A modern revival of the classic science fiction horror anthology show The Outer Limits (1963). Episodes often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, a story from one episode continues in a later episode.
Episodes
Season 1 - Episodes
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S01E01Sandkings
Aired: 26 Mar. 1995
Show details expand_moreIn his own garage, a discredited scientist creates intelligent, insect-like creatures that were yielded by soil samples from Mars.
Stars: Beau Bridges, Helen Shaver, Dylan Bridges
Director(s): Stuart Gillard
Writer(s): George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Beau Bridges, Helen Shaver, Dylan Bridges
Director(s): Stuart Gillard
Writer(s): George R.R. Martin, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Leslie Stevens
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S01E03Blood Brothers
Aired: 7 Apr. 1995
Show details expand_moreMedical researcher Dr Spencer Deighton has discovered a formula which apparently gives a human being eternal life. When he shares his discovery with his brother Michael, who co-owns their research company, he doesn't realise how greedy and ruthless his sibling is.
Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Kate Vernon, George Touliatos
Director(s): Tibor Takács
Writer(s): Leslie Stevens, Brad Wright
Stars: Charles Martin Smith, Kate Vernon, George Touliatos
Director(s): Tibor Takács
Writer(s): Leslie Stevens, Brad Wright
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S01E04The Second Soul
Aired: 14 Apr. 1995
Show details expand_moreWhen an alien race makes first contact with the Earth, they request only one thing: Earth's dead. It seems the alien beings exist in a gaseous state that will come to an end if they are not given host bodies to occupy. The bodies of the dead will serve that function. One year later, Dr. Michael Alders is in charge of the program to provide the aliens with bodies. He considers them them to be parasites but carries on as best he can. When his best friends, Karen and James Heatherton die and are included in the program, his discomfort grows. When he learns however that ...
Stars: D.W. Moffett, Rae Dawn Chong, Richard Grove
Director(s): Paul Lynch
Writer(s): Alan Brennert, Leslie Stevens
Stars: D.W. Moffett, Rae Dawn Chong, Richard Grove
Director(s): Paul Lynch
Writer(s): Alan Brennert, Leslie Stevens
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S01E05White Light Fever
Aired: 21 Apr. 1995
Show details expand_moreHarlan Hawkes is selfish, rich and very old. A private team of top doctors care for him 24/7. He'll do anything to cheat death. His doctor is working on a treatment that might make Harlan immortal but Death intervenes to keep the balance.
Stars: Bruce Davison, Sonja Smits, William Hickey
Director(s): Tibor Takács
Writer(s): David Kemper, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Bruce Davison, Sonja Smits, William Hickey
Director(s): Tibor Takács
Writer(s): David Kemper, Leslie Stevens
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S01E06The Choice
Aired: 28 Apr. 1995
Show details expand_moreA young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, while her parents must decide what's ultimately best for the child.
Stars: Thora Birch, Megan Follows, Page Fletcher
Director(s): Mark Sobel
Writer(s): Ann Lewis Hamilton, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Thora Birch, Megan Follows, Page Fletcher
Director(s): Mark Sobel
Writer(s): Ann Lewis Hamilton, Leslie Stevens
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S01E07Virtual Future
Aired: 5 May 1995
Show details expand_moreDr. Jack Pierce realizes in shock that the VR device he's been developing allows its users to see into their future. His financier, industrialist Bill Trenton, abuses this power to run for the Senate. Jack has to stop him.
Stars: Josh Brolin, Kelly Rowan, Bruce French
Director(s): Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer(s): Leslie Stevens, Shawn Thompson
Stars: Josh Brolin, Kelly Rowan, Bruce French
Director(s): Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer(s): Leslie Stevens, Shawn Thompson
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S01E08Living Hell
Aired: 12 May 1995
Show details expand_moreAfter Ben Kohler is shot in the head during a mugging, Dr. Jennifer Martinez gets permission to implant an experimental chip in his brain meant to regulate his breathing and heartbeat. The chip has been tested on monkeys with some success but previous human tests have been less successful. Kohler awakens quickly and is told he is the first to receive the new chip. Soon however, he begins to see things, as though he can see through another man's eyes. That man, Wayne Haas, was a recipient of the earlier model of implant. He's also a serial killer. Haas however can also...
