"The Outer Limits" - a flawed classic.
by alexanderdavies-99382 | created - 11 Jun 2019 | updated - 22 Nov 2022 | PublicI do enjoy some of the original episodes of "The Outer Limits," especially the earlier ones. However, the quality began to decline and the show didn't reach its full potential.
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1. The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An anthology series of insightful science fiction tales.
Stars: Bob Johnson, Ben Wright, William Douglas, Robert Culp
Votes: 9,312
2.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Galaxy Being
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Leslie Stevens | Stars: Lee Philips, Jacqueline Scott, Cliff Robertson, Burt Metcalfe
Votes: 1,284
A promising opener.
3.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Hundred Days of the Dragon
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A new skin molding technique enables a foreign power to replace a presidential figure inside the U.S. government with an agent.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Sidney Blackmer, Phillip Pine, Mark Roberts, Aki Aleong
Votes: 971
A marvellous episode.
4.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Architects of Fear
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
One scientist from a group of ten is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Robert Culp, Leonard Stone, Martin Wolfson, Geraldine Brooks
Votes: 1,009
5.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Man with the Power
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A mild, timid, man unknowingly acquires the power to subconsciously vaporize those who aggravate him.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Donald Pleasence, Priscilla Morrill, Fred Beir, Frank Maxwell
Votes: 806
A story which has a few decidedly unsympathetic characters.
6.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Sixth Finger
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: David McCallum, Jill Haworth, Edward Mulhare, Nora Marlowe
Votes: 991
7.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Man Who Was Never Born
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A time traveler desperately tries to stop the birth of an inventor whose bacterium turns humans into mutants.
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Martin Landau, Shirley Knight, John Considine, Maxine Stuart
Votes: 966
8.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
O.B.I.T.
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Peter Breck, Jeff Corey, Joanne Gilbert, Alan Baxter
Votes: 754
9.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Human Factor
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Abner Biberman | Stars: Gary Merrill, Harry Guardino, Joe De Santis, Ivan Dixon
Votes: 649
10.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Corpus Earthling
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Robert Culp, Salome Jens, Barry Atwater, Ken Renard
Votes: 694
11.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Nightmare
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A stranded team of soldiers are captured and experimented on by demonic-looking aliens.
Director: John Erman | Stars: James Shigeta, Ed Nelson, Martin Sheen, Bill Gunn
Votes: 762
Heavy-going and uneventful.
12.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Scott Marlowe, Kent Smith, BarBara Luna, Michael Forest
Votes: 699
More episodes of this quality were needed.
13.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Borderland
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Leslie Stevens | Stars: Philip Abbott, Gladys Cooper, Nina Foch, Barry Jones
Votes: 628
14.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Tourist Attraction
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Janet Blair, Henry Silva, Ralph Meeker, Jay Novello
Votes: 591
15.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Zanti Misfits
(1963)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Aliens from the planet Zanti decide to make Earth a penal colony for their criminals.
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Michael Tolan, Olive Deering, Robert F. Simon, Claude Woolman
Votes: 878
16.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Mice
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Henry Silva, Diana Sands, Michael Higgins, Ron Foster
Votes: 569
17.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Controlled Experiment
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A pair of Martians try to understand the human phenomenon of murder.
Director: Leslie Stevens | Stars: Barry Morse, Carroll O'Connor, Grace Lee Whitney, Robert Fortier
Votes: 660
18.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Don't Open Till Doomsday
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Miriam Hopkins, John Hoyt, Russell Collins, Buck Taylor
Votes: 623
Poorly plotted and dull.
19.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
ZZZZZ
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An entomologist develops a machine to communicate with bees. Unknown to him, a queen bee has taken human form, with plans of her own.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Philip Abbott, Marsha Hunt, Joanna Frank, Booth Colman
Votes: 660
20.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Invisibles
(1964)
TV-PG | 52 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Don Gordon, George Macready, Dee Hartford, Walter Burke
Votes: 589
21.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Bellero Shield
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A humble laser scientist's maniacally ambitious wife brings ruin to her husband, herself and an accidentally snared alien from beyond the stars.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Martin Landau, Sally Kellerman, Chita Rivera, John Hoyt
Votes: 693
22.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Children of Spider County
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Leonard J. Horn | Stars: Lee Kinsolving, Kent Smith, John Milford, Crahan Denton
Votes: 514
23.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Specimen: Unknown
(1964)
TV-PG | 52 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Fast-growing space lilies take root aboard a space station, imperiling five hapless astronauts with an aggressively dispersed scent that destroys hemoglobin.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Stephen McNally, Richard Jaeckel, Gail Kobe, John Kellogg
Votes: 524
24.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Second Chance
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Thanks to an alien bird-man, the outer space ride at a carnival becomes frighteningly real.
