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S1 E8 The Human Factor

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

PG

51m

Nov 10, 1963

In an isolated, snowbound outpost where a handful of people are on alert against enemy attack, a crazed Army major (Harry Guardino) is haunted by the ghost of a soldier he left to die. Sally Kellerman co-stars in one of her earliest TV appearances.

Season 1, 32 Episodes

The Galaxy Being,

Cliff Robertson stars as a radio station owner who builds a three-dimensional television receiver that accidentally intercepts a galaxy being whose strange form and deadly radiation trigger a tide of panic and violence!

The Hundred Days Of The Dragon,

In a terrifyingly timely story of genetic engineering and political power plays, Sidney Blackmer stars as a popular American President who puts into place a master plan to slowly and steadily destroy the United States. James Hong also stars.

The Architects Of Fear,

In order to unify the nations of Earth, a group of scientists sets out to secretly create the ultimate, global threat -- an all-powerful alien monster -- via human mutation! Robert Culp stars as the scientist chosen to undergo the transformation.

The Man With The Power,

A meek, unassuming college professor (Donald Pleasence) invents a device capable of controlling the entire electromagnetic spectrum and realizes the device has unleashed his subconscious thirst for revenge—with uncontrollable and deadly results!

The Sixth Finger,

A brilliant scientist (Edward Mulhare) discovers a way to accelerate human evolution and transforms a bitter young coal miner (David McCallum) into the man of the future. But no gift is exactly what it seems…especially in the Outer Limits.

The Man Who Was Never Born,

Martin Landau stars as the time-traveler Andro who is desperately trying to stop the birth of a crazed 20th-century inventor whose bacterium invention turns humans into hideous mutants. Shirley Knight co-stars in this classic, touching episode.

Both a cautionary tale and a tight courtroom drama, this haunting episode explores the fear and hostility that result when all privacy is eliminated...and all secrets are revealed! Jeff Corey, Peter Breck, and Alan Baxter star.

The Human Factor,

In an isolated, snowbound outpost where a handful of people are on alert against enemy attack, a crazed Army major (Harry Guardino) is haunted by the ghost of a soldier he left to die. Sally Kellerman co-stars in one of her earliest TV appearances.

Corpus Earthling,

Two rock samples in Dr. Temple's (Barry Atwater) lab conceal protoplasmic alien invaders capable of controlling a human corpus. Enter Paul Cameron (Robert Culp)...who can telepathically hear the rocks plotting their takeover of the world.

A six-man strike force is captured on the planet Ebon and brutally interrogated. And when they are suddenly allowed the respect due to a conquered enemy, the prisoners conclude that there is a traitor among them...someone who must be killed!

It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork,

Writer-producer Joseph Stefano creates both a macabre parable of the destructive potential of nuclear energy and a pulsating tale of terror featuring a superbly understated performance by Ed Asner. Scott Marlow and Michael Forrest also star.

The Borderland,

In this highly charged, fascinating tale that explores the concept of alternate dimensions, a wealthy industrialist (Barry Jones) attempts to contact his dead son by funding a scientist's experiments in prying open the door to the borderland.

Tourist Attraction,

Ralph Meeker and Henry Silva star in this examination of the politics of exploitation as a corporate mercenary (Meeker) and a ruthless dictator (Silva) battle for possession of a recently discovered sea monster. But the monster may have other ideas.

The Zanti Misfits,

They creep. They crawl. They kill. When the rulers of the planet Zanti are allowed to exile their criminals to our world, the screeching misfits will demonstrate to the military just what the word invasion really means. Bruce Dern stars.

A convict (Henry Silva) who is taking part in an inhabitant exchange between Earth and the planet Chromo discovers that the Chromites have something far more sinister planned and that the fate of the entire planet might just be in his own hands.

Controlled Experiment,

Befuddled by the strange local custom of murder, two Martian administrators (Barry Morse and Carroll O'Connor) visit Earth to study one such crime and find themselves tempted to tamper with events in this whimsical tale from The Outer Limits.

Don't Open Until Doomsday,

Film great Miriam Hopkins (1932's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) returns to the screen to give a show-stopping performance as an overly ripe flapper who will stop at nothing to complete her long-overdue wedding night scenario. John Hoyt also stars.

When a queen bee transforms into an exotic young woman (Joanna Frank) and immediately aims her stinger at entomologist Ben Fields (Philip Abbott), she is determined to turn him (and all of mankind) into a human drone. Marsha Hunt also stars.

The Invisibles,

In one of the series' most unnerving episodes, Don Gordon portrays a secret government agent who infiltrates the ranks of the Invisibles -- a subversive, underground society of the nation's power brokers who are possessed by alien parasites.

The Bellero Shield,

Martin Landau and Sally Kellerman star as an inventor and his ambitious wife in a parable about aspiration's devolution into greed when a failed experiment leads to the interception of a powerful alien being from The Outer Limits.

The Children Of Spider County,

When four brilliant young men born and raised in Spider County suddenly vanish and a fifth is accused of a murder he didn't commit, the boy receives a unique invitation from an alien being who is willing to take him to a home very, very far away.

Specimen: Unknown,

Stephen MacNally, Richard Jaeckal, Russell Johnson, and an un-credited Dabney Coleman star in the series' highest-rated episode wherein a deadly alien plant from the deepest reaches of space is mistakenly headed for Earth.

When an alien (Simon Oakland) converts an amusement park ride into an actual spacecraft and abducts a group of earthlings, he offers them a second chance at life on a new world…but only if they can face their personal demons! Don Gordon also stars.

Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol and Tim O'Connor star in this compelling study of allegiance and sacrifice as a group of lunar astronauts discover a strange space vessel full of fugitives from another world…and they have a desperate story to tell.

Sent to investigate a strange situation on a possibly habitable planet, Dr. Evan Marshall (Larry Pennell) discovers the scientific team sent there is now dominated by a human mutant (Warren Oates) who can exist without sleep and kill by touch!

A drifter wanders into an eerie mansion and finds himself ill-at-ease amongst the eccentric cast of occupants, all of whom may just be part of some strange scientific study…from the dark recesses of the Outer Limits. Gloria Grahame stars.

For their amusement, an alien race abducts a small-time crook (Nick Adams) and a troubled divorcee (Nancy Malone), forcing them to compete for their lives and the lives of all Earth's peoples in a brutal battle against a primitive alien race.

The Special One,

The politics of indoctrination are disturbingly portrayed -- and the Outer Limits is brought closer to home -- as a couple (Macdonald Carey, Marion Ross) welcome their son's new tutor into their home…a tutor whose motives may just be alien invasion!

A Feasibility Study,

The residents of Midgard Drive wake one morning to find that they have become the subjects of a grotesque experiment... a feasibility study by an alien race to test their hardiness as potential slave labor. Sam Wanamaker and David Opatoshu star.

Production & Decay Of Strange Particles,

An emergency at a nuclear power plant sets the wheels of man's possible destruction into horrifying motion as radiation gone wild tears open a dimensional hole in the reactor! George MacReady stars as the scientist who struggles to find a solution!

Robert Duvall stars as a CIA agent sent on a mission to infiltrate a downed spacecraft and kill the creatures inside. Mutated to appear as they do, he soon learns that the shape in which a man finds his own humanity is not always a human one.

The Forms Of Things Unknown,

Vera Miles and Barbara Rush star as two women who kill a ruthless blackmailer. Fleeing from their crime, they stumble across an eccentric inventor (David McCallum) obsessed with returning the dead to life….including the man the women murdered.

Details

The Outer Limits: 1963

Sci-Fi & Fantasy

PG

2 Seasons

51m

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