The BEST episodes of The Outer Limits (1995) season 1

Every episode of The Outer Limits (1995) season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Outer Limits (1995) season 1!

Like the classic 1960s series of the same name, each episode is a celebration of the human imagination in which humanity's exploration of new frontiers in technology, outer space and the human experience reveal our greatest hopes and darkest fears. Stories on The Outer Limits have explored the consequences of such controversial and thought-provoking topics as genetic manipulation, alien visitation and life after death.

Last Updated: 11/7/2024Network: SYFYStatus: Ended
Quality of Mercy
star
7.86
255 votes

#1 - Quality of Mercy

Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 6/16/1995

Major John Skokes is taken prisoner by the enemy during a savage galactic war and a seemingly undefeatable alien race. The tension increases when his cellmate, a cadet named Pri, is being transformed into one of them. Skokes must find an escape to save his cellmate and to avoid a disturbing revelation of the course of this war.

Directors: Brad Turner
Writer: Brad Wright
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I, Robot
star
7.84
245 votes

#2 - I, Robot

Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 7/23/1995

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

Directors: Tibor Takács
Writer: Brad Wright
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The Choice
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7.72
286 votes

#3 - The Choice

Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/28/1995

A young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, while her parents must decide what's ultimately best for their child.

Directors: Mark Sobel
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Caught in the Act
star
7.70
249 votes

#4 - Caught in the Act

Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 7/9/1995

A chaste co-ed is enveloped by a strange power that gives her an insatiable sexual appetite, which is perpetuated by encounters with consenting men who, after making physical contact, morph into her body and disappear.

Directors: Mark Sobel
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The Voyage Home
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7.65
220 votes

#5 - The Voyage Home

Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 6/30/1995

When an astronaut returning from Mars discovers an alien aboard ship, he must face the loss of his shipmates, and make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prevent the alien from reaching Earth.

Directors: Tibor Takács
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The Sandkings
star
7.63
331 votes

#6 - The Sandkings

Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 3/26/1995

Scientist Simon Kress finds himself the master of a colony of Sandkings -- creatures from Mars that look like insects, but have the intelligence of much higher beings.

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The Message
star
7.54
189 votes

#7 - The Message

Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 7/16/1995

A deaf woman with a transplanted device, which is supposed to enable her to hear, turns into a transmitter for aliens, who are crying for help.

Writer: Brad Wright
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The Conversion
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7.49
198 votes

#8 - The Conversion

Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 6/9/1995

Henry Marshall is a greedy man who has paid for his greed with a prison sentence but has yet to learn his lesson. His life abruptly changes when he encounters visitors from another planet who instill new sense of compassion for others.

Writer: Brad Wright
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Virtual Future
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7.44
210 votes

#9 - Virtual Future

Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/5/1995

A brilliant young scientist discovers a way to see the future, but gets caught up in a billionaire's ambitious political schemes, and must alter the future to save his own life.

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Valerie 23
star
7.37
320 votes

#10 - Valerie 23

Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/1995

Frank Hellner, a lonely paraplegic, takes part in a top-secret project -- allowing an ""inorganic human,"" or robot named Valerie, to be his companion for a week. The experiment goes awry when Valerie, unable to control her programmed emotions, becomes jealous and threatens the life of Frank's physical therapist and close friend Rachel.

Directors: Timothy Bond
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Living Hell
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7.36
182 votes

#11 - Living Hell

Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/12/1995

Ben Kohler's life is saved after having an experimental chip implanted in his brain, but when he starts seeing and experiencing violent images, it becomes clear something is desperately wrong.

Directors: Graeme Campbell
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The Second Soul
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7.35
242 votes

#12 - The Second Soul

Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/14/1995

Man's first encounter with beings from another planet -- the N'Tal -- appears to be a mutually rewarding arrangement. But a leery doctor/scientist must decide whether the N'Tal are friend or foe.

Directors: Paul Lynch
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The New Breed
star
7.35
171 votes

#13 - The New Breed

Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 6/23/1995

The discovery of a gifted scientist falls into the wrong hands, bringing what at first appears to be a lifesaving miracle, but ultimately the untimely death of his closest friend.

Directors: Mario Azzopardi
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Birthright
star
7.35
153 votes

#14 - Birthright

Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 8/13/1995

An environmentally-friendly U.S. Senator's life changes drastically after a freak accident, when he realizes he's actually an alien in disguise, with a "" mission"" to surreptitiously reconfigure the earth's atmosphere.

Directors: William Fruet
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Corner of the Eye
star
7.28
182 votes

#15 - Corner of the Eye

Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 5/19/1995

A disillusioned priest is given healing power by aliens who use him as they attempt to save their own planet by destroying all human life.

Directors: Stuart Gillard
Writer: David Schow
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Under the Bed
star
7.27
198 votes

#16 - Under the Bed

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 5/26/1995

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

Directors: René Bonnière
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Dark Matters
star
7.24
224 votes

#17 - Dark Matters

Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 6/2/1995

Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.

Directors: Paul Lynch
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White Light Fever
star
7.20
248 votes

#18 - White Light Fever

Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/21/1995

An experiment at St. Peter's Hospital threatens nature's order of existence, when billionaire Harlan Hawkes pays a brilliant cardiologist, Dr. ""Mac"" McEnerney to help him cheat death.

Directors: Tibor Takács
Writer: David Kemper
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Blood Brothers
star
7.14
298 votes

#19 - Blood Brothers

Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/1995

Two diametrically opposed brothers, wrestle for control of a million-dollar pharmaceutical company. A vaccine that could hold the secret to eternal life, becomes the object of the brothers' bitter struggle.

Directors: Tibor Takács
Writer: Brad Wright
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The Voice of Reason
star
6.91
242 votes

#20 - The Voice of Reason

Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 8/20/1995

A civilian with strong ties to the military tries desperately to use concrete evidence to convince a high level committee that alien forces are trying to overcome the human race.

Directors: Neill Fearnley
Writer: Brad Wright
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If These Walls Could Talk
star
6.59
180 votes

#21 - If These Walls Could Talk

Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 7/30/1995

Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman whose strength and faith help him unravel the mystery of a haunted house.

Directors: Tibor Takács
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