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The Outer Limits Season 5 |
| Episode 1 - [Alien Radio] |
| Details : Stan Harbinger (Joe Pantoliano) is a top-rated talk show host with a flair for the outrageous and a reputation as a skeptic's skeptic. Assisted by his producer Trudy (Cynthia Nixon) Stan takes special delight in shooting down callers who claim to have alien encounters especially people like Eldon DeVries (Alan Zinyk) who believes his body has been taken over by aliens. However when Eldon commits suicide by setting himself on fire in front of Stan things begin to go wrong for Stan. A plan to syndicate the show is threatened by protests from UFO believers angry at Stan's role in Eldon's death. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Cynthia Nixon | Leslie Hope | Joe Pantoliano | Alex Diakun | Director : Neil Fearnley | Director : Neill Fearnley | Writer : Alan Katz | |
| Air Date : Jan. 22, 1999 |
| Episode 2 - [The Donor] |
| Details : Dr. Renee Stuyvesant and her protege Dr. Vance Ridout have perfected the full-body transplant in which a patient's entire disease-riddled body is replaced and Renee has convinced the hospital board to allow her to perform the first such procedure on Dr. Peter Halstead. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Tom Cavanagh | Robert Hays | Wendel Meldrum | Director : Jim Kaufman | Writer : Sam Egan | |
| Air Date : Jan. 29, 1999 |
| Episode 3 - [Small Friends] |
| Details : When he was young Gene Morton killed a man who tried to steal the credit for his brilliant research. Now working on a prison assembly line fixing the busted tape decks of fellow inmates his chances at parole have been sabotaged by his own honesty and sense of guilt. Although it's a lonely life late at night after lights-out Gene brings out his small friends a swarm of microscopic machines that he made from prison scrap and keeps in a matchbox. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ralph Waite | Tim Progosh | Richard Yearwood | Roddy Piper | Benz Antoine | Director : Neil Fearnley | Writer : Tom Szollosi | Director : Neill Fearnley | |
| Air Date : Feb. 05, 1999 |
| Episode 4 - [The Grell] |
| Details : The Grells were rescued from their dry and dying planet by humans only to be turned into slaves on earth. Now the aliens are rebelling against their masters fighting a guerilla war against a government lead by men like High Secretary Paul Kohler (Ted Shackleford). |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Writer : Jeff King | Director : Jorge Montesi | |
| Air Date : Feb. 12, 1999 |
| Episode 5 - [The Other Side] |
| Details : Dr. Neal Eberhardt (Ralph Macchio) a former boy genius gone bitterly toseed studies brain-damaged and comatose patients hoping to learn how the brain reroutes itself. Despite having a revolutionary new machine to work with - the Neural Intercortex Stimulation Array or NISA - Dr.Eberhardt is getting nowhere. To make matters worse his valued assistant Vince Carter has just quit. But suddenly Neal has a breakthrough. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Sarrazin | Trevor White | Emmanuelle Vaugier | Ralph Macchio | Director : Jeff Woolnough | |
| Air Date : Feb. 19, 1999 |
| Episode 6 - [Joyride] |
| Details : Theodore Harris (Cliff Robertson) first time in space in 1963 didn't go quite as planned. Alone in his Mercury capsule he panicked and aborted the mission when a mysterious violet light penetrated the cockpit and began to envelop his body. In the investigation that followed no evidence could be found to support his story leaving a blot on Harris NASA record and his life in ruins. Now at age 63 he knows he can never make amends with his estranged wife Madelaine (Pamela Parry) but he feels that he could clear his name if he could just get back to where he saw the light. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Barry Corbin | Mackenzie Gray | Andrea Martin | Lorena Gale | Cliff Robertson | Erin Daniels | Peter Kelamis | Adam J. Harrington | Peter Bryant as Commander Sullivan | Writer : Dan Wright | Director : James Head | Writer : Sam Egan | |
| Air Date : Feb. 26, 1999 |
| Episode 7 - [Human Operators] |
| Details : For as long as Man (Jack Noseworthy) can remember he has lived aboard Ship as it floats through space. And for just as long Ship has been his master instructing him to do the repairs that keep Ship working and torturing him whenever he shows any signs of free will. But when Ship orders him to repair the Artificial Intelligence module Man's Father (Noah Heney) smashed years earlier in a final fatal act of defiance Man learns Ship's secrets... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Malcolm McDowell | Jack Noseworthy | Polly Shannon | David Kaye | Writer : A. E. van Vogt | Writer : Harlan Ellison | Writer : Naren Shankar | Director : Jeff Woolnough | |
| Air Date : Mar. 12, 1999 |
| Episode 8 - [Blank Slate] |
