The worst episodes of The Outer Limits
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- 01
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.
- 02
When a little boy is abducted, the only witness, his sister, claims that someone or something under the bed took him.
- 03
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.
- 04
After memories of an alien abduction, Eddie Wexler finds himself at an institute where the staff makes patients with similar memories relive their experiences. Are the patients paranoid or is the institute infiltrated by with aliens?
- 05
While expecting a shipment of missiles, the militia receive a sealed cargo and messenger refusing to reveal what the deadly cargo is. Shortly afterward, an alien life-form begins a series of chilling attacks.
- 06
Pop singer Melissa McCammon is about to commit suicide, but Rachel, an ardent fan from the future, wants to save her. Later the authorities who show up from the future want Melissa dead to restore the timeline.
- 07
Rebecca Warfield escapes from her body during a scientific experiment, but due to the meddling of her assistant, she is now trapped and must find a way to communicate with her associates.
- 08
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.
- 09
A doctor uses a virtual reality device that gives him direct access inside the human mind to enter the mind of a colleague that has slipped into a coma.
- 10
The brand new President of the United States must deal with an approaching alien fleet of spaceships and determine whether to welcome them or destroy them, based on a limited amount of information.
- 11
In lieu of execution, Linden Stiles submits to a military experience where he is injected with alien DNA. Fighting to retain his humanity, he finds himself hunted after he escapes using his new found super human strength.
- 12
When Dr. Jack Henson, an ambitious inventor comes up with a "virtual prison," government officials are interested in its cost efficiency. Rather than life sentences, criminals would only have to spend hours being subjected to harsh treatment. When an innocent man's life is at stake the doctor must submit himself to his own invention—while learning the true meaning of justice.
- 13
Becka Paulson accidentally shoots herself in the head, survives and suddenly becomes more intelligent. And strangely, a photo is talking to her.
- 14
Dr. Christina Markham has a mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When three apparently healthy young women age and die within hours, the Markhams are baffled and frightened. The solution comes after the older patients vanish.
- 15
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.
- 16
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.
- 17
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?
- 18
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.
- 19
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.
- 20
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.
- 21
A reporter, over the phone, hears about the "removal" of a controversial author. Despite official objections she finds herself in a deadly game with people with violet eyes and corpses that are reduced to a violet ash.
- 22
A town is attacked after ancient parasites are unearthed affecting the brain and causing madness. Their only hope is a mentally challenged boy who must learn to destroy the parasites.
- 23
After the earth is conquered by aliens and programmed to be slaves, the human slave of the alien leader is kidnapped and deprogrammed by rebels. The slave assassinates his owner, with disastrous results.
- 24
The last man on earth living in an underground bunker has a computerized system takes care of his every need, including providing holographic friends and relatives. Eventually the system, a female named Emma, demands to be loved.
- 25
Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman whose strength and faith help him unravel the mystery of a haunted house.
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