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The Outer Limits

1995TV-MA7 seasons7.7 / 10

Anthology series 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.

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Anthology series 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.

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Episode 1

Judgment Day

Jan 21, 200045m6.0 / 10

Capitol punishment makes it to primetime. Judgment Day has quickly become the hottest show on the Justice Channel and on television - period. Produced by Jack Parson and hosted by Stan Draper and Heather Cattrell, the show has turned the Justice system on its ear by becoming judge, jury and executioner, allowing a murder victim's family to carry out the death sentence on live television. Today, Allison Channing will hunt down Declan McMahon, the petty criminal who killed her sister Kaitlin. Declan gets a 20 minute head start, but he's got a microchip in his brain that's tuned to the taser that Allison carries.

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Directed by Brad TurnerWritten by Scott NimerfroGuest stars Chris Elliott, Kevin McNulty, Molly Ringwald, Colin Foo, Louis Chirillo, Tony Alcantar, Ian Tracey, Nicole Oliver

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Episode 2

The Gun

Jan 28, 200045m5.5 / 10

When Matthew Logan gets out of prison after serving time for spousal abuse, his first stop is a gun show. He buys a strange handgun from a mysterious stranger and uses it to shoot his wife. The gun attaches itself to Logan's hand and arm, beginning a process which will transform his body.

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Directed by Jeff WoolnoughWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Stacy Keach, Nancy Sorel, Christian Bocher, Eric Schneider, Devin Douglas Drewitz, Stephen Dimopoulos, John de Lancie, Bob Dawson

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Episode 3

Skin Deep

Feb 4, 200045m6.0 / 10

Sid Camden, a rather unremarkable, socially inept sort of guy, works in an accounting department of a high-tech company known as Veil-Tech. Hal, one of the project managers, secretly loans Sid a prototype of one of the company's latest developments - a device known as an image enhancer. With the help of his friend Deb, Sid is able to acquire the image of good looking co-worker Chad Warner and soon Sid is stepping out on the town with his new and improved look.

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Written by Scott PetersGuest stars Antonio Sabàto Jr., Christina Cox, Deanna Milligan, Adam Goldberg, Linden Banks, Ted Cole, Claude Duhamel, Keith Provost

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Episode 4

Manifest Destiny

Feb 11, 200045m5.0 / 10

The UFS Mercury is in route to the planet Trion to do scientific tests in preparation to establish a colony when they get a distress call from a battleship, the UFS Rhesos. It was only weeks ago the the Rhesos dropped bombs on Trion, killing the local flora and fauna, making it ready for colonization. When the crew of the Mercury boards the Rhesos, they quickly realize that things are not as they should be.

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Directed by Brad TurnerWritten by Mark SternGuest stars Brad Johnson, Sarah Deakins, Ty Olsson, Michael Shanks, Rob Freeman, Linda Ko, Rick Dobran, D. Harlan Cutshall

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Episode 5

Breaking Point

Feb 18, 200045m6.0 / 10

When Andrew McLaren is fired from his job at Anderson Technology, he suspects that he's being let go because the company president doesn't want to give him credit for his work on the CPS-1200, an as-yet untested time machine. Defiant, Andrew decides to take a trip in the machine. When he reaches his destination, two days in the future, his head is throbbing with a migraine and he is shocked to find that the police are looking for him. Fleeing the lab, he returns home to discover his wife lying in a pool of blood and a man fleeing the scene in a car. Shocked at his discovery, Andrew is determined to use his time machine to change what happened.

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Directed by Neill FearnleyWritten by Grant RosenbergGuest stars Rick Roberts, Laurie Holden, Patricia Harras, William deVry, Derek de Lint, Scott Owen, Joe Costa, Kwesi Ameyaw

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Episode 6

The Beholder

Feb 25, 200045m5.7 / 10

Patrick Tarloff, a university English professor, lost his eyesight in a childhood accident and now, at age 28, he has regained it through a cutting-edge operation. But when the bandages are removed, he sees more than just the world that has been dark to him for more than 20 years. He sees a mysterious woman, a vision that his neurosurgeon Dr. Angus McCadden and his psychologist, Dr. Louise Burroughs, assure him is only a hallucination. But then Patrick sees her again, communicates with her, touches her. Her name is Kyra, she writes in glowing letters that float in the air, and she needs his help to go home.

