List of The Twilight Zone episodes
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This is a list of The Twilight Zone episodes.
[edit] Before the Twilight Zone (1958)
Rod Serling wrote a teleplay intending for it to be the pilot episode of a new series called The Twilight Zone. Although it ended up airing on a different show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, it is still considered the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone and has even been adapted as one of the The Twilight Zone radio-show episodes.
Title | Original airdate | Writer |
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The Time Element | November 24, 1958 | Rod Serling |
[edit] The Twilight Zone television series (original series 1959 – 1964)
Seasons 1-3 and 5 were half-hour shows; Season 4 ran a full hour per episode. The series was hosted by Rod Serling.
[edit] Season 1: 1959-1960
36 episodes
Episode # | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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1 | "Where Is Everybody?" | Robert Stevens | Rod Serling | October 2, 1959 | 173-3601 |
A man finds himself wandering in an abandoned town while struggling to find the answers about his identity and where he is. | |||||
2 | "One for the Angels" | Robert Parrish | Rod Serling | October 9, 1959 | 173-3608 |
A pitchman makes a deal with Death to continue living until he makes one great sale. | |||||
3 | "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" | Allen Reisner | Rod Serling | October 16, 1959 | 173-3609 |
A washed up gunslinger is given another chance by a mystery man. | |||||
4 | "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" | Mitchell Leisen | Rod Serling | October 23, 1959 | 173-3610 |
An aging film star lives a life of seclusion in her private screening room. | |||||
5 | "Walking Distance" | Robert Stevens | Rod Serling | October 30, 1959 | 173-3605 |
While visiting his boyhood hometown, a middle aged executive finds himself in the past. | |||||
6 | "Escape Clause" | Mitchell Leisen | Rod Serling | November 6, 1959 | 173-3603 |
A mean-spirited, abusive hypochondriac sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for immortality. | |||||
7 | "The Lonely" | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | November 13, 1959 | 173-3602 |
An inmate sentenced to solitary confinement on a desert planet is given a gift by a sympathic supply ship captain. | |||||
8 | "Time Enough at Last" | John Brahm | Lyn Venable / Rod Serling | November 20, 1959 | 173-3614 |
A man who loves to read survives a nuclear explosion. | |||||
9 | "Perchance to Dream" | Robert Florey | Charles Beaumont | November 27, 1959 | 173-3616 |
A man with a heart condition is afraid to fall asleep. | |||||
10 | "Judgment Night" | John Brahm | Rod Serling | December 4, 1959 | 173-3604 |
A U-boat commander is condemned to relive his past. | |||||
11 | "And When the Sky Was Opened" | Douglas Heyes | Richard Matheson / Rod Serling | December 11, 1959 | 173-3611 |
The crew of an experimental spaceship begin disappearing one by one. | |||||
12 | "What You Need" | Alvin Ganzer | Lewis Padgett / Rod Serling | December 25, 1959 | 173-3622 |
A salesman has the ability to sell his customers exactly what they need. | |||||
13 | "The Four of Us Are Dying" | John Brahm | George Clayton Johnson / Rod Serling | January 1, 1960 | 173-3618 |
Arch Hammer is a conman who can change his face to make it look like anyone he chooses. | |||||
14 | "Third from the Sun" | Richard L. Bare | Richard Matheson / Rod Serling | January 8, 1960 | 173-3615 |
With a nuclear war about to happen, two men steal a spacecraft to take their families to a new planet. | |||||
15 | "I Shot an Arrow Into the Air" | Stuart Rosenberg | Madelon Champion / Rod Serling | January 15, 1960 | 173-3626 |
A manned space flight crash lands on what the astronauts believe to be an unknown asteroid. | |||||
16 | "The Hitch-Hiker" | Alvin Ganzer | Rod Serling | January 22, 1960 | 173-3612 |
A mysterious hitch-hiker follows a woman as she drives across the country. | |||||
