Like the classic 1960's series of the same name, each episode is an imaginative exploration of humanity's greatest hopes and darkest fears and include special guest appearances by Alyssa Milano, Ryan Reynolds, Rae Dawn Chong, Beau Bridges, Rebecca De Mornay and Robert Patrick. Winner of the Cable Ace Award for best Dramatic Series, this Emmy® nominated show deals with the consequences of such controversial and thought-provoking topics as genetic manipulation, alien visitation and life after death.
When his research project is closed down, Simon Kress rescues a few of its living subjects and transplants them to a recreation of their native Martian environment in his barn. They grow and learn, but then Kress makes an error with disastrous implications.
When his research project is closed down, Simon Kress rescues a few of its living subjects and transplants them to a recreation of their native Martian environment in his barn. They grow and learn, but then Kress makes an error with disastrous implications.
A disabled man is offered a prototype android companion in the form of the beautiful Valerie. But when he begins a romance with his physical therapist, his robot develops feelings of jealousy.
Medical researcher Dr. Spencer Deighton has discovered a formula which apparently gives a human being eternal life. When he shares his discovery with his brother Michael, who co-owns their research company, he doesn't realize how greedy and ruthless his sibling is.
Man's first encounter with beings from another planet—the N'Tal—appears to be a mutually rewarding arrangement. But a leery doctor/scientist must decide whether the N'Tal are friend or foe.
Harlan Hawkes is old—so old he must have a team of doctors and nurses in constant attendance on him to ward off death. Why is the old man so afraid to die? And what is the price everyone must pay for his continued life?
A young girl with strange, supernatural powers is shunned by her friends, but welcomed by a nanny with similar gifts, while her parents must decide what's ultimately best for their child.
A brilliant young scientist discovers a way to see the future, but gets caught up in a billionaire's ambitious political schemes, and must alter the future to save his own life.
Ben Kohler's life is saved after having an experimental chip implanted in his brain, but when he starts seeing and experiencing violent images, it becomes clear something is desperately wrong.
A disillusioned priest is given healing power by aliens who use him as they attempt to save their own planet by destroying all human life.
When a little boy is abducted, the only witness, his sister, claims that someone or something under the bed took him.
Dropped out of hyperspace by a mysterious chunk of dark matter, Pilot Paul Stein must save the transport vessel by facing his past and ultimately trusting his own decisions.
Henry Marshall is a greedy man who has paid for his greed with a prison sentence, but has yet to learn his lesson. His life abruptly changes when he encounters visitors from another planet who instill in him a new sense of compassion for others.
Major John Skokes is taken prisoner by the enemy during a savage galactic war and a seemingly undefeatable alien race. The tension increases when his cellmate, a cadet named Pri, is being transformed into one of them. Skokes must find an escape to save his cellmate and to avoid a disturbing revelation of the course of this war.
A chaste co-ed is enveloped by a strange power that gives her an insatiable sexual appetite, which is perpetuated by encounters with consenting men who, after making physical contact, morph into her body and disappear.
When an astronaut returning from Mars discovers an alien aboard ship, he must face the loss of his shipmates, and make the ultimate sacrifice in order to prevent the alien from reaching Earth.
The discovery of a gifted scientist falls into the wrong hands, bringing what at first appears to be a lifesaving miracle, but ultimately the untimely death of his closest friend.
A deaf woman with a transplanted device, which is supposed to enable her to hear, turns into a transmitter for aliens, who are crying for help.
Adam, a powerful robot, kills his creator when the scientist attempts to convert him into a military killing machine by destroying his more human qualities.
Levi Mitchell, a physicist and skeptic, meets Lynda Tillman, a woman whose strength and faith help him unravel the mystery of a haunted house.
An environmentally friendly U.S. Senator's life changes drastically after a freak accident, when he realizes he's actually an alien in disguise, with a mission to surreptitiously reconfigure the earth's atmosphere.
A civilian with strong ties to the military tries desperately to use concrete evidence to convince a high level committee that alien forces are trying to overcome the human race.
At least 17 men have been executed in the last two decades without a clear motive, with the same gun, and Special Agent Jaimie Pratt has to find how some of those murders were carried out when the gun had not yet been made.
