List of The Outer Limits (1963 TV series) episodes

This page is a list of the episodes of The Outer Limits, a U.S. science fiction television series originally aired
on the ABC television network for two seasons from 1963 to 1965.

Contents
Series overview
Episodes
Season 1 (1963–64)
Season 2 (1964–65)
Home releases
References

Series overview
Originally aired
Season Episodes
First aired Last aired
1 32 September 16, 1963 May 4, 1964
2 17 September 19, 1964 January 16, 1965

Episodes

Season 1 (1963–64)
 No. No. in Prod.
Title Directed by Written by Original air date
overall season code
1 1 "The Galaxy Being" Leslie Stevens Leslie Stevens September 16, 1963 1
Allan Maxwell (Cliff Robertson), the owner of the radio station KXKVI is illicitly using the station's equipment to
research electromagnetism in the microwave background noise. He inadvertently makes contact with an alien from
the Andromeda Galaxy on his 3D television. The alien is also working in secret because, as the alien tells Maxwell,
"You are a danger to other galaxies." During their exchange, Maxwell finds out the electromagnetic field is actually
what the aliens believe to be the afterlife. Their conversation is interrupted when Maxwell's nagging wife drags him to
a banquet in his honor. Despite the alien's warning for Maxwell not to apply too much power to the station's
transmission, while he's at the banquet the on-air disc jockey decides to turn the transmitter to full power in order to
reach more listeners. The power surge causes the microwave creature to be pulled out of the television. Although it
has no desire to cause harm, its very presence causes radiation burns, electrical blackouts and electrical explosions.
While authorities mobilize to attack the "hostile" alien, Maxwell desperately tries to find a way to return it to its home
planet. His wife is accidentally shot by the nervous police, but the alien saves her life and then issues a warning to the
gathering crowd. (This episode was broadcast just before the accidental discovery of the cosmic microwave
background.)

"The Hundred Days Allan Balter and

2 2 Byron Haskin September 23, 1963 7
of the Dragon" Robert Mintz
An East Asian government plans to take over America by replacing White House officials and leading corporate
executives with duplicate agents. They want to force the United States to pull out of Asia. The expected winner of the
next presidential election is candidate William Lyons Selby (Sidney Blackmer). While on the campaign trail, he is killed
and replaced by a foreign agent who has had his face molded (using a new medical serum that temporarily plastisizes
the skin) to resemble Selby. The mole, masquerading as Selby, is eventually elected. Though he fools the nation, the
president's daughter begins to suspect that the man is not her father. She reveals her concerns to the Vice-President,
Ted Pearson (Phillip E. Pine), who had also been targeted for replacement, but the attempt is unsuccessful.

"The Architects of
3 3 Byron Haskin Meyer Dolinsky September 30, 1963 5
Fear"
Although not set in any specific era, the story takes place during a Cold War period in which a nuclear holocaust is
imminent. In an attempt to avert a confrontation between military powers by uniting the world against a common
enemy, a group of scientists physically transform one of their own into an alien being to stage a fake invasion. This is
achieved by surgically altering scientist Allen Leighton (Robert Culp). Complications arise when the alterations also
affect Leighton's mind, compounded by his strong attachment to his pregnant wife (Geraldine Brooks).

"The Man with the

4 4 Laslo Benedek Jerome Ross October 7, 1963 8
Power"
An unassuming university professor, Harold Finley (Donald Pleasence), develops a device that, implanted in the brain,
gives the user telekinetic powers. Although disregarded as a milquetoast by his wife and coworkers, the teacher
impresses the U.S. space agency. But as the experiments with him go on, he learns that his subconscious has been
using the power to take revenge on those who have dismissed or demeaned him. Discovering that his invention is to
be implanted in the brain of an ambitious astronaut with questionable motives, the teacher becomes determined to
stop the operation.

James
5 5 "The Sixth Finger" Ellis St. Joseph October 14, 1963 11
Goldstone
In a remote Welsh mining town, a scientist discovers how to speed up evolutionary mutation. Gwyllim Griffiths (David
McCallum), a disgruntled local miner, volunteers for the experiment, enabling the scientist to give him enhanced
mental capabilities and, incidentally, a sixth finger on each hand. But when the mutation process continues while
outside of the scientist's control, the mutant miner takes over the experiment. Now equipped with superior intelligence
and telekinetic powers capable of great destruction, Griffiths decides to take revenge on the mining town he loathes.