17 | "The Fever" | Robert Florey | Rod Serling | January 29, 1960 | 173-3627 |
A man becomes addicted to playing a slot machine. | |||||
18 | "The Last Flight" | William Claxton | Richard Matheson | February 5, 1960 | 173-3607 |
A British World War I fighter pilot (Decker) lands his Nieuport biplane on a 1959 American airbase after flying through a strange cloud. | |||||
19 | "The Purple Testament" | Richard L. Bare | Rod Serling | February 12, 1960 | 173-3619 |
A lieutenant serving in World War II suddenly gains the mysterious ability to discover who is about to die via a strange flash of light across their face. | |||||
20 | "Elegy" | Douglas Heyes | Charles Beaumont | February 19, 1960 | 173-3625 |
Running out of fuel, astronauts Meyers, Webber and Kirby land their spaceship on a remote asteroid and find that it's not unoccupied. | |||||
21 | "Mirror Image" | John Brahm | Rod Serling | February 26, 1960 | 173-3623 |
A woman waiting in a bus station begins to see strange things. | |||||
22 | "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" | Ronald Winston | Rod Serling | March 4, 1960 | 173-3620 |
At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, neighbors begin to suspect each other of being aliens. | |||||
23 | "A World of Difference" | Ted Post | Richard Matheson | March 11, 1960 | 173-3624 |
A businessman suddenly finds his life is just a role on a television show. | |||||
24 | "Long Live Walter Jameson" | Tony Leader | Charles Beaumont | March 18, 1960 | 173-3621 |
Walter Jameson, a professor, has the gift of eternal youth. | |||||
25 | "People Are Alike All Over" | Mitchell Leisen | Paul W. Fairman / Rod Serling | March 25, 1960 | 173-3613 |
On a mission to Mars, an astronaut finds out that people are alike all over. | |||||
26 | "Execution" | David Orrick McDearmon | George Clayton Johnson / Rod Serling | April 1, 1960 | 173-3628 |
A criminal about to be executed is brought to the future. | |||||
27 | "The Big Tall Wish" | Ron Winston | Rod Serling | April 8, 1960 | 173-3630 |
A washed up boxer has his fate reversed by a child's wish. | |||||
28 | "A Nice Place to Visit" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | April 15, 1960 | 173-3632 |
A criminal believes that he has made it to heaven. | |||||
29 | "Nightmare as a Child" | Alvin Ganzer | Rod Serling | April 29, 1960 | 173-3635 |
Schoolteacher Helen Foley (Janice Rule) finds a strange and very serious little girl, named Markie (Terry Burnham), on the stairs outside her apartment. | |||||
30 | "A Stop at Willoughby" | Buck Houghton | Rod Serling | May 6, 1960 | 173-3629 |
An advertising executive who has grown exasperated with the stress of the business life longs to get off a train at a stop called Willoughby. | |||||
31 | "The Chaser" | Douglas Heyes | John Henry Collier / Robert Presnell, Jr. | May 13, 1960 | 173-3636 |
A man uses a love potion to win a girl's heart. | |||||
32 | "A Passage for Trumpet" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | May 20, 1960 | 173-3633 |
A down on his luck trumpet player gets a second chance at life. | |||||
33 | "Mr. Bevis" | William Asher | Rod Serling | June 3, 1960 | 173-3631 |
A man's guardian angel tries to improve his life. | |||||
34 | "The After Hours" | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | June 10, 1960 | 173-3637 |
Marsha White is a woman browsing for a gift for her mother in a department store. She ends up finding out that she's not the person she thinks she is. | |||||
35 | "The Mighty Casey" | Robert Parrish & Alvin Ganzer |
Rod Serling | June 17, 1960 | 173-3617 |
The coach of a broken-down baseball team allows a robot named Casey to play on his team. | |||||
36 | "A World of His Own" | Ralph Nelson | Richard Matheson | July 1, 1960 | 173-3634 |
A playwright has the power to create what he describes on his recording machine. |
[edit] Season 2: 1960-1961
29 episodes
Note: Six episodes of this season were consecutively recorded on videotape (not on film as all other episodes) at CBS Television City, as a cost-cutting measure mandated by CBS programming head James T. Aubrey.
