Showing posts with label The Outer Limits 1963. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Outer Limits 1963. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 23, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.24

Moonstone

starring Ruth Roman, Alex Nicol, Tim O'Connor
written by William Bast, Lou Morheim, Joseph Stefano
directed by Robert Florey

An expeditionary mission stationed on the Moon finds a large, perfectly round rock buried under some debris. They try to cut it open but their lasers can't make a dent in it. They soon find out that it is a spaceship of sorts that is inhabited by five refugees from the planet Grippia.

Friday, August 28, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.23

Second Chance

starring Simon Oakland, Janet De Gore, Don Gordon
written by Sonya Roberts, Lou Morheim
directed by Paul Stanley

An alien (Simon Oakland) from the planet Empyrea modifies an amusement park spaceship, turning it into a functioning spaceship. He pretends to be a human wearing a costume and encourages a few people in the park to accept a free ride in the spaceship. They accept not realizing what they are in for.

Thursday, August 13, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.22

Specimen: Unknown

starring Stephen McNally, Richard Jaeckel
written by Stephen Lord
directed by Gerd Oswald

Four astronauts return by shuttlecraft from a space station in orbit around Earth. A strange spore (found attached to the space station) killed one of the other crewmen. They bring with them specimens of the spores. The spores turn into flower like objects and spray the men with pellets and gas. Once by one the men succumb to the plants.

Friday, July 31, 2026

The Outer Limits (1953) 1.21

The Children of Spider County

starring Lee Kinsolving, Kent Smith, John Milford
written by Anthony Lawrence
directed by Leonard J. Horn

The Space Agency Investigative Service sends John Bartlett (John Milford) to Spider County to talk to Ethan Wechsler (Lee Kinsolving) hoping than Ethan is the key to solving the mysterious disappearance of four scientists. Ethan is in police custody and accused of committing murder at the time that Bartlett departs for Spider County. Ethan never knew his father but a mysterious man (Kent Smith) claiming to be his father shows up and helps Ethan get away from the police.

Thursday, July 16, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.20

The Bellero Shield

starring Martin Landau, Sally Kellerman
written by Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim
directed by John Brahm

Richard Bellero (Martin Landau) creates a laser beam that enables an alien to travel to Earth. Richard is fascinated by the alien and shares all kinds of things with him but the alien's time is limited. Richard wants his father, the president of the Bellero Corporation to see the alien. He goes to find his father but Judith, Richard's wife who doesn't get along with her father-in-law, kills the alien before Richard returns his father.

Friday, July 3, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.19

The Invisibles

starring Don Gordon, George Macready, Dee Hartford, 
written by Joseph Stefano
directed Gerd Oswald

Two men, Planetta and Spain (Don Gordon), join a secret organization known as The Invisibles which is a front for an alien invasion of Earth. Planetta and Spain survive the indoctrination process, which kills another man who tried to join at the same time as them. Spain is secretly an agent of the GIA, tasked with infiltrating the Invisibles. He is sent by The Invisibles to Washington, DC to turn General Hilary J. Clarke.

Thursday, June 4, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.18

ZZZZZ

starring Philip Abbott, Marsha Hunt, Joanna Frank
written by Meyer Dolinsky
directed by John Brahm

Regina (Joanna Frank), a queen bee, takes on human form. She tries to seduce an entomologist, Doctor Ben Fields (Philip Abbott), but Francesca Fields (Marsha Hunt), Ben's wife gets in the way. Regina tries to be patient but after Francesca overhears her talking to the colony of bees in Ben's lab she turns on Francesca and releases a swarm of bees on her. Regina seems to think that her problems are solved but Ben feels otherwise.

Thursday, May 7, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.17

Don't Open Until Doomsday

starring Miriam Hopkins, John Hoyt, Russell Collins
writer by Joseph Stefano
directed by Gerd Oswald

Gard Hayden and Vivia Balfour elope. They rush to the justice of the peace (Russell Collins). He marries them and then directs them to the home of Mrs. Kry (Miriam Hopkins). There are no hotels in town and it has a bridal suite. Mrs. Key is more than happy to set them up in the bridal suite. Her husband disappeared just after they god married, 35 years before. She tells them that but she doesn't warn them about the box with the blinking light with the alien inside it.

Thursday, April 23, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.16

Controlled Experiment

starring Barry Morse, Carroll O'Connor
written by Leslie Stevens
directed by Leslie Stevens

Phobos (Barry Morse) travels to Earth where he enlists the assistance of Deimos (Carroll O'Connor) in a controlled experiment. Phobos is there on official business from Mars. He has been tasked with gaining a better understanding of humans, specifically why they violently kill one another. He a high tech gadget to determine where a murder is about to take place. He observes the murder over and over again with the help of a second device which allows him to wind time backwards.

Thursday, April 9, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.15

The Mice

starring Henry Silva, Diana Sands, Michael Higgins
written by Bill S. Ballinger, Joseph Stefano, Lou Morheim
directed by Alan Crosland Jr.

Chino Rivera (Henry Silva), convicted murderer, sentenced to life in prison, volunteers for a scientific experiment, run by Dr. Kellander (Michael Higgins), in the hopes that he will get an opportunity to escape. The plan is to teleport Chino to the planet Chromo after the Chromoids have teleported one of their own to Earth. They are testing the process on a human prisoner because to date the teleportation process has only been proven to work with mice.

