in a single county.
S1, EP20 "The Bellero Shield"An ambitious woman pays dearly for destroying a creature captured by her husband in a laser experiment.
S1, EP19 "The Invisibles"A government agent infiltrates a strange society which hopes to conquer mankind by attaching parasitic creatures to human spinal cords.
S1, EP18 "ZZZZZZ"A scientist who talks to insects hires a new lab assistant, secretly an invading queen bee disguised in human form.
S1, EP17 "Don't Open Til Doomsday"An elderly woman waits for someone to look into a box and take the place of her spouse, trapped since 1929.
S1, EP16 "Controlled Experiment"Martians (Barry Morse, Carroll O'Connor) investigate Earth's quaint custom of homicide by using a machine that can replay a murder in fast and slow motion.
S1, EP15 "The Mice"As an alternative to spending his life in prison, a man volunteers for the "inhabitant exchange" program being conducted with the planet Chromo.
S1, EP14 "The Zanti Misfits"The planet Zanti coerces permission for its misfits, giant ants with human heads, to emigrate to Earth.
S1, EP13 "Tourist Attraction"A captured creature asks fellow sea dwellers for help when a dictator plans to use it as a tourist attraction.
S1, EP12 "The Borderland"A team of scientists propels itself into the fourth dimension, where everything is a mirror image of itself.
S1, EP11 "It Crawled Out of the Woodwork"A ball of black dust sucked into a vacuum cleaner feeds on the motor's energy and grows to uncontrollable proportions.
S1, EP10 "Nightmare"Astronauts believe they have been imprisoned on an alien planet and suffer torture.
S1, EP9 "Corpus Earthling"A metal plate in a man's head allows him to hear two crystalline rocks discussing plans to take over the Earth.
S1, EP8 "The Human Factor"At a military base in Greenland, the brains of two men are accidentally exchanged when an experiment goes awry.
S1, EP7 "O.B.I.T."A murder supports an insane scientist's assertion he saw a monster in a visible projection of human wavelengths.
S1, EP6 "The Man Who Was Never Born"An astronaut accidentally passes through a time warp and finds the Earth of 2148 barren and populated by grotesque humanoids.
S1, EP5 "The Sixth Finger"A Welsh miner volunteers to be the first subject for an experiment to speed human evolution.
S1, EP4 "The Man With the Power"A meek and mild college instructor (Donald Pleasence) inherits incredible and uncontrollable mental powers after a unique scientific experiment.
S1, EP3 "The Architects of Fear"Scientists create a fake "being" from another planet to frighten nations into a peaceful coexistence.
S1, EP2 "The Hundred Days of the Dragon"A winning presidential candidate (Sidney Blackmer) is being impersonated by an agent of an Asian despot.
S1, EP1 "The Galaxy Being"A radio engineer (Cliff Robertson) experimenting with a 3-D TV receiver tunes in a being from Andromeda.
"There is nothing wrong with your television set." That famous line opens each episode of the classic science fiction anthology series as part of a narration that makes people think their TVs are being controlled. Episodes of the series, which numbered 49 over the course of two seasons, range from a mix of sci-fi and horror that feature "scary monster" motifs to episodes focused on the sci-fi aspects of the stories. Episode writers include such notables as series creator Leslie Stevens and Harlan Ellison.
Original Air Date: Sep 16, 1963
Genres: Sci FiTV Series
Rating: TVPG
Playback: HD
2 seasons available on demand (49 episodes)
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