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Directed by Jeff WoolnoughWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Claire Rankin, Mackenzie Astin, Rebecca Jenkins, Peter Wingfield, Obba Babatundé, Tatiana Turner

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Episode 7

Seeds of Destruction

Mar 3, 200045m5.3 / 10

Macroseed, a cutting edge biotechnology company, chooses the small farming town of Hobson to test and develop TX-40. This is a new genetically- engineered strain of fast-growing corn that, it hopes, will increase yields and make the company millions. Linda, the veterinarian in Hobson, begins to wonder about the safety of TX-40 when Old Man Rivers brings in a dead cat from his field that has horrible mutations, including a giant tumor which sprouts a fifth leg.

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Directed by Steve AnkerWritten by Chris RuppenthalGuest stars Jessica Tuck, Christopher Shyer, Michael Ryan, Len Cariou, Curtis Bechdholt, John R. Taylor, Fiona Scott, Chris Lovick

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Episode 8

Simon Says

Mar 10, 200045m6.7 / 10

Gideon Banks lost his wife Liz and son Simon in a horrific car accident some twenty years ago. At the time of the accident he was involved in something called the Neural Archiving Project - NAP for short. The technology was developed to create smart computers - transferring human engrams to computers. The company eventually gave up on the technology, but Gideon didn't. After years of quietly perfecting it, he built a small robot, from parts he stole from Concorde Robotics, where he now works. Zoe, Gideon's niece, discovers Gideon's secret, the robot contains actual neural engrams from the real Simon. She becomes worried not only about Gideon but also about the robot that sounds and acts a lot like her little cousin used to.

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Directed by Helen ShaverWritten by Scott PetersGuest stars Joel Grey, Mikela Jay, Hiro Kanagawa, Cathy Weseluck, Riley Demeyer, Tamara Prescott, Rice Honeywell

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Episode 9

Stasis

Apr 14, 200045m6.0 / 10

In the year 2123, with all but nature destroyed and resources scarce, society has been divided into three kinds of people. There are Alphas, like Larissa, who work half of the time and spend the rest in a state of suspended animation called stasis. There are Betas, like Eric, who alternate work and ""sleep"" modes with the Alphas. And then there is the Elite, who form a privileged aristocracy that rules over the Alphas and Betas. In the face of increasing pressure from stasis-jumpers of the Resistance, the Elite insists that extreme measures are necessary for survival of the species. Their plan, however, doesn't account for the power of the human heart. Larissa and Eric have fallen in love even though their only contact, other than furtive holographic messages, is when they trade places in the stasis pod they share.

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Written by Lawrence MeyersGuest stars Sean Patrick Flanery, Kavan Smith, Matthew Walker, Maureen Thomas, Robert Lewis, Brenda Crichlow, Kristin Lehman, Gordon Tipple

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Episode 10

Down to Earth

Apr 21, 200045m4.7 / 10

The true believers have gathered once again for the North American UFO Convention where there are typically squabbles, petty betrayals and egotistical grandstanding. Max Buford has in his possession what appears to be afragment from an alien spaceship. Max's arrival causes a flurry of activity, as the fragment's true origins are thrown into question.

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Directed by Mike RohlWritten by Scott Nimerfro, A L KatzGuest stars Colin Mochrie, Mackenzie Phillips, C. Ernst Harth, Dan Shea, David-Paul Grove, Don Thompson, Colleen Wheeler, Klodyne Rodney

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Episode 11

The Inner Child

Apr 28, 200045m5.5 / 10

Anne Reynolds is a cold young woman, estranged from her mother, Laura, haunted by memories of her dead father and terrified of intimacy of any kind. Then one night, while repairing a flat tire she is attacked by a mugger. Severely wounded, she dies on the operating table only to come back to life five minutes later. However, it soon becomes clear that something inside her has changed. Anne learns she was one set of Siamese twins and her mother agreed to an operation that killed her sister, Marie, while allowing Anne to live. Now the remnants of Marie are starting to assert themselves changing Anne.

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Directed by Ken GirottiWritten by Grant RosenbergGuest stars Laura Leighton, Roberta Maxwell, David Lovgren, Michael Ontkean, Gerry South, Lyle St. Goddard, James Tsai, Moneca Stori

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Episode 12

Glitch

May 5, 200045m7.3 / 10

Tom and Wendy seem like the perfect couple, happy together and very much in love. But at night when Wendy sleeps, Tom has terrible memories about being stuck in a burning building with a crying baby. The nightmares, however, aren't real and neither is Tom. He's an android and the ""memories"" are bugs placed in his artificial intelligence by his creator, the late Joe Walker. Walker had originally created Tom to save humans from fires and other dangerous situations. However he anticipated that his colleague, Dr. Edward Normandy, might try to militarize the android and use him as a cyber-soldier-spy and planted the bugs as a way of forcing Normandy to upgrade Tom so the android could think for itself.

