The Outer Limits: The Complete Original Series

Cliff Robertson stars as a disc jockey whose radio tower allows a highly-dangerous glowing radioactive being to come to Earth.

When a scientist in the Orient invents a serum that permits human flesh to be remolded and shaped at will the Premier sees a way of overtaking the world.

Robert Culp is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.

Donald Pleasence plays a college professor who devises a method of harnessing cosmic energy into an undetectable beam that can devastate humans.

David McCallum is a coal miner who is transformed into a futuristic man with a grotesquely enlarged brain a sixth finger and tremendous mental powers.

Martin Landau portrays a time-traveller desperately trying to stop the birth of an inventor whose bacterium turns humans into mutants.

At the top secret Cypress Hills Research Center scientists are kept under constant watch through O.B.I.T. Outer Bank Individuated Teletracer a mysterious electronic device.

On a military base in the frozen vastness of Greenland an army psychiatrist devises a machine which enables him to tune in directly to his patients' thoughts.

Dr. Jonas Temple geologists and his assistant Laurie have been examining some unusual rocks which seem unlike any they have studied.

A group of astronauts are captured on the planet Ebon and made prisoners of war. The Ebonites interrogate all of the prisoners using such special methods to get information as torture.

At the Norco Energy Research Commission a cleaning lady is finishing her midnight chores. As she vacuums her machine picks up a small inanimate black mass.

Ian Russell Director of Research at Arrex Electronics is conducting an experiment on a small magnetic field cell when he accidentally drops his pencil.

Tycoon John Dexter spears a dolphin-like sea creature off San Blas in the Caribbean. It appears to be dead but on shore it comes to life and begins to make shrill whistling sounds.

Throughout history society has been faced with the problem of what to do with malcontents and misfits whose behavior undermines and destroys the foundations of civilizations.

Dr. Thomas Kellander Director of Neo-Kinematics is in charge of a machine that will break down matter to electrical waves so it can be transmitted like radio.

The inhabitants of Mars and its satellites send two messengers to research the peculiar phenomenon known only to the human race -- murder.

On the night of her marriage in 1929 Mrs. Harvey Kry's husband suddenly disappeared. He made the mistake of unwrapping a gift labeled Don't Open Till Doomsday.

Entomologist Ben Fields has been specializing in the study of bees. His lab contains a system of computers which allow him to talk to the insects and learn of their society and lives.

After a billion billion years the strange forces of cosmic energy have put together nameless nuclei that met and fell to Earth.

Richard Bellero's experiments with a laser beam gun capture a traveler from a world of light.

Four of the nations' leading young scientists simultaneously vanish and the succeeding investigation reveals they were all born in Spider County within the same month.

Dabney Coleman discovers a strange alien life form on the walls of a space lab which is capable of maturing into flowers that emit a universally lethal toxin.

An amusement park joy ride becomes an unexpected trip into space by an Empyrian from another planet. The passengers are unwilling and are chosen by the Empyrian.

An expeditionary force on the moon finds a strange spherical stone. It turns out to be a space craft from another planet containing a number of strange beings.

A group of scientists living on a strange planet -- Annex One -- are held there by one of their own scientists who has become a mutant due to the effect of the Radio Isotopes in the rainfall.

The secret of long life is unfolded in this dramatic story of young lovers. As long as the people remain as guests in their strange surroundings they will retain youth forever.

The fun and games on the satellite Arena consist of pitting creatures from other worlds against one another with the losers forfeiting the lives of all the inhabitants of their own planet.

In the advanced culture of the planet Venus a search is under way for a source of manpower to meet daily needs.

Intelligence agent Louis Mace disguises himself to infiltrate a party of creatures from another planet.

Roy Benjamin's son Kenny is a bright young boy who has been enrolled in the government Enrichment Program for unusually talented children.

After a nuclear reactor goes out of control a flood of radiation is released in the form of near-human creatures.

This was a pilot for a proposed anthology story of eerie tales. David McCallum played a mad scientist who can manipulate time - as well as life and death.

A quirk in time lands an soldier of the future armed with an incredible weapon and an exaggerated instinct to kill back to the present day. Government authorities apprehend him and hold him in custody for examination. They discover that he's the ultimate soldier trained solely to destroy his enemy...another futuristic soldier who has also returned from the future and is stalking him. Befriended by a scientist the Soldier is taken into his home. Later armed with the rifle he runs amuck. But he is persuaded not to harm anyone. Finally the Enemy appears bearing a futuristic weapon and mortal combat ensues.

