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The Outer Limits

Episode Guide



The Galaxy Being
A radio station technician invents a 3-D TV system that contacts an energy being in Andromeda. Unfortunately, a power fluctuation caused by an idiot employee sucks the being to Earth, where havoc ensues. The pilot episode.


The One Hundred Days of the Dragon
Red Chinese agents use a special drug that allow the "molding" of skin like clay to impersonate high U.S. officials, including the President.


The Architects of Fear
A scientific organization creates a fake alien being from one of their own members in an attempt to scare the world into peace.


The Man with the Power
A mild-mannered professor invents a brain "link-gate" that gives his subconscious the power to destroy those who oppress and persecute him, all without his conscious knowledge.


The Sixth Finger
A man acts as an subject in an experiment in accelerated evolution. An antisocial personality to begin with, he finds himself with enormous mental powers that are vented in several violent episodes, until he is returned to normal by a girl who loved him.


The Man Who was Never Born
A horribly mutated man from the future returns to the "present" to try kill the man who created the biological disaster that led to the desolate future Earth.


O.B.I.T.
A government agency has a secret computer-based device that allows "snooping" on any individual via his brain wave emissions. A complex series of events leads to the information that the machine is actually part of an alien plot to undermine and eventually overthrow the Earth. The goverment agency is the DoD by the way.


The Human Factor
A paranoid army officer with delusions of persecution accidently switches minds with the doctor who was trying to help him. He then attempts to misuse some nuclear device in an attempt to rid himself of these feelings (i.e. by blowing himself and the rest of the Arctic expedition to bits! )


Corpus Earthling
A man who, by virtue of a metal plate in his skull, overhears two alien "rocks" plotting the overthrow of the Earth by invading peoples' minds. Eventually, his own wife is invaded, and the whole episode is a beautiful creeping terror.


Nightmare
During an interplanetary war with the planet Ebon, some Earth POW's are subjected to a series of tortures. The whole thing turns out to be instigated by EARTH officials to test the men's stamina! Very well done, but not too complimentary toward certain political elements.


It Crawled out of the Woodwork
A creature of pure energy is created in a vacuum cleaner by an ususpecting cleaning lady. It absorbs all energy (and most matter) in its path. The rather insane head of a large research organization (aren't they all?) finds a way to capture it, and prevents his key employees from spilling the beans by letting it "kill" them and then keeping them alive with remote controlled heart pacemakers.


The Borderland
A research team is probing the fourth dimension by creating an energy field which uses large amounts of electricity (they set up inside a power plant). Various interpersonal forces come to play to complicate the already complex and delicate experiments in the unknown.


Tourist Attraction
A lizard-like creature is captured and frozen by an expedition in South America. It defrosts and does predictably horrid things.


The Zanti Misfits
The aliens of the planet Zanti have forced the Earth to accept their criminals and misfits, since they doen't want to imprison them themselves. Earth has set up a special desert reservation for this purpose, which is unknowingly invaded by a pair of criminals escaping from a bank robbery.


The Mice
A convict agrees to participate in an exchange program with an alien world -- via matter transmitter/receivers. The horrible alien shows up first, and it turns out his/her/its motives are less than honorable.


Controlled Experiment
A pair of Martians are investigating the quaint Earth custom of murder. They take a typical murder scene, and twist it forward, backward, and inside out by means of a portable local time machine.


Don't Open Till Doomsday
This is a gothic fantasy in modern terms. Very complex, involving an alien being who keeps humans imprisoned with him in a little box while he attempts to find his fellow travelers so they can destroy our universe and return to their dimensional system. He captures a bridegroom on his wedding night, and holds him since he will not cooperate. His aging bride, over time, attempts to coax others into the trap, in an attempt to free her (non-aging) husband from the box.


ZZZZZ
A hive of bees, who have been intellectually advanced due to experiments with an entomologist, mutate one of their own into a human female. Their goal is to have her mate with the entomologist and thusly create a strain that can wipe out humanity.


The Invisibles
This is one of the few episodes for which my memory does not serve me too well. It involves crablike alien parasites that invade the Earth and take over human hosts in an attempt to take over society.


The Bellero Shield
A scientist accidently attracts an alien creature to Earth via his laser experiments. His scheming wife, who wants him to get recognition at any cost, kills the alien and steals its impenetrable shielding device. When she demonstrates it, she finds she cannot turn it off, that she is completely trapped.


Children of Spider Country
An alien comes to Earth to recover his son and four other young men who were sired by Earth women. They were left on Earth so they would develop the "spirit" necessary to help their own planet recover from something that has ruined their spirit.


Specimen: Unknown
Small, biscuit like thingies are found floating in space by one of our space stations. Turns out they bloom like flowers and emit gas that immediately kills. Unfortunately, some are already enroute down to Earth. The ship crashes and they spread all over the place around the crash site -- millions of them.


Second Chance
An alien converts an amusement park space ride into a REAL spaceship, and abducts some individuals who have been specially selected via mental probing. The idea is to give them a "second chance" at life by working to avoid a massive catastrophe that will affect the alien's planet and, eventually, Earth.


Moonstone
A military base on the moon finds an odd white globe a little bigger than a bowling ball. It turns out to contain several alien intelligences that have incredible knowledge, and are trying to escape from an oppressive alien tyrants.


The Mutant
A man, accidently caught outside in an isotope rainfall on a newly discovered planet, turns into a mutant who can kill simply with his touch. He hold the whole outpost in isolation via this ability to destroy, and eventually has to deal with an inspector sent out to find out why things have been kind of strange with the outpost.


The Guests
A man stumbles upon a strange house where times stands still - and whose occupants are captive guests of a weird and unearthly creature.


Fun and Games
Two humans, a convict and a liberal minded woman are transported to another planet and have to fight aliens in a jungle. This is all part of an another aliens 'arena' type amusement using the beings as gladiators.


The Special One
An alien attempts to recruit Earth children as an advance guard toward the eventual overthrow of Earth.


A Feasibility Study
Six square blocks from a U.S. city residential neighborhood are teleported to another planet by a horribly mutated race that wants to see if Earth people will make good slaves. The race itself is no longer capable of complex physical movements due to this mutation, and needs such beasts of burden. However, Earth people can catch their "disease", and they eventually infect themselves, thusly becoming the same as the aliens, to make the feasibility study a failure.


Production and Decay of Strange Particles
At an atomic installation, a scientist creates a new isotope that turns out to be alive. All sorts of horrible things happen, none of which are very impressive.


The Chameleon
A human is altered to appear the same as some aliens who have landed on Earth, and whose intentions are unknown. The alteration is genetic, based on some fingernail scraping of one of the aliens. The human ends up liking the aliens a lot more than humans, and leaves with them.


The Forms of Things Unknown
Two women murder an evil Rasputin type man while out on an picnic. Taking refuge in a gothic mansion in a storm, they meet a man who is using a "time-tilting" device to bring him back to life.


Soldier
A man, born and bred to be nothing but a soldier, is accidently transported from the future to the present during a battle. Nolan, a police psychologist, attempts to introduce the man to our society, and learns much of the horrors of the future. In the meantime, the enemy is close behind -- he too has been transported to the present.


Cold Hands, Warm Heart
William Shatner, Geraldine Brooks, Lloyd Gough, Malachi Throne
An astronaut, recently returned from an orbital flight of Venus, finds his body temperature dropping uncontrollably.


Behold Eck
A two dimensional alien, visiting this space-time, discovers he can't find his way back without ripping the continuum to shreds, and if he doesn't go back the continuum the will get ripped open anyway. He eyesight is the problem, so he seeks the aid of an optometrist who has invented some special glasses made of quartz from a meteorite!


Expanding Human
A research scientist invents a drug that gives him superhuman powers and intellect, but also warps his judgement in antisocial ways.


Demon With a Glass Hand
A man from the future, with fragmented memories and a glass computer for one of his hands finds himself in the present, being hunted by aliens from the future in an old building. The hand keeps telling him that he holds the key to life or death for billions of future humans, but it cannot give him the details until he gets the three missing fingers of the hand back from the aliens.


Cry of Silence
A simple but intriguing story of an alien intelligence that animates various objects on a deserted country farm in a fruitless attempt to communicate with humans.


The Invisible Enemy
The story of several expeditions to Mars and the mysterious entity that killed them. A great monster concept.


Wolf 359
A piece of an alien planet is brought back and, in miniature, and accelerated time, studied by a scientist. It turns out, however, that the case also contains an evil entity from the planet, that gradually gains in power and threatens the project, the scientist, and his wife.


I, Robot
The famous story of a robot on trial for the murder of its creator.


The Inheritors
The story of several Vietnam vets, who all recovered from being shot with bullets made from some odd substance, who gradually develop a group mind, start to build some incredible machine, and have a rather odd interest in some emotionally and physically handicapped children. This is all viewed from the standpoint of government agents who are trying to figure out what the hell is going on.


Keeper of the Purple Twilight
An alien exchanges intellect for human emotion as an experiment, with predictable results for both parties.


The Duplicate Man
A man who has brought a highly illegal alien creature to Earth, which then escapes, has a duplicate made of himself to track it down and kill it.


Counterweight
A group of people participate in an experiment to test their reactions to simulated deep space flight. Unknown to them, an alien creature is also on the "trip", who has a vested interest in their reactions.


The Brain of Colonel Barham
A rehash of Donovan's Brain.


The Premonition
A test pilot and his wife are simultaneously spared from sudden death by a freakish suspension of time -- they find themselves several seconds "advanced" in time, with the "real" time gradually catching up with them.


The Probe
The survivors of a plane crash in the Pacific find their raft drawn aboard an enormous craft that turns out to be a giant probe from some (alien) planet. An interesting study of the problems of extraterrestrial communicati, intelligence, and humanity.


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