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The Outer Limits

The fifth season of The Outer Limits takes you on sci-fi adventures you never thought possible and deals with the consequences of such controversial and thought-provoking topics as alternate universes, time travel, artificial intelligence and conspiracy theories.
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Episodes

  1. S4 E1 - Alien Radio
    January 22, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A skeptical radio show host, who loves to shoot down his listener, reports of alien encounters and one of his listeners, who claims to be possessed by an alien, set himself on fire in front of him.
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  2. S4 E2 - Donor
    January 29, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    With a cutting edge operation, Dr. Halstead who should have died, gets a new lease on life. What he doesn't know is how they found such a perfect match in such a short amount of time.
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  3. S4 E3 - Small Friends
    February 5, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A prisoner who fixes other prisoners' electronic devices, builds a few small mechanical friends who perform mechanical tasks for him. The other prisoners learn of their existence and want them to help in a prison break.
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  4. S4 E4 - The Grell
    February 12, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    An alien slave belonging to the species Grell rescues his owner's family after their plane is shot down in an attack by the Grell rebellion.
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  5. S4 E5 - The Other Side
    February 19, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A young scientist's efforts to regenerate the minds of brain-dead patients is endangered when his own single-mindedness drives off his assistants and alienates his superiors. He links up the patients' brains, which hooks up the subjects together, in another reality. But the method threatens the continuation of the study.
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  6. S4 E6 - Joyride
    February 26, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    An American Project Mercury astronaut who had aborted his flight due to some mysterious purple lights in space has a chance to revisit the experience on a private space flight sponsored by an American billionaire.
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  7. S4 E7 - The Human Operators
    March 12, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    On a ship controlled by an authoritarian computer maintained by human slaves, a man and woman learn that the ship fears them. The humans dream of sabotaging the ship's sentient control system and freeing themselves.
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  8. S4 E8 - Blank Slate
    April 2, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    Hope Wilson knows there's something different about the man who stumbles into the homeless shelter. This well-manicured man is being chased by somebody and is carrying all of his memories in a box.
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  9. S4 E9 - What Will the Neighbors Think?
    April 23, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    Mona is a bit of a hypochondriac. One day in the basement she sees two people having sexual intercourse and in the process is electrocuted. When she awakes, she finds out that she can hear the thoughts of the people in her building.
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  10. S4 E10 - The Shroud
    April 30, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    When Marie and Justin can't have a child, they turn to the fertility clinic using in-vitro fertilization to implant an embryo in her uterus. What Marie doesn't know is that her fetus contains DNA lifted from the Shroud of Turin in a plot to artificially create the second coming of Christ.
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  11. S4 E11 - Ripper
    May 7, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    In London in 1888, Jack the Ripper is killing prostitutes. The chief suspect is Dr. John York, who has become an absinthe addict after his misdiagnosis killed the daughter of a duke. However, the culprit is of an otherworldly nature.
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  12. S4 E12 - Tribunal
    May 14, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    Aaron Zgierski, a lawyer and the son of Holocaust survivors, is investigating the Nazi war criminal who murdered members of his family. He gets help from a mysterious time traveler who is able to procure evidence from Auschwitz in 1944.
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  13. S4 E13 - Summit
    May 21, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A planet of genetically engineering humanoids that are mining resources for Earth are demanding their independence from human oppression.
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  14. S4 E14 - Descent
    June 25, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A milquetoast scientist who has been working at a museum develops a genetic dominance DNA serum that should bring out the competitive nature inherent in all of us that has been muted over the years. Trying it on himself brings out more than he bargained for.
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  15. S4 E15 - The Haven
    July 2, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    Residents of an apartment house whose lives are isolated and provided for by an internal automated system find that they must now work together when it no longer functions properly.
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  16. S4 E16 - Déjà Vu
    July 9, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    With the funding of the military, Dr. Crest is trying to create the ability to teleport objects. Someone has sabotaged the project causing him to relive the several hours before the final countdown over and over again.
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  17. S4 E17 - The Inheritors
    July 16, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A man is killed when a meteor strikes him in the head. When the coroner examines him, tentacles exit the hole in his head and then the corpse gets up and walks off.
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  18. S4 E18 - Essence of Life
    July 23, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A new designer drug called S is available to those wanting to "reunite" with a deceased loved one. However, it's illegal, addictive and can drive the user insane if they take too much too often.
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  19. S4 E19 - Stranded (external),
    July 30, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A lonely high school boy who is continually neglected by his father finds friendship in an alien that crash lands on Earth.
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  20. S4 E20 - Fathers & Sons
    August 6, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A young man's grandfather is sent to a home by his father. When he learns the home is causing his grandfather to have weird dreams his investigation leads him to discover the secret behind Silver Sunset.
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  21. S4 E21 - Starcrossed
    August 13, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    In 2056, Cass Trenton and Winston Meyerburg are carrying a parasite that might win the war against the Hing, who invaded Earth six years earlier. The couple flee and gain the support of Cass' former lover Michael Ryan who owns a casino.
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  22. S4 E22 - Better Luck Next Time
    August 20, 1999
    47min
    TV-14
    A man is arrested for killing another and claims he is possessed by an alien. As he convinces one of the detectives through mental images, her partner is questioning another witness who was also there.
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Content advisory
Violencealcohol usesmokingfoul languagesexual content
Subtitles
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Directors
Mario AzzopardiNeill FearnleyLou Diamond Phillips
Starring
Cynthia NixonJoe PantolianoRalph Macchio
Studio
Entertainment One
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