Out of This World

Director: Charles Jarrot
Writing Credits: John Wyndham & Clive Exton
Cast: Raymond Adamson, Ray Barrett, Michael Bird, William Lucas, Charles Morgan, Garfield Morgan, Morris Perry, Mike Pratt & Hilda Schroder

An earthman buys a Martian woman to accompany him and serve him on his lonely tour of duty on an asteroid orbiting Jupiter. Thinking that she is just a dumb Martian he mistreats her but finds out to his cost that she is not as dumb as he thinks she is.

Note: This pilot episode was part of the 'Armchair Theatre' (1956 - 1974) anthology series 4, episode 54. It is regarded as the pilot episode to the following Out of This World series.

Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writing Credits: Rog Phillips & Leon Griffiths
Cast: Nigel Stock, Robert Pitt, Gerald Turner, Pauline Yates, Richard Pasco & Peter Dyneley

Psychiatrist Dr John Frame is asked by Detective Inspector Slinn to help him with a case involving a suspected murderer. The police cannot find much information about the man they have in custody, they also cannot get much sense out of him. The suspect tells the Psychiatrist that his name is Wilfrid Connor, he was born in 1969 and the present year is 1996. This cannot be correct as the year is 1969. Conner goes on to tell the Psychiatrist that those killed were in fact Venusian space creatures. Someone is in a fantasy world that is for sure, maybe a yellow pill will help sort out this mystery?

Director: Douglas James
Writing Credits: Isaac Asimov & Leo Lehman
Cast: Maxine Audley, Clifford Evans, Murray Hayne, Gerald Flood, Haydn Jones & Roger Snowdon
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Robopsychologist Dr Susan Calvin's expertise is needed on Hyperbase Seven in the area of Saturn. Major General Kallner has a crisis on his hands - one of his subordinates named Black, who dislikes robots, became annoyed at one of them and told it to "get lost". Of course, that is exactly what the robot did, amongst twenty other identical robots which are destined for Hyperbase Forty One. The reason for the seriousness and urgency of finding the NS-2 (Nestor) robot is that it has a modified first law, which makes this robot potentially dangerous to humans.

Director: Paul Bernard
Writing Credits: Tom Godwin & Clive Exton
Cast: Jane Asher, Richard Gale, Patrick Holt, Godfrey James, Piers Keelan, William Marlowe, Peter Williams & Peter Wyngarde

A young female stowaway puts a space mission at jeopardy as her added weight was not factored into the equations for the journey. This means that the ship with its vital cargo of vaccine set for a plague ridden colony will not be able to reach its destination unless extra weight is jettisoned, leaving the problem of where to find enough weight to discard.

Director: Peter Hammond
Writing Credits: Philip K. Dick & Terry Nation
Cast: Patrick Allen, Keith Anderson, Philip Anthony, Paul Bacon, Angela Browne, John Carson, Glyn Owen, Walter Randall, Colin Rix, Alec Ross, June Shaw & Louida Vaughan

Director: Guy Verney
Writing Credits: Terry Nation
Cast: Anthony Bate, Richard Clarke, Donald Douglas, Storm Durr, William Gaunt, Julian Glover, Peter Jesson, Norman Jones, Ann Lynn, Aubrey Morris, Reginald Smith, Jerry Stovin & Virginia Stride

Director: Richmond Harding
Writing Credits: Robert Moore Williams & Julian Bond
Cast: Raymond Adamson, Nigel Arkwright, Carl Bernard, Madeleine Burgess, Margo Cunningham, Jacqueline Hill, Natalie Lynn, Rory MacDermot, Alan MacNaughton, Peter Madden, Elaine Millar, Ken Wayne, Vic Wise & Martin Wyldeck

Director: John Knight
Writing Credits: Katherine Maclean & Bruce Stewart
Cast: Roger Avon, Blake Butler, Norman Claridge, Judy Cornwell, Frank Gatliff, Madi Hedd, David Hemmings, Reginald Marsh, Bill Mills, Milo O'Shea, Gordon Sterne, Gary Watson, Kenneth Watson, Richard Wilding & Gary Wyler

Director: Don Leaver
Writing Credits: Richard Waring
Cast: Ivor Bean, William Buck, Maurice Denham, Edward Dentith, John Frawley, Philip Grout, Joan Heath, William Job, Richard Klee, David Lander, Robert Lankesheer, Sheena Marshe, Cameron Miller, Derek Newark, Godfrey Quigley, Evan Thomas, Donald Webster, Barry Wilsher, Jennifer Wilson & Terence Woodfield

Director: John Knight
Writing Credits: Raymond F. Jones & Leon Griffiths
Cast: Marc Ashlyn, John Barcroft, Ann Bell, Ian Clark, Gerald Harper, Bernard Horsfall, Piers Keelan, Kenneth Keeling, Bill Mills, Clive Morton, Ronald Radd & Norman Scace

Director: Peter Hammond
Writing Credits: Frank Crisp & Denis Butler
Cast: Bruce Beeby, Charlie Bird, Barrie Cookson, William Dexter, John Garvin, Michael Hawkins, Rosemary Miller, John Moore, Keith Pyott, Yvette Rees, Vanessa Thornton, Jerome Willis & Ronald Wilson

Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Writing Credits: Clifford D. Simak & Terry Nation
Cast: Bruce Boa, Vivienne Drummond, Donald Eccles, Walter Glennie, Gary Hope, John Horsley, Peter Layton, Penelope Lee, Jill Melford, Gary Raymond, Jo Rowbottom, Ann Saker, Ian Shand, Christine Shaw & Frank Singuineau

Director: Alan Cooke
Writing Credits: Clifford D. Simak & Clive Exton
Cast: Paul Eddington, Edwin Finn, Michael Golden, Hugh Janes, Dinsdale Landen, Philip Madoc, Susan Marryott, Bert Palmer & Anne Tirard

Director: Charles Jarrot
Writing Credits: Arthur Sellings & Bruce Stewart
Cast: Edwin Apps, John Cater, Jill Curzon, Ronald Fraser, Charles Gray, Geraldine McEwan, Patricia Mort & Alister Williamson

Extant Guide

• Television

Out of the Unknown (1965 - 1971)

• Radio

Dimension X (1950 - 1951)