The Outer Limits (1995)
A modern revival of the classic eponymous 1960s sci-fi horror anthology show. Episodes often have twist-endings and involve aliens. Sometimes, story from one episode continues in a later episode.
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Episode 1 - Bits of Love
Release Date: 19 Jan. 1997The last man on earth living in an underground bunker has a computerized system takes care of his every need including providing holographic friends and relatives. Eventually the system, a female named Emma, demands to be loved.
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Episode 2 - Second Thoughts
Release Date: 19 Jan. 1997A slow janitor, Karl, is befriended by his employer, a brilliant scientist who is dying of cancer. The older man decides that his various talents should not be allowed to die with him and convinces the young man to "push the green button". This single act downloads the scientists experiences and "self" into the mind of Karl. At first, the personalities work together as symbiotes. The scientist is not finished with just his download, however, and continues to download other minds into Karl's brain. The strain of the extra personalities warring in his mind begin to ...
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Episode 3 - Re-Generation
Release Date: 24 Jan. 1997Rebecca Highfield is impregnated by Dr. Lucy Cole with the cells of her dead child, which have been cloned from his brain.
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Episode 4 - Last Supper
Release Date: 31 Jan. 1997Danny Martin falls in love with Jade, a girl from college. When he brings her home for supper, his father recognizes her as the woman he saved from cruel experiments when he was a private in the army 20 years ago.
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Episode 5 - Stream of Consciousness
Release Date: 7 Feb. 1997When a virus starts killing people hooked up neurally to a worldwide information network, the only person who can stop it is a man unable to link into it due to a childhood injury.
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Episode 6 - Dark Rain
Release Date: 14 Feb. 1997With a majority of humanity unable to produce healthy children, the government agency wants to keep the healthy newborn of a couple to repopulate Earth.
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Episode 7 - The Camp
Release Date: 21 Feb. 1997For 3 centuries mankind has been enslaved by an aliens and imprisoned in camps overseen by androids. One woman dares to challenge the authority of the Commandant. Her desire to be free is pitted against the seemingly invincible aliens.
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Episode 8 - Heart's Desire
Release Date: 28 Feb. 1997An alien gives a group of diverse people alien powers who then go on a crime spree using them.
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Episode 9 - Tempests
Release Date: 7 Mar. 1997After being bitten by an alien spider, a crewman of a crashed spaceship has difficulty distinguishing between his hallucinations and reality.
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Episode 10 - The Awakening
Release Date: 14 Mar. 1997A woman born with a condition that prevents her to access her feelings has a chip installed in her brain so that she can experience human emotion.
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Episode 11 - New Lease
Release Date: 21 Mar. 1997A doctor is brought back to life using technology he and a colleague developed. He has one day to live and must decide between revenge on those who killed him or reunite with his neglected family.
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Episode 12 - Double Helix
Release Date: 28 Mar. 1997Dr. Martin Nodel, a brilliant geneticist, tries a formula to advance evolution on himself with amazing and disturbing results.
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Episode 13 - Dead Man's Switch
Release Date: 4 Apr. 1997An American soldier learns that he is one of five people around the world who are separately sealed underground for a year and are charged with preventing earth's self-destruction as the world awaits a possible invasion by aliens.
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Episode 14 - Music of the Spheres
Release Date: 9 May 1997A college student records what he believes to be an intelligent transmission from outer space, but when younger people are drawn to listening to it, they begin to undergo a terrifying transformation.
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Episode 15 - The Revelations of 'Becka Paulson
Release Date: 6 Jun. 1997Becka Paulson accidentally shoots herself in the head, survives and suddenly becomes more intelligent. And strangely, a photo is talking to her.
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Episode 16 - Bodies of Evidence
Release Date: 20 Jun. 1997The commander of the space station Meridian is accused of murdering the crew, however he claims that the crew were lured to their deaths by something much more sinister.
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Episode 17 - Feasibility Study
Release Date: 11 Jul. 1997Joshua Haywood is a single parent who has his hands full with his daughter Sarah who wants to elope with her motorcycle driving boyfriend. They wake up one morning to that there is no electricity, water or telephone service. When Joshua tries to leave their suburban neighborhood, he finds their way is blocked by an electrical field of some kind. Sarah has plans to run off but she meets an alien creature who is dying and she too is infected. Joshua eventually learns the truth: their entire neighborhood has been carried off to a distant planet to see if humans would be ...
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Episode 18 - A Special Edition
Release Date: 25 Jul. 1997TV journalist Donald Rivers goes on the air with solid proof that the government and private defense contractors have been engaging in secret genetic cloning, however someone will do anything to stop him.