| # |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Original air date |
Prod # |
| 1 |
"The Galaxy Being" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
16 September 1963 |
1 |
| The engineer of radio station KXKVI (sic), who is researching microwave background noise, inadvertently gets an alien from the Andromeda Galaxy on his three-dimensional television screen. Both are conducting illicit experiments; the human being should not be using the radio station's power, and the alien is forbidden to contact Earth "because you are danger to other galaxies." Despite warnings from the alien about applying excessive power to the communication, an undisciplined disc jockey turns it up whilst the engineer is being feted at a banquet. The power surge causes the microwave creature to be pulled through the communications apparatus and to appear on Earth. Although it has no desire to cause harm, its unearthly composition wreaks havoc by radiation, electrical blackouts, atmospheric disturbances, and overloaded-circuit explosions. While authorities quickly mobilize to attack the "hostile" alien, the engineer desperately tries to find a way to get it back to its home planet. |
| 2 |
"The Hundred Days of the Dragon" |
Byron Haskin |
Allan Balter and Robert Mintz |
23 September 1963 |
7 |
| An Asian government plans to takeover America by infiltrating and substituting all the Officials at the White House. During the campaign trail, William Lyons Selby (the candidate predicted to win the next Presidential Election) is murdered and replaced by a look-a-like spy. The spy, as Selby, is finally elected. Though he fools the nation at large, the president's daughter soon begins to suspect that the man is not her father. She voices her concerns to the Vice-President. The Asians then attempt to murder and replace him as well. |
| 3 |
"The Architects of Fear" |
Byron Haskin |
Meyer Dolinsky |
30 September 1963 |
5 |
| Although no specific era is indicated within the story, the plot revolves around a Cold War setting in which a nuclear holocaust appears to be imminent. In an attempt to stave off a confrontation between military superpowers through uniting the world against a common enemy, a group of scientists decide to physically transform one of their own members into an alien being and stage a fake invasion of Earth. This transformation is achieved by genetic alteration of scientist Allen Leighton, using genetic material from a rather small and non-threatening alien lifeform which the scientists have in their possession. Complications arise when the physical alteration also affects Leighton's mind, and is compounded by his strong attachment to his pregnant wife. |
| 4 |
"The Man with the Power" |
Laslo Benedek |
Jerome Ross |
7 October 1963 |
8 |
| An unassuming university teacher develops a device that, once implanted in the brain, can manipulate objects through mind power. Although disregarded as talentless by his family and coworkers, the teacher makes an impact with a U.S. space agency. However, as the teacher becomes more familiar with his device, he learns that his subconscious mind has been utilizing it and taking revenge on those who demean him. As his invention is scheduled to be implanted into the brain of an ambitious astronaut with questionable motives, the teacher becomes alarmed and is determined to stop the operation. |
| 5 |
"The Sixth Finger" |
James Goldstone |
Ellis St. Joseph |
14 October 1963 |
11 |
| Set in a remote mining town, which based upon the accents is likely in the Lancashire area, the plot involves a renegade scientist who discovers how to affect the speed of evolutionary mutation. A disgruntled local miner, who volunteers for the experiment, enables the professor to create a being with enhanced mental capabilities, who, incidentally, begins growing a "sixth finger" on each hand. But when the mutation process begins to operate independently of the professor's influence, the mutant miner takes control of the experiment. Now equipped with superior intelligence and powers of thought that are capable of great destruction, such as telekinesis, the miner decides to take revenge on the mining town he loathes. |
| 6 |
"The Man Who Was Never Born" |
Leonard Horn |
Anthony Lawrence |
28 October 1963 |
12 |
| The astronaut, Joseph Reardon, lands on Earth only to find it a desolate and barren place. He meets Andro, a grotesque-looking creature who reveals that the year is now 2148 and the astronaut is almost 200 years into the future. Andro is one of the few survivors of a biological disaster brought on by a scientist called Bertram Cabot Jr. Andro explains the situation and Reardon decides to see if he can return to his own time... and take Andro with him to show the future, and perhaps avoid it. While returning through the time rift, Reardon mysteriously vanishes from the capsule, leaving Andro to find a way to prevent his disastrous future from occurring. Andro uses his ability to immediately hypnotise anyone into seeing him as a normal human, and begins searching for some way to stop Cabot's work — even if it means, as a last resort, killing him. It becomes clear that he has arrived too early. Bertram Cabot Jr. hasn't been born yet, and in fact his parents Noelle and Bertram Cabot Sr. are just about to be married. Andro, in his "human" guise, attempts to convince Cabot that he should not marry Noelle — with no success. Andro begins to fall in love with Noelle. While attempting to kill Cabot with a revolver, he hesitates, is assaulted, and Andro's true appearance is discovered, resulting in his being forced to flee. Noelle follows him, and he explains his mission. Meanwhile Noelle confesses that she has fallen in love with Andro. She convinces him to take her with him to the future, thereby avoiding any possibility that she and Cabot will have a child. Unfortunately Andro disappears just as the ship arrives in "his" time — as he is The Man Who Was Never Born. According to David J. Schow, there's an alternate, less harrowing ending featuring an extra character: the old man (Jack Raine). |
| 7 |
"O.B.I.T." |
Gerd Oswald |
Meyer Dolinsky |
4 November 1963 |
14 |
| While inquiring into the disappearance of an administrator at a government research facility, a Senator is confronted with paranoia, secrecy, and intimidation. He ultimately learns the cause; an unusual security device that is used to monitor its employees. The Outer Band Individuated Teletracer (known by the acronym O.B.I.T.)[1] is so pervasive that no one can escape its prying eye, at any time or in any place. After the missing administrator is found alive and reveals his knowledge of O.B.I.T., its sinister unearthly origins and purpose become apparent. |
| 8 |
"The Human Factor" |
Abner Biberman |
David Duncan |
11 November 1963 |
3 |
| At an outpost in Greenland, an officer (Guardino) begins losing his grip on reality after losing one of his soldiers in an icy crevice. Haunted by a spectre of the dead man, the officer decides he must detonate an atomic device at the outpost to obliterate the crevice - and the outpost as well. The outpost doctor (Merrill) uses a revolutionary mind probe in an attempt to understand what is driving the officer mad. When an unexpected earthquake causes the probe to malfunction, the minds of the doctor and the officer are switched. This new identity enables the insane officer to set about his plan for destruction in the guise of the doctor, while the real doctor is confined to a padded cell. |
| 9 |
"Corpus Earthling" |
Gerd Oswald |
Orin Borsten (teleplay) and Louis Charbonneau (story) |
18 November 1963 |
16 |
| Intelligent parasitic aliens with the intention of commandeering the human race take refuge in a geologist's laboratory disguised as rocks. Although undetected by ordinary humans, one doctor (with a surgically-implanted metal plate in his skull) is able to "hear" the aliens communicate with each other while they are discussing their plot. Although the doctor is unsure if what he hears is delusional or real, the aliens are convinced he is a threat to their plans and set out to kill him. |
| 10 |
"Nightmare" |
John Erman |
Joseph Stefano |
2 December 1963 |
15 |
| In response to an attack from the planet Ebon, a group of Earth soldiers are sent to fight the enemy on their alien world. Captured en route to Ebon, the soldiers undergo physical and psychological torture and interrogation at the hands of the Ebonites. The prisoners become suspicious of each other when their captors claim they have received cooperation, which is further complicated by the appearance of high-ranking Earth officers among the hostile aliens. In the end, it is revealed that all of this is but a military test, organized by the Earth officers to test their troops' loyalty and valor. Unexpected accidents and deaths having occurred during the test, the Ebonites - who are, actually, a peaceful and honorable alien civilization - eventually ask for such an immoral and inhuman experimentation to end at once, but nonetheless fail in preventing one last man to be fatally killed... |
