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Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: Sandkings

Original Air Date—26 March 1995
When his research project is closed down, Simon Kress rescues a few of its living subjects and transplants them to a recreation of their native Martian environment in his barn. They grow and learn, but then Kress makes an error with disastrous implications.

Season 1, Episode 2: Valerie 23

Original Air Date—31 March 1995
A disabled man is offered a prototype android companion in the form of the beautiful Valerie. But when he begins a romance with his physical therapist, his robot develops feelings of jealousy.

Season 1, Episode 3: Blood Brothers

Original Air Date—7 April 1995
Medical 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.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 4 -- Man's first encounter with beings from another planet -- the N'Tal --  appears to be a mutually rewarding arrangement. But a leery doctor/ scientist must decide whether the N'Tal are friend or foe.

Season 1, Episode 4: The Second Soul

Original Air Date—14 April 1995
First contact! Aliens have approached Earth as refugees fleeing the catastrophic destruction of their own world. The aliens need only one thing: human dead. Bodiless, the aliens cannot exist without hosts. Suitable hosts are rare and the aliens cannot live indefinitely without a host. When they begin moving strange gasses and electronic gear to Earth a scientist wonders what they plan...

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 5 -- An experiment at St. Peter's Hospital threatens nature's order of existence.

Season 1, Episode 5: White Light Fever

Original Air Date—21 April 1995
Harlan Hawkes is old - so old he must have a team of doctors and nurses in constant attendance on him to ward off death. Why is the old man so afraid to die? And what is the price everyone must pay for his continued life?

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 6 -- A 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.

Season 1, Episode 6: The Choice

Original Air Date—28 April 1995
Aggie Travers is a social outcast in school. She's destructive and starts fights. Or so her parents and the school officials think. Actually, Aggie has a secret she can't share with anyone, until a new nanny named Karen appears who seems to know all about her. But government agents follow Karen, leaving Aggie and her perplexed parents to wonder just which side is right.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 7 -- A brilliant young scientist discovers a way to see the future, but  gets caught up in a billionaire's ambitious political schemes, and must alter the future to save his own life.

Season 1, Episode 7: Virtual Future

Original Air Date—5 May 1995
Jack Pierce has taken virtual reality to a new level. His mechanism somehow permits him brief glimpses into what will be - the future. A powerful man will give a lot to know the secrets of the future. As Jack learns more he realizes that his future isn't what he'd hoped it would be...

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 8 -- Ben Kohler's (Sam Robards) life is saved after having an experimental chip implanted in his brain, but when he starts seeing and experiencing violent images, it becomes clear something is desperately wrong.

Season 1, Episode 8: Living Hell

Original Air Date—12 May 1995
A critically injured man receives an experimental brain implant that saves his life. But then he begins to see a series of brutal murders from the killer's perspective. Worse, the killer can see through his eyes, too, and means to find and kill the only witness to his terrible crimes. With time running out, the doctor who made the implant realizes the truth: her patient's implant is communicating with another patient's implant. But can she figure out which other patient?

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 9 -- A disillusioned priest is given healing power by aliens who use him as they attempt to save their own planet by destroying all human life.

Season 1, Episode 9: Corner of the Eye

Original Air Date—19 May 1995
Father Jenescu 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.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 10 -- A girl says her missing brother was taken by a monster under his bed; with Timothy Busfield.

Season 1, Episode 10: Under the Bed

Original Air Date—26 May 1995
Young Andrew Rosman finally finds a lost toy under his bed - or does he? When he reaches for it a horrible arm seizes his arm and hauls him under the bed. His sister Jillian, struck dumb by fear, cannot tell authorities what happened. And that's very bad, because the same thing might happen to her if a detective and a psychologist can't put the pieces together in time.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 11 -- Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein (John Heard) must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.

Season 1, Episode 11: Dark Matters

Original Air Date—2 June 1995
A 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...

Season 1, Episode 12: The Conversion

Original Air Date—9 June 1995
Henry Marshall has finally been released from prison, after doing his own penance and that of his scheming ex-boss Evans. Now he means to have his revenge. Gun in hand, he rides the elevator to the company Christmas party and shoots several guests. Then he races away, eventually finding a small tavern and the mysterious Lucas, who tries to teach him that his life is connected to other lives. If Henry can learn this lesson he may get a second chance; if not, death awaits him.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 13 -- When one of Earth's best fighter pilots is taken as a prisoner in the  intergalactic wars, he makes the fateful decision to save himself and a woman who is undergoing a painful and hideous transformation.

