The BEST episodes of The Outer Limits
Every episode of The Outer Limits ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best 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 - Demon with a Glass Hand
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/17/1964
An amnesiac with a strange glass hand is pursued by alien assassins as he seeks the key to his true identity.
#2 - 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.
#3 - 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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - I, Robot
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/14/1964
A grotesque, but gentle, robot is put on trial for the murder of his creator.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - The Inheritors Part II
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/28/1964
An investigation reveals a desperate plan involving the construction of a spaceship and a group of special children.
#9 - Soldier
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/19/1964
A soldier who knows nothing but killing and warfare struggles to adapt when he is transported back in time to a more peaceful era.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/26/1964
After returning from a mission to Venus, an astronaut can't seem to stay warm enough and has strange dreams about encountering a wraith-like being outside his spaceship window.
#16 - 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.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#19 - Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/5/1964
An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.
#20 - 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.
#21 - 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.
#22 - 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.
#23 - 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.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.