The Outer Limits
"The Outer Limits" was an anthology type science fiction program with a different cast each week. Tending toward the hard science, space travel, time travel, and human evolution it tries to examine in each show some form of the question, "What is the nature of man?"
- 1963-1965
- 2 seasons
- ABC
- Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Suspense, Science Fiction
- TV-PG
"The Outer Limits" was an anthology type science fiction program with a different cast each week. Tending toward the hard science, space travel, time travel, and human evolution it tries to examine in each show some form of the question, "What is the nature of man?"
Season 2 Episode Guide
17 Episodes 1964 - 1965
Episode 1
Soldier
Sat, Sep 19, 1964 51 mins
A soldier from the far future is accidentally teleported back to 1964. The philologist assigned to examine him realizes that he has been bred purely as a killing machine. While he believes he can reawaken the warrior's humanity, a second soldier arrives, dedicated to hunting and killing his enemy.
Episode 2
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Sat, Sep 26, 1964 51 mins
Returned from a trip to Venus, Col. Jeff Martin begins to exhibit preludes to an alien transformation - persistent cold spells, cravings for injurious heat levels, and visions of a scaly carrot-like monster swimming through a thick, steamy atmosphere - leading to the development of webbed fingers and altered blood chemistry. Whether as a bridge for one-on-one communication, a preliminary for an interplanetary sexual encounter, a gift for survival on Venus, or a dislike for anything other than the top Venusian species is anyone's guess. Jeff's wife recommends talking to him about the eight minutes twelve seconds missing from his flight log.
Episode 3
Behold Eck!
Sat, Oct 3, 1964 51 mins
Eck, a visually compromised accidental 2-D visitor in our 3-D world, needs to return home and seal his passageway before a bird, plane or anything else passes through and destroys our world. Only those with meteoric quartz eyeglasses can see him. It befalls an observant optician to design lens that can enable Eck to see his way home and stop his unintentional havoc.
Episode 4
Expanding Human
Sat, Oct 10, 1964 51 mins
A Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde scenario arises at a college campus when drug experiments in consciousness expansion creates a psychopathic alternate personality, capable of super strength, mind control, and murder. The C.E. project, as it's called (consciousness expanding), comes under threat of cancellation from an impending $3,000,000 donation. Woe to the fundraiser standing in its way.
Episode 5
Demon with a Glass Hand
Sat, Oct 17, 1964 51 mins
Days ago, Trent awoke with no memory of his past. Since then, sinister men have pursued him constantly. He manages to stay one step ahead of them by following the advice of his hand. Made of glass and apparently capable of speech, Trent's hand can answer many of his questions, but it cannot tell him who he is or why his enemies seek him until he finds all of its fingers. The only trouble is that they're in the hands of his enemies.
Episode 6
Cry of Silence
Sat, Oct 24, 1964 51 mins
A married couple enters a remote valley where an unseen intelligence brings about attacks around a farm from tumbleweeds (that explode), frogs (that dissolve) and rocks (that kill). As a farmer starts losing his mind and the wife goes into hysterics, the husband tries to fathom any reason behind these unprovoked assaults.
Episode 7
The Invisible Enemy
Sat, Oct 31, 1964 51 mins
The first manned colonization landing on Mars ends in disaster and mystery. A second probe is sent three years later to investigate what happened. As screaming men continue to disappear, a computer suggests there's an enemy and that this unseen enemy is invisible.
Episode 8
Wolf 359
Sat, Nov 7, 1964 51 mins
A scientist creates a tiny model of another solar system's planet, seeding it with life to study planetary development. The miniaturization allows the simulation's evolution to advance much faster. A ghostly bat-like creature hovers on the in-closed model, watching the humans while emitting waves of fear terrifying them.
Episode 9
I, Robot
Sat, Nov 14, 1964 51 mins
Under circumstantial evidence, a robot is brought before a hearing under a charge of murder, the scope of which indicts society itself for its ability to control what it creates. Due to its unusual circumstances, final judgment will be rendered without need of trial.
Episode 10
The Inheritors Part I
Sat, Nov 21, 1964 51 mins
Four soldiers have been shot in the head by bullets made from the fragment of a meteorite. As a result, they have developed genius level IQs. Three of them have disappeared, one remains in hospital. Adam Ballard, Assistant Secretary of Science, believes the men have been taken over by an alien intelligence, and that they are working to bring some evil plan to fruition.
Episode 11
The Inheritors Part II
Sat, Nov 28, 1964 51 mins
Four soldiers have been shot in the head by bullets made from the fragment of a meteorite. As a result, they have developed genius level IQs. Three of them have disappeared, one remains in hospital. Adam Ballard, Assistant Secretary of Science, believes the men have been taken over by an alien intelligence, and that they are working to bring some evil plan to fruition.
Episode 12
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Sat, Dec 5, 1964 51 mins
An unearthly being offers a driven scientist an exchange of his alien intelligence in return for the experience of human emotions. Their experiment, however, has unforeseen consequences for both of them, and soon a team of alien enforcers arrives to destroy them both and the scientist's girlfriend.
Episode 13
The Duplicate Man
Sat, Dec 19, 1964 51 mins
When a dangerous alien creature called a Megasoid escapes, the scientist who smuggled it to Earth creates an illegal clone of himself to hunt it down, but his plan is complicated when his neglected wife begins to fall in love with his duplicate.
Episode 14
Counterweight
Sat, Dec 26, 1964 51 mins
Eight volunteers - a reporter, a crass contractor, a female anthropologist, an ecologist, a professor, and a botanist along with a pilot and a stewardess - board the 261-day Space Transport Weblow simulated space flight to test reactions to long-term confinement. Unfortunately, all are unaware of an alien stowaway from the destination planet Antheon, who isn't keen on the idea of colonists targeting its homeworld.
Episode 15
The Brain of Colonel Barham
Sat, Jan 2, 1965 51 mins
A dying astronaut volunteers his mind be linked to a supercomputer, to enable the U.S. to beat the Soviet Union to Mars. His wife and an Air Force psychiatrist oppose the brain removal, fearing that the arrogant spaceman's brain won't adapt, making his death futile, but the Cold War space race takes precedence, so the experiment proceeds, despite eerie developments.
Episode 16
The Premonition
Sat, Jan 9, 1965 51 mins
When a test pilot crashes in his experimental X-15 plane, he and his wife discover they are in a reality where time has slowed down almost to a standstill. Returning to the airbase, they are horrified to see their daughter standing in the path of a moving truck and they seem to be unable to prevent her death.
Episode 17
The Probe
Sat, Jan 16, 1965 51 mins
A hurricane. A plane crash over the open ocean. Four of the five aboard survive, only to find themselves inside a preliminary alien probe examining the composition of Earth and a few of its most advanced life forms. Also on board, a giant microbe that finds them delicious. Conjectures abound.