FIRST SEASON 1. The Galaxy Being* 9/16/63 3-14 Dec 62 Please Stand By (pilot title) A radio engineer experimenting with a 3-D TV scanner accidentally teleports to Earth a being from the Andromeda Galaxy. Package notes: Oscar-winner Cliff Robertson stars as Allan Maxwell, a radio station owner who plunders his station's resources to build and power a three- dimensional television receiver capable of displaying deep-space radio signals. These strange radio waves suddenly take the form of a "galaxy being" composed of pure energy, whose own curiosity has led it to Earth. The alien's strange, glowing form and deadly radiation trigger a tide of panic and violence. Only Maxwell can avert a showdown--at the possible cost of his own life! Cast Allan Maxwell (Cliff Robertson) Carol Maxwell (Jacqueline Scott) Andromedan Being (William O. Douglas, Jr. and Charles MacQuarry) Gene "Buddy" Maxwell (Lee Philips) Loreen (Allyson Ames) Caretaker Collins (Roy Sickner) State Trooper (James Frawley) National Guard Major (Bill Catching) Policeman (Allen Pinson) with: Polly Burson, May Boss, Don Harvey, Mavis Neal, William Stevens, Peter Madsen Produced by Joseph Stefano Written and Directed by Leslie Stevens Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 2. The Hundred Days of the Dragon* 9/23/63 3-11 Jul 63 A drug which makes flesh plastic enables a foreign agent to impersonate a US presidential candidate. Package notes: No one knows, but the President is not who he appears to be. In a terrifying timely story of genetic engineering and East-West powerplay, "The Hundred Days of the Dragon" stars Sidney Blackmer (Rosemary's Baby) as a popular American President who puts into place a master plan to slowly and steadily destroy the United States. Only the President's daughter can stop him--if she can uncover his secret before it's too late. A classic shiller from the TV series that influenced a generation of horror and suspense films. Cast William Lyons Selby (Sidney Blackmer) Theodore Pearson (Phillip Pine) Carol Selby Conner (Nancy Rennick) Ann Pearson (Joan Camden) Li Chin-Sung (Richard Loo) Dr. Bob Connor (Mark Roberts) Dr. Su-Lin (Aki Akeong) Major Ho Chi-Wong (Clarence Lung) Wen Lee (James Hong) Li Kwan (James Yagi) Frank Summers (Bert Remsen) Carter (Dennis McCarthy) Briggs (Richard Gittings) Bryan (Robert Brubaker) Oriental in hotel (Eugene Chan) FBI Agent Marshall (Henry Scott) Voice of Mr. Schumacher (Vic Perrin) Voice of Electron Returns Commentator (Leslie Stevens) Produced by Joseph Stefano Written by Allan Balter and Robert Mintz Directed by Byron Haskin Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin Director of Photography: Conrad Hall Executive Producer Leslie Stevens 3. The Architects of Fear* 9/30/63 19-26 Jun 63 A team of desperate scientists, seeking an end to the threat of war, surgically metamorphose scientist Robert Culp into an "alien" in an elaborate scenario designed to frighten the world's nations into peaceful coexistance by creating for them a "common enemy"--an enemy from space. Culp's death is faked--not even his wife is aware of the plan--and he's then subjected to a series of operations. But the noble scheme backfires: His spaceship crashes in a wooded area, where he is shot by frightened hunters. The "creature" limps back to the lab and reveals himself to his horrified wife before collapsing at her feet. Package notes: Grimly concluding that a common enemy, not love, is the only hope in unifying the warring nations of Earth, a group of scientists set out to secretly create the ultimate, global threat--an all-powerful alien monster. But can fear save the world? Robert Culp stars as the idealistic scientist chosen to undergo the painful and bizarre mutation from human to Thetan ("I am Caliban--with a Ph.D!"). Considered a special effects masterpiece, the resulting creature was judged so frightening by several local television stations that they actually blacked out the screen during the Thetan's appearance! Cast Allen Leighton (Robert Culp) Yvette Leighton (Geraldine Brooks) Dr. Phillip Gainer (Leonard Stone) Dr. Herschel (Martin Wolfson) Dr. Paul Fredericks (Douglas Henderson) the Thetan [Allen as alien](Janos Prohaska) Carl Ford (Lee Zimmer) Bert Bolsey (Hal Bokar) "Big Tom" (William Bush) Fred (Clay Tanner) and Ginger the dog. Executive Producer Leslie Stevens Produced by