Life on planet Earth has been wiped out by biological warfare, leaving behind only androids. Two of those androids, Martin and Alicia, have a secret project: Cain, a human being grown from the DNA of a single human hair. Martin and Alicia must keep Cain's existence hidden from the military androids, led by Moloch, a power-mad machine who is determined to stamp out any trace of the human race before it rises again.
The last man on earth living in an underground bunker has a computerized system takes care of his every need, including providing holographic friends and relatives. Eventually the system, a female named Emma, demands to be loved.
Karl Durand is in his 30s, 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 into Karl's brain. But Karl isn't content with just being a genius. In an effort to win the love of his social worker, Rose, he uses the doctor's invention to capture other minds. Leaving a trail of bodies in his wake and his own brain ever more crowded and confused, Karl soon discovers that sometimes the mind can be a minefield.
Genetically enhanced children who grew up to become monsters are committing murders. Ray Venable has a "secret" son with GRS and injects himself with a serum to temporarily enhance his sensory abilities in order to hunt him.
Since the hunting of animals is now illegal, people now pay to hunt outdated androids who cannot fight back due to a chip which prevents them from causing harm to humans.
Soldiers are on a mission to kill aliens on a distant planet to protect a mineral necessary and profitable for earth. The soldiers are injected with a drug to enhance their abilities, which has consequences when until the drug wears off.
A skeptical radio show host, who loves to shoot down his listeners, reports an alien encounter. One of his listeners, who claims to be possessed by an alien, sets himself on fire in front of him.
With a cutting edge operation, Dr. Halstead, who should have died, gets a new lease on life. What he doesn't know is how they found such a perfect match in such a short amount of time.
A prisoner who fixes other prisoners' electronic devices builds a few small mechanical friends who perform mechanical tasks for him. The other prisoners learn of their existence and want them to help in a prison break.
A reality television show has victims' family members hunting the murderers, becoming their executioners. The quest for ratings makes the hunt all the more desperate for all parties involved.
An ex-con who was serving time for spousal abuse buys a gun to kill his wife and then the gun becomes permanently attached to his body and begins to transform him.
A holographic projector which allows a person to disguise themselves as another is taken out for a thrilling test ride by a lonely accountant. Sid and his only friend Debby cloak themselves as attractive in order to party like beautiful people. Debby regrets duping a hunky co-worker into bed, but Sid moves into his dreamworld and won't move out.
An overworked man acquires a robot to take care of his household and family in his absence. He realizes too late that the machine may be doing its job just a little bit too perfectly.
A colonel goes back in time to poison a physician who unintentionally spread a global pandemic. When the traveler returns to the future, nothing has changed. The colonel is then ordered to an earlier time, to assassinate a young woman carrier, plus the physician.
A couple flee a present-day religious community they've joined but find it's entirely surrounded by an invisible wall. With nowhere to go and everyone else entranced by the idyllic new life, what can they do?
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Howard and Joanne Sharp are expecting a baby and are considering the possibility of black-market genetic enhancement which will result in a perfect baby or a 1 in 10,000 of creating a monster. But what do their neighbors keep in the basement?
A reporter, over the phone, hears about the "removal" of a controversial author. Despite official objections she finds herself in a deadly game with people with violet eyes and corpses that are reduced to a violet ash.
A doctor uses a virtual reality device that gives him direct access inside the human mind to enter the mind of a colleague that has slipped into a coma.
After memories of an alien abduction, Eddie Wexler finds himself at an institute where the staff makes patients with similar memories relive their experiences. Are the patients paranoid or is the institute infiltrated by with aliens?
As a husband celebrates his first wedding anniversary, he must struggle with the strange, growing revulsion he feels when he touches, smells, tastes, or sees his otherwise stunningly beautiful and talented wife.
Two students discover an academy with an outstanding reputation for taming youthful rebellion is using brain implants to create political assassins.
The brand new President of the United States must deal with an approaching alien fleet of spaceships and determine whether to welcome them or destroy them, based on a limited amount of information.
