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1995
3 Seasons

Best of The Outer Limits is a science fiction series produced by GP XVII Limited Partnership and Outer Productions Inc. The show is an anthology that features various stories of science fiction and horror, each episode exploring a different idea and concept. It is a reimagining of the original TV series, which ran from 1963-1965.

The episodes of Best of The Outer Limits explore a wide range of science fiction themes, such as time travel, parallel universes, and advanced technology. Each episode has a different cast and explores a different theme, providing the viewers with an exciting and engaging viewing experience. The show appeals to a broad audience, including science fiction fans and viewers who enjoy horror and suspense.

The production of Best of The Outer Limits is top-notch. The sets, costumes, and visual effects are all impressive and showcase the attention to detail that went into the show's creation. The series also features a hauntingly beautiful score composed by Jeff Beal that adds to the show's eerie and suspenseful atmosphere.

One of the standout aspects of the series is the caliber of the actors cast in each episode. The show features a talented cast that includes both established stars and up-and-coming actors. Each episode features different actors, providing them with an opportunity to showcase their range of emotions and acting abilities.

One of the notable episodes is titled "The Voyage Home." The episode follows an astronaut who returns to Earth after being stranded in space for several years. However, when he comes back, he discovers that the world he left behind has completely changed, with nobody recognizing him. The episode is a gripping exploration of the theme of time travel, with a twist that will surprise viewers.

Another standout episode is titled "The Zanti Misfits." In this episode, a group of aliens is sent to Earth as part of an intergalactic prison program. However, when the aliens escape, they embark on a gruesome killing spree. The episode is both chilling and thought-provoking, exploring themes of xenophobia and the consequences of interstellar communication.

Overall, Best of The Outer Limits is an outstanding science fiction series that explores complex themes and keeps viewers engaged with its suspenseful storytelling. The series is a true homage to the original series, featuring updated visual effects and themes that will appeal to both longtime fans of the show and newcomers to the genre. It is a must-watch for anyone who enjoys science fiction and horror.

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Seasons

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12. Free Spirit

July 28, 2001

Dr. Rachel Harris (Dina Meyer) was working on a military experiment separating minds from bodies when she and her co-workers were forced to pull the plug and kill their subjects. Four years later, a schoolteacher goes on a murderous rampage and kills an ER doctor - one of Rachel's co-workers from her military-experiment days. In the sanitarium where Rachel and another former military co-worker, Kate (Barbara Tyson), now work, there's a power outage and previously harmless patients suddenly take on murderous tendencies. Rachel recognizes the trademarks of the one experiment victim she had worried about at the time - the one whose consciousness was not connected with his body at the time of death. But as the violence within the hospital walls escalates, she is unable to convince Kate or her boyfriend David (Colin Ferguson) that the events have any connection with her past. Only hospital orderly Carl (Ronald Selmour) recognizes what he calls 'the Kalfu' - the dark spirit running amok within the sanitarium's walls. As the spirit jumps from person to person and the body count rises, even Rachel can't imagine what price it will finally exact for the cost of meddling with human souls.

11. Flower Child

July 21, 2001

An alien plant species takes the form of a seductive woman, challenging a young couple's ideas of commitment and monogamy. When a meteor enters Earth's atmosphere, a single piece survives and buries itself in the rich soil of a community garden. Within hours, the piece has grown into a lovely but deadly plant. It takes the life of the garden's owner and transforms itself into a beautiful and equally deadly woman named Violet (Jud Taylor), with a scent few men are able to resist. Down the hall, newly engaged Chris (Jeremy London) and Mia (Rebecca Reichert) are struggling with pre-marriage jitters and the overwhelming concept of lifelong monogamy. Not helping matters is Mia's co-worker at the forensics lab, Tom (Ken Tremblett), who wants to be more than just a professional colleague. When Chris runs into the seductive Violet he feels vulnerable, but steels himself to resist her. Ultimately, despite his commitment to Mia, Chris finds his flesh is weak next to her primal pull. Other men, unable to resist her, pay with their lives. Violet is a deadly force of nature with an alien agenda based on the survival of her plant world rather than human life.

10. Replica

April 27, 2001

Pioneers in biogenetic research, Nora Griffiths (Sherilyn Fenn) and her husband Zach (Peter Outerbridge) have successfully created the world's first perfectly cloned organs. But Nora wants to take the ultimate step and also replicate the synaptic array of the human brain. This would conceivably allow the full cloning of a human, an illegal procedure veamently opposed by their business partner Peter Chandler (Garwin Sanford). She convinces Zach to apply her discovery and download her own thought and brain patterns, but when the process is complete, she is left in a deep coma. One year later, with no hope that his wife will ever regain conciousness, Zach is driven by despair to make a clone of Nora using the technology he has since perfected. The clandestine procedure is a complete success. Nora's mind and body seem to have been duplicated in every way and Nora II is born. With his wife back, everything in Zach's world is perfect once more, until the real thing wakes up...

