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The Outer Limits Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 1999 - 1999
Episode 1
Alien Radio
Fri, Jan 22, 199944 mins
A skeptical radio show host, who loves to shoot down his listener, reports of alien encounters and one of his listeners, who claims to be possessed by an alien, set himself on fire in front of him.
Episode 2
Donor
Fri, Jan 29, 199945 mins
With a cutting edge operation, Dr. Halstead who should have died, gets a new lease on life. What he doesn't know is how they found such a perfect match in such a short amount of time.
Episode 3
Small Friends
Fri, Feb 5, 199945 mins
A prisoner who fixes other prisoners' electronic devices, builds a few small mechanical friends who perform mechanical tasks for him. The other prisoners learn of their existence and want them to help in a prison break.
Episode 4
The Grell
44 mins
An alien slave belonging to the species Grell rescues his owner's family after their plane is shot down in an attack by the Grell rebellion.
Episode 5
The Other Side
Fri, Feb 19, 199945 mins
A young scientist's efforts to regenerate the minds of brain-dead patients is endangered when his own single-mindedness drives off his assistants and alienates his superiors. He links up the patients' brains, which hooks up the subjects together, in another reality. But the method threatens the continuation of the study.
Episode 6
Joyride
44 mins
An American Project Mercury astronaut who had aborted his flight due to some mysterious purple lights in space has a chance to revisit the experience on a private space flight sponsored by an American billionaire.
Episode 7
The Human Operators
45 mins
On a ship controlled by an authoritarian computer maintained by human slaves, a man and woman learn that the ship fears them. The humans dream of sabotaging the ship's sentient control system and freeing themselves.
Episode 8
Blank Slate
Fri, Apr 2, 199945 mins
Hope Wilson knows there's something different about the man who stumbles into the homeless shelter that she works at. The well-manicured man is being chased by somebody and is apparently carrying all of his memories in a box.
Episode 9
What Will the Neighbors Think?
45 mins
Mona is a bit of a hypochondriac. One day in the basement she sees two people having sexual intercourse and in the process is electrocuted. When she awakes, she finds out that she can hear the thoughts of the people in her building.
Episode 10
The Shroud
Fri, Apr 30, 199944 mins
When Marie and Justin can't have a child, they turn to the fertility clinic using in-vitro fertilization to implant an embryo in her uterus. What Marie doesn't know is that her fetus contains DNA lifted from the Shroud of Turin in a plot to artificially create the second coming of Christ.
Episode 11
Ripper
45 mins
19th century London inventor and doctor John York, driven to drink and drugs by a misdiagnosis that cost him a patient, discovers that the murderer of prostitutes in Whitechapel is caused by an alien creature that only he can detect. Only his fiancee believes him.
Episode 12
Tribunal
Fri, May 14, 199944 mins
Aaron Zgierski, a lawyer and the son of Holocaust survivors, is investigating the Nazi war criminal who murdered members of his family. He gets help from a mysterious time traveler who is able to procure evidence from Auschwitz in 1944.
Episode 13
Summit
Fri, May 21, 199944 mins
A planet of genetically engineering humanoids that are mining resources for Earth are demanding their independence from human oppression.
Episode 14
Descent
Fri, Jun 25, 199944 mins
A milquetoast scientist who has been working at a museum develops a genetic dominance DNA serum that should bring out the competitive nature inherent in all of us that has been muted over the years. Trying it on himself brings out more than he bargained for.
Episode 15
The Haven
Fri, Jul 2, 199944 mins
Residents of an apartment house whose lives are isolated and provided for by an internal automated system find that they must now work together when it no longer functions properly.
Episode 16
Déjà Vu
Fri, Jul 9, 199945 mins
With the funding of the military, Dr. Crest is trying to create the ability to teleport objects. Someone has sabotaged the project causing him to relive the several hours before the final countdown over and over again.
Episode 17
The Inheritors
Fri, Jul 16, 199945 mins
A man is killed when a meteor strikes him in the head. When the coroner examines him, tentacles exit the hole in his head and then the corpse gets up and walks off.
Episode 18
Essence of Life
Fri, Jul 23, 199945 mins
A new designer drug called S is available to those wanting to "reunite" with a deceased loved one. However, it's illegal, addictive and can drive the user insane if they take too much too often.
Episode 19
Stranded
Fri, Jul 30, 199944 mins
A lonely high school boy who is continually neglected by his father finds friendship in an alien that crash lands on Earth.
Episode 20
Fathers & Sons
Fri, Aug 6, 199945 mins
A young man's grandfather is sent to a home by his father. When he learns the home is causing his grandfather to have weird dreams his investigation leads him to discover the secret behind Silver Sunset.
Episode 21
Starcrossed
Fri, Aug 13, 199944 mins
In 2056, Cass Trenton and Winston Meyerburg are carrying a parasite that might win the war against the Hing, who invaded Earth six years earlier. The couple flee and gain the support of Cass' former lover Michael Ryan who owns a casino.
Episode 22
Better Luck Next Time
Fri, Aug 20, 199945 mins
A man is arrested for killing another and claims he is possessed by an alien. As he convinces one of the detectives through mental images, her partner is questioning another witness who was also there.