| Details : Hope Wilson (Robbie Chong) knows there's something different about the bruised and breathless man who stumbles into the homeless shelter she runs with her mentor Jack Parsons (Larry Musser). He looks like a junkie but his hands are soft and his fingernails manicured. Tom Cooper (Dale Midkiff) doesn't know who he is where he is and why two well-dressed men Vincent (Michael Tiernan) and Cole (Brian Jensen) are chasing him. He only knows that the small metal case that he defends so fiercely contains five vials that hold all his memories reduced to crystal form as well as a specially designed injector that can delete or restore those memories. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : David Palffy | Robbi Chong | Dale Midkiff | Director : Lou Diamond Phillips | |
| Air Date : Apr. 02, 1999 |
| Episode 9 - [What Will The Neighbors Think] |
| Details : Mona Bailey (Jane Adams) lives with her husband Ned (Peter Outerbridge) in the Clackson Arms an old apartment building that is being taken over apartment by apartment by a mysterious developer called KM Inc. Mona is a hypochondriac an able-bodied woman who rides a wheelchair who treats the Physician's Desk Reference like a personal bible and who has not left the building in six months for fear of catching a disease. One day she backs her wheelchair into an electrical box and gets a shock leaving her hearing strange voices and seeing bodies dropping out of windows... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jane Adams | Bruce Harwood | Peter Outerbridge | Jill Teed | Tabitha St. Germain | Garwin Sanford | Brent Stait | April Telek | Director : Helen Shaver | Writer : Alan Katz | |
| Air Date : Apr. 23, 1999 |
| Episode 10 - [The Shroud] |
| Details : When Marie Wells (Samantha Mathis) and her husband Justin (Robert Wisden) can't have a child on their own they turn to the fertility clinic at the Tilford Institute for help. There Dr. Gail Cowlings (Sara Botsford) uses in-vitro fertilization to implant an embryo in Marie's uterus. What Marie doesn't know but Justin does is that the embryo was actually created from DNA lifted from the Shroud of Turin... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : David Ogden Stiers | Robert Wisden | Sara Botsford | Samantha Mathis | Director : Stuart Gillard | Writer : Scott Peters | |
| Air Date : Apr. 30, 1999 |
| Episode 11 - [Ripper] |
| Details : In Victorian London someone is killing prostitutes someone the police have dubbed Jack the Ripper. On the face of it John C.V. York (Cary Elwes) is a likely suspect. A once-respected doctor who sunk to absinthe and laudanum addiction after his misdiagnosis killed the young daughter of a Duke. He retains a connection to polite society thanks to the devotion of Lady Ellen Chamberlain (Clare Sims) who loves him and hopes to marry him. But he is also a habitue of the seedy district where the killings have taken place and has the medical knowledge to make the precise surgical cuts that are the Ripper's modus operandi... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frances Fisher | David Warner | Cary Elwes | France Nuyen | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi | Writer : Chris Ruppenthal | |
| Air Date : May. 07, 1999 |
| Episode 12 - [Tribunal] |
| Details : In 1944 young Leon Zgierski (Roman Danylo) an inmate in the Birkenau concentration camp watches as First Lieutenant Karl Rademacher shoots his wife and sends his daughter to the gas chambers. The murder is witnessed by a mysterious figure time-traveler Nicholas Prentice (Alex Daikun) who grabs Radermacher's SS jacket and after eluding guards pulls out an antique watch and vanishes into a glowing orange circle... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Saul Rubinek | Jan Rubeš | Roman Danylo | Alex Zahara | Kyra Azzopardi | Lindsay Crouse | Alex Diakun | Peter Boretski | Holly Ferguson as Miriam Zgierski | Director : Mario Philip Azzopardi | Writer : Sam Egan | |
| Air Date : May. 14, 1999 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Summit] |
| Details : Deep space. A small planetoid. The sight of an intergalactic summit between two warring worlds. Diplomats from both Earth and Dregocia a distant planet are dispatched to the neutral ground to work out a peace accord. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Marcia Cross | Michael Ironside | Andrew Airlie | Campbell Lane | John Spencer | Kevin Conway as Mr. Portis | Writer : Scott Peters | Director : James Head | |
| Air Date : May. 21, 1999 |
| Episode 14 - [Descent] |
| Details : Dr. Arthur Zeller is the doormat of the anthropology department a mild-mannered professor who is the butt of his colleague's jokes and who never gets the respect he deserves. After the department head Prof. Martin Stansfield passes over his cutting-edge research into evolutionary psychology and funds the project of his rival Dr. James Feind Zeller takes matters into his own hands. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Leland Orser | Jenny Cooper | John Novak | Benita Ha | Frank C. Turner | Writer : Erik Saltzgaber | Director : Steve Anker | |