"The Man Who Was

6 6 Leonard Horn Anthony Lawrence October 28, 1963 12
Never Born"
Astronaut Joseph Reardon lands on Earth, only to find it a barren wasteland. He meets Andro (Martin Landau), a
grotesque creature who reveals that it is the year 2148, almost 200 years in the future of Reardon's time. Andro
explains he is one of the few survivors of a biological disaster created by a scientist named Bertram Cabot, Jr.
Reardon realizes that he needs to see if he can return to his own time, taking Andro along. While traveling through the
time rift, Reardon mysteriously vanishes, leaving Andro alone in trying to prevent his disastrous future from occurring.
Andro is able to hypnotize anyone into seeing him as a normal human, and he begins searching for a way to stop
Cabot's work, even if this means killing him. It becomes clear that he has gone too far back in time; Bertram Cabot,
Jr., hasn't been born yet, and his future parents Noelle (Shirley Knight) and Bertram, Sr., are engaged. Andro
unsuccessfully tries to convince Cabot that he should not marry Noelle, but begins to fall in love with Noelle himself.
When Andro tries to shoot Cabot, he hesitates and is captured. His true appearance is discovered, and he flees the
scene. Noelle follows him and he explains his desperate mission. Noelle confesses that she has fallen in love with
Andro, too. She convinces him to take her back to the future, avoiding any possibility that she and Cabot will have a
child. Unfortunately, Andro disappears just as the ship arrives in "his" time.

7 7 "O.B.I.T." Gerd Oswald Meyer Dolinsky November 4, 1963 14

While conducting an inquiry into the disappearance of an administrator at a government research facility, a Senator
(Peter Breck) is confronted with paranoia, secrecy, and intimidation. He then learns about an unusual security device
that monitors the employees. The Outer Band Individuated Teletracer (known by the acronym O.B.I.T.)[1] is so
pervasive that no one can escape its prying eye. After the missing administrator is found alive, and he reveals his
knowledge of O.B.I.T., its sinister unearthly origins and purpose become apparent.

Abner
8 8 "The Human Factor" David Duncan November 11, 1963 3
Biberman
At an outpost in Greenland, an officer (Harry Guardino) begins losing his grip on reality after the death of a soldier
whom he commanded into an icy crevice. Haunted by the soldier's specter, the officer decides that he must detonate
an atomic bomb to obliterate the crevice, and the outpost as well. The post's doctor uses a unique mind probe in an
attempt to understand what is driving the officer mad. When an unexpected earthquake causes the probe to
malfunction, the minds of the doctor and the officer are switched. This switch enables the insane officer to make plans
to detonate the atomic device in the guise of the doctor, while the real doctor is confined to a padded cell.

S : Louis
9 9 "Corpus Earthling" Gerd Oswald Charbonneau; November 18, 1963 16
T : Orin Borsten
Parasitic aliens, with a plan to take over the human race, take refuge in a geologist's laboratory disguised as rocks.
Although undetected by ordinary humans, one doctor (with an implanted metal plate in his skull, from an old injury) is
able to "hear" the aliens communicate with each other while they discuss their plot. Although the doctor is unsure if
what he hears is a delusion or not, the aliens see him as a threat and set out to kill him.

10 10 "Nightmare" John Erman Joseph Stefano December 2, 1963 15

After the Earth was attacked by the planet Ebon, a group of human soldiers is sent to fight the
enemy on their own soil. Captured en route to Ebon, the soldiers undergo physical and
psychological torture and interrogation at the hands of the Ebonites. The prisoners become
paranoid when their captors claim they have received cooperation. This is further complicated
by the appearance of high-ranking Earth officers among the hostile aliens.

In the end, it is revealed that this was only a military test, organized by the Earth forces to test their troops' loyalty.
Unexpected accidents having occurred during the test, the Ebonites, in actuality a peaceful and honorable alien race,
eventually ask for the amoral experimentation to end, but they fail to prevent one last man from being killed.

