The Outer Limits1963
“There is nothing wrong with your television. Do not attempt to adjust the picture.”
Created by Leslie Stevens
🏆 Nominated for 1 Primetime Emmy. 2 wins & 3 nominations total
The premise
The Outer Limits is an anthology tv series of self-contained sci-fi-horror stories, sometimes with a plot twist at the end.
Horror Vault's take
A landmark anthology series from the early 1960s, The Outer Limits delivers self-contained tales where science, technology, and the cosmos conspire to push ordinary people to their absolute limits. Each episode functions as a standalone nightmare — strange creatures, rogue experiments, and forces beyond human comprehension take centre stage week after week. The famous 'Control Voice' framing device sets an immediately ominous tone, reminding viewers that what they're about to witness is something they cannot switch off. Cerebral yet viscerally strange, it remains one of television's defining achievements in science-fiction horror.
Content: Creature Violence, Mild Horror Imagery, Themes Of Existential Threat
Episode Guide
S1.E1 · The Galaxy BeingPremiere7.0Sep 16, 1963 · 52 min · Dir: Leslie Stevens
A radio station engineer named Allan Maxwell establishes contact with an alien being. But when the station's power is turned up, the alien is teleported to Earth where its radioactive nature causes havoc.
S1.E2 · The Hundred Days of the Dragon6.8Sep 23, 1963 · 52 min · Dir: Byron Haskin
A sinister foreign power replaces the President of the United States with its own agent via the use of a powerful drug allowing the skin to be temporarily molded into any likeness.
S1.E3 · The Architects of Fear7.0Sep 30, 1963 · 52 min · Dir: Byron Haskin
A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.
S1.E4 · The Man with the Power7.0Oct 7, 1963 · 51 min · Dir: László Benedek
A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
S1.E5 · The Sixth Finger7.7Oct 14, 1963 · 52 min · Dir: James Goldstone
A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.
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