| # |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Original air date |
Prod # |
| 1 |
"The Galaxy Being" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
16 September 1963 (1963-09-16) |
1 |
| An engineer, named Maxwell, at the radio station KXKVI (sic) is illicitly using the station's electronics to do research in electromagnetism on the microwave background noise when he inadvertently gets an alien from the Andromeda Galaxy on his three-dimensional television screen. The alien's activities are also being conducted illicitly "because", as the alien tells Maxwell, "you are a danger to other galaxies." During their ensuing dialogue, the alien tells Maxwell that the electromagnetic field is, itself, an intelligent being and is none other than the physical manifestation of God. However, the conversation is interrupted, as Maxwell's wife drags him to a banquet in his honor. Despite warnings from the alien about applying excessive power to the station's transmission in his absence, an undisciplined disc jockey comes in and turns it up full blast. 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. The wife is accidentally shot by the trigger-happy police, the alien saves her life and then goes on (in a scene reminiscent of The Day the Earth Stood Still) to issue a dramatic warning in full view of the gathering crowd. (This episode aired 2 years before the accidental discovery of the cosmic microwave background by two PhD's using AT&T's equipment to do their research on the side). |
| 2 |
"The Hundred Days of the Dragon" |
Byron Haskin |
Allan Balter and Robert Mintz |
23 September 1963 (1963-09-23) |
7 |
| An East Asian government plans to take over America by infiltrating and substituting all the Officials at the White House, and all the leading corporate executives, in order to force the United States to pull out of a war in Asia. The easy shoo-in for the next presidential election is a candidate named William Lyons Selby, who bears a strong resemblance to Johnson (also note: "Lyons" as in "Lyndon" and "Selby" as in "LBJ"). However, during the campaign trail, he is murdered and replaced by a face-altered clone, in a scheme somewhat reminiscent of The Manchurian Candidate. The mole, literally masquerading 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, who has also been (unsuccessfully) targeted for replacement. Reference was made in the episode to a paper titled Report on the Molecular Alteration of the Subcutaneous Matter of a Rhesus Monkey. (The episode's first airing occurred only 2 months before the Kennedy assassination.) |
| 3 |
"The Architects of Fear" |
Byron Haskin |
Meyer Dolinsky |
30 September 1963 (1963-09-30) |
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 (1963-10-07) |
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 (1963-10-14) |
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 (1963-10-28) |
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 (1963-11-04) |
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 (1963-11-11) |
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 (1963-11-18) |
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 (1963-12-02) |
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 from being killed... |
| 11 |
"It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
9 December 1963 (1963-12-09) |
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, confiding 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 (1963-12-16) |
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 (1963-12-23) |
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 (1963-12-30) |
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 (1964-01-06) |
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 (1964-01-13) |
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. Episode star Barry Morse states in his autobiography that this was a pilot for a proposed science-fiction comedy series that was subsequently broadcast as an Outer Limits episode. It is the only comedy episode of The Outer Limits. |
| 17 |
"Don't Open Till Doomsday" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
20 January 1964 (1964-01-20) |
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 (1964-01-27) |
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 (1964-02-03) |
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 (1964-02-10) |
23 |
| A scientist (Martin 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 (Sally 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 (1964-02-17) |
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 (1964-02-24) |
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 (1964-03-02) |
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 otherwise 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 (1964-03-09) |
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 (1964-03-16) |
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 (1964-03-23) |
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 (1964-03-30) |
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 (1964-04-06) |
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 (1964-04-13) |
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 (1964-04-20) |
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 (1964-04-27) |
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 (1964-05-04) |
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.) |
| # |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Original air date |
Prod # |
| 1 |
"Soldier" |
Gerd Oswald |
Harlan Ellison |
19 September 1964 (1964-09-19) |
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 (1964-09-26) |
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 (1964-10-03) |
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 (1964-10-10) |
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 (1964-10-17) |
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 (1964-10-24) |
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 (1964-10-31) |
35 |
| 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 (1964-11-07) |
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 (1964-11-14) |
43 |
| 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 (1964-11-21) |
44 |
| 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 (1964-11-28) |
44 |
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| 12 |
"Keeper of the Purple Twilight" |
Charles Haas |
Milton Krims (teleplay), Stephen Lord (story) |
5 December 1964 (1964-12-05) |
39 |
| 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. Ikar's 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 (1964-12-19) |
45 |
| 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 (1964-12-26) |
36 |
| 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 (1965-01-02) |
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 (1965-01-09) |
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 (1965-01-16) |
48 |
| 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. |