| 11 |
"It Crawled Out of the Woodwork" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
9 December 1963 |
18 |
| A security guard at the gates of NORCO, a physics research center, is brusque when the Peters brothers drive up, even though Stuart is taking a job with the company. Oddly, the guard slips them a matchbook on which he has scrawled, "NORCO is doomed." When the brothers leave a monstrous explosion of energy appears and the guard disintegrates. The next day at NORCO Stuart meets his boss, head scientist Dr. Block, and mentions the note, which Block dismisses. Block leaves Stuart in the laboratory with a coworker, Dr. Stephanie Linden. Linden directs Stuart into an adjacent corridor then locks him in, releasing the grotesque energy entity. Days pass, and when Stuart does not return his brother Jory grows worried, confining his concerns to his girlfriend, Gaby. However when Stuart reappears the two men fight, and Stuart falls in the bathtub where he is electrocuted. It proves that Stuart was wearing a pacemaker that he did not have when the brothers arrived. The police investigate and Sgt. Siroleo confronts Block at NORCO. However it is Linden who reveals the truth: an entity composed entirely of energy has been accidentally created. It can consume anyone with a mere touch, and is so threatening that those who encounter it at close range inevitably die of fright. Dr. Block found a way to control the entity and is keeping it contained while he tries to uncover "the mystery of it." When the other scientists demanded its destruction, Block had the horror frighten them to death, then restored them to life with pacemakers, which will cease to function if Block directs his creature to draw the power from them. Dr. Block reappears with a gun, and, holding Siroleo and Linden at bay, releases the entity. Siroleo, however, wrests away the gun and shoots Block. Now he, Linden, and Peters must face the uncontrollable energy monster. |
| 12 |
"The Borderland" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
16 December 1963 |
2 |
| A British millionaire has engaged a female psychic to establish contact with his dead son, but she is exposed as a fraud by scientist Ian Fraser. Fraser insists that he has developed a method that can pierce the borderland between this world and what might just be the afterlife, but he needs all the energy of a metropolitan power grid to do so. The rich and influential man agrees to arrange the situation if Fraser will attempt to contact the dead son. Fraser agrees and the experiment begins, but at the crucial moment the psychic and her associate reappear, planning to expose the scientists as frauds. |
| 13 |
"Tourist Attraction" |
Laslo Benedek |
Dean Riesner |
23 December 1963 |
4 |
| Dominating millionaire John Dexter drives a group of explorers pursuing an ancient lake monster that is reputed to live in the waters of a South American dictatorship. When the creature is captured, Dexter plans to take it to the United States to enhance his reputation, but San Blas' dictator Juan Mercurio plans to use it to attract tourists. The creature, however, has purposes of its own. |
| 14 |
"The Zanti Misfits" |
Leonard Horn |
Joseph Stefano |
30 December 1963 |
17 |
| Military forces have cordoned off a California ghost town awaiting the arrival of a spacecraft from the planet Zanti. The Leaders of that world have decided that the Earth is the perfect place to exile their undesirables. They threaten "total destruction" if their penal ship is molested. But Ben Garth, a bank robber on the lam, crosses the cordon and approaches the Zanti ship, triggering an ugly jailbreak. Earth's nervous soldiers launch an anti-Zanti attack, killing all the aliens - and fearfully awaiting the expected reprisal. Instead, they get a message of thanks from the Zanti leaders. It seems they can't execute their own kind, so they sent them to the experts on killing — us. |
| 15 |
"The Mice" |
Alan Crosland, Jr. |
Bill S. Ballinger (teleplay & story), Joseph Stefano (teleplay), Lou Morheim (story) |
6 January 1964 |
19 |
| A convict volunteers to be a human guinea pig for a matter transportation experiment. In reality the experiment is supposed to be an exchange of scientists between Earth and an alien race, the Chromoites. As problems ensue and researchers die, the convict is blamed - but perhaps it is all a sinister plot to turn the world into a breeding ground for the alien creatures... |
| 16 |
"Controlled Experiment" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
13 January 1964 |
6 |
| The Martians maintain inconspicuous monitors on Earth, and one, Diemos, is contacted by Phobos One, a researcher who wants to investigate the concept of "Murder". Using a machine that can speed up time, slow it down, reverse it, or stop it altogether, they review the same murder scene over and over again. Phobos One, however, is unable to resist the opportunity to tamper with time. (This episode was shot as a pilot for a proposed series starring Carroll O'Connor and Barry Morse as two Martians sent to Earth to examine human life and experiences. CBS instead opted for the series My Favorite Martian with Ray Walston and Bill Bixby.) |
| 17 |
"Don't Open Till Doomsday" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
20 January 1964 |
22 |
| In the 1920s, a pair of newlyweds receive a mysterious gift. 40 years later an eloping couple arrive at the house. After the bride disappears, her dominating father arrives to discover that to free his daughter, he must help an alien who plans to destroy the entire universe. |
| 18 |
"ZZZZZ" |
John Brahm |
Meyer Dolinsky |
27 January 1964 |
21 |
| Ben Fields is an entomologist seeking a lab assistant. He is married to Francesca Fields. Regina, a giant mutant queen bee in human form is searching for a human mate to prolong her species' life span, gets the job. |
| 19 |
"The Invisibles" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
3 February 1964 |
20 |
| A secret society known as the Invisibles recruits three outcasts to help them in their aim of infiltrating the U.S. government. They are to attach alien parasites with the power of mind control to key government leaders so as to bring them--and eventually the world--under alien control. One recruit is actually an undercover agent assigned to bring down the Invisibles, but is his cover really as good as he thinks? |
| 20 |
"The Bellero Shield" |
John Brahm |
Joseph Stefano (teleplay & story) and Lou Morheim (story) |
10 February 1964 |
23 |
| A scientist (Landau) builds a powerful laser weapon. One night a benevolent alien from a light world on the top of our galaxy rides the laser down to earth. The scientist's wife (Kellerman) tries to shoot him with a laser gun but he raises a powerful shield. The scientist and the alien share knowledge with one another. When the scientist leaves the wife shoots the alien in order to get his shield technology. During a demonstration she raises the shield but is unable to take it down, thus trapping her. The alien, believed dead, comes to her rescue and lowers the shield before dying. The woman, left insane with guilt at killing an alien that only thought to help her, believes herself to still be trapped within the shield as the episode ends. |
| 21 |
"The Children of Spider County" |
Leonard Horn |
Anthony Lawrence |
17 February 1964 |
25 |
| A group of young prodigies have vanished, and it is noted that they all hailed from the same remote area. A government agent sent to investigate finds that one young prodigy is still there - and his alien patriarch is planning a family reunion somewhere other than Earth. |
| 22 |
"Specimen: Unknown" |
Gerd Oswald |
Conrad Hall |
24 February 1964 |
10 |
| A member of a team of astronaut-researchers finds a strange organism on the outside of the spaceship. Exposed to light and air inside it develops into a beautiful flower - but it has a deadly scent, and an aggressive growth habit. When the astronauts seek to return to Earth for help, they bring the invasive new species with them. |
| 23 |
"Second Chance" |
Paul Stanley |
Lin Dane (teleplay & story) and Lou Morheim (teleplay) |
2 March 1964 |
27 |
| A frustrated wanderer has found a temporary job - operating a mock-up of a spaceship at a carnival. However an alien modifies the attraction into a real spaceship, and, passing himself off as a giant talking chicken, invites aboard a group of misfits each of whom is refusing to face realities in their lives. Trapped aboard the spaceship, they are offered the opportunity to colonize a planet that would other wise threaten both the alien's own planet and Earth in the near future. To succeed, however, they must overcome their own deep-seated unwillingness to face their own true natures. |
| 24 |
"Moonstone" |
Robert Florey |
William Bast (teleplay), Lou Morheim and Joseph Stefano (story) |
9 March 1964 |
13 |
