The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits

A modern revival of the classic science fiction horror anthology show The Outer Limits (1963). Episodes often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, a story from one episode continues in a later episode.

Genre: DramaFantasyHorror

Cast:Kevin ConwayAlex DiakunEric SchneiderGarvin CrossLarry MusserKavan SmithNathaniel DeVeauxScott SwansonTom ButlerAndrew AirlieKristin LehmanDavid McNallyWilliam deVryTom HeatonBruce HarwoodMichael KopsaJohn NovakRobert Moloney


1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ Bits of Love

Sun, Jan 19, 1997

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.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Second Thoughts

Sun, Jan 19, 1997

A mentally impaired janitor, Karl, is befriended by his employer Dr. Valerian, a brilliant scientist who is dying of cancer. The older man decides that his various talents should not be allowed to die with him and convinces the young man to "push the green button". This single act downloads the scientists experiences and "self" into the mind of Karl. At first, the personalities work together as symbiotes. The scientist is not finished with just his download, however, and continues to download other minds into Karl's brain. The strain of the extra personalities warring in his mind begin to cause problems. Several deaths, including the mad scientist's, have detectives looking into the issue as well.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ Re-Generation

Fri, Jan 24, 1997

Rebecca Highfield is impregnated by Dr. Lucy Cole with the cells of her dead child, which have been cloned from his brain.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ Last Supper

Fri, Jan 31, 1997

Danny Martin falls in love with Jade, a girl from college. When he brings her home for supper, his father recognizes her as the woman he saved from cruel experiments when he was a private in the army 20 years ago.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Stream of Consciousness

Fri, Feb 7, 1997

When a virus starts killing people hooked up neurally to a worldwide information network, the only person who can stop it is a man unable to link into it due to a childhood injury.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Dark Rain

Fri, Feb 14, 1997

With a majority of humanity unable to produce healthy children, the government agency wants to keep the healthy newborn of a couple to repopulate Earth.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Camp

Fri, Feb 21, 1997

For 12 generations, humanity has been enslaved by aliens and imprisoned in camps overseen by androids. One woman dares to challenge the authority of the Commandant. Her desire to be free is pitted against the seemingly invincible aliens.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Heart's Desire

Fri, Feb 28, 1997

In the Oregon Territory in 1872, an alien gives a group of diverse people powers. They then go on a crime spree using them.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ Tempests

Fri, Mar 7, 1997

After being bitten by an alien spider, a crewman of a crashed spaceship has difficulty distinguishing between his hallucinations and reality.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Awakening

Fri, Mar 14, 1997

A woman born with a condition that prevents her from accessing her feelings has a chip installed in her brain so that she can experience human emotion.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ New Lease

Fri, Mar 21, 1997

A doctor is brought back to life using technology he and a colleague developed. He has one day to live and must decide between revenge on those who killed him or reunite with his neglected family.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ Double Helix

Fri, Mar 28, 1997

Dr. Martin Nodel, a brilliant geneticist, tries a formula to advance evolution on himself with amazing and disturbing results.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ Dead Man's Switch

Fri, Apr 4, 1997

An American soldier learns that he is one of five people around the world who are separately sealed underground for a year and are charged with preventing Earth's self-destruction as the world awaits a possible invasion by aliens.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ Music of the Spheres

Fri, May 9, 1997

A college student records what he believes to be an intelligent transmission from outer space, but when younger people are drawn to listening to it, they begin to undergo a terrifying transformation.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson

Fri, Jun 6, 1997

Unstable housewife Becka Paulson accidentally shoots herself in the head, survives and suddenly becomes more intelligent. And strangely, a photo is talking to her.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ Bodies of Evidence

Fri, Jun 20, 1997

The commander of the space station UNAS Meridian is accused of murdering the crew. However, he claims that the crew were lured to their deaths by something much more sinister.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Feasibility Study

Fri, Jul 11, 1997

Joshua Hayward is a single parent who has his hands full with his daughter Sarah who wants to elope with her motorcycle driving boyfriend. They wake up one morning to find that there is no electricity, water or telephone service. When Joshua tries to leave their suburban neighborhood, he finds their way is blocked by an electrical field of some kind. Sarah has plans to run off but she meets an alien creature who is dying and she too is infected. Joshua eventually learns the truth: their entire neighborhood has been carried off to a distant planet to see if humans would be suitable as slave labor. For Joshua, there is only one course of action available to the survivors.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ A Special Edition

Fri, Jul 25, 1997

TV journalist Donald Rivers goes on the air with solid proof that the government and private defense contractors have been engaging in secret genetic cloning. However, someone will do anything to stop him.