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The Outer Limits Season 3 |
| Episode 1 - [Bits Of Love] |
| Details : Aidan Hunter may be the last man on earth after a nuclear holocaust but he's not lonely. In his subterranean bomb shelter hes surrounded by his family friends lovers anyone he wants ... Unfortunately they're holograms -- computer generated people controlled by a beautiful holographic interface named Emma. But when curiosity turns to touch and Aidan makes love to Emma in a virtual reality pod he quickly learns that trifling with a computers feelings can be dangerous ... and the morning after can be all too real. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jon Tenney | Natasha Henstridge as Emma | Steve Bacic | Ingrid Kavelaars | Crystal Cass | Matthew Walker | Sheila Larken as Francis Hunter | Director : Neil Fearnley | Writer : James Crocker | Director : Neill Fearnley | |
| Air Date : Jan. 19, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [Second Thoughts] |
| Details : Karl Durand (Howie Mandel) is in his 30's but he has the mind of a child. That is until he receives a unique gift from Dr. Jacob Valerian a dying scientist who has been working on a secret project. As his last living act Valerian uses his new invention to transfer his memories and experiences into Karl's brain. But Karl isn't content with just being a genius. In an effort to win the love of his social worker Rose he uses the doctor's invention to capture other minds. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake and his own brain ever more crowded and confused Karl soon discovers that sometimes the mind can be a minefield. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Howie Mandel | Cindy Girling | Jennifer Rubin | Jerry Wasserman as Gunther Van Owen | Lorena Gale | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi | Writer : Sam Egan | |
| Air Date : Jan. 19, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [Re-Generation] |
| Details : After their four-year-old son Justin dies in a household accident aspiring politician Graham Highfield and his wife Rebecca get a second chance at happiness. Dr. Lucy Cole clones a new embryo from Justin's brain and nerve cells and implants it in Rebecca's womb. As the pregnancy progresses however it becomes clear to Rebecca that this isn't just any fetus -- this is Justin himself a fetus with the skills -- and the memories -- of a little boy. As he shares those memories with his mother Justin reveals secrets that may destroy the whole family. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Daniel Benzali | Teryl Rothery | Kim Cattrall | Director : Brenton Spencer | Writer : Tom J. Astle | |
| Air Date : Jan. 24, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [Last Supper] |
| Details : Frank Martin can't believe his eyes when his son Danny brings home a beautiful new girlfriend from college. The girl Jade is a dead ringer for a woman Frank rescued from a top-secret military experiment when he was a private in the army 20 years earlier. Of course she can't be the same woman. Or can she? The Martins' world is turned upside down as Frank's past catches up with him and they gain a deeper understanding of Jade's timeless beauty. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Peter Onorati | Sandrine Holt | Michael Hogan | Ron Halder | Fred Savage | Scott Vickaryous | Dey Young | Director : Helen Shaver | Writer : Scott Shepherd | |
| Air Date : Jan. 31, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [Stream Of Consciousness] |
| Details : In a world where neural implants allow everyone instant access to information Ryan Unger is a throwback a moron. Because of a brain injury he suffered as a child he's unable to tap into the Stream -- an electronic collection of all human knowledge -- so he struggles in vain to keep up by reading books a primitive and forgotten art. But when a virus in the Stream starts killing people by overloading their brains with data only Ryan has the skills and independence to stop it. Can a primitive human relying only on books and his own brain save a world of machine-made geniuses from self-destruction or will the Stream wash over all of them? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : George Newbern | Andrew Airlie | Shane Meier | Blu Mankuma | Director : Joe Nimziki | Writer : David Shore | |
| Air Date : Feb. 07, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [Dark Rain] |
