The Outer Limits: Season One Episodes Ranked Best to Worst
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1.
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: 965
E6
2.
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: 990
E5
3.
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: 692
E20
4.
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
E29
5.
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: 877
E14
6.
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
E10
7.
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
E3
8.
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
E1
9.
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: 635
E32
10.
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
E31
11.
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
E19
12.
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
E7
13.
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
E26
14.
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
E2
15.
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
E4
16.
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
E11
17.
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: 563
E23
18.
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
E27
19.
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: 659
E16
20.
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
E28
21.
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
E18
22.
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: 621
E17
23.
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
E9
24.
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
E8
25.
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: 523
E22
26.
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
E24
27.
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
E25
28.
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
E15
29.
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
E12
30.
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
E30
31.
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
E21
32.
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: 590
E13
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