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Outer Limits 1963 to 1965Season 1
(1963-1964)
| # |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Original air date |
Prod # |
| 1 |
"The
Galaxy Being" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
16 September 1963 |
1 |
|
The engineer of radio station KXKVI (sic), who is
researching microwave background noise, inadvertently gets an alien
from the Andromeda Galaxy on his three-dimensional television
screen. Both are conducting illicit experiments; the human being
should not be using the radio station's power, and the alien is
forbidden to contact Earth "because you are danger to other
galaxies." Despite warnings from the alien about applying excessive
power to the communication, an undisciplined disc jockey turns it
up whilst the engineer is being feted at a banquet. The power surge
causes the microwave creature to be pulled through the
communications apparatus and to appear on Earth. Although it has no
desire to cause harm, its unearthly composition wreaks havoc by
radiation, electrical blackouts, atmospheric disturbances, and
overloaded-circuit explosions. While authorities quickly mobilize
to attack the "hostile" alien, the engineer desperately tries to
find a way to get it back to its home planet. |
| 2 |
"The
Hundred Days of the Dragon" |
Byron Haskin |
Allan Balter and
Robert Mintz |
23 September 1963 |
7 |
|
An Asian government plans to takeover America by infiltrating and
substituting all the Officials at the White House. During the
campaign trail, William Lyons Selby (the candidate predicted to win
the next Presidential Election) is murdered and replaced by a
look-a-like spy. The spy, as Selby, is finally elected. Though he
fools the nation at large, the president's daughter soon begins to
suspect that the man is not her father. She voices her concerns to
the Vice-President. The Asians then attempt to murder and replace
him as well. |
| 3 |
"The
Architects of Fear" |
Byron Haskin |
Meyer Dolinsky |
30 September 1963 |
5 |
|
Although no specific era is indicated within the story, the plot
revolves around a
Cold War setting in which a nuclear holocaust appears to be
imminent. In an attempt to stave off a confrontation between
military superpowers through uniting the world against a common
enemy, a group of scientists decide to physically transform one of
their own members into an alien being and stage a fake invasion of
Earth. This transformation is achieved by genetic alteration of
scientist Allen Leighton, using genetic material from a rather
small and non-threatening alien lifeform which the scientists have
in their possession. Complications arise when the physical
alteration also affects Leighton's mind, and is compounded by his
strong attachment to his pregnant wife. |
| 4 |
"The
Man with the Power" |
Laslo Benedek |
Jerome Ross |
7 October 1963 |
8 |
|
An unassuming university teacher develops a device that, once
implanted in the brain, can manipulate objects through mind power.
Although disregarded as talentless by his family and coworkers, the
teacher makes an impact with a U.S. space agency. However, as the
teacher becomes more familiar with his device, he learns that his
subconscious mind has been utilizing it and taking revenge on those
who demean him. As his invention is scheduled to be implanted into
the brain of an ambitious astronaut with questionable motives, the
teacher becomes alarmed and is determined to stop the operation. |
| 5 |
"The
Sixth Finger" |
James Goldstone |
Ellis St. Joseph |
14 October 1963 |
11 |
|
Set in a remote mining town, which based upon the accents is likely
in the Lancashire area, the plot involves a renegade scientist who
discovers how to affect the speed of evolutionary mutation. A
disgruntled local miner, who volunteers for the experiment, enables
the professor to create a being with enhanced mental capabilities,
who, incidentally, begins growing a "sixth finger" on each hand.
