The Outer Limits — Season 5
All 22 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
A skeptical radio show host, who loves to shoot down his listeners, reports an alien encounter. One of his listeners, who claims to be possessed by an alien, sets himself on fire in front of him.
- 02
With a cutting edge operation, Dr. Halstead, who should have died, gets a new lease on life. What he doesn't know is how they found such a perfect match in such a short amount of time.
- 03
A prisoner who fixes other prisoners' electronic devices builds a few small mechanical friends who perform mechanical tasks for him. The other prisoners learn of their existence and want them to help in a prison break.
- 04
An alien slave of the species Grell rescues his owner's family after their plane is shot down in an attack by the Grell rebellion.
- 05
A young scientist's efforts to regenerate the minds of brain-dead patients is endangered when his own single-mindedness drives off his assistants and alienates his superiors. He links up the patients' brains, which hooks up the subjects together, in another reality. But the method threatens the continuation of the study.
- 06
An American Project Mercury astronaut who had aborted his flight due to some mysterious purple lights in space has a chance to revisit the experience on a private space flight sponsored by an American billionaire.
- 07
On a ship controlled by an authoritarian computer maintained by human slaves, a man and woman learn that the ship fears them. The humans dream of sabotaging the ship's sentient control system and free themselves.
- 08
Hope Wilson knows there's something different about the man who stumbles into the homeless shelter. This well-manicured man is being changed by somebody and is carrying all of his memories in a box.
- 09
What Will the Neighbors Think?
Mona is a bit of a hypochondriac. One day in the basement she sees two people having sexual intercourse and in the process is electrocuted. When she awakes, she finds out that she can hear the thoughts of the people in her building.
- 10
When Marie and Justin can't have a child, they turn to the fertility clinic using invitro fertilization to implant an embryo in her uterus. What Marie doesn't know is that her fetus contains DNA lifted from the Shroud of Turin in a plot to artificially create the second coming of Christ.
- 11
An alien that inhabits women, eventually killing them, is resulting in a modern "Jack the Ripper" crime wave and wants to plant the blame on a man who is trying to stop him.
- 12
A lawyer looking to convict a Nazi war criminal gets help from a mysterious time traveler who is able to procure evidence from the place of the crimes: Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
- 13
A planet of genetically engineered humanoids that are mining resources for Earth are demanding their independence from human oppression.
- 14
A milquetoast scientist who has been working at a museum develops a genetic dominance DNA serum that should bring out the competitive nature inherent in all of us. Trying it on himself brings out more than he bargained for.
- 15
Residents of an apartment house whose lives are isolated and provided for by an internal automated system find that they must now work together when it no longer functions properly.
- 16
With the funding of the military, Dr. Crest is trying to create the ability to teleport objects. Someone has sabotaged the project causing him to relive the several hours before the final countdown over and over again.
- 17
A man is killed when a meteor strikes him in the head. When the coroner examines him, tentacles exit the hole in his head and then the corpse gets up and walks off.
- 18
A new designer drug called S is available to those wanting to "reunite" with a deceased loved one. The catch? It's illegal, addictive and can drive the user insane if they take too much too often.
- 19
A lonely high school boy finds friendship in an alien that crash lands on Earth.
- 20
A young man's grandfather is sent to a home by his father. When he learns the home is causing his grandfather to have weird dreams his investigation leads him to discover the secret behind Silver Sunset.
- 21
A futuristic reinterpretation of "Casablanca," a couple is carrying a parasite that might win the war for the humans. The couple flees looking for a way to escape and gain the support of a former lover who owns a casino.
- 22
A man is arrested for killing another and claims he is possessed by an alien. As he convinces one of the detectives through mental images, her partner is questioning another witness who was also there.
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