All Episodes of Out of This World

Season 1

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  9.1/109 votes

  Pictures Don't Lie

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/11/1962

  Radio researcher Nathen picks up signals coming from a spaceship hovering near Earth and succeeds in communicating with his 'opposite number' aboard the ship. Speech and pictures are received showing that the occupants are humanoid – and friendly. But can they trust us?

  Director: John Knight

  Writer: Bruce Stewart

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  6.9/1079 votes

  Little Lost Robot

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/7/1962

  When a robot is expected to obey every command, what does it do when a technician tells it to 'get lost'?

  Director: Douglas James

  Writer: Leo Lehmann

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  N/A/100 votes

  Dumb Martian

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 6/24/1962

  An Earthman on a solo tour of duty on one of Jupiter's moons buys a Martian woman as a companion. He mistreats her, assuming her to be just a 'dumb Martian'. He learns, to his cost, that she has more intelligence than he gives her credit for.

  Director: Charles Jarrott

  Writer: Clive Exton

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  N/A/100 votes

  The Yellow Pill

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 6/30/1962

  Psychiatrist John Frame is asked by police to examine Michael Connor, who claims to have come from another time. Frame is startled when Connor demonstrates an extraordinary and intimate knowledge of Frame's private life.

  Director: Jonathan Alwyn

  Writer: Leon Griffiths

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  N/A/100 votes

  Cold Equations

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/14/1962

  Lee Cross is a teenage stowaway on a rocket ship, hoping to see her brother on another planet. However, her extra mass was obviously unaccounted for, leaving the ship with not enough fuel to reach its destination.

  Director: Paul Bernard

  Writer: Clive Exton

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  N/A/100 votes

  Impostor

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 7/21/1962

  Earth is at war with the Outspacers. Major Peters believes that an Outspace robot bomb is masquerading as top scientist Roger Carter. Condemned to death, a horrified Carter tries desperately to prove his innocence — or is Peters right?

  Director: Peter Hammond

  Writer: Terry Nation

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  N/A/100 votes

  Botany Bay

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 7/28/1962

  Bill Sheridan believes that the patients at the criminally insane institute he works for are being controlled by aliens. After killing one of 'the possessed', he finds himself in the same institute, this time as a patient.

  Director: Guy Verney

  Writer: Terry Nation

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  N/A/100 votes

  Medicine Show

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/4/1962

  A travelling medicine show revisits a small American town, this time under new ownership. The new owners require seeds as payment in return for miracle cures.

  Director: Richmond Harding

  Writer: Julian Bond

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  Vanishing Act

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 8/18/1962

  Edgar Brocklebank, a third rate conjurer, becomes a sensation after buying the vanishing trick box from the estate of the 'Great Vorg', a once famous magician. However, what Edgar can't explain is exactly where his assistants or objects are going once they have entered the box — as they don't return.

  Director: Don Leaver

  Writer: Richard Waring

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  N/A/100 votes

  Divided We Fall

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 8/25/1962

  In 2033, Eddy, the world's most respected supercomputer, detects strange rebellious thoughts in 'The Syns', which are synthetic human beings.

  Director: John Knight

  Writer: Leon Griffiths

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  N/A/100 votes

  The Dark Star

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 9/1/1962

  A mysterious disease is sweeping through London, giving its victims superhuman strength in the early stages. Most alarmingly, however, it seems to be selecting targets, with each link in the chain leading a step higher in status. Where will it end and how did it start? Scotland Yard chiefs and scientist Dr Howard must find out-fast.

  Director: Peter Hammond

  Writer: Denis Butler

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  N/A/100 votes

  Immigrant

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/8/1962

  Bishop is sent to investigate the planet Kimon, which selects only the brightest as immigrants, who make great wealth to send back to their families — but the immigrants themselves are never seen again.

  Director: Jonathan Alwyn

  Writer: Terry Nation

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  N/A/100 votes

  Target Generation

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/15/1962

  A belief handed down through the centuries that when the Tremor comes it signifies the beginning of the End; a community where reading is heresy; and a letter marked 'to be opened only in an emergency'. These elements come together for Jon Hoff who can read and must decides whether the beginning of the End is enough.

  Director: Alan Cooke

  Writer: Clive Exton

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  N/A/100 votes

  The Tycoons

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 9/22/1962

  Oscar Raebone, a keen tax avoidance investigator for the Inland Revenue, is sent to look into the affairs of a company making novelties. He finds a strange group there calling themselves 'The Tycoons'.

  Director: Charles Jarrott

  Writer: Bruce Stewart