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The Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 7

Every episode of The Outer Limits Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The Outer Limits Season 7!

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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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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 2 - Patient Zero
    8.1/10(409 votes)

    S7:E2

    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.

    Director:Mario Azzopardi
    Writer:James Crocker

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  2. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 7 - Replica
    7.7/10(293 votes)

    S7:E7

    A biogeneticist illegally clones his comatose wife.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Sam Egan

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  3. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 16 - Abduction
    7.5/10(344 votes)

    S7:E16

    An alien makes an offer to five high school students.

    Director:Mario Azzopardi
    Writer:James Crocker

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  4. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 1 - Family Values
    7.4/10(331 votes)

    S7:E1

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

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:James Crocker

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  5. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 15 - Time to Time
    7.4/10(287 votes)

    S7:E15

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

    Director:James Head
    Writer:Sam Egan

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  6. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 6 - Mona Lisa
    7.3/10(286 votes)

    S7:E6

    An android escapes her labratory to search for friendship.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:John Schulian

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  7. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 9 - Alien Shop
    7.3/10(307 votes)

    S7:E9

    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.

    Directors:Peter DeLuise, Jorge Montesi
    Writers:Pen Densham, Alan Brennert

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  8. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 17 - Rule of Law
    7.3/10(249 votes)

    S7:E17

    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.

    Director:Mike Rohl
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 3 - A New Life
    7.2/10(288 votes)

    S7:E3

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

    Director:Mario Azzopardi
    Writer:Mark Stern

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  10. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 8 - Think Like a Dinosaur
    7.2/10(282 votes)

    S7:E8

    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.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:Mark Stern

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  11. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 4 - The Surrogate
    6.7/10(239 votes)

    S7:E4

    A struggling artist signs up for a surrogate birth program.

    Director:Ken Girotti
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 5 - The Vessel
    6.7/10(213 votes)

    S7:E5

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

    Director:Jimmy Kaufman
    Writer:Sam Egan

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  13. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 14 - Mindreacher
    6.7/10(225 votes)

    S7:E14

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

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 12 - Flower Child
    6.6/10(260 votes)

    S7:E12

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

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Jeffrey Hirschfield

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  15. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 10 - Worlds Within
    6.4/10(226 votes)

    S7:E10

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

    Director:Steve Anker
    Writer:Michael Sloan

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  16. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 19 - The Tipping Point
    6.4/10(222 votes)

    S7:E19

    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.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 21 - The Human Factor
    6.4/10(209 votes)

    S7:E21

    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.

    Director:Robert Habros
    Writers:Grady Hall, Steve Aspis

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  18. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 18 - Lion's Den
    6.2/10(232 votes)

    S7:E18

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

    Director:Matthew Hastings
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 13 - Free Spirit
    6.1/10(212 votes)

    S7:E13

    A strange entity possesses schizophrenics in a mental asylum.

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Danny McBride

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  20. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 20 - Dark Child
    6.0/10(196 votes)

    S7:E20

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

    Director:Steve Anker
    Writer:Michael Sloan

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  21. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 11 - In the Blood
    5.7/10(235 votes)

    S7:E11

    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.

    Director:Jorge Montesi
    Writer:Alan Brennert

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  22. The Outer Limits Season 7 Episode 22 - Human Trials
    5.2/10(214 votes)

    S7:E22

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

    Director:Brad Turner
    Writer:Mark Stern

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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"Patient Zero" is the best rated episode of "The Outer Limits" season 7. It scored 8.1/10 based on 409 votes. Directed by Mario Azzopardi and written by James Crocker, it aired on 3/23/2001. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "Replica".