| Researchers in a base on the Moon find a living organism, which proves to be the repository of an alien intelligence that is fleeing tyranny in its own system. When the tyrants arrive in pursuit, however, the researchers have to decide how much they should risk in the pursuit of knowledge. |
| 25 |
"The Mutant" |
Alan Crosland, Jr. |
Allan Balter and Robert Mintz (teleplay), Jerome B. Thomas (story) |
16 March 1964 |
26 |
| An astronaut lands on an alien planet to investigate the death of one of a group of Earth scientists who are testing to see if the planet is suitable for colonization. The scientists, including Julie, his old flame, behave strangely but won't explain why. They are particularly nervous around Reese Fowler, a researcher who seems to wear goggles at all times. One of the scientists attempts to leave a hastily scribbled note in the astronaut's spacesuit pocket; he exits the room only to bump into Reese, who seems to read his mind - and then destroys him. The astronaut is led to a remote cave where he discovers that the others live in fear of Reese, who developed superhuman abilities when he was exposed to the planet's chemical rainfall, which has mutating properties. Reese, knowing he would lose his deadly abilities once in space, is holding the others captive. The astronaut must somehow overcome a man who can read minds, and kill with a touch. |
| 26 |
"The Guests" |
Paul Stanley |
Donald S. Sanford |
23 March 1964 |
29 |
| A young drifter finds an old man dying by the side of a remote country road; seeking help he enters an old house. The inhabitants are surprisingly unhelpful; with the exception of a soulful young woman, all are mean-spirited and avoid facing reality. Suddenly the wanderer is forced upstairs by a mysterious compulsion, and discovers that the house is the lair of an alien being who is keeping the group of desperate humans suspended in time until it can comprehend one last characteristic of humanity. |
| 27 |
"Fun and Games" |
Gerd Oswald |
Robert Specht (teleplay & story) and Joseph Stefano (teleplay) |
30 March 1964 |
28 |
| Mike Benson and Laura Hanley, each emotionally wounded by life, are offered a chance for redemption, of a sort. They can save Earth from being destroyed -- cataclysmically over a period of several years -- for the entertainment of a jaded extraterrestrial audience, but only if they will provide alternative entertainment by battling to the death two primitive aliens, who are likewise fighting to save their own distant world. |
| 28 |
"The Special One" |
Gerd Oswald |
Oliver Crawford |
6 April 1964 |
31 |
| Roy and his wife Aggie are delighted but puzzled when they meet Mr. Zeno, who explains that he is a government educator sent to cultivate the mind of their gifted son, Kenny. Roy becomes worried, however, when he discovers that Kenny is learning things that are not accepted by earthly science. When Roy discovers that the government education department knows nothing about any "Mr. Zeno," he confronts the educator only to discover that he is an alien, re-educating children in a plot to take over the world. Kenny now has super-human knowledge, and the question is, where do his loyalties now lie? |
| 29 |
"A Feasibility Study" |
Byron Haskin |
Joseph Stefano |
13 April 1964 |
9 |
| Residents in a city suburb awake one morning to find their neighborhood has been transported to another planet the previous night. The intention of the aliens is to study the feasibility of enslaving the entire human race to do manual labor on their planet. But the aliens must overcome humanity's susceptibility to its diseases, and the willpower of mankind's resistance to slavery. |
| 30 |
"Production and Decay of Strange Particles" |
Leslie Stevens |
Leslie Stevens |
20 April 1964 |
30 |
| While experimenting on sub-atomic particles, a team of physics researchers start a reaction that seemingly controls the researchers themselves. As one scientist after another is consumed, the reaction grows towards a terrible climax, and the survivors fear they may be powerless to stop it. |
| 31 |
"The Chameleon" |
Gerd Oswald |
Robert Towne (teleplay & story), Lou Morheim and Joseph Stefano (story) |
27 April 1964 |
32 |
| A flying saucer has landed in a remote part of the United States and wiped out a military patrol sent to investigate. Concerned that the saucer contains nuclear material, the authorities decide on a wild scheme: send Mace, an alienated CIA daredevil, to infiltrate the ship. Genetically modified to pass as an alien, Mace finds that he is beginning to think as an alien, and begins to question his allegiance - and his very nature. |
| 32 |
"The Forms of Things Unknown" |
Gerd Oswald |
Joseph Stefano |
4 May 1964 |
24 |
| The plot involves two women who kill a blackmailer. Driving through the countryside with the body in the trunk, looking for a good place to bury him, they take refuge from a storm in a house containing a blind man and a strange young inventor who is experimenting with time. Unlike the traditional "time travel" devices, this one is intended to "tilt the cycles of time" and bring the dead back to life...which is what happens to the murdered blackmailer. (Originally planned as a pilot for a new television series to be called The Unknown, this episode was filmed with two different endings and was allotted double the normal production time. In the pilot version: Andre reveals there is no Thantos plant, and was thus not dead; the time tilter did not in fact work; Hobart was not dead but merely in a coma; and lastly, Kassia uses the pistol to kill Hobart, thinking he is attacking Leonora.) |
| # |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Original air date |
Prod # |
| 1 |
"Soldier" |
Gerd Oswald |
Harlan Ellison |
19 September 1964 |
34 |
| A thousand years in the future, two foot soldiers clash on a battlefield. A random energy weapon strikes both soldiers and they are hurled into a time vortex. While one soldier is trapped in the matrix of time, the other, Qarlo Clobregnny, materializes on a city street in the year 1964. Qarlo is soon captured and interrogated by Paul Kagan, a philologist, and his origin is discovered. As progress is made in "taming" Qarlo, the time eddy holding the enemy soldier slowly weakens. Eventually Qarlo comes to live with the Kagan family. But the enemy soldier is free and finally materializes in 1964, and tracks Qarlo to the Kagan home. In a final hand-to-hand battle Qarlo sacrifices his life to kill the enemy and save the Kagan family. |
| 2 |
"Cold Hands, Warm Heart" |
Charles Haas |
Dan Ullman |
26 September 1964 |
33 |
| After completing the first manned mission to orbit Venus, astronaut Jefferson Barton (Shatner) returns to Earth with recurring nightmares and an increasing inability to stay warm. Barton's conditions continue to worsen and result in a peculiar webbing of his fingers, and only after his nightmares become more vivid is he reminded of an unrevealed alien encounter in the Venusian atmosphere. Barton's doctors suspect the astronaut had been genetically affected by his mission, and they then struggle to treat and cure him before his mutations completely take over. |
| 3 |
"Behold, Eck!" |
Byron Haskin |
John Mantley (teleplay), William R. Cox (story) |
3 October 1964 |
37 |
| The titular Eck is a creature from the 2nd dimension, trapped in our world when he fell into a time-space warp. Frightened and alone, he soon realises that a small number of humans are able to see him with the help of special glasses that just happen to be made from meteoritic quartz. Eck proceeds to find where these glasses are made and discovers Dr. Stone, an optics engineer. Unfortunately in his search for the source of the glasses, Eck scared a lot of people, even frightening one eyewitness into a heart attack. This means the police are after him now as well. Eck explains that he requires special lenses to see the time warp from where he came. He says the only way the doorway will close is for him to leave our dimension. Should the time warp remain open and an object from this world, even a bird or insect, fly in through it and reach his dimension, it will tear the time-space fabric destroying both worlds. Dr. Stone and his secretary Elizabeth race against time to help return Eck to his world. By sunrise Eck may be dead and the time warp left open. |
| 4 |
"Expanding Human" |
Gerd Oswald |
Francis Cockrell |
10 October 1964 |
40 |
| Professor Peter Wayne is disturbed to hear that his university colleague, Dr. Roy Clinton, is pursuing forbidden drug experiments with a group of graduate students. When one of the students turns up dead, Professor Wayne investigates Clinton's activities, and discovers that consciousness-expansion can have powerful and dangerous consequences. |
| 5 |
"Demon with a Glass Hand" |
Byron Haskin |
Harlan Ellison |
17 October 1964 |
41 |