Stars: Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Shellen, Don S. Davis
Director(s): Graeme Campbell
Writer(s): Pen Densham, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Elizabeth Peña, Stephen Shellen, Don S. Davis
Director(s): Graeme Campbell
Writer(s): Pen Densham, Melinda M. Snodgrass, Leslie Stevens
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S01E09Corner of the Eye
Aired: 19 May 1995
Show details expand_moreFather Jonascu is struck while ministering to the poor and looks up to see a vision of Hell - a leering demonic creature. An eye blink later he sees an ordinary patrol officer trying to help him. He dismisses the apparition until he sees another one in his church. Then he goes to the doctor to learn what's wrong and discovers that one must be careful who one trusts.
Stars: Len Cariou, Louis Ferreira, Chris Sarandon
Director(s): Stuart Gillard
Writer(s): David J. Schow, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Len Cariou, Louis Ferreira, Chris Sarandon
Director(s): Stuart Gillard
Writer(s): David J. Schow, Leslie Stevens
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S01E10Under the Bed
Aired: 26 May 1995
Show details expand_morePolice psychoanalyst Dr. Jon Holland and Detective Caitlin Doyle must solve the case of a missing boy, who according to his younger sister was eaten by the bogeyman, before whatever took him comes back for the sister.
Stars: Timothy Busfield, Barbara Williams, Laura Bruneau
Director(s): René Bonnière
Writer(s): Lawrence Meyers, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Timothy Busfield, Barbara Williams, Laura Bruneau
Director(s): René Bonnière
Writer(s): Lawrence Meyers, Leslie Stevens
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S01E11Dark Matters
Aired: 2 Jun. 1995
Show details expand_moreA cargo ship is forced from hyperspace into a strange region of "dark matter" where some of the normal laws of physics seem not to apply - even the dead linger, unable to find their reward. Worse, contact with these specters is fatal to the living. If the crew can't escape quickly, they'll join the current residents, human and alien, eternally denied whatever lies beyond death...
Stars: Annette O'Toole, Michael Dolan, Allison Hossack
Director(s): Paul Lynch
Writer(s): Alan Brennert, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Annette O'Toole, Michael Dolan, Allison Hossack
Director(s): Paul Lynch
Writer(s): Alan Brennert, Leslie Stevens
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S01E12The Conversion
Aired: 9 Jun. 1995
Show details expand_moreAn omniscient friendly stranger tries to convince a man on the run who tried to kill his corrupt backstabbing boss but ended up accidentally killing three bystanders instead that there is a way for him to redeem himself.
Stars: John Savage, Beau Starr, Rebecca De Mornay
Director(s): Rebecca De Mornay
Writer(s): Richard Barton Lewis, Brad Wright, Leslie Stevens
Stars: John Savage, Beau Starr, Rebecca De Mornay
Director(s): Rebecca De Mornay
Writer(s): Richard Barton Lewis, Brad Wright, Leslie Stevens
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S01E13Quality of Mercy
Aired: 16 Jun. 1995
Show details expand_moreMajor John Skokes has been captured and imprisoned by enemy aliens. He finds he is not alone however but that a cadet, Bree Tristan from the Europa base. She believes three months have gone by since her imprisonment and she has a skin graft on her arm which she believes is the aliens' attempt to transform her into one of them. Skokes believes the war is over for them and their only job now is to find away to escape. As the aliens continue their experiments on Bree, the two prisoners develop a tenderness for one another. When they realize their attempts at escape are ...
Stars: Robert Patrick, Nicole de Boer, Mark McCracken
Director(s): Brad Turner
Writer(s): Brad Wright, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Robert Patrick, Nicole de Boer, Mark McCracken
Director(s): Brad Turner
Writer(s): Brad Wright, Leslie Stevens
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S01E14The New Breed
Aired: 23 Jun. 1995
Show details expand_moreA desperate dying man injects himself with experimental nanobots that can supposedly cure anything. It works, but then his body starts to hideously mutate. He asks his soon-to-be brother-in-law, who invented the nanobots, for help.
Stars: Richard Thomas, Peter Outerbridge, Tammy Isbell
Director(s): Mario Azzopardi
Writer(s): Grant Rosenberg, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Richard Thomas, Peter Outerbridge, Tammy Isbell
Director(s): Mario Azzopardi
Writer(s): Grant Rosenberg, Leslie Stevens
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S01E15The Voyage Home
Aired: 30 Jun. 1995
Show details expand_moreOn the last day of their mission to Mars, three astronauts - Ed Barkley, Alan Wells and Pete Claridge - discover a cave with hieroglyphics on one wall. They also find a pod-like object but they are knocked out after trying to move it. They make it back to their ship and begin their voyage home. Five months into that return trip they begin to have equipment malfunctions and find a small growth of alien origin. Soon, one of the astronauts begins to believe that the others are aliens who have taken over the bodies of his shipmates.
Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Matt Craven, Michael Dorn
Director(s): Tibor Takács
Writer(s): Grant Rosenberg, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Jay O. Sanders, Matt Craven, Michael Dorn
Director(s): Tibor Takács
Writer(s): Grant Rosenberg, Leslie Stevens
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S01E16Caught in the Act
Aired: 1 Jul. 1995
Show details expand_moreA bashful woman gets possessed by an incorporeal alien that feeds on sexual energy. A series of killings starts. Her boyfriend, his scientist friend and a skeptical cop try find a way to stop the alien without killing her in the process.
Stars: Jason London, Saul Rubinek, Garry Chalk
Director(s): Mark Sobel
Writer(s): Robert Forsyth, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Jason London, Saul Rubinek, Garry Chalk
Director(s): Mark Sobel
Writer(s): Robert Forsyth, Leslie Stevens
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S01E17The Message
Aired: 16 Jul. 1995
Show details expand_moreImplants that should've allowed deaf Jennifer Winter to finally hear cause her to receive a binary message no one else can hear. Her husband thinks she's insane. Her friend on meds, Robert, thinks it's an alien distress signal.
Stars: Marlee Matlin, Robert Wisden, Larry Drake
Director(s): Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer(s): Brad Wright, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Marlee Matlin, Robert Wisden, Larry Drake
Director(s): Joseph L. Scanlan
Writer(s): Brad Wright, Leslie Stevens
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S01E18I, Robot
Aired: 23 Jul. 1995
Show details expand_moreLegendary lawyer Thurman Cutler is hired to defend Adam, a humanoid robot with many human qualities including speech, rational mind and empathy, who's been accused of murdering his creator. Cutler suspects there's more to the story.
Stars: Cynthia Preston, Barbara Tyson, Nathaniel DeVeaux
Director(s): Adam Nimoy
Writer(s): Otto Binder, Alison Lea Bingeman, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Cynthia Preston, Barbara Tyson, Nathaniel DeVeaux
Director(s): Adam Nimoy
Writer(s): Otto Binder, Alison Lea Bingeman, Leslie Stevens
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S01E19If These Walls Could Talk
Aired: 30 Jul. 1995
Show details expand_morePhysicist and professional debunker Leviticus Mitchell agrees to help professional psychic Lynda Tillman investigate the abandoned mansion where her son and his girlfriend have mysteriously disappeared.
Stars: Dwight Schultz, Alberta Watson, Tom McBeath
Director(s): Tibor Takács
Writer(s): Manny Coto, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Dwight Schultz, Alberta Watson, Tom McBeath
Director(s): Tibor Takács
Writer(s): Manny Coto, Leslie Stevens
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S01E20Birthright
Aired: 13 Aug. 1995
Show details expand_moreSenator Richard Adams finishes a speech and gets into his car. En route to his next appointment he gets into an accident. When he wakes up, the doctor shows him his lab results that suggest something very strange: a four-lobed brain! Over time he realizes he's dying - until he finds a strange medicine, poisonous to normal people, that restores his health! What is Richard Adams, really, and who are the people trying to find him?
Stars: Perry King, Mimi Kuzyk, John Novak
Director(s): William Fruet
Writer(s): Michael Berlin, Eric Estrin, Leslie Stevens
Stars: Perry King, Mimi Kuzyk, John Novak
Director(s): William Fruet
Writer(s): Michael Berlin, Eric Estrin, Leslie Stevens
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S01E21The Voice of Reason
Aired: 20 Aug. 1995
Show details expand_moreRandall Strong tries desperately to convince a skeptical high level committee that various alien forces are trying to take over the human race. In desperation, he becomes unhinged.
Stars: Gordon Clapp, Lochlyn Munro, Don S. Davis
Director(s): Neill Fearnley
Writer(s): Brad Wright, Manny Coto, Eric Estrin
Stars: Gordon Clapp, Lochlyn Munro, Don S. Davis
Director(s): Neill Fearnley
Writer(s): Brad Wright, Manny Coto, Eric Estrin











