But when the mutation process begins to operate independently of
the professor's influence, the mutant miner takes control of the
experiment. Now equipped with superior intelligence and powers of
thought that are capable of great destruction, such as telekinesis,
the miner decides to take revenge on the mining town he loathes. |
| 6 |
"The
Man Who Was Never Born" |
Leonard Horn |
Anthony Lawrence |
28 October 1963 |
12 |
|
The astronaut, Joseph Reardon, lands on Earth only to find it a
desolate and barren place. He meets Andro, a grotesque-looking
creature who reveals that the year is now 2148 and the astronaut is
almost 200 years into the future. Andro is one of the few survivors
of a biological disaster brought on by a scientist called Bertram
Cabot Jr. Andro explains the situation and Reardon decides to see
if he can return to his own time... and take Andro with him to show
the future, and perhaps avoid it. While returning through the time
rift, Reardon mysteriously vanishes from the capsule, leaving Andro
to find a way to prevent his disastrous future from occurring.
Andro uses his ability to immediately hypnotise anyone into seeing
him as a normal human, and begins searching for some way to stop
Cabot's work — even if it means, as a last resort, killing him. It
becomes clear that he has arrived too early. Bertram Cabot Jr.
hasn't been born yet, and in fact his parents Noelle and Bertram
Cabot Sr. are just about to be married. Andro, in his "human"
guise, attempts to convince Cabot that he should not marry Noelle —
with no success. Andro begins to fall in love with Noelle. While
attempting to kill Cabot with a revolver, he hesitates, is
assaulted, and Andro's true appearance is discovered, resulting in
his being forced to flee. Noelle follows him, and he explains his
mission. Meanwhile Noelle confesses that she has fallen in love
with Andro. She convinces him to take her with him to the future,
thereby avoiding any possibility that she and Cabot will have a
child. Unfortunately Andro disappears just as the ship arrives in
"his" time — as he is The Man Who Was Never Born. According
to David J. Schow, there's an alternate, less harrowing ending
featuring an extra character: the old man (Jack Raine). |
| 7 |
"O.B.I.T." |
Gerd Oswald |
Meyer Dolinsky |
4 November 1963 |
14 |
|
While inquiring into the disappearance of an administrator at a
government research facility, a Senator is confronted with
paranoia, secrecy, and intimidation. He ultimately learns the
cause; an unusual security device that is used to monitor its
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, at any time
or in any place. After the missing administrator is found alive and
reveals his knowledge of O.B.I.T., its sinister unearthly origins
and purpose become apparent. |
| 8 |
"The
Human Factor" |
Abner Biberman |
David Duncan |
11 November 1963 |
3 |
|
At an outpost in Greenland, an officer (Guardino) begins losing his
grip on reality after losing one of his soldiers in an icy crevice.
Haunted by a spectre of the dead man, the officer decides he must
detonate an atomic device at the outpost to obliterate the crevice
- and the outpost as well. The outpost doctor (Merrill) uses a
revolutionary 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 new identity enables the insane officer to set about
his plan for destruction in the guise of the doctor, while the
real doctor is confined to a padded cell. |
| 9 |
"Corpus
Earthling" |
Gerd Oswald |
Orin Borsten (teleplay) and
Louis Charbonneau (story) |
18 November 1963 |
16 |
|
Intelligent parasitic aliens with the intention of commandeering
the human race take refuge in a geologist's laboratory disguised as
rocks. Although undetected by ordinary humans, one doctor (with a
surgically-implanted metal plate in his skull) is able to "hear"
the aliens communicate with each other while they are discussing
their plot. Although the doctor is unsure if what he hears is
delusional or real, the aliens are convinced he is a threat to
their plans and set out to kill him. |
| 10 |
"Nightmare" |
John Erman |
Joseph Stefano |
2 December 1963 |
15 |
|
In response to an attack from the planet Ebon, a group of Earth
soldiers are sent to fight the enemy on their alien world. Captured
en route to Ebon, the soldiers undergo physical and psychological
torture and interrogation at the hands of the Ebonites. The
prisoners become suspicious of each other when their captors claim
they have received cooperation, which is further complicated by the
appearance of high-ranking Earth officers among the hostile aliens.
