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The Outer Limits: Season 7

22 episodes Premiered Mar 16, 2001 Updated Sep 27, 2026
Previously on The Outer Limits

Season 7 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 The Outer Limits Season 6.
  • ⚡ 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.
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Season 7 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 7: Filler vs. Essential Canon

Filter episodes by narrative weight. Focus on essential mytharc and skip standalone side quests.

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Mytharc (4): Crucial lore & season climaxes
Core (18): Character development & subplots
Side Quest (0): Standalone / filler
S7·E1 Mytharc

Family Values

Mar 16, 2001 · 45 min

A man believes all his family problems will be solved when he purchases a robot to help around the house.

S7·E2 Core

Patient Zero

Mar 23, 2001 · 45 min

A desperate man from the future travels back to the present to find and kill the carrier of a deadly plague that threatens to annihilate humankind.

S7·E3 Core

A New Life

Mar 30, 2001 · 45 min

A stressed out businessman and his girlfriend leave town to join an influential cult.

S7·E4 Core

The Surrogate

Apr 6, 2001 · 45 min

A struggling artist signs up for a surrogate birth program.

S7·E5 Core

The Vessel

Apr 13, 2001 · 45 min

The lone survivor of a space shuttle disaster discovers he is indestructible and has become spiritually linked to an alien living within himself.

S7·E6 Core

Mona Lisa

Apr 20, 2001 · 45 min

An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.

S7·E7 Core

Replica

Apr 27, 2001 · 45 min

A biogeneticist illegally clones his comatose wife.

S7·E8 Core

Think Like a Dinosaur

Jun 15, 2001 · 45 min

One human is the only permanent occupant of a station located on a vast empty plain of the moon. His companions are an emotionless lizard-like alien species who have developed a

S7·E9 Core

Alien Shop

Jun 22, 2001 · 45 min

An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook (Jonathon Schaech) accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way tha

S7·E10 Core

Worlds Within

Jun 29, 2001 · 45 min

A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to save him from secret government manipulation.

S7·E11 Core

In the Blood

Jul 6, 2001 · 45 min

An exploratory mission into space passes through a quantum hole torn into the very fabric of the universe and enters another continuum, a trans-space just beneath its surface.

S7·E12 Core

Flower Child

Jul 21, 2001 · 45 min

A seductive woman challenges a young couple's ideas of commitment and monogamy.

S7·E13 Core

Free Spirit

Jul 28, 2001 · 45 min

A strange entity possesses schizophrenics in a mental asylum.

S7·E14 Core

Mindreacher

Aug 4, 2001 · 45 min

A doctor puts her sanity on the line when testing a psychological tool allowing her to enter her patients' minds.

S7·E15 Mytharc

Time to Time

Aug 11, 2001 · 45 min

A dedicated daughter trips back in time to change her Dad's destiny.

S7·E16 Core

Abduction

Aug 18, 2001 · 45 min

An alien makes an offer to five high school students.

S7·E17 Core

Rule of Law

Aug 25, 2001 · 45 min

A circuit court judge goes to a frontier planet that has never known the judicial system. His first trial is of an alien accused of being in an attack where several humans were

S7·E18 Core

Lion's Den

Sep 8, 2001 · 45 min

A high-school wrestling team takes new drugs which cause some unexpected changes.

S7·E19 Core

The Tipping Point

Sep 15, 2001 · 45 min

A project to develop a universal computer language may lead to all the computers in the world to link and form an artificial intelligence that one computer whiz feels that he must

S7·E20 Core

Dark Child

Jan 4, 2002 · 45 min

An alien abductee 17 years ago copes with a teen daughter.

S7·E21 Mytharc

The Human Factor

Jan 11, 2002 · 45 min

In the year 2059 humans fight an android who's artificial intelligence has determined that the spread of colonization by destructive humans must be stopped.

S7·E22 Mytharc

Human Trials

Jan 18, 2002 · 45 min

A decorated soldier undergoes life-and-death tests for a mysterious mission.

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