The Outer Limits (1990s series) Episode Guide

Season 6 episode guide revision date: February 15, 2001

The latest version of this guide can be found at:
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See the guide introduction for notes about the series. Air dates are the first showing in the U.S. on Showtime. The number afer the date is the production number.

110. Judgment Day - January 21, 2000 - 6604

Judgment Day has quickly become the hottest show on the Justice Channel and on television period. The show has turned the justice system on its ear by becoming judge, jury and executioner, allowing a murder victim's family to carry out the death sentence on live television. Today, Allison Channing will hunt down Declan McMahon, the petty criminal who killed her sister Kaitlin. However Declan insists he was framed, that security camera footage that would clear him has been altered by someone.

[viewer warnings]		MV AC
Guest Starring
	Chris Elliot
	Ian Tracey
	Nicole Oliver
	Kevin McNulty
	Vincent Gale
and	Molly Ringwald	{Allison Channing}
Written by		A.L. Katz & Scott Nimerfro
Directed by		Brad Turner
Featuring
	Peter Kelamis	Stan Draper
	Judith Maxie	Judge Peale
	Louis Chirillo	Cheech
	Jennifer Sterling	Detective Meacham
	Colin Foo	Mr. Chow
	Tony Alcantar	Director

111. The Gun - January 28, 2000 - 6602

When Matthew Logan gets out of prison after serving time for spousal abuse, his first stop is a gun show. He buys a strange handgun from a mysterious stranger and uses it to shoot his wife. The gun attaches itself to Logan's hand and arm, beginning a process which will transform his body.

[viewer warnings]		GV AC
Guest Starring
	Stacey Keach	{Cord Vanowen}
	Nancy Sorel	{Dana}
	Christian Bocher	{Matthew Logan}
	Eric Schneider
	Devin Douglas Drewitz	{Ty Logan}
	Stephen Dimopoulos
and	John de Lancie	{Donald Finley}
Written by		Sam Egan
Directed by		Jeff Woolnough
Featuring
	Bob Dawson	Sheriff Clay
	Linnea Sharples	Sandra
	Brock Johnson	Nate Jackson
	Greg Anderson	Dealer
	Christina Jastrzembska	Karen Miller
	Nels Lennarson	Deputy
	Marcel Maillard	Pastor Wickham

112. Skin Deep - February 4, 2000 - 6609

Sid Camden, a rather unremarkable, socially inept sort of guy, works in an accounting department of a high-tech company known as Veil-Tech. Hal, one of the project managers, secretly loans Sid a prototype of one of the company's latest developments - a device known as an image enhancer. With the help of his friend Deb, Sid is able to acquire the image of good looking co-worker Chad Warner and soon Sid is stepping out on the town with his new and improved look.

[viewer warnings]		none
Guest Starring
	Antonio Sabato Jr.	{Chad Warner}
	Christina Cox	{Deb}
	Deanna Milligan
and	Adam Goldberg	{Sid Camden}
Written by		Scott Peters
Directed by		Dan Ireland
Featuring
	Linden Banks	Hal Taylor
	Ted Cole	Chris
	Claude Duhamel	Grant
	Keith Provost	Bartender
	Gaetana Korbin	Deb Model
	Woody Jeffreys	Male Model
	Kevin Durand	Alan
	Moya O'Connell	Girlfriend
	James Crescenzo	Host
	Tanya Reid	Amber
	Avery Raskin	Boss
	Joyce Erickson	Old Lady
	Paul Callaghan	Dad
	Tyson Holmes	Teen Jock

113. Manifest Destiny - February 11, 2000 - 6607

The UFS Mercury is in route to the planet Trion to do scientific tests in preparation to establish a colony when they get a distress call from a battleship, the UFS Rhesos. It was only weeks ago the the Rhesos dropped bombs on Trion, killing the local flora and fauna, making it ready for colonization. When the crew of the Mercury boards the Rhesos, they quickly realize that things are not as they should be.

[viewer warnings]		V AC
Guest Starring
	Brad Johnson
	Michael Shanks
	Sarah Deakins
	Ty Olsson
Story by		Lawrence Meyers
Teleplay by		Mark Stern & Geoffrey Hollands
Directed by		Brad Turner
Featuring
	Rob Freeman	Milus O'Brien
	Linda Ko	Hanna Sheafer
	Rick Dobran	Lieutenant Mason
	D. Harlan Cutshall	Captain
	John Murphy	Lieutenant

114. Breaking Point - February 18, 2000 - 6603

When Andrew McLaren is fired from his job at Anderson Technology, he suspects that he's being let go because the company president doesn't want to give him credit for his work on the CPS-1200, an as-yet untested time machine. Defiant, Andrew decides to take a trip in the machine. When he reaches his destination, two days in the future, his head is throbbing with a migraine and he is shocked to find that the police are looking for him. Fleeing the lab, he returns home to discover his wife lying in a pool of blood and a man fleeing the scene in a car. Shocked at his discovery, Andrew is determined to use his time machine to change what happened.