| Trent is a man with no memories of his life beyond ten days ago. His right hand, made of glass, seems to be a speaking artificially intelligent computer. Three fingers are missing and they must be found so that Trent can discover what his purpose is. In the meantime, he is being hunted by human-looking aliens. One of them tells Trent that he and the aliens are from 1000 years in the future where Earth has been conquered, a plague has destroyed all life, and all humans have mysteriously vanished. Trent successfully recovers the three missing fingers, and discovers that he is not actually a man, but a robot. Within his abdomen, stored on a gold wire, are the human survivors of the alien invasion of the future, whom he must safeguard until the events of the future have become the events of the past and the plague has dissipated. |
| 6 |
"Cry of Silence" |
Charles Haas |
Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Louis Charbonneau (story) |
24 October 1964 |
42 |
| A city couple driving in the countryside makes a turn into a mysterious valley road where their car hits a rock and stops working. After the couple leaves their car, the wife has a slight accident in which she rolls downhill and sprains her ankle. When the husband reaches her, they realise they are being stalked...by tumbleweeds who appear to be possessed by some form of energy. At first they attempt to keep the tumbleweeds at bay with fire, but soon run out of firewood. At this point they are saved by a slightly disturbed farmer named Lamont, who explains that things have been awkward in the valley ever since a UFO landed two weeks before, causing his farm to die out. Lamont tells them he stayed merely out of curiosity, but now the weeds won't allow him to leave either. The three make their way to Lamont's house where they spend a frightening night surrounded by tumbleweeds first and then thousands of frogs. Comes morning, they walk back to the car without trouble, only to be attacked by living rocks once they get there. One rock kills Lamont. The couple runs back to the house, where the husband finally decides that the only way they are ever to leave there is to attempt to communicate with whatever is behind all this. |
| 7 |
"The Invisible Enemy" |
Byron Haskin |
Jerry Sohl |
31 October 1964 |
35 |
| A pair of astronauts land on Mars; when one goes out to explore he is heard screaming and the other's last transmission indicates that he has gone out to investigate. A second Mars Mission crew later lands, tasked to both explore and find out what happened to the first crew. However one at a time, the astronauts disappear from sight, perhaps victims of some unknown, unseen Martian threat. |
| 8 |
"Wolf 359" |
Laslo Benedek |
Seeleg Lester (teleplay & story), Richard Landau (story) |
7 November 1964 |
38 |
| Working on behalf of corporate interests, scientist Jonathan Meridith has created a miniature version of a remote planet in his laboratory. When a mysterious lifeform evolves along with the developing experiment, however, Meridith must weigh the value of his experiment versus the possible dangers. |
| 9 |
"I, Robot" |
Leon Benson |
Robert C. Dennis (teleplay) |
14 November 1964 |
43 |
| Adam Link is accused of murder. However, Adam Link is a robot, who maintains the victim's death was the result of an accident. Placed on trial for the murder of Professor Link, his creator, Adam Link is defended by the professor's niece and the retired lawyer Mr. Cutler. Ultimately it turns out that the prosecution is not simply placing the robot on trial, but mankind itself as irresponsible and abusive of technology. |
| 10 |
"The Inheritors – Part 1"" |
James Goldstone |
Seeleg Lester and Sam Neuman (teleplay & story), Ed Adamson (story) |
21 November 1964 |
44 |
| Four U.S. Army soldiers, with nothing in common other than having served in Korea and been shot in their heads, cheat death and begin working on a mysterious project. Intelligence officer Adam Ballard attempts to unravel the mystery behind the strange behaviour of the men, who attain I.Q.s above 200 each. |
| 11 |
"The Inheritors – Part 2"" |
James Goldstone |
Seeleg Lester and Sam Neuman (teleplay & story), Ed Adamson (story) |
28 November 1964 |
44 |
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| 12 |
"Keeper of the Purple Twilight" |
Charles Haas |
Milton Krims (teleplay), Stephen Lord (story) |
5 December 1964 |
39 |
| As a prelude for the invasion of Earth by aliens, the extraterrestrial being Ikar studies the human race. The one thing he cannot comprehend is emotion. Obsessed scientist Dr. Plummer is near a nervous breakdown trying to complete a magnetic disintegrator that will convert matter into pure energy. Unbeknownst to him, his weapon would be of help to Ikar's invasion force should it be completed, so Ikar makes a deal with Plummer. He will help Plummer complete the invention so long as Plummer allows him to steal his emotions for a "test drive". But due to the interference of Plummer's girlfriend, Ikar is unable to control or understand his emotions, causing the experiment to backfire. Ikars behavior comes to the attention of his superiors and they dispatch soldier forms of his species, of which he is an advanced intellectual worker form, to discipline him. |
| 13 |
"The Duplicate Man" |
Gerd Oswald |
Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Clifford Simak (story) |
19 December 1964 |
45 |
| In the 21st century, wealthy researcher Henderson James keeps an illegal alien of a different kind in his laboratory. The alien, a beast known as a megasoid, is the last of its kind on Earth. It was imported under the table by a corrupt space captain bribed by James and it is incredibly dangerous. The megasoid escapes the lab and Henderson James decides the only way to destroy it before it reproduces is to send out a clone of himself to assassinate the alien. Clones are extremely restricted by law in the 21st century but again James finds that money talks. He spends $100,000 to buy himself one and programs it to hunt down the megasoid. But things complicate once the duplicate, with a hint from the megasoid, realises what he is. |
| 14 |
"Counterweight" |
Paul Stanley |
Milton Krims (teleplay), Jerry Sohl (story) |
26 December 1964 |
36 |
| Four scientists, a newspaper man and a construction tycoon agree to spend 261 days in isolation in an interstellar flight simulation. But the experiment is secretly infiltrated by an alien being. |
| 15 |
"The Brain of Colonel Barham" |
Charles Haas |
Robert C. Dennis (teleplay), Sidney Ellis (story) |
2 January 1965 |
46 |
| The space race continues as the American military strives to be the first to successfully land a man on Mars. But the best candidate for the job, Col. Barham, is dying of an incurable ailment. It is decided to separate his brain from his body and keep it alive, with neural implants connecting it to visual and audio input/output for the mission. But without a body, the brain becomes extremely powerful and megalomaniacal. |
| 16 |
"The Premonition" |
Gerd Oswald |
Sam Roeca (teleplay), Ib Melchior (teleplay & story) |
9 January 1965 |
47 |
| An X-15 rocket-powered research aircraft pilot and his wife become trapped 10 seconds ahead of their time and watch time unfold to catch up with them at about 1 second every 30 minutes. In the time left before returning to synch with normal time, they see that their daughter is about to be hit by a truck. But to stop the accident could mean to stay forever stuck in time. They must be back in the positions they were in five hours ago before time "catches up" with them. After dealing with a phantom (exposed as a negative image) who experienced the same situation some time back and did NOT make it out in time, Jim finally hits upon a way to save his daughter from death. He attaches a car's seatbelts from the back wheel to the handbrake of the military truck. With no time to spare, he and his wife hurry back to their original placements. When time catches up, the truck groans, rolls forward, and the rear-wheel/seatbelt solution pulls the emergency brake, stopping the truck. Their daughter is safe, the world returns to normal, no one except Jim and his wife are the wiser. |
| 17 |
"The Probe" |
Felix Feist |
Seeleg Lester (teleplay), Sam Neuman (story) |
16 January 1965 |
48 |
| The final episode of the Outer Limits deals with four plane crash survivors who suddenly find themselves trapped in an alien space probe that was taking water samples. Inside they find a puzzle they need to solve before all four are killed. |
| # |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Original air date |
| 1 |
"The Sandkings — Part 1"" |
Stuart Gillard |
Melinda M. Snodgrass (Based on the work by George R. R. Martin) |
26 March 1995 |