"It Crawled Out of

11 11 Gerd Oswald Joseph Stefano December 9, 1963 18
the Woodwork"
A security guard at the gates of NORCO, a physics research center, is brusque when brothers Jory (Scott Marlowe)
and Stuart Peters (Michael Forest) drive up, even though Stuart is starting a job with the company. Oddly, the guard
slips them a matchbook on which he has scrawled, "NORCO is doomed". When the brothers leave, an energy
explosion causes the guard to disintegrate. The next day Stuart meets his boss, lead scientist Dr. Block, and shows
him the note, which Block dismisses. Block leaves Stuart in the laboratory with Dr. Stephanie Linden. Linden directs
Stuart into an adjacent room and locks him in, allowing an energy entity to attack him. Days later, when Stuart does
not return, Jory grows worried. However, when Stuart does show up, the two men fight, and Stuart falls in the bathtub,
where he is electrocuted. It is discovered that Stuart had a pacemaker which he didn't have before starting work at
NORCO. Investigating the death, police Sgt. Siroleo confronts Block at NORCO. However, Linden is the one who
reveals the truth: an entity made entirely of energy was accidentally created there. It can consume anyone just by
touching them, and is so threatening that those who get too close to it inevitably die of fright. Dr. Block found a way to
control the entity and is keeping it contained while he studies it. When the other scientists demanded its destruction,
Block has them frightened to death. He then restores them to life with pacemakers, which will stop working if Block
directs his creature to touch them. Dr. Block reappears with a gun and, holding Siroleo and Linden at bay, releases the
entity. Siroleo, however, gets the gun away from Block and shoots him. Now he, Linden and Peters must face the
uncontrollable energy monster.
 12 12 "The Borderland" Leslie Stevens Leslie Stevens December 16, 1963 2
A British millionaire hires a psychic to contact his dead son, but she is exposed as a fraud by scientist Ian Fraser.
Fraser insists that he has a method that can create a bridge to what might be the afterlife, but he needs the energy of
a metropolitan power grid to do so. The millionaire agrees to arrange the situation if Fraser attempts to contact the
dead son. Fraser agrees and the experiment begins, but the psychic reappears, with a plan to sabotage the
experiment.

13 13 "Tourist Attraction" Laslo Benedek Dean Riesner December 23, 1963 4

Domineering millionaire John Dexter leads a group of explorers in pursuit of a lake monster that supposedly lives in
the waters of San Blas, a South American dictatorship. When the creature is captured, Dexter plans to take it home to
further his reputation, but San Blas' dictator, Juan Mercurio, plans to use it to attract tourists. The creature, however,
has its own ideas.

14 14 "The Zanti Misfits" Leonard Horn Joseph Stefano December 30, 1963 17

Military forces have cordoned off a California ghost town awaiting the arrival of a spacecraft
from the planet Zanti. The leaders of that world have decided that Earth is the perfect place to
exile their undesirables. They threaten "total destruction" if their penal ship is harassed. Ben
Garth, a bank robber on the run, unwittingly crosses into the cordoned-off area and approaches
the Zanti ship, triggering a massive jailbreak. Earth's nervous soldiers attack the Zantis, killing
them all, then fearfully await the expected reprisal. Instead, they receive a message from the
Zanti leaders, thanking them. Since the Zanti cannot kill their own kind, they instead sent them
to the galactic experts on killing — the humans of Earth.

In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #98 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[2]

S : Lou Morheim;
Alan Crosland,
15 15 "The Mice" T : Joseph Stefano; January 6, 1964 19
Jr.
S/T : Bill S. Ballinger
A convict volunteers to be a human guinea pig for a matter transportation experiment. In reality the experiment is
supposed to be an exchange of scientists between Earth and an alien race, the Chromoites. As problems arise and
researchers die, the convict is blamed, but it may also be a sinister plot to turn the world into a food source for the
alien creatures.

