Season 1

Season • Sep 16, 1963–May 4, 1964

The Outer Limits is an anthology of self-contained episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
  1. S1E1 - The Galaxy Being

    The Galaxy Being

    52 min • Sep 16, 1963 (63 years ago)

    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.

  2. S1E2 - The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    The Hundred Days of the Dragon

    52 min • Sep 23, 1963 (63 years ago)

    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.

  3. S1E3 - The Architects of Fear

    The Architects of Fear

    52 min • Sep 30, 1963 (63 years ago)

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

  4. S1E4 - The Man with the Power

    The Man with the Power

    51 min • Oct 7, 1963 (63 years ago)

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

  5. S1E5 - The Sixth Finger

    The Sixth Finger

    52 min • Oct 14, 1963 (63 years ago)

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

  6. S1E6 - The Man Who Was Never Born

    The Man Who Was Never Born

    52 min • Oct 28, 1963 (63 years ago)

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

  7. S1E7 - O.B.I.T.

    O.B.I.T.

    52 min • Nov 4, 1963 (63 years ago)

    A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

  8. S1E8 - The Human Factor

    The Human Factor

    52 min • Nov 11, 1963 (62 years ago)

    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.

  9. S1E9 - Corpus Earthling

    Corpus Earthling

    52 min • Nov 18, 1963 (62 years ago)

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

  10. S1E10 - Nightmare

    Nightmare

    52 min • Dec 2, 1963 (62 years ago)

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

  11. S1E11 - It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

    It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

    52 min • Dec 9, 1963 (62 years ago)

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

  12. S1E12 - The Borderland

    The Borderland

    52 min • Dec 16, 1963 (62 years ago)

    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.

  13. S1E13 - Tourist Attraction

    Tourist Attraction

    52 min • Dec 23, 1963 (62 years ago)

    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.

  14. S1E14 - The Zanti Misfits

    The Zanti Misfits

    52 min • Dec 30, 1963 (62 years ago)

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

  15. S1E15 - The Mice

    The Mice

    52 min • Jan 6, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  16. S1E16 - Controlled Experiment

    Controlled Experiment

    52 min • Jan 13, 1964 (62 years ago)

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

  17. S1E17 - Don't Open Till Doomsday

    Don't Open Till Doomsday

    52 min • Jan 20, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  18. S1E18 - ZZZZZ

    ZZZZZ

    52 min • Jan 27, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  19. S1E19 - The Invisibles

    The Invisibles

    52 min • Feb 3, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  20. S1E20 - The Bellero Shield

    The Bellero Shield

    52 min • Feb 10, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  21. S1E21 - The Children of Spider County

    The Children of Spider County

    52 min • Feb 17, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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.

  22. S1E22 - Specimen: Unknown

    Specimen: Unknown

    52 min • Feb 24, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  23. S1E23 - Second Chance

    Second Chance

    52 min • Mar 2, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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.

  24. S1E24 - Moonstone

    Moonstone

    52 min • Mar 9, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  25. S1E25 - The Mutant

    The Mutant

    52 min • Mar 16, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  26. S1E26 - The Guests

    The Guests

    52 min • Mar 23, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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.

  27. S1E27 - Fun and Games

    Fun and Games

    52 min • Mar 30, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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.

  28. S1E28 - The Special One

    The Special One

    52 min • Apr 6, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  29. S1E29 - A Feasibility Study

    A Feasibility Study

    52 min • Apr 13, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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.

  30. S1E30 - Production and Decay of Strange Particles

    Production and Decay of Strange Particles

    52 min • Apr 20, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  31. S1E31 - The Chameleon

    The Chameleon

    52 min • Apr 27, 1964 (62 years ago)

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

  32. S1E32 - The Forms of Things Unknown

    The Forms of Things Unknown

    52 min • May 4, 1964 (62 years ago)

    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.