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21 episodes

The Outer Limits - Season 1

First aired Mar 26, 1995Season 1

Browse all 21 episodes in this season, including available images, air dates, runtimes, ratings and episode summaries from TMDB.

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GenerationofSwine

10.0

It was kind of all over the place wasn't it? It wasn't the best show out there, but it had it's moments and when those moments came it was far better than the X-Files. Unlike the Twilight Zone revivals that lost the moralistic bent, the 90s revival sort of brought it back in full swing and made it feel more like a Twilight Zone revival than an Outer Limits Revival, but let's be honest, the Outer Limits was kind of just a continuation under a different name with more of a lean towards science fiction. It also does a good job of staying within the genre of science fiction which is something that you scarcely see in shows post Alien when it started to meld into horror as well. So what you get is less X-Files and more pure Sci-Fi, which, by the 90s was refreshing. However the quality of the story telling was hit or miss. You can compare it to Tales From the Crypt, another Anthology from about the same time, or the Hitch Hiker, which were both solid for nearly every episode. The 90s revival of the Outer Limits wasn't as solid. You had some episodes that would blow your hair back, some that would entertain and nothing else, and those were about equal to the ones that just kind of fell flat. But, they didn't want to mix genres, they wanted to keep it more pure sci-fi, so it's hard to fault them for having so many misses in an Anthology series that tried so hard to stay true to the genre.

Episodes

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Episode 1

The Sandkings

6.1
Mar 26, 199593 min8 votes

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.

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Episode 2

Valerie 23

6.1
Mar 31, 199545 min15 votes

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.

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Episode 3

Blood Brothers

5.9
Apr 7, 199545 min11 votes

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.

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Episode 4

The Second Soul

5.4
Apr 14, 199545 min9 votes

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.

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Episode 5

White Light Fever

4.9
Apr 21, 199545 min10 votes

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.

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Episode 6

The Choice

5.7
Apr 28, 199545 min9 votes

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.

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Episode 7

Virtual Future

5.2
May 5, 199545 min13 votes

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.

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Episode 8

Living Hell

5.9
May 12, 199545 min8 votes

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.

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Episode 9

Corner of the Eye

5.4
May 19, 199545 min8 votes

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.

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Episode 10

Under the Bed

5.3
May 26, 199545 min7 votes

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

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Episode 11

Dark Matters

6.3
Jun 2, 199545 min8 votes

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.

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Episode 12

The Conversion

7.5
Jun 9, 199545 min10 votes

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.

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Episode 13

Quality of Mercy

6.9
Jun 16, 199545 min10 votes

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.

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Episode 14

The New Breed

6.8
Jun 23, 199545 min11 votes

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.

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Episode 15

The Voyage Home

6.9
Jun 30, 199545 min8 votes

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.

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Episode 16

Caught in the Act

5.2
Jul 1, 199545 min8 votes

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.

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Episode 17

The Message

6.7
Jul 16, 199545 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 18

I, Robot

6.3
Jul 23, 199545 min7 votes

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.

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Episode 19

If These Walls Could Talk

5.2
Jul 30, 199545 min8 votes

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

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Episode 20

Birthright

7.2
Aug 13, 199545 min6 votes

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.

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Episode 21

The Voice of Reason

4.8
Aug 20, 199545 min6 votes

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.