
The Outer Limits
1963–1965 · ABC · 60 min · 2 seasons
S02E17 · The Probe
Sun, 17 Jan, 3:00 am
A charter plane crashes in the eye of a hurricane... and the passengers find themselves inside a giant alien space probe.
About
"There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission".
This 60s anthology series from the minds of Leslie Stevens and Joseph Stefano pushed the boundaries of television and viewers minds by using intelligent science fiction to frighten and entertain viewers.
Episodes
- E01
Soldier
Sun, 20 Sept· 60 minA soldier from a future Earth is blasted back through time to the present day and must learn how his new world works. Meanwhile, his opposite number also travels back in time.
- E02
Cold Hands, Warm Heart
Sun, 27 Sept· 60 minAn astronaut returns from a one-man expedition to Venus with an insatiable craving for heat, and begins transforming into an alien life form.
- E03
Behold Eck!
Sun, 4 Oct· 60 minAfter making special pairs of glasses out of meteorite material, an optical scientist sees a two-dimensional energy being that has become trapped in the third dimension. He then tries to help the creature to get home.
- E04
Expanding Human
Sun, 11 Oct· 60 minA doctor's experiments with mind altering drugs leads to a changed body and consciousness as he starts using more and more of his brain.
- E05
Demon with a Glass Hand
Sun, 18 Oct· 60 minA man named Trent travels from future Earth to the present via a time mirror. Aliens who have invaded Earth come after him, seeking the secrets of Trent's glass hand... which will reveal where Earth's population has disappeared to.
- E06
Cry of Silence
Sun, 25 Oct· 60 minWhen a couple goes to look at where they will be buying a new farm to move to, they accidentally hit a rock, then start to have encounters with very strange tumbleweeds.
- E07
The Invisible Enemy
Sun, 1 Nov· 60 minOn a world of unending sand, Earth astronauts are picked off one by one by an unseen killer.
- E08
Wolf 359
Sun, 8 Nov· 60 minScientists create a miniature replica of Wolf 359 in the laboratory to test its potential for terraforming, and get unexpected results.
- E09
I, Robot
Sun, 15 Nov· 60 minA sentient robot is put on trial for the crime of murder.
- E10
The Inheritors (1)
Sun, 22 Nov· 60 minFour soldiers come back to military bases wounded in the head by bullets, it is discovered that each of the four men have a second set of brain waves. The men then vanish off the military base and the U.S. government tries to find out what they are up to.
- E11
The Inheritors (2)
Sun, 29 Nov· 60 minMinns gathers several handicapped children and the men's project continues, as the government agents try to stop their plans.
- E12
Keeper of the Purple Twilight
Sun, 6 Dec· 60 minA alien offers advance knowledge to a scientist in exchange for his various emotions that the alien knows nothing about.
- E13
The Duplicate Man
Sun, 20 Dec· 60 minA scientist sends an illegally-created duplicate of himself to destroy a dangerous alien Megasoid on the loose.
- E14
Counterweight
Sun, 27 Dec· 60 minSix subjects undertake a simulated space flight to determine if the months in isolation of a real trip to the target planet of Antheon are psychologically and emotionally endurable. They're unaware that someone--or something--in the simulation intends them to fail.
- E15
The Brain of Colonel Barham
Sun, 3 Jan· 60 minAn experiment to use a human brain to control and direct a future flight to another world is undertaken for a developing space project. Colonel Barham, who has been gravely crippled in the past and is dying of a disease, volunteers for the project to his brain as a merging of human and machine. However things go awry as unexpected consequences of the project occur.
- E16
The Premonition
Sun, 10 Jan· 60 minAir force test pilot Jim Darcy crashes and discovers that everyone is in a time warp except for him and his wife Linda. They investigate the local air force base Jim is stationed out of and discover a terrible event is about to happen that will affect both their lives.
- E17
The Probe
Sun, 17 Jan· 60 minA charter plane crashes in the eye of a hurricane... and the passengers find themselves inside a giant alien space probe.
Cast

Vic Perrin
The Control Voice
