[viewer warnings]		V AC
Guest Starring
	Rick Roberts
	Laurie Holden
	Patricia Harras
	William de Vry
	Derek de Lint
Written by		Grant Rosenberg
Directed by		Neill Fearnley
Featuring
	Scott Owen	Collins
	Carlos Joe Costa	Jailor
	Kwesi Ameyaw	Policeman #1
	Bill MacKenzie	Policeman #2

115. The Beholder - February 25, 2000 - 6612

Patrick Tarloff, a university English professor, lost his eyesight in a childhood accident and now, at age 28, he has regained it through a cutting-edge operation. But when the bandages are removed, he sees more than just the world that has been dark to him for more than 20 years. He sees a mysterious woman, a vision that his neurosurgeon Dr. Angus McCadden and his psychologist, Dr. Louise Burroughs, assure him is only a hallucination. But then Patrick sees her again, communicates with her, touches her. Her name is Kyra, she writes in glowing letters that float in the air, and she needs his help to go home.

[viewer warnings]		V
Guest Starring
	MacKenzie Astin
	Rebecca Jenkins
	Claire Rankin
	Peter Wingfield
	Obba Babatunde
Written by		Sam Egan
Directed by		Jeff Woolnough
Featuring
	Tania Turner	Kyra Look-Alike

Notes:

This might have originally been titled Mind's Eye.

116. Seeds of Destruction - March 3, 2000 - 6601

Macroseed, a cutting edge biotechnology company, chooses the small farming town of Hobson to test and develop TX-40. This is a new genetically-engineered strain of fast-growing corn that, it hopes, will increase yields and make the company millions. Linda, the veterinarian in Hobson, begins to wonder about the safety of TX-40 when Old Man Rivers brings in a dead cat from his field that has horrible mutations, including a giant tumor which sprouts a fifth leg.

[viewer warnings]		V N AC
Guest Starring
	Jessica Tuck	{Linda Andrews}
	Christopher Shyer	{Harold Zimmer}
	Michael Ryan	{Rex Andrews}
and	Len Cariou	as Doc Wells
Written by		Chris Ruppenthal
Directed by		Steve Anker
Featuring
	Curtis Bechdholt	Eddie
	John R. Taylor	Old Man Rivers
	Fiona Scott	Tara Akton
	Chris J. Levick	Matt Hooper
	Bobby Stewart	Sheriff Blackwell
	Sarah Hayward	Doris Hooper
	Donna Larson	Sally Latimore
	Cyndi Mason	Mother
	Vince Walker	Boyfriend
	Christine Elliott	Young Linda

117. Simon Says - March 10, 2000 - 6605

Gideon Banks lost his wife Liz and son Simon in a horrific car accident some twenty years ago. At the time of the accident he was involved in something called the Neural Archiving Project - NAP for short. The technology was developed to create smart computers - transferring human engrams to computers. The company eventually gave up on the technology, but Gideon didn't. After years of quietly perfecting it, he built a small robot, from parts he stole from Concorde Robotics, where he now works. Zoe, Gideon's niece, discovers Gideon's secret, the robot contains actual neural engrams from the real Simon. She becomes worried not only about Gideon but also about the robot that sounds and acts a lot like her little cousin used to.

[viewer warnings]		V
Guest Starring
	Joel Grey
	Mikela J. Mikael
	Hiro Kanagawa
Written by		Scott Peters
Directed by		Helen Shaver
Featuring
	Cathy Weselluck	as the Voice of Simon
	Riley DeMeyer	Simon
	Tammy Pentecost	Elise Banks
	Rice Honeywell	Co-Worker

118. Stasis - April 14, 2000 - 6611

In the year 2123, with all but nature destroyed and resources scarce, society has been divided into three kinds of people. There are Alphas, like Larissa, who work half of the time and spend the rest in a state of suspended animation called stasis. There are Betas, like Eric, who alternate work and "sleep" modes with the Alphas. And then there is the Elite, who form a privileged aristocracy that rules over the Alphas and Betas. In the face of increasing pressure from stasis-jumpers of the Resistance, the Elite insists that extreme measures are necessary for survival of the species. Their plan, however, doesn't account for the power of the human heart. Larissa and Eric have fallen in love even though their only contact, other than furtive holographic messages, is when they trade places in the stasis pod they share.