In the end, it is revealed that all of this is but a military test,
organized by the Earth officers to test their troops' loyalty and
valor. Unexpected accidents and deaths having occurred during the
test, the Ebonites - who are, actually, a peaceful and honorable
alien civilization - eventually ask for such an immoral and inhuman
experimentation to end at once, but nonetheless fail in preventing
one last man to be fatally killed... |
| 11 |
"It
Crawled Out of the Woodwork" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
9 December 1963 |
18 |
|
A security guard at the gates of NORCO, a physics research center,
is brusque when the Peters brothers drive up, even though Stuart is
taking a job with the company. Oddly, the guard slips them a
matchbook on which he has scrawled, "NORCO is doomed." When the
brothers leave a monstrous explosion of energy appears and the
guard disintegrates. The next day at NORCO Stuart meets his boss,
head scientist Dr. Block, and mentions the note, which Block
dismisses. Block leaves Stuart in the laboratory with a coworker,
Dr. Stephanie Linden. Linden directs Stuart into an adjacent
corridor then locks him in, releasing the grotesque energy entity.
Days pass, and when Stuart does not return his brother Jory grows
worried, confining his concerns to his girlfriend, Gaby. However
when Stuart reappears the two men fight, and Stuart falls in the
bathtub where he is electrocuted. It proves that Stuart was wearing
a pacemaker that he did not have when the brothers arrived. The
police investigate and Sgt. Siroleo confronts Block at NORCO.
However it is Linden who reveals the truth: an entity composed
entirely of energy has been accidentally created. It can consume
anyone with a mere touch, and is so threatening that those who
encounter it at close range inevitably die of fright. Dr. Block
found a way to control the entity and is keeping it contained while
he tries to uncover "the mystery of it." When the other scientists
demanded its destruction, Block had the horror frighten them to
death, then restored them to life with pacemakers, which will cease
to function if Block directs his creature to draw the power from
them. Dr. Block reappears with a gun, and, holding Siroleo and
Linden at bay, releases the entity. Siroleo, however, wrests away
the gun and shoots Block. Now he, Linden, and Peters must face the
uncontrollable energy monster. |
| 12 |
"The
Borderland" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
16 December 1963 |
2 |
|
A British millionaire has engaged a female psychic to establish
contact with his dead son, but she is exposed as a fraud by
scientist Ian Fraser. Fraser insists that he has developed a method
that can pierce the borderland between this world and what might
just be the afterlife, but he needs all the energy of a
metropolitan power grid to do so. The rich and influential man
agrees to arrange the situation if Fraser will attempt to contact
the dead son. Fraser agrees and the experiment begins, but at the
crucial moment the psychic and her associate reappear, planning to
expose the scientists as frauds. |
| 13 |
"Tourist
Attraction" |
Laslo Benedek |
Dean Riesner |
23 December 1963 |
4 |
|
Dominating millionaire John Dexter drives a group of explorers
pursuing an ancient lake monster that is reputed to live in the
waters of a South American dictatorship. When the creature is
captured, Dexter plans to take it to the United States to enhance
his reputation, but San Blas' dictator Juan Mercurio plans to use
it to attract tourists. The creature, however, has purposes of its
own. |
| 14 |
"The
Zanti Misfits" |
Leonard Horn |
Joseph Stefano |
30 December 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 the Earth is the perfect place to
exile their undesirables. They threaten "total destruction" if
their penal ship is molested. But Ben Garth, a bank robber on the
lam, crosses the cordon and approaches the Zanti ship, triggering
an ugly jailbreak. Earth's nervous soldiers launch an anti-Zanti
attack, killing all the aliens - and fearfully awaiting the
expected reprisal. Instead, they get a message of thanks from the
Zanti leaders. It seems they can't execute their own kind, so they
sent them to the experts on killing — us. |
| 15 |
"The
Mice" |
Alan Crosland, Jr. |
Bill S. Ballinger (teleplay & story),
Joseph Stefano (teleplay),
Lou Morheim (story) |
6 January 1964 |
19 |
|
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 ensue and researchers die, the convict is
blamed - but perhaps it is all a sinister plot to turn the world
into a breeding ground for the alien creatures... |
| 16 |
"Controlled
Experiment" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
13 January 1964 |
6 |
|
The Martians maintain inconspicuous monitors on Earth, and one,
Diemos, is contacted by Phobos One, a researcher who wants to
investigate the concept of "Murder". Using a machine that can speed
up time, slow it down, reverse it, or stop it altogether, they
review the same murder scene over and over again. Phobos One,
however, is unable to resist the opportunity to tamper with time.
