The Outer Limits (1995)
TVPG
Anthology
Science fiction
Drama
Fantasy
Horror
A science fiction anthology series where each episode explores a unique story that delves into futuristic, paranormal, or dystopian themes, often with a moral or philosophical twist.
Cast & Crew
Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Wednesday, May 6
Fear Itself
Season 4 • Episode 12
Treatment for crippling phobias alters a man's brain.
Wednesday, May 6
The Joining
Season 4 • Episode 13
A scientist merges his DNA with life forms on Venus.
Wednesday, May 6
To Tell the Truth
Season 4 • Episode 14
No one believes a discredited scientist when he claims that the world must be evacuated.
Thursday, May 7
Mary 25
Season 4 • Episode 15
A desperate inventor uses his family as guinea pigs to test a nanny robot.
Thursday, May 7
Final Exam
Season 4 • Episode 16
A college student blackmails the government with a cold-fusion bomb.
Thursday, May 7
Lithia
Season 4 • Episode 17
A cryogenically frozen man awakes to find all humans are women.
Friday, May 8
Monster
Season 4 • Episode 18
A CIA experiment using telekinesis in assassinations backfires.
Friday, May 8
Sarcophagus
Season 4 • Episode 19
Archaeologists make what they believe is the find of the century.
Friday, May 8
Nightmare
Season 4 • Episode 20
A voice interrogates aliens' captives and probes their weaknesses.
Saturday, May 9
Promised Land
Season 4 • Episode 21
Human survivors terrorize a handful of aliens who remain on Earth after an interplanetary war.
Saturday, May 9
Balance of Nature
Season 4 • Episode 22
A doctor finds a way to reverse the process of aging, but at a cost.
Saturday, May 9
Origin of Species
Season 4 • Episode 23
Trying to communicate with aliens, a scientist and his students are drawn into a black void.
Saturday, May 9
Phobos Rising
Season 4 • Episode 24
Soldiers on Mars fear an explosion on Earth marks the end of a long truce between alliances.
Saturday, May 9
The Shroud
Season 5 • Episode 10
A religious order creates an embryo from DNA in the Shroud of Turin.
Saturday, May 9
Ripper
Season 5 • Episode 11
A Victorian doctor searches for the alien creature the police call Jack the Ripper.
Sunday, May 10
Black Box
Season 4 • Episode 25
A war veteran envisions his traumatic final mission.
Sunday, May 10
In Our Own Image
Season 4 • Episode 26
An android goes on a killing spree and takes Celia hostage.
Sunday, May 10
The Alien Radio
Season 5 • Episode 1
A radio host pooh-poohs callers' UFO encounters until one caller kills himself.
Monday, May 11
Donor
Season 5 • Episode 2
Doctors perfect a body transplant for terminally ill patients.
Monday, May 11
Small Friends
Season 5 • Episode 3
Inmates blackmail a brilliant inventor jailed for murder to get his secret invention.
Monday, May 11
The Grell
Season 5 • Episode 4
A government official and his family are shot down over slave territory.
Monday, May 11
The Other Side
Season 5 • Episode 5
A doctor discovers a parallel consciousness.
Tuesday, May 12
Joy Ride
Season 5 • Episode 6
An aging astronaut returns to space to right a wrong turn in his life.
Tuesday, May 12
Human Operators
Season 5 • Episode 7
A woman inspires an enslaved man to rebel.
Tuesday, May 12
Blank Slate
Season 5 • Episode 8
Carrying vials that hold his memories, a man runs from agents and stumbles into a homeless shelter.
Wednesday, May 13
What Will the Neighbors Think?
Season 5 • Episode 9
Chaos erupts when a woman develops the power to read her neighbors' minds.
Wednesday, May 13
The Shroud
Season 5 • Episode 10
A religious order creates an embryo from DNA in the Shroud of Turin.
Wednesday, May 13
Ripper
Season 5 • Episode 11
A Victorian doctor searches for the alien creature the police call Jack the Ripper.
Thursday, May 14
The Tribunal
Season 5 • Episode 12
A concentration camp survivor relies on a time traveler to bring a Nazi war criminal to justice.
Thursday, May 14
Summit
Season 5 • Episode 13
Desperate negotiations are all that can save both Earth and its mining colony.
Thursday, May 14
Descent
Season 5 • Episode 14
After injecting himself with primitive DNA, a mild-mannered professor becomes bold and powerful.