"Controlled
16 16 Leslie Stevens Leslie Stevens January 13, 1964 6
Experiment"
Martians maintain inconspicuous monitors on Earth. The Martian agent Deimos is contacted by Phobos One, a
researcher who wants to investigate the concept of "murder". Using a machine that can manipulate time, they review
the same murder scene over and over again. Phobos One, however, is unable to resist the opportunity to tamper with
time. Episode star Barry Morse says that this was a pilot for a proposed science-fiction comedy series that was
subsequently broadcast as an Outer Limits episode. It is the only comedy episode of The Outer Limits.

"Don't Open Till

17 17 Gerd Oswald Joseph Stefano January 20, 1964 22
Doomsday"
In the 1920s, a pair of newlyweds receive a mysterious gift: a strange box with a small peephole. The groom, curious,
stares into the peephole and suddenly disappears. Forty years later, an eloping couple arrive at the now-decayed
home and rent a room from the eccentric owner. The young bride subsequently disappears as well, as does her father
who comes in search of his missing daughter. The vanished have all transported into an alternate dimension,
imprisoned there by a monstrous alien who offers to free them if they will help lure other victims into the trap, a part of
the creature's plan to conquer our universe.

18 18 "ZZZZZ" John Brahm Meyer Dolinsky January 27, 1964 21

Ben Fields is an entomologist seeking a live-in lab assistant to stay at the home he shares with his wife Francesca.
Regina, a mutant queen bee in human form, is searching for a human mate to prolong her species' life span and
applies for the job.

19 19 "The Invisibles" Gerd Oswald Joseph Stefano February 3, 1964 20

A secret society known as the Invisibles recruits three outcasts to help them with their aim of infiltrating the U.S.
government. They are to attach psychic alien parasites to key government leaders to bring them, and the world, under
alien control. One recruit is actually an undercover agent assigned to bring down the Invisibles, but is his cover really
as good as he thinks?

S : Lou Morheim;
20 20 "The Bellero Shield" John Brahm February 10, 1964 23
S/T : Joseph Stefano
A scientist (Martin Landau) builds a powerful laser weapon. One night, a benevolent alien from a light world travels
down the laser to earth. The scientist's wife (Sally Kellerman) tries to shoot the alien with a laser gun, but he raises a
powerful shield. The scientist and the alien share knowledge with one another. When the scientist leaves, the wife
shoots the alien in order to gain control of his shield technology. During a demonstration, she raises the shield but is
unable to take it down, trapping herself inside. The alien, believed to be dead, comes to her rescue and lowers the
shield before dying. The woman, left insane with guilt at killing the alien that only thought to help her, believes herself
to still be trapped within the shield as the episode ends.

"The Children of
21 21 Leonard Horn Anthony Lawrence February 17, 1964 25
Spider County"
A group of young prodigies has vanished, and it appears that they came from the same remote area. A government
agent sent to investigate this finds that one young prodigy is still there, and his alien patriarch is planning a family
reunion somewhere other than Earth.

"Specimen:
22 22 Gerd Oswald Stephen Lord February 24, 1964 10
Unknown"
An astronaut finds a strange organism attached to the outside of his team's spaceship. Exposed to light and air inside
it develops into a beautiful flower—but it has a deadly scent, and an aggressive growth habit. When the astronauts
seek to return to Earth for help, they bring the invasive new species with them.

T : Lou Morheim;
23 23 "Second Chance" Paul Stanley March 2, 1964 27
S/T : Lin Dane
A disgruntled carny operates a carnival ride that resembles a spaceship. However, an alien modifies the attraction and
makes it a real spaceship. Passing himself off as part of the attraction as a birdlike being, the alien invites aboard a
group of people, all of whom refuse to face the stark realities of their lives. Trapped aboard the spaceship, they are
offered the opportunity to colonize another planet. To succeed, however, they must overcome their own unwillingness
to face their true natures.

S : Lou Morheim and

24 24 "Moonstone" Robert Florey Joseph Stefano; March 9, 1964 13
T : William Bast
Researchers at a moon base discover an alien organism. They find out it's a vast repository of an alien intelligence
that has fled the tyranny of its home world. When the alien tyrants arrive to take back the organism, the researchers
have to decide what should be risked in the pursuit of knowledge.

S : Jerome B.
Alan Crosland, Thomas;
25 25 "The Mutant" March 16, 1964 26
Jr. T : Allan Balter and
Robert Mintz
An astronaut comes to an outpost on an alien planet to investigate a death among a group of scientists who are
studying the possibility of colonizing the planet. The scientists include Julie, his old flame. They all seem to behave
strangely but won't explain why. They are particularly nervous around Reese Fowler, a researcher who constantly
wears goggles. A scientist attempts to leave a scribbled note in the astronaut's pocket. As the scientist exits the room
he bumps into Fowler, who seems to read his mind and then destroys him. The astronaut is led to a remote cave
where he discovers that the others live in fear of Reese, who developed superhuman abilities when he was exposed
to the planet's chemical rainfall, which caused him to mutate. Reese, knowing he would lose his abilities once in
space, holds the others captive. The astronaut must somehow overcome a man who can read minds, and kill with a
touch.

26 26 "The Guests" Paul Stanley Donald S. Sanford March 23, 1964 29

A young drifter finds an old man dying by the side of a remote country road. He goes to an old house, looking for help.
The inhabitants are all unhelpful, mean-spirited, and avoiding reality. All with the exception of a soulful young woman.
Strangely compelled, the young man is forced to go upstairs. There he discovers that the house is the lair of an alien,
keeping the group of desperate humans captive until it can comprehend every characteristic of humanity.

T : Joseph Stefano;
27 27 "Fun and Games" Gerd Oswald March 30, 1964 28
S/T : Robert Specht
Mike Benson and Laura Hanley, are offered a chance for redemption. They can save Earth from being utterly
destroyed -- over a period of several years -- for the entertainment of a jaded extraterrestrial audience. They would
provide alternative entertainment by battling to the death two primitive aliens, who are likewise fighting to save their
own, distant world.

28 28 "The Special One" Gerd Oswald Oliver Crawford April 6, 1964 31

Roy and his wife Aggie are delighted but puzzled when they meet Mr. Zeno, who explains that he is a government
educator sent to cultivate the mind of their gifted son, Kenny. Roy becomes worried, however, when he discovers that
Kenny is learning things that are not accepted by earthly science. When Roy discovers that the government education
department knows nothing about any "Mr. Zeno," he confronts the educator only to discover that he is an alien,
reeducating children in a plot to take over the world. Kenny now has superhuman knowledge, and the question is,
where do his loyalties now lie?

29 29 "A Feasibility Study" Byron Haskin Joseph Stefano April 13, 1964 9
A suburban neighborhood awakens one morning to find out that everyone has been transported to another planet.
The planet's race intend to study the feasibility of enslaving humans for manual labor. Instead, the aliens must
overcome humanity's susceptibility to disease and the willpower of humankind's resistance to slavery.

"Production and
30 30 Decay of Strange Leslie Stevens Leslie Stevens April 20, 1964 30
Particles"
While experimenting on subatomic particles, a team of physics researchers start a reaction that consumes one
scientist after another. The reaction grows towards a terrible climax, and the survivors fear that they may be
powerless to stop it.

S : Lou Morheim and

31 31 "The Chameleon" Gerd Oswald Joseph Stefano; April 27, 1964 32
S/T : Robert Towne
A flying saucer has landed in a remote part of the United States and then wiped out a military patrol sent to
investigate. Concerned that the saucer contains nuclear materials, the authorities decide on a wild scheme: to send
Mace, an alienated CIA daredevil, to infiltrate the ship. Genetically modified to pass as an alien, Mace finds that he is
beginning to think as an alien, and he begins to question his allegiance — and his very nature.

"The Forms of
32 32 Gerd Oswald Joseph Stefano May 4, 1964 24
Things Unknown"
The plot involves two women who kill a blackmailer. Driving through the countryside with the body in the trunk, looking
for a place to bury him, they take refuge from a storm in a house containing a blind man and a strange young inventor
named Hobart (David McCallum) who is experimenting with time. Unlike the traditional "time travel" devices, this one
is intended to "tilt the cycles of time" and bring the dead back to life...which is what happens to the murdered
blackmailer. (Originally planned as a pilot program, for a new television series to be called The Unknown, this episode
was filmed with two different endings and was allotted double the normal production time. In the pilot version: Andre
reveals there is no Thanatos plant, and was thus not dead. The time tilter did not in fact work; Hobart was not dead
but merely in a coma; and lastly, Kassia uses the pistol to kill Hobart, thinking he is attacking Leonora.)

