The BEST episodes of The Outer Limits season 2

Every episode of The Outer Limits season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Outer Limits season 2!

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?"

Last Updated: 12/7/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Demon with a Glass Hand
star
8.71
72 votes

#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.

Directors: Byron Haskin
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I, Robot
star
7.60
88 votes

#2 - 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.

Directors: Leon Benson
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The Inheritors Part II
star
7.40
30 votes

#3 - 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.

Directors: James Goldstone
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Soldier
star
7.31
74 votes

#4 - 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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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Cold Hands, Warm Heart
star
7.16
119 votes

#5 - 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.

Directors: Charles Haas
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Keeper of the Purple Twilight
star
7.14
49 votes

#6 - 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.

Directors: Charles Haas
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Counterweight
star
7.08
49 votes

#7 - Counterweight

Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/26/1964

An alien invader unleashes fear and panic aboard a simulated flight to a distant planet.

Directors: Paul Stanley
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Expanding Human
star
7.07
81 votes

#8 - Expanding Human

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/10/1964

A consciousness-expanding drug provides a professor with superhuman abilities and endangers the lives of his associates.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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The Premonition
star
7.06
48 votes

#9 - 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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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Behold Eck!
star
7.06
89 votes

#10 - 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.

Directors: Byron Haskin
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The Brain of Colonel Barham
star
7.04
51 votes

#11 - 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.

Directors: Charles Haas
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The Invisible Enemy
star
6.98
113 votes

#12 - 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.

Directors: Byron Haskin
Writer: Jerry Sohl
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The Probe
star
6.93
28 votes

#13 - 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.

Directors: Felix Feist
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Wolf 359
star
6.88
58 votes

#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.

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The Duplicate Man
star
6.82
49 votes

#15 - 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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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Cry of Silence
star
6.79
24 votes

#16 - Cry of Silence

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/24/1964

A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are trapped by animated tumbleweeds.

Directors: Charles Haas
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The Inheritors Part I
star
6.77
86 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: James Goldstone
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