Friday, May 15
The Haven
Season 5 • Episode 15
The supercomputer in a high-tech apartment complex malfunctions, endangering residents.
Friday, May 15
Deja Vu
Season 5 • Episode 16
A scientist experimenting with opening a wormhole gets caught in a time loop.
Friday, May 15
The Inheritors
Season 5 • Episode 17
When a meteor explodes, three people return from the dead.
Saturday, May 16
Essence of Life
Season 5 • Episode 18
An agent tracks a substance that brings back the dead.
Saturday, May 16
Stranded
Season 5 • Episode 19
Neglected by his father, a boy finds comfort with an alien whose spaceship crash-lands on Earth.
Saturday, May 16
The Tribunal
Season 5 • Episode 12
A concentration camp survivor relies on a time traveler to bring a Nazi war criminal to justice.
Saturday, May 16
Summit
Season 5 • Episode 13
Desperate negotiations are all that can save both Earth and its mining colony.
Sunday, May 17
Fathers and Sons
Season 5 • Episode 20
A man tries to rescue his grandfather from a rest home.
Sunday, May 17
The Star Crossed
Season 5 • Episode 21
A cynical café owner who encounters an old flame in a world dominated by alien invaders.
Sunday, May 17
Better Luck Next Time
Season 5 • Episode 22
A detective investigates which one of two unusual suspects has committed a series of murders.
Monday, May 18
Judgment Day
Season 6 • Episode 1
A man convicted of murder tries to prove his innocence while being hunted.
Monday, May 18
The Gun
Season 6 • Episode 2
A stranger arrives in a small town bearing weapons that turn people into killing machines.
Monday, May 18
Skin Deep
Season 6 • Episode 3
With Adam Goldberg, Christina Cox, Antonio Sabato, Deanna Milligan and Linden Banks.
Monday, May 18
Manifest Destiny
Season 6 • Episode 4
A rescue crew starts going suicidally insane after boarding a derelict interplanetary battleship.
Tuesday, May 19
Breaking Point
Season 6 • Episode 5
A time-traveling scientist discovers his wife has been murdered.
Tuesday, May 19
The Beholder
Season 6 • Episode 6
A blind man regains his sight, discovering he can see an alien woman who is invisible to others.
Tuesday, May 19
Seeds of Destruction
Season 6 • Episode 7
A small-town vet probes links between fast-breeding tumors and genetically engineered corn.
Wednesday, May 20
Simon Says
Season 6 • Episode 8
A man builds a robot to replace his deceased son; with Joel Grey and Hiro Kanagawa.
Wednesday, May 20
Stasis
Season 6 • Episode 9
Two lovers living in an oppressive future society try to connect.
Wednesday, May 20
Down to Earth
Season 6 • Episode 10
A mysterious stranger who claims to have a piece of an alien spaceship causes paranoia.
Thursday, May 21
Inner Child
Season 6 • Episode 11
A woman realizes her body is being taken over by a second brain the remnants of a Siamese twin.
Thursday, May 21
Glitch
Season 6 • Episode 12
An military android makes a bid for freedom, guided from beyond the grave by its inventor.
Thursday, May 21
Decompression
Season 6 • Episode 13
A woman visits a presidential candidate on his plane, saying she has come from the future.
Friday, May 22
Abaddon
Season 6 • Episode 14
A space salvage crew gets a deadly history lesson from a genocidal militia leader.
Friday, May 22
The Grid
Season 6 • Episode 15
Investigating his brother's murder, a man discovers a mind control project operated by a computer.
Friday, May 22
Revival
Season 6 • Episode 16
A faith healer bites off more than he can chew when his protégé turns out to be a man-eating alien.
Saturday, May 23
Gettysburg
Season 6 • Episode 17
Civil War re-enactors are transported to the Battle of Gettysburg.
Saturday, May 23
Something About Harry
Season 6 • Episode 18
A man fears his mother's tenant is involved in disappearances.
Saturday, May 23
Zig Zag
Season 6 • Episode 19
A columnist leads an attack on a society-controlling computer.
Saturday, May 23
The Nest
Season 6 • Episode 20
Buddies battle a strange infestation at an Arctic research station.
Saturday, May 23
Descent
Season 5 • Episode 14
After injecting himself with primitive DNA, a mild-mannered professor becomes bold and powerful.
Saturday, May 23
The Haven
Season 5 • Episode 15
The supercomputer in a high-tech apartment complex malfunctions, endangering residents.
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