The Outer Limits Season 5
01. Alien Radio
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.
Malcolm Stewart
Phil Krepuski
Barry W. Levy
Jules Mason
Eric Keenleyside
Friedkin
Daryl Shuttleworth
Burns
Allan Zinyk
Eldon DeVries
Charles Payne
McCoy
Kasper Michaels
Bartender
Nancy Sivak
Eldon's Wife
Klodyne Rodney
Reporter
Clay St. Thomas
Reporter
Federico Cervantes
Alien
02. Donor
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.
Lorraine Landry
Deirdre Laird
Chantal Conlin
Kylie Laird
Rice Honeywell
Timothy Laird
B. J. Harrison
Administrator
Kimberly Unger
Reporter #1
Verne Prior
Reporter #2
Ross Douglas
Andy Morgan
Sam Egan
Writer
Jim Kaufman
Director
03. Small Friends
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.
Ingrid Torrance
Becky
Andrew Johnston
Warden Taylor
Joel Palmer
Phillip
Marc Baur
Board Member
Dean Wray
Tito
Bill Croft
Gabriel
Gerry Rousseau
Jimmy
Michasha Armstrong
Policeman
04. The Grell
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).
Ted Shackelford
High Secretary Paul Kohler
Maurice Dean Wint
Jesha
Britt McKillip
Sara Kohler
Blair Slater
Ken Kohler
Roger Cross
Lt. Lockhart
Marina Sirtis
Olivia 'Liv' Kohler
David McNally
Shak-El
Jane Spence
Female Rebel
Jake T. Roberts
Colonel Vaux
Jeff King
Writer
Jorge Montesi
Director
05. The Other Side
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.
Susannah Hoffmann
Janice Claymore
Aaron Smolinski
Adam Finlay
Alec Willows
Warner Oland
Anthony Ulc
Roger Bowden
Scott Swanson
Emil Dobkins
P. Lynn Johnson
Vera Dobkins
Jeff Woolnough
Director
06. Joyride
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.
Peter Bryant
Commander Sullivan
Scott Hylands
Wayne
Pamela Perry
Madelaine Parkhurst
G. Patrick Currie
Young Harris
Paul Magel
Navy Frogman
Joanna Piros
Reporter #1
Kevin Hayes
Reporter #2
07. The Human Operators
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...
08. Blank Slate
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.
Larry Musser
Jack Parsons
Brian Jensen
Cole
Michael Tiernan
Vincent
Dean Mckenzie
Kellar
Carmen Aguirre
Vagrant #1
Jimmy Herman
Mickey
Jeff Burnett
Terry
Harmoni Everett
Older Paula
Chelsea Jonasson
Younger Paula
Jerry Walliser
Father
Chris Moras
Young Brother
Lou Diamond Phillips
Director
09. What Will The Neighbors Think?
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...
10. The Shroud
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...
Nathaniel DeVeaux
Roger Cress
John Innes
Priest
Jennifer Sterling
Nurse
Ben Eberhard
Orderly
Luc Corbeil
Driver
Scott Peters
Writer
Stuart Gillard
Director
11. Ripper
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...
Clare Sims
Lady Ellen
Eliza Norbury
Lady Sophie
Robert Saunders
Appleby
Deni DeLory
Annie Chapman
Marnie Alton
Elizabeth 'Lizzie' Stride
Colin Skinner
Worthington
Scott Elam
Lord Reston
Mary Ann Skoll
Mary Jane Kelly
Candice Connelly
Woman in Cream Dress
Brian Linds
Reporter
Danielle Ayotte
Newsboy
Jim Boardman
Wickett
Sophie Olson
Young Prostitute
Bonnie Catterson
Blonde Woman
Carmen Casanova
Street Prostitute #1
Janet Funk
Street Prostitute #2
Maya Nadine
Street Prostitute #3
Chris Ruppenthal
Writer
Mario Philip Azzopardi
Director
12. Tribunal
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...
Holly Ferguson
Miriam Zgierski
Robert Weiss
Guard
Apollonia Vanova
Female Prisoner
Vincent Walker
Prisoner
Sue Astley
Grace
Sam Egan
Writer
Mario Philip Azzopardi
Director
13. Summit
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.
Kevin Conway
Mr. Portis
Jonathan Walker
Brent Secor
Eric Schneider
High Commander Reese
Dave Adams
Desmond Shiff
Darryl Scheelar
Gorum
Matthew Prior
Todd Woods
Scott Peters
Writer
James Head
Director
14. Descent
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.
Erik Saltzgaber
Writer
Steve Anker
Director
15. The Haven
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...
Gerard Plunkett
George
Madeline Elder
Self-centered Woman
James Crocker
Writer
Jim Kaufman
Director
16. Déjà Vu
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.
17. The Inheritors
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.
Stacy Grant
Kara Delaney
Don MacKay
Ollie Gibb
Michael Kopsa
Curtis Sawyer
Corrine Koslo
Abby
Michael St. John Smith
Angus Wheaton
Ron Small
Harold Sanborn
Nicole Robert
Librarian
Betty Linde
Helen Darnell
Candus Churchill
Nurse
Maya Massar
Daria Michaels
18. Essence Of Life
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.
Robert Moloney
Agent Pinter
Doris Chillcott
Mrs. Westbrook
Ron Halder
George White
John Moore
Butler
David Glyn-Jones
Mr. Westbrook
Kristina Matisic
News Anchor
Kyle Darling
Agent
Scott Peters
Writer
Brad Turner
Director
19. Stranded
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).
Myles Ferguson
Brad
David Kopp
Josh Buchanan
Will Sanderson
Nelson Tyler
Chris Wilding
Mean Kid #1
Jonathan Ndukwe
Mean Kid #2
Sal Sortino
Janitor
20. Fathers & Sons
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.
Anthony Sherwood
Hank Dell
Julie Patzwald
Tara Vanatter
Lesley Ewen
Mrs. Dell
Eleana Johnson
Edna Vanatter
Duane Keogh
Roger Nygard
Maria Louisa Figura
Inga
Matthew Harrison
Orderly
Barbara Dyke
Woman
21. Starcrossed
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.
Natasha Vasiluk
Alexandra Nevsky
Zoran Vukelic
Hector
Jim Shield
Duro
Ian Marsh
Hing Centurion
Ian Brown
Innocuous Man
Stuart O'Connell
Hing Soldier
Chris Ruppenthal
Writer
Helen Shaver
Director
22. Better Luck Next Time
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.
Naren Shankar
Writer
Martin Cummins
Director