Saturday, March 28, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.14

The Zanti Misfits

starring Michael Tolan, Olive Deering, Robert Simon, Claude Woolman, Bruce Dern
written by Joseph Stefano
directed by Leonard J. Horn

Professor Stephen Grave (Michael Tolan) arrives with Major Roger Hill (Claude Woolman) at a secret US Air Force base, run by General Maximillian Hart (Robert Simon), in the California desert town of Morgue. Grave is there to observe the arrival of an alien spaceship which is about to land in an adjacent plot of land. Grave, Hart, Hill and the others only know that the aliens are Misfits from the planet Zanti.

Thursday, March 12, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.13

Tourist Attraction

starring Janet Blair, Henry Silva, Ralph Meeker
directed by Laslo Benedek

John Dexter (Ralph Meeker) leads an expedition in San Blas with the help of marine biologist Tim Evans. Lynn Arthur (Janet Blair), Dexter's secretary is also along for the ride. In the depths of Lake Aripan they find a large fish. Dexter kills it and brings it back with them. He has it put on ice. He wants to transport it back to the United States but General Mercurio (Henry Silva) the ruler of San Blas steps in and declares the creature a national treasure.

Thursday, February 26, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.12

The Borderland

starring Philip Abbott, Gladys Cooper, Nina Foch, Barry Jones, Gene Raymond, Peter Mark Richman, Alfred Ryder
directed by Leslie Stevens

Dwight Hartley (Barry Jones), desperate to make contact with his son who was killed in a car accident, hires a couple psychics Mrs. Palmer (Gladys Cooper) and Mr. Price (Alfred Ryder). Their attempts to make contact with Hartley's son are shown to be fraudulent by scientist  Lincoln Russell (Philip Abbott). Hartley, still desperate to make contact with his son, bankrolls the experiments of Russell and his partners Ian Fraser (Peter Mark Richman) and Eva Fraser (Nina Foch).

Monday, February 9, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.11

It Crawled Out of the Woodwork

starring Scott Marlowe, Kent Smith
directed by Gerd Oswald

Professor Stuart Peters goes to work for NORCO, a west coast research lab. He is killed and then later revived during his first day on the job. The killing is done by an unknown energy source over which the scientists at the lab have some degree of control. He is revived and kept alive with a pacemaker. Everyone else at the lab is in the same condition, alive but only thanks to a pacemaker.

Thursday, January 15, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.10

Nightmare

starting James Shigeta, Ed Nelson, Martin Sheen
directed by John Erman

Six human soldiers are captured by aliens while on their way toward Ebon, an enemy planet that is at war with Earth. They are not the first humans to he captured during the war between Earth and Ebon. They are interrogated. Each man responds differently to interrogation. Some of the men captured before them try to encourage the six men to cooperate with the Ebonites.

Thursday, January 1, 2026

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.09

Corpus Earthling

starring Robert Culp, Salome Jens, Barry Atwater
directed by Gerd Oswald

Paul (Robert Culp) is alone in his wife Laurie’s (Salome Jens) lab when he discovers that he can overhear a conversation between two rocks. He tries to tell Laurie and Jonas (Barry Atwater), her coworker, about the voices he is hearing but they can’t hear them. He doesn't know it but it has something to do with a metal plate in his head. Laurie takes Paul home. One of the rocks grows and attacks Jonas after Paul and Laurie leave.

Thursday, December 18, 2025

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.08

The Human Factor

starring Gary Merrill, Harry Guardino, Sally Kellerman, Ivan Dixon
directed by Abner Biberman

Colonel Campbell, commander of a US military base in Greenland nicknamed Point TABU, asks Doctor Hamilton (Gary Merrill) to examine Major Brothers (Harry Guardino) who has been acting erratic and seems to think that they are all in danger from some unknown creature in the Hekla Isthmus.

Monday, December 8, 2025

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.07

O.B.I.T.

starring Peter Breck, Jeff Corey
directed by Gerd Oswald

US Senator Orville (Peter Breck) conducts an inquiry into the death of US Army Captain James Harrison, who was strangled to death while on duty at the Cypress Hills Research Center. A number of witnesses are called upon to testify at the hearing.

Tuesday, November 25, 2025

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.06

The Man Who Was Never Born

starring Martin Landau, Shirley Knight
directed by Leonard Horn

An astronaut leaves Earth in the year 1963 and accidentally travels through time. He arrives back on Earth in the year 2148 only to find it devastated. He meets Andro (Martin Landau), a hideously deformed man, who tells him about Bertram Cabot, Jr., the scientist who is to blame for what happened to the Earth.

Saturday, November 8, 2025

The Outer Limits (1963) 1.05

The Sixth Finger

starring David MacCallum, Jill Haworth, Edward Mulhare
directed by James Goldstone

Gwyllim (David MacCallum), following advice from Kathy (Jill Haworth) who has a crush on him, accepts a job working for Professor Mathers (Edward Mulhare), rather than return to working in the mines. Gwyllim allows the professor to experiment on him. Gwyllim’s appearance and abilities are transformed by the experimentation. He becomes smarter and gains the ability to read the professor’s mind.