Alien Experiment Causes Panic | The Outer Limits

A group of passengers aboard an experiment on a spaceship finds themselves fighting over the possibility of activating the panic button to end it all. The panic intensifies when the alien behind the experiment comes forward and reveals their true intentions.

Season 2, Episode 14
When a long-duration spaceflight simulation is invaded by an alien presence, the six astronauts inside begin turning on one another as the being preys on each of their darkest fears! Or is this all just part of the simulation…a test?

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[AlexDraco]

Once again, OL aliens hold a mirror up to us Humans, and the reflection it gives is pretty unflattering... A TV series that was inspiring, and definitely ahead of its time.

[ArmyOne]

Can we please get a new Outer Limits Episode? . I am a Older Disabled Veteran and the shows I grew up with helps me with my Pain . Thank You 🙏 🇺🇸.

[farklefuster]

A news paper man that deals in facts. Boy this is an old way of thinking

[henrybrowne]

It cracks me up . . aliens that don't bite heads off, are still scary, and lecture us about what buffoons and lowlifes we are. I love it. When I first saw these as an 8 or 9 year old, I didn't care for the preaching stuff but I probably didn't fully understand it. Now I can't get enough . . . I would love to communicate with those kinds of aliens. I would overwhelm'em with questions. They would lecture me, "Foolish human, you are good but you are driving us out of our minds . . "

[hughscanlon]

That was excellent - I hope we can see the full episode soneday.

[eddstarr]

This episode fascinated me as a child. Humans want to colonize the planet Antheon, believed to harbor no life. But there is life on Antheon but it exists in a manner we can't detect with our natural senses. The Antheon alien is not a monster, it's a form of conscious force that is shaped by our thoughts. It's only a monster if we want it to be so. The life that exists on Antheon can be our friend or our enemy, that choice will be made when we humans learn to love each other first, before we reach for the stars.

[theoddfather]

Nobody but NOBODY did monsters better than ‘The Outer Limits’.

[martinchristian]

These shows always had a good message to learn from in the end.

[Duke_of_Prunes]

The actor with the gun is Michael Constantine. He looked the same age in this 1964 episode of The Outer Limits as he did when he played "Gus" in "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" in 2002.

[allenlovell]

I loved watching this show as a child ; although some episodes gave me nightmares for awhile after seeing them ! Still I like how each began and ended with a hopeful message. Some episodes still resonate even after almost 60 years after broadcasting. Thanks for posting my favorite series YouTube ! Maybe you can do The Twilight Zone, One Step Beyond, Science-Fiction Theater, and Thriller hosted by the late Boris Karloff ?That would be awesome ! :-)

[MONGOOSEful]

From ABC-TV's "THE OUTER LIMITS", this episode, "Counterweight", first aired on December 26, 1964, and was written by Milton Krimms, Jerry Sohl, and Leslie Stevens (uncredited), and directed by Paul Stanley, who also directed "Second Chance" during the series' first season (1963-64). "Counterweight" wasn't exactly one of the greater episodes of "THE OUTER LIMITS", but it still managed to deliver sensible scenes, and a great moody scene and feel, typical of the sci-fi anthology's look and design. "THE FUGITIVE" stars, Jacquelin Scott and Micheal Constantine, who both appeared in that ABC/Quinn Martin show's final two-parter, "The Judgment" in 1967, were among the guest stars of "Counterweight", along with Sandy Kenyon, Shary Marshall, Larry Ward, Crahan Denton, Stephen Joyce, and Charles H. Radiliac. Robert Johnson, a Daystar Productions account, voiced many of the creatures on "OUTER LIMITS" (and in "THE CAGE", Desilu's first "STAR TREK" production, who voiced some of The Talosians who captured "Capt. Pike") and he also voiced "The Antheon" plant being in this episode. Robert Johnson would go on to play the mysterious voice on a tape recorder, instructing "Briggs" and "Phelps" on their assignments on CBS's "MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE" (1966-1973). "Counterweight" also used stock footage from Paramount Pictures' "WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE" (1951), since the second season of "THE OUTER LIMITS" was filmed at Paramount Sunset.

[robertstanton]

You make your own monsters! Few truer words have ever been said.

[pressureworks]

Principal Kaufman sure mellowed out later !!!

[buffstraw]

The alien should have had a female voice: "Hi, my name is Fern."

[TheBushdoctor]

"I'm whatever I wish to be seen as, by you".
Good choice buddy.

I think the movie creators of that time had a secret agreement to prevent people from learning how to actually use a gun, so they had the actors make stabbing motions with them.

[Ron]

Oh my. I loved these shows. Plus the old Twilight Zone's

[historybuff]

The best part of an otherwise dull episode. The one holdover from the first season is that aliens are portrayed as sage, benign and philosophical.

[tonyashby]

The love we withhold is the pain we carry. 🖖👽✌

[georgeplagianos]

Well Michael Constantine finally realized decades back this isn't my Greek fat wedding

[MilesBellas]

1:23
"I'm a newspaper man, I deal in fact not fantasy"