[viewer warnings]		V
Guest Starring
	Sean Patrick Flanery	{Eric}
	Kavan Smith
	Matthew Walker
	Maureen Thomas
	Robert Lewis
	Brenda M. Crichlow
and	Kristin Lehman	as Larissa
Written by		Lawrence Meyers
Directed by		Brian Giddens
Featuring
	Gordon Tipple	Finerman
	Garfield Wilson	Officer
	Phillip Mitchell	Security Man
	Erica Carroll	Claudia

119. Down To Earth - April 21, 2000 - 6606

The true believers have gathered once again for the North American UFO Convention where there are typically squabbles, petty betrayals and egotistical grandstanding. Max Buford has in his possession what appears to be a fragment from an alien spaceship. Max's arrival causes a flurry of activity, as the fragment's true origins are thrown into question.

[viewer warnings]		V AC
Guest Starring
	Mackenzie Phillips	{Boo Weston}
	Colin Mochrie	{Dale}
	Richard Side
	David Kaye
	Jerry Wasserman	{Gunther Van Owen}
	Don Thompson	{Max Buford}
Written by		A.L. Katz & Scott Nimerfro
Directed by		Mike Rohl
Featuring
	Klodyne Rodney	Tyler Buttram
	C. Ernst Harth	Silverface
	Colleen Wheeler	Uma
	Buck	Polk
	John Dadey	Special Agent Merton Handy
	Martin Blaiz	Paramedic
	Dan Shea	Cop

120. The Inner Child - April 28, 2000 - 6610

Anne Reynolds is a cold young woman, estranged from her mother, Laura, haunted by memories of her dead father and terrified of intimacy of any kind. Then one night, while repairing a flat tire she is attacked by a mugger. Severely wounded, she dies on the operating table only to come back to life five minutes later. However, it soon becomes clear that something inside her has changed. Anne learns she was one set of Siamese twins and her mother agreed to an operation that killed her sister, Marie, while allowing Anne to live. Now the remnants of Marie are starting to assert themselves changing Anne.

[viewer warnings]		V
Guest Starring
	Laura Leighton
	Roberta Maxwell
	David Lovgren
and	Michael Ontkean
Written by		Grant Rosenberg
Directed by		Ken Girotti
Featuring
	Gerry South	Mugger
	Lyle St. Goddard	Paramedic
	James Tsai	Technicians
	Monica Gemmer

121. Glitch - May 5, 2000 - 6613

Tom and Wendy seem like the perfect couple, happy together and very much in love. But at night when Wendy sleeps, Tom has terrible memories 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 and the "memories" are bugs placed in his artificial intelligence by his creator, the late Joe Walker. Walker had originally created Tom to save humans from fires and other dangerous situations. However he anticipated that his colleague, Dr. Edward Normandy, might try to militarize the android and use him as a cyber-soldier-spy and planted the bugs as a way of forcing Normandy to upgrade Tom so the android could think for itself.

[viewer warnings]		V BN
Guest Starring
	Tate Donovan
	Victor Garber
	Gabrielle Miller
	Betty Phillips
	Stephen E. Miller
and	Jack Klugman	as Joe Walker
Story by		Michael Berman & Anurag Mehta
Teleplay by		Michael Berman & Ron Greenstein
Directed by		Mike Rohl
Featuring
	Jayne Paterson	Technician
	Garvin Cross	R & R Leader

122. Decompression - June 30, 2000 - 6618

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. As the plane files south, it's hit by lightning. The plane and its passengers appear unaffected, but a mysterious woman appears in Brody's private quarters and warns him the strike has damaged the airplane, which will crash on landing, killing him and six others. She explains 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 to be sucked out of the plane by decompression, whereupon he will be saved by the stranger's sophisticated technology.

[viewer warnings]		AL
Guest Starring
	Bruce Boxleitner	{Wyndom Brody}
	Michael Riley	{Jon Tarkman}
	Suzy Joachim	{Catherine Wells}
	Michael Tomlinson	{Will Sunderland}
	Ken Tremblett
	Dale Wilson	{Frank McKenna}
and	CCH Pounder
Story by		Brad Wright & James Crocker
Teleplay by		James Crocker
Directed by		Jorge Montesi
Featuring
	Keith Martin Gordey	Pilot
	Kristina Matisic	Reporter
	Winston Brown	Male Staff Member
	Colin Banner	Stranger #2

123. Abaddon - July 7, 2000 - 6617

It's late in the 23rd century and the aging interplanetary hauling vehicle Pequod is on a ten-year reclamation project on behalf of The Company, the corporation that has run North America since 2102. The crew is tucked away in hyper-sleep when the ship comes across a mysterious object floating in space. Awakened from their artificial slumber, they retrieve the pod and are shocked to discover the body of Virgil Nygard, executed 150 years earlier for leading his militia in the slaughter of more than a million people. They are even more shocked to discover that Nygard is alive.