Joseph Stefano Written by Meyer Dolinsky Directed by Byron Haskin Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin Director of Photography: Conrad Hall 4. The Man With The Power* 10/07/63 29 Jul-3 Aug 63 A meek university professor finds that his unconscious mind is destroying those with whom he becomes angry. Package notes: Donald Pleasence ("Halloween", "Escape From New York") if Harold Finley, a meek, unassuming college professor who invents a device capable of controlling the entire electro-magnetic spectrum. Implanted in his brain, the device gives Finley the ability to mentally direct this unlimited energy source. When a storn-like cloud of electricity attacks his sharp-tounged wife and domineering school dean, he realizes the device has unleashed a subconscious thirst for revenge--with uncontrollable and deadly results. Cast Harold J. Finley (Donald Pleasence) Vera Finley (Priscilla Morrill) Dean Radcliff (Edward C. Platt) Steve Crandon (Fred Bier) Dr. Sigmund Hindeman (John Marley) Dr. Keenan (Frank Maxwell) Dr. Hencshell (Paul Lambert) Dr. Tremaine (James McCallion) Emily Radcliff (Anne Loos) Finley's MD (Harry Ellerbee) First Tree Pruner (Saul Gross) 2nd Tree Pruner (Fred Crane) Secretary (Diane Strom) Detective (Paul Kent) Nurse (Jane Barclay) Surgeon (Pat O'Hara) Produced by Joseph Stefano Written by Jerome Ross Directed by Laslo Benedek Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin Director of Photography: Conrad Hall Executive Producer Leslie Stevens 5. The Sixth Finger* 10/14/63 20-27 Aug 63 An uneducated miner (David McCallum) volunteers for an experiment in the acceleration of human evolution, and is transformed into a man of the distant future. Possessing a bulging cranium and a vast intellect, he grows increasingly aloof toward the rest of mankind, coming to regard human beings as little more than insects. Before setting out to destroy the nearby town as an example of his power, he returns to the laboratory and directs his former sweetheart to operate the controls of the apparatus which will catapult him to the furthest limit of man's evolutionary potential. The heartbroken girl instead returns him to the former, 20th-century self. Package notes: A benign and brilliant scientist (Edward Mulhare) discovers a way to accelerate human evolution. David McCallum (superagent Illya Kuryakin from "The Man From Uncle") plays the bitter young coal miner who is miraculously transformed into the man of the future. As a result of the experiment, the size of his brain grows grotesquely, a 'sixth finger' appears, and he becomes the possessor of tremendous mental powers! Cast Gwylim Griffiths (David McCallum) Prof. Mathers (Edward Mulhare) Cathy Evans (Jill Haworth) Gert "the Bread" Evans (Constance Cavendish) Wilt Morgan (Robert Doyle) Mrs. Ives (Nora Marlowe) Darwin the Monkey (Janos Prohaska) Constable's Deputy #1/Stunt (Chick Hayward) #2 (George Pelling) Stunt Mathers (Al Wyatt) Produced by Joseph Stefano Written by Ellis St. Joseph Additional material by Joseph Stefano Directed by James Goldstone Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 6. The Man Who Was Never Born* 10/28/63 27 Aug-4 Sep 63 An astronaut returning from a deep-space mission passes through a time warp and lands on the desolate Earth of 2148. He meets a dis- figured mutant named Andro (Martin Landau) who informs him that civilization was wiped out by an extraterrestrial microbe developed by a biologist named Bertram Cabot Jr. Hoping to return to the 20th century to prevent Cabot from unleashing the microbe, the two men pilot the ship back through the time warp, but only Andro survives the trip. Through various intrigues, he manages to prevent the birth of Cabot, thereby saving the future from deadly pestilence. Package notes: A time and space traveller journeys into the future, where the bacterium invention of a crazed twentieth century scientist has turned humans into mutants. Accompanied by the ghoulish Andro (Martin Landau), the astronaut races back in time to kill the scientist and save the future of the world. But only Andro survives, and he arrives too early--before the infant is born. He must disguise his appearance and convince the mother-to-be to abort her wedding. Only Andro can stop her and change the course of destiny. But is it too late? Cast Andro (Martin Landau) Noelle Andreson (Shirley Knight) Bertram Cabot (John Considine) Capt. Joseph Reardon (Karl Held) Mrs. McCluskey (Maxine Stuart) Minister (Marlowe Jenson) Old Man [in unused footage](Jack Raine) Produced by Joseph Stefano Written by Anthony Lawrence Directed by Leonard Horn Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin Director of Photography: Conrad Hall 7. O.B.I.T.