Season 1, Episode 13: Quality of Mercy

Original Air Date—16 June 1995
Major John Skokes has been captured by the seemingly unbeatable aliens currently warring on Earth. His companion is a young Cadet captured on a training flight, Bree Tristan. Skokes must find a way out of the dank prison for himself and his fellow prisoner before the aliens succeed in converting her to one of their own species!

Season 1, Episode 14: The New Breed

Original Air Date—23 June 1995
Dr. Ledbetter's new nanomachines offer tremendous potential benefits, including the cure for deadly diseases. So when Ledbetter's friend Dr. Andy Groenig is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he steals into Ledbetter's laboratory and injects himself with the nanomachines. They cure his cancer in less than a week. It's what they do next that's cause for worry...

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 15 -- When an astronaut returning from Mars discovers an alien aboard ship, he must face the loss of his shipmates, and make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prevent the alien from reaching Earth.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Voyage Home

Original Air Date—30 June 1995
Three astronauts exploring Mars discover a mysterious canister. When they open it, they are struck unconscious. Awakening nearly an hour later, they must hurry back to their ship to make their launch window. But on the way home, Ed becomes convinced that fellow astronaut Alan is not what he appears to be, and murders him by forcing him out the airlock. Now Ed and his remaining crew member Pete must decide what to do.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 16 -- Hannah wants to graduate and get married prior to losing her virginity. When a strange object grounds itself in her room, it changes Hannah's views and causes her to kill men by sex.

Season 1, Episode 16: Caught in the Act

Original Air Date—1 July 1995
Hannah Valesic wants to wait until after she and her boyfriend graduate and get married before they have sex. Then a strange bullet falls to earth and grounds itself in the floorboards of Hannah's room. The bullet carries a cargo that changes Hannah's perspective and threatens any man near her with death - by sex! Hannah's boyfriend must figure out what has happened to the woman he loves before she kills again.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 17 -- A deaf woman (Marlee Matlin) with a transplanted device, which is  supposed to enable her to hear, turns into a transmitter for aliens who are crying for help.

Season 1, Episode 17: The Message

Original Air Date—16 July 1995
Jennifer Winter receives a cochlear implant designed to restore her hearing. But the doctors examine her and claim the surgery has failed. Despite that, Jennifer seems to hear a message that contains a lot of zeros and ones - binary code. And the only man both willing and able to help her is... the hospital's janitor! But why is a trained astrophysicist working as a janitor?

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 18 -- Adam, a powerful robot, kills his creator when the scientist attempts to convert him into a military killing machine by destroying his more human qualities.

Season 1, Episode 18: I, Robot

Original Air Date—23 July 1995
Late at night, Dr. Link works on his creation, a powerful robot named Adam Link. Adam goes berserk and murders Dr. Link! Law enforcement issues an order for the robot's destruction, but the dead man's daughter Nina Link hires retired lawyer and full-time curmudgeon Thurman Cutler to defend the machine's rights as if it were a man! Cutler takes the case as much to mock the legal system that has made him a cynic as for any other reason, but can even his brilliant mind save Adam Link from destruction?

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 1: Episode 19 -- Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman  whose strength and faith help him unravel the mystery of a 'haunted house.'

Season 1, Episode 19: If These Walls Could Talk

Original Air Date—30 July 1995
Lynda Tillman is convinced her missing son died inside what she calls a haunted house, so she hires skeptic Leviticus Mitchell to prove whether the house is haunted or not and find out what really happened there if it's not. Mitchell remains convinced there are mundane explanations, until he finds a secret laboratory inside a walled up room...

Season 1, Episode 20: Birthright

Original Air Date—13 August 1995
Senator 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?

Season 1, Episode 21: The Voice of Reason

Original Air Date—20 August 1995

Next US airings:
Tue. Nov. 243:00 AMSYFY

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: A Stitch in Time

Original Air Date—14 January 1996

Next US airings:
Tue. Dec. 13:00 AMSYFY

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 2 -- What if life on Earth was wiped out by biological warfare and androids were left behind to rule the planet? Two androids recreate a human from DNA from a single piece of hair against the orders of a military force larger than they could ever imagine.

Season 2, Episode 2: Resurrection

Original Air Date—14 January 1996
In a future world populated only by robots two android scientists, Alicia and Martin, decide to clone a human being. Human have been long extinct on the planet but at one time, were served by the androids. Today, it is tightly controlled society where one android in particular, Moloch, commands an armed force that is continually searching out and ensuring there are no humans on the planet. After several months of studying, their human creation sets off on his own to learn more about his past and in doing so, to learn about his future.

