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?"

Last Updated: 9/12/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
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Tourist Attraction
star
4.73
64 votes

#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.

Directors: Laslo Benedek
Writer: Dean Riesner
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Corpus Earthling
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5.52
95 votes

#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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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The Mice
star
5.75
155 votes

#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.

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The Hundred Days of the Dragon
star
6.20
135 votes

#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.

Directors: Byron Haskin
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O.B.I.T.
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6.29
85 votes

#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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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Fun and Games
star
6.43
30 votes

#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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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The Forms of Things Unknown
star
6.50
56 votes

#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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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The Human Factor
star
6.63
43 votes

#8 - 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.

Directors: Abner Biberman
Writer: David Duncan
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Nightmare
star
6.64
73 votes

#9 - Nightmare

Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1963

In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.

Directors: John Erman
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Moonstone
star
6.72
61 votes

#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.

Directors: Robert Florey
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The Inheritors Part I
star
6.77
84 votes

#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.

Directors: James Goldstone
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The Duplicate Man
star
6.79
47 votes

#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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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Cry of Silence
star
6.87
23 votes

#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.

Directors: Charles Haas
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The Borderland
star
6.90
40 votes

#14 - 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.

Directors: Leslie Stevens
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Wolf 359
star
6.91
56 votes

#15 - 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 Probe
star
6.92
26 votes

#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.

Directors: Felix Feist
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The Architects of Fear
star
6.93
177 votes

#17 - 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.

Directors: Byron Haskin
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The Mutant
star
6.96
24 votes

#18 - 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.

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Production and Decay of Strange Particles
star
6.96
54 votes

#19 - 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.

Directors: Leslie Stevens
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The Man With the Power
star
6.97
67 votes

#20 - 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.

Directors: Laslo Benedek
Writer: Jerome Ross
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The Invisible Enemy
star
6.99
112 votes

#21 - 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 Premonition
star
7.00
45 votes

#22 - 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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The Chameleon
star
7.04
82 votes

#23 - 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.

Directors: Gerd Oswald
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The Brain of Colonel Barham
star
7.04
50 votes

#24 - 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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Behold Eck!
star
7.06
88 votes

#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.

Directors: Byron Haskin
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