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.
Tuesday, April 28
Dark Rain
Season 3 • Episode 6
Chemical warfare leaves humanity unable to reproduce normally.
Tuesday, April 28
The Camp
Season 3 • Episode 7
A prisoner learns the truth about the alien invaders that have enslaved mankind for centuries.
Tuesday, April 28
Heart's Desire
Season 3 • Episode 8
An alien visitor gives four Old West outlaws the power to disintegrate their enemies.
Wednesday, April 29
Tempests
Season 3 • Episode 9
An astronaut's spaceship crashes while carrying anti-plague vaccine.
Wednesday, April 29
Awakening
Season 3 • Episode 10
An implant allows a young woman to experience normal emotions.
Wednesday, April 29
New Lease
Season 3 • Episode 11
Brought back to life, a scientist seeks revenge on his killer.
Thursday, April 30
Double Helix
Season 3 • Episode 12
A reckless scientist's experiments initiate a close encounter.
Thursday, April 30
Dead Man's Switch
Season 3 • Episode 13
A soldier inhabits a bunker with doomsday devices as aliens land on Earth.
Thursday, April 30
Music of the Spheres
Season 3 • Episode 14
A music broadcast from distant planets turns young listeners on Earth into aliens.
Friday, May 1
The Revelations of Becka Paulson
Season 3 • Episode 15
A dowdy housewife communicates with a photograph after shooting herself.
Friday, May 1
Bodies of Evidence
Season 3 • Episode 16
When the crew members of a space station die, the captain is accused of murder.
Friday, May 1
Feasibility Study
Season 3 • Episode 17
Aliens take a human community into space to see if they will make good slaves.
Saturday, May 2
A Special Edition
Season 3 • Episode 18
Mysterious forces try to prevent a journalist from broadcasting his story about cloning.
Saturday, May 2
The Criminal Nature
Season 4 • Episode 1
Genetic engineering creates two strains of newborns, one eminent, one deformed and violent.
Saturday, May 2
Blank Slate
Season 5 • Episode 8
Carrying vials that hold his memories, a man runs from agents and stumbles into a homeless shelter.
Saturday, May 2
What Will the Neighbors Think?
Season 5 • Episode 9
Chaos erupts when a woman develops the power to read her neighbors' minds.
Sunday, May 3
The Hunt
Season 4 • Episode 2
After animal hunting is banned, sportsmen hunt androids which are no longer useful.
Sunday, May 3
Hearts and Minds
Season 4 • Episode 3
Soldiers battle insectlike aliens trying to steal an energy source from Earth.
Sunday, May 3
In Another Life
Season 4 • Episode 4
A suicidal man is transported to another dimension to kill a homicidal alter ego.
Monday, May 4
In the Zone
Season 4 • Episode 5
An experimental treatment makes an athlete unbeatable but costs him his life.
Monday, May 4
Relativity Theory
Season 4 • Episode 6
A biologist discovers a new alien race, and her crew mutinies.
Monday, May 4
Josh
Season 4 • Episode 7
A TV reporter and some soldiers encounter a supernatural being.
Monday, May 4
Rite of Passage
Season 4 • Episode 8
Two humans wonder if their "mother" is a monstrosity or a savior.
Tuesday, May 5
Glyphic
Season 4 • Episode 9
Hypnosis unravels the mystery of an ailment that killed a town's children.
Tuesday, May 5
Identity Crisis
Season 4 • Episode 10
A rival kills a soldier whose mind has been transferred into an android.
Tuesday, May 5
Vaccine
Season 4 • Episode 11
A dozen survivors of a fatal plague must decide who will get the only three vaccinations available.
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.
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