Season 2, Episode 3: Unnatural Selection

Original Air Date—19 January 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 4 -- After intercepting a strange cellular phone call, a reporter finds herself in the middle of a deadly game of cat and mouse. The only clues to the mystery: a strange man with violet eyes, and people who disappear, leaving behind only a pile of purple ash.

Season 2, Episode 4: I Hear You Calling

Original Air Date—26 January 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 5 -- When an accident put Dr. Stein's colleague in a coma, he must make an important ethical decision. Should he use his new invention that allows doctors to tap into human brain waves? Does he allow love to affect his decision or let nature take its course?

Season 2, Episode 5: Mind Over Matter

Original Air Date—2 February 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 6 -- After flashbacks of an alien abduction, Eddie Wexler is institutionalized. His doctor appears to be an alien and he is caught in an internal dilemma as to whether he is delirious or if the hospital has been taken over by aliens.

Season 2, Episode 6: Beyond the Veil

Original Air Date—9 February 1996

Season 2, Episode 7: First Anniversary

Original Air Date—16 February 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 8 -- Problem child Rusty finds himself thrown into a military school bent on straightening him out. The school officials use some unorthodox methods to turn students into top business and political leaders.

Season 2, Episode 8: Straight and Narrow

Original Air Date—23 February 1996
Two students discover an academy with an outstanding reputation for taming youthful rebellion is using brain implants to create political assassins.

Season 2, Episode 9: Trial by Fire

Original Air Date—1 March 1996

Season 2, Episode 10: Worlds Apart

Original Air Date—22 March 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 11 -- A man finds himself in what seems to be a refuge in a post-apocalyptic  world, lorded over by a sadistic industrialist who pits his guests against one another for enjoyment...but all is not what it seems to be.

Season 2, Episode 11: The Refuge

Original Air Date—5 April 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 12 -- When lonely professor Stanley Hearst realizes that the sun is about to burn out he knows humanity has only hours to live. To make up for lost time, he courts and proposes to Leslie who happily accepts - until the truth of the world's fate is revealed.

Season 2, Episode 12: Inconstant Moon

Original Air Date—12 April 1996
A physics professor sees the moon brighten dramatically one night. He surmises that the sun has gone nova and the world as we know it will be destroyed in a matter of hours. Sensing that the end is near, he resolves to spend the last night on Earth with a woman he loves.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 13 -- Mentally challenged Howie is the last unaffected person in a town overrun by a parasitically-induced madness. Desperate to save his sister Sheila, but deprived of her guidance for the first time, he must rely on his own strength to overcome the madness.

Season 2, Episode 13: From Within

Original Air Date—28 April 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 14 -- After a friend's betrayal cost him his Army career, Lee Taylor helps a self-styled militia Major hijack an Army shipment. Expecting missiles, they find a mysterious, sealed cargo and a lone Army Guard who warns of its deadly capability.

Season 2, Episode 14: The Heist

Original Air Date—5 May 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 15 -- A convicted killer (Clancy Brown) is given a choice between dying by lethal injection or becoming part of a secret military experiment. He soon regrets choosing life when he discovers he's slowly and painfully turning into an alien life form!

Season 2, Episode 15: Afterlife

Original Air Date—19 May 1996

Season 2, Episode 16: The Deprogrammers

Original Air Date—26 April 1996

Season 2, Episode 17: Paradise

Original Air Date—16 June 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 18 -- On a desperate mission, a young cadet learns the difference between heroic ideals and the bitter realities of war. Exposed to fatal doses of radiation when their fleet is wiped out by aliens, they fight illness and death to launch a pre-emptive strike.

Season 2, Episode 18: The Light Brigade

Original Air Date—23 June 1996

Season 2, Episode 19: Falling Star

Original Air Date—30 June 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 20 -- What really happens during an out-of-body experience?  Research scientist Rebecca Warfield is so desperate to find out, she decides to be her own research subject.  After the experiment is tampered with, she must find a way out of another dimension.

Season 2, Episode 20: Out of Body

Original Air Date—14 July 1996

Season 2, Episode 21: Vanishing Act

Original Air Date—21 July 1996

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 2: Episode 22 -- When Dr. Jack Henson, an ambitious inventor comes  up with a 'virtual prison' government officials are interested in its cost efficiency. When an innocent man's life is at stake the doctor must submit himself to his own invention.

Season 2, Episode 22: The Sentence

Original Air Date—4 August 1996

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Bits of Love

Original Air Date—19 January 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 2 -- A scientist who is dying transfers his mind into Karl Durand, a 30-year-old male who has the mind of a child. Karl is in love though. Suddenly brilliant, he hopes to gain the affections of Rose, his social worker.