Astronaut Jeff Barton returns from a successful and much - heralded orbit of the planet Venus. His heroic exploit earns him full command of a proposed space flight to colonize Mars. But before funds for the project can be appropriated General Barton must appear before the Senate Committee with a complete report.All is well until unexpected physiological changes begin to occur which dramatically affect Barton's appearance and well-being. In a dream he relives an encounter with a Venus Creature he is beginning to resemble. All the facilities of space medicine are applied to effect a cure. They are only partially successful until coupled with the power of love manifest by the astronaut's wife. If he recovers in time to testify convincingly to the Senate Committee he'll write a new chapter in Man's history in space.

Quite by chance eye-specialist James Stones fashions several pairs of glasses which enable his patients to see an otherwise invisible horrendous two dimensional monster. The creature attacks each patient not to do harm but merely to take away his glasses. Using his own pair of special lenses Dr. Stone discovers that all the creature wants is to find a way back to the outer world whence he came accidentally. Failure to close this door within hours will mean the destruction of Earth. Dr. Stone working frantically to make more lenses is thwarted when the creature suddenly becomes visible to all and panic ensues. As the city's security forces trap the creature in a blazing room Dr. Stone works feverishly to save him so he can close the fateful doors that threaten the earth. The doctor succeeds completes grinding the lenses and enables the harmless monster to return to his two dimensional world.

Roy Clinton a university professor experiments with a drug that expands human consciousness. The drug not only increases Clinton's awareness and sensitivity but also changes his appearance gives him hypnotic power and superhuman strength.The effect of the drug endangers Clinton Dr. Peter Wayne Clinton's brother-in-law and associate - as well as the lives of those around him.

Alien soldiers from the distant future of the Universe invade Earth via a time-mirror. Their mission: capture the last human to survive a war that's to occur in the future between Earth and the invaders. The single Earth survivor appears to be normal in all respects save one...His right hand is glass and contains a computer chip which holds the secret of where the future generations of Earthmen are hiding after the holocaust. But finally assembled it reveals the true identity of the Last Man of Earth.

Andy and Karen Thorne drive to remote Wild Canyon to inspect some farmland that they may purchase. En route their car stalls - they've been roadblocked and surrounded by sentient tumbleweeds! Farmer Lamont discovers the beleaguered couple and rescues them. Driving them back to his farmhouse he reveals that a meteor-like object recently plummeted to Earth in the vicinity. Andy and Karen soon realize that Lamont - like the weird tumbleweeds - is possessed by an alien power. Andy puts himself in jeopardy in an effort unravel the unearthly mystery of Wild Canyon.

A flight to Mars succeeds - but the astronauts don't come back. A second expedition sets out to discover why first men on Mars landed safely but never returned. They find wreckage of the first craft but there's no sign of life. One of the crew mysteriously disappears in a sea of sand. A trace of blood leads the crew to suspect an invisible enemy. Investigation of the strange sea imperils the flight Commander and his crew exert heroic efforts to save him from a horde of monsters that inhabits the region.

Professor Jonathan Wragg reproduces a planet in miniature and introduces the DNA factor: life. Evolutionary forces on the planet progress at such a rate that life on the small planet soon advances in time to the present day. Further evolution beyond the present reveals what life on Earth has in store for mankind. Electronic photos of the microcosm's future show the existence of a grotesque monster of violence on the planet. The creature escapes the laboratory and attacks the scientist. Wragg's quick-witted wife witnessing the attack goes into action to save her husband and possibly - the world.

Dr. Charles Link a small town research scientist constructs a robot. Link's murdered. The robot Adam is blamed and declared to be a Frankenstein monster. Grotesque in size and make-up Adam has a computer-like brain that affords him a gentle personality and most human capabilities. Apprehended the robot is threatened with destruction by authorities. Nina Link's niece gets a defense attorney Thurman Cutler to force the matter into court for an official judgment in trial without precedent.

A soldier falls in Vietnam felled by an unusual bullet. Miraculously he survives long enough to be sent to the US for an operation. Adam Ballard the Assistant to the Secretary of Science apprises his boss of the situation. Lt. Minns survived but now has a second brainwave pattern much stronger than his own. Just like the other three. All four experience dramatic increases in intelligence over 200. And new interests: biochemistry metallurgy physics and finance. And each seem to be driven to a mysterious goal unknown even to themselves. Ballard tracks down each of them or tries to. Conover turns away from the Swedish shipyard where he was working because he seems to sense that Ballard is inside talking to his supervisor. Ballard learns that Hadley (now in South America searching for the herb rara coelensis) was working on ventilation systems. Conover had devised new alloys which were stronger and lighter than the original metals. And he finds that Renaldo has invented an anti-gravity device. I've beaten gravity he tells Ballard bitterly. He has no joy over his accomplishment. He had no choice in the matter. The unknown mission required that he do it and he did. Minns with his interest in finance is financing the whole operation. And more. He's contacting children asking them to accompany him. As Part one closes Ballard and other feds have Minns' apartment surrounded.