(This episode was shot as a pilot for a proposed series starring
Carroll O'Connor and
Barry Morse as two
Martians
sent to
Earth to examine human life and experiences.
CBS
instead opted for the series
My Favorite Martian with
Ray Walston and
Bill Bixby.) |
| 17 |
"Don't
Open Till Doomsday" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
20 January 1964 |
22 |
|
In the 1920s, a pair of newlyweds receive a mysterious gift. 40
years later an eloping couple arrive at the house. After the bride
disappears, her dominating father arrives to discover that to free
his daughter, he must help an alien who plans to destroy the entire
universe. |
| 18 |
"ZZZZZ" |
John Brahm |
Meyer Dolinsky |
27 January 1964 |
21 |
|
Ben Fields is an entomologist seeking a lab assistant. He is
married to Francesca Fields. Regina, a giant mutant queen bee in
human form is searching for a human mate to prolong her species'
life span, gets the job. |
| 19 |
"The
Invisibles" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
3 February 1964 |
20 |
|
A secret society known as the Invisibles recruits three outcasts to
help them in their aim of infiltrating the U.S. government. They
are to attach alien parasites with the power of mind control to key
government leaders so as to bring them--and eventually 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? |
| 20 |
"The
Bellero Shield" |
John Brahm |
Joseph Stefano (teleplay & story) and
Lou Morheim (story) |
10 February 1964 |
23 |
|
A scientist (Landau) builds a powerful laser weapon. One night a
benevolent alien from a light world on the top of our galaxy rides
the laser down to earth. The scientist's wife (Kellerman) tries to
shoot him 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 get his
shield technology. During a demonstration she raises the shield but
is unable to take it down, thus trapping her. The alien, believed
dead, comes to her rescue and lowers the shield before dying. The
woman, left insane with guilt at killing an alien that only thought
to help her, believes herself to still be trapped within the shield
as the episode ends. |
| 21 |
"The
Children of Spider County" |
Leonard Horn |
Anthony Lawrence |
17 February 1964 |
25 |
|
A group of young prodigies have vanished, and it is noted that they
all hailed from the same remote area. A government agent sent to
investigate finds that one young prodigy is still there - and his
alien patriarch is planning a family reunion somewhere other than
Earth. |
| 22 |
"Specimen:
Unknown" |
Gerd Oswald |
Conrad Hall |
24 February 1964 |
10 |
|
A member of a team of astronaut-researchers finds a strange
organism on the outside of the 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. |
| 23 |
"Second
Chance" |
Paul Stanley |
Lin Dane (teleplay & story) and
Lou Morheim (teleplay) |
2 March 1964 |
27 |
|
A frustrated wanderer has found a temporary job - operating a
mock-up of a spaceship at a carnival. However an alien modifies the
attraction into a real spaceship, and, passing himself off as a
giant talking chicken, invites aboard a group of misfits each of
whom is refusing to face realities in their lives. Trapped aboard
the spaceship, they are offered the opportunity to colonize a
planet that would other wise threaten both the alien's own planet
and Earth in the near future. To succeed, however, they must
overcome their own deep-seated unwillingness to face their own true
natures. |
| 24 |
"Moonstone" |
Robert Florey |
William Bast (teleplay),
Lou Morheim and
Joseph Stefano (story) |
9 March 1964 |
13 |
|
Researchers in a base on the Moon find a living organism, which
proves to be the repository of an alien intelligence that is
fleeing tyranny in its own system. When the tyrants arrive in
pursuit, however, the researchers have to decide how much they
should risk in the pursuit of knowledge. |
| 25 |
"The
Mutant" |
Alan Crosland, Jr. |
Allan Balter and
Robert Mintz (teleplay),
Jerome B. Thomas (story) |
16 March 1964 |
26 |
|
An astronaut lands on an alien planet to investigate the death of
one of a group of Earth scientists who are testing to see if the
planet is suitable for colonization. The scientists, including
Julie, his old flame, behave strangely but won't explain why. They
are particularly nervous around Reese Fowler, a researcher who
seems to wear goggles at all times. One of the scientists attempts
to leave a hastily scribbled note in the astronaut's spacesuit
pocket; he exits the room only to bump into Reese, 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 has mutating properties.