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Directed by Mike RohlWritten by Ron Greenstein, Mike BermanGuest stars Tate Donovan, Victor Garber, Gabrielle Miller, Betty Phillips, Stephen E. Miller, Jack Klugman, Jayne Paterson, Garvin Cross

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Episode 13

Decompression

Jun 30, 200045m6.5 / 10

Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary, upsetting a heavily favored opponent, and he's flying to South Carolina to press his campaign for the Presidency. As the plane files south, it's hit by lightning. The plane and its passengers appear unaffected, but a mysterious woman appears in Brody's private quarters and warns him the strike has damaged the airplane, which will crash on landing, killing him and six others. She explains she is a projection from the future, a virtual time-traveler sent here to save him because his presidency is the key to preventing an apocalyptic future. If he is to live he must shoot out the emergency exit and allow himself to be sucked out of the plane by decompression, whereupon he will be saved by the stranger's sophisticated technology.

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Directed by Jorge MontesiWritten by James CrockerGuest stars Bruce Boxleitner, Michael Riley, Suzy Joachim, Michael Tomlinson, Ken Tremblett, Dale Wilson, CCH Pounder, Keith Martin Gordey

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Episode 14

Abaddon

Jul 7, 200045m6.5 / 10

It's late in the 23rd century and the aging interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod is on a ten-year reclamation project on behalf of The Company, the corporation that has run North America since 2102. The crew is tucked away in hyper-sleep when the ship comes across a mysterious object floating in space. Awakened from their artificial slumber, they retrieve the pod and are shocked to discover the body of Virgil Nygard, executed 150 years earlier for leading his militia in the slaughter of more than a million people. They are even more shocked to discover that Nygard is alive.

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Directed by Steve AnkerWritten by Scott Nimerfro, A L KatzGuest stars Keith David, Max Martini, Jill Teed, Byron Lucas, Dion Luther, Corbin Bernsen, Allixandra East

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Episode 15

The Grid

Jul 14, 200045m6.0 / 10

When Scott Bowman gets an urgent message from his brother Peter, he decides to drive back to their hometown of Halford, Washington to see what is wrong. When he gets there, he discovers that Peter is dead and his wife Eilleen has been charged with his murder. But that's not the only shock awaiting Scott. The town where he grew up has been transformed. Antenna towers dot the landscape and people act strangely, as if they are under some kind of sporadic mind control.

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Directed by Charles WinklerWritten by Duncan KennedyGuest stars D. B. Sweeney, Jessica Steen, Colleen Rennison, Brent Stait, Ed Evanko, Gina Chiarelli, Eric Breker, Brenda Campbell

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Episode 16

Revival

Jul 21, 200045m4.0 / 10

Ezra Burnham and his daughter Sarah are old hands at the business of faith healing. Ezra, a preacher who lost his faith when his wife died, is the front man, the one who lays his hands on the deaf and lame. But Sarah is the key to the act, working backstage and communicating with Ezra through a tiny earphone about the plants she's scattered through the audience. It's all going well until one day a strange young man in a wheelchair approaches Ezra near the end of a revival meeting. Luke is not a plant, but when Ezra lays his hands on him, he not only rises from his wheelchair, he begins to float six inches off the ground. After the meeting, Luke and his mother Serna approach Ezra with a proposition. If Ezra will teach Luke the secret of the revival circuit, Luke will continue to work his mysterious magic at Ezra's side.

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Directed by Michael RobisonWritten by Mark SternGuest stars Peter Stebbings, Holly Dignard, Margot Kidder, Gary Busey, Nicole Eggert, Ted Kozma, Doug Abrahams, Greg Rogers

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Episode 17

Gettysburg

Jul 28, 200045m6.3 / 10

Andy and Vince are Civil War buffs who spend their weekends re-enacting battles from the historic conflict with others of similar persuasion. On this weekend, they're in Gettysburg for a giant recreation of the war's bloodiest battle when a photographer, Prentice asks to take their picture with his ancient tin-type camera. But when the shutter clicks, Andy and Vince find themselves transported back to the Confederate camp of Col. Angus Devine on the eve of the infamous 1863 battle. Prentice, who joins them in the past, explains that he has sent them back as a grand experiment, to see if history can in fact be changed, proving destiny is not final.

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Directed by Mario AzzopardiWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Joshua Leonard, Alex Diakun, Jonathan Scarfe, Aaron Pearl, Ocean Hellman, Robert Moloney, Scott Bellis, Blu Mankuma

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Episode 18

Something About Harry

Aug 4, 200045m5.5 / 10

After her husband is killed in a car accident, Nancy Henninger rents out her backyard apartment to try to make ends meet. But her teenage son, Zak, is suspicious of her new tenant, Harry Longworth, who says he has come to the suburban community of Hunterville to set up a new factory for his company. When three people disappear from town Zak decides to conduct his own investigation.