Season 2 (1964–65)
 No. No. in Prod.
Title Directed by Written by Original air date
overall season code
33 1 "Soldier" Gerd Oswald Harlan Ellison September 19, 1964 34
A thousand years in the future, two foot soldiers clash on a battlefield. A random energy weapon strikes both soldiers
and they are hurled into a time vortex. While one soldier is trapped in the matrix of time, the other, Qarlo Clobregnny
(Michael Ansara), materializes on a city street in the year 1964. Qarlo is soon captured and interrogated by Paul
Kagan (Lloyd Nolan), a philologist, and his origin is discovered. As progress is made in "taming" Qarlo, the time eddy
holding the enemy soldier slowly weakens. Eventually Qarlo comes to live with the Kagan family. But the enemy
soldier is free, finally materializes in 1964, and tracks Qarlo to the Kagan home. In a final hand-to-hand battle Qarlo
sacrifices his life to kill the enemy and save the Kagan family.

"Cold Hands, Warm

34 2 Charles Haas Dan Ullman September 26, 1964 33
Heart"
After completing the first manned mission to orbit Venus, astronaut Jefferson Barton (William Shatner) returns to Earth
with recurring nightmares and an increasing inability to stay warm. Barton's conditions continue to worsen, result in a
peculiar webbing of his fingers, and only after his nightmares become more vivid is he reminded of an unrevealed
alien encounter in the Venusian atmosphere. Barton's doctors suspect the astronaut had been genetically affected by
his mission, and they then struggle to treat and cure him before his mutations completely take over.

S : William R. Cox;
35 3 "Behold, Eck!" Byron Haskin October 3, 1964 37
T : John Mantley
The titular Eck is a creature from a two-dimensional world, trapped in our world when he fell into a time-space warp.
Frightened and alone, he soon realizes that a small number of humans are able to see him with the help of special
glasses that just happen to be made from meteoritic quartz. Eck proceeds to find where these glasses are made and
discovers Dr. Stone (Peter Lind Hayes), an optics engineer. Unfortunately in his search for the source of the glasses,
Eck scared a lot of people, even frightening one eyewitness into a heart attack. This means the police are after him
now as well. Eck explains that he requires special lenses to see the time warp from where he came. He says the only
way the doorway will close is for him to leave our dimension. Should the time warp remain open and an object from
this world, even a bird or insect, fly in through it and reach his dimension, it will tear the time-space fabric destroying
both worlds. Dr. Stone and his secretary Elizabeth race against time to help return Eck to his world. By sunrise Eck
may be dead and the time warp left open.

36 4 "Expanding Human" Gerd Oswald Francis Cockrell October 10, 1964 40

Professor Peter Wayne is disturbed to hear that his university colleague, Dr. Roy Clinton, is pursuing forbidden drug
experiments with a group of graduate students. When one of the students turns up dead, Professor Wayne
investigates Clinton's activities, and discovers that consciousness-expansion can have powerful and dangerous
consequences.

"Demon with a
37 5 Byron Haskin Harlan Ellison October 17, 1964 41
Glass Hand"
Trent is a man with no memories of his life beyond ten days ago. His left hand, made of glass, seems to be a
speaking artificially intelligent computer. Three fingers are missing and they must be found so that Trent can discover
what his purpose is. In the meantime, he is being hunted by human-looking aliens. One of them tells Trent that he and
the aliens are from 1000 years in the future where Earth has been conquered, a plague has destroyed all life, and all
humans have mysteriously vanished. Trent successfully recovers the three missing fingers, and discovers that he is
not actually a man, but a robot. Within his abdomen, stored on a gold wire, are the human survivors of the alien
invasion of the future, whom he must safeguard until the events of the future have become the events of the past and
the plague has dissipated.

