Out of the Unknown: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

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.

Series details

• Title: Out of the Unknown
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Drama, Science-Fiction
• Premiere date: 1965-10-04
• Final broadcast date listed: 1971-06-30
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 50 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 18808
• IMDb ID: tt0058836
• TVDB ID: 71015

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1965-10-04; final listed air date 1965-12-20.
• Season 2: premiered 1966-10-06; final listed air date 1967-01-01.
• Season 3: premiered 1969-01-07; final listed air date 1969-04-01.
• Season 4: premiered 1971-04-21; final listed air date 1971-06-30.

Source and licence

Adapted from Out of the Unknown on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.