Season 3, Episode 2: Second Thoughts

Original Air Date—19 January 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 3 -- Rebecca Highfield and her husband, politician Graham Highfield, get a second chance at happiness after Justin, their four-year-old son, died in a household accident.

Season 3, Episode 3: Re-Generation

Original Air Date—24 January 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 4 -- Danny Martin falls in love with Jade, a girl from college. However, when he brings her home for supper, his father is shocked as Jade is identical to a woman that he saved from cruel experiments when he was a private in the army 20 years ago.

Season 3, Episode 4: Last Supper

Original Air Date—31 January 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 5 -- When the Stream develops a virus causing people to die, Ryan, being the only one that is immune, must use the knowledge he has gained from books to save the world

Season 3, Episode 5: Stream of Consciousness

Original Air Date—7 February 1997
When a virus starts killing people hooked up neurally to a worldwide information network, the only person who can stop it is a man unable to link into it due to a childhood injury.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 6 -- A biochemical war leaves the majority of humanity unable to produce healthy children. When a couple, Sherry and Tim McAllister, produce a healthy newborn, a mysterious government agency seeks to use their child to repopulate Earth.

Season 3, Episode 6: Dark Rain

Original Air Date—14 February 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 7 -- Mankind is now enslaved by an extremely powerful alien race in concentration camps. Although the foe seems unvanquishable, one woman dares to rise and challenge her Commander. Her example does not remain without an echo, but what will be the final result?

Season 3, Episode 7: The Camp

Original Air Date—21 February 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 8 -- A strange preacher arrives in an 19th Century old west town and  'bestows' upon four local criminals the power to turn mass into energy.  When the men use their new power for evil means, the preacher reveals his true identity and his mission on Earth.

Season 3, Episode 8: Heart's Desire

Original Air Date—28 February 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 9 -- Attempting to deliver serum to a plague stricken planet where his wife  and son live, a space pilot and his crew crash land on an unknown moon.

Season 3, Episode 9: Tempests

Original Air Date—7 March 1997
After being bitten by an alien spider, a crewman of a crashed spaceship has difficulty distinguishing between his hallucinations and reality.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 10 -- A woman, Beth Carter, is unable to experience emotion until Dr. Steven Molstad gives her an implant that grants her the ability feel love, happiness and fear. However, things appear to go bad when Beth begins to hear voices and she is abducted by aliens.

Season 3, Episode 10: The Awakening

Original Air Date—14 March 1997
A woman born with a condition that prevents her to access her feelings has a chip installed in her brain so that she can experience human emotion.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 11 -- A remorseless, uncaring scientist and his partner discover a way to regenerate cells and bring life back to the recently deceased.

Season 3, Episode 11: New Lease

Original Air Date—21 March 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 12 -- A university geneticist, believing he's discovered the keys to our evolution, injects himself with an untested chemical material.

Season 3, Episode 12: Double Helix

Original Air Date—28 March 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 13 -- When it is not known if aliens coming to the Earth are friend or foe,  five people are placed individually in secret underground bunkers to man switches that if not pressed at specified intervals will set off mass destruction.

Season 3, Episode 13: Dead Man's Switch

Original Air Date—4 April 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 14 -- When a seemingly harmless audio signal from space causes physiological  changes in Earth's youths, a young scientist races against time to discover what exactly is happening and why.

Season 3, Episode 14: Music of the Spheres

Original Air Date—9 May 1997

Season 3, Episode 15: Revelations of Becka Paulson

Original Air Date—6 June 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 16 -- When an incident at a space station leaves three people dead, the captain of the ship returns to Earth to face murder charges and a court martial--but all is not what it seems as the drama and intrigue in the courtroom unfold to reveal the "truth."

Season 3, Episode 16: Bodies of Evidence

Original Air Date—20 June 1997

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 3: Episode 17 -- The residents of a suburban neighborhood have their lives turned  upside down when a four block section of their subdivision is ripped from the earth by a mysterious force and transported to a distant planet.

Season 3, Episode 17: Feasibility Study

Original Air Date—11 July 1997
A neighborhood wakes to find all houses without power or water. Further inspections finds them in a force field with the entire outside world gone. They eventually find out they are being tested by aliens for slavery and to save the earth they must make the ultimate sacrifice .

Season 3, Episode 18: A Special Edition

Original Air Date—25 July 1997

Season 4


"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 1 -- A cop battles genetically mutant children who are destroying a city.

Season 4, Episode 1: Criminal Nature

Original Air Date—23 January 1998

Season 4, Episode 2: The Hunt

Original Air Date—28 September 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 3 -- Engaged as soldiers on a distant planet to prevent a race of alien bugs from stealing the minerals that provide the Earth's energy, a woman and her troops accidentally discover that the enemy is not at all as advertised.