Episode # | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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37 | "King Nine Will Not Return" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | September 30, 1960 | 173-3639 |
A World War II bomber, King Nine, has crashed in the desert. Captain James Embry finds himself stranded, alone except for the wreckage and the mystery of what happened to his crew, all of whom have disappeared. | |||||
38 | "The Man in the Bottle" | Buck Houghton | Rod Serling | October 7, 1960 | 173-3638 |
A downtrodden pawnbroker and his wife are offered four wishes by a genie. | |||||
39 | "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | October 14, 1960 | 173-3641 |
An insecure, unsuccessful gangster named Jackie waits in a cheap, dirty hotel room for his boss. | |||||
40 | "A Thing About Machines" | David Orrick McDearmon | Rod Serling | October 28, 1960 | 173-3645 |
An ill-tempered writer who reviles and constantly abuses machines starts to think machines are conspiring against him. | |||||
41 | "The Howling Man" | Douglas Heyes | Charles Beaumont | November 4, 1960 | 173-3642 |
A man traveling in Europe stumbles across a religious order that has trapped the Devil. | |||||
42 | "The Eye of the Beholder" | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | November 11, 1960 | 173-3640 |
A woman undergoes surgery on her face in order to look like everybody else. | |||||
43 | "Nick of Time" | Richard L. Bare | Richard Matheson | November 18, 1960 | 173-3643 |
While on his honeymoon, a man begins to be controlled by a fortune telling machine. | |||||
44 | "The Lateness of the Hour" | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | December 2, 1960 | 173-3652 |
A woman is concerned over her parents reliance on life-like robot servants. | |||||
45 | "The Trouble With Templeton" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | December 9, 1960 | 173-3649 |
Booth Templeton is a Broadway actor nostalgic for his youth and his late wife. During rehearsals for a new play, he finds himself back in the milieu of his first success in 1927. | |||||
46 | "A Most Unusual Camera" | Buzz Kulik | E. Jack Neuman | December 16, 1960 | 173-3606 |
Two thieves steal a future predicting camera. | |||||
47 | "The Night of the Meek" | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | December 23, 1960 | 173-3663 |
A drunken department store Santa ends up with a magical bag. | |||||
48 | "Dust" | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | January 6, 1961 | 173-3653 |
An unscrupulous peddler sells a bag of "magic dust" to the family of a condemned man. | |||||
49 | "Back There" | David Orrick McDearmon | Rod Serling | January 13, 1961 | 173-3648 |
A man who has traveled back through time tries to stop Lincoln's assassination. | |||||
50 | "The Whole Truth" | James Sheldon | Rod Serling | January 20, 1961 | 173-3666 |
A used car dealer finds he's purchased a car that makes him tell the truth. | |||||
51 | "The Invaders" | Douglas Heyes | Richard Matheson | January 27, 1961 | 173-3646 |
A woman living in isolation is terrorized by space aliens. | |||||
52 | "A Penny for Your Thoughts" | James Sheldon | George Clayton Johnson | February 3, 1961 | 173-3650 |
A man gains the ability to read minds when a coin he flips stands on its edge. | |||||
53 | "Twenty Two" | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | February 10, 1961 | 173-3664 |
A woman recuperating in a hospital has a recurring dream. | |||||
54 | "The Odyssey of Flight 33" | Justus Addiss | Rod Serling | February 24, 1961 | 173-3651 |
An airliner traveling from London to New York travels back in time. | |||||
55 | "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" | John Brahm | Rod Serling | March 3, 1961 | 173-3644 |
In an experiment, two Martians give vacuum-cleaner salesman and perennial loser Luther Dingle superhuman strength. | |||||
56 | "Static" | Buzz Kulik | Charles Beaumont | March 10, 1961 | 173-3665 |
A man's old radio plays programs from the past that only he can hear. | |||||
57 | "The Prime Mover" | Richard L. Bare | George Clayton Johnson / Charles Beaumont |
March 24, 1961 | 173-3647 |
Ace Larsen discovers his partner, Jimbo Cobb, has telekinetic powers after a car crashes outside their cafe. | |||||
58 | "Long Distance Call" | James Sheldon | William Idelson & Charles Beaumont |
March 31, 1961 | 173-3667 |
A boy receives phone calls from his recently deceased grandmother on the toy phone she gave him. | |||||
59 | "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | April 7, 1961 | 173-3654 |
The leader of a 1847 wagon train ends up in the future. | |||||
60 | "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" | Justus Addiss | Rod Serling | April 21, 1961 | 173-3655 |
A gang of gold thieves use suspended animation to escape to the future. | |||||
