Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown

Out of the Unknown

1965 4 Seasons 49 Episodes ⭐ 7.1 Sci-Fi & Fantasy Drama

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

No Place Like Earth

Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possess

EP 2

The Counterfeit Man

On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect

EP 3

Stranger in the Family

A young man, known as 'Boy', is born with no fingernails and with mental powers that enable him to control others. He fa

EP 4

The Dead Past

Time travel may still be impossible, but the Chronoscope, sensing the nearly imponderable tracks of ancient photons, all

EP 5

Time In Advance

Imagine a future where you serve your prison sentence before you commit your crime, in the various hells of savage new p

EP 6

Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come... ?

Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby; with an attention to detail which is, perhaps, closer to an obs

EP 7

Sucker Bait

An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a s

EP 8

The Fox and the Forest

Sarah and David Kirsten are tourists from the 21st century who take a forbidden holiday in 1938 Mexico. But enforcers fr

EP 9

Andover and the Android

Roger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mysti

EP 10

Some Lapse of Time

Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find col

EP 11

Thirteen to Centaurus

Interstellar travel at sub-light speeds: the enormous distances, isolation from human culture and the aching loneliness

EP 12

The Midas Plague

The Future is bright for most of society: robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Bu

EP 1

The Machine Stops

In the far future, the material needs of humankind are tended by the omnipresent Machine, which makes their environment,

EP 2

Frankenstein Mark II

A stranger calls at the home of divorcée Anna Preston, asking to collect some of her ex-husband's belongings. Anna agre

EP 3

Lambda I

Why take the Great Circle route to Australia when you can tunnel through the very molecules of the solid earth itself in

EP 4

Level Seven

In the huge, labyrinthine nuclear bunker meant to shield the survivors in government from the aftermath of atomic war, L

EP 5

Second Childhood

Charles Dennistoun, a 60-year-old contestant on 'You Bet a Million' - a quiz show for millionaires - wins the jackpot pr

EP 6

The World in Silence

College student Sarah Richards is alone in fearing and disliking the new teaching machines but even she does not foresee

EP 7

The Eye

Julian Clay is accused of murdering Andrew Maddox - a charge he cannot deny because 'The Eye', a device which records th

EP 8

Tunnel Under the World

Déja vu: as Guy Birkett goes through the day he has a nagging feeling that he's been here before, experienced this alre

EP 9

The Fastest Draw

Amos Handworthy's grandfather was quick on the draw: as a U.S marshal it was a job requirement if you wanted to stay ali

EP 10

Too Many Cooks

Dr Andrew Cook, inventor of a process for making living replicas of human beings, has unwittingly duplicated himself and

EP 11

Walk's End

Dr Saint's offer of a free place in his comfortable old-folks' home appears entirely philanthropic to Miss Claythorpe. H

EP 12

Satisfaction Guaranteed

A human-looking robot housekeeper is the latest gadget to acquire in the ceaseless battle to keep up with the Joneses. B

EP 13

The Prophet

Robot QT-1, aboard an orbiting space-station, controls the massive energy beam which transmits the sun's power to receiv

EP 1

Immortality, Inc.

The very rich can buy eternal life: all that's needed is someone desperate enough to donate, for a high price, a young b

EP 2

Liar!

The positronic brain of robot RB-34(Herbie) has an unforeseen 'extra': he can read human thoughts. So his take on the Fi

EP 3

The Last Lonely Man

If, by an accident of science, it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of so

EP 4

Beach Head

On his thirty-seventh mission, Commandant Tom Decker and his colleague Ensign Warner-Carr become alarmed at what they fi

EP 5

Something in the Cellar

Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his baseme

EP 6

Random Quest

Following an explosion in a laboratory accident, physicist Colin Trafford is sent to a parallel universe where he enters

EP 7

The Naked Sun

Earth police detective Lije Baley and his robot associate, R. Daneel Olivaw, investigate an impossible murder on a plane

EP 8

The Little Black Bag

When a down-at-heel, alcoholic physician discovers a medical kit, based on future technology, accidentally left in the w

EP 9

1 + 1 = 1.5

The population of the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century is static, thanks to computerized population c

EP 10

The Fosters

Mr Foster and his sister live quietly in the suburbs but are not what they seem, possessing scientific knowledge far in

EP 11

Target Generation

The Ship contains a generation, and only one inheritor knows what must be done when the tremor is felt throughout the me

EP 12

The Yellow Pill

A murderer is examined by psychiatrist John Frame who is surprised to find the criminal knows many details of his privat

EP 13

Get Off My Cloud

A bed-bound SF author finds himself within one of his own fantasies after a mental breakdown.

EP 1

Taste of Evil

Stephen Chambers, a new master of Warby Stones school for the 'ultra-intelligent boys', finds strange things happening t

EP 2

To Lay a Ghost

Eric and Diana Carver move into a new home in the country, but a series of strange events soon cause Diana to suspect th

EP 3

This Body Is Mine

Allen Meredith is a brilliant scientist but too mild-mannered to make an impact or fight for the money he needs. He has

EP 4

Deathday

Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife

EP 5

The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow

The small East Anglian village of Plampton has one distinction - a famous unsolved murder. A cynical journalist decides

EP 6

Welcome Home

Dr Frank Bowers has been looking forward to returning home after a long stay in a psychiatric ward. But when he gets the

EP 7

The Last Witness

A man, Harris, wakes up in a hotel on a small island after a shipwreck. He keeps recognising flashes of what he sees, un

EP 8

The Man in My Head

A team of soldiers break into an enemy missile base. Such is the secrecy of their mission, they have been hypnotically p

EP 9

The Chopper

The vengeful spirit of a dead motorcyclist is reluctant to leave his wrecked machine and manifests itself to a woman jou

EP 10

The Uninvited

A Middle-aged couple are disturbed during the night by a series of unwelcome visitations.

EP 11

The Shattered Eye

A chance meeting with an old tramp brings a violent force into a young painter's like.

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