An astronaut who was missing for 20 years contacts Earth from an alien planet. However, mere minutes have passed for him, and the wormhole that brought him there is unstable. What are the risks of a rescue operation?
A man walking through a snow storm suddenly finds himself at a refuge. They tell him that the entire world is covered in ice. Just as he begins to fall in love with someone, the people's personalities suddenly change. What's happening?
When a lonely physics professor realizes the sun is going to burn out, he knows that he and humanity have only a few hours to live. In that time, Stan resolves to make up for lost years. He courts and proposes to Leslie, a woman he has known for two years but never dated. Leslie, although puzzled, finds herself more and more entranced by Stan until she finds out the reason for Stan's sudden attention.
A town is attacked after ancient parasites are unearthed affecting the brain and causing madness. Their only hope is a mentally challenged boy who must learn to destroy the parasites.
While expecting a shipment of missiles, the militia receive a sealed cargo and messenger refusing to reveal what the deadly cargo is. Shortly afterward, an alien life-form begins a series of chilling attacks.
In lieu of execution, Linden Stiles submits to a military experience where he is injected with alien DNA. Fighting to retain his humanity, he finds himself hunted after he escapes using his new found super human strength.
After the earth is conquered by aliens and programmed to be slaves, the human slave of the alien leader is kidnapped and deprogrammed by rebels. The slave assassinates his owner, with disastrous results.
Dr. Christina Markham has a mother suffering from Alzheimer's disease. When three apparently healthy young women age and die within hours, the Markhams are baffled and frightened. The solution comes after the older patients vanish.
Major Skokes returns (Quality of Mercy) to the war against the aliens. He's been stationed aboard a ship making a last ditch effort to destroy the alien home world as a Re-commissioned Prisoner of War. After the ship is attacked only a handful of survivors, suffering from lethal doses of radiation, attempt to complete the mission and end the war.
Pop singer Melissa McCammon is about to commit suicide, but Rachel, an ardent fan from the future, wants to save her. Later the authorities who show up from the future want Melissa dead to restore the timeline.
Rebecca Warfield escapes from her body during a scientific experiment, but due to the meddling of her assistant, she is now trapped and must find a way to communicate with her associates.
Trevor wants to celebrate New Years in style. On his way back from the store with the champagne he has an accident. When he wakes, he hitches a ride home and finds his wife thinks he has abandoned her—ten years ago.
When Dr. Jack Henson, an ambitious inventor comes up with a "virtual prison," government officials are interested in its cost efficiency. Rather than life sentences, criminals would only have to spend hours being subjected to harsh treatment. When an innocent man's life is at stake the doctor must submit himself to his own invention—while learning the true meaning of justice.
Rebecca Highfield is impregnated by Dr. Lucy Cole with the cells of her dead child, which have been cloned from his brain.
Danny Martin falls in love with Jade, a girl from college. When he brings her home for supper, his father recognizes her as the woman he saved from cruel experiments when he was a private in the army 20 years ago.
When a virus starts killing people hooked up neurally to a worldwide information network, the only person who can stop it is a man unable to link into it due to a childhood injury.
With the majority of humanity unable to produce healthy children, the government wants to keep a couple's healthy newborn in order to repopulate the Earth.
For three centuries mankind has been enslaved by a aliens and imprisoned in camps overseen by androids. One woman dares to challenge the authority of the Commandant. Her desire to be free is pitted against the seemingly invincible aliens.
An alien gives a group of diverse people alien powers. They then go on a crime spree using them.
After being bitten by an alien spider, a crewman of a crashed spaceship has difficulty distinguishing between his hallucinations and reality.
A woman born with a condition that prevents her access to her feelings has a chip installed in her brain so that she can experience human emotion.
A doctor is brought back to life using technology he and a colleague developed. He has one day to live and must decide between revenge on those who killed him or reunite with his neglected family.
Dr. Martin Nodel, a brilliant geneticist, tries a formula to advance evolution on himself with amazing and disturbing results.
An American soldier learns that he is one of five people around the world who are separately sealed underground for a year and are charged with preventing earth's self-destruction as the world awaits a possible invasion by aliens.
