The Outer Limits
The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits

1995 7 Seasons 153 Episodes ⭐ 7.7 Drama Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Sandkings

Scientist Simon Kress finds himself the master of a colony of Sandkings -- creatures from Mars that look like insects, b

EP 2

Valerie 23

Frank Hellner, a lonely paraplegic, takes part in a top-secret project -- allowing an "inorganic human," or robot named

EP 3

Blood Brothers

Two diametrically opposed brothers, wrestle for control of a million-dollar pharmaceutical company. A vaccine that could

EP 4

The Second Soul

Man's first encounter with beings from another planet -- the N'Tal -- appears to be a mutually rewarding arrangement. Bu

EP 5

White Light Fever

An experiment at St. Peter's Hospital threatens nature's order of existence, when billionaire Harlan Hawkes pays a brill

EP 6

The Choice

A young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, wh

EP 7

Virtual Future

A brilliant young scientist discovers a way to see the future, but gets caught up in a billionaire's ambitious political

EP 8

Living Hell

Ben Kohler's life is saved after having an experimental chip implanted in his brain, but when he starts seeing and exper

EP 9

Corner of the Eye

A disillusioned priest is given healing power by aliens who use him as they attempt to save their own planet by destroyi

EP 10

Under the Bed

When a little boy is abducted the only witness, his sister, claims that someone or something under the bed took him.

EP 11

Dark Matters

Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facin

EP 12

The Conversion

Henry Marshall is a greedy man who has paid for his greed with a prison sentence but has yet to learn his lesson. His li

EP 13

Quality of Mercy

Major John Skokes is taken prisoner by the enemy during a savage galactic war and a seemingly undefeatable alien race. T

EP 14

The New Breed

The discovery of a gifted scientist falls into the wrong hands, bringing what at first appears to be a lifesaving miracl

EP 15

The Voyage Home

When an astronaut returning from Mars discovers an alien aboard ship, he must face the loss of his shipmates, and make t

EP 16

Caught in the Act

A chaste co-ed is enveloped by a strange power that gives her an insatiable sexual appetite, which is perpetuated by enc

EP 17

The Message

A deaf woman with a transplanted device, which is supposed to enable her to hear, turns into a transmitter for aliens, w

EP 18

I, Robot

Adam, a powerful robot, kills his creator when the scientist attempts to convert him into a military killing machine by

EP 19

If These Walls Could Talk

Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman whose strength and faith help him unravel the myste

EP 20

Birthright

An environmentally-friendly U.S. Senator's life changes drastically after a freak accident, when he realizes he's actual

EP 21

The Voice of Reason

A civilian with strong ties to the military tries desperately to use concrete evidence to convince a high level committe

EP 1

A Stitch in Time

FBI agent Jamie Perrin has investigated some pretty strange cases in her time but this one may be the strangest of all.

EP 2

Resurrection

Life on planet Earth has been wiped out by biological warfare, leaving behind only androids. Two of those androids, Mart

EP 3

Unnatural Selection

Howard and Joanne Sharp are going to have a baby. Like many people in the near future, they are mulling over the possibi

EP 4

I Hear You Calling

Reporter Carter Jones is on her way to work when her cellular phone picks up a suspicious conversation about the ""remov

EP 5

Mind Over Matter

Dr. Sam Stein has always lived for his work. His dedication has paid off with the development of the Computer Aided Visu

EP 6

Beyond the Veil

After flashbacks of an alien abduction drives him to the brink of suicide, Eddie Wexler finds himself at a mental instit

EP 7

First Anniversary

As he celebrates his first wedding anniversary, Norman Glass thinks he's the luckiest man alive. His wife Ady, whom he m

EP 8

Straight and Narrow

Rusty Dobson has always been a problem child. His single mom decides to send him to the Milgram Academy, an ultra-strict

EP 9

Trial by Fire

On the day of Charles Halsey's inauguration as President of the United States, scientists detect a large object heading

EP 10

Worlds Apart

Space agency director Nancy MacDonald gets a lesson in the meaning of time and distance with an unexpected signal from a

