The WORST episodes of The Outer Limits
Every episode of The Outer Limits ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of The Outer Limits!
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 - Tourist Attraction
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1963
The capture of a dolphin-like creature stirs up trouble in a small republic as the country's dictator plans to use the thing to attract tourists.
#2 - Corpus Earthling
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1963
A doctor with a steel plate in his head questions his own sanity when he begins hearing the conversations of a strange race of alien rock creatures intent on conquering the world.
#3 - The Mice
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1964
A convicted felon volunteers for an interplanetary cultural exchange program, and chaos ensues when a bizarre alien materializes here on Earth.
#4 - The Hundred Days of the Dragon
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1963
A sinister foreign power replaces the President of the United States with its own agent via the use of a powerful drug allowing the skin to be molded into any likeness.
#5 - O.B.I.T.
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1963
The suspicious murder of a security guard sparks an investigation unveiling an insidious and far-reaching monitoring device, the ramifications of which are truly frightening.
#6 - Fun and Games
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/30/1964
Two Earth people are transported to an alien planet, along with two aliens. The are told by their abductors that they will fight each other to the death. The stakes are high: the homeworld of the losers will be destroyed slowly, for the further amusement of their captors.
#7 - The Forms of Things Unknown
Season 1 - Episode 32 - Aired 5/4/1964
After murdering an abusive man, two women find themselves in a frightening house where the dead are brought back to life via a time-tilting machine.
#8 - Nightmare
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1963
In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - The Inheritors Part I
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/21/1964
After being shot in the head, a soldier gains a genius IQ and begins working fervently toward a mysterious goal.
#12 - The Duplicate Man
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/19/1964
A government agent creates a duplicate of himself in order to find and destroy a menacing creature consumed by hatred.
#13 - Cry of Silence
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1964
A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are trapped by animated tumbleweeds.
#14 - Wolf 359
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/7/1964
When a scientist recreates the environment of a distant planet, its accelerated rate of evolution suggest a shocking future for mankind.
#15 - 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.
#16 - The Probe
Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/16/1965
After flying into a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane bound for Tokyo is captured by an alien space probe.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#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 - The Invisible Enemy
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/31/1964
An encounter with extreme terror awaits a crew sent to Mars to investigate the disappearance of an earlier expedition.
#21 - The Premonition
Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/9/1965
An out-of-control test flight traps a pilot and his wife in a slow-moving time warp, and they're not alone.
#22 - 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.
#23 - Behold Eck!
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/3/1964
The fate of the Earth is at stake when an optometrist discovers special lenses which enable him to see a frightening, and otherwise invisible, two-dimensional creature.
#24 - 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.
#25 - The Brain of Colonel Barham
Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 1/2/1965
A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.