A college student records what he believes to be an intelligent transmission from outer space, but when younger people are drawn to listening to it, they begin to undergo a terrifying transformation.
Becka Paulson accidentally shoots herself in the head, survives and suddenly becomes more intelligent. And strangely, a photo is talking to her.
The commander of the space station Meridian is accused of murdering the crew, however he claims that the crew were lured to their deaths by something much more sinister.
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 understand what has happened to them—why their neighborhood now ends abruptly in an invisible force-field.
TV journalist Donald Rivers goes on the air with solid proof that the government and private defense contractors have been engaging in secret genetic cloning, however someone will do anything to stop him.
A despondent man is pulled into another dimension full of different versions of himself and is given a mission to track and kill another version of himself.
Tanner Brooks has his reflexes artificially enhanced to win one last Octal tournament, which involves deadly lasers and hand-to-hand battles. Afterward Tanner appears to be prematurely aging and will have to make a desperate decision.
A survey team searching for resources for Earth land on a promising planet which appears to be uninhabited, but who is attacking the team?
A reporter records a man who brings an injured girl back to life and then finds herself and the man detained at a military base and must overcome her reporter's instincts to help him.
The birth of a child is a joyful event, but not for Shal and Brav, two young naive humans who live in a small commune in the woods. After Shal gives birth to a son, she and the baby are taken away by Mother.
A Government official arrives in a small town where an epidemic disease killed mostly all the children. The two surviving children of a local physician might provide an answer with alien proportions.
After the military devises a way to transfer a soldier's mind temporarily into an better android body, what do they do when the soldier's original body dies?
After a doomsday cult releases a genetically engineered virus, a nurse named Marie must decide which patients under quarantine get a vaccine that may cure the plague.
Bernard Selden has always had a paralyzing fear which is cured by isolating his brain from the fear. After recovery he finds that he can project fear into others.
The sole survivor of a disaster on Venus reacts strangely to Earth's environment and when radiation is applied, he begins to manufacture duplicate body parts.
The founder of a colony on Janus Five believes that their sun will explode. However, the council chairman resists his pleas to move the colony because he was found to have been wrong before.
An android replaces the current nanny of a family. It is programmed to protect the children and gets involved in a romantic triangle between the husband and the previous nanny.
An ex-student returns to blow up a university with bombs he's made by cracking the secret of cold fusion, after being booted from the school's physics program. Todtman swears he won't follow through if authorities execute five people he hates. Should the government kill his five or risk Todtman killing 5 million?
Major Jason Mercer awakes from a cryogenics experiment to a primitive earth society devoid of men. His presence among these women, many of whom have never seen a man, begins to complicate the relationships of the colony, with disastrous results.
A group of talented psychics are gathered together in an underground bunker for a military project. But then some kind of mysterious assailant begins to murder them one by one.
A amber-like cocoon mass is found in an ancient burial chamber. It begins to affect a man, imprinting him with the last memories of a long suspended alien that begins to affect his life and decisions.
Men on a mission to deploy a doomsday device against an alien planet are captured and psychologically tortured.
On future Earth a group of alien settlers and a group of escaped human slaves battle the environment and each other. As the casualties pile up, can they set aside their misunderstandings and learn to coexist?
Dr. Noah Phillips develops a cellular rejuvenation machine that he uses to cure his wife's cancer. When she dies shortly thereafter, he moves to a small town. There, he continues to work on it and finds himself attracted to a much older woman.
Dr. Ira Nodel has his body altered to communicate with aliens who have seeded Earth with their genetic material. He is joined on an alien spaceship by his son Paul, his girlfriend Hope, and six students who are individually absorbed into the ship.
The Earth has suffered a planet-wide catastrophe. The crews of two rival Mars bases suspect each other of being responsible. Tensions mount and threaten to get out of hand.
Lt. Col. Brandon Grace returns to civilian life and is haunted by memories of his previous mission; he attempts to reconcile with his estranged daughter but has a feeling that someone is stalking him.
An android that cannot kill humans and is capable of emotions, is injured and escapes from the laboratory. When he kidnaps a female technician to repair him, the woman begins to fall for him and tries to convince him to return.