EP 11

The Refuge

""What is reality?"" is the question before Raymond Bava after he collapses during a blizzard and awakens in a private r

EP 12

Inconstant Moon

When a lonely physics professor realizes the sun is going to burn out, he knows that he and humanity have only a few hou

EP 13

From Within

A mentally challenged boy named Howie is the last unaffected person in a small town overrun by a strange madness. Miners

EP 14

The Heist

Embittered after a friend's betrayal cost him his Army career, Lee Taylor helps a self-styled militia major hijack an Ar

EP 15

Afterlife

Linden Stiles struggles to retain his humanity after heis convicted of a murder he didn't commit. When asked to make a f

EP 16

The Deprogrammers

With Earth under alien rule and millions dead, the human race has been programmed to slavery. A small band of rebels kid

EP 17

Paradise

Dr. Christina Markham and Sheriff Grady Markham live in small town America. Alzheimer's disease is slowly robbing Christ

EP 18

The Light Brigade

Actor Robert Patrick returns for this first-ever THE OUTER LIMITS sequel, a follow-up to last year's 'Quality of Mercy.'

EP 19

Falling Star

Pop singer Melissa McCammon is about to commit suicide. With her once meteoric career at a standstill and her husband ch

EP 20

Out of Body

What really happens during an out-of body experience? Husband and wife scientists Rebecca Warfield and Ben McCormick are

EP 21

Vanishing Act

THE OUTER LIMITS examines the classic domestic fable of a husband who leaves to go to the store and doesn't return for t

EP 22

The Sentence

Let the punishment fit the crime: an ambitious inventor, Dr. Jack Henson, creates a "" virtual prison"" and wants the go

EP 1

Bits of Love

Aidan Hunter may be the last man on earth after a nuclear holocaust, but he's not lonely. In his subterranean bomb shelt

EP 2

Second Thoughts

Karl Durand (Howie Mandel) is in his 30's, but he has the mind of a child. That is, until he receives a unique gift from

EP 3

Re-Generation

After their four-year-old son Justin dies in a household accident aspiring politician Graham Highfield and his wife Rebe

EP 4

Last Supper

Frank Martin can't believe his eyes when his son Danny brings home a beautiful new girlfriend from college. The girl, Ja

EP 5

Stream of Consciousness

In a world where neural implants allow everyone instant access to information, Ryan Unger is a throwback, a moron. Becau

EP 6

Dark Rain

The value of the greatest of joys -- a healthy baby -- becomes evident after chemical warfare leaves humanity unable to

EP 7

The Camp

For Twelve generations, mankind has lived in concentration-type camps, imprisoned by the human collaborators of the alie

EP 8

Heart's Desire

A mysterious alien descends upon the town of Heart's Desire and offers to share his extraordinary powers with four outla

EP 9

Tempests

The Tempest, a rickety old spaceship piloted by space colonists John Virgil and Captain Parker, is on a mission of mercy

EP 10

The Awakening

Beth Carter lives in black and white, unable to experience emotions because of a conditioncalled primary alexithymia. Bu

EP 11

New Lease

After years of research, Dr. James Houghton and Dr. Charles McCamber have discovered how to bring the dead back to life

EP 12

Double Helix

Since Dr. Martin Nodel is the most brilliant geneticist in the world, the students and staff at the university are willi

EP 13

Dead Man's Switch

Ben Conklin has been a loner ever since his parents died when he was twelve years old. This is one reason why General Ja

EP 14

Music of the Spheres

Devon Taylor, a 20 year-old physics whiz, has heard a lot of strange sounds coming from space as part of his job assisti

EP 15

The Revelations of Becka Paulson

In this adaptation of Stephen King's short story, Becka Paulson's humdrum trailer park life suddenly becomes very intere

EP 16

Bodies of Evidence

He doesn't know what it is, but Captain William Clark can see that something terrible and strange is happening on the sp

