The Outer Limits — Season 1

All 22 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.

  1. 01

    March 26, 1995 · 1h

    Sandkings7.8

    When his research project is closed down, Simon Kress rescues a few of its living subjects and transplants them to a recreation of their native Martian environment in his barn. They grow and learn, but then Kress makes an error with disastrous implications.

  2. 02

    March 26, 1995 · 1h

    Sandkings6.5

    When his research project is closed down, Simon Kress rescues a few of its living subjects and transplants them to a recreation of their native Martian environment in his barn. They grow and learn, but then Kress makes an error with disastrous implications.

  3. 03

    March 31, 1995 · 1h

    Valerie 238.0

    A disabled man is offered a prototype android companion in the form of the beautiful Valerie. But when he begins a romance with his physical therapist, his robot develops feelings of jealousy.

  4. 04

    April 7, 1995 · 1h

    Blood Brothers7.0

    Medical researcher Dr. Spencer Deighton has discovered a formula which apparently gives a human being eternal life. When he shares his discovery with his brother Michael, who co-owns their research company, he doesn't realize how greedy and ruthless his sibling is.

  5. 05

    April 14, 1995 · 1h

    The Second Soul7.0

    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.

  6. 06

    April 21, 1995 · 1h

    White Light Fever7.0

    Harlan Hawkes is old—so old he must have a team of doctors and nurses in constant attendance on him to ward off death. Why is the old man so afraid to die? And what is the price everyone must pay for his continued life?

  7. 07

    April 28, 1995 · 1h

    The Choice7.0

    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.

  8. 08

    May 5, 1995 · 1h

    Virtual Future7.0

    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.

  9. 09

    May 12, 1995 · 1h

    Living Hell7.5

    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.

  10. 10

    May 19, 1995 · 1h

    Corner of the Eye6.0

    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.

  11. 11

    May 26, 1995 · 1h

    Under the Bed6.0

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

  12. 12

    June 2, 1995 · 1h

    Dark Matters7.0

    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.

  13. 13

    June 9, 1995 · 1h

    The Conversion8.3

    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 in him a new sense of compassion for others.

  14. 14

    June 16, 1995 · 1h

    Quality of Mercy8.0

    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.

  15. 15

    June 23, 1995 · 1h

    Caught in the Act7.5

    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.

  16. 16

    June 30, 1995 · 1h

    The Voyage Home8.3

    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.

  17. 17

    July 5, 1995 · 1h

    The New Breed7.5

    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.

  18. 18

    July 16, 1995 · 1h

    The Message7.5

    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.

  19. 19

    July 23, 1995 · 1h

    I, Robot7.5

    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.

  20. 20

    July 30, 1995 · 1h

    If These Walls Could Talk7.3

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

  21. 21

    August 13, 1995 · 1h

    Birthright7.7

    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.

  22. 22

    August 20, 1995 · 1h

    The Voice of Reason6.0

    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.

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