| Dr. Simon Kress' (Beau Bridges) research for the government on Martian life is aborted because one of his specimens almost escapes into the natural environment. However, Kress doesn't agree with the abandonment of the project and decides to continue his experiments in his barn. He steals some sand containing Martian eggs from his lab and creates a make-shift incubator to hatch more of the Martian lifeforms. In the meantime, Kress deals with growing discord with his wife (Helen Shaver) over financial troubles and his obsession with work and the stress of concealing the stolen Martian lifeforms from his former supervisors at the government lab. Kress comes to believe that he is a god to his sandkings when they build sand structures that resemble his face (the face is looking across, unlike the Face on Mars, which is looking up.). He begins to mistreat them and eventually the sandkings turn on Kress. In the end, Kress attempts to destroy all the sandkings but fails. In the ending of the episode, a colony of sandkings is shown surviving in the wilderness. |
| 2 |
"The Sandkings — Part 2"" |
Stuart Gillard |
Melinda M. Snodgrass (Based on the work by George R. R. Martin) |
26 March 1995 |
| |
| 3 |
"Valerie 23" |
Timothy Bond |
Jonathan Glassner |
31 March 1995 |
| Valerie 23 (Sofia Shinas) is the latest development from the Innobotics Corporation. She is designed to be attractive, helpful and a perfect companion for a disabled man. Although he is the ideal test candidate, due to his condition and qualifications, Frank Hellner (William Sadler) is extremely reluctant to take part and wants nothing to do with Valerie. Nevertheless he eventually agrees to a one-week test period. Valerie proves to be an excellent caregiver, and more. Over the course of the test, Valerie becomes increasingly affectionate and Frank eventually gives in. After the sexual encounter, Frank explains to Valerie that he thinks it was a mistake. Frank begins to grow closer to his physiotherapist Rachel (Nancy Allen), and she invites him to a bar. Valerie responds by displaying more human traits such as anger and envy. After following Frank and Rachel on a rock climbing outing, Valerie attempts to dispose of her rival Rachel and is shut down before being returned to Innobotics. Frank decides that he must speak to Valerie before she is dismantled and asks for her to be reactivated. While restrained at Innobotics, Valerie tries to explain her feelings for Frank and rekindle the relationship, but to no avail. Valerie escapes, follows Frank and again tries to kill Rachel. Frank is forced to destroy Valerie with an electric shock. As she lies dying, she tells him that she is afraid to die. Earlier Frank had been told by Rachel that anything that fears its death is alive. |
| 4 |
"Blood Brothers" |
Tibor Takacs |
Brad Wright |
7 April 1995 |
| Cameron Deighton had Huntington's Disease and his two sons, Michael and Spencer, may have inherited the gene responsible for the illness. Spencer decides not to be tested. Michael claims to have been tested and pronounced clear. Spencer spends his time working on cures for serious illnesses, while Michael pushes for the development of more lucrative drugs -- such as Jericho, a drug used to calm rioting crowds. Spencer begins a romantic relationship with a reporter, Tricia. Spencer makes a breakthrough and finds what appears to be a wonder drug, xxxx, capable of curing virtually any disease. He decides to announce his breakthrough and make the research available to the world for further research and development. Michael disagrees and sees the opportunity to keep it secret and limit the use of xxxx to the rich and powerful. When Carl, Spencer's research assistant, attempts to smuggle the drug out of the laboratory, Michael uses the laboratory's fire cleansing system to kill him and dispose of the body. Assuming that Spencer must have told Tricia about the drug he attempts to kill her too, but fails. Michael uses the drug on himself and attempts to kill both Spencer and Tricia the same way he killed Carl. Spencer disables the lab's fire system and escapes. He questions Michael about why he would take a virtually untested drug — Michael lied about his Huntingdon's test. He does have the gene. Unfortunately for Michael, xxxx is not the wonder drug he had hoped for — and its side effects are disastrous. |
| 5 |
"Second Soul" |
Paul Lynch |
Alan Brennert |
14 April 1995 |
| A dying race of aliens has come to earth to stop its own extinction... by reanimating human corpses. But a government doctor senses that there may be more to the aliens' plans than mere survival! |
| 6 |
"White Light Fever" |
Tibor Takacs |
David Kemper |
21 April 1995 |
| Harlan Hawkes' (William Hickey) heart fails again and he sees himself moving down a tunnel of light. His personal physician, Dr. McEnerney (Bruce Davison), rushes to the scene and resuscitates him just in time. A mysterious blue energy appears near Hawkes' body and moves into the electrical systems of the room. Although Hawkes is still alive, his heart is badly damaged — and the artificial heart being developed by McEnerney will not be ready in time. Hawkes threatens to pull funding from the artificial heart project unless he is moved to the front of the queue for the next available donor heart. This puts Dr. McEnerney in a difficult moral situation. Losing funding for the artificial heart project could mean the loss of a system that could save thousands of lives. To keep the funding he must give priority to a ruthless, cold elderly man who has already had a full life. The situation is even more difficult because the future sister-in-law of his friend, Dr. Anne Crain, is only eighteen and needs a heart transplant. She will not survive beyond a couple of weeks. The blue energy release during Hawkes' last resuscitation begins to try to kill Hawkes. McEnerney realises that keeping Hawkes alive beyond his time has serious consequences and refuses Hawkes' request to be given priority. Both of the prospective heart recipients — Hawkes and the young girl — die. Hawkes sees the girl inside the tunnel of light, and realises that their future paths are very different.The girl comments that it is so warm and that she expected it not to be. She goes to Heaven while he descends into the depths of Hell. |
| 7 |
"The Choice" |
Mark Sobel |
Ann Lewis Hamilton |
28 April 1995 |
| A young girl, Aggie Travers, is an outcast at her elementary school, and mysterious things happen to people when she doesn't get along with them. Since it appears that she is responsible for these strange things, she is suspended from school. Her parents are at their wits end, so they decide to look for a nanny for their troubled child. Karen Ross, their first candidate, seems perfect; she bonds with Aggie from the start, and seems to understand her special needs. |
| 8 |
"Virtual Future" |
Joseph Scanlan |
Shawn Alex Thompson |
5 May 1995 |
| Despite his breakthrough, Jack finally loses his funding. He takes his research to Bill Trenton, billionaire owner of a successful research company. Trenton offers Jack a lucrative contract and a well-equipped laboratory to continue his work. Jack takes the job, and eventually Trenton convinces Jack to allow him to try his virtual reality suit. Trenton "jumps" a few hours into the future and sees a newspaper headline about a woman killed at an ATM. Upon returning to the present, Trenton saves the life of the woman whose death he saw reported — proving that it is possible to alter the future as well as see it. Trenton begins secretly making plans to profit from the device by using it to win a United States Senate election. He sneaks into the laboratory and "jumps" into the future again. He sees himself losing the election and ending up subpoenaed. Jack continues working on his suit and extends the range — allowing him to "jump" even further into the future. He sees his own murdered body floating in the ocean. Jack tells his wife, Isabelle, about the suit, its capabilities and what he's seen. At Isabelle's suggestion, Jack takes another trip into the future to find out more about the circumstances of his death, and sees Bill Trenton about to murder him. Meanwhile, Trenton breaks into the lab and Jack is forced to flee. He runs out onto the waterfront and along a pier. Trenton follows him and just as he is about to shoot Jack, Isabelle shoots Trenton instead. The final scene is Bill Trenton's dead body floating in the ocean, in the same manner that Jack foresaw his own death. |
| 9 |
"Living Hell" |
Graeme Campbell |
Pen Densham and Melinda Snodgrass |
12 May 1995 |
| Ben Kohler is shot in the head during an armed robbery. He undergoes an experimental procedure to have a chip implanted in his brain, but when he starts seeing and experiencing violent images, it becomes clear something is desperately wrong. |
| 10 |
"Corner of the Eye" |
Stuart Gillard |
David Schow |
19 May 1995 |
| A priest begins to see horrific demon creatures amongst the ordinary population. |
| 11 |
"Under the Bed" |
Rene Bonniere |
Lawrence Meyers |
26 May 1995 |
| When a little boy is abducted the only witness, his sister, claims that someone or something under the bed took him. |
| 12 |
"Dark Matters" |
Paul Lynch |
Alan Brennert |
2 June 1995 |
