The Outer Limits — Season 4

All 26 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.

  1. 01

    January 23, 1998 · 1h

    Criminal Nature

    Genetically enhanced children who grew up to become monsters are committing murders. Ray Venable has a "secret" son with GRS and injects himself with a serum to temporarily enhance his sensory abilities in order to hunt him.

  2. 02

    January 30, 1998 · 1h

    The Hunt

    Since the hunting of animals is now illegal, people now pay to hunt outdated androids who cannot fight back due to a chip which prevents them from causing harm to humans.

  3. 03

    February 6, 1998 · 1h

    Hearts and Minds

    Soldiers are on a mission to kill aliens on a distant planet to protect a mineral necessary and profitable for earth. The soldiers are injected with a drug to enhance their abilities, which has consequences when until the drug wears off.

  4. 04

    February 16, 1998 · 1h

    In Another Life

    A despondent man is pulled into another dimension full of different versions of himself and is given a mission to track and kill another version of himself.

  5. 05

    February 20, 1998 · 1h

    In the Zone

    Tanner Brooks has his reflexes artificially enhanced to win one last Octal tournament, which involves deadly lasers and hand-to-hand battles. Afterward Tanner appears to be prematurely aging and will have to make a desperate decision.

  6. 06

    February 27, 1998 · 1h

    Relativity Theory

    A survey team searching for resources for Earth land on a promising planet which appears to be uninhabited, but who is attacking the team?

  7. 07

    March 6, 1998 · 1h

    Josh

    A reporter records a man who brings an injured girl back to life and then finds herself and the man detained at a military base and must overcome her reporter's instincts to help him.

  8. 08

    March 13, 1998 · 1h

    Rite of Passage

    The birth of a child is a joyful event, but not for Shal and Brav, two young naive humans who live in a small commune in the woods. After Shal gives birth to a son, she and the baby are taken away by Mother.

  9. 09

    March 20, 1998 · 1h

    Glyphic

    A Government official arrives in a small town where an epidemic disease killed mostly all the children. The two surviving children of a local physician might provide an answer with alien proportions.

  10. 10

    March 27, 1998 · 1h

    Identity Crisis

    After the military devises a way to transfer a soldier's mind temporarily into an better android body, what do they do when the soldier's original body dies?

  11. 11

    April 3, 1998 · 1h

    The Vaccine

    After a doomsday cult releases a genetically engineered virus, a nurse named Marie must decide which patients under quarantine get a vaccine that may cure the plague.

  12. 12

    April 10, 1998 · 1h

    Fear Itself

    Bernard Selden has always had a paralyzing fear which is cured by isolating his brain from the fear. After recovery he finds that he can project fear into others.

  13. 13

    April 17, 1998 · 1h

    The Joining

    The sole survivor of a disaster on Venus reacts strangely to Earth's environment and when radiation is applied, he begins to manufacture duplicate body parts.

  14. 14

    April 24, 1998 · 1h

    To Tell the Truth

    The founder of a colony on Janus Five believes that their sun will explode. However, the council chairman resists his pleas to move the colony because he was found to have been wrong before.

  15. 15

    May 29, 1998 · 1h

    Mary 25

    An android replaces the current nanny of a family. It is programmed to protect the children and gets involved in a romantic triangle between the husband and the previous nanny.

  16. 16

    June 5, 1998 · 1h

    Final Exam

    An ex-student returns to blow up a university with bombs he's made by cracking the secret of cold fusion, after being booted from the school's physics program. Todtman swears he won't follow through if authorities execute five people he hates. Should the government kill his five or risk Todtman killing 5 million?

  17. 17

    July 3, 1998 · 1h

    Lithia

    Major Jason Mercer awakes from a cryogenics experiment to a primitive earth society devoid of men. His presence among these women, many of whom have never seen a man, begins to complicate the relationships of the colony, with disastrous results.

  18. 18

    July 10, 1998 · 1h

    Monster

    A group of talented psychics are gathered together in an underground bunker for a military project. But then some kind of mysterious assailant begins to murder them one by one.

  19. 19

    August 7, 1998 · 1h

    Sarcophagus

    A amber-like cocoon mass is found in an ancient burial chamber. It begins to affect a man, imprinting him with the last memories of a long suspended alien that begins to affect his life and decisions.

  20. 20

    August 14, 1998 · 1h

    Nightmare

    Men on a mission to deploy a doomsday device against an alien planet are captured and psychologically tortured.

  21. 21

    August 21, 1998 · 1h

    Promised Land

    On future Earth a group of alien settlers and a group of escaped human slaves battle the environment and each other. As the casualties pile up, can they set aside their misunderstandings and learn to coexist?

  22. 22

    September 4, 1998 · 1h

    Balance of Nature

    Dr. Noah Phillips develops a cellular rejuvenation machine that he uses to cure his wife's cancer. When she dies shortly thereafter, he moves to a small town. There, he continues to work on it and finds himself attracted to a much older woman.

  23. 23

    November 27, 1998 · 1h

    The Origin of Species

    Dr. Ira Nodel has his body altered to communicate with aliens who have seeded Earth with their genetic material. He is joined on an alien spaceship by his son Paul, his girlfriend Hope, and six students who are individually absorbed into the ship.

  24. 24

    December 4, 1998 · 1h

    Phobos Rising

    The Earth has suffered a planet-wide catastrophe. The crews of two rival Mars bases suspect each other of being responsible. Tensions mount and threaten to get out of hand.

  25. 25

    December 11, 1998 · 1h

    Black Box

    Lt. Col. Brandon Grace returns to civilian life and is haunted by memories of his previous mission; he attempts to reconcile with his estranged daughter but has a feeling that someone is stalking him.

  26. 26

    December 18, 1998 · 1h

    In Our Own Image

    An android that cannot kill humans and is capable of emotions, is injured and escapes from the laboratory. When he kidnaps a female technician to repair him, the woman begins to fall for him and tries to convince him to return.

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