| Details : The value of the greatest of joys -- a healthy baby -- becomes evident after chemical warfare leaves humanity unable to produce normal offspring. Those rare couples like Sherry and Tim who do conceive a normal child become the focus of intense government attention as desperate officials seek a cure. Held captive in a secret maternity hospital run by Dr. Royce Tim and Sherry realize the panic-stricken government plans to make their beautiful new-born daughter a permanent ward of the state. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Don Franklin | Alan Scarfe | Kyle Labine | Rachael Crawford | Chilton Crane | Christine Willes | Susan Hogan | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi | Writer : David Braff | |
| Air Date : Feb. 14, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [The Camp] |
| Details : For Twelve generations mankind has lived in concentration-type camps imprisoned by the human collaborators of the alien New Masters. But when one woman dares to challenge the authority of her Commander the desire to be free is pitted against this seemingly unvanquishable foe. Or are they as powerful as they seem? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Harley Jane Kozak | David Hemblen | Bill Cobbs | Jessica Harmon | Karen Austin | Frank C. Turner | Robert K. Weiss | Mark Gibbon | Director : Jonathan Glassner | Writer : Brad Wright | |
| Air Date : Feb. 21, 1997 |
| Episode 8 - [Heart's Desire] |
| Details : A mysterious alien descends upon the town of Heart's Desire and offers to share his extraordinary powers with four outlaws - Jake Miller his brother Ben and their partners in crime Frank and J.D. Kelton. Taking on the human form of his first victim a mild-mannered preacher the alien follows the quartet to the Miller's hometown and gives both sets of brothers strange new powers that make them virtually invincible. As the Keltons kick off a crime spree by destroying all opposition with blasts of pure energy Jake struggles with his divided loyalties between love for his family and his childhood sweetheart Miriam -- and the terrible question: who is this mysterious stranger and why has he given the outlaws such deadly powers? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Casper Van Dien | Gary Basaraba | John Novak | Esai Morales | Jed Rees | Writer : Alan Brennert | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi | |
| Air Date : Feb. 28, 1997 |
| Episode 9 - [Tempests] |
| Details : The Tempest a rickety old spaceship piloted by space colonists John Virgil and Captain Parker is on a mission of mercy. It is ferrying two bigwigs from Earth Dr. Vasquez and Governor Mudry along with a lifesaving vial of serum to the Tabloss Colony where an epidemic of Ellysia C is devastating the population. But things go horribly wrong when the ship shifts down from lightspeed and crashes somewhere in space. As he attempts to repair the ship Virgil is bitten by a strange spider-like creature and passes out. When he awakes he finds himself sliding between two equally convincing realities. Is he battling for his life against the deadly Ellysia C having already delivered the serum and saved the colony including his beloved wife and his young son from certain death? Or is he alive trapped in a spaceship in the middle of nowhere with no way out? Or are both realities merely hallucinations one man's desperate attempt to find hope and heroism in a situation too bleak to face?. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Eric McCormack | Kenneth Welsh | Charlene Fernetz | Burt Young | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi | Writer : Hart Hanson | |
| Air Date : Mar. 07, 1997 |
| Episode 10 - [Awakening] |
| Details : Beth Carter lives in black and white unable to experience emotions because of a conditioncalled primary alexithymia. But when Dr. Steven Molstad implants a small device in her brain Beth's world explodes into brilliant color. For the first time in her life she can truly feel love happiness and even fear. Beth is thrilled by the transformation by her feelings of friendship for Molstad's assistant Joan Garrison and her attraction to Joan's landlord Kevin Flynn -- but there are some troubling signs. Beth begins to hear strange voices. She is abducted by aliens only to find herself back in the hospital. Is her brain rebelling at the sudden flow of emotions or is Molstad's implant defective? Or is something more sinister going on? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Gordon Pinsent | Roger Cross | Lela Rochon | Michele Greene | Writer : James Crocker | Director : George Bloomfield | |
| Air Date : Mar. 14, 1997 |
| Episode 11 - [New Lease] |