Reese, knowing he would lose his deadly abilities once in space, is
holding the others captive. The astronaut must somehow overcome a
man who can read minds, and kill with a touch. |
| 26 |
"The
Guests" |
Paul Stanley |
Donald S. Sanford |
23 March 1964 |
29 |
|
A young drifter finds an old man dying by the side of a remote
country road; seeking help he enters an old house. The inhabitants
are surprisingly unhelpful; with the exception of a soulful young
woman, all are mean-spirited and avoid facing reality. Suddenly the
wanderer is forced upstairs by a mysterious compulsion, and
discovers that the house is the lair of an alien being who is
keeping the group of desperate humans suspended in time until it
can comprehend one last characteristic of humanity. |
| 27 |
"Fun
and Games" |
Gerd Oswald |
Robert Specht (teleplay & story) and
Joseph Stefano (teleplay) |
30 March 1964 |
28 |
|
Mike Benson and Laura Hanley, each emotionally wounded by life, are
offered a chance for redemption, of a sort. They can save Earth
from being destroyed -- cataclysmically over a period of several
years -- for the entertainment of a jaded extraterrestrial
audience, but only if they will provide alternative entertainment
by battling to the death two primitive aliens, who are likewise
fighting to save their own distant world. |
| 28 |
"The
Special One" |
Gerd Oswald |
Oliver Crawford |
6 April 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,
re-educating children in a plot to take over the world. Kenny now
has super-human knowledge, and the question is, where do his
loyalties now lie? |
| 29 |
"A
Feasibility Study" |
Byron Haskin |
Joseph Stefano |
13 April 1964 |
9 |
|
Residents in a city suburb awake one morning to find their
neighborhood has been transported to another planet the previous
night. The intention of the aliens is to study the feasibility of
enslaving the entire human race to do manual labor on their planet.
But the aliens must overcome humanity's susceptibility to its
diseases, and the willpower of mankind's resistance to slavery. |
| 30 |
"Production
and Decay of Strange Particles" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
20 April 1964 |
30 |
|
While experimenting on
sub-atomic particles, a team of physics researchers start a
reaction that seemingly controls the researchers themselves. As one
scientist after another is consumed, the reaction grows towards a
terrible climax, and the survivors fear they may be powerless to
stop it. |
| 31 |
"The
Chameleon" |
Gerd Oswald |
Robert Towne (teleplay & story),
Lou Morheim and
Joseph Stefano (story) |
27 April 1964 |
32 |
|
A
flying saucer has landed in a remote part of the
United States and wiped out a military patrol sent to
investigate. Concerned that the saucer contains nuclear material,
the authorities decide on a wild scheme: 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 begins to question his allegiance - and his very
nature. |
| 32 |
"The
Forms of Things Unknown" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
4 May 1964 |
24 |
|
The plot involves two women who kill a blackmailer. Driving through
the countryside with the body in the trunk, looking for a good
place to bury him, they take refuge from a storm in a house
containing a blind man and a strange young inventor 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 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 Thantos 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 (1964-1965)
| # |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Original air date |
Prod # |
| 1 |
"Soldier" |
Gerd Oswald |
Harlan Ellison |
19 September 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, materializes on a city
street in the year 1964. Qarlo is soon captured and interrogated by
Paul Kagan, 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 and 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. |
| 2 |
"Cold
Hands, Warm Heart" |
Charles Haas |
Dan Ullman |
26 September 1964 |
33 |
|
After completing the first manned mission to orbit Venus, astronaut
Jefferson Barton (Shatner) returns to Earth with recurring
nightmares and an increasing inability to stay warm. Barton's
conditions continue to worsen and 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. |
| 3 |
"Behold,
Eck!" |
Byron Haskin |
John Mantley (teleplay),
William R. Cox (story) |
3 October 1964 |
37 |
|
The titular Eck is a creature from the 2nd dimension, trapped in
our world when he fell into a time-space warp. Frightened and
alone, he soon realises 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, 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. |
| 4 |
"Expanding
Human" |
Gerd Oswald |
Francis Cockrell |
10 October 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. |
| 5 |
"Demon
with a Glass Hand" |
Byron Haskin |
Harlan Ellison |
17 October 1964 |
41 |
|
Trent is a man with no memories of his life beyond ten days ago.