EP 17

Feasibility Study

The residents of a suburban neighborhood have their lives turned upside down when a four block section of their subdivis

EP 18

A Special Edition

Muckraking TV journalist Donald Rivers, host of 'The Whole Truth,' has the show of a lifetime: rock solid proof that the

EP 1

Criminal Nature

Genetic Engineering has produced a generation of super-babies, but the technology is not perfect. It has also produced h

EP 2

The Hunt

After environmentalists successfully ban the hunting of animals, a black market emerges, with humans paying big money to

EP 3

Hearts and Minds

The mission for Captain Taverner and his squad of North American Federation (NAF) soldiers is simple: search and destroy

EP 4

In Another Life

Mason Stark hates his life. A year ago, he lost his wife Kristin to a mugger's bullet and he still blames himself for no

EP 5

In the Zone

With its deadly lasers and hand-to-hand battles, 'The Octal' is a combat sport for a new generation of athletes - but Ta

EP 6

Relativity Theory

Biologist Teresa Janovitch (MELISSA GILBERT) is a civilian among military men, traveling on the Resource Survey Vehicle

EP 7

Josh

Tabloid TV reporter Judy Warren (KATE VERNON) knows she's come across a big story when she sees the videotape shot by tw

EP 8

Rite of Passage

The birth of a child is a joyful event, but for Shal and Brav, two young naive humans who live in a small commune in the

EP 9

Glyphic

When Tom Young (Peter Flemmming) from the Department of Health travels to a small town in the Pacific Northwest to exami

EP 10

Identity Crisis

Captain Cotter McCoy (Lou Diamond Phillips) is the first of a new breed of soldier. As part of a top secret program over

EP 11

The Vaccine

It has been three months since the doomsday cult unleashed the genetically engineered Berlin C virus, and today most of

EP 12

Fear Itself

For as long as he can remember, Bernard Selden (AYRE GROSS) has been haunted by a paralyzing fear. It started when he wa

EP 13

The Joining

When a transport ship crashed and wiped out the colony on Venus, Capt. Miles Davidow (C. Thomas Howell) was the sole sur

EP 14

To Tell the Truth

Dr. Larry Chambers (Gregory Harrison) helped build the colony on the Janus Five. He and fellow scientist Amanda Harper (

EP 15

Mary 25

Charlie Bouton's (Tom Butler) last project for the Innobotics Corporation was a sexy female companion robot named Valeri

EP 16

Final Exam

Dr. John Martin (Brett Cullen), a negotiator for the Department of Energy Nuclear Response Team, is called in when a dis

EP 17

Lithia

It is 2055 and the post-apocalyptic world is populated exclusively by women; all the men were killed in the Great War an

EP 18

Monster

The four people gathered in the top-secret research facility seem at first to have nothing in common: Ford Maddox (Harry

EP 19

Sarcophagus

The archeological team has just about given up on finding anything significant in this remote corner of Alaska when Nata

EP 20

Nightmare

The battle cruiser Tango Bravo, under the command of Capt. Roger Kimbro (Maurice Dean Wint), is captured by the enemy Eb

EP 21

Promised Land

Dlavan (Rene Auberjonois) and his family are Tsal-Khan, offspring of the handful of aliens who remained on Earth after a

EP 22

The Balance of Nature

Dr. Noah Phillips (Maurice Godin) was desperate to save his 30-year-old wife, Meredith (Lisa Maris), from a premature de

EP 23

The Origin of Species

In this sequel to Double Helix, Dr. Ira Nodel (RON RIFKIN) has his body altered to communicate with aliens who have seed

EP 24

Phobos Rising

For 30 years there has been a fragile truce between the Free Alliance and the Coalition of Middle-Eastern and Pacific St

EP 25

Black Box

A missing package contains powerful secrets, and everyone wants a piece of the action.