S : Louis
38 6 "Cry of Silence" Charles Haas Charbonneau; October 24, 1964 42
T : Robert C. Dennis
A city couple driving in the countryside makes a turn into a mysterious valley road where their car hits a rock and
stops working. After the couple leaves their car, the wife has a slight accident in which she rolls downhill and sprains
her ankle. When the husband reaches her, they realize they are being stalked...by tumbleweeds who appear to be
possessed by some form of energy. At first they attempt to keep the tumbleweeds at bay with fire, but soon run out of
firewood. At this point they are saved by a slightly disturbed farmer named Lamont, who explains that things have
been awkward in the valley ever since a UFO landed two weeks before, causing his farm to die out. Lamont tells them
he stayed merely out of curiosity, but now the weeds won't allow him to leave either. The three make their way to
Lamont's house where they spend a frightening night surrounded by tumbleweeds first and then thousands of frogs.
Come morning, they walk back to the car without trouble, only to be attacked by living rocks once they get there. One
rock kills Lamont. The couple runs back to the house, where the husband finally decides that the only way they are
ever to leave there is to attempt to communicate with whatever is behind all this.

"The Invisible
39 7 Byron Haskin Jerry Sohl October 31, 1964 35
Enemy"
A pair of astronauts land on Mars; when one goes out to explore he is heard screaming and the other's last
transmission indicates that he has gone out to investigate. A second Mars Mission crew later lands, tasked to both
explore and find out what happened to the first crew. However one at a time, the astronauts disappear from sight,
perhaps victims of some unknown, unseen Martian threat.

S : Richard Landau;
40 8 "Wolf 359" Laslo Benedek November 7, 1964 38
S/T : Seeleg Lester
Working on behalf of corporate interests, scientist Jonathan Meridith has created a miniature version of a remote
planet in his laboratory. When a mysterious life-form evolves along with the developing experiment, however, Meridith
must weigh the value of his experiment versus the possible dangers.

S : Eando Binder;
41 9 "I, Robot" Leon Benson November 14, 1964 43
T : Robert C. Dennis
Adam Link is accused of murder. However, Adam Link is a robot, who maintains the victim's death was the result of an
accident. Placed on trial for the murder of Professor Link, his creator, Adam Link is defended by the professor's niece
and the retired lawyer Mr. Cutler. Ultimately it turns out that the prosecution is not simply placing the robot on trial, but
humankind itself as irresponsible and abusive of technology.

S : Ed Adamson;
"The Inheritors: Part James
42 10 S/T : Seeleg Lester November 21, 1964 44
1" Goldstone
and Sam Neuman
Four U.S. Army soldiers, with nothing in common other than having served in Korea and been shot in their heads,
cheat death, each attain an I.Q. of over 200, and begin working together on a mysterious project. Intelligence officer
Adam Ballard discovers that the men are building a starship, and recruiting handicapped children to live on the ship.
Ballard is afraid these helpless children are to be victims of alien abduction.[3]

S : Ed Adamson;
"The Inheritors: Part James
43 11 S/T : Seeleg Lester November 28, 1964 44
2" Goldstone
and Sam Neuman
Ballard locates the starship, which is protected by a force field, and confronts the men, begging them to turn off the
field and release the captive children. They inform him that the children are not captives, and that the superior alien
intelligence behind their project has healed the children of their handicaps, and needs the children to inherit and
continue their culture, when their dying species has become extinct. If the children remain on Earth, their handicaps
will return. Outcasts on Earth, the children and the enhanced Earthmen have voluntarily agreed to leave Earth for a
new world, and preserve the legacy of the aliens.[4]

"Keeper of the S : Stephen Lord;

44 12 Charles Haas December 5, 1964 39
Purple Twilight" T : Milton Krims
As a prelude for the invasion of Earth by aliens, the extraterrestrial being Ikar studies the human race. The one thing
he cannot comprehend is emotion. Obsessed scientist Dr. Plummer is near a nervous breakdown trying to complete a
magnetic disintegrator that will convert matter into pure energy. Unbeknownst to him, his weapon would be of help to
Ikar's invasion force should it be completed, so Ikar makes a deal with Plummer. He will help Plummer complete the
invention so long as Plummer allows him to steal his emotions for a "test drive". But due to the interference of
Plummer's girlfriend, Ikar is unable to control or understand his emotions, causing the experiment to backfire. Ikar's
behavior comes to the attention of his superiors and they dispatch soldier forms of his species, of which he is an
advanced intellectual worker form, to discipline him.