* 11/04/63 13-20 Sep 63 A senatorial committee uncovers an alien plot to demoralize the human race with surveillance machines capable of spying on anyone. Package notes: "It's awful--_a_w_f_u_l!...It's the most hideous creation ever conceived! No one can laugh, or joke. It _w_a_t_c_h_e_s, sap the very spirit. And the worst thing of all is _I watch it. I can't _n_o_t look. It's like a drug--a horrible drug. You can't resist. It's an addiction." These words of testimony are babbled by the crumbling Colonel Grover to describe OBIT--The Outer Band Individuated Teletracer--a hellishly precise surveillance machine of questionable origin. Uncovered by a murder investigation at a Defense Department research center, OBIT proves to be an insidious instrument that breads fear and hostility. Both cautionary tale and tight courtroom drama, _O_._B_._I_._T_. explores the fear and hostility that result when all privacy is eliminated...and _a_l_l _s_e_c_r_e_t_s_ _a_r_e_ _r_e_v_e_a_l_e_d. Cast Senator Jeremiah Orville (Peter Breck) Byron Lomax (Jeff Corey) Col. Grover (Alan Baxter) Dr. Clifford Scott (Harry Townes) Barbara Scott (Joanne Gilbert) Clyde Wyatt (Sam Reese) Dr. Phillip Fletcher (Konstantin Shayne) Fred Seven [OBIT Operative](Jason Wingreen) Capt. James Harrison (Robert Beneveds) Dr. Anderson (Lindsay Workman) Armand Younger (Chuck Hamilton) OBIT Creature (William O. Douglas, Jr.) Written by Meyer Dolinsky Directed by Gerd Oswald Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin Director of Photography: Conrad Hall 8. The Human Factor 11/11/63 31 May-10 Jun 63 An accident at a military base results in a personality exchange between the base psychiatrist and a psychotic officer. Cast Major Roger Brothers (Harry Guardino) Dr. James Hamilton (Gary Merrill) Col. William Campbell (Joe de Santis) Ingrid Larkin (Sally Kellerman) Major Harold Giles (Ivan Dixon) Dr. Soldini (Shirely O'Hara) Orderly (James B. Sikking) Peterson (John Newton) Sergeant (Art Alisi) Nurse (Jane Langley) Pvt. Gordon/Ice Ghost (William O. Douglas, Jr.) Sentry/Stunt Hamilton (Matty Jordan) Stunt Brothers (Dave Perna) Intercom Voice (Vic Perrin) Written by David Duncan Directed by Abner Biberman Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin Director of Photography: Conrad Hall 9. Corpus Earthling 11/18/63 1-8 Oct 63 A doctor with a metal plate in his skull is able to hear the conversation of alien parasites plotting to take over the world. Cast Dr. Paul Cameron (Robert Culp) Laurie Hendricks-Cameron (Salome Jens) Dr. Jonas Temple (Barry Atwater) Ralph [physician](David Garner) Caretaker (Ken Renard) Voice of the Rocks (Robert Johnson) Written by Orin Borsten Some material by Lou Morheim and Joseph Stefano Loosely based on the novel "Corpus Earthling", by Louis Charbonneau Directed by Gerd Oswald Assistant Director: Claude Binyon, Jr. Director of Photography: Conrad Hall 10. Nightmare* 12/02/63 23-20 Sep 63 Ebon Struck First (original title) The alien Ebonites mistakenly attack Earth, then promise to do anything to rectify their grave error. Earth's military leaders insist they take part in a psychological test of the capabilities of Earth's fighting men: The Ebonites will make believe an interplanetary war is going on and will subject human POWs they've captured to a variety of excruciating tortures. The aliens play the ruse for only so long, then rebel at the prospect of continuing with the cruel charade. A chilling effort, it makes excellent use of a frequent "Outer Limits" motif--unearthly aliens who prove to be more humane than the humans around them. Package notes: A young Martin Sheen is part of a six-man multinational strike force captured on the planet Ebon and made prisoners of war. The Ebonites-- satanic, batwinged, gargoyle-like aliens--brutally interrogate their prisoners with torture, drugs and vivid hallucinations. After painful "exploratory interviews," the group is allowed basic necessities and the "respect due a conquered enemy." This leads the prisoners to conclude