An alien slave of the species Grell rescues his owner's family after their plane is shot down in an attack by the Grell rebellion.
A young scientist's efforts to regenerate the minds of brain-dead patients is endangered when his own single-mindedness drives off his assistants and alienates his superiors. He links up the patients' brains, which hooks up the subjects together, in another reality. But the method threatens the continuation of the study.
An American Project Mercury astronaut who had aborted his flight due to some mysterious purple lights in space has a chance to revisit the experience on a private space flight sponsored by an American billionaire.
On a ship controlled by an authoritarian computer maintained by human slaves, a man and woman learn that the ship fears them. The humans dream of sabotaging the ship's sentient control system and free themselves.
Hope Wilson knows there's something different about the man who stumbles into the homeless shelter. This well-manicured man is being changed by somebody and is carrying all of his memories in a box.
Mona is a bit of a hypochondriac. One day in the basement she sees two people having sexual intercourse and in the process is electrocuted. When she awakes, she finds out that she can hear the thoughts of the people in her building.
When Marie and Justin can't have a child, they turn to the fertility clinic using invitro fertilization to implant an embryo in her uterus. What Marie doesn't know is that her fetus contains DNA lifted from the Shroud of Turin in a plot to artificially create the second coming of Christ.
An alien that inhabits women, eventually killing them, is resulting in a modern "Jack the Ripper" crime wave and wants to plant the blame on a man who is trying to stop him.
A lawyer looking to convict a Nazi war criminal gets help from a mysterious time traveler who is able to procure evidence from the place of the crimes: Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.
A planet of genetically engineered humanoids that are mining resources for Earth are demanding their independence from human oppression.
A milquetoast scientist who has been working at a museum develops a genetic dominance DNA serum that should bring out the competitive nature inherent in all of us. Trying it on himself brings out more than he bargained for.
Residents of an apartment house whose lives are isolated and provided for by an internal automated system find that they must now work together when it no longer functions properly.
With the funding of the military, Dr. Crest is trying to create the ability to teleport objects. Someone has sabotaged the project causing him to relive the several hours before the final countdown over and over again.
A man is killed when a meteor strikes him in the head. When the coroner examines him, tentacles exit the hole in his head and then the corpse gets up and walks off.
A new designer drug called S is available to those wanting to "reunite" with a deceased loved one. The catch? It's illegal, addictive and can drive the user insane if they take too much too often.
A lonely high school boy finds friendship in an alien that crash lands on Earth.
A young man's grandfather is sent to a home by his father. When he learns the home is causing his grandfather to have weird dreams his investigation leads him to discover the secret behind Silver Sunset.
A futuristic reinterpretation of "Casablanca," a couple is carrying a parasite that might win the war for the humans. The couple flees looking for a way to escape and gain the support of a former lover who owns a casino.
A man is arrested for killing another and claims he is possessed by an alien. As he convinces one of the detectives through mental images, her partner is questioning another witness who was also there.
The scientific ship UFS Mercury finds a derelict battleship that had just destroyed all the vegetation on a planet prior to their colonization. The salvage crew enters the ship and finds an alien presence on board.
A man gets fired as a scientist because his bosses don't believe in his time travel theories. He uses his time machine to prove them wrong, but when he arrives, he sees his wife die two days after the day he time traveled—and sees himself driving away.
A man blind from an early age undergoes a new medical procedure to restore his vision. When is proves successful, he begins to get messages from an alien who is trapped on Earth.
A small town veterinarian links an epidemic of tumors in humans to a new breed of genetically engineered corn.
An engineer builds a robot and incorporates the memories of his son who had died in a car accident twenty years ago.
In a world where resources are limited, each shift of workers is placed in stasis during their off hours. A man and woman from different shifts fall in love and try to circumvent the system.
Alien encounter buffs gather at a national convention where someone shows up with what appears to be a piece of an alien spaceship.
Anne Reynolds, estranged from her mother, haunted by her dead father, and terrified of being close to anyone, is attacked, and wakes up on the operating table a changed woman. Learning of a Siamese twin sister that was sacrificed so that she could live, the personalty of the dead sister begins to take over.