| Details : After years of research Dr. James Houghton and Dr. Charles McCamber have discovered how to bring the dead back to life with their new breakthrough invention the Scanning Molecular Reorganizer. But the process seems to be deeply flawed; the first revival a middle-aged victim of a heart attack lives only a day and suffers horribly before passing away again. They get a second chance when Houghton is killed by a mugger outside the lab and McCamber using the SMR brings him back to life. Houghton is torn between making amends with his long-neglected family and exacting revenge on his killer. He may however have more time than he knows and more trouble than he bargained for. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Stephen Lang | Terence Kelly | Michael Ontkean | Jason Priestley | Rick Ravanello | Michael Kopsa | Director : Jason Priestley | Writer : Sam Egan | |
| Air Date : Mar. 21, 1997 |
| Episode 12 - [Double Helix] |
| Details : Since Dr. Martin Nodel is the most brilliant geneticist in the world the students and staff at the university are willing to put up with a few eccentricities -- unlike his son Paul who gets impatient with his father's behavior. However Dr. Nodel's behavior goes beyond eccentric after he unveils his research into introns mysterious genetic material which he believes hold the code for future evolution. After a successful animal test Nodel secretly tries the formula on himself with amazing and disturbing results. As his intelligence begins to grow so do scales on his hands strange markings on his body and a mysterious hole in his back. And he seems to be getting instinctive messages telling him to bring 'subjects' to a remote wilderness location. When he arrives there accompanied by six students including Paul and his girlfriend he finds a group of heavily armed soldiers and the key to unlocking a mystery that goes far beyond human science. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ron Rifkin | Ryan Reynolds | Tara Spencer-Nairn | Ken Pogue | Writer : Jonathan Glassner | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi | |
| Air Date : Mar. 28, 1997 |
| Episode 13 - [Dead Man's Switch] |
| Details : Ben Conklin has been a loner ever since his parents died when he was twelve years old. This is one reason why General James Eiger selected him to spend a year buried in a bunker 11000 feet below the Artic tundra manning the controls of a doomsday device set up by world leaders after the Hubble space telescope spotted 11 spaceships heading towards Earth. The device is designed as a last-line deterrent against alien invasion and Conklin's job shared with four other loners in four other bunkers is to hit a dead man's switch on the bunkers control panel that prevents the doomsday device from going off and destroying aliens and mankind alike. At first the job is easy but as the aliens draw closer to Earth and as Conklin grows closer to his subterranean colleagues he begins to doubt the reliability of the doomsday machine. News from General Eiger becomes scarce then Conklin's fellow guardians begin to fall victim to assorted mishaps. Conklin realizes that he carries the weight of |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Yee Jee Tso | Donnelly Rhodes | Kristin Lehman | James Le Gros | Merrilyn Gann | Director : Jeff Woolnough | |
| Air Date : Apr. 04, 1997 |
| Episode 14 - [Music Of The Spheres] |
| Details : Devon Taylor a 20 year-old physics whiz has heard a lot of strange sounds coming from space as part of his job assisting Dr. Evan Swift at the radio observatory -- but something tells him this signal coming from the direction of Certus? (In the short story it is the constellation Cetus) is special. Devon's suspicions are confirmed when he takes a tape of the signal home and his 17 year-old sister Joyce and her boyfriend Vic react as if they have heard the most beautiful music in the world. The sound which seems comprehensible only to teenagers has a disturbing side-effect. The skin of Joyce and Vic begins physically changing as does the skin of all the other teenagers they expose to the sound. When Devon's father Dr. Emory Taylor orders the music be taken away the teenagers appear to go through a painful and possibly deadly withdrawal. Faced with the spread of this potentially deadly audio virus the government imposes martial law. Devon and his father try to figure out why the sound has the effect it does. Is this ... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kirsten Dunst | Howard Hesseman | Andrew Younghusband | Joshua Jackson | Gina Chiarelli | David Kaye | Freda Perry | Director : David Warry-Smith | Writer : Steven Barnes | |
| Air Date : May. 09, 1997 |
| Episode 15 - [The Revelations Of Becka Paulson] |
