As of July 2026, Out of the Unknown Season 1 aired in 1965 with 12 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Out of the Unknown Season 1

1965 12 Episodes Sci-Fi & Fantasy · Drama ⭐ 7/10

Out of the Unknown Season 1 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it earns its premise rather than just borrowing genre trappings. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. With 8 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. The world-building does the rest of the work. Available now — press play and find out why people keep recommending it.

There is a reason Out of the Unknown Season 1 keeps coming up in conversation. Out of the Unknown Season 1 treats its concept seriously enough to follow it all the way through. Season 1 of Out of the Unknown includes 12 episodes. It aired from October 1965 to December 1965. Episodes include "No Place Like Earth", "The Counterfeit Man", "Stranger in the Family". It was aired in 1965. What separates Out of the Unknown Season 1 from lesser genre entertainment is a willingness to let the concept cost the characters something. It delivers reliably on what it promises, which is more than most of its competition manages.

Sci-fi fans who want ideas alongside the spectacle will find Out of the Unknown Season 1 genuinely rewarding. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. The complete run is available and best experienced without too much prior knowledge of where it goes. The performances stay grounded even as the ideas get bigger. The world-building pays off in ways you will not anticipate on a first watch.

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🎬 Out of the Unknown Season 1 — Episode Guide

E1
No Place Like Earth
1965-10-04
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. Perhaps the isolated outpost on Venus retains something which could satisfy this hunger; or has the madness which shattered ...
E2
The Counterfeit Man
1965-10-11
On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. But perfect enough to escape discovery on the long return trip to Earth? Can the deadly counterfeit be detected and stopped before its hunger for new life can endanger an ent...
E3
Stranger in the Family
1965-10-18
A young man, known as 'Boy', is born with no fingernails and with mental powers that enable him to control others. He falls for a young actress, initially repulsed, whose agent-boyfriend encourages the relationship because he thinks Boy's powers can be used to make a lot of money via TV commercials....
E4
The Dead Past
1965-10-25
Time travel may still be impossible, but the Chronoscope, sensing the nearly imponderable tracks of ancient photons, allows a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissio...
E5
Time In Advance
1965-11-01
Imagine a future where you serve your prison sentence before you commit your crime, in the various hells of savage new planets just being colonised. If you survive, like Nick Crandall and Otto Henck, you can return home with carte blanche to commit murder...
E6
Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come... ?
1965-11-08
Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants as a hobby; with an attention to detail which is, perhaps, closer to an obsession. The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife. Is there more going on in the greenhouse than could safely be exhibited at the next Batter...
E7
Sucker Bait
1965-11-15
An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a strange, intense teenager called Mark Annuncio, raised to be a kind of human computer, able to make connections between different specialisms. Disliked by the crew, Mark nevertheles...
E8
The Fox and the Forest
1965-11-22
Sarah and David Kirsten are tourists from the 21st century who take a forbidden holiday in 1938 Mexico. But enforcers from the future, trying to keep the time-stream free from pollution and paradox, are on their trail. Can they evade their pursuers without betraying their origins?
E9
Andover and the Android
1965-11-29
Roger Andover will inherit a fortune if he marries. But he is a solitary man with no ambition: human relationships mystify and dismay him. But to present a life-like female android as your wife: surely that will satisfy everyone? Andover finds more than he bargained for when his robot bride challeng...
E10
Some Lapse of Time
1965-12-06
Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find collapsed on his doorstep, The tramp is suffering from a genetic radiation disorder that should killed him in infancy as it did Harrow's baby son. The ma is the living image of Harrow...
E11
Thirteen to Centaurus
1965-12-13
Interstellar travel at sub-light speeds: the enormous distances, isolation from human culture and the aching loneliness of space are enough to drive the strongest personality insane. Better to block all memories of human contact and to program the 12-strong crew to accept only the reality they can s...
E12
The Midas Plague
1965-12-20
The Future is bright for most of society: robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. But the disadvantaged of this Golden Age are those who have to stem the inexorable tide of robot-manufactured goods; they are continually supplied with more things than they can poss...

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