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 - Alien Radio
Release Date: 22 Jan. 1999A 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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Episode 2 - Donor
Release Date: 29 Jan. 1999With 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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Episode 3 - Small Friends
Release Date: 5 Feb. 1999A 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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Episode 4 - The Grell
Release Date: 12 Feb. 1999An alien slave of the species Grell rescue his owner's family after their plane is shot down in an attack by the Grell rebellion.
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Episode 5 - The Other Side
Release Date: 19 Feb. 1999A 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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Episode 6 - Joyride
Release Date: 26 Feb. 1999An 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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Episode 7 - The Human Operators
Release Date: 12 Mar. 1999On 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 free themselves.
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Episode 8 - Blank Slate
Release Date: 2 Apr. 1999Hope 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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Episode 9 - What Will the Neighbors Think?
Release Date: 23 Apr. 1999Mona 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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Episode 10 - The Shroud
Release Date: 30 Apr. 1999When 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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Episode 11 - Ripper
Release Date: 7 May 1999A alien that inhabits woman eventually killing them is resulting in a modern "jack the ripper" crime wave and wants to plant the blame on a man who is trying to stop him.
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Episode 12 - Tribunal
Release Date: 14 May 1999A lawyer looking to convict a Nazi war criminal gets help from a mysterious time traveler who is able to procure evidence from the place of the crimes, Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
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Episode 13 - Summit
Release Date: 21 May 1999A planet of genetically engineering humanoids that are mining resources for Earth are demanding their independence from human oppression.
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Episode 14 - Descent
Release Date: 25 Jun. 1999A 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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Episode 15 - The Haven
Release Date: 2 Jul. 1999Residents 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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Episode 16 - Déjà Vu
Release Date: 9 Jul. 1999With 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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Episode 17 - The Inheritors
Release Date: 16 Jul. 1999A 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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Episode 18 - Essence of Life
Release Date: 23 Jul. 1999A new designer drug called S is available to those wanting to "reunite" with a deceased loved one. The catch? It's illegal, addictive and can drive the user insane if they take too much too often.
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Episode 19 - Stranded
Release Date: 30 Jul. 1999A lonely high school boy finds friendship in an alien that crash lands on earth.
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Episode 20 - Fathers & Sons
Release Date: 6 Aug. 1999A 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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Episode 21 - Star Crossed
Release Date: 13 Aug. 1999The story is a futuristic reinterpretation of "Casablanca" where a couple is carrying a parasite that might win the war for the humans. The couple flees looking for a way to escape and gain the support of a former lover who owns a casino.
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Episode 22 - Better Luck Next Time
Release Date: 20 Aug. 1999A 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.