EP 26

In Our Own Image

The Mac 27 (Nicolas Lea) is the Innobotics Corporation's most advanced android. It is incapable of emotions - in order t

EP 1

Alien Radio

Stan Harbinger (Joe Pantoliano) is a top-rated talk show host with a flair for the outrageous and a reputation as a skep

EP 2

Donor

Dr. Renee Stuyvesant and her protege Dr. Vance Ridout have perfected the full-body transplant in which a patient's entir

EP 3

Small Friends

When he was young, Gene Morton killed a man who tried to steal the credit for his brilliant research. Now working on a p

EP 4

The Grell

The Grells were rescued from their dry and dying planet by humans, only to be turned into slaves on earth. Now the alien

EP 5

The Other Side

Dr. Neal Eberhardt (Ralph Macchio), a former boy genius gone bitterly toseed, studies brain-damaged and comatose patient

EP 6

Joyride

Theodore Harris (Cliff Robertson) first time in space, in 1963, didn't go quite as planned. Alone in his Mercury capsule

EP 7

The Human Operators

For as long as Man (Jack Noseworthy) can remember, he has lived aboard Ship as it floats through space. And for just as

EP 8

Blank Slate

Hope Wilson (Robbie Chong) knows there's something different about the bruised and breathless man who stumbles into the

EP 9

What Will the Neighbors Think?

Mona Bailey (Jane Adams) lives with her husband Ned (Peter Outerbridge) in the Clackson Arms, an old apartment building

EP 10

The Shroud

When Marie Wells (Samantha Mathis) and her husband Justin (Robert Wisden) can't have a child on their own, they turn to

EP 11

Ripper

In Victorian London, someone is killing prostitutes, someone the police have dubbed "Jack the Ripper." On the face of

EP 12

Tribunal

In 1944, young Leon Zgierski (Roman Danylo), an inmate in the Birkenau concentration camp watches as First Lieutenant Ka

EP 13

Summit

Deep space. A small planetoid. The sight of an intergalactic summit between two warring worlds. Diplomats from both Eart

EP 14

Descent

Dr. Arthur Zeller is the doormat of the anthropology department, a mild-mannered professor who is the butt of his collea

EP 15

The Haven

Caleb Vance lives on the 52nd floor of The Haven, a high-tech marvel of an apartment building that is driven by a super

EP 16

Déjà Vu

Dr. Mark Crest (Kevin Nealon) has built a teleportation device that uses tactical nuclear weapons to open a wormhole in

EP 17

The Inheritors

Musician Jacob Hardy (Nicholas Lea) is strolling with his fiancee Kara Delaney (Stacy Grant) when a meteor explodes ove

EP 18

Essence of Life

Eleven years after a viral epidemic wiped out most of the world's people, the population is beginning to rebound. The wo

EP 19

Stranded

Thirteen-year-old Kevin Buchannon (Adam Hann-Byrd) lives at the bottom of the high-school food chain, scorned by other g

EP 20

Fathers & Sons

From the outside, the Golden Sunset looks like any other rest home, but Dr. Benton Adler's facility is different in a fe

EP 21

Starcrossed

It is 2056, six years after the Hing, a humanoid race, invaded Earth. While America fights on, Russia has reached an une

EP 22

Better Luck Next Time

In a warehouse, two men are fighting for possession of a gun. During the struggle, they mention various connections to e

EP 1

Judgment Day

Capitol punishment makes it to primetime. Judgment Day has quickly become the hottest show on the Justice Channel and on

EP 2

The Gun

When Matthew Logan gets out of prison after serving time for spousal abuse, his first stop is a gun show. He buys a st

EP 3

Skin Deep

Sid Camden, a rather unremarkable, socially inept sort of guy, works in an accounting department of a high-tech compan

EP 4

Manifest Destiny

The UFS Mercury is in route to the planet Trion to do scientific tests in preparation to establish a colony when they

EP 5

Breaking Point

When Andrew McLaren is fired from his job at Anderson Technology, he suspects that he's being let go because the comp

EP 6

The Beholder

Patrick Tarloff, a university English professor, lost his eyesight in a childhood accident and now, at age 28, he has

EP 7

Seeds of Destruction

Macroseed, a cutting edge biotechnology company, chooses the small farming town of Hobson to test and develop TX-40.