[viewer warnings]		V
Guest Starring
	Keith David	{Ira Merit}
	Maximilian Martini	{Curtis Sandoval}
	Jill Teed	{Gwen Hutchinson}
	Byron Lucas	{Augie Berger}
	Dion Luther	{Gordon Knight}
	Corbin Bernsen	{Virgil Nygard}
Written by		A.L. Katz & Scott Nimerfro
Directed by		Steve Anker
Featuring
	Allixandria East	Isabella Bixel

124. The Grid - July 14, 2000 - 6615

When Scott Bowman gets an urgent message from his brother Peter, he decides to drive back to their hometown of Halford, Washington to see what is wrong. When he gets there, he discovers that Peter is dead and his wife Eilleen has been charged with his murder. But that's not the only shock awaiting Scott. The town where he grew up has been transformed. Antenna towers dot the landscape and people act strangely, as if they are under some kind of sporadic mind control.

[viewer warnings]		V AC
Guest Starring
	D.B. Sweeney	{Scott Bowman}
	Jessica Steen
	Colleen Rennison
	Brent Stait
	Edward Evanko	{Jim Holbrook}
	Gina Chiarelli
Written by		Duncan Kennedy
Directed by		Charles Winkler
Featuring
	Eric Breker	Peter Bowman
	Brenda Campbell	Joanna Bowman
	Patricia Idlette	Waitress
	Kevin Hansen	Deputy
	Sean Millington	Guard
	Tim O'Halloran	Man #1
	Chris Duggan	Man #2
	Quinn Mjolsness	Teen #1
	Jordan Weller	Teen #2
	Kenneth McIntyre	Old Timer

125. Revival - July 21, 2000 - 6608

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 the 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, he begins to float six inches off the ground. After the meeting, Luke and his mother Serna 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.

[viewer warnings]		V AL N AC
Guest Starring
	Gary Busey	{Ezra Burnham}
	Peter Stebbings	{Luke}
with	Margot Kidder	{Serena}
and	Nicole Eggert	as Sarah Burnham
Story by		Chris Ruppenthal
Teleplay by		Mark Stern
Directed by		Michael Robison
Featuring
	Doug Abrahams	Sheriff O'Brien
	Greg Rogers	Reverend Samuel Garland
	Holly Dignard	Cindy
	Ted Kozma	Mangled Man
	Brenda McDonald	Old Arthritic Woman
	Checo Tohomaso	Choir Master
	Carrie Gibson	Gospel Singers
	Nicole Parris
	Kim Smith-Jensen
	Marilyan Clements
	Yvonne Clements
	Phyllis States

126. Gettysburg - July 28, 2000 - 6616

Andy and Vince are Civil War buffs who spend their weekends re-enacting battles from the historic conflict with others of similar persuasion. On this weekend, they're in Gettysburg for a giant recreation of the war's bloodiest battle when a photographer, Prentice asks to take their picture with his ancient tin-type camera. But when the shutter clicks, Andy and Vince find themselves transported back to the Confederate camp of Col. Angus Devine on the eve of the infamous 1863 battle. Prentice, who joins them in the past, explains that he has sent them back as a grand experiment, to see if history can in fact be changed, proving destiny is not final.

[viewer warnings]		V AC
Guest Starring
	Joshua Leonard	{Andy}
	Jonathan Scarfe	{Vince}
	Alex Diakun	{Prentice}
	Aaron Pearl
	Ocean Hellman
	Robert Moloney
	Scott Bellis
	Blu Mankuma
and	Meatloaf	{Angus Devine}
Written by		Sam Egan
Directed by		Mario Azzopardi
Featuring
	Todd Talbot	Reed Hollingsworth
	David Storch	Major Hinton
	Jason Gaffney	Joe Benton
	Adrian Holmes	James
	Haig Sutherland	Will Monroe
	James Lauder	General Lee
	Graeme Roberts	General Lee Re-enactor
	Lloyd Berry	Abraham Lincoln Re-enactor

127. Something About Harry - August 4, 2000 - 6621

After her husband is killed in a car accident, Nancy Henninger rents out her backyard apartment to try to make ends meet. But her teenage son, Zak, is suspicious of her new tenant, Harry Longworth, who says he has come to the suburban community of Hunterville to set up a new factory for his company.When three people disappear from town Zak decides to conduct his own investigation.

