The Outer Limits

44min

Drama

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Anthology series of composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

Production Companies

Alliance Atlantis

Atlantis Films

Showtime Networks

Trilogy Entertainment Group

Episodes

Cast

The Sandkings

1. The Sandkings

1h 33min

26th Mar 1995

Scientist Simon Kress finds himself the master of a colony of Sandkings -- creatures from Mars that look like insects, but have the intelligence of much higher beings.

Valerie 23

2. Valerie 23

45min

31st Mar 1995

Frank Hellner, a lonely paraplegic, takes part in a top-secret project -- allowing an "inorganic human," or robot named Valerie, to be his companion for a week. The experiment goes awry when Valerie, unable to control her programmed emotions, becomes jealous and threatens the life of Frank's physical therapist and close friend Rachel.

Blood Brothers

3. Blood Brothers

45min

7th Apr 1995

Two diametrically opposed brothers, wrestle for control of a million-dollar pharmaceutical company. A vaccine that could hold the secret to eternal life, becomes the object of the brothers' bitter struggle.

The Second Soul

4. The Second Soul

45min

14th Apr 1995

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.

White Light Fever

5. White Light Fever

45min

21st Apr 1995

An experiment at St. Peter's Hospital threatens nature's order of existence, when billionaire Harlan Hawkes pays a brilliant cardiologist, Dr. "Mac" McEnerney to help him cheat death.

The Choice

6. The Choice

45min

28th Apr 1995

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 their child.

Virtual Future

7. Virtual Future

45min

5th May 1995

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.

Living Hell

8. Living Hell

45min

12th May 1995

Ben Kohler's 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.

Corner of the Eye

9. Corner of the Eye

45min

19th May 1995

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.

Under the Bed

10. Under the Bed

45min

26th May 1995

When a little boy is abducted the only witness, his sister, claims that someone or something under the bed took him.

Dark Matters

11. Dark Matters

45min

2nd Jun 1995

Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.

The Conversion

12. The Conversion

45min

9th Jun 1995

Henry Marshall is a greedy man who has paid for his greed with a prison sentence but has yet to learn his lesson. His life abruptly changes when he encounters visitors from another planet who instill new sense of compassion for others.

Quality of Mercy

13. Quality of Mercy

45min

16th Jun 1995

Major John Skokes is taken prisoner by the enemy during a savage galactic war and a seemingly undefeatable alien race. The tension increases when his cellmate, a cadet named Pri, is being transformed into one of them. Skokes must find an escape to save his cellmate and to avoid a disturbing revelation of the course of this war.

The New Breed

14. The New Breed

45min

23rd Jun 1995

The discovery of a gifted scientist falls into the wrong hands, bringing what at first appears to be a lifesaving miracle, but ultimately the untimely death of his closest friend.

The Voyage Home

15. The Voyage Home

45min

30th Jun 1995

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.

Caught in the Act

16. Caught in the Act

45min

1st Jul 1995

A chaste co-ed is enveloped by a strange power that gives her an insatiable sexual appetite, which is perpetuated by encounters with consenting men who, after making physical contact, morph into her body and disappear.

The Message

17. The Message

45min

16th Jul 1995

A deaf woman with a transplanted device, which is supposed to enable her to hear, turns into a transmitter for aliens, who are crying for help.

I, Robot

18. I, Robot

45min

23rd Jul 1995

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.

If These Walls Could Talk

19. If These Walls Could Talk

45min

30th Jul 1995

Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman whose strength and faith help him unravel the mystery of a haunted house.

Birthright

20. Birthright

45min

13th Aug 1995

An environmentally-friendly U.S. Senator's life changes drastically after a freak accident, when he realizes he's actually an alien in disguise, with a "mission" to surreptitiously reconfigure the earth's atmosphere.

The Voice of Reason

21. The Voice of Reason

45min

20th Aug 1995

A civilian with strong ties to the military tries desperately to use concrete evidence to convince a high level committee that alien forces are trying to overcome the human race.

First air date

26th Mar 1995

Last air date

18th Jan 2002

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks