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Season 1

7.5/101,674 votes
The Galaxy Being
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1963
A radio station engineer named Allan Maxwell establishes contact with an alien being. But when the station's power is turned up, the alien is teleported to Earth where its radioactive nature causes havoc.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
7.2/101,237 votes
The Hundred Days of the Dragon
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1963
A sinister foreign power replaces the President of the United States with its own agent via the use of a powerful drug allowing the skin to be temporarily molded into any likeness.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Allan Balter, Robert Mintz
7.5/101,276 votes
The Architects of Fear
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 9/30/1963
A noble scheme goes horribly awry when a group of scientists plan an elaborate hoax designed to frighten and ultimately unite humankind.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
7.2/101,017 votes
The Man with the Power
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/7/1963
A radical experiment gives a college professor incredible power, which his subconcious mind uses to destroy his enemies.
Director: László Benedek
Writer: Jerome Ross
8.0/101,258 votes
The Sixth Finger
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1963
A scientist discovers a way to speed up evolution and tries out the process on a simple miner.
Director: James Goldstone
Writer: Ellis St. Joseph
8.0/101,197 votes
The Man Who Was Never Born
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 10/28/1963
An astronaut travels to the 23rd Century, where he finds the Earth a blasted wasteland inhabited by monsters.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
7.3/10932 votes
O.B.I.T.
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/4/1963
A new invention allows spying on anyone, anywhere.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
6.9/10804 votes
The Human Factor
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/11/1963
At a military base far in the arctic, a man invents a machine which allows two minds to contact one another. An earthquake causes a malfunction and two men wake up to find that their minds have switched bodies.
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: David Duncan
6.9/10844 votes
Corpus Earthling
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/18/1963
A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Louis Charbonneau, Orin Borsten
7.6/10951 votes
Nightmare
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/2/1963
In a war action with the planet Ebon, some soldiers are captured, interrogated and tortured.
Director: John Erman
Writer: Joseph Stefano
7.2/10852 votes
It Crawled Out of the Woodwork
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/9/1963
An incredible being made of pure energy imperils the staff of a research lab and hides a deadly secret.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
6.7/10763 votes
The Borderland
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/16/1963
A scientist named Ian Fraser invents a machine which can pierce the borderland between this world and... The Afterlife? Maybe. Fraser convinces an industrialist to finance future experiments with the possibility of contacting the rich man's dead son.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
6.1/10718 votes
Tourist Attraction
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/23/1963
In a South American country a group of explorers discover a prehistoric monster in an ancient lake. The discovery leads them into conflict with the country's dictator.
Director: László Benedek
Writer: Dean Riesner
7.8/101,093 votes
The Zanti Misfits
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/30/1963
Exiles from the planet Zanti arrive on Earth, and a startling truth is uncovered when two human renegades invade their privacy.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Joseph Stefano
6.7/10680 votes
The Mice
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/6/1964
A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Bill S. Ballinger, Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim
7.1/10801 votes
Controlled Experiment
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/13/1964
Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
6.9/10758 votes
Don't Open Till Doomsday
Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/20/1964
A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
7.0/10789 votes
ZZZZZ
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/27/1964
A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Meyer Dolinsky
7.3/10699 votes
The Invisibles
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/3/1964
A government agent infiltrates a secret criminal organization that uses alien parasites to control its members.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano
8.0/10830 votes
The Bellero Shield
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/10/1964
A scientist captures an alien that can protect itself with an unbreakable shield.
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim
6.3/10600 votes
The Children of Spider County
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/17/1964
Four scientists disappear in one day. All were born in the same county, on the same day. A fifth scientist is in jail and a federal agent is assigned to the case. The fifth man is sprung from jail by a mysterious stranger who says he's the young man's father.
Director: Leonard Horn
Writer: Anthony Lawrence
6.7/10624 votes
Specimen: Unknown
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 2/24/1964
Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Stephen Lord
7.2/10670 votes
Second Chance
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/2/1964
A group of people board an amusement park ride. Then they (and their surprised "captain") find that they're really going on a space jaunt.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Lou Morheim, Lin Dane, Sonya Roberts
6.8/10597 votes
Moonstone
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/9/1964
Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.
Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, William Bast
6.8/10599 votes
The Mutant
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/16/1964
A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.
Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Allan Balter, Robert Mintz, Jerome B. Thomas
7.3/10685 votes
The Guests
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 3/23/1964
After discovering an elderly man dying by the side of the road, a young man finds a strange house where some people are kept prisoner and ageless by an alien intelligence.
Director: Paul Stanley
Writer: Donald S. Sanford
7.2/10632 votes
Fun and Games
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/30/1964
Two Earth people are transported to an alien planet, along with two aliens. The are told by their abductors that they will fight each other to the death. The stakes are high: the homeworld of the losers will be destroyed slowly, for the further amusement of their captors.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Robert Specht, Joseph Stefano
7.1/10585 votes
The Special One
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/6/1964
Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Oliver Crawford
7.8/10748 votes
A Feasibility Study
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/13/1964
The people of Earth surprise their alien captors when an entire neighborhood is transported to another planet as part of a plan to enslave the human race.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writer: Joseph Stefano
6.3/10588 votes
Production and Decay of Strange Particles
Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 4/20/1964
An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.
Director: Leslie Stevens
Writer: Leslie Stevens
7.6/10622 votes
The Chameleon
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 4/27/1964
A government agent faces a crisis of conscience when he infiltrates a band of aliens marooned aboard the wreckage of a flying saucer.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, Robert Towne
7.5/10747 votes
The Forms of Things Unknown
Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/4/1964
Two women with a body in their car trunk come upon a house by chance wherein a crazed inventor has a machine that can bring back the dead.
Director: Gerd Oswald
Writer: Joseph Stefano