The Outer Limits (Seasons 1–2)

The Outer Limits (1963–1965) is a cult science-fiction anthology you can watch online on iFILM. Every episode is a self-contained story poised between sci-fi and horror, most of them snapping shut on a twist.

Each broadcast opens with that famous warning: "There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture." What follows is aliens, genetic tampering, time travel and life after death. Across two seasons and 49 episodes, young Robert Duvall, Martin Landau, Robert Culp and Henry Silva all passed through, and every installment served up its own monster of the week, one the studio budgeted for again and again.

The darker rival to The Twilight Zone, it swapped tidy moral lessons for pure cosmic dread, and its fingerprints are all over The X-Files and Black Mirror. Later revivals arrived in 1995 and beyond, but the original is where to start. Stream every episode of The Outer Limits online on iFILM.