9. Patient Zero

March 23, 2001

The time portal is disengaged, and Beckett (Michael Rooker) steps out of the machine only to discover that his visit to the past has not changed the present. Many millions of people are still dying of a mysterious plague and his mission, to kill the carrier and stop the epidemic before it ever gets started, has failed. With the very survival of the human race at stake, Beckett agrees to travel back into the past again, this time one week earlier than before, to remove the person scientists now believe to be Patient Zero, a woman named Amy Barrett (Tanya Allan). But a twist of fate will alter Beckett's resolve. Instead of eliminating Amy to arrest the plague, he believes he knows a way to save the humanity of the future without harming Amy in the present. Can the fate of mankind hinge on a single act? Or are we helpless to change our destiny?

8. Family Values

March 16, 2001

Jerry Miller (Tom Arnold) is a manager in a large corporation, whose demanding life is in chaos. His wife, Brooke (Catherine Mary Stewart), resentful of her husband's lack of attention to the family, takes the occasional sip of vodka. The kids' (Kimberley Warnat, Giacomo Baessato) behavior is unruly and their grades poor. One night, Jerry sees an infomercial about the Gideon 4000 from Gideon Robotics, the latest in modern home conveniences. Both caretaker and caregiver, Gideon (Gerard Plunket) is programmed to help out in hundreds of different ways, and converse on any number of subjects. Jerry sees an end to his problems at home and orders the robot on a thirty day free trial. Upon delivery, Gideon quickly proves his worth. He cooks gourmet meals, keeps the house spotless, helps the kids with their homework and can throw a baseball too. Life is great until Jerry begins to realize Gideon's full influence on his family. Worried he?s being replaced, Jerry tries to get rid of the robot, but he is the only one who wants Gideon gone. What are the consequences for the misplaced devotions of a workaholic family man?

7. Zig Zag

August 11, 2000

The bombs are in place, ready to destroy the super-computers at the Department of Information Technology. Inside, the members of the Syndrome, the anti-technology group that planted the bombs, lay dead or dying. All of them, that is, except Cliff Unger - or as he calls himself now, Zig Fowler. Unger has his finger on the detonator as he negotiates with Pete Yastremski, the head of the department and, as the two men talk and FBI agents prepare to storm the building, we move back in time, through the hours, days and years leading up to the attack . We see how Unger, once a rabidly pro-technology cyber-columnist, led the attack, using a plan devised by Fowler, a mysterious cyber-terrorist who was hunted by Yastremski down several years earlier. We see the tension between Unger and Syndrome stalwarts like Dell Tinker and Roy Chance, who don't trust him, and his blossoming romance wit Weatherman, the group's only female members. And we see how Unger was driven to join the group after his identity chip, which all citizens in this society have implanted in the palm of their hands, apparently malfunctioned and began to identify him as Zig Fowler

6. Revival

July 21, 2000

Ezra Burnham and his daughter Sarah are old hands at the business of faith healing. Ezra, a preacher who lost his faith when his wife died, is the front man, the one who lays his hands on the deaf and lame. But Sarah is the key to act, working backstage and communicating with Ezra through a tiny earphone about the plants she's scattered through the audience. It's all going well until one day a strange young man in a wheelchair approaches Ezra near the end of a revival meeting. Luke is not a plant, but when Ezra lays his hands on him, he not only rises from his wheelchair, but he begins to float six inches off the ground. After the meeting, Luke and his mother Serena approach Ezra with a proposition. If Ezra will teach Luke the secret of the revival circuit, Luke will continue to work his mysterious magic at Ezra's side. But Luke and Serena are no ordinary true believers. They are aliens who can devour a human being in seconds and who have come to colonize Earth using religion as a tool. Soon, the police are asking Ezra about the connection between his revival show and the disappearance of a number of young women. Meanwhile, Luke's gifts have caught the attention of Reverend Sam Garland, the head of the Evangelical Television Network, who offers Ezra and Luke an hour slot. As he grows more suspicious - and a little jealous - of his protege, Ezra tries to shut him down. But can the faith of an unbeliever and the wiles of a religious con-man triumph against the power of an extraterrestrial being?

5. Decompression

June 30, 2000

Senator Wyndom Brody has just won the New Hampshire primary, upsetting a heavily favored opponent, and he's flying to South Carolina to press his campaign for the Presidency. He's joined on the plane by his campaign manager Jon Tarkman, his deputy campaign manager (and lover) Catherine Walsh, his newly appointed Secret Service agent Frank McKenna and journalist Will Sunderland. As the plane flies south, it's hit by lightning. The plane and its passengers appear unaffected, but a mysterious woman appears in Brody's private quarters warning him that the strike has damaged the airplane. She also tells him that the plane will crash on landing, killing him and six others. She explains that she is a projection from the future, a virtual time-traveler sent here to save him because his presidency is the key to preventing an apocalyptic future. If he is to live, he must shoot out the emergency exit and allow himself be sucked out of the plane by decompression, whereupon he will be saved by The Stranger's sophisticated technology. As his staff tries to mask his increasingly bizarre behavior from journalist Sunderland, Brody wrestles with a dilemma. Must he save himself - and the future - even if it means killing everyone else aboard. Or has his success, now suddenly within reach, simply driven his mad?