In Part Two Ballard follows up on a lead from Minns' apartment: a list of names. He finds that they're all children -- special children. Minerva Gordon is blind Danny Masters is a deaf mute others are handicapped in various ways. He makes preparations to protect the kids from Minns to no avail. He then sets up a series of roadblocks on the road to Wichita where a spaceship is being built. Ballard and Minns have a confrontation at the warehouse. At first Minns and the others are in the dark about what will happen to the children. Then the alien intelligence reveals the final explanation to Minns and he takes Ballard inside the ship. He finds that the damaged children are whole again and well. Crutches and leg braces lay on the deck unneeded. Minerva can see and Danny can hear and speak. Minns tells Ballard that the atmosphere in the ship duplicates that of the planet they'll be travelling to. And that if taken off the ship the children will immediately revert. He says that they will be going to a planet that had been wiped out by a catastrophe and they would be colonizing the planet. All four of the soldiers would accompany the children. Now that the doubts about their mission have been erased they all agree readily.

Scientist Eric Plummer comes under the sinister influence of a creature from outer space. It's capable of materializing in human form but lacks normal emotions. Plummer agrees to exchange his emotions for scientific data known only to the creature. The monster takes command of the scientist's emotions but has great difficulty in understanding such things as love and beauty which are unknown in his totally physical world. With the data Plummer harnesses a fantastic energy source and fashions a weapon capable of destroying all life. The creature begins to feel compassion for humanity and returns the scientist's emotions to him...and is now vulnerable to attack by those of his own weird world who resent his defection.

Henderson James a Twenty-First Century space anthropologist secretly studies a strange animal from another planet. Captain Karl Emmett a retired interplanetary explorer had smuggled the creature back to Earth in spite of the 1976 ban on importation. The creature a Megasoid possesses intelligence higher than man's but it is obsessed with only one emotion....hate. When the creature escapes its confinement James has the Federal Duplication Bureau create an exact duplicate of his human body for the sole purpose of finding and killing the creature. The two Henderson James's original and duplicate soon find themselves endangered not by the Megasoid but by each other.

A group of carefully selected passengers board a space ship for a simulated flight to a space ship for a simulated flight to a distant planet. A panic button is the only contact they'll have with the outside world for the duration. Pressing it will end the flight. The long confinement plays upon their nerves and the interplay of their emotions. Gradually fear spreads throughout the group. Fear gives way to panic when an alien influence actually invades the ship. The alien power fears that its own security is in jeopardy if the research continues. Seizing one of the passengers the power tries to force him to push the panic button to end the experiment.

Brilliant space explorer Colonel Alec Barham is about to die of a fatal disease. As part of a scientific project developed by Dr. Rahm and despite the protests of Mrs. Barham and army psychologist Colonel McKinnon Barham consents to having his brain transplanted in computer-like mechanical man. This advanced robot will man space flights never before undertaken. The transplant is successful. The half-human-half-robot not only talks but develops a strength and power far beyond anything the scientists had ever anticipated...and becomes a menace that all agree must be destroyed at all costs.

Under instructions from flight control director Baldwin test pilot Jim Darcy executes a maneuver which causes his supersonic plane to exceed heretofore known velocities. The plane goes out of control...Darcy prepares for a crash landing...and at the same time his wife is racing to the scene. Suddenly...time stands still. The world about them is frozen. Darcy's guess that a time barrier has been broken is confirmed when a limbo creature appears and threatens to prevent the Darcy's from returning to the animate present.

Pilot Cobe Coberly heads the crew of a transoceanic cargo plane inflight to Tokyo with only passenger Amanda Frank. A hurricane forces the plane to ditch directly within the eye of the storm. The people scramble into a life raft....and run aground on a strange solid surface in mid-Pacific. Dexter the navigator sets out to investigate the odd place. His distant screams are heard. Then an amorphous glob advances threatening the remaining crew. Further exploration reveals that they are all captives within a laboratory equipped with instruments and mechanization far in advance of anything known to scientists of Earth.