S : Clifford Simak;
45 13 "The Duplicate Man" Gerd Oswald December 19, 1964 45
T : Robert C. Dennis
In the 21st century, wealthy researcher Henderson James keeps an illegal alien of a different kind in his laboratory.
The alien, a beast known as a megasoid, is the last of its kind on Earth. It was imported under the table by a corrupt
space captain bribed by James and it is incredibly dangerous. The megasoid escapes the lab and Henderson James
decides the only way to destroy it before it reproduces is to send out a clone of himself to assassinate the alien.
Clones are extremely restricted by law in the 21st century but again James finds that money talks. He spends
$100,000 to buy himself one and programs it to hunt down the megasoid. But things become complicated once the
duplicate, with a hint from the megasoid, realises what he is.
 46 14 "Counterweight" Paul Stanley S : Jerry Sohl; December 26, 1964 36
T : Milton Krims
Four scientists, a newspaper man and a construction tycoon agree to spend 261 days in isolation in an interstellar
flight simulation. But the experiment is secretly infiltrated by an alien being.

"The Brain of S : Sidney Ellis;

47 15 Charles Haas January 2, 1965 46
Colonel Barham" T : Robert C. Dennis
The space race continues as the American military strives to be the first to successfully land a man on Mars. But the
best candidate for the job, Col. Barham, is dying of an incurable ailment. It is decided to separate his brain from his
body and keep it alive, with neural implants connecting it to visual and audio input/output for the mission. But without a
body, the brain becomes extremely powerful and megalomaniacal.

T : Sam Roeca;
48 16 "The Premonition" Gerd Oswald January 9, 1965 47
S/T : Ib Melchior
An X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft pilot and his wife become trapped 10 seconds ahead of their time and
watch time unfold to catch up with them at about 1 second every 30 minutes. In the time left before returning to synch
with normal time, they see that their daughter is about to be hit by a truck. But to stop the accident could mean to stay
forever stuck in time. They must be back in the positions they were in five hours ago before time "catches up" with
them. After dealing with a phantom (exposed as a negative image) who experienced the same situation some time
back and did not make it out in time, Jim finally hits upon a way to save his daughter from death. He attaches a car's
seatbelts from the back wheel to the handbrake of the military truck. With no time to spare, he and his wife hurry back
to their original placements. When time catches up, the truck groans, rolls forward, and the rear-wheel/seatbelt
solution pulls the emergency brake, stopping the truck. Their daughter is safe, the world returns to normal, and no one
except Jim and his wife are the wiser.

S : Sam Neuman;
49 17 "The Probe" Felix Feist January 16, 1965 48
T : Seeleg Lester
The final episode of the Outer Limits deals with four plane crash survivors who suddenly find themselves trapped in
an alien space probe that was taking water samples. Inside they find a puzzle they need to solve before all four are
killed.

Home releases
The following DVD sets were released by MGM Home Entertainment.[5]

DVD set Episodes Release date

The Outer Limits: Season 1 32 3 September 2002
The Outer Limits: Season 2 17 2 September 2003
The Outer Limits: Volume 1 16 5 June 2007
The Outer Limits: Volume 2 16 28 August 2007
The Outer Limits: Volume 3 17 30 October 2007
The Outer Limits: The Complete Original Series 49 21 October 2008

References
1. O.B.I.T. review (http://www.davidjschow.com/limits/ol_episodes6.html#obit) Archived (https://w
eb.archive.org/web/20080723181316/http://www.davidjschow.com/limits/ol_episodes6.html)
2008-07-23 at the Wayback Machine
2. "Special Collector's Issue (100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide (June 28–July 4).
1997. Accessed July 4, 2016.
3. The Inheritors, Part 1
4. The Inheritors, Part 2
 5. The Outer Limits (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/shows/Outer-Limits/3203) Archived (https://w
eb.archive.org/web/20160813234602/http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/shows/Outer-Limits/3203)
2016-08-13 at the Wayback Machine at TVShowsOnDVD.com

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