| A commercial transport vessel on a routine mission is suddenly forced out of hyperspace into a black and starless void. The crew begin to see strange creatures inside their ship. After scanning the local space they find a huge chunk of dark matter and two spaceships: an alien craft and the derelict Slayton. After moving closer to the alien craft they begin to see more and more alien creatures appear on board their ship. Suspecting that the aliens may have attacked and killed the crew of the Slayton, they panic and begin shooting at them, to no effect. The pilot of the Nestor, Paul Stein, suddenly sees an apparition of his older brother Kevin (one of the crew of the ill-fated Slayton), who explains that they are all dead and disappears. Commander Manning orders the Nestor moved away from the alien craft and towards the derelict Slayton. As they get closer, John Owens, captain of the Slayton appears. He explains that he cannot touch or feel them because he is no longer alive... he is some kind of ghost, trapped forever inside the pocket of space created by the dark matter. If they die here, as he and his crew did, their "essence" or "souls" will be trapped too. After analyzing the records of the Slayton, they realize that the aliens did not attack. They were attempting to dock with the Slayton in order to escape. They make contact with the alien "ghosts" and use their plan. The dark matter is made up of high frequency superstring particles which are immensely heavy, add energy and the frequency lowers as does its mass therefore releasing the pocket in space that is holding everyone prisoner. The crew release the "ghosts" and escape themselves by turning the engines of the Nestor and the Slayton on the dark matter. Paul confronts Kevin's ghost over an old secret shame and gains confidence from the resolution to trust his own judgement. |
| 13 |
"The Conversion" |
Rebecca De Mornay |
Brad Wright |
9 June 1995 |
| Henry Marshall participates in a real estate scam and is caught. After a long stretch in prison he still hasn't learned to value people more than money. |
| 14 |
"Quality of Mercy" |
Brad Turner |
Brad Wright |
16 June 1995 |
| Major John Skokes and a young female cadet are taken prisoner during an interstellar war and thrown into a dark cell. |
| 15 |
"The New Breed" |
Mario Azzopardi |
Grant Rosenberg |
23 June 1995 |
| Dr. Stephen Ledbetter makes a technological and medical breakthrough when he creates a type of tiny machine, known as nanobots, capable of curing any disease or imperfections in the human body. |
| 16 |
"The Voyage Home" |
Tibor Takacs |
Grant Rosenberg |
30 June 1995 |
| The Mars III manned expedition to Mars is in its 315th and final day when the crew discover a cave containing strange alien writing and a capsule. The capsule suddenly opens and the crew is knocked unconscious. |
| 17 |
"Caught in the Act" |
Mario Azzopardi |
Grant Rosenberg |
1 July 1995 |
| Jay (Jason London) and Hannah (Alyssa Milano) are madly in love, so much so that he respects her chaste request to wait until marriage to make love. But one night, a strange object falls into Hannah's room, and emits a mysterious violet glow. Possessed, Hannah craves sex, and to feed the alien presence within her, she must prey upon willing males who morph into her body while making love. Hannah first approaches Jay. When Hannah seduces the star Quarterback, Jay follows them in disbelief. He finds Hannah alone and notices the hole in the ceiling where the alien object entered her room. Realizing that Jay is in danger while in her presence, Hannah forces him to leave, but Jay steals back to her room later and discovers the remains of the object and the Quarterback's jacket. Investigating the disappearance of the Quarterback, the police trace Jay to the scene, and he becomes the prime suspect. Jay turns the object over to his professor, who determines its origin, and researches similar occurrences. As more men vanish, the police pursue Hannah, who is then "caught in the act" devouring a convenience store clerk. A cop shoots Hannah, and to his utter horror, the undevoured top half of the clerk drops to the ground to die. He then watches as the violet light emanates from the bullet hole in her stomach. Hannah is rushed to the hospital and doctors watch in awe as the wound heals itself. The professor is able to substantiate Jay's outrageous claims, and when the police release him, he rushes to the hospital to be with Hannah. Desperate for fresh victims, Hannah attacks her doctor, who refuses to give in to her obsession. Certain that his love is more powerful than the force within her, Jay risks his life to try to cure Hannah. Fearing for Jay's safety, Hannah tries to resist him and the craving within her, and ultimately, the purity and power of their love forces the alien presence from her system. (When The Outer Limits was aired in the UK, this episode was used as a pilot.) |
| 18 |
"The Message" |
Joseph Scanlan |
Brad Wright |
16 July 1995 |
| Jennifer Winter (Marlee Matlin), deaf since birth, has had a revolutionary implant placed in her ear, to help her hear for the first time. The device doesn't help her to hear normal conversation and sounds, but she does hear something, and no one believes her. While on a routine visit to the hospital to check on the implant, Jennifer befriends the janitor, Robert (Larry Drake) who empathizes with her. Suddenly, Jennifer is plagued by nightmares and searing pain in her head, all at 3:16 in the morning or afternoon. Once the pain starts she begins furiously writing in binary code. It's Robert who suggests that perhaps the binary code's, 0's and 1's might be able to be translated. As a former astrophysicist who had mental problems that forced him to work as a janitor, Robert enters the code into his computer to try to translate it. Meanwhile, Jennifer's husband Sam, concerned for his wife and their young baby, is convinced that Jennifer is going crazy. But as the sounds and dreams become more pronounced Jennifer and Robert are determined to break the code. What they discover is an alien force, trying to communicate a cry for help through Jennifer's implant. The aliens are in a ship hurtling toward the sun and they need help from Earth to save their ship. The message sent was really instructions for a high energy laser designed to push the ship out of a terminal path. They build and activate it just in time to see the ship pushed away from the sun and towards safety. |
| 19 |
"I, Robot" |
Adam Nimoy and Tibor Takacs |
Brad Wright (based on the short story by Eando Binder) |
23 July 1995 |
| Dr. Link is working on the central memory of a robot, Adam, when it suddenly activates and attacks him. A lab assistant enters the room in time to see Adam smashing up the laboratory before crashing through a window and escaping. Dr. Link is left dead. Some time later, a police officer finds Adam in a back alley. It asks the officer to contact Dr. Link and it apparently remembers nothing of the incident. Adam is taken to a cell and preparations are made to disassemble it. Mina, Dr. Link's daughter, contacts a lawyer, Thurman Cutler. Cutler pushes for a murder trial, insisting that Adam is his client and not simply a machine. A court hearing begins, and the prosecutor pushes for dismissal of the case and immediate disassembly on the grounds that Adam is just a machine. Cutler argues that, although Adam is clearly not human, it possesses intelligence and will, and on that basis, deserves a trial. During the hearing, one of Dr. Link's colleagues reveals that he had lost his funding. Cutler begins to look into Dr. Link's financial records and finds that he was working for a defense contractor — and eventually discovers that he was working to turn Adam into a weapon. Cutler is threatened by a shady representative of the defense company, but brings the matter up in court anyway. He argues, with supporting evidence of financial accounts and company memos, that Dr. Link was forced into attempting to rewrite Adam's central programming, effectively lobotomizing it. Adam reacted in the way any human might when faced with death. The court eventually finds that Adam is a person and will stand trial for the murder of Dr. Link. As it is being led away, Adam sees the prosecuting attorney in danger of being run over and rescues her, sacrificing its own life in the process. |
| 20 |
"If These Walls Could Talk" |
Tibor Takacs |
Manny Coto and Eric Estrin |
30 July 1995 |
| A woman asks physicist Dr. Leviticus Mitchell to investigate a "haunted house" where her son and his girlfriend were last seen. |
| 21 |
"Birthright" |
William Fruet |
Michael Berlin and Eric Estrin |
13 August 1995 |
| Senator Richard Adams (Perry King) is at the top of his game. But after a press conference extolling the virtues of a new fuel additive BE-85, which is supposed to clean up the atmosphere, he and his aide, Evan Branch are in a serious auto accident. Branch is dead, and Adams has a head injury, but his attending physician, Dr. Leslie McKenna (Mimi Kuzyk), is baffled by his unusual x-rays--four frontal brain lobes and only three major organs. Before Adams can figure out what happened, a large security detail whisks him and his files away to the Sendrax Corporation, the home of BE-85. It turns out that Adams is an alien and his "kind" are trying to keep their presence a secret. And because their body make up is different, BE-85, with long term use, will reconfigure the earth's atmosphere so it is poisonous to humans, and compatible for the aliens. Adams realizes that he is in danger, and escapes to see McKenna, the only person he can trust. Together they unlock the secret of Adams' identity and the horror of the alien master plan, and divulge the secret of BE-85 to Kyle Haller (Scott Swanson), an aggressive young reporter. Before Haller can expose the aliens he is killed and McKenna is framed for the murder. In the end, Adams thinks he has escaped the aliens, but in reality his nightmare has only begun. |
| 22 |
"The Voice of Reason" |
Neil Fearnley |
Brad Wright |
20 August 1995 |
| Strong, a former member of Army intelligence, tries to convince the members of the committee that a number of different alien invasions of Earth are occurring, and demands an official investigation and response to the threats. His evidence comes from incidents in previous episodes of the first season: the experiments of Simon Kress in "The Sandkings"; an attempt to take over and impersonate the crew of a spacecraft returning to Earth in "The Voyage Home"; the alien parasite in "Caught in the Act"; the alien enzyme able to absorb and imitate living and non-living matter in "If These Walls Could Talk"; the aliens posing as religious messengers in "Corner of the Eye". Strong also believes that the committee itself has been infiltrated by one or more aliens posing as humans (see "Birthright"). The episode "The New Breed" is also referenced, though as counter-evidence that bizarre occurrences are not necessarily a result of alien interference. During the long and stressful meeting it appears that the committee chairman, Thornwell, is an infiltrator because of his opposition to Strong's evidence and claims. The committee adjourns for a private conference to discuss their decision. Upon returning they announce that Strong's evidence and claims of multiple alien invasions have been rejected. In response Strong grabs a gun from a guard and kills Chairmen Thornwell — believing him to be the one blocking further investigation and hoping to expose his alien nature by injuring him. However, Thornwell was privately arguing in support of Strong and was outvoted. Other committee members were the infiltrators, and the death of Thornwell has opened the way for a complete takeover of the committee's activities. The episode ends with the infiltrators wondering if any of the other alien species will pose a threat to their plans, musing that "anything is possible". |
| # |
Title |
Director |
Writer |
Original air date |
| 1 |
"Stitch in Time" |
Mario Azzopardi |
Steven Barnes |
14 January 1996 |
| FBI agent Jamie Pratt investigates a series of murders spanning a period of forty years — all committed with the same gun. The gun is traced to Dr. Theresa Givens, a former employee at a top-secret government project. Mysteriously, Givens was only five years old at the time of the first murder, and the gun hadn't even been manufactured. |
| 2 |
"Resurrection" |
Mario Azzopardi |
Jonathan Walker and Chris Dickie |
14 January 1996 |
| Humanity has destroyed itself in a biological war, and only a few hundred androids remain. Two of the androids have a plan to recreate the human race from DNA samples... but the ruling military androids are violently opposed to recreating their former masters. |
| 3 |
"Unnatural Selection" |
Joseph Scanlan |
Eric Morris |
19 January 1996 |
| Howard and Joanne Sharp are having a baby. They must decide whether to give their child all the advantages of black market genetic enhancements, which run the risk of Genetic Rejection Syndrome. After seeing that their neighbour's son didn't die years ago, but has GRS and is turned into a monster and is imprisoned in the basement, Howard and Joanne decide to reverse the genetic enhancement process of their unborn child. |
| 4 |
"I Hear You Calling" |
Mario Azzopardi |
Katherine Weber |
26 January 1996 |
| A reporter on her way to work overhears a cellular phone conversation about the "removal" of a controversial author. Her investigation reveals a trail of people who disappeared leaving only a pile of ash behind... and the involvement of a man with strange violet eyes. After a series of chases and narrow escapes, the alien hitman finally catches up with the reporter and reveals to her that the people he's been "removing" had accidentally contracted a deadly alien virus, and that he's been hunting them down in order to prevent them from spreading the virus to the rest of humanity. The hitman explains that the reporter has also contracted the virus through her contact with one of the targets, and the reporter ultimately decides to sacrifice herself to spare humanity from the disease. The hitman corrects the reporter, he has not been vaporizing the targets, merely teleporting them off Earth where the disease is not fatal. The episode ends with the alien and the reporter teleporting away. |
| 5 |
"Mind Over Matter" |
Mario Azzopardi |
Steven Barnes |
2 February 1996 |
| Dr. Sam Stein develops a machine that allows a person to connect themselves directly to the brain of another and experience their thoughts and feelings. Intended for use with coma patients, he suddenly gets the chance to use it with a colleague who is comatose after an accident. Dr. Sam Stein initially thinks that his machine's application for communicating with the comatose Dr. Rachel Carter is a complete success. However, a mysterious pair of hands emerge to grab at Carter whenever Stein and Carter start becoming intimate. It is soon discovered that the pair of hands belongs to the machine itself; It has learned to love Stein and is jealous of Carter. Stein's only two options are to disconnect the machine or to "show" the machine that it cannot love. Stein attempts to show the machine that it cannot love by grabbing what he thinks is the virtual representation of the machine (a caucasian female in the image of a dishevelled) and smothering it with an equally virtual pillow (with goading from Carter). Once he does that, though, the physical body of Carter dies. At this point, the machine reveals that it has been masquerading as Carter all along; the entity he had mistakenly suffocated was apparently the real Carter. Stein, in a rage, destroys the machine. It is not known for how long the machine was mimicking the appearance of Carter; Whether the "pair of hands" were Carter's from the very start or only at the very end. |
| 6 |
"Beyond the Veil" |
Chris Brancato |
Allan Eastman |
9 February 1996 |
| Eddie Wexler suffers from flashbacks to an alien abduction, which eventually drive him to suicidal behaviour. After checking himself into a mental institution with others suffering from similar problems, he begins to suspect that there is something more sinister going on at the hospital. |
| 7 |
"First Anniversary" |
Brad Turner |
Richard Matheson, Jon Cooksey and Ali Marie Matheson |
16 February 1996 |
| Norman Glass celebrates his first wedding anniversary with his beautiful and talented wife, Ady. Norman's best friend, Dennis, also has a beautiful wife, Barbara. However, over the next few days, both relationships unravel rather quickly. First, Dennis walks out on Barbara; Norman goes to talk to Dennis in a city park and is frightened by what he finds. Dennis, clearly unhinged and paranoid, claims that Barbara is not what she seems, and that she is an alien creature who can change appearance (through influencing people's thoughts). A strange woman approaches Dennis and claims to be Barbara, begging him to take her back. Norman doesn't recognize her, but Dennis does - whereupon he runs into traffic and is killed. Later, after Dennis' funeral, Norman experiences the same effects: he begins to feel repulsed whenever he touches, smells or tastes his lovely wife. Ady attempts to bluff her way out of the situation but is forced to admit the truth: she and Barbara are aliens whose ship crash-landed on Earth some time ago. They are repulsive creatures in their natural form (apparently,of aquatic origin), but since they are stranded on Earth with no way to leave, they decided to try to blend in and live out the rest of their lives as human women. Unfortunately, their ability to trick someone's senses wears off, as the victim grows a resistance, after a year or so. Norman becomes unhinged at this knowledge and is taken away by paramedics. |
| 8 |
"Straight and Narrow" |
Joseph Scanlan |
Joel Metzger |
23 February 1996 |
