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The Worst Episodes of The Outer Limits

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Worst episode
S1E13 Tourist Attraction
6.1718 votes
Best episode
S2E5 Demon with a Glass Hand
8.51,326 votes
Top season
Season 1
7.2avg
Binge time
1d 18h
49 episodes
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 13 - Tourist Attraction
    6.1/10(718 votes)

    S1:E13

    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

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  2. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 14 - Counterweight
    6.2/10(476 votes)

    S2:E14

    Six future astronauts are put through a simulation of a long space flight.

    Director:Paul Stanley
    Writers:Jerry Sohl, Milton Krims

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  3. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 21 - The Children of Spider County
    6.3/10(600 votes)

    S1:E21

    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

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  4. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 30 - Production and Decay of Strange Particles
    6.3/10(588 votes)

    S1:E30

    An accident in a nuclear research facility opens a dimensonal doorway and allows deadly creatures to emerge.

    Director:Leslie Stevens
    Writer:Leslie Stevens

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  5. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 7 - The Invisible Enemy
    6.5/10(620 votes)

    S2:E7

    A manned mission to Mars is menaced by Martian creatures who swim in the planet's sandy soil.

    Director:Byron Haskin
    Writer:Jerry Sohl

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  6. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 2 - Cold Hands, Warm Heart
    6.6/10(691 votes)

    S2:E2

    After returning from a mission to Venus, an astronaut can't seem to stay warm enough and has strange dreams about encountering a wraith-like being outside his spaceship window.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Milton Krims, Daniel B. Ullman

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  7. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 8 - Wolf 359
    6.6/10(545 votes)

    S2:E8

    A college professor recreates the environment of a distant planet in a lab in order to study its evolution... which happens quickly.

    Director:László Benedek
    Writers:Richard H. Landau, Seeleg Lester

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  8. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 17 - The Probe
    6.6/10(508 votes)

    S2:E17

    After flying into a hurricane, the crew of a cargo plane bound for Tokyo is captured by an alien space probe.

    Director:Felix E. Feist
    Writers:Seeleg Lester, Sam Neuman

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  9. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 15 - The Brain of Colonel Barham
    6.6/10(454 votes)

    S2:E15

    A dying astronaut agrees to have his brain implanted into a robot body.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Sidney Ellis, Robert C. Dennis

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  10. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 12 - The Borderland
    6.7/10(763 votes)

    S1:E12

    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

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  11. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 15 - The Mice
    6.7/10(680 votes)

    S1:E15

    A convict serving a life sentence finds that he has an alternative: change places with an alien.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Bill S. Ballinger, Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim

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  12. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 22 - Specimen: Unknown
    6.7/10(624 votes)

    S1:E22

    Scientists on a space station discover an unusual and dangerous plant.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Stephen Lord

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  13. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 6 - Cry of Silence
    6.7/10(594 votes)

    S2:E6

    A couple of motorists stranded in the desert are stalked by a bunch of tumbleweeds.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Louis Charbonneau, Robert C. Dennis

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  14. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 25 - The Mutant
    6.8/10(599 votes)

    S1:E25

    A radioactive rainstorm at a scientific base on a distant planet mutates a scientist driving him insane and making him telepathic.

    Directors:Alan Crosland, Jr.
    Writers:Allan Balter, Robert Mintz, Jerome B. Thomas

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  15. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 24 - Moonstone
    6.8/10(597 votes)

    S1:E24

    Workers on a moon base find a mysterious rock that appears to be alive.

    Director:Robert Florey
    Writers:Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim, William Bast

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  16. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 4 - Expanding Human
    6.8/10(524 votes)

    S2:E4

    A man experimenting with conciousness expansion drugs becomes super-human and not really human at all.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Francis M. Cockrell

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  17. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 13 - The Duplicate Man
    6.8/10(506 votes)

    S2:E13

    A man wants to capture a dangerous alien creature. Doing it himself would be way too dangerous, so he has his clone do it.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writers:Clifford D. Simak, Robert C. Dennis

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  18. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 9 - Corpus Earthling
    6.9/10(844 votes)

    S1:E9

    A man with a steel plate in his head overhears conversations about global conquest. But where are the voices coming from?

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writers:Louis Charbonneau, Orin Borsten

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  19. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 8 - The Human Factor
    6.9/10(804 votes)

    S1:E8

    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

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  20. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 17 - Don't Open Till Doomsday
    6.9/10(758 votes)

    S1:E17

    A young couple's honeymoon is cut short by the horrifying contents of a mysterious box.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Joseph Stefano

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  21. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 3 - Behold, Eck!
    6.9/10(592 votes)

    S2:E3

    A scientist invents a pair of glasses which enable him to see and communicate with a two dimensional being.

    Director:Byron Haskin
    Writers:William R. Cox, John Mantley

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  22. The Outer Limits Season 2 Episode 12 - Keeper of the Purple Twilight
    6.9/10(528 votes)

    S2:E12

    An alien offers his technical knowledge of how to build a ray gun in exchange for a scientist's ability to feel emotions.

    Director:Charles F. Haas
    Writers:Stephen Lord, Milton Krims

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  23. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 18 - ZZZZZ
    7.0/10(789 votes)

    S1:E18

    A queen bee assumes a human appearance in order to make an unwary scientist into her new mate.

    Director:John Brahm
    Writer:Meyer Dolinsky

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  24. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 16 - Controlled Experiment
    7.1/10(801 votes)

    S1:E16

    Two Martian investigators probe our custom of homicide.

    Director:Leslie Stevens
    Writer:Leslie Stevens

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  25. The Outer Limits Season 1 Episode 28 - The Special One
    7.1/10(585 votes)

    S1:E28

    Parents of a gifted youngster discover that their son's new tutor is not quite human.

    Director:Gerd Oswald
    Writer:Oliver Crawford

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Tourist Attraction" is the worst rated episode of The Outer Limits. It scored 6.1/10 from 718 votes. Directed by László Benedek and written by Dean Riesner, it aired on December 23, 1963. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Counterweight".

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