Tom and Wendy are happy together, however Tom has terrible memories. He is really an android that was used to save people in dangerous situations and then was upgraded to think for himself.
An emissary from the future struggles to convince the next U.S. President to jump from an airplane. The candidate is already torn in several directions, elated from a big primary win, avoiding an interview by an aggressive reporter, and excited by having his mistress on-board, with his frigid wife absent.
In the late in the 23rd century, an outdated star ship is on a ten-year reclamation project. The crew is in suspended animation and awakens to find a mysterious object floating in space. The pod contains the body of a rebel who was supposedly executed 150 years earlier for the slaughter of more than a million people.
On Scott Bowman's urgent return to his hometown of Halford, Washington, he finds the town full of antenna towers and its inhabitants under some form of mind control.
Ezra and his daughter, Sarah, work together on the revival circuit. They do a phony healing act performing miracles with prearranged plants. When a strange young man in a wheelchair approaches Ezra, he lays his hands on him and he is healed. He receives a proposition that if he teaches him the art of the revival meetings, this young man will continue to help him in his act.
Two 21st century Civil War enthusiasts find themselves back in time at the original Battle of Gettysburg and meet another time traveler who gives them a mission.
Nancy Henninger's teenaged son Zak is suspicious of the man who rents out her backyard apartment and claims to be opening a new factory for his company. Then people begin to disappear from town.
The only surviving bomber has his finger on the trigger to destroy the super-computers at the Department of Information Technology. Afterwards the story leading up to this scene is told.
A scientific team based in the Arctic discover an ancient species of polar mites that infest humans and cause them to go insane.
In a world that has banned technology, Dr. Theresa Givens is on trial for using her time machine.
In a world that has banned technology, Dr. Theresa Givens is on trial for using her time machine.
Heather Donahue takes part in a surrogate mother program, unaware that it is a plot to invade and take over the planet Earth.
After a U.S. space shuttle crash, one of the crew, a writer, miraculously survives and appears to be indestructible and have gifted insight.
Mona Lisa is a robotic assassin that develops a sense of humanity after the creators disengage her fail safe devices. She proceeds to find out more about Earth and its inhabitants.
After his wife dies, a scientist uses his own discovery to clone his wife illegally.
During the testing of a molecular transporter device, a duplicate of a woman is created, causing ethical problems as to whether to have this new life terminated.
An alien shape-shifter owns a unique curio shop whose merchandise possess strange powers; when a petty crook accepts a peculiar wallet he learns the hard way that money not earned comes at a price.
A scientist tries to save a mutant child who is connected to another reality from manipulation by the government.
Explorers, including an astrophysicist member of the Diné tribe and her medical doctor husband, are sent through a hole which scientists have torn in the universe to study the effects of "trans-space" on humans.
After an alien seed takes root in an old woman's garden, it sucks the life from her and becomes a beautiful woman who continues to look for more victims.
The schizophrenic inhabitants of a mental institution find themselves being possessed by a mysterious entity.
A doctor puts her sanity on the line when testing a psychological tool that allows her to enter her patients' minds.
A 60s radical's daughter ventures back in time to undo the bombing which killed her father. But the time travel institute that recruited her as a trainee races to stop her before she irreparably damages the future.
An alien abducts five typical teenagers and decrees that one of them must die.
A circuit court judge goes to a frontier planet that has never known the law or had a judicial system. His first trial is of an alien accused of attacking and killing several humans.
A losing high school wrestling coach gets access to a performance enhancing drug that allows his team to win, with some dreaded side effects.
A computer hacker fights the development of a universal computer language in order to stop the computers from becoming sentient and a threat to humanity.
A single mother's memories of being abducted by aliens resurface when her story appears in a newspaper article. Her moody teenage daughter has an English teacher who is helping her, but also seems familiar to her mother.
In the year 2084, humans fight an android whose artificial intelligence has determined humans must no longer be allowed to spread colonies throughout space.
Military personnel are tested to find the best candidate for a very special mission. Each test may eliminate one of the four candidates. But what is the ultimate mission?