| Details : In this adaptation of Stephen King's short story Becka Paulson's humdrum trailer park life suddenly becomes very interesting after she accidentally shoots herself in the head while watching her favorite soap opera. The bullet lodges in her brain leaving a small red dot in her forehead and turning her world upside down. Doc Fink the town vet can't find anything wrong -- but Becka notices changes. Suddenly she's smarter than she's ever been and full of ideas for inventions. Plus the Handsome Man photo that came with the picture frame is talking to her. He tells her about the town's dark secrets including her husband Joe's lunch-hour affair with Nancy Voss down at the post office. The Handsome Man is the friend Becka never had -- and a better man than Joe to be sure -- but is it really wise to count on the advice of a man who lives in an 8x10 frame? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Steven Weber | John Diehl | Marilyn Norry | Catherine O'Hara | Carla Boudreau | Russell Porter | Bill Dow | Writer : Stephen King | Director : Steven Weber | Writer : Brad Wright | |
| Air Date : Jun. 06, 1997 |
| Episode 16 - [Bodies Of Evidence] |
| Details : He doesn't know what it is but Captain William Clark can see that something terrible and strange is happening on the space station Meridian. Within a matter of minutes three of the space stations crew - Commander Richard Gordon Dr. Thomas Somerset and Commander Lara Nabakov - have been lured to their deaths by impossible visions of loved ones or enemies -- visions created by someone or something capable of reaching into the minds of human beings and recreating their darkest nightmares and fondest desires. Fearing for his safety and that of the one surviving crew member Dr. Helene Dufour Clark uses the escape pod and abandons ship. When he winds up on earth however nobody will believe his story. Instead Clark is accused of committing the murders while suffering from space psychosis and must turn to his ex-wife Robyn Dysart to defend him. She manages to raise a reasonable doubt by suggesting that Soroxin a chemical used in Somerset and Dufour's research may have caused the sp |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Mario Van Peebles | Alexander Pollock | Guylaine St-Onge | Jennifer Beals | Barry W. Levy | Kathryn Anderson | Writer : Chris Dickie | Director : Melvin Van Peebles | |
| Air Date : Jun. 20, 1997 |
| Episode 17 - [Feasibility Study] |
| Details : The residents of a suburban neighborhood have their lives turned upside down when a four block section of their subdivision is ripped from the earth by a mysterious force and transported to a distant planet. Thrown together in crisis Joshua Hayward his daughter Sarah and their neighbors try to understand what has happened to them -- why their neighborhood now ends abruptly in an invisible force-field. Sarah gains some insight when she comes across Adrielo a horribly disfigured alien who tells her that they have been brought here by another group of aliens. Guiding Sarah through a gap in the force-field Adrielo begs for her help in curing the disease that is turning him and his people to stone. Meanwhile Joshua makes an even more startling discovery when he is pulled through the force-field and comes face to face with his captors the Triunes. These big-brained feeble-bodied creatures subject Joshua to strange and painful tests and explain without apology that he and his neighbor |
| Guest Cast and Crew : David McCallum | Laura Harris | French Tickner | Chilton Crane | Zachary Ansley | Malcolm Stewart | Jesse Moss | Tobias Mehler | Writer : Joseph Stefano | Director : Ken Girotti | |
| Air Date : Jul. 11, 1997 |
| Episode 18 - [A Special Edition] |
| Details : Muckraking TV journalist Donald Rivers host of 'The Whole Truth' has the show of a lifetime: rock solid proof that the government and private defense contractors have been engaging in secret genetic cloning. But powerful forces are working to stop him forces that will stop at nothing to keep their secrets. He goes on-air live in a locked studio accompanied only by a skeleton crew and Dr. Avery Strong River's eyewitness to the history of deception and dark science. As he presents his evidence -- all gleaned from earlier episodes of The Outer Limits -- the powerful begin to interfere. First they try to shut down his transmitter. Then the network's parent company disavows the show. When thugs with guns knock down the studio door Rivers continues the show on the fly transmitting live from the back of a broadcast news van. But a van can only drive for so long. When it stops will the truth even The Whole Truth be enough to protect Rivers Strong and the crew? |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Alan Thicke | Bruce Harwood | Louise Vallance | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi | Writer : Naren Shankar | |
| Air Date : Jul. 25, 1997 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |