The BEST episodes of The Outer Limits season 1
Every episode of The Outer Limits season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Outer Limits season 1!
Tending toward the hard science, space travel, time travel, and human evolution it tries to examine in each show some form of the question, "What is the nature of man?"
#1 - ZZZZZ
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1964
A queen bee with sinister intentions assumes human form in order to seek out the perfect mate.
#2 - Second Chance
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1964
Believing that they're going on a mere carnival ride, a crew of discontented dreamers unknowingly boards a space ship bound to save the future of the human race.
#3 - The Man Who Was Never Born
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1963
A horribly mutated man from Earth's bleak future travels back in time in an attempt to alter the past and save mankind from its hideous fate.
#4 - The Bellero Shield
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1964
An ambitious scientist, with hopes of taking over his father's corporation, creates a laser that inadvertently brings a gentle alien to earth.
#5 - Specimen: Unknown
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1964
The crew aboard a space station investigates the death of a young lieutenant and uncovers a strange and deadly new life form.
#6 - The Guests
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/23/1964
Trapped in a mansion run by a mysterious alien being, a pair of young lovers discovers that eternal life comes at a great cost.
#7 - The Zanti Misfits
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1963
Exils from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.
#8 - The Children of Spider County
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1964
A powerful alien from the planet Eros returns to Earth to rescue and claim his son who has been charged with murder.
#9 - Don't Open Till Doomsday
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1964
A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.
#10 - Controlled Experiment
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1964
Two Martians conduct an investigation at the scene of a murder to try to determine why humans kill one another.
#11 - The Sixth Finger
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1963
There are unforeseen consequences when a brilliant but guilt-ridden scientist performs an evolutionary enhancement procedure on an embittered miner.
#12 - The Invisibles
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1964
A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses repulsive alien parasites to control its members.
#13 - The Galaxy Being
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1963
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.
#14 - A Feasibility Study
Season 1 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/13/1964
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.
#15 - The Special One
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1964
A man with a intellectually gifted son is alarmed by the boy's sudden change in behavior and is suspicious of the boy's tutor, the mysterious Mr. Zeno.
#16 - It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1963
An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.
#17 - The Chameleon
Season 1 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/27/1964
A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.
#18 - The Man With the Power
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1963
An experimental brain surgery gives a mild-mannered professor telekinetic powers and unleashes the dark side of his unconscious mind.
#19 - The Architects of Fear
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1963
A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.
#20 - Production and Decay of Strange Particles
Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/20/1964
A nuclear accident creates a rift in the space/time continuum, and allows deadly creatures to emerge.
#21 - The Mutant
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1964
After being exposed to a radioactive ionic shower, scientist on a distant planet mutates, driving him insane and making him telepathic.
#22 - The Borderland
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1963
A man hoping to contact his dead son becomes involved in an experiment designed to open a gateway to the fourth dimension.
#23 - Moonstone
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1964
Lunar colonists find themselves in grave danger when they attempt to aid five fugitive alien scientists.
#24 - The Human Factor
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1963
A remote outpost in Greenland is endangered when an experiment is disrupted, causing the mind of a psychiatrist to be switched with that of a madman.
#25 - Nightmare
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1963
In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.