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 4

S4.E1 ∙ Criminal Nature

Fri, Jan 23, 1998

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

2Season 4

S4.E2 ∙ The Hunt

Fri, Jan 30, 1998

Since the hunting of animals is illegal, people pay to hunt outdated androids who can not fight back due to a chip which prevents them from causing harm to humans. However, the androids discover how to turn these chips off.

3Season 4

S4.E3 ∙ Hearts and Minds

Fri, Feb 6, 1998

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 the drug wears off.

4Season 4

S4.E4 ∙ In Another Life

Mon, Feb 16, 1998

A despondent man is pulled into a parallel universe full of different versions of himself and is given a mission to track down and kill one of them.

5Season 4

S4.E5 ∙ In the Zone

Fri, Feb 20, 1998

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

6Season 4

S4.E6 ∙ Relativity Theory

Fri, Feb 27, 1998

A survey team searching for resources for Earth lands on a promising planet which appears to be uninhabited. However, they soon come under attack and must decide how to respond.

7Season 4

S4.E7 ∙ Josh

Fri, Mar 6, 1998

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.

8Season 4

S4.E8 ∙ Rite of Passage

Fri, Mar 13, 1998

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.

9Season 4

S4.E9 ∙ Glyphic

Fri, Mar 20, 1998

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.

10Season 4

S4.E10 ∙ Identity Crisis

Fri, Mar 27, 1998

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

11Season 4

S4.E11 ∙ The Vaccine

Fri, Apr 3, 1998

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.

12Season 4

S4.E12 ∙ Fear Itself

Fri, Apr 10, 1998

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.

13Season 4

S4.E13 ∙ The Joining

Fri, Apr 17, 1998

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.

14Season 4

S4.E14 ∙ To Tell the Truth

Fri, Apr 24, 1998

The founder of a colony on Janus V 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.

15Season 4

S4.E15 ∙ Mary 25

Fri, May 29, 1998

An android nanny is programmed to protect children from harm, but gets involved in a romantic triangle between the husband and his abused wife, while showing signs of flawed programming.

16Season 4

S4.E16 ∙ Final Exam

Fri, Jun 26, 1998

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 5 people he hates. Most physicists believe cold fusion is impossible, so Todtman detonates a demo bomb by remote control. Should the government kill his 5 or risk Todtman killing 5 million?

17Season 4

S4.E17 ∙ Lithia

Fri, Jul 3, 1998

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.

18Season 4

S4.E18 ∙ Monster

Fri, Jul 10, 1998

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.

19Season 4

S4.E19 ∙ Sarcophagus

Fri, Aug 7, 1998

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

20Season 4

S4.E20 ∙ Nightmare

Fri, Aug 14, 1998

Men on a mission to deploy a doomsday device against an alien planet are captured and psychologically tortured. One escapes and deploys the device but makes an unfortunate discovery.

21Season 4

S4.E21 ∙ Promised Land

Fri, Aug 21, 1998

On a future Earth, a group of alien settlers and 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 co-exist?

22Season 4

S4.E22 ∙ The Balance of Nature

Fri, Sep 4, 1998

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

23Season 4

S4.E23 ∙ The Origin of Species

Fri, Nov 27, 1998

Dr. Eric 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 son Paul, girlfriend Hope, and six students who are individually absorbed into the ship.

24Season 4

S4.E24 ∙ Phobos Rising

Fri, Dec 4, 1998

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.

25Season 4

S4.E25 ∙ Black Box

Fri, Dec 11, 1998

Lt. Col. Brandon Grace returns to civilian life and is haunted by memories of his previous mission, attempt to reconcile with his estranged from his daughter and a feeling that someone is stalking him.

26Season 4

S4.E26 ∙ In Our Own Image

Fri, Dec 18, 1998

An android capable of emotions is damaged. He escapes from the laboratory and kidnaps a secretary to repair him. The woman begins to fall for him and tries to convince him that he is more than the sum of his parts.