His right 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. |
| 6 |
"Cry
of Silence" |
Charles Haas |
Robert C. Dennis (teleplay),
Louis Charbonneau (story) |
24 October 1964 |
42 |
|
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 realise 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. Comes 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. |
| 7 |
"The
Invisible Enemy" |
Byron Haskin |
Jerry Sohl |
31 October 1964 |
35 |
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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. |
| 8 |
"Wolf
359" |
Laslo Benedek |
Seeleg Lester (teleplay & story),
Richard Landau (story) |
7 November 1964 |
38 |
|
Working on behalf of corporate interests, scientist Jonathan
Meridith has created a miniature version of a remote planet in his
laboratory. When a mysterious lifeform evolves along with the
developing experiment, however, Meridith must weigh the value of
his experiment versus the possible dangers. |
| 9 |
"I,
Robot" |
Leon Benson |
Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) |
14 November 1964 |
43 |
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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 mankind itself as
irresponsible and abusive of technology. |
| 10 |
"The
Inheritors – Part 1"" |
James Goldstone |
Seeleg Lester and
Sam Neuman (teleplay & story),
Ed Adamson (story) |
21 November 1964 |
44 |
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Four U.S. Army soldiers, with nothing in common other than having
served in Korea and been shot in their heads, cheat death and begin
working on a mysterious project. Intelligence officer Adam Ballard
attempts to unravel the mystery behind the strange behaviour of the
men, who attain I.Q.s above 200 each. |
| 11 |
"The
Inheritors – Part 2"" |
James Goldstone |
Seeleg Lester and
Sam Neuman (teleplay & story),
Ed Adamson (story) |
28 November 1964 |
44 |
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| 12 |
"Keeper
of the Purple Twilight" |
Charles Haas |
Milton Krims (teleplay),
Stephen Lord (story) |
5 December 1964 |
39 |
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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. Ikars
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. |
| 13 |
"The
Duplicate Man" |
Gerd Oswald |
Robert C. Dennis (teleplay),
Clifford Simak (story) |
19 December 1964 |
45 |
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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 complicate once the
duplicate, with a hint from the megasoid, realises what he is. |
| 14 |
"Counterweight" |
Paul Stanley |
Milton Krims (teleplay),
Jerry Sohl (story) |
26 December 1964 |
36 |
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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. |
| 15 |
"The
Brain of Colonel Barham" |
Charles Haas |
Robert C. Dennis (teleplay),
Sidney Ellis (story) |
2 January 1965 |
46 |
|
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. |
| 16 |
"The
Premonition" |
Gerd Oswald |
Sam Roeca (teleplay),
Ib Melchior (teleplay & story) |
9 January 1965 |
47 |
|
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, no
one except Jim and his wife are the wiser. |
| 17 |
"The
Probe" |
Felix Feist |
Seeleg Lester (teleplay),
Sam Neuman (story) |
16 January 1965 |
48 |
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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. |
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