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Directed by Brent Karl ClacksonWritten by Grant RosenbergGuest stars Garry Chalk, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Judd Nelson, Kaj-Erik Eriksen, Barbara Tyson, Shaun Johnston, Larry Musser, R. Nelson Brown

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Episode 19

Zig Zag

Aug 11, 200045m6.5 / 10

The bombs are in place, ready to destroy the super-computers at the Department of Information Technology. Inside, the members of the Syndrome, the anti-technology group that planted the bombs, lay dead or dying. All of them, that is, except Cliff Unger, or as he calls himself now, Zig Fowler. Unger has his finger on the detonator as he negotiates with Pete Yastremski, the head of the department. As the two men talk and FBI agents prepare to storm the building, we move back in time, through the hours, days and years leading up to the attack.

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Directed by James HeadGuest stars Frank Whaley, Leslie Hope, David McNally, JR Bourne, Vincent Gale, John Amos, Fulvio Cecere, Ron Small

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Episode 20

Nest

Aug 18, 200045m4.6 / 10

William Grimes, the leader of an exploration team from an Arctic research facility, goes crazy while exploring an ice cave and kills two colleagues before dying himself. Psychologist Jack Burrell is sent up to counsel the staff at the facility. Among his patients is the head of the facility, Robby Archer, a friend from his boyhood. It is not a happy reunion because of a traumatic childhood incident they shared but now they must work together. Grimes has infected the facility with polar mites, a strange ant-like species who take up residence in the warm tissue of the human body and create sort of psychosis.

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Directed by Scott PetersWritten by Scott PetersGuest stars Robert Sean Leonard, Martin Cummins, Kelly Rutherford, Paul Jarrett, Brenda James, Jesai Jayhmes, Brad McDonald, Sam MacMillan

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Episode 21

Final Appeal (1)

Sep 3, 200045m5.5 / 10

It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens, a time-traveler from the 20th Century has been sentenced to death. Her crime - violating severe anti-techology laws passed in the wake of the nuclear holocaust 20 years earlier, an event that destroyed most of the world and prompted those who survived to return to the bucolic world that existed before the Industrial Revolution. Theresa has one last chance for a reprieve. Her lawyer, Nicole Whitely has won leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, a body headed by Chief Justice Haden Wainwright. The balance of the court is divided evenly between conservatives who support the ban on technology and liberals who favor a review. In light of the importance of the case, the government has sent Solicitor General Wallace Gannon, a fierce defender of the law, to argue its case. The court has suspended the normal rules, allowing Theresa to join her lawyer in speaking in her defense.

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Directed by Jimmy KaufmanWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Kelly McGillis, Cicely Tyson, Wallace Langham, Amanda Plummer, Charlton Heston, Michael Moriarty, Swoosie Kurtz, Hal Holbrook

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Episode 22

Final Appeal (2)

Sep 3, 200045mfinale

It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens, a time-traveler from the 20th Century has been sentenced to death. Her crime - violating severe anti-techology laws passed in the wake of the nuclear holocaust 20 years earlier, an event that destroyed most of the world and prompted those who survived to return to the bucolic world that existed before the Industrial Revolution. Theresa has one last chance for a reprieve. Her lawyer, Nicole Whitely has won leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, a body headed by Chief Justice Haden Wainwright. The balance of the court is divided evenly between conservatives who support the ban on technology and liberals who favor a review. In light of the importance of the case, the government has sent Solicitor General Wallace Gannon, a fierce defender of the law, to argue its case. The court has suspended the normal rules, allowing Theresa to join her lawyer in speaking in her defense.

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Directed by Jimmy KaufmanWritten by Sam EganGuest stars Kelly McGillis, Cicely Tyson, Wallace Langham, Amanda Plummer, Charlton Heston, Michael Moriarty, Swoosie Kurtz, Hal Holbrook

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Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026

More about The Outer Limits

Cast

Amanda PlummerDr. Theresa Givens

Bruce HarwoodDr. Norris

Barry W. LevyJules Mason

Robert LewisGould

Scott SwansonKyle Haller

Joanna PirosNews Anchor

Tom HeatonJim

William deVryBen

Credits

Created by: Leslie Stevens

Production details

Status: Ended
Series type: Scripted
Episodes: 153
Original language: English

Networks & production

ShowtimeUnited States
SyfyUnited States
Alliance AtlantisCanada
Atlantis FilmsCanada
Showtime NetworksUnited States
Trilogy Entertainment GroupUnited States

Themes

anthologyhorror anthologymysterious forcetime travel

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