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About The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits is a sci-fi & fantasy TV series that premiered on ABC on September 16, 1963. It has 2 seasons and 49 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 2 Episode 17 "The Probe", aired on January 16, 1965.

The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.

  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy

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Episodes

49 episodes · 2 seasons

Season 1

1963 · 32 episodes · Last episode: 62 years ago

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    32. The Forms of Things Unknown

    Finale

    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.

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    31. The Chameleon

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

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    30. Production and Decay of Strange Particles

    An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.

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    29. A Feasibility Study

    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.

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    28. The Special One

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

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    27. Fun and Games

    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 homeworld of the losers will be destroyed slowly, for the further amusement of their captors.

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    26. The Guests

    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.

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    25. The Mutant

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

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    24. Moonstone

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

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    23. Second Chance

    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.

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    22. Specimen: Unknown

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

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    21. The Children of Spider County

    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 sprung from jail by a mysterious stranger who says he's the young man's father.

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    20. The Bellero Shield

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

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    19. The Invisibles

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

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    18. ZZZZZ

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

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    17. Don't Open Till Doomsday

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

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    16. Controlled Experiment

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

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    15. The Mice

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

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    14. The Zanti Misfits

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

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    13. Tourist Attraction

    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.

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    12. The Borderland

    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 experiments with the possibility of contacting the rich man's dead son.

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    11. It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

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

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    10. Nightmare

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

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    9. Corpus Earthling

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

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    8. The Human Factor

    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 their minds have switched bodies.

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    7. O.B.I.T.

    A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

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    6. The Man Who Was Never Born

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

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    5. The Sixth Finger

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

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    4. The Man with the Power

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

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    3. The Architects of Fear

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

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    2. The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    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.

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    1. The Galaxy Being

    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 radioactive nature causes havoc.

Season 2

1964 · 17 episodes · Last episode: 61 years ago

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    17. The Probe

    Finale

    After flying into a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane bound for Tokyo is captured by an alien space probe.

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    16. The Premonition

    An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.

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    15. The Brain of Colonel Barham

    A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.

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    14. Counterweight

    Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.

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    13. The Duplicate Man

    A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.

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    12. Keeper of the Purple Twilight

    An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.

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    11. The Inheritors Part II

    An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.

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    10. The Inheritors Part I

    After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.

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    9. I, Robot

    A robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.

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    8. Wolf 359

    A college professor recreates the environment of a distant planet in a lab in order to study its evolution... which happens quickly.

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    7. The Invisible Enemy

    A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planet's sandy soil.

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    6. Cry of Silence

    A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.

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    5. Demon with a Glass Hand

    Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with a glass hand and no memory of his past.

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    4. Expanding Human

    A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.

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    3. Behold, Eck!

    A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.

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    2. Cold Hands, Warm Heart

    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.

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    1. Soldier

    Two soldiers from the future are thrust back through time to the present day.

Cast & crew

Created by Leslie Stevens

  • Kent Smith

    Kent Smith

    Dr. Block

  • Philip Abbott

    Philip Abbott

    Lincoln Russell

  • Aki Aleong

    Aki Aleong

    Dr. Sui-Lin

  • Ivan Dixon

    Ivan Dixon

    Major Harold Giles

  • Geraldine Brooks

    Geraldine Brooks

    Yvette Leighton

  • Lee Philips

    Lee Philips

    Radio DJ Gene 'Buddy' Maxwell

  • David Frankham

    David Frankham

    Capt. Terrence Ralph Brookman

  • Jill Haworth

    Jill Haworth

    Cathy Evans

  • Alan Baxter

    Alan Baxter

    Colonel Grover

  • Henry Darrow

    Henry Darrow

    Policeman

  • Miriam Hopkins

    Miriam Hopkins

    Mary Kry

  • Olive Deering

    Olive Deering

    Lisa Lawrence

  • Carroll O'Connor

    Carroll O'Connor

    Deimos

  • Edward Platt

    Edward Platt

    Dean Radcliffe

  • BarBara Luna

    BarBara Luna

    Gaby Christian

  • Diana Sands

    Diana Sands

    Dr. Julia Harrison

The Outer Limits FAQ

Will there be new episodes of The Outer Limits?

The Outer Limits has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on January 16, 1965.

When did the latest episode of The Outer Limits come out?

The most recent episode of The Outer Limits, Season 2 Episode 17 "The Probe", aired on January 16, 1965.

How many seasons of The Outer Limits are there?

The Outer Limits has 2 seasons with 49 episodes in total.

When did The Outer Limits first air?

The Outer Limits first aired on ABC on September 16, 1963.

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