EP 8

Simon Says

Gideon Banks lost his wife Liz and son Simon in a horrific car accident some twenty years ago. At the time of the acc

EP 9

Stasis

In the year 2123, with all but nature destroyed and resources scarce, society has been divided into three kinds of pe

EP 10

Down to Earth

The true believers have gathered once again for the North American UFO Convention where there are typically squabbles

EP 11

The Inner Child

Anne Reynolds is a cold young woman, estranged from her mother, Laura, haunted by memories of her dead father and ter

EP 12

Glitch

Tom and Wendy seem like the perfect couple, happy together and very much in love. But at night when Wendy sleeps, Tom

EP 13

Decompression

Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary, upsetting a heavily favored opponent, and he's flying to

EP 14

Abaddon

It's late in the 23rd century and the aging interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod is on a ten-year reclamation project o

EP 15

The Grid

When Scott Bowman gets an urgent message from his brother Peter, he decides to drive back to their hometown of Halfor

EP 16

Revival

Ezra Burnham and his daughter Sarah are old hands at the business of faith healing. Ezra, a preacher who lost his fai

EP 17

Gettysburg

Andy and Vince are Civil War buffs who spend their weekends re-enacting battles from the historic conflict with others

EP 18

Something About Harry

After her husband is killed in a car accident, Nancy Henninger rents out her backyard apartment to try to make ends m

EP 19

Zig Zag

The bombs are in place, ready to destroy the super-computers at the Department of Information Technology. Inside, the

EP 20

Nest

William Grimes, the leader of an exploration team from an Arctic research facility, goes crazy while exploring an ice c

EP 21

Final Appeal (1)

It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens, a time-traveler from the 20th Century has been sentenced to death. Her crim

EP 22

Final Appeal (2)

It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens, a time-traveler from the 20th Century has been sentenced to death. Her crim

EP 1

Family Values

A man believes all his family problems will be solved when he purchases a robot to help around the house.

EP 2

Patient Zero

A desperate man from the future travels back to the present to find and kill the carrier of a deadly plague that threate

EP 3

A New Life

A stressed out businessman and his girlfriend leave town to join an influential cult.

EP 4

The Surrogate

A struggling artist signs up for a surrogate birth program.

EP 5

The Vessel

The lone survivor of a space shuttle disaster discovers he is indestructible and has become spiritually linked to an ali

EP 6

Mona Lisa

An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.

EP 7

Replica

A biogeneticist illegally clones his comatose wife.

EP 8

Think Like a Dinosaur

One human is the only permanent occupant of a station located on a vast empty plain of the moon. His companions are a

EP 9

Alien Shop

An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook (Jonathon S

EP 10

Worlds Within

A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to save him from secret government manipulation.

EP 11

In the Blood

An exploratory mission into space passes through a quantum hole torn into the very fabric of the universe and enters

EP 12

Flower Child

A seductive woman challenges a young couple's ideas of commitment and monogamy.

EP 13

Free Spirit

A strange entity possesses schizophrenics in a mental asylum.

EP 14

Mindreacher

A doctor puts her sanity on the line when testing a psychological tool allowing her to enter her patients' minds.

EP 15

Time to Time

A dedicated daughter trips back in time to change her Dad's destiny.

EP 16

Abduction

An alien makes an offer to five high school students.

EP 17

Rule of Law

A circuit court judge goes to a frontier planet that has never known the judicial system. His first trial is of an al

EP 18

Lion's Den

A high-school wrestling team takes new drugs which cause some unexpected changes.

EP 19

The Tipping Point

A project to develop a universal computer language may lead to all the computers in the world to link and form an artifi

EP 20

Dark Child

An alien abductee 17 years ago copes with a teen daughter.

EP 21

The Human Factor

In the year 2059 humans fight an android who's artificial intelligence has determined that the spread of colonization

EP 22

Human Trials

A decorated soldier undergoes life-and-death tests for a mysterious mission.

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