Out of the Unknown: Season 3
Season 3 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Out of the Unknown Season 2.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 3 Progress Shield
Immortality, Inc.
Jan 7, 1969 · 50 min
The very rich can buy eternal life: all that's needed is someone desperate enough to donate, for a high price, a young body into which their personality can be transferred.
Liar!
Jan 14, 1969 · 50 min
The positronic brain of robot RB-34(Herbie) has an unforeseen 'extra': he can read human thoughts. So his take on the First Law of Robotics ("A robot may not harm a human being or,
The Last Lonely Man
Jan 21, 1969 · 50 min
If, by an accident of science, it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someone still alive, then the big new problem would be into wh
Beach Head
Jan 28, 1969 · 50 min
On his thirty-seventh mission, Commandant Tom Decker and his colleague Ensign Warner-Carr become alarmed at what they find when their spaceship lands on Planet 0243/B.
Something in the Cellar
Feb 4, 1969 · 50 min
Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his basement, much to the concern of his friend, Dr Pugh.
Random Quest
Feb 11, 1969 · 50 min
Following an explosion in a laboratory accident, physicist Colin Trafford is sent to a parallel universe where he enters into the body of his counterpart, a popular writer married
The Naked Sun
Feb 18, 1969 · 50 min
Earth police detective Lije Baley and his robot associate, R. Daneel Olivaw, investigate an impossible murder on a planet where physical proximity is taboo but nudity is not.
The Little Black Bag
Feb 25, 1969 · 50 min
When a down-at-heel, alcoholic physician discovers a medical kit, based on future technology, accidentally left in the wake of a time-travel expedition, he becomes a dispenser of m
1 + 1 = 1.5
Mar 4, 1969 · 50 min
The population of the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century is static, thanks to computerized population control, but the wife of the Population Officer becomes pregn
The Fosters
Mar 11, 1969 · 50 min
Mr Foster and his sister live quietly in the suburbs but are not what they seem, possessing scientific knowledge far in advance of humanity.
Target Generation
Mar 18, 1969 · 50 min
The Ship contains a generation, and only one inheritor knows what must be done when the tremor is felt throughout the metal cylinder.
The Yellow Pill
Mar 25, 1969 · 50 min
A murderer is examined by psychiatrist John Frame who is surprised to find the criminal knows many details of his private life.
Get Off My Cloud
Apr 1, 1969 · 50 min
A bed-bound SF author finds himself within one of his own fantasies after a mental breakdown.