that there is a traitor among them, someone who must be killed! Arguably "The Outer Limits" best-written show, "Nightmare" is a tour de force of ensemble acting that brings to life an horrific view of phobia and conspiracy. Cast Col. Luke Stone (Ed Nelson) Major Jong (James Shigeta) Ebonite Interrogator (John Anderson) Pvt. Arthur Dix (Martin Sheen) Lt. James P. Willowmore (Bill Gunn) Capt. Terrence Ralph Brookman (David Frankham) Lt. Ersa Krug (Bernard Kates) Gen. Benton (Ben Wright) Commanding General (Whit Bissell) Chief of Staff (Willard Sage) Dix's Mother (Lillian Adams) Krug's Grandfather (Sasha Harden) Krug's Governess (Lisa Mann) Dr. Whorf (Martin Brandt) Ebonite Guard (Paul Stader) Executive Producer Leslie Stevens Written by Joseph Stefano Directed by John Erman Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 11. It Crawled Out Of The Woodwork 12/09/63 18-25 Oct 63 A mysterious ball of dust at an energy research facility erupts into a huge, formless creature of pure energy. The psychotic head of the facility, Dr. Block (Kent Smith), learns to control the creature, and uses it to intimidate and control his employees. Eventually the police sergeant (Ed Asner) finds out, and Dr. Block is killed in a shootout, but not before unleashing the ravenous energy creature, which heads for the nearby town. The sergeant has the town's electricity shut off completely, and the mindless creature has no alternative but to return to the research facility, where the generators provide its only source of nourishment. Though under control for the moment, a way must be found to live with the creature peaceably--for energy can be neither created nor destroyed. A cautionary tale on the necessary hazards of life in the atomic age. Cast Jory Peters (Scott Marlowe) Prof. Stuart Peters (Michael Forest) Dr. Block (Kent Smith) Gaby Christian (Barbara Luna) Detective Sergeant Thomas Siroleo (Ed Asner) Prof. Stephanie Linden (Joan Lamden) Warren Edgar Morley (Gene Darfler) New Sentry (Ted DeCorsia) Coroner (Tom Palmer) Cleaning Lady (Lea Marmer) NORCO Intercom Voice (Robert Johnson) Written bu Joseph Stefano Directed by Gerd Oswald Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin Director of Photography: Conrad Hall 12. The Borderland 12/16/63 22-29 May 63 A team of scientists discovers a means of entering the fourth dimension and gains financial support from a wealthy man obsessed with contacting the spirit of his dead son. Cast Ian Frazer (Mark Richman) Eva Frazer (Nina Foch) Mrs. Palmer (Gladys Cooper) Edgar Price (Alfred Ryder) Lincoln Russel (Phillip Abbott) Dwight Hartley (Barry Jones) Benson Sawyer (Gene Raymond) Dr. Sung (Noel DeSousa) Written and Directed by Leslie Stevens Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 13. Tourist Attraction 12/23/63 11-19 Jun 63 An enormous lizard-fish is captured off the South American coast and put on display until others of its kind emerge from the sea and rescue it. Cast John Dexter (Ralph Meeker) Lynn Arthur (Janet Blair) Tom Evans (Jerry Douglas) Prof. Arrivelo (Jay Novello) Gen. Juan Mercurio (Henry Silva) Reporter (Willard Sage) 2nd Reporter (Edward Colmens) Oswaldo [Major Domo](Jon Silo) Capt. Fortunato [Mercurio's aide](Francis Ravel) Skipper (Stuart Lancaster) Paco [Janitor](Martin Garrelega) Mario (Henry Delgado) Butler (Marco Antonio) Ichthyosaurus Mercurius (Roger Stem) with: Noel de Sousa and Shelley Morrison Written by Dean Riesner Directed by Lasio Benedek Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 14. The Zanti Misfits* 12/30/63 9-17 Oct 63 Earth is chosen as the place of exile for the criminals of the planet Zanti. Package notes: The rulers of the planet Zanti, incapable of executing their own species, coerce Earth officials into allowing Zanti to exile its criminals to our world. Those assigned to manage the desert penal colony have no idea of the shape or form of this alien race. But their hideous appearance is revealed when a couple of losers-on-the-run (one played by a young Bruce Dern) penetrate the restricted area and the Zanti creatures loose a vicious attack! This bizarre alien menance created by writer-producer Joseph Stefano has made this one of the most popular and enduring of all "Outer Limits" episodes. Cast Prof. Stephen Grave (Michael Tolan) Gen. Maximillian R. Hart (Robert F. Simon) Major Roger Hill (Claude Woolman) Ben