The Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season 1

The Outer Limits: The Original Series: Season 1

MGM/UA (1963)
Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy
USA / English / Color / 1578 min
8.4
Cast View More ↓
Vic Perrin Control Voice
Bob Johnson Anthean
Ben Wright Elder of Luminos
Robert Duvall Adam Ballard
John Hoyt 'Bifrost' Alien
Ivan Dixon Sgt. James Conover
Edward Platt David Hunt
Robert Fortier Bert Hamill
Ted De Corsia Randolph E. Branch
Jason Wingreen Coroner Leland
Willard Sage Chief of Staff
Robert Culp Allen Leighton
Douglas Henderson Detective Lt. Runyan
Crew View More ↓
Director Byron Haskin, John Erman, Leonard Horn
Writer Joseph Stefano, William Bast, Orin Borsten
Producer Joseph Stefano, Ben Brady
Trailer
Plot
Anthology type science fiction program with a different cast each week. 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?"
Episodes
1
The Galaxy Being
60 min 1963-09-16
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 is radioactive nature causes havoc.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
2
The Hundred Days of the Dragon
60 min 1963-09-23
""An oriental power"" develops a radical medical advance that temporarily makes skin malleable. They then manage to replace a Presidential candidate with one of their own.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Allan Balter, Robert Mintz
3
The Architects of Fear
60 min 1963-09-30
A group of intellectuals decides that the best way to avoid World War III is to give us all a common enemy. To that end, they transform a man into an alien creature.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
4
The Man With the Power
60 min 1963-10-07
A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
Director: László Benedek
Writer: Jerome Ross
5
The Sixth Finger
60 min 1963-10-14
A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: Ellis St. Joseph
6
The Man Who Was Never Born
60 min 1963-10-28
An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
7
O.B.I.T.
60 min 1963-11-04
A new invention allows one to spy on anyone, anywhere.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
8
The Human Factor
60 min 1963-11-11
At a military base far in the arctic, a man invents a machine which allows two minds to contact one another. An earthquake causes a malfunction and two men wake up to find that their minds have switched bodies.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: David Duncan
9
Corpus Earthling
60 min 1963-11-18
A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But all he sees are a bunch of rocks.
Director: Gerd Oswald, Louis Charbonneau
Writer: Orin Borstein
10
Nightmare
60 min 1963-12-02
In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
Director: John Erman
Writer: Joseph Stefano
11
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
60 min 1963-12-09
A young man and his big brother drive across country to the latter's new job site. At the end of his first week of work, he returns strangely changed. A bathroom accident kills the older brother by shorting out his pacemaker. The fact that big brother had a perfectly healthy heart leads the younger brother and a police detective, Sgt. Sirolio, to dig further. Sirolio finds that Norco hides a secret. They've been experimenting with a dangerous being of pure energy. This was how the older brother was killed prior to being resurrected with the pacemaker implant. Sirolio and a scientist are nearly killed with the creature escapes. Some quick thinking allows them to draw the thing back into ""the pit"". Safe, for now.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
12
The Borderland
60 min 1963-12-16
A scientist named Ian Fraser invents a machine which can pierce the borderland between this world and... The Afterlife? Maybe. Fraser convinces an industrialist to finance future experiments with the possibility of contacting the rich man's dead son.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
13
Tourist Attraction
60 min 1963-12-23
In a South American country a group of explorers discover a prehistoric monster in an ancient lake. The discovery leads them into conflict with the country's dictator.
Director: László Benedek
Writer: Dean Riesner
14
The Zanti Misfits
60 min 1963-12-30
The arrival of some VIPs from the planet Zanti is complicated by the intrusion of outsiders. After a fierce fight with the creatures we find that they were actually criminals who had been sentenced to death. The Zantis are too civilized to execute them on their own, so they left it to us barbarous Earthlings.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Joseph Stefano
15
The Mice
60 min 1964-01-06
A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.
Director: Lou Morheim, Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Bill S. Ballinger
16
Controlled Experiment
60 min 1964-01-13
Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
17
Don't Open Till Doomsday
60 min 1964-01-20
Eloping lovers come on a strange house. There they find an old woman still despairing over the loss of her fiance on their wedding day many years ago. Little does she know that one of her wedding presents is responsible for the disappearance of the groom: the present with the card that reads ""Don't Open Till Doomsday"".
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
18
ZZZZZ
60 min 1964-01-27
A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
19
The Invisibles
60 min 1964-02-03
A government agent infiltrates a secret organization known as ""The Invisibles"" who attach parasites to the spinal chords of their victims. And, in doing so, they hope do (dare I say it?) take over the world!
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
20
The Bellero Shield
60 min 1964-02-10
A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
Director: Joseph Stefano, John Brahm, Lou Morheim, Arthur Leo Zagat
Writer: Joseph Stefano
21
The Children of Spider County
60 min 1964-02-17
Four scientists disappear in one day. All were born in the same county, on the same day. A fifth scientist is in jail and a federal agent is assigned to the case. The fifth man is sprung from jail by a mysterious stranger who says he's the young mans father.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
22
Specimen: Unknown
60 min 1964-02-24
Scientists on a space station discover and unusual and dangerous plant.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Stephen Lord
23
Second Chance
60 min 1964-03-02
A group of people board an amusement park ride. Then they (and their surprised ""captain"") find that they're really going on a space jaunt.
Director: Paul Stanley, Sonya Roberts
Writer: Lou Morheim, Sonya Roberts
24
Moonstone
60 min 1964-03-09
Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
Director: Robert Florey, Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim
Writer: William Bast
25
The Mutant
60 min 1964-03-16
A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr., Jerome B. Thomas
Writer: Allan Balter, Robert Mintz
26
The Guests
60 min 1964-03-23
After running over an ancient man, Wade Norton finds a strange house where some people are kept prisoner (and ageless) by an alien intelligence.
Director: Paul Stanley, Charles Beaumont
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
27
Fun and Games
60 min 1964-03-30
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.
Director: Gerd Oswald, Robert Specht
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Robert Specht
28
The Special One
60 min 1964-04-06
Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their sons' new tutor is not quite human.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Oliver Crawford
29
A Feasibility Study
60 min 1964-04-13
Inhabitants of a suburb find one morning that their 6 block neighborhood has been snatched off to an alien planet. The aliens have been rendered immobile by an infection and they need slaves. They feel that the Earth people would rather become slaves than becoming infected and thus immobile. The humans surprise them by sacrificing themselves in order to save the rest of humanity from slavery.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Joseph Stefano
30
Production and Decay of Strange Particles
60 min 1964-04-20
An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway. The invading creatures attempt to create an explosion which will widen the doorway but a scientist discovers a way to reverse the damage and close the doorway.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
31
The Chameleon
60 min 1964-04-27
Soldiers investigating the crash of a UFO are massacred. An assassin, Louis Mace, is transformed into an alien so that he can infiltrate and kill the aliens. He finds out that the aliens are peaceful and only acted in self-defense when they killed the aliens. He then helps the remaining crewman repair his ship and leaves with him.
Director: Gerd Oswald, Robert Towne, Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim
Writer: Robert Towne
32
The Forms of Things Unknown
60 min 1964-05-04
A crazy man invents a machine that can tilt time and bring the dead back to life.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Editions
Barcode Format Region Release Edition
027616879127 1 2002-09-03
5050070027716 2 2005-07-25
5050070027709 2 2005-07-11
4045167005709 2 2008-03-28 6 DVDs
8717438139210 2 2005-09-28
8717438139227 2 2005-08-31