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 written directly 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/fantasy stories. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time. A large number of episodes are still missing but some do turn up from time to time; for instance, Level Seven from series two, originally broadcast on 27 October 1966 was returned to the BBC from the archives of a European broadcaster in January 2006.
Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
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Season 1 | Episode 1 | No Place Like Earth | 1965-10-04 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Counterfeit Man | 1965-10-11 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 3 | Stranger in the Family | 1965-10-18 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 4 | The Dead Past | 1965-10-25 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 5 | Time In Advance | 1965-11-01 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 6 | Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come... ? | 1965-11-08 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 7 | Sucker Bait | 1965-11-15 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 8 | The Fox and the Forest | 1965-11-22 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 9 | Andover and the Android | 1965-11-29 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 10 | Some Lapse of Time | 1965-12-06 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 11 | Thirteen to Centaurus | 1965-12-13 | 50 min |
Season 1 | Episode 12 | The Midas Plague | 1965-12-20 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Machine Stops | 1966-10-06 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 2 | Frankenstein Mark II | 1966-10-13 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 3 | Lambda I | 1966-10-20 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 4 | Level Seven | 1966-10-27 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 5 | Second Childhood | 1966-11-10 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 6 | The World in Silence | 1966-11-17 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 7 | The Eye | 1966-11-24 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 8 | Tunnel Under the World | 1966-12-01 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 9 | The Fastest Draw | 1966-12-08 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 10 | Too Many Cooks | 1966-12-15 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 11 | Walk's End | 1966-12-22 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 12 | Satisfaction Guaranteed | 1966-12-29 | 50 min |
Season 2 | Episode 13 | The Prophet | 1967-01-01 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 1 | Immortality, Inc. | 1969-01-07 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 2 | Liar! | 1969-01-14 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 3 | The Last Lonely Man | 1969-01-21 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 4 | Beach Head | 1969-01-28 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 5 | Something in the Cellar | 1969-02-04 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 6 | Random Quest | 1969-02-11 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 7 | The Naked Sun | 1969-02-18 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 8 | The Little Black Bag | 1969-02-25 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 9 | 1 + 1 = 1.5 | 1969-03-04 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 10 | The Fosters | 1969-03-11 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 11 | Target Generation | 1969-03-18 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 12 | The Yellow Pill | 1969-03-25 | 50 min |
Season 3 | Episode 13 | Get Off My Cloud | 1969-04-01 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 1 | Taste of Evil | 1971-04-21 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 2 | To Lay a Ghost | 1971-04-28 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 3 | This Body Is Mine | 1971-05-05 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 4 | Deathday | 1971-05-12 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 5 | The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow | 1971-05-19 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 6 | Welcome Home | 1971-05-26 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 7 | The Last Witness | 1971-06-02 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 8 | The Man in My Head | 1971-06-09 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 9 | The Chopper | 1971-06-16 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 10 | The Uninvited | 1971-06-23 | 50 min |
Season 4 | Episode 11 | The Shattered Eye | 1971-06-30 | 50 min |
Production | Irene Shubik | Producer |