Garth (Bruce Dern) Lisa Lawrence (Olive Deering) Communications Operator (Lex Johnson) Radar Operator (Joey Tata) Computer Technician (George Sims) Air Police Sergeant (Mike Mikler) Corporal Delano (Bill Hart) Voices of Radio Newscaster, Zanti Regent and Zanti Commander (Robert Johnson) Voice of Zanti Prisoner (Vic Perrin) Produced by Joseph Stefano Written by Joseph Stefano Directed by Leonard Horn Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 15. The Mice 1/06/64 28 Oct-5 Nov 63 A convicted murderer volunteers to be teleported to another planet in an inhabitant-exchange program with alien beings. Cast Chino Rivera (Henry Sliva) Dr. Julia Harrison (Diana Sands) Dr. Thomas Kellander (MIchael Higgins) Dr. Robert Richardson (Ronald Foster) Haddon (Don Ross) Goldsmith (Gene Tyburn) Chromoite (Hugh Langtry) Prison Warden (Frances DeSales) Dr. Williams (Dabney Coleman) Chromo Transmission Voice (Robert Johnson) Written by Joseph Stefano Based on the script "Exchange Student", by Bill S. Ballinger Story idea by Lou Morheim Teleplay credited to Ballinger and Stefano Directed by Alan Crosland Jr. Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: Conrad Hall 16. Controlled Experiment 1/13/64 27 Jun-2 Jul 63 Inquisitive Martians study the uniquely human custom of murder with a "time machine" that can slow down and play back events. Cast Senior Solar System Inspector Phobos-One (Barry Morse) Accredited Earth Caretaker Diemos (Carrol O'Connor) Carla Duveen (Grace Lee Whitney) Bert Hamil (Robert Fortier) Arleen Schnable (Linda Hutchins) Voice of Martion Computer Control (Leslie Stevens) Written and directed by Leslie Stevens Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 17. Don't Open Till Doomsday 1/20/64 26 Nov-5 Dec 63 An alien requires the assistance of human beings to carry out his mission -- the annihilation of the universe! 18. ZZZZZ 1/27/64 15 Nov-5 Dec 63 A highly intelligent colony of bees produces a queen capable of assuming human form and intent on mating with an entomologist in a takeover bid. 19. The Invisibles* 2/03/64 6-14 Nov 63 Alien parasites take over the bodies of influential human beings in an attempt to overthrow the governments of the world. Package notes: "You do not know these men. You may have looked at them, but you did not see them. They are newspapers blowing down a gutter on a windy night...Today, finally, they will join the hu--I almost said the _h_u_m_a_n race. And that would have been a half-truth. For the race they are joining...is only half-human..." "Heros die alone" is the credo by which secret government agent Spain (Don Gordon) operates. A loner in enemy territory, he infiltrates the ranks of the invisibles--a subversive underground society of the nation's power brokers who are possessed by alien parasites (one of whom is played by "Family Feud"'s Richard Dawson). Pushed to the razor's edge of endurance, Spain fights a brutal, suspense- laden battle against the spread of the alien infection. Considered among the most unnerving of all "Outer Limits" episodes, writer/producer Joseph Stefano epitomized the effect as "one of overall, pervading evil." 20. The Bellero Shield 2/10/64 6-16 Dec 63 A scientist's laser, aimed at the heavens, provides the means for an angelic alien (John Hoyt) to descend to Earth. At first it protects itself with a device that generates an invisible shield, but soon dispenses with the device as it comes to trust the human hosts. This proves to be a grave error, for the scientist's scheming wife (Sally Kellerman) shoots the being and steals his shield, intending to present it to the world as the invention of her brilliant husband (Martin Landau). When she throws the shield around herself, however, she's unable to deactivate it. Trapped, and with a limited amount of air within the shield, she breaks down and confesses her crime. Suddenly the dying alien appears, and its last act is to deactivate the shield, but the experience has driven the woman mad. 21. The Children Of Spider County 2/17/64 6-13 Jan 64 An alien beings returns to Earth to claim five young geniuses, born of human women but sired by alien fathers. 22. Specimen: Unknown* 2/24/64 12-20 Aug 63 Alien spores which mature into flowers that emit a lethal gas are brought to Earth. Package notes: "Specimen: Unknown," _T_h_e_ _O_u_t_e_r_ _L_i_m_i_t_s_' highest-rated episode ever, features a young Dabney Coleman as Lieutenant Rupert Howard, a scientist assigned to the Project Adonis space station. When he discovers strange life forms clinging to the walls of the space lab, he removes several of the mushroom-shaped "space barnacles" and incubates them for examination. They quickly mature into huge white flowers and, without warning, spray Howard with fresh spores and a lethal vapor. The incident triggers an investigation which is delayed by a shift in space station personnel. By the time anyone realizes the plants are deadly, they are already aboard a shuttle bound for earth with a new crew. It is interesting to note that this episode aired 15 years before _A_l_i_e_n. Cast Col. J. T. MacWilliams (Stephen McNally) Capt. Mike Doweling (Richard Jaeckal) Major Clark Benedict (Russell Johnson) Lt. Kenneth Gavin (Arthur Batanides) Lt. Gordon Halper (Peter Baldwin) Lt. Rupert Lawrence Howard (Dabney Coleman) Janet Doweling (Gail Kobe) Major Nathan Jennings (John Kellogg) Sergeant (Walt Davis) Project Adonis Intercom Voice (Robert Johnson) Executive Producer Leslie Stevens Produced by Joseph Stefano Written by Stephen Lord Additional material by Joseph Stefano Prologue by Leslie Stevens Directed by Gerd Oswald Prologue directed by Robert H. Justman Assistant Director: Lee H. Katzin Directory of Photography: Conrad Hall 23. Second Chance 3/02/64 22-28 Jan 64 An amusement park spaceship is converted into the real thing and unsuspecting patrons are shanghaied into space by an alien. 24. Moonstone 3/09/64 5-12 Sep 63 Lunar base personnel come between a globe containing alien intelligences and the alien leaders. Cast Prof. Diana Brice (Ruth Roman) Gen. Lee Stocker (Alex Nicol) Major Clint Anderson (Tim O'Connor) Dr. Phillip Mendl (Curt Conway) Lt. Ernie Travers (Hari Rhodes) Grippian Voice (Ben Wright) Scanner Unit Voice (Vic Perrin) Written by William Bast Story material by Joseph Stefano and Lou Morheim Directed by Robert Florey Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 25. The Mutant 3/16/64 15-21 Jan 64 Radioactive rainfall transforms a man into a being with the power to kill at a touch. 26. The Guests 3/23/64 6-13 Feb 64 A brooding alien keeps humans captive in a Gothic mansion where time stands still. 27. Fun And Games 3/30/64 30 Jan-6 Feb 64 Aliens pit a human couple against a pair of savage creatures from another planet, with the fate of the contestants' home world at stake. Package notes: "There was a moment in time when those who were brilliant and powerful also were playful...they replenished their darker passions with fun and games. On the planet Earth, such games have been civilized, and drained of all but their last few drops of blood..." The Senator, a sporting alien representing the citizenry of planet Andera, abducts ex-boxer Mike Benson (Nick Adams) and troubled divorcee Laura Hanley (Nancy Malone), "electroporting" them to a distant, neutral planet. On this "arena planet," they are pitted in battle against two huge, hissing, primitive alien beasts from the Calco Galaxy. The goal of this hideous contest is survival. The stakes are the home planet of each team, with the world of the losers to be obliterated in a display lasting five years--all for the further enjoyment of the bloodthirsty Anderans! 28. The Special One 4/06/64 26 Feb-4 Mar 64 Humanoid aliens posing as tutors for gifted children begin indoctrinating young geniuses in a scheme to conquer Earth. 29. A Feasibility Study 4/13/64 5-12 Aug 63 The Feasibility Study (working title) Six suburban blocks are teleported overnight to the distant planet Luminos. The Luminoids need slaves because a disease on the planet has rendered them immobile. The kidnapped humans are a test group; if enough of them prove immune to the disease, the entire population of Earth will be teleported to Luminos. But if a majority dies, then the Luminoids will look elsewhere for labor. A few members of the community do become infected, but not enough for humans to fail the test. In a moving conclusion, the healthy join hands with the sick, deliberately infecting themselves so that the Luminoids will spare Earth's population. Cast Dr. Simon Holm (Sam Wanamaker) Andrea Holm (Phyllis Love) Ralph Cashman (David Opatoshu) Rhea Cashman (Joyce Van Patten) Voice of the Authority (Ben Wright) The Authority (Robert Justman) Father Fontanna (Frank Puglia) Teenaged Luminoid (Glenn Gannon) Written by Joseph Stefano Directed by Byron Haskin Assistant Director: Robert Justman Director of Photography: John Nickolaus 30. Production And Decay Of Strange Particles 4/20/64 19-25 Feb 64 A nuclear reactor goes out of control and releases a flood of energy creatures from another dimension. 