The Outer Limits: Season 1

1995 · 21 episodes · ★ 6.0

What Season 1 of The Outer Limits

Season 1 of The Outer Limits has 21 episodes and premiered on March 26, 1995. Here's the complete episode guide with air dates, runtimes and ratings.

21episodes

Mar 26, 1995released

Aug 20, 1995final episode

16.6 hrtotal runtime

Season 1 Episodes

1x01 The Sandkings
Mar 26, 1995 · 93 min · ★ 6.1
Scientist Simon Kress finds himself the master of a colony of Sandkings -- creatures from Mars that look like insects, but have the intelligence of much higher beings.
Directing: Stuart Gillard · Writing: Melinda M. Snodgrass, George R.R. Martin · Starring: Helen Shaver, Beau Bridges, Kim Coates, Dylan Bridges
1x02 Valerie 23
Mar 31, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.1
Frank Hellner, a lonely paraplegic, takes part in a top-secret project -- allowing an "inorganic human," or robot named Valerie, to be his companion for a week. The experiment goes awry when Valerie, unable to control her programmed emotions, becomes jealous and threatens the life of Frank's physical therapist and close friend Rachel.
Directed by: Timothy Bond · Written by: Jonathan Glassner · Starring: William Sadler, Sofia Shinas, Tom Butler, Nancy Allen
1x03 Blood Brothers
Apr 7, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 5.9
Two diametrically opposed brothers, wrestle for control of a million-dollar pharmaceutical company. A vaccine that could hold the secret to eternal life, becomes the object of the brothers' bitter struggle.
Directed by: Tibor Takács · Written by: Brad Wright · Starring: Charles Martin Smith, Kate Vernon, George Touliatos, Tom Cavanagh
1x04 The Second Soul
Apr 14, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 5.4
Man's first encounter with beings from another planet -- the N'Tal -- appears to be a mutually rewarding arrangement. But a leery doctor/scientist must decide whether the N'Tal are friend or foe.
Directing: Paul Lynch · Writing: Alan Brennert · Starring: Mykelti Williamson, Rae Dawn Chong, D.W. Moffett, Fulvio Cecere
1x05 White Light Fever
Apr 21, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 4.9
An experiment at St. Peter's Hospital threatens nature's order of existence, when billionaire Harlan Hawkes pays a brilliant cardiologist, Dr. "Mac" McEnerney to help him cheat death.
Directed by: Tibor Takács · Starring: Michelle Beaudoin, Bruce Davison, Sonja Smits, William Hickey
1x06 The Choice
Apr 28, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 5.7
A young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, while her parents must decide what's ultimately best for their child.
Directed by: Mark Sobel · Written by: Ann Lewis Hamilton · Starring: Frances Sternhagen, Megan Follows, Sandra Nelson, Rebecca Toolan
1x07 Virtual Future
May 5, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 5.2
A brilliant young scientist discovers a way to see the future, but gets caught up in a billionaire's ambitious political schemes, and must alter the future to save his own life.
Directed by: Joseph L. Scanlan · Written by: Shawn Thompson · Starring: Kelly Rowan, David Warner, Bruce French, Josh Brolin
1x08 Living Hell
May 12, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.0
Ben Kohler's life is saved after having an experimental chip implanted in his brain, but when he starts seeing and experiencing violent images, it becomes clear something is desperately wrong.
Directed by: Graeme Campbell · Written by: Melinda M. Snodgrass, Pen Densham · Starring: Elizabeth Peña, Sam Robards, Stephen Shellen, Walter Marsh
1x09 Corner of the Eye
May 19, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 5.3
A disillusioned priest is given healing power by aliens who use him as they attempt to save their own planet by destroying all human life.
Directing: Stuart Gillard · Writing: David J. Schow · Starring: Chris Sarandon, Len Cariou, Callum Keith Rennie, Vanessa Morley
1x10 Under the Bed
May 26, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 5.3
When a little boy is abducted the only witness, his sister, claims that someone or something under the bed took him.
Directed by: René Bonnière · Written by: Lawrence Meyers · Starring: Timothy Busfield, Barbara Williams, Colleen Rennison, Laura Bruneau
1x11 Dark Matters