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Simon Oakland, Janet De Gore, Don Gordon, Yale Summers
Votes: 564
25.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Moonstone
(1964)
TV-PG | 52 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A lunar exploration team from Earth encounters alien life, and must make a difficult decision.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Tim O'Connor, Curt Conway
Votes: 503
26.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Mutant
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr. | Stars: Larry Pennell, Warren Oates, Walter Burke, Robert Sampson
Votes: 497
27.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Guests
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Geoffrey Horne, Nellie Burt, Vaughn Taylor, Luana Anders
Votes: 571
28.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Fun and Games
(1964)
TV-PG | 52 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
For entertainment, a superior alien pits an Earth pair against a Caligo Galaxy pair in a game fought to the death. For the losing planet - annihilation.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Nick Adams, Nancy Malone, Bill Hart, Ray Kellogg
Votes: 539
29.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Special One
(1964)
TV-PG | 52 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Macdonald Carey, Richard Ney, Flip Mark, Marion Ross
Votes: 485
30.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
A Feasibility Study
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Sam Wanamaker, Phyllis Love, Joyce Van Patten, David Opatoshu
Votes: 629
31.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Production and Decay of Strange Particles
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Leslie Stevens | Stars: George Macready, Rudy Solari, Joseph Ruskin, Leonard Nimoy
Votes: 502
32.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Chameleon
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
To penetrate the spaceship of secretive alien visitors, a compromised agent is surgically altered to resemble them and learn their purpose.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Robert Duvall, Howard Caine, Douglas Henderson, William O'Connell
Votes: 516
33.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Forms of Things Unknown
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Two disparate 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.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Vera Miles, Cedric Hardwicke, Scott Marlowe, David McCallum
Votes: 636
34.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Soldier
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A crossfire of energies accidentally sends two warring soldiers from the 38th Century into the distant past of 1964.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Lloyd Nolan, Michael Ansara, Tim O'Connor, Ralph Hart
Votes: 739
35.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Following a mission to Venus, an astronaut finds himself constantly cold and has strange dreams about encountering an alien outside his spacecraft.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: William Shatner, Geraldine Brooks, Lloyd Gough, Malachi Throne
Votes: 549
36.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Behold Eck!
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A two-dimensional alien, stranded in our three-dimensional world, inadvertently causes havoc in Los Angeles. Only a mild-mannered optician and his secretary have the power to help.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Peter Lind Hayes, Joan Freeman, Parley Baer, Douglas Henderson
Votes: 497
37.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Expanding Human
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Trying to chemically tap into Man's full brain potential, a scientist recklessly experiments on himself. He indeed gains super intelligence and new abilities but at the cost of his morality and humanity
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Skip Homeier, Keith Andes, James Doohan, Vaughn Taylor
Votes: 441
38.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Demon with a Glass Hand
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Continuance of the human race against alien invaders depends on a man with an incomplete glass computer hand and no memory of his past.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Robert Culp, Arlene Martel, Abraham Sofaer, Rex Holman
Votes: 1,096
39.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Cry of Silence
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A married couple find themselves lost in the middle of a deserted valley and come under attacks by tumbleweeds, frogs, and rocks. What could be causing these assaults?
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Eddie Albert, June Havoc, Arthur Hunnicutt, Vic Perrin
Votes: 499
40.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Invisible Enemy
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The first manned expedition to Mars finds itself being killed one-by-one by an alien predator.
Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Adam West, Rudy Solari, Joe Maross, Ted Knight
Votes: 520
41.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Wolf 359
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When a scientist recreates the environment of a distant planet, its accelerated rate of evolution suggests a shocking future for mankind.
Director: Laslo Benedek | Stars: Patrick O'Neal, Sara Shane, Peter Haskell, Ben Wright
Votes: 448
42.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
I, Robot
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A young woman hires a cynical lawyer to prove that her uncle was not killed by his invention - a sophisticated robot.
Director: Leon Benson | Stars: Howard Da Silva, Ford Rainey, Marianna Hill, Leonard Nimoy
Votes: 587
43.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Inheritors: Part I
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An investigator seeks four ex-soldiers, each shot in the head with bullets fashioned from a meteorite, who heal, develop genius minds and relentlessly carry out an alien mission.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Robert Duvall, Donald Harron, James Shigeta, Steve Ihnat
Votes: 682
44.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Inheritors: Part II
(1964)
TV-PG | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The investigation into four men under alien mind enslavement and the purpose behind their relentless creation of a spaceship continues as handicapped children are gathered.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Robert Duvall, Donald Harron, Steve Ihnat, Ivan Dixon
Votes: 635
45.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
An overworked Earth scientist gives away his emotions in exchange for two alien equations needed to build a disintegration gun.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Robert Webber, Warren Stevens, Gail Kobe, Curt Conway
Votes: 433
46.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Duplicate Man
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A man illegally clones himself to quietly hunt down a pregnant predatory alien monster he illegally brought to Earth, hoping a second wrong will make things right.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Ron Randell, Constance Towers, Mike Lane, Steven Geray
Votes: 421
47.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
Counterweight
(1964)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Six men and two women volunteer to be locked into a mock spacecraft and undergo a simulated space mission to a distant planet; however, a series of strange events lead to paranoia and suspicion growing between them.
Director: Paul Stanley | Stars: Michael Constantine, Jacqueline Scott, Charles H. Radilak, Larry Ward
Votes: 397
48.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Brain of Colonel Barham
(1965)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
For the Mars space program, scientists transplant he brain of an embittered, egotistical, dying colonel into a computer, with predictable, inhuman results.
Director: Charles F. Haas | Stars: Grant Williams, Elizabeth Perry, Anthony Eisley, Douglas Kennedy
Votes: 379
49.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Premonition
(1965)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A husband and wife finds themselves in an elongated pocket of alternate time where their younger daughter is about to be killed by a truck.
Director: Gerd Oswald | Stars: Dewey Martin, Mary Murphy, Emma Tyson, William Bramley
Votes: 502
50.
The Outer Limits (1963–1965)
Episode:
The Probe
(1965)
TV-14 | 51 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
When an airplane crashes into the sea, its crew awakes to find themselves inside a large plastic chamber. Soon their bewilderment is replaced by fear when they come under attack by a huge machine and large blob-like creature.
Director: Felix E. Feist | Stars: Peter Mark Richman, Peggy Ann Garner, Ron Hayes, William Stevens
Votes: 421
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