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.
Friday, August 15
Identity Crisis
Season 4 • Episode 10
A rival kills a soldier whose mind has been transferred into an android.
Saturday, August 16
Vaccine
Season 4 • Episode 11
A dozen survivors of a fatal plague must decide who will get the only three vaccinations available.
Sunday, August 17
Fear Itself
Season 4 • Episode 12
Treatment for crippling phobias alters a man's brain.
Monday, August 18
Relativity Theory
Season 4 • Episode 6
A biologist discovers a new alien race, and her crew mutinies.
Monday, August 18
Josh
Season 4 • Episode 7
A TV reporter and some soldiers encounter a supernatural being.
Monday, August 18
Rite of Passage
Season 4 • Episode 8
Two humans wonder if their "mother" is a monstrosity or a savior.
Monday, August 18
Glyphic
Season 4 • Episode 9
Hypnosis unravels the mystery of an ailment that killed a town's children.
Tuesday, August 19
The Joining
Season 4 • Episode 13
A scientist merges his DNA with life forms on Venus.
Tuesday, August 19
Identity Crisis
Season 4 • Episode 10
A rival kills a soldier whose mind has been transferred into an android.
Tuesday, August 19
Vaccine
Season 4 • Episode 11
A dozen survivors of a fatal plague must decide who will get the only three vaccinations available.
Tuesday, August 19
Fear Itself
Season 4 • Episode 12
Treatment for crippling phobias alters a man's brain.
Tuesday, August 19
The Joining
Season 4 • Episode 13
A scientist merges his DNA with life forms on Venus.
Wednesday, August 20
To Tell the Truth
Season 4 • Episode 14
No one believes a discredited scientist when he claims that the world must be evacuated.
Wednesday, August 20
To Tell the Truth
Season 4 • Episode 14
No one believes a discredited scientist when he claims that the world must be evacuated.
Wednesday, August 20
Mary 25
Season 4 • Episode 15
A desperate inventor uses his family as guinea pigs to test a nanny robot.
Wednesday, August 20
Final Exam
Season 4 • Episode 16
A college student blackmails the government with a cold-fusion bomb.
Wednesday, August 20
Lithia
Season 4 • Episode 17
A cryogenically frozen man awakes to find all humans are women.
Thursday, August 21
Mary 25
Season 4 • Episode 15
A desperate inventor uses his family as guinea pigs to test a nanny robot.
Thursday, August 21
Monster
Season 4 • Episode 18
A CIA experiment using telekinesis in assassinations backfires.
Thursday, August 21
Sarcophagus
Season 4 • Episode 19
Archaeologists make what they believe is the find of the century.
Thursday, August 21
Nightmare
Season 4 • Episode 20
A voice interrogates aliens' captives and probes their weaknesses.
Thursday, August 21
Promised Land
Season 4 • Episode 21
Human survivors terrorize a handful of aliens who remain on Earth after an interplanetary war.
Friday, August 22
Final Exam
Season 4 • Episode 16
A college student blackmails the government with a cold-fusion bomb.
Saturday, August 23
Lithia
Season 4 • Episode 17
A cryogenically frozen man awakes to find all humans are women.
Sunday, August 24
Monster
Season 4 • Episode 18
A CIA experiment using telekinesis in assassinations backfires.
Monday, August 25
Sarcophagus
Season 4 • Episode 19
Archaeologists make what they believe is the find of the century.
Monday, August 25
Balance of Nature
Season 4 • Episode 22
A doctor finds a way to reverse the process of aging, but at a cost.
Monday, August 25
Origin of Species
Season 4 • Episode 23
Trying to communicate with aliens, a scientist and his students are drawn into a black void.
Monday, August 25
Phobos Rising
Season 4 • Episode 24
Soldiers on Mars fear an explosion on Earth marks the end of a long truce between alliances.
Monday, August 25
Black Box
Season 4 • Episode 25
A war veteran envisions his traumatic final mission.
Tuesday, August 26
Nightmare
Season 4 • Episode 20
A voice interrogates aliens' captives and probes their weaknesses.
Tuesday, August 26
In Our Own Image
Season 4 • Episode 26
An android goes on a killing spree and takes Celia hostage.
Tuesday, August 26
The Alien Radio
Season 5 • Episode 1
A radio host pooh-poohs callers' UFO encounters until one caller kills himself.
Tuesday, August 26
Donor
Season 5 • Episode 2
Doctors perfect a body transplant for terminally ill patients.
Tuesday, August 26
Small Friends
Season 5 • Episode 3
Inmates blackmail a brilliant inventor jailed for murder to get his secret invention.
Wednesday, August 27
Promised Land
Season 4 • Episode 21
Human survivors terrorize a handful of aliens who remain on Earth after an interplanetary war.
Wednesday, August 27
The Grell
Season 5 • Episode 4
A government official and his family are shot down over slave territory.
Wednesday, August 27
The Other Side
Season 5 • Episode 5
A doctor discovers a parallel consciousness.
Wednesday, August 27
Joy Ride
Season 5 • Episode 6
An aging astronaut returns to space to right a wrong turn in his life.
Wednesday, August 27
Human Operators
Season 5 • Episode 7
A woman inspires an enslaved man to rebel.
Thursday, August 28
Balance of Nature
Season 4 • Episode 22
A doctor finds a way to reverse the process of aging, but at a cost.
Thursday, August 28
Blank Slate
Season 5 • Episode 8
Carrying vials that hold his memories, a man runs from agents and stumbles into a homeless shelter.
Thursday, August 28
What Will the Neighbors Think?
Season 5 • Episode 9
Chaos erupts when a woman develops the power to read her neighbors' minds.
Thursday, August 28
The Shroud
Season 5 • Episode 10
A religious order creates an embryo from DNA in the Shroud of Turin.
Thursday, August 28
Ripper
Season 5 • Episode 11
A Victorian doctor searches for the alien creature the police call Jack the Ripper.
Friday, August 29
Origin of Species
Season 4 • Episode 23
Trying to communicate with aliens, a scientist and his students are drawn into a black void.
Saturday, August 30
Phobos Rising
Season 4 • Episode 24
Soldiers on Mars fear an explosion on Earth marks the end of a long truce between alliances.
Sunday, August 31
Black Box
Season 4 • Episode 25
A war veteran envisions his traumatic final mission.
Monday, September 1
In Our Own Image
Season 4 • Episode 26
An android goes on a killing spree and takes Celia hostage.
Monday, September 1
The Tribunal
Season 5 • Episode 12
A concentration camp survivor relies on a time traveler to bring a Nazi war criminal to justice.
Monday, September 1
Summit
Season 5 • Episode 13
Desperate negotiations are all that can save both Earth and its mining colony.
Monday, September 1
Descent
Season 5 • Episode 14
After injecting himself with primitive DNA, a mild-mannered professor becomes bold and powerful.
Monday, September 1
The Haven
Season 5 • Episode 15
The supercomputer in a high-tech apartment complex malfunctions, endangering residents.
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