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 created 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 and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.
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12 episodes • 1965
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | No Place Like Earth | Oct 4, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 2 | The Counterfeit Man | Oct 11, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Stranger in the Family | Oct 18, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Dead Past | Oct 25, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Time In Advance | Nov 1, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come... ? | Nov 8, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Sucker Bait | Nov 15, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 8 | The Fox and the Forest | Nov 22, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Andover and the Android | Nov 29, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Some Lapse of Time | Dec 6, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Thirteen to Centaurus | Dec 13, 1965 | 0.0 |
| 12 | The Midas Plague | Dec 20, 1965 | 0.0 |
13 episodes • 1966Avg: 7.0Golden Era
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Machine Stops | Oct 6, 1966 | 7.0 |
| 2 | Frankenstein Mark II | Oct 13, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Lambda I | Oct 20, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Level Seven | Oct 27, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Second Childhood | Nov 10, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 6 | The World in Silence | Nov 17, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Eye | Nov 24, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Tunnel Under the World | Dec 1, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 9 | The Fastest Draw | Dec 8, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Too Many Cooks | Dec 15, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Walk's End | Dec 22, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Satisfaction Guaranteed | Dec 29, 1966 | 0.0 |
| 13 | The Prophet | Jan 1, 1967 | 0.0 |
13 episodes • 1969
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Immortality, Inc. | Jan 7, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Liar! | Jan 14, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Last Lonely Man | Jan 21, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Beach Head | Jan 28, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Something in the Cellar | Feb 4, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Random Quest | Feb 11, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Naked Sun | Feb 18, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 8 | The Little Black Bag | Feb 25, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 9 | 1 + 1 = 1.5 | Mar 4, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Fosters | Mar 11, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Target Generation | Mar 18, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 12 | The Yellow Pill | Mar 25, 1969 | 0.0 |
| 13 | Get Off My Cloud | Apr 1, 1969 | 0.0 |
11 episodes • 1971
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taste of Evil | Apr 21, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 2 | To Lay a Ghost | Apr 28, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 3 | This Body Is Mine | May 5, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Deathday | May 12, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow | May 19, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Welcome Home | May 26, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Last Witness | Jun 2, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 8 | The Man in My Head | Jun 9, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 9 | The Chopper | Jun 16, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Uninvited | Jun 23, 1971 | 0.0 |
| 11 | The Shattered Eye | Jun 30, 1971 | 0.0 |
