Out of the Unknown Season 2

If you want science fiction that respects its own premise, Out of the Unknown Season 2 is available on streaming right now. The show says what it needs to say in a single season, no filler. A 7/10 rating says what the writing already makes obvious: this one works. The cast keeps the human element front and centre even when the concepts get ambitious. Start it whenever you need something guaranteed to land.

Whatever else is competing for your attention this week, Out of the Unknown Season 2 is worth clearing space for. Out of the Unknown Season 2 uses its genre premise as cover for asking bigger questions. Season 2 of Out of the Unknown includes 13 episodes. It aired from October 1966 to January 1967. Episodes include "The Machine Stops", "Frankenstein Mark II", "Lambda I". It was aired in 1966. What separates Out of the Unknown Season 2 from lesser genre entertainment is a willingness to let the concept cost the characters something. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Sci-fi fans who want ideas alongside the spectacle will find Out of the Unknown Season 2 genuinely rewarding. If you have run out of similar titles to watch, this is a strong next pick. It is a manageable watch, easy to fit into a single week. The cast keeps the material from tipping into self-parody. Satisfying on multiple levels.

🎬 Out of the Unknown Season 2 — Episode Guide

The Machine Stops

1966-10-06

In the far future, the material needs of humankind are tended by the omnipresent Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But safe from what? And what if the Machine Stops? A young boy, Kuno, finds his questions can't be answered until he has l...

Frankenstein Mark II

1966-10-13

A stranger calls at the home of divorcée Anna Preston, asking to collect some of her ex-husband's belongings. Anna agrees, but is suspicious, and tries to contact her 'ex' at the space-research establishment where he worked. But none of his colleagues can tell her where he is and the authorities blo...

Lambda I

1966-10-20

Why take the Great Circle route to Australia when you can tunnel through the very molecules of the solid earth itself in a TAU-mode shuttle? When a routine TAU-shuttle becomes entombed in solid rock miles under the earth, the only means of rescue may be the wildly experimental LAMBDA-mode shuttle; a...

Level Seven

1966-10-27

In the huge, labyrinthine nuclear bunker meant to shield the survivors in government from the aftermath of atomic war, Level 7 is the deepest and the safest from radiation. But in spite of its hermetic isolation, the nerve center of government is ultimately not safe from the consequences of the holo...

Second Childhood

1966-11-10

Charles Dennistoun, a 60-year-old contestant on 'You Bet a Million' - a quiz show for millionaires - wins the jackpot prize, a course in rejuvenation. But his friends and family have mixed feeling, and the repercussions have blackly comic effects on all concerned.

The World in Silence

1966-11-17

College student Sarah Richards is alone in fearing and disliking the new teaching machines but even she does not foresee the terrifying situation that arises when her supervisor, Stephen Kershaw, re-arranges the machines to conform with revised fire regulations.

The Eye

1966-11-24

Julian Clay is accused of murdering Andrew Maddox - a charge he cannot deny because 'The Eye', a device which records the past, saw him do it, However, the law affords one loophole.

Tunnel Under the World

1966-12-01

Déja vu: as Guy Birkett goes through the day he has a nagging feeling that he's been here before, experienced this already; except the details are always different. Is it conceivable that he is merely a simulacrum, the ultimate in consumer market surveying? He finds there is a reality behind the rea...

The Fastest Draw

1966-12-08

Amos Handworthy's grandfather was quick on the draw: as a U.S marshal it was a job requirement if you wanted to stay alive. But now Amos has built a gun-slinging robot, programmed to be a split second slower than him in a gunfight, so that he can perpetuate the myth and glory of his grandfather's fr...

E10

Too Many Cooks

1966-12-15

Dr Andrew Cook, inventor of a process for making living replicas of human beings, has unwittingly duplicated himself and becomes a secret weapon in the Solar System's struggle for economic survival against a powerful alien culture, the Sentients.

E11

Walk's End

1966-12-22

Dr Saint's offer of a free place in his comfortable old-folks' home appears entirely philanthropic to Miss Claythorpe. However he is suspiciously vague about the treatment that goes with it.

E12

Satisfaction Guaranteed

1966-12-29

A human-looking robot housekeeper is the latest gadget to acquire in the ceaseless battle to keep up with the Joneses. But housewife Claire Belmont starts to question the wisdom of her husband's purchase when TN3 (Tony) arrives. Can a man-like robot do everything a man can do: but willingly, obedien...

E13

The Prophet

1967-01-01

Robot QT-1, aboard an orbiting space-station, controls the massive energy beam which transmits the sun's power to receivers on Earth. But QT-1 (Cutie) has some strange bees in his positronic bonnet. How could weak creatures of protoplasm create a nearly invincible, totally logical entity like himsel...

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