normal
bold
narrow
normal
bold
The Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season 1

The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season 1

MGM/UA (Sep 16, 1963)
TV Series | Fantasy | Horror | Science Fiction | Television
USA | English | Color | 26:18
The Complete First Season
DVD
NR (Not Rated)
027616879127
| 4 discs
Region 1
Custom Case

Anthology type science fiction program with a different cast each week. Tending toward the hard science, space travel, time travel, and human evolution it tries to examine in each show some form of the question, "What is the nature of man?"


Episodes View details

1 The Galaxy Being 51 min | Sep 16, 1963

A scientific technician working at a radio station makes first contact with an energy alien from the Andromeda galaxy. An underling's disobedience brings it to Earth.

2 The Hundred Days of the Dragon 51 min | Sep 23, 1963

A new skin molding technique enables a foreign power to replace a presidential figure inside the U.S. government with an agent.

3 The Architects of Fear 51 min | Sep 30, 1963

One scientist from a group of ten is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.

4 The Man with the Power 51 min | Oct 07, 1963

A mild, timid, man unknowingly acquires the power to subconsciously vaporize those who aggravate him.

5 The Sixth Finger 51 min | Oct 14, 1963

A scientist hires a miner to be the human subject in an experiment to speed-up evolution, which slowly turns the miner into a highly intelligent, alien-like being.

6 The Man Who Was Never Born 51 min | Oct 28, 1963

A time traveler desperately tries to stop the birth of an inventor whose bacterium turns humans into mutants.

7 O.B.I.T. 51 min | Nov 04, 1963

At the top secret Cypress Hills Research Center, scientists are kept under constant watch through O.B.I.T., Outer Band Individuated Teletracer, a mysterious electronic device that tunes in on the different wave lengths of the human body.

8 The Human Factor 51 min | Nov 11, 1963

On a military base, in the frozen vastness of Greenland, an army psychiatrist devises a machine which enables him to tune in directly to his patients' thoughts.

9 Corpus Earthling 51 min | Nov 18, 1963

Enabled by the metal plate in his head, Dr. Paul Cameron can overhear the immediate invasion plans of two parasitic rock aliens. Now they must kill him.

10 Nightmare 51 min | Dec 02, 1963

A stranded team of soldiers are captured and experimented on by demonic-looking aliens.

11 It Crawled Out of the Woodwork 51 min | Dec 09, 1963

A dustball caught in a vacuum cleaner gives birth to a mindless energy creature, which a research director uses to mercilessly exert unconditional control over his staff.

12 The Borderland 51 min | Dec 16, 1963

After a scientist appears to invent a machine which can contact the afterlife, he convinces a rich man to finance his experiments with the possibility of contacting his benefactor's dead son.

13 Tourist Attraction 51 min | Dec 23, 1963

Tycoon John Dexter spears a dolphin-like sea creature off San Blas in the Caribbean. It appears to be dead but, on shore, it comes to life and begins to make shrill, whistling sounds, which have a pattern and can be decoded.

14 The Zanti Misfits 51 min | Dec 30, 1963

Aliens from the planet Zanti decide to make Earth a penal colony for their criminals.

15 The Mice 51 min | Jan 06, 1964

Dr. Thomas Kellander, Director of Neo-Kinematics, is in charge of a machine that will break down matter to electrical waves so it can be transmitted like radio and reassembled at the reception point.

16 Controlled Experiment 51 min | Jan 13, 1964

A pair of Martians try to understand the human phenomenon of murder.

17 Don't Open Till Doomsday 51 min | Jan 20, 1964

On the night of her marriage in 1929, Mrs. Harvey Kry's husband suddenly disappeared. He made the mistake of unwrapping a gift labeled "Don't Open Till Doomsday.

18 ZZZZZ 51 min | Jan 27, 1964

An entomologist develops a machine to communicate with bees. Unknown to him, a queen bee has taken human form, with plans of her own.

19 The Invisibles 52 min | Feb 03, 1964

Three nobodies volunteer to become part of a new world order by allying with body-bonding crab-like alien invaders - but one nobody is a G.I.A. mole.

20 The Bellero Shield 51 min | Feb 10, 1964

A humble laser scientist's maniacally ambitious wife brings ruin to her husband, herself and an accidentally snared alien from beyond the stars.

21 The Children of Spider County 51 min | Feb 17, 1964

The male-scarce planet Eros needs boys. An Erosian returns to Earth to collect its five fully grown sired sons, but one is held up on trumped-up murder charges.

22 Specimen: Unknown 52 min | Feb 24, 1964

Fast-growing space lilies take root aboard a space station, imperiling five hapless astronauts with an aggressively dispersed scent that destroys hemoglobin.

23 Second Chance 51 min | Mar 02, 1964

Thanks to an alien bird-man, the outer space ride at a carnival becomes frighteningly real.

24 Moonstone 52 min | Mar 09, 1964

A lunar exploration team from Earth encounters alien life, and must make a difficult decision.

25 The Mutant 51 min | Mar 16, 1964

A scientist visits an isolated expedition on a planet plagued by radioactive dust storms. He discovers that one of the team has been mutated by the dust and gained telepathic powers, which he is using to terrorize the rest of the colony.

26 The Guests 51 min | Mar 23, 1964

A drifter enters a lonely house, unaware that it is actually an alien creature in disguise. Soon he realizes that he is a prisoner, along with several other half-mad inhabitants, but he is determined to escape.

27 Fun and Games 52 min | Mar 30, 1964

For entertainment, a superior alien pits an Earth pair against a Calco Galaxy pair in a game fought to the death. For the losing planet: annihilation.

28 The Special One 52 min | Apr 06, 1964

The parents of a child science prodigy are approached by a mysterious official called Mr. Xeno, who offers to give him special private tutoring. Unknown to them, Mr. Xeno is an alien who wants to use their son's talents for evil.

29 A Feasibility Study 51 min | Apr 13, 1964

The inhabitants of a typical suburban street find that they've been abducted by a diseased alien race, which wants to discover if humans will make suitable slaves for them.

30 Production and Decay of Strange Particles 51 min | Apr 20, 1964

An accident at a nuclear research facility creates a dimensional doorway in which aliens need to widen to invade our world. A scientist races to discover a way to reverse the damage and close the doorway.

31 The Chameleon 51 min | Apr 27, 1964

To penetrate the spaceship of secretive alien visitors, a compromised agent is surgically altered to resemble them and learn their purpose.

32 The Forms of Things Unknown 51 min | May 04, 1964

Two desperate women with a body in their car trunk come upon a house by chance wherein a crazed inventor has a time machine that can bring back the dead.