| Air Date : Jun. 25, 1999 |
| Episode 15 - [The Haven] |
| Details : Caleb Vance lives on the 52nd floor of The Haven a high-tech marvel of an apartment building that is driven by a supercomputer named Argus and filled with machines and appliances that respond to the orders of The Haven's residents. The building's design almost completely eliminates the need for human contact a desirable feature in an age in which all communication is mediated by one form of technology or another and a strong selling point for the residents of The Haven. But things begin to go wrong... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kim Hawthorne | Chris Eigeman | Torri Higginson | Jody Racicot | Brenda McDonald | Writer : James Crocker | Director : Jim Kaufman | |
| Air Date : Jul. 02, 1999 |
| Episode 16 - [Deja Vu] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Kevin Nealon | David Lewis | Ronny Cox | Terri Hawkes | Writer : Naren Shankar | Writer : Alan Katz | |
| Air Date : Jul. 09, 1999 |
| Episode 17 - [The Inheritors] |
| Details : Musician Jacob Hardy (Nicholas Lea) is strolling with his fiancee Kara Delaney (Stacy Grant) when a meteor explodes over the city. One of the tiny fireballs which rain down seems to chase Jacob striking him down and penetrating his skull instantly killing him. Medical Examiner Dr. Ian Michaels (Tom Irwin) conducts the autopsy with the help of his assistant Ollie Gibb (Don MacKay). He finds an unusual bullet-like projectile lodged in the victim's brain. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Nicholas Lea | Bill Smitrovich | Tom Irwin | Sarah-Jane Redmond | Rachel Victoria | Director : Mike Rohl | Writer : Sam Egan | |
| Air Date : Jul. 16, 1999 |
| Episode 18 - [Essence Of Life] |
| Details : Eleven years after a viral epidemic wiped out most of the world's people the population is beginning to rebound. The world is ruled by The Code which bans outward displays of emotion particularly the mourning of lost loved ones. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joel Grey | Jessica Steen | Daphne Zuniga | Daniel Baldwin | Benz Antoine | Director : Brad Turner | Writer : Scott Peters | |
| Air Date : Jul. 23, 1999 |
| Episode 19 - [Stranded] |
| Details : Thirteen-year-old Kevin Buchannon (Adam Hann-Byrd) lives at the bottom of the high-school food chain scorned by other geeks picked on by the jocks. At home he lives in the shadow of his older brother Josh a football star whose every accomplishment is celebrated by the boys' father Alex (Daniel Hugh Kelly). Then one day Kevin sees a plane crash in the woods near his house. He rushes to the scene with his dog Cody to find a mysterious ship occupied by the severely injured Captain Turner (Chris Potter). |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Adam Hann-Byrd | Lynda Boyd | Daniella Evangelista | Chris Potter | Daniel Hugh Kelly | Writer : Tom Szollosi | Writer : Naren Shankar | Writer : Chris Ruppenthal | Director : Steve Anker | |
| Air Date : Jul. 30, 1999 |
| Episode 20 - [Fathers And Sons] |
| Details : From the outside the Golden Sunset looks like any other rest home but Dr. Benton Adler's facility is different in a few unsettling ways. The residents seem to develop Alzheimer's almost overnight and after they do they live - or are stored - in tiny chambers in a human warehouse. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Peter Williams | Bill Cobbs | Tony Longo | Eugene Byrd | Bob Morrisey | Tom Pickett | Director : Brad Turner | Writer : Alan Katz | |
| Air Date : Aug. 06, 1999 |
| Episode 21 - [Star Crossed] |
| Details : It is 2056 six years after the Hing a humanoid race invaded Earth. While America fights on Russia has reached an uneasy truce with the aliens leaving some regions under their control and others declared neutral. In the neutral city of Archangel on the Barents Sea cynical American expatriate Michael Ryan (Nathan Fillion) runs Heaven a small coffee bar and music club where shady Russians mingle with Hing soldiers and other dubious characters. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Nathan Fillion | Robbi Chong | Angeline Ball | Derek de Lint | Louis Ferreira | Director : Helen Shaver | Writer : Chris Ruppenthal | |
| Air Date : Aug. 13, 1999 |
| Episode 22 - [Better Luck Next Time] |
| Details : In a warehouse two men are fighting for possession of a gun. During the struggle they mention various connections to earlier struggles between them. One of the men is finally able to get the gun declaring himself the winner and then promptly shoots himself. While he is dying a blue energy being comes out of his chest. Before the surviving man can escape the police show up and arrest him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : William McNamara | Martin Cummins | Michael Riley | Megan Gallagher | Benz Antoine | Nicholas Campbell | Director : Martin Cummins | Writer : Naren Shankar | |
| Air Date : Aug. 20, 1999 |