Season 4, Episode 3: Hearts and Minds

Original Air Date—6 February 1998

Season 4, Episode 4: In Another Life

Original Air Date—6 February 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 5 -- With deadly lasers and hand-to-hand battles, The Octal is a combat sport for a new generation; but Tanner Brooks is no longer a young man. He's promised his wife Jessica that this will be his final tournament, but Tanner is desperate to go out a winner.

Season 4, Episode 5: In the Zone

Original Air Date—20 February 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 6 -- Astronauts seeking minerals on another planet annihilate seemingly primitive aliens who are actually from a superior culture.

Season 4, Episode 6: Relativity Theory

Original Air Date—27 February 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 7 -- A TV reporter and military officers encounter a being who may be a benevolent god, or a dangerous alien.

Season 4, Episode 7: Josh

Original Air Date—6 March 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 8 -- In a society controlled by aliens, two teens rebel when their baby is  taken away.

Season 4, Episode 8: Rite of Passage

Original Air Date—13 March 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 9 -- A health official goes to a small town to investigate a mysterious plague.

Season 4, Episode 9: Glyphic

Original Air Date—20 March 1998
A Government Health officer arrives in a small town which time stopped due to an epidemic disease that killed mostly all the children of this place. The two surviving children of a local physician might provide an answer with alien proportions.

Season 4, Episode 10: Identity Crisis

Original Air Date—27 March 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 11 -- Only three vaccines are available for the dozen quarantined survivors of a genetically engineered doomsday virus. Who shall get the life saving serum? Therein lies the dilemma.

Season 4, Episode 11: The Vaccine

Original Air Date—3 April 1998

Season 4, Episode 12: Fear Itself

Original Air Date—10 April 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 13 -- A scientist experiments with adding Venusian DNA to his own.

Season 4, Episode 13: The Joining

Original Air Date—17 April 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 14 -- A discredited scientist tries to convince colonists to evacuate their planet before they're destroyed by radiation.

Season 4, Episode 14: To Tell the Truth

Original Air Date—24 April 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 15 -- A robotic nanny becomes involved in a love triangle.

Season 4, Episode 15: Mary 25

Original Air Date—29 May 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 16 -- A city is held hostage by a disgruntled student with a nuclear device. His demand is that the Government kill five of his enemies.

Season 4, Episode 16: Final Exam

Original Air Date—26 June 1998
An ex-student returns to blow up a university with bombs he's made by cracking the secret of cold fusion, after being booted from the school's physics program. Todtman swears he won't follow through if authorities execute 5 people he hates. Most physicists believe cold fusion is impossible, so Todtman detonates a demo bomb by remote control. Should the government kill his 5 or risk Todtman killing 5 million?

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 17 -- A man who was cryogenically frozen awakens in a world populated only by women.

Season 4, Episode 17: Lithia

Original Air Date—3 July 1998
Major Jason Mercer awakes from a cryogenics experiment to a primitive earth society devoid of men. His presence among these women, many of whom have never seen a man, begins to complicate the relationships of the colony, with disastrous results.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 18 -- Four people in a top-secret research facility seem at first to have nothing in common. What brought them together is their telekinetic ability and a CIA project head hopes to exploit their talent through the use of devices that amplify that power.

Season 4, Episode 18: Monster

Original Air Date—10 July 1998
A group of talented psychics are gathered together in an underground bunker for a military project. But then some kind of mysterious assailant begins to murder them one by one.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 19 -- An Alaskan archaeological team discovers what appears to be a burial mound containing an alien's remains.

Season 4, Episode 19: Sarcophagus

Original Air Date—7 August 1998

Season 4, Episode 20: Nightmare

Original Air Date—14 August 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 21 -- A family of aliens try to protect their food and farm from a group of  hostile humans.

Season 4, Episode 21: Promised Land

Original Air Date—21 August 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 22 -- A doctor develops the technology to reverse aging and disease. Sounds  too good to be true? That is because it is. Mother Nature should never be toyed with.

Season 4, Episode 22: Balance of Nature

Original Air Date—4 September 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 23 -- A university geneticist’s son and six students join him on an alien spaceship. The aliens promise the group that they will be part of a great experiment in hope, but the students feel they have been led astray when they wake up on a dead planet.

Season 4, Episode 23: The Origin of Species

Original Air Date—27 November 1998

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 4: Episode 24 -- Rival military bases on Mars get into a stand off after an explosion on Earth.

Season 4, Episode 24: Phobos Rising

Original Air Date—4 December 1998

Season 4, Episode 25: Black Box

Original Air Date—11 December 1998

Season 4, Episode 26: In Our Own Image

Original Air Date—18 December 1998

Season 5


Season 5, Episode 1: Alien Radio

Original Air Date—22 January 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 2 -- A man dying of a terminal illness receives an entire body transplant.

Season 5, Episode 2: Donor

Original Air Date—29 January 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 3 -- A brilliant inventor who murdered a man who stole credit for his work, is double crossed by the other inmates in jail.

Season 5, Episode 3: Small Friends

Original Air Date—5 February 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 4 -- A government official learns to think differently about slavery when he, his family and his slaves are shot down over rebel slave territory.

Season 5, Episode 4: The Grell

Original Air Date—12 February 1999
Die Menschen haben die "Grell", ein fremdartiges Volk, dessen Planet untergegangen ist, gerettet. Doch auf der Erde werden sie nun als Sklaven gehalten. Langsam wächst der Widerstand der Grell, und einige entlaufene Sklaven haben sich zu einer Guerilla-Gruppe zusammengetan. Als das Flugzeug von Staatssekretär Paul Kohler abstürzt, befindet er sich mit seiner Familie mitten im Gebiet der rebellierenden Wesen. Ohne ihren Grell-Sklaven Jesha wäre ihr Leben nun nichts mehr Wert.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 5 -- A doctor discovers a parallel consciousness while doing tests on two comatose patients.

Season 5, Episode 5: The Other Side

Original Air Date—19 February 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 6 -- A Mercury astronaut, who had a close encounter on is mission, returns to space in order to regain the contact.

Season 5, Episode 6: Joyride

Original Air Date—26 February 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 7 -- A man enslaved by a ship is inspired by a woman to rebel.

Season 5, Episode 7: The Human Operators

Original Air Date—12 March 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 8 -- A doctor tries to recover stolen memories while fleeing from  government agents.

Season 5, Episode 8: Blank Slate

Original Air Date—2 April 1999
Im Obdachlosenasyl "Goodwill House" taucht ein verwirrter junger Mann auf, der von den Sozialarbeitern Jack Parson und Hope Wilson für einen Drogenabhängigen gehalten wird. Doch der Fremde behauptet, in seinen Ampullen sei kein Rauschgift, sondern sein Gedächtnis. Um die Erinnerung an seine wahre Identität wieder zu erlangen, müsse er sich den Inhalt der Ampullen spritzen. Der Mann ist in Wahrheit der Wissenschaftler Tom Cooper, der an einem extremen Experiment arbeitet.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 9 -- A woman develops the power to read her neighbor's minds and though  she tries to put the ability to good use, she ends up causing chaos.

Season 5, Episode 9: What Will the Neighbors Think?

Original Air Date—23 April 1999
Mona Bailey lebt seit ihrer Geburt in dem Haus "The Clackson Arms". Als das Gerücht umgeht, dass eine mysteriöse Gesellschaft das Haus aufkaufen will, schmieden die Nachbarn Pläne gegen das Vorhaben. Doch dann kommt alles ganz anders: Mona überrascht zwei Nachbarn beim Seitensprung, gerät an ein Starkstromkabel - und hört fortan Stimmen. Es sind die Gedanken ihrer Nachbarn, die Mona alles andere als freundlich gesonnen sind: Sie wollen Mona mit allen Mitteln loswerden.

Season 5, Episode 10: The Shroud

Original Air Date—30 April 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 11 -- A doctor in Victorian London tries to capture the alien creature  responsible for the Jack the Ripper murders before the alien can frame the doctor.

Season 5, Episode 11: Ripper

Original Air Date—7 May 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 12 -- A time-traveler helps bring a war criminal to justice.

Season 5, Episode 12: Tribunal

Original Air Date—14 May 1999
A lawyer looking to convict a Nazi war criminal gets help from a mysterious time traveler who is able to procure evidence from the place of the crimes, Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 13 -- Negotiators for Earth and Dregocia, a planet populated by a  genetically-engineered race, struggle to re-establish a fragile trust after a summit goes terribly wrong.

Season 5, Episode 13: Summit

Original Air Date—21 May 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 14 -- A mild-mannered professor becomes bold and powerful after he injects himself with primitive DNA.

Season 5, Episode 14: Descent

Original Air Date—25 June 1999

Season 5, Episode 15: The Haven

Original Air Date—2 July 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 16 -- During tests to open a wormhole, a scientist is caught in a time loop and he suspects sabotage.

