
Season 2 (1964)
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Episodes 17
After returning from a mission to Venus, an astronaut can't seem to stay warm enough and has strange dreams about encountering a wraith-like being outside his spaceship window.
Read MoreA scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.
Read MoreA man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.
Read MoreA man with a glass hand attempts to unravel the mystery of who he is.
Read MoreA couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.
Read MoreA manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planets sandy soil.
Read MoreA 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
Read MoreIn 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, unneeeded. 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 t
Read MoreAn alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.
Read MoreA man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.
Read MoreSix future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.
Read MoreA dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.
Read More"The Premonition" is an episode of the original The Outer Limits television show. It first aired on 9 January 1965, during the second season.
Read MoreThe Probe
Enroute to Tokyo, a plane flies into a storm and the pilot is forced to ditch the plane into the eye of a hurricane. The crew and passengers awake on a life boat on a floor of solid plastic. Light beams carve off a chunk of the boat and whisk it away, and the group soon realizes that they have been captured by an alien space probe. Dodging an alien ""microbe"", they find telemetry equipment sending the probe's findings to some distance source. As the probe prepares to depart Earth, the passengers beg for their freedom, and the guiding intelligence at the other end finally protects them from the microbe and frees them while summoning a rescue ship.
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