The Outer Limits
"The Outer Limits" was a modern revival of the classic science fiction horror anthology series "The Outer Limits" (1963), with Kevin Conway providing the voice of "Control Voice". Stories often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, a story from one show continues in a later show. "The Outer Limits" is a science fiction anthology.
- 1995-2002
- 7 seasons
- Showtime Networks
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-PG
"The Outer Limits" was a modern revival of the classic science fiction horror anthology series "The Outer Limits" (1963), with Kevin Conway providing the voice of "Control Voice". Stories often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, a story from one show continues in a later show. "The Outer Limits" is a science fiction anthology.
Season 7 Episode Guide
22 Episodes 2001 - 2002
Episode 1
Family Values
44 mins
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.
Episode 2
Patient Zero
44 mins
Colonel Beckett 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.
Episode 3
A New Life
44 mins
A couple flee a present-day religious community they've joined but find it's entirely surrounded by an invisible wall. They're the parents of the totally isolated cult's first child, who has a mysterious scar from a ceremony by the cult leader, who they caught sneaking off into the forest and teleporting into thin air. They're spotted by another malcontent, who's been searching for a way out for months. With nowhere to go and everyone else entranced by the idyllic new life, what can they do?
Episode 4
The Surrogate
43 mins
Claire Linkwood takes part in a surrogate mother program, unaware that it is a plot to invade and take over Earth.
Episode 5
The Vessel
43 mins
After a US Space Shuttle crash, one of the crew, a writer, miraculously survives. He now appears to be indestructible and has gifted insight.
Episode 6
Mona Lisa
43 mins
Mona Lisa is a robotic assassin that develops a sense of humanity after the creators disengage her fail safe devices. She proceeds to find out more about earth and its inhabitants.
Episode 7
Replica
44 mins
After his wife enters a seemingly irreversible coma, a scientist uses his own discovery to clone her illegally. Complications arise when his wife awakens.
Episode 8
Think Like a Dinosaur
43 mins
During testing of a molecular transporter device, a duplicate of a woman is created, causing ethical problems as to whether to have this new life terminated.
Episode 9
Alien Shop
43 mins
An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way that money not earned comes at a price.
Episode 10
Worlds Within
43 mins
A scientist tries to save a mutant child who is connected to another reality from manipulation by the government.
Episode 11
In the Blood
43 mins
Explorers, including an astrophysicist member of the Navajo 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.
Episode 12
Flower Child
44 mins
After an alien seed takes root in an old woman's garden, it sucks the life from her and becomes a beautiful woman who continues to look for more victims.
Episode 13
Free Spirit
Sat, Jul 28, 2001 44 mins
The schizophrenic inhabitants of a mental institution find themselves being possessed by a mysterious entity.
Episode 14
Mindreacher
43 mins
A doctor puts her sanity on the line when testing a psychological tool allowing her to enter her patients' minds.
Episode 15
Time to Time
43 mins
A 60s radical's daughter ventures back in time to undo the bombing which killed him. But the time travel institute who recruited her as a trainee races to stop her before she irreparably damages the future. The institute plucked Lorelle out of a fatal car wreck, so she can't return to 1989, but her mother is devastated by her husband's death, so Lorelle hopes to affect the past to improve her mother's life.
Episode 16
Abduction
44 mins
An alien abducts five typical teenagers and decrees that one of them must die.
Episode 17
Rule of Law
44 mins
A circuit court judge goes to a frontier planet that has never known the law or had a judicial system. His first trial is of an alien accused of attacking and killing several humans.
Episode 18
Lion's Den
43 mins
A losing high school wrestling coach get access to a performance enhancing drug that allows his team to win with some dreaded side-effects.
Episode 19
The Tipping Point
43 mins
A computer hacker fights the development of a universal computer language when the computers seem to becoming sentient and a threat to humanity.
Episode 20
Dark Child
43 mins
Seventeen years ago single mother Laura Sinclair was abducted by aliens, but no one would believe her. A newspaper article about alien abductions and her recurring nightmares threaten to distance her from her moody teen-aged daughter, Tammy. Tammy's new English teacher, Marcus Fellows seems to have quite a positive effect on her who also seems very familiar to Laura.
Episode 21
The Human Factor
43 mins
In the year 2084, humans fight an android whose artificial intelligence has determined humans must no longer be allowed to spread colonies throughout space.
Episode 22
Human Trials
43 mins
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?