31. The Chameleon 4/27/64 5-11 Mar 64 The Seamaness Drug, also The Drug (original titles) A man impersonates an alien to infiltrate a party of creatures in a downed spacecraft. 32. The Forms Of Things Unknown* 5/04/64 2-21 Jan 64 The Unknown (pilot version title) Lovers and Madmen (working title) Two women (Vera Miles and Barbara Rush) murder the evil man who "keeps" them in riches and flee in the dead man's Rolls-Royce, with the body stashed in the trunk. Seeking refuge from a storm, they come upon a Gothic mansion inhabited by an eccentric genius (David McCallum), who has brought himself back from the dead with an elaborate "time-tilting" apparatus. Later, he brings back to life the dead man in the car. The series' most experimental episode, with bizarre, disorienting camerawork. SECOND SEASON 33. Soldier* 9/19/64 3-10 Jul 64 A soldier from the future is caught in a time warp and sent back into the present -- with the enemy not far behind. Package notes: Somewhere in Earth's distant future: on a blasted, radioactive no-man's- land, two soldiers battle in a crossfire of death beams, and a bizarre time-warp is created. Wrenched out of the future, flung back in time to today, Qarlo (Michael Ansara) is a killing machine without a war. In Harlan Ellison's first-ever science fiction teleplay (based on his own short story), language expert Tom Kagan (Lloyd Nolan) is given the job of taming this savage beast. But is it possible to change a man born, bred and brainwashed to worship violence? Or is it all just a nightmarish glimpse into our own future? Starring Michael Ansara Lloyd Nolan Tim O'Connor Catherine MacLeod Ralph Hart Jill Hill Ted Stanhope Alan Jaffe Marlowe Jenson Jaime Forster Mavis Neal Executive Producer Leslie Stevens Produced by Ben Brady Written by Harlan Ellison, adapted from his short story Some material by Seeleg Lester Directed by Gerd Oswald 34. Cold Hands, Warm Heart 9/26/64 25 Jun-2 Jul 64 Following a successful orbit around the planet Venus, an astronaut finds he is beginning to look like a nightmarish creature he saw there. 35. Behold, Eck! 10/03/64 28 Jul-4 Aug 64 An optometrist fashions lenses from meteoric quartz which enables him to observe a two-dimensional being. 36. Expanding Human 10/10/64 21-28 Aug 64 A professor experimenting with consciousness-expanding drugs becomes capable of turning himself into a superman. 37. Demon With A Glass Hand* 10/17/64 31 Aug-7 Sep 64 Robert Culp stars as a man from the future with no memory, who is being pursued by mysterious alien invaders, also from the future, in an abandoned office block. One of his hands is a talking, computerized prothesis that is missing three fingers. It can tell him what to do, but it cannot tell him who he is or why the aliens are trying to kill him until its missing fingers are restored--and they are in the possession of the aliens. Culp hunts the aliens down one by one and wrests the missing fingers from them. With the fingers plugged in, the hand can at last reveal Culp's identity and purpose. He is an android and stored on a wire in his hand is the entire Earth population, converted to electrical impulses to escape alien invasion. An imaginative script by Harlan Ellison. Package notes: In a role written for him by famed sci-fi writer, Harlan Ellison, Robert Culp stars as Trent, an intent, enigmatic man from the future who escapes back into our present. Pursued by the Kyben--an alien race which has conquered future Earth--the fate of all humankind lies in Trent's glass hand. Trapped in a dilapidated office building (the same building where much of "Blade Runner" was shot), Trent battles the Kyben as both sides fight for survival. This tension-filled, visually fascinating episode won Ellison the Writers Guild Award for Outstanding Script for a Television Anthology. Starring Robert Culp Arline Martel Abraham Sofaer Steve Harris Rex Holman Produced by Ben Brady Written by Harlan Ellison Directed by Byron Haskin 38. Cry Of Silence 10/24/64 10-17 Sep 64 Mind Over Matter (original title) A disembodied alien intelligence inhabits and animates tumbleweeds in an attempt to establish communication with humans in a desert canyon. 