As of July 2026, The Outer Limits Season 3 aired in 1997 with 18 episodes — streaming now on MGM Amazon Channel. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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The Outer Limits Season 3

1997 18 Episodes Drama · Sci-Fi & Fantasy ⭐ 8/10

The Outer Limits Season 3 is currently streaming on and , and it earns its premise rather than just borrowing genre trappings. Across 1 season, the show has had time to find its rhythm and keep it. 237 people have weighed in on TMDB, and the verdict leans heavily positive. The ensemble never lets the concept overwhelm the characters. There is no real reason to keep putting it off.

Part of the current wave of titles people are actually watching, The Outer Limits Season 3 earns its spot. The world-building is meticulous, but it is the characters who carry The Outer Limits Season 3 through its more ambitious moments. Season 3 of The Outer Limits includes 18 episodes. It aired from January 1997 to July 1997. Episodes include "Bits of Love", "Second Thoughts", "Re-Generation". It was aired in 1997. The world-building is meticulous enough to sustain multiple rewatches, with details early on that only make sense later. The hit rate here is high enough that skipping ahead never feels like an option.

The Outer Limits Season 3 is satisfying on multiple levels — something to watch and something to think about after. 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 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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🎬 The Outer Limits Season 3 — Episode Guide

E1
Bits of Love
1997-01-19
Aidan Hunter may be the last man on earth after a nuclear holocaust, but he's not lonely. In his subterranean bomb shelter, hes surrounded by his family, friends, lovers, anyone he wants ... Unfortunately, they're holograms -- computer generated people controlled by a beautiful holographic interface...
E2
Second Thoughts
1997-01-19
Karl Durand (Howie Mandel) is in his 30's, but he has the mind of a child. That is, until he receives a unique gift from Dr. Jacob Valerian, a dying scientist who has been working on a secret project. As his last living act, Valerian uses his new invention to transfer his memories and experiences in...
E3
Re-Generation
1997-01-24
After their four-year-old son Justin dies in a household accident aspiring politician Graham Highfield and his wife Rebecca get a second chance at happiness. Dr. Lucy Cole clones a new embryo from Justin's brain and nerve cells and implants it in Rebecca's womb. As the pregnancy progresses, however,...
E4
Last Supper
1997-01-31
Frank Martin can't believe his eyes when his son Danny brings home a beautiful new girlfriend from college. The girl, Jade, is a dead ringer for a woman Frank rescued from a top-secret military experiment when he was a private in the army 20 years earlier. Of course, she can't be the same woman. Or ...
E5
Stream of Consciousness
1997-02-07
In a world where neural implants allow everyone instant access to information, Ryan Unger is a throwback, a moron. Because of a brain injury he suffered as a child, he's unable to tap into the Stream -- an electronic collection of all human knowledge -- so he struggles in vain to keep up by reading ...
E6
Dark Rain
1997-02-14
The value of the greatest of joys -- a healthy baby -- becomes evident after chemical warfare leaves humanity unable to produce normal offspring. Those rare couples like Sherry and Tim who do conceive a normal child become the focus of intense government attention as desperate officials seek a cure....
E7
The Camp
1997-02-21
For Twelve generations, mankind has lived in concentration-type camps, imprisoned by the human collaborators of the alien New Masters. But when one woman dares to challenge the authority of her Commander, the desire to be free is pitted against this seemingly, unvanquishable foe. Or are they as powe...
E8
Heart's Desire
1997-02-28
A mysterious alien descends upon the town of Heart's Desire and offers to share his extraordinary powers with four outlaws - Jake Miller, his brother Ben and their partners in crime, Frank and J.D. Kelton. Taking on the human form of his first victim, a mild-mannered preacher, the alien follows the ...
E9
Tempests
1997-03-07
The Tempest, a rickety old spaceship piloted by space colonists John Virgil and Captain Parker, is on a mission of mercy. It is ferrying two bigwigs from Earth, Dr. Vasquez and Governor Mudry, along with a lifesaving vial of serum to the Tabloss Colony, where an epidemic of Ellysia C is devastating ...
E10
The Awakening
1997-03-14
Beth Carter lives in black and white, unable to experience emotions because of a conditioncalled primary alexithymia. But when Dr. Steven Molstad implants a small device in her brain, Beth's world explodes into brilliant color. For the first time in her life, she can truly feel love, happiness and e...
E11
New Lease
1997-03-21
After years of research, Dr. James Houghton and Dr. Charles McCamber have discovered how to bring the dead back to life with their new breakthrough invention, the Scanning Molecular Reorganizer. But, the process seems to be deeply flawed; the first revival, a middle-aged victim of a heart attack, li...
E12
Double Helix
1997-03-28
Since Dr. Martin Nodel is the most brilliant geneticist in the world, the students and staff at the university are willing to put up with a few eccentricities -- unlike his son Paul, who gets impatient with his father's behavior. However, Dr. Nodel's behavior goes beyond eccentric after he unveils h...
E13
Dead Man's Switch
1997-04-04
Ben Conklin has been a loner ever since his parents died when he was twelve years old. This is one reason why General James Eiger selected him to spend a year buried in a bunker 11,000 feet below the Artic tundra, manning the controls of a doomsday device set up by world leaders after the Hubble spa...
E14
Music of the Spheres
1997-05-09
Devon Taylor, a 20 year-old physics whiz, has heard a lot of strange sounds coming from space as part of his job assisting Dr. Evan Swift at the radio observatory -- but something tells him this signal, coming from the direction of Certus? (In the short story, it is the constellation Cetus), is spec...
E15
The Revelations of Becka Paulson
1997-06-06
In this adaptation of Stephen King's short story, Becka Paulson's humdrum trailer park life suddenly becomes very interesting after she accidentally shoots herself in the head while watching her favorite soap opera. The bullet lodges in her brain, leaving a small red dot in her forehead and turning ...
E16
Bodies of Evidence
1997-06-20
He doesn't know what it is, but Captain William Clark can see that something terrible and strange is happening on the space station Meridian. Within a matter of minutes, three of the space stations crew - Commander Richard Gordon, Dr. Thomas Somerset and Commander Lara Nabakov - have been lured to t...
E17
Feasibility Study
1997-07-11
The residents of a suburban neighborhood have their lives turned upside down when a four block section of their subdivision is ripped from the earth by a mysterious force and transported to a distant planet. Thrown together in crisis, Joshua Hayward, his daughter Sarah and their neighbors try to und...
E18
A Special Edition
1997-07-25
Muckraking TV journalist Donald Rivers, host of 'The Whole Truth,' has the show of a lifetime: rock solid proof that the government and private defense contractors have been engaging in secret genetic cloning. But powerful forces are working to stop him, forces that will stop at nothing to keep thei...

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