The Outer Limits · S1 · E23
Second Chance
A group of people board an amusement park ride. Then they (and their surprised "captain") find that they're really going on a space jaunt.
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A group of people board an amusement park ride. Then they (and their surprised "captain") find that they're really going on a space jaunt.
Season 1
1The Galaxy Being
52 minSep 16, 1963★ 7.0
A radio station engineer named Allan Maxwell establishes contact with an alien being. But when the station's power is turned up, the alien is teleported to Earth where its radioactive nature causes havoc.
2The Hundred Days of the Dragon
52 minSep 23, 1963
A sinister foreign power replaces the President of the United States with its own agent via the use of a powerful drug allowing the skin to be temporarily molded into any likeness.
3The Architects of Fear
52 minSep 30, 1963★ 7.0
A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.
4The Man with the Power
51 minOct 7, 1963
A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
5The Sixth Finger
52 minOct 14, 1963★ 7.7
A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.
6The Man Who Was Never Born
52 minOct 28, 1963★ 6.9
An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.
7O.B.I.T.
52 minNov 4, 1963
A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.
8The Human Factor
52 minNov 11, 1963
At a military base far in the arctic, a man invents a machine which allows two minds to contact one another. An earthquake causes a malfunction and two men wake up to find that their minds have switched bodies.
9Corpus Earthling
52 minNov 18, 1963
A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?
10Nightmare
52 minDec 2, 1963
In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
11It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
52 minDec 9, 1963
An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.
12The Borderland
52 minDec 16, 1963
A scientist named Ian Fraser invents a machine which can pierce the borderland between this world and... The Afterlife? Maybe. Fraser convinces an industrialist to finance future experiments with the possibility of contacting the rich man's dead son.
13Tourist Attraction
52 minDec 23, 1963
In a South American country a group of explorers discover a prehistoric monster in an ancient lake. The discovery leads them into conflict with the country's dictator.
14The Zanti Misfits
52 minDec 30, 1963
Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.
15The Mice
52 minJan 6, 1964
A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.
16Controlled Experiment
52 minJan 13, 1964
Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
17Don't Open Till Doomsday
52 minJan 20, 1964
A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.
18ZZZZZ
52 minJan 27, 1964
A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
19The Invisibles
52 minFeb 3, 1964
A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.
20The Bellero Shield
52 minFeb 10, 1964
A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
21The Children of Spider County
52 minFeb 17, 1964
Four scientists disappear in one day. All were born in the same county, on the same day. A fifth scientist is in jail and a federal agent is assigned to the case. The fifth man is sprung from jail by a mysterious stranger who says he's the young man's father.
22Specimen: Unknown
52 minFeb 24, 1964
Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.
23Second Chance
52 minMar 2, 1964Now viewing
A group of people board an amusement park ride. Then they (and their surprised "captain") find that they're really going on a space jaunt.
24Moonstone
52 minMar 9, 1964
Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
25The Mutant
52 minMar 16, 1964
A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.
26The Guests
52 minMar 23, 1964
After discovering an elderly man dying by the side of the road, a young man finds a strange house where some people are kept prisoner and ageless by an alien intelligence.
27Fun and Games
52 minMar 30, 1964
Two Earth people are transported to an alien planet, along with two aliens. The are told by their abductors that they will fight each other to the death. The stakes are high: the homeworld of the losers will be destroyed slowly, for the further amusement of their captors.
28The Special One
52 minApr 6, 1964
Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.
29A Feasibility Study
52 minApr 13, 1964
The people of Earth surprise their alien captors when an entire neighborhood is transported to another planet as part of a plan to enslave the human race.
30Production and Decay of Strange Particles
52 minApr 20, 1964
An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.
31The Chameleon
52 minApr 27, 1964
A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.
32The Forms of Things Unknown
52 minMay 4, 1964
Two women with a body in their car trunk come upon a house by chance wherein a crazed inventor has a machine that can bring back the dead.
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