Out of the Unknown: Season 1
Episode Guide
Season 1 Progress Shield
No Place Like Earth
Oct 4, 1965 · 50 min
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. Perh
The Counterfeit Man
Oct 11, 1965 · 50 min
On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. But perfect enough to escape discovery on the long ret
Stranger in the Family
Oct 18, 1965 · 50 min
A young man, known as 'Boy', is born with no fingernails and with mental powers that enable him to control others. He falls for a young actress, initially repulsed, whose agent-boy
The Dead Past
Oct 25, 1965 · 50 min
Time travel may still be impossible, but the Chronoscope, sensing the nearly imponderable tracks of ancient photons, allows a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Histor
Time In Advance
Nov 1, 1965 · 50 min
Imagine a future where you serve your prison sentence before you commit your crime, in the various hells of savage new planets just being colonised. If you survive, like Nick Crand
Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come... ?
Nov 8, 1965 · 50 min
Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby; with an attention to detail which is, perhaps, closer to an obsession. The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture
Sucker Bait
Nov 15, 1965 · 50 min
An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a strange, intense teenager called Mark Annuncio, raised to be
The Fox and the Forest
Nov 22, 1965 · 50 min
Sarah and David Kirsten are tourists from the 21st century who take a forbidden holiday in 1938 Mexico. But enforcers from the future, trying to keep the time-stream free from poll
Andover and the Android
Nov 29, 1965 · 50 min
Roger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mystify and dismay him. But to present a life-like female android
Some Lapse of Time
Dec 6, 1965 · 50 min
Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find collapsed on his doorstep, The tramp is suffering from a geneti
Thirteen to Centaurus
Dec 13, 1965 · 50 min
Interstellar travel at sub-light speeds: the enormous distances, isolation from human culture and the aching loneliness of space are enough to drive the strongest personality insan
The Midas Plague
Dec 20, 1965 · 50 min
The Future is bright for most of society: robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. But the disadvantaged of this Golden Age are those who have to