39. The Invisible Enemy* 10/31/64 13-20 Jul 64 An expedition to Mars os menaced by reptilian creatures who dwell in a sea of sand and move through it like water. Package notes: Two astronauts travel to Mars, but never return home. A second expedition is sent to find out why, and two crew members are mysteriously suctioned into the sand shortly after arrival. Only Mission Commander Merritt (Adam West, "Batman,""Robinson Crusoe on Mars") and his Captain are left--with the shocking realization that their "invisible enemy' is really a band of man-eating sand sharks! When Merritt gets marooned in the middle of the shark-infested sand pool, a safe return to the ship seems impossible. With only minutes left to blast-off, Merritt must outsmart his deadly opponents--or never see Earth again! Starring Adam West Ted Knight Rudy Solari Joe Maross Chris Alcaide Produced by Ben Brady Written by Jerry Sohl Directed by Byron Haskin 40. Wolf 359 11/07/64 5-12 Aug 64 The environment of a distant planet, reproduced in a laboratory experiment, gives rise to an entity that draws the life-force from other living things. 41. I, Robot 11/14/64 18-25 Sep 64 An adaptation of a story by Eando Binder about a robot who is put on trial for the alleged murder of his creator. 42. The Inheritors, Part One* 11/21/64 28 Sep-13 Oct 64 The Hui Tan Project (scripted) 43. The Inheritors, Part Two* 11/28/64 28 Sep-13 Oct 64 The Pied Piper Project (scripted) "The Outer Limits'" only two-part effort follows the actions of four men who, wounded in action in Vietnam by bullets made from the ore of a meteorite, have each developed a kind of "second brain" that has boosted their IQs to genius level and linked their consciousnesses together to form a "group mind". The four men are being driven against their will by this "group mind" to collaborate on a mysterious project which entails the kidnapping of a number of handicapped children. In the end, it is revealed that the "group mind" is a guiding alien intelligence and that the project they have completed is a spacecraft in which the blind can see, the mute can speak and the lame can walk. 44. Keeper Of The Purple Twilight* 12/05/64 13-20 Aug 64 An alien scientist provides the key to a scientific equation in exchange for the emotiuons of an Earth scientist. Package notes: The lack of two crucial equations needed to complete his magnetic disintegrator drives scientist Eric Plummer (Warren Stevens) to the brink of suicide. When a dispassionate alien creature, Ikar (Robert Webber), suddenly appears and offers the answers, Plummer readily accepts, but in return must surrender to the alien all of his emotions --including love. But why does the alien wnat the project completed? Is he working alone? And is he as immune to human emotions as he thinks he is? For the answers, you'll have to take a trip to "The Outer Limits." Starring Warren Stevens Robert Webber Gail Kobe Curt Conway Edward C. Platt Produced by Ben Brady Written by Milton Krims, based on a teleplay by Stephen Lord Directed by Charles Haas 45. The Duplicate Man 12/19/64 15-22 Oct 64 A savage creature smuggled to Earth escapes, and the scientist responsible has a duplicate of himself made to kill it. 46. Counterweight 12/26/64 21-27 Jul 64 Six people volunteer to undergo a simulated space voyage to another world, unaware that an alien presence from the target world is on board. 47. The Brain Of Colonel Barham 1/02/65 23-30 Oct 64 The Brain of Donald Duncan (original title) A rehash of the sci-fi movie "Donovan's Brain" with a dying astro- naut's brain surgically removed and connected to a computer. 48. The Premonition 1/09/65 2-9 Nov 64 Gordian Knot (original title) A mysterious suspension of time gives a test pilot and his wife a glimpse of existance between once instant and the next. 49. The Probe 1/16/65 10-16 Nov 64 The survivors of a plane crash are drawn on board a gigantic alien space probe. * - Released on a MGM/UA video tape Information from the June, 1983, issue of Video Review. Other information from the MGM/UA video tape packages and the book "The Outer Limits - The Official Companion". The first date is the original air date and the second date are the production dates.