The Outer Limits — Season 1

Aired 16 September 1963 • 52 min

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 its radioactive nature causes havoc.

Aired 23 September 1963 • 52 min

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 temporarily molded into any likeness.

Aired 30 September 1963 • 52 min

A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.

Aired 7 October 1963 • 51 min

A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.

Aired 14 October 1963 • 52 min

A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.

Aired 28 October 1963 • 52 min

An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.

Aired 4 November 1963 • 52 min

A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.

Aired 11 November 1963 • 52 min

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.

Aired 18 November 1963 • 52 min

A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?

Aired 2 December 1963 • 52 min

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

Aired 9 December 1963 • 52 min

An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.

Aired 16 December 1963 • 52 min

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.

Aired 23 December 1963 • 52 min

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.

Aired 30 December 1963 • 52 min

Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.

Aired 6 January 1964 • 52 min

A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.

Aired 13 January 1964 • 52 min

Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

Aired 20 January 1964 • 52 min

A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.

Aired 27 January 1964 • 52 min

A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.

Aired 3 February 1964 • 52 min

A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.

Aired 10 February 1964 • 52 min

A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.

Aired 17 February 1964 • 52 min

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 man's father.

Aired 24 February 1964 • 52 min

Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.

Aired 2 March 1964 • 52 min

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.

Aired 9 March 1964 • 52 min

Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.

Aired 16 March 1964 • 52 min

A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.

Aired 23 March 1964 • 52 min

After discovering an elderly man dying by the side of the road, a young man finds a strange house where some people are kept prisoner and ageless by an alien intelligence.

Aired 30 March 1964 • 52 min

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.

Aired 6 April 1964 • 52 min

Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.

Aired 13 April 1964 • 52 min

The people of Earth surprise their alien captors when an entire neighborhood is transported to another planet as part of a plan to enslave the human race.

Aired 20 April 1964 • 52 min

An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.

Aired 27 April 1964 • 52 min

A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.

Aired 4 May 1964 • 52 min

Two women with a body in their car trunk come upon a house by chance wherein a crazed inventor has a machine that can bring back the dead.