The Outer Limits: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Picks up essential narrative continuity directly following the events of The Outer Limits Season 1.
- Character alliances, factions, and personal loyalties undergo significant shifts under escalating stakes.
- Addresses unresolved cliffhangers and thematic mysteries introduced during previous seasons.
- Establishes the primary seasonal conflict that drives serialized character arcs toward the finale.
Episode Guide
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Soldier
Sep 19, 1964 · 52 min
Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Sep 26, 1964 · 52 min
After returning from a mission to Venus, an astronaut can't seem to stay warm enough and has strange dreams about encountering a wraith-like being outside his spaceship window.
Behold, Eck!
Oct 3, 1964 · 52 min
A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.
Expanding Human
Oct 10, 1964 · 52 min
A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.
Demon with a Glass Hand
Oct 17, 1964 · 52 min
Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with a glass hand and no memory of his past.
Cry of Silence
Oct 24, 1964 · 52 min
A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.
The Invisible Enemy
Oct 31, 1964 · 52 min
A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planet's sandy soil.
Wolf 359
Nov 7, 1964 · 52 min
A college professor recreates the environment of a distant planet in a lab in order to study its evolution... which happens quickly.
The Inheritors Part I
Nov 21, 1964 · 52 min
After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.
The Inheritors Part II
Nov 28, 1964 · 52 min
An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Dec 5, 1964 · 52 min
An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.
The Duplicate Man
Dec 19, 1964 · 52 min
A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.
Counterweight
Dec 26, 1964 · 52 min
Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.
The Brain of Colonel Barham
Jan 2, 1965 · 52 min
A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.
The Premonition
Jan 9, 1965 · 52 min
An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.
The Probe
Jan 16, 1965 · 52 min
After flying into a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane bound for Tokyo is captured by an alien space probe.