The Outer Limits (1963)

Cliff Robertson stars as a radio station owner who builds a three-dimensional television receiver which accidentally intercepts a "galaxy being" whose strange form and deadly radiation triggers a tide of panic and violence!

In a terrifyingly timely story of genetic engineering and political power plays, Sidney Blackmer stars as a popular American President who puts into place a master plan to slowly and steadily destroy the United States. James Hong also stars.

Robert Culp is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.

A meek, unassuming college professor (Donald Pleasence) invents a device capable of controlling the entire electro-magnetic spectrum and realizes the device has unleashed his subconscious thirst for revenge—with uncontrollable and deadly results!

A brilliant scientist (Edward Mulhare) discovers a way to accelerate human evolution and transforms a bitter young coal miner (David McCallum) into the man of the future. But no gift is exactly what it seems…especially in the Outer Limits.

Martin Landau stars as the time-traveler Andro who is desperately trying to stop the birth of a crazed 20th century inventor whose bacterium invention turns humans into hideous mutants. Shirley Knight co-stars in this classic, touching episode.

Both a cautionary tale and a tight courtroom drama, this haunting episode explores the fear and hostility that result when all privacy is eliminated...and all secrets are revealed! Jeff Corey, Peter Breck and Alan Baxter star.

In an isolated, snowbound outpost where a handful of people are on alert against enemy attack, a crazed Army major (Harry Guardino) is haunted by the ghost of a soldier he left to die. Sally Kellerman co-stars in one of her earliest TV appearances.

Two rock samples in Dr. Temple's (Barry Atwater) lab conceal protoplasmic alien invaders capable of controlling a human "corpus." Enter Paul Cameron (Robert Culp)...who can telepathically hear the "rocks" plotting their take-over of the world.

A group of astronauts are captured on the planet Ebon and made prisoners of war.

Writer-producer Joseph Stefano creates both a macabre parable of the destructive potential of nuclear energy and a pulsating tale of terror featuring a superbly understated performance by Ed Asner. Scott Marlow and Michael Forrest also star.

In this highly charged, fascinating tale that explores the concept of alternate dimensions, a wealthy industrialist (Barry Jones) attempts to contact his dead son by funding a scientist's experiments in prying open the door to "the borderland."

Ralph Meeker and Henry Silva star in this examination of the politics of exploitation as a corporate mercenary (Meeker) and a ruthless dictator (Silva) battle for possession of a recently discovered sea monster. But the monster may have other ideas.

They creep. They crawl. They kill. When the rulers of the planet Zanti are allowed to exile their criminals to our world, the screeching misfits will demonstrate to the military just what the word "invasion" really means. Bruce Dern stars.

A convict (Henry Silva) who is taking part in an "inhabitant exchange" between Earth and the planet Chromo discovers that the Chromites have something far more sinister planned and that the fate of the entire planet might just be in his own hands.

Befuddled by the strange local custom of murder, two Martian administrators (Barry Morse and Carroll O'Connor) visit Earth to study one such crime and find themselves tempted to tamper with events in this whimsical tale from "The Outer Limits."

Film great Miriam Hopkins (1932's "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) returns to the screen to give a show-stopping performance as an overly ripe flapper who will stop at nothing to complete her long overdue wedding night scenario. John Hoyt also stars.

When a queen bee transforms into an exotic young woman (Joanna Frank) and immediately aims her stinger at entomologist Ben Fields (Philip Abbott), she is determined to turn him (and all of mankind) into a human drone. Marsha Hunt also stars.

In one of the series' most unnerving episodes, Don Gordon portrays a secret government agent who infiltrates the ranks of the Invisibles -- a subversive, underground society of the nation's power brokers who are possessed by alien parasites.

Martin Landau and Sally Kellerman star as an inventor and his ambitious wife in a parable about aspiration's devolution into greed when a failed experiment leads to the interception of a powerful alien being from The Outer Limits.

When four brilliant young men born and raised in Spider County suddenly vanish and a fifth is accused of a murder he didn't commit, the boy receives a unique invitation from an alien being who is willing to take him to a home very, very far away.

Stephen MacNally, Richard Jaeckal, Russell Johnson and an un-credited Dabney Coleman star in the series' highest-rated episode wherein a deadly alien "plant" from the deepest reaches of space is mistakenly headed for Earth.

When an alien (Simon Oakland) converts an amusement park ride into an actual spacecraft and abducts a group of earthlings, he offers them a second chance at life on a new world…but only if they can face their personal demons! Don Gordon also stars.

Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol and Tim O'Connor star in this compelling study of allegiance and sacrifice as a group of lunar astronauts discover a strange space vessel full of fugitives from another world…and they have a desperate story to tell.