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The Outer Limits (1963)

Exciting original science fiction that extrapolates from known facts possible future events that are memorable, strange and sometimes terrifying.
IMDb 8.2196332 episodes
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - The Galaxy Being
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    September 15, 1963
    51min
    13+
    Cliff Robertson stars as a disc jockey whose radio tower allows a highly dangerous glowing radioactive being to come to Earth.
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  2. S1 E2 - 100 Days Of The Dragon
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    September 22, 1963
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    When a scientist in the Orient invents a serum that permits human flesh to be remolded and shaped at will, the Premier sees a way of overtaking the world.
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  3. S1 E3 - The Architects Of Fear
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    September 29, 1963
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    Robert Culp is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.
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  4. S1 E4 - The Man With The Power
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    October 6, 1963
    51min
    13+
    Donald Pleasence plays a college professor who devises a method of harnessing cosmic energy into an undetectable beam that can devastate humans.
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  5. S1 E5 - The Sixth Finger
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    October 13, 1963
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    David McCallum is a coal miner who is transformed into a futuristic man with a grotesquely enlarged brain, a sixth finger and tremendous mental powers.
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  6. S1 E6 - The Man Who Was Never Born
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    October 27, 1963
    51min
    18+
    Martin Landau portrays a time-traveler desperately trying to stop the birth of an inventor whose bacterium turns humans into mutants.
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  7. S1 E7 - O.B.I.T.
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    November 3, 1963
    51min
    13+
    At the top secret Cypress Hills Research Center, scientists are kept under constant watch through O.B.I.T., Outer Bank Individuated Teletracer, a mysterious electronic device that tunes in on the different wave lengths of the human body and amplifies them into a visible picture much like a television.
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  8. S1 E8 - The Human Factor
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    November 10, 1963
    51min
    13+
    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.
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  9. S1 E9 - Corpus Earthling
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    November 17, 1963
    51min
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    Dr. Jonas Temple, geologists, and his assistant Laurie have been examining some unusual rocks which seem unlike any they have studied. Later, when Temple is alone, the rocks assume the forms of black, living, pulsating creatures that slither across the cabinet and forcefully enter Temple's body as he struggles for his life.
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  10. S1 E10 - Nightmare
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    December 1, 1963
    51min
    13+
    A group of astronauts are captured on the planet Ebon and made prisoners of war.
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  11. S1 E11 - It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork
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    December 8, 1963
    51min
    13+
    At the Norco Energy Research Commission, a cleaning lady is finishing her midnight chores. As she vacuums her machine picks up a small inanimate black mass. It is sucked into the chamber of the cleaner and there it feeds on the energy motor. Suddenly it grows to giant proportions and begins to destroy everything it sees.
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  12. S1 E12 - The Borderland
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    December 15, 1963
    51min
    13+
    Ian Russell is conducting an experiment on a small magnetic field cell when he accidentally drops his pencil. As he reaches for it, his hand passes through the intense magnetic field at precisely the moment that the current is changed and the polarity reversed. By the time he is free of the power surge and able to extricate his hand an amazing change has taken place.
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  13. S1 E13 - Tourist Attraction
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    December 22, 1963
    51min
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    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. On an even more advanced level than the dolphin, the creature has the ability to communicate.
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  14. S1 E14 - The Zanti Misfits
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    December 29, 1963
    51min
    13+
    Throughout history society has been faced with the problem of what to do with malcontents and misfits whose behavior undermines and destroys the foundations of civilizations. The perfectionist rulers of the Planet Zanti have coerced us to let them land their unwanted here on Earth. The Zantis look like giant ants but with human heads, and their demeanor is as much a problem as it is with humans.
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  15. S1 E15 - The Mice
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    January 5, 1964
    51min
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    Dr. Thomas Kellander 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. Contact has been made with the Planet Chromo and arrangement reached where Chromo will send one of its inhabitants to Earth and we will send a man to Chromo in the interest of science.
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  16. S1 E16 - Controlled Experiment
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    January 12, 1964
    51min
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    The inhabitants of Mars and its satellites, worried by the fact that Earth's warlike humans might spread their ways to other planets, send two messengers to research the peculiar phenomenon known only to the human race - murder.
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  17. S1 E17 - Don't Open Until Doomsday
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    January 19, 1964
    51min
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    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."
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  18. S1 E18 - Zzzzzz
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    January 26, 1964
    51min
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    Ben has been specializing in the study of bees. His lab contains a system of recorders and computers which allow him to talk to the insects and thereby learn of their society and lives. Fields has just sent his wife Fracesca to place an ad for a new lab assistant when Regina appears as if from nowhere. He doesn't realize that the bees have materialized one of their own kind into human form.
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  19. S1 E19 - The Invisibles
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    February 2, 1964
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    After a billion, billion years, the strange forces of cosmic energy have put together nameless nuclei that met and fell to Earth where, although deformed by the fall, they plan to rule by infesting the bodies of powerful and influential humans.
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  20. S1 E20 - The Bellero Shield
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    April 3, 2005
    51min
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    Richard Bellero's experiments with a laser beam gun capture a traveler from a "world" of light. This laser creature has the power to, in an emergency, encase itself in a bell-shaped, clear plastic-like shell that is impervious to anything on Earth.
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  21. S1 E21 - The Children Of Spider County
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    February 16, 1964
    51min
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    Four of the nations' leading young scientists simultaneously vanish and the succeeding investigation reveals they were all born in Spider County within the same month, each delivered two months premature, and each carried the same middle name Eros.
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  22. S1 E22 - Specimen: Unknown
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    February 23, 1964
    51min
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    Dabney Coleman discovers a strange alien life form on the walls of a space lab which is capable of maturing into flowers that emit a universally lethal toxin.
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  23. S1 E23 - Second Chance
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    March 1, 1964
    51min
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    An amusement park joy ride becomes an unexpected trip into space by an Empyrian from another planet.
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  24. S1 E24 - Moonstone
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    March 8, 1964
    51min
    13+
    An expeditionary force on the moon find a strange spherical stone. It turns out to be a space craft from another planet containing a number of beings who appear to be eyes floating in a gelatinous substance
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  25. S1 E25 - The Mutant
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    March 15, 1964
    51min
    13+
    A group of scientists living on a strange planet -- Annex One -- are held there by one of their own scientists who has become a mutant due to the effect of the Radio Isotopes in the rainfall.
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Content advisory
Violencesubstance usealcohol usesmokingfoul language
Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Gerd Oswald
Producers
Leslie StevensJoseph Stefano
Starring
Bob JohnsonBen WrightWilliam Douglas
Studio
MGM
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