The Outer Limits
The Zanti Misfits
TV Flash files “The Zanti Misfits” as a desk essential hour — The Outer Limits (1963–1965) on ABC, season 1, episode 14, aired 1963-12-30, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E14: listed hour 14 of 49 in the The Outer Limits guide, hour 14 of 32 in season 1. It aired 1963-12-30 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Tourist Attraction” (S01E13). Next is “The Mice” (S01E15).
Essential hour: “The Zanti Misfits”. The Zanti Misfits is the creature-hour landmark fans still name: neck-hair sci-fi with the Control Voice still in charge.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Alien beings, the Zanti, send their criminals to Earth because they are morally opposed to killing them. They instruct the U.S.military not to approach the Zanti spacecraft... but a man and woman break through the cordon, risking the destruction of Earth.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Zanti Misfits sit in the The Outer Limits guide?
S01E14 is listed hour 14 of 49 — hour 14 of 32 in season 1, season 1 episode 14.
When did The Outer Limits S01E14 air?
The Zanti Misfits aired 1963-12-30 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Any Control Voice cold open is the contract: do not adjust the picture. Pick a monster-forward hour from the Stefano stretch if you want literate pulp; the series is anthology, so order is optional.
In the series
Why this series still plays
There is nothing wrong with your television set — except Leslie Stevens is about to seize it. ABC's Outer Limits delivered creature-driven sci-fi anthology dread with a Control Voice cold open that still raises neck hair. The darker twin bill to Twilight Zone: more monster, slightly less sermon, two seasons that stamped a later revival.
There is nothing wrong with your television set — except Leslie Stevens is about to seize it. ABC's *The Outer Limits* (1963–1965) ran **two seasons, 49 episodes** of science-fiction anthology dread: monster-of-the-week creatures, Cold War paranoia, and a Control Voice cold open (Vic Perrin) that still raises neck hair. Joseph Stefano's producing stretch pushed literate pulp. Budget monsters became beloved anyway. Rex will twin-bill it with Serling and call the decade a sermon. Where Serling moralized, *Outer…
Filed against
- Vic Perrin as Control Voice
Vic Perrin’s Control Voice seized The Outer Limits before the picture started — there is nothing wrong with your television set, except Leslie Stevens is about to take it. ABC’s creature-driven sci-fi anthology, a cold open that still…