[viewer warnings]		V
Guest Starring
	Judd Nelson	{Harry Longworth}
	Garry Chalk	{Det. Frank Dayton}
	Barbara Tyson	{Nancy Henninger}
	Shaun Johnston
	Kaj-Erik Eriksen
	Larry Musser
and	Joseph Gordon-Levitt	{Zak Henninger}
Written by		Grant Rosenberg
Directed by		Brent Karl Clackson
Featuring
	R. Nelson Brown	Bum
	David Abbott	Mr. Lowry
	Reg Tupper	Walt Coghlan
	Erica Carroll	Elizabeth Andrews

128. Zig Zag - August 11, 2000 - 6622

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. 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.

[viewer warnings]		V AL AC
Guest Starring
	Frank Whaley	{Cliff Unger}
	Leslie Hope
	David Mcnally	{Roy Chance}
	J.R. Bourne	{Dell Tinker}
	Vincent Gale
and	John Amos	{Pete Yastremski}
Written by		A.L. Katz & Nora O'Brien
Directed by		James Head
Featuring
	Fulvio Cecere	Stottlemeyer
	Ron Small	Johnny
	Irene Karas	Mickey
	Karina Carreck	Secretary
	Brendan Beiser	Ben Powell
	Tiffany Knight	Technician
	Yvonne Myers	Loretta

129. Nest - August 18, 2000 - 6623

William Grimes, the leader of an exploration team from an Arctic research facility, goes crazy while exploring an ice cave and kills two colleagues before dying himself. Psychologist Jack Burrell is sent up to counsel the staff at the facility. Among his patients is the head of the facility, Robby Archer, a friend from his boyhood. It is not a happy reunion because of a traumatic childhood incident they shared but now they must work together. Grimes has infected the facility with polar mites, a strange ant-like species who take up residence in the warm tissue of the human body and create sort of psychosis.

[viewer warnings]		V AC
Guest Starring
	Robert Sean Leonard	{Robby Archer}
	Martin Cummins	{Jack Burrell}
and	Kelly Rutherford	{Rachel}
Written by		Scott Peters
Directed by		Scott Peters
Featuring
	Paul Jarrett	Dr. {Sean} Mauser
	Brenda James	Marcy Hall
	Jesai Jayhmes	Lou Wolsky
	Brad McDonald	{William} Grimes
	Sam MacMillan	Pete
	Guy Demong	A.J.

130. Final Appeal - September 3, 2000 - 6624/6625

It is the year 2076 and Dr. Theresa Givens, a time-traveler from the 20th Century has been sentenced to death. Her crime - violating severe anti-techology laws passed in the wake of the nuclear holocaust 20 years earlier, an event that destroyed most of the world and prompted those who survived to return to the bucolic world that existed before the Industrial Revolution. Theresa has one last chance for a reprieve. Her lawyer, Nicole Whitely has won leave to appeal to the Supreme Court, a body headed by Chief Justice Haden Wainwright. The balance of the court is divided evenly between conservatives who support the ban on technology and liberals who favor a review. In light of the importance of the case, the government has sent Solicitor General Wallace Gannon, a fierce defender of the law, to argue its case. The court has suspended the normal rules, allowing Theresa to join her lawyer in speaking in her defense.

[viewer warnings]		V AL AC
Guest Starring
	Amanda Plummer	{Dr. Theresa Givens}
	Cicely Tyson	{Gretchen Parkhurst}
	Swoosie Kurtz	{Kendall Woods}
	Kelly McGillis	{Nicole Whitely}
	Robert Loggia	{Earl Clayton}
	Wallace Langham	{Ezekiel}
	Michael Moriarty	{Solicitor General Wallace Gannon}
with	Hal Holbrook	{Oliver Harbison}
and	Charlton Heston	as Chief Justice Haden Wainwright
Excerpts by		Steven Barnes, Sam Egan, Carleton Eastlake,
		A.L. Katz, William Mikulak, Scott Nimerfro,
		Grant Rosenberg, Naren Shankar, Melinda
		Snodgrass, Brad Wright
Sandkings based on		George R.R. Martin
the Novella by
Written by		Sam Egan
Directed by		Jimmy Kaufman
Featuring
	Lee Taylor	Bailiffs
	Mark Gibbon
	Laara Ong	Elise

Notes:

The excerpts were from A Stitch In Time, Donor, Vaccine, The New Breed, Sandkings, Fathers & Sons, Final Exam, Deja Vu, Tribunal, New Lease, and Relativity Theory.

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