4. Glitch

May 5, 2000

Tom and Wendy seem like the perfect couple, happy together and very much in love. But at night when Wendy sleeps, Tom has terrible memory flashes about being stuck in a burning building with a crying baby. The nightmares, however, aren't real and neither is Tom. He's an android created by the late Joe Walker. Walker had originally created Tom to save humans from fires and other dangerous situations. The images that come to him are bits of memory from previous rescue simulations, but Tom, not knowing that he's an android, thinks he's going insane. Walker, anticipating that his colleague, Dr. Edward Normandy, might try to militarize the android and use him as a cyber-soldier-spy, planted bugs in Tom's programming so that Normandy would have to upgrade Tom so that the android could think for itself. Now that it has reached that point, Walker appears in a hologram to urge Tom to escape the lab and, with the help of Wendy, he does. Normandy and his security team are soon on their trail, eager to recapture their billion dollar man, but Normandy must match wits with the ghost of his late colleague and not one but two of Joe Walker's greatest inventions.

3. Deja Vu

July 9, 1999

Dr. Mark Crest (Kevin Nealon) has built a teleportation device that uses tactical nuclear weapons to open a wormhole in the space-time continuum. The device is intended to transport some animals eight miles across the desert, but during a test, the wormhole grows out of control and Mark finds himself hurled back in time, to the day before the test took place. It happens again, but when Mark warns his colleagu, Dr. Cleo Lazar, (Terri Hawkes), and the project's military overseer Lt. Col Lester Glade (Ronny Cox) about the time loop, they think he's crazy. The time loop continues, each time returning Mark to a point in time closer to the test, and Mark figures out that someone has sabotaged the device. At first he suspects Julie (Jennifer Copping), a young woman who seduced him on the night before the test. And, he's right - Julie is an eco-terrorist opposed to Mark tampering with nature - but she's not the only saboteur. Glade has his own plans for the device and it may be beyond Mark's power to stop him - no matter how many chances he gets.

2. The Light Brigade

June 23, 1996

Actor Robert Patrick returns for this first-ever "The Outer Limits" sequel, a follow-up to last year's 'Quality of Mercy.' On a desperate mission, a young Cadet (Wil Wheaton) learns the difference between heroic ideals and the bitter realities of war. The only survivors on a crippled battle cruiser - Earth's last hope for victory and survivors - are the Cadet, the weapons Chief (Graham Greene) and Major John Skokes (Patrick), a repatriated prisoner of war. Exposed to fatal doses of radiation when their fleet was wiped out by the aliens, they fight illness and death to launch a preemptive strike. As the awesome responsibility for success descends on him, the Cadet learns that fear is not his only enemy.

1. Living Hell

May 12, 1995

Shot in the head by an armed robber, 35 year old Ben Kohler's (Sam Robards) only chance of survival, according to Dr. Jennifer Martinez (Elizabeth Pena), is an experimental cerebral chip (CC12). The earlier generations of this chip have killed 25% of the humans it was tested on, but Martinez convinces the medical chief to authorize the surgery in order to save Ben's life. As the surgery is proceeding, in another part of town, a man with a long crescent shaped scar on his head is coming out of the shower, and suddenly throws his hands to his head and collapses in pain. Ben is released from the hospital one month later after a complete recovery. Back in his own small apartment, Ben has a realistic and horrifying vision. Peering out of someone else's eyes, he is chasing a woman through the woods, and sees a hand reach out to attack her. Later Ben has a second vision where he sees the woman again, but this time she is dead. Along with the visions Ben hears a strange haunting voice calling out to him. Ben phones police detective Wilson who confirms that there has been a real homicide such as Ben described, but police hadn't yet given the story to the press. Wilson suspects Ben is the killer, and traces the call to Ben's apartment. Afraid of the police, Ben turns to Jennifer for help. He witnesses another woman's murder, and again the killer speaks to Ben, taunting him. Ben and Jennifer realize the chip receives and broadcasts signals, so the killer must be one of Jennifer's former patients. With a little detective work Ben and Jennifer think the killer must be Howard Haas (Stephen Shellen), an earlier recipient of the chip. They race to Haas' house, where they discover the body of a woman in a bathtub. Suddenly Haas appears, knocks Ben out cold, and takes Jennifer hostage. The police arrive at the scene and take Ben into custody. His story sounds preposterous, but the records confirm that Ben was in the hospital at the time of the murders. Another vision leads Ben to the sleazy motel where Haas is holding Jennifer at knife point. Ben takes some tranquilizers to calm his adrenaline so that Haas can't read signals emitted from Ben's chip. With the CC12 monitor device in hand, Ben comes to Jennifer's rescue. Pressing down the button on the monitor, Ben sacrifices himself as he and Haas are thrown back, and they both go into cardiac arrest.

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