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First Aired: September 16th, 1963
Status: Ended
Network: ABC
Summary: The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
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# of Episodes: 49
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Season 1
Episode 1: The Galaxy Being
Air Date: September 16th, 1963
Summary: 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.
Episode 2: The Hundred Days of the Dragon
Air Date: September 23rd, 1963
Summary: 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.
Episode 3: The Architects of Fear
Air Date: September 30th, 1963
Summary: A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.
Episode 4: The Man with the Power
Air Date: October 7th, 1963
Summary: A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
Episode 5: The Sixth Finger
Air Date: October 14th, 1963
Summary: A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.
Episode 6: The Man Who Was Never Born
Air Date: October 28th, 1963
Summary: An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.
Episode 7: O.B.I.T.
Air Date: November 4th, 1963
Summary: A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.
Episode 8: The Human Factor
Air Date: November 11st, 1963
Summary: 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.
Episode 9: Corpus Earthling
Air Date: November 18th, 1963
Summary: A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?
Episode 10: Nightmare
Air Date: December 2nd, 1963
Summary: In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
Episode 11: It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
Air Date: December 9th, 1963
Summary: An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.
Episode 12: The Borderland
Air Date: December 16th, 1963
Summary: 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.
Episode 13: Tourist Attraction
Air Date: December 23rd, 1963
Summary: 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.
Episode 14: The Zanti Misfits
Air Date: December 30th, 1963
Summary: Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.
Episode 15: The Mice
Air Date: January 6th, 1964
Summary: A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.
Episode 16: Controlled Experiment
Air Date: January 13rd, 1964
Summary: Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
Episode 17: Don't Open Till Doomsday
Air Date: January 20th, 1964
Summary: A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.
Episode 18: ZZZZZ
Air Date: January 27th, 1964
Summary: A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
Episode 19: The Invisibles
Air Date: February 3rd, 1964
Summary: A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.
Episode 20: The Bellero Shield
Air Date: February 10th, 1964
Summary: A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
Episode 21: The Children of Spider County
Air Date: February 17th, 1964
Summary: 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.
Episode 22: Specimen: Unknown
Air Date: February 24th, 1964
Summary: Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.
Episode 23: Second Chance
Air Date: March 2nd, 1964
Summary: 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.
Episode 24: Moonstone
Air Date: March 9th, 1964
Summary: Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
Episode 25: The Mutant
Air Date: March 16th, 1964
Summary: A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.
Episode 26: The Guests
Air Date: March 23rd, 1964
Summary: 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.
Episode 27: Fun and Games
Air Date: March 30th, 1964
Summary: 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.
Episode 28: The Special One
Air Date: April 6th, 1964
Summary: Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.
Episode 29: A Feasibility Study
Air Date: April 13rd, 1964
Summary: 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.
Episode 30: Production and Decay of Strange Particles
Air Date: April 20th, 1964
Summary: An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.
Episode 31: The Chameleon
Air Date: April 27th, 1964
Summary: A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.
Episode 32: The Forms of Things Unknown
Air Date: May 4th, 1964
Summary: A crazy man invents a machine that can tilt time and bring the dead back to life.
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