Season 5, Episode 16: Déjà Vu

Original Air Date—9 July 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 17 -- Three people are fatally injured when a meteor explodes over the city, only to come back to life as geniuses with a single mission.

Season 5, Episode 17: The Inheritors

Original Air Date—16 July 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 18 -- Assigned to catch a doctor who traffics in a substance that brings  back the dead, an agent becomes hooked himself.

Season 5, Episode 18: Essence of Life

Original Air Date—23 July 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 19 -- A young boy, neglected by his own father, finds comfort in an alien who has crash-landed on earth.

Season 5, Episode 19: Stranded

Original Air Date—30 July 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 20 -- A young man attempts to rescue his grandfather from a rest home where a doctor is conducting sinister brain experiments.

Season 5, Episode 20: Fathers and Sons

Original Air Date—6 August 1999

Season 5, Episode 21: Star Crossed

Original Air Date—13 August 1999

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 5: Episode 22 -- A police detective must decide which of two unusual suspects is  responsible for a series of murders -- and whether they are even human at all.

Season 5, Episode 22: Better Luck Next Time

Original Air Date—20 August 1999

Season 6


"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 1 -- A convicted murderer is turned loose to be hunted by the sister of his  victim as part of a futuristic TV show that features the live chase and execution.

Season 6, Episode 1: Judgment Day

Original Air Date—21 January 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 2 -- An alien supplies a strange gun that morphs onto the body of the user  to recruit soldiers for an alien war.

Season 6, Episode 2: The Gun

Original Air Date—28 January 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 3 -- A device that allows people to change their appearance helps a nerdy  guy become a hunk.

Season 6, Episode 3: Skin Deep

Original Air Date—4 February 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 4 -- An invisible alien race inhabits a spaceship and causes a salvage team to go insane.

Season 6, Episode 4: Manifest Destiny

Original Air Date—11 February 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 5 -- A man travels forward in time by three days and sees that his wife has  been murdered -- possibly by his own hand. He then goes back to the present time to try and change the future.

Season 6, Episode 5: Breaking Point

Original Air Date—18 February 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 6 -- A blind man regains his sight only to be used by the government for  his unique ability to see a beautiful alien woman from another dimension.

Season 6, Episode 6: The Beholder

Original Air Date—25 February 2000

Season 6, Episode 7: Seeds of Destruction

Original Air Date—3 March 2000

Season 6, Episode 8: Simon Says

Original Air Date—10 March 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 9 -- Due to dwindling resources in the future, the world consists of  'Alphas' and 'Betas' that are alternately put in stasis for 72 hour periods.

Season 6, Episode 9: Stasis

Original Air Date—14 April 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 10 -- A UFO enthusiast who believes that she has found a piece of actual  alien technology gets caught up in a cycle of murder and intrigue at UFO convention.

Season 6, Episode 10: Down to Earth

Original Air Date—21 April 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 11 -- A woman discovers that she has a conjoined twin living inside her.

Season 6, Episode 11: Inner Child

Original Air Date—28 April 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 12 -- A man discovers that he is actually a robot.

Season 6, Episode 12: Glitch

Original Air Date—5 May 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 13 -- A time traveler visits a Presidential candidate and tells him that he needs to escape an impending death that will change the course of history.

Season 6, Episode 13: Decompression

Original Air Date—30 June 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 14 -- The crew of a space salvage ship finds a tyrant in stasis who was  banished from Earth for crimes against humanity.

Season 6, Episode 14: Abaddon

Original Air Date—7 July 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 15 -- A man investigating his brother's murder learns a computer controls  the town.

Season 6, Episode 15: The Grid

Original Air Date—14 July 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 16 -- Tent revivalist finds faith as he battles an evil alien masquerading  as divine power.

Season 6, Episode 16: Revival

Original Air Date—21 July 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 17 -- Two Civil War reenactors travel back in time to actual Civil War  battle at Gettysburg.

Season 6, Episode 17: Gettysburg

Original Air Date—28 July 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 18 -- A young boy suspects a houseguest of being an alien.

Season 6, Episode 18: Something About Harry

Original Air Date—4 August 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 19 -- Set in the future, an anarchist threatens to blow up the central computers that control the world.

Season 6, Episode 19: Zig Zag

Original Air Date—11 August 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 20 -- Scientists in the Arctic discover an undiscovered species of Polar  Mites that infest humans and cause them to become psychotic.

Season 6, Episode 20: Nest

Original Air Date—18 August 2000

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 6: Episode 21 -- Part one of a two part episode. Amanda Plummer reprises her role as  Dr. Theresa Givens from 'STITCH IN TIME.' Dr. Givens is put on trial for using technology (her time machine) in the future where all technology is outlawed.

