The Outer Limits

Name: The Outer Limits
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Released: 1995-03-26
Rating: 7.7

ENDED7 Seasons153 Episodes★ 7.7

The Outer Limits is a drama series on Showtime that ran from 1995 to 2002, ending after 7 seasons and 153 episodes.

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NetworkShowtime

First AiredMar 26, 1995

Last AiredJan 18, 2002

GenreDrama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy

Runtime44 min

Created ByLeslie Stevens

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited States

ProductionAlliance Atlantis, Atlantis Films, Showtime Networks

Anthology series composed of distinct story episodes, sometimes with a plot twist at the end, with occasional recurring story elements that were often tied together during season-finale clip shows.

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Seasons & Episodes7 seasons · 153 episodes

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E1Family Values

Mar 16, 200145m★ 8.0

A man believes all his family problems will be solved when he purchases a robot to help around the house.

E2Patient Zero

Mar 23, 200145m★ 8.0

A desperate man from the future travels back to the present to find and kill the carrier of a deadly plague that threatens to annihilate humankind.

E3A New Life

Mar 30, 200145m★ 6.3

A stressed out businessman and his girlfriend leave town to join an influential cult.

E4The Surrogate

Apr 6, 200145m★ 4.2

A struggling artist signs up for a surrogate birth program.

E5The Vessel

Apr 13, 200145m★ 5.8

The lone survivor of a space shuttle disaster discovers he is indestructible and has become spiritually linked to an alien living within himself.

E6Mona Lisa

Apr 20, 200145m★ 6.2

An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.

E7Replica

Apr 27, 200145m★ 7.2

A biogeneticist illegally clones his comatose wife.

E8Think Like a Dinosaur

Jun 15, 200145m★ 7.0

One human is the only permanent occupant of a station located on a vast empty plain of the moon. His companions are an emotionless lizard-like alien species who have developed a highly advanced means of long distance travel by 'jumping' through space.

E9Alien Shop

Jun 22, 200145m★ 5.6

An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook (Jonathon Schaech) accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way that money not earned comes at a price.

E10Worlds Within

Jun 29, 200145m★ 5.7

A mutant child is a link to another dimension and a scientist tries to save him from secret government manipulation.

E11In the Blood

Jul 6, 200145m★ 5.5

An exploratory mission into space passes through a quantum hole torn into the very fabric of the universe and enters another continuum, a trans-space just beneath its surface.

E12Flower Child

Jul 21, 200145m★ 5.3

A seductive woman challenges a young couple's ideas of commitment and monogamy.

E13Free Spirit

Jul 28, 200145m★ 5.6

A strange entity possesses schizophrenics in a mental asylum.

E14Mindreacher

Aug 4, 200145m★ 5.8

A doctor puts her sanity on the line when testing a psychological tool allowing her to enter her patients' minds.

E15Time to Time

Aug 11, 200145m★ 6.0

A dedicated daughter trips back in time to change her Dad's destiny.

E16Abduction

Aug 18, 200145m★ 7.2

An alien makes an offer to five high school students.

E17Rule of Law

Aug 25, 200145m★ 5.2

A circuit court judge goes to a frontier planet that has never known the judicial system. His first trial is of an alien accused of being in an attack where several humans were killed.

E18Lion's Den

Sep 8, 200145m★ 5.5

A high-school wrestling team takes new drugs which cause some unexpected changes.

E19The Tipping Point

Sep 15, 200145m★ 4.0

A project to develop a universal computer language may lead to all the computers in the world to link and form an artificial intelligence that one computer whiz feels that he must destroy or risk world domination.

E20Dark Child

Jan 4, 200245m★ 6.7

An alien abductee 17 years ago copes with a teen daughter.

E21The Human Factor

Jan 11, 200245m★ 6.0

In the year 2059 humans fight an android who's artificial intelligence has determined that the spread of colonization by destructive humans must be stopped.

E22Human Trials

Jan 18, 200245m★ 4.8

A decorated soldier undergoes life-and-death tests for a mysterious mission.

About The Outer Limits

The Outer Limits is a drama, sci-fi & fantasy series on Showtime. The show first aired on Mar 26, 1995 and currently has 7 seasons and 153 episodes. The Outer Limits has ended. It has a rating of 7.7/10 based on 253 votes. Created by Leslie Stevens.