The Outer Limits: The Original Series
TV Show · Sci-Fi · Horror

"There is nothing wrong with your television set." That famous line opens each episode of the classic science fiction anthology series as part of a narration that makes people think their TVs are being controlled. Episodes of the series, which numbered 49 over the course of two seasons, range from a mix of sci-fi and horror that feature "scary monster" motifs to episodes focused on the sci-fi aspects of the stories. Episode writers include such notables as series creator Leslie Stevens and Harlan Ellison.

1963 · 51m
  • 10+
Starring Robert Johnson, Barry Morse, Larry Pennell
Director Gerd Oswald

Season 1

  • EPISODE 1
    The Galaxy Being
    Cliff Robertson stars as a disc jockey whose radio tower allows a highly-dangerous glowing radioactive being to come to Earth.
    48m
  • EPISODE 2
    The Hundred Hundred Days of the Dragon
    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.
    48m
  • EPISODE 3
    The Architects of Fear
    Robert Culp is chosen to undergo a painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan.
    48m
  • EPISODE 4
    The Man with the Power
    Donald Pleasence plays a college professor who devises a method of harnessing cosmic energy into an undetectable beam that can devastate humans.
    48m
  • EPISODE 5
    The Sixth Finger
    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.
    48m
  • EPISODE 6
    The Man Who Was Never Born
    Martin Landau portrays a time-traveller desperately trying to stop the birth of an inventor whose bacterium turns humans into mutants.
    48m

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Cast & Crew

  • R‌J
    Robert Johnson
    Anthean
  • Barry Morse
    Actor
  • Larry Pennell
    Actor
  • Warren Oates
    Actor
  • Vic Perrin
    Narrator
  • G‌O
    Gerd Oswald
    Director
  • Leslie Stevens
    Producer
  • Joseph Stefano
    Producer
  • Leslie Stevens
    Creator

About

The Outer Limits: The Original Series

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"There is nothing wrong with your television set." That famous line opens each episode of the classic science fiction anthology series as part of a narration that makes people think their TVs are being controlled. Episodes of the series, which numbered 49 over the course of two seasons, range from a mix of sci-fi and horror that feature "scary monster" motifs to episodes focused on the sci-fi aspects of the stories. Episode writers include such notables as series creator Leslie Stevens and Harlan Ellison.

10+

COMMON SENSE

Thought-provoking sci-fi tales for tweens and up.

Information

Studio
MGM
Released
1963
Rated
TV-PG
Region of Origin
United States
© 1963 Estate of Leslie Stevens - Villa di Stefano - Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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English
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English (United States) (AAC)

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
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