Season 6, Episode 21: Final Appeal

Original Air Date—3 September 2000

Season 7


"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 1 -- A man gets a robot so that he can spend more time at work, but loses  his place as head of the household.

Season 7, Episode 1: Family Values

Original Air Date—16 March 2001
An overworked man acquires a robot to take care of his household and family in his absence. He realizes too late that the machine may be doing its job just a little bit too perfectly.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 2 -- A man travels to the past to kill a girl who is about to infect the  world with a deadly virus that will eventually wipe out billions.

Season 7, Episode 2: Patient Zero

Original Air Date—23 March 2001
A Colonel goes back in time to poison a physician who unintentionally spread a global pandemic. When the traveler returns to the future, nothing has changed. Though haunted by the plague death of his own family, the Colonel is ordered to an earlier time, to assassinate a young woman carrier, plus the physician.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 3 -- A religious cult goes to live in the woods and finds they are really  abductees on an alien ship destined for slavery.

Season 7, Episode 3: A New Life

Original Air Date—30 March 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 4 -- A surrogate mother finds that her pregnancy is actually changing  her into an alien.

Season 7, Episode 4: The Surrogate

Original Air Date—6 April 2001
Heather Donahue takes part in a surrogate mother program, unaware it is a plot to invade and take over the planet Earth.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 5 -- The lone survivor of a space shuttle disaster discovers he's  indestructible and has become spiritually linked to an alien living within himself.

Season 7, Episode 5: The Vessel

Original Air Date—13 April 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 6 -- A blue-collar repo woman discovers and befriends an escaped android.

Season 7, Episode 6: Mona Lisa

Original Air Date—20 April 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 7 -- A man clones his near-dead wife only to discover that she has awoken  from her coma and he now has two wives.

Season 7, Episode 7: Replica

Original Air Date—27 April 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 8 -- A man has second thoughts about a process that transmits a copy of a  person light years away but requires that the original person to be destroyed.

Season 7, Episode 8: Think Like a Dinosaur

Original Air Date—15 June 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 9 -- In a strange shop, an unemployed man is given a wallet that becomes  filled with the belongings of anyone he touches.

Season 7, Episode 9: Alien Shop

Original Air Date—22 June 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 10 -- A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to  save him from secret government manipulation.

Season 7, Episode 10: Worlds Within

Original Air Date—29 June 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 11 -- On a outer space mission through a wormhole, an American Indian woman  scientist discovers that the entire universe is a living being.

Season 7, Episode 11: In the Blood

Original Air Date—6 July 2001
Explorers, including an astrophysicist member of the Diné tribe and her medical doctor husband, are sent through a hole which scientists have torn in the universe to study the effects of "trans-space" on humans.

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 12 -- A beautiful woman is really an alien flower that seduces men in order  to feel and reproduce.

Season 7, Episode 12: Flower Child

Original Air Date—21 July 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 13 -- An experiment is terminated resulting in the deaths of six subjects  spawning a murderous entity that seeks revenge on the team of scientists responsible.

Season 7, Episode 13: Free Spirit

Original Air Date—28 July 2002

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 14 -- A psychiatrist creates a device that allows her to enter the thoughts  of her patients.

Season 7, Episode 14: Mind Reacher

Original Air Date—4 August 2001

Season 7, Episode 15: Time to Time

Original Air Date—11 August 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 16 -- An alien forces five high school students to decide which one of them  should die after they are abducted and taken to a mysterious reproduction of their school.

Season 7, Episode 16: Abduction

Original Air Date—18 August 2001

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 17 -- A judge must determine the truth behind an attack on settlers on a  remote planet where aliens and humans live side-by-side.

Season 7, Episode 17: Rule of Law

Original Air Date—25 August 2001

Season 7, Episode 18: Lion's Den

Original Air Date—8 September 2001

Season 7, Episode 19: The Tipping Point

Original Air Date—15 September 2002

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 20 -- A woman's past alien abduction comes back to haunt her.

Season 7, Episode 20: Dark Child

Original Air Date—4 January 2002

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 21 -- A rogue computer on an outpost on Ganymede threatens to destroy  Earth's last hope of survival.

Season 7, Episode 21: The Human Factor

Original Air Date—11 January 2002

"The Outer Limits" (1995): Season 7: Episode 22 -- A test to find the right soldier for a secret mission pushes the  limits of loyalty of each of the candidates.

Season 7, Episode 22: Human Trials

Original Air Date—18 January 2002
Military personnel are tested to find the best candidate for a very special mission. Each test may eliminate one of the four candidates. But what is the ultimate mission.

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