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The Outer Limits: Season 1

32 episodes Premiered Sep 16, 1963 Updated Jul 19, 2026
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Episodes

S1·E1

The Galaxy Being

Sep 16, 1963 · 52 min

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 radioact

S1·E2

The Hundred Days of the Dragon

Sep 23, 1963 · 52 min

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.

S1·E3

The Architects of Fear

Sep 30, 1963 · 52 min

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

S1·E4

The Man with the Power

Oct 7, 1963 · 51 min

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

S1·E5

The Sixth Finger

Oct 14, 1963 · 52 min

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

S1·E6

The Man Who Was Never Born

Oct 28, 1963 · 52 min

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

S1·E7

O.B.I.T.

Nov 4, 1963 · 52 min

A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

S1·E8

The Human Factor

Nov 11, 1963 · 52 min

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 the

S1·E9

Corpus Earthling

Nov 18, 1963 · 52 min

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

S1·E10

Nightmare

Dec 2, 1963 · 52 min

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

S1·E11

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

Dec 9, 1963 · 52 min

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

S1·E12

The Borderland

Dec 16, 1963 · 52 min

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 e

S1·E13

Tourist Attraction

Dec 23, 1963 · 52 min

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.

S1·E14

The Zanti Misfits

Dec 30, 1963 · 52 min

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

S1·E15

The Mice

Jan 6, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E16

Controlled Experiment

Jan 13, 1964 · 52 min

Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

S1·E17

Don't Open Till Doomsday

Jan 20, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E18

ZZZZZ

Jan 27, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E19

The Invisibles

Feb 3, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E20

The Bellero Shield

Feb 10, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E21

The Children of Spider County

Feb 17, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E22

Specimen: Unknown

Feb 24, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E23

Second Chance

Mar 2, 1964 · 52 min

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.

S1·E24

Moonstone

Mar 9, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E25

The Mutant

Mar 16, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E26

The Guests

Mar 23, 1964 · 52 min

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.

S1·E27

Fun and Games

Mar 30, 1964 · 52 min

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 h

S1·E28

The Special One

Apr 6, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E29

A Feasibility Study

Apr 13, 1964 · 52 min

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.

S1·E31

The Chameleon

Apr 27, 1964 · 52 min

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

S1·E32

The Forms of Things Unknown

May 4, 1964 · 52 min

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.