Jun 2, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.3
Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.
Directed by: Paul Lynch · Written by: Alan Brennert · Starring: Gregory Smith, Allison Hossack, John Heard, Annette O'Toole
1x12 The Conversion
Jun 9, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 7.5
Henry Marshall is a greedy man who has paid for his greed with a prison sentence but has yet to learn his lesson. His life abruptly changes when he encounters visitors from another planet who instill new sense of compassion for others.
Directed by: Rebecca De Mornay · Written by: Brad Wright · Starring: Frank Whaley, Beau Starr, Rebecca De Mornay, John Savage
1x13 Quality of Mercy
Jun 16, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
Major John Skokes is taken prisoner by the enemy during a savage galactic war and a seemingly undefeatable alien race. The tension increases when his cellmate, a cadet named Pri, is being transformed into one of them. Skokes must find an escape to save his cellmate and to avoid a disturbing revelation of the course of this war.
Directed by: Brad Turner · Written by: Brad Wright · Starring: Nicole De Boer, Robert Patrick, Mark McCracken
1x14 The New Breed
Jun 23, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.8
The discovery of a gifted scientist falls into the wrong hands, bringing what at first appears to be a lifesaving miracle, but ultimately the untimely death of his closest friend.
Directing: Mark Sobel, Mario Azzopardi · Writing: Grant Rosenberg · Starring: Richard Thomas, Peter Outerbridge, Tammy Isbell, L. Harvey Gold
1x15 The Voyage Home
Jun 30, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.9
When an astronaut returning from Mars discovers an alien aboard ship, he must face the loss of his shipmates, and make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prevent the alien from reaching Earth.
Directed by: Tibor Takács · Written by: Grant Rosenberg · Starring: Matt Craven, Michael Dorn, Jay O. Sanders, Akiko Morison
1x16 Caught in the Act
Jul 1, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 5.2
A chaste co-ed is enveloped by a strange power that gives her an insatiable sexual appetite, which is perpetuated by encounters with consenting men who, after making physical contact, morph into her body and disappear.
Directing: Mario Azzopardi · Writing: Grant Rosenberg · Starring: Saul Rubinek, Alyssa Milano, Jason London, Garry Chalk
1x17 The Message
Jul 16, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.7
A deaf woman with a transplanted device, which is supposed to enable her to hear, turns into a transmitter for aliens, who are crying for help.
Directed by: Joseph L. Scanlan · Written by: Brad Wright · Starring: Marlee Matlin, Larry Drake, Robert Wisden, Ken Camroux-Taylor
1x18 I, Robot
Jul 23, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 6.3
Adam, a powerful robot, kills his creator when the scientist attempts to convert him into a military killing machine by destroying his more human qualities.
Directed by: Adam Nimoy, Tibor Takács · Written by: Brad Wright · Starring: Robert Clothier, Leonard Nimoy, Cynthia Preston, Barbara Tyson
1x19 If These Walls Could Talk
Jul 30, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 5.2
Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman whose strength and faith help him unravel the mystery of a haunted house.
Directed by: Tibor Takács · Written by: Eric Estrin, Manny Coto · Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Alberta Watson, Dwight Schultz, Tom McBeath
1x20 Birthright
Aug 13, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 7.2
An environmentally-friendly U.S. Senator's life changes drastically after a freak accident, when he realizes he's actually an alien in disguise, with a "mission" to surreptitiously reconfigure the earth's atmosphere.
Directed by: William Fruet · Written by: Eric Estrin · Starring: Perry King, Mimi Kuzyk, David Neale, Jan D'Arcy
1x21 The Voice of Reason Season Finale
Aug 20, 1995 · 45 min · ★ 4.8
A civilian with strong ties to the military tries desperately to use concrete evidence to convince a high level committee that alien forces are trying to overcome the human race.
Directed by: Neill Fearnley · Written by: Brad Wright · Starring: Gordon Clapp, Daniel J. Travanti, Lochlyn Munro, Don S. Davis