| A mother sends her recalcitrant son, Rusty Dobson, to a military academy. The administrators are actually controlling the students through a chip inserted into their heads. They want to create a group of business executives who are willing to commit murder in order to make more money for their companies. Rusty and one other student are immune to the chip because of a medicine they are taking for ulcers. The other student wants to wait to graduate, and then expose the place to the outside world. Rusty is convinced that this is a bad idea, and wants to escape. However, as soon as he approaches the boundary of the academy, the chip in his head gives him severe migraine. At the end of the episode, Rusty manages to escape by stealing the security clearance cards out of the administrator's office and disabling the boundary control system. His fellow students chase after him, but he re-activates the system and they are unable to follow him past the walls of the academy. He tries to call his mother from a payphone, but she is busy in an office. He heads to site of an assassination plan he knows of, but police (who show the distinctive scars from the computer chip implantation) detain him. His friend from school performs the assassination. |
| 9 |
"Trial by Fire" |
Jonathan Glassner |
Brad Wright |
1 March 1996 |
| The president is taken to an underground bunker on his way to his innaguration. He is told than an object is quickly approaching the Earth. It turns out that this object is from an alien spaceship. After this, a fleet of alien spaceships heads towards the Earth. The aliens in these ships live in a liquid environment. The president is given as much information as possible, but usually in scientific or technical language. He demands that everything be told to him in plain English. The Russians are very afraid of these ships. As the fleet grows nearer to Earth, the aliens try using Earth's artificial satelites to communicate. The president asks his general what to expect if the aliens were attacking the Earth. The general tells him that the aliens would send a scout down to test the Earth's defenses. The aliens send one ship towards the Pacific Ocean, and it looks like they are attacking. The president orders a nuclear submarine to fire a nuclear missile at the ships. The Russians also fire missles. The aliens destroy the missiles, the submarine, and send weapons bound for Moscow and Washington, DC. Computers manage to decode the message sent by the aliens by removing the interference of a liquid environment. The message said, "Let us be your friends." |
| 10 |
"Worlds Apart" |
Brad Turner |
Chris Dickie |
22 March 1996 |
| An astronaut crashes on an alien planet -- but by some miracle he is quickly able to contact Earth and speak directly to the space agency behind his mission. Unfortunately, twenty years have passed for them and his former lover is now married and the director of the agency. |
| 11 |
"The Refuge" |
Ken Girotti |
Alan Brennert |
5 April 1996 |
| Raymond Bava stumbles through a forest in a vicious snow blizzard before finally collapsing. He wakes in a warm and comfortable log cabin with a group of people, only to be told that the entire world is blanketed by an enormous storm, and he has found the only safe place. |
| 12 |
"Inconstant Moon" |
Joseph Scanlan |
Larry Niven |
12 April 1996 |
| It follows, roughly, the plot of the original story: A physics professor spots that the moon is extremely bright. He realises that the sun must have gone nova and the side of the Earth in daylight must be suffering extreme heat — and that he has only a few hours left to live. He speaks to another academic and decides that it would be better if people did not know what had happened. He contacts a woman whom he had been in love with and invites her to go for a walk with him; a love story ensues where he and the woman marry on what they assume is their last night on Earth. He is forced to admit what is going on to the woman, who is initially extremely disconcerted and distrustful of his intentions, although he defers these misgivings by repeatedly professing his love. When they go to her apartment to eat, he begins to suspect that the Earth is merely being hit by an extreme solar flare, and he begins to plan for an extended period of survival, despite his new wife's reluctance. He turns out to be correct, and the professor and his wife are one of the few left alive despite extreme flooding, although the story is ambiguous as to the scale of the disaster. |
| 13 |
"From Within" |
Neil Fearnley |
Jonathan Glassner |
28 April 1996 |
| A mentally handicapped boy, Howie, is the only person in town not affected by ancient parasites unearthed in the local mine. The parasite removes all inhibitions from those it infects. As the town becomes a chaotic and dangerous place, Howie must find a cure and save the townspeople. A mentally challenged boy named Howie is the last unaffected person in a small town overrun by a strange madness. Miners unearth ancient parasites, in the shape of worms, that attack the brains of their hosts. While the infected townsfolk lose all their inhibitions, Howie must save his sister Sheila, the only person who truly cares for him. Deprived of Sheila's guidance for the first time in his life, Howie struggles to evade his maddened neighbors and destroy the parasites. In the process, he becomes a hero to the whole town. |
| 14 |
"The Heist" |
Brad Turner |
Steven Barnes |
5 May 1996 |
| A bitter ex-soldier agrees to help a militia hijack a U.S. Army shipment of missiles. Instead of missiles, they find a lone guard who pleads with them not to open the shipment because it is deadly. Major Mackie demands to know what is in the shipment and believes that the Captain is lying. But all the lone guard will tell him is "don't open it". Even under threat of death, Captain Washington refuses to stand down, but Major Mackie eventually forces his will to be done. They open the door and a chilling series of events begin to unfold as an alien lifeform freezes them to death. The soldiers lose their discipline and begin to scatter, questioning their loyalties. All the while the alien stalks with cold impersonal efficiency, taking out the self-styled militia one by one. The final scene shows a police officer frozen outside of the building. |
| 15 |
"Afterlife" |
Mario Azzopardi |
John F. Whelpley |
19 May 1996 |
| Stiles is a wrongly convicted murderer of 11 of people and is offered a choice between his execution and his cooperation with a experiment. His Christian beliefs don't allow him to make any choice but to go through with what turns out to be a genetic experiment to splice his genes with extraterrestrial genes. What surmises is Stiles becoming more and more of a horrific monster with increased thought and increased senses. He escapes in what turns out to be a intentional manhunt as they wanted him to escape so they can hunt him down. When the end comes near for the now mutated Stiles, the tables turn when aliens resembling the now mutated Stiles appear. The aliens and the mutated Stiles beam away, leaving the people that were chasing Stiles to realize that they were being tested by the aliens and that they failed the test. |
| 16 |
"The Deprogrammers" |
Joseph Scanlan |
James Crocker |
26 May 1996 |
| Earth is under alien occupation and the human race has been conditioned for slavery, unable to think for itself or disobey an order. One human, the slave of an important ruler, is captured by a small band of rebel humans who try to break the conditioning and restore his free will. |
| 17 |
"Paradise" |
Mario Azzopardi |
Jonathan Walker and Chris Dickie |
16 June 1996 |
| Dr. Christina Markham and Sheriff Grady Markham have to investigate a spate of strange incidents involving young and apparently healthy women suddenly growing old and dying. |
| 18 |
"The Light Brigade" |
Michael Keusch |
Brad Wright |
23 June 1996 |
| The ship The Light Brigade is the last hope of humanity in a war against an alien race. In an attempt to turn the tide of the war, humanity is resorting to a Hiroshima type strike. The Light Brigade carries a new bomb to be delivered to the enemy homeworld. This bomb works by breaking down the forces which hold subatomic particles together to form an atom. As with the original atomic bomb, a very limited number were made. The first was tested on one of the Martian moons, and created an explosion of such power that it was daylight on earth for several days. The Light Brigade's purpose is to deliver this powerful weapon to destroy the enemy homeworld. Unfortunately the aliens ambush the ship, and use their unique methods to trick the survivors of the Light Brigade into failing their mission. This feat is achieved by Robert Patrick's character, John Skokes, whose physical likeness has been assumed by an alien spy, leading one to believe the real Skokes died in captivity (following the events depicted in Season 1, Episode 14, "Quality of Mercy"). In the closing scene, at huge personal cost, the bomb is released over what the crew believe to be the alien homeworld. It is in fact Earth, and the mission is not only a failure, but the unleashing of the doomsday weapon on an already crippled humanity. |
| 19 |
"Falling Star" |
Ken Girotti |
Alan Brennert |
30 June 1996 |
| Pop singer Melissa McCammon (Sheena Easton) is about to commit suicide by overdosing on drugs. With her once meteoric career at a standstill and her husband ( |