61 | "The Silence" | Boris Sagal | Rod Serling | April 28, 1961 | 173-3658 |
A man makes a bet that he can go without speaking for a year. | |||||
62 | "Shadow Play" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | May 5, 1961 | 173-3657 |
A man convicted of murder tries to convince those about to execute him that it’s all just a recurring nightmare of his. | |||||
63 | "The Mind and the Matter" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | May 12, 1961 | 173-3659 |
Mr. Archibald Beechcroft uses mental powers to change the world he lives in. | |||||
64 | "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" | Montgomery Pittman | Rod Serling | May 26, 1961 | 173-3660 |
A group of bus travelers find that there is an extra person when they stop at a diner. | |||||
65 | "The Obsolete Man" | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | June 2, 1961 | 173-3661 |
In a future totalitarian society, Romney Wordsworth is a man put on trial for the crime of being obsolete. |
[edit] Season 3: 1961-1962
37 episodes
Episode # | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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66 | "Two" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | September 15, 1961 | 4802 |
A male and female survivor from opposite armies of an apocalyptic world war meet in a deserted, war-ravaged town. | |||||
67 | "The Arrival" | Boris Sagal | Rod Serling | September 22, 1961 | 4814 |
After a plane arrives without a crew or passengers. Grant Sheckly, an FAA inspector, tries to solve the mystery. | |||||
68 | "The Shelter" | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | September 29, 1961 | 4803 |
Neighbors try to break into a man's fallout shelter during an alert. | |||||
69 | "The Passersby" | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | October 6, 1961 | 4817 |
A women waits for her husband to return at the end of the Civil War. | |||||
70 | "A Game of Pool" | Buzz Kulik | George Clayton Johnson | October 13, 1961 | 4815 |
A "pool shark" challenges a long dead pool great to a game. | |||||
71 | "The Mirror" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | October 20, 1961 | 4819 |
A revolutionary leader sees enemies everywhere, including his mirror. | |||||
72 | "The Grave" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | October 27, 1961 | 3656 |
A hired gun goes to the grave of his enemy on a dare. | |||||
73 | "It's a Good Life" | James Sheldon | Jerome Bixby / Rod Serling | November 3, 1961 | 4801 |
A six year old boy controls a town with his mental powers. | |||||
74 | "Deaths-Head Revisited" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | November 10, 1961 | 4804 |
A former captain in the Nazi military, Gunther Lutze, returns to the ruins of Dachau concentration camp to relive the memories. | |||||
75 | "The Midnight Sun" | Anton Leader | Rod Serling | November 17, 1961 | 4818 |
A woman tries to survive as the earth hurtles toward the sun. | |||||
76 | "Still Valley" | James Sheldon | Rod Serling | November 24, 1961 | 4808 |
A Confederate officer is offered a deal with the Devil to help the Confederacy. | |||||
77 | "The Jungle" | William Claxton | Charles Beaumont | December 1, 1961 | 4806 |
A man working on a dam project in Africa doesn't believe he's been cursed. | |||||
78 | "Once Upon a Time" | Norman Z. McLeod & Les Goodwins |
Richard Matheson | December 15, 1961 | 4820 |
A janitor from the 1890's uses a time helmet to travel to the future. | |||||
79 | "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | December 22, 1961 | 4805 |
An Army major in dress uniform, a clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer and a bagpiper find themselves in a giant cylinder with no memory of who they are or how they got there. | |||||
80 | "A Quality of Mercy" | Buzz Kulik | Sam Rolfe / Rod Serling | December 29, 1961 | 4809 |
A young gung-ho American Lieutenant in World War II orders his war-weary soldiers to make a near-suicidal attack on a group of sick and wounded Japanese soldiers holed up in a cave. | |||||
81 | "Nothing in the Dark" | Lamont Johnson | George Clayton Johnson | January 5, 1962 | 3662 |
An old woman hides in her condemned apartment fearing a visit from Death. | |||||
82 | "One More Pallbearer" | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | January 12, 1962 | 4823 |
A rich eccentric man tries to trick three people he feels wronged him into apologizing. | |||||
83 | "Dead Man's Shoes" | Montgomery Pittman | Charles Beaumont & OCee Ritch |
January 19, 1962 | 4824 |
A homeless man takes a dead man's shoes and is taken over by the personality of the shoe's owner. | |||||
84 | "The Hunt" | Harold Schuster | Earl Hamner, Jr. | January 26, 1962 | 4810 |
A man hunting with his dog finds out he has died. | |||||
85 | "Showdown with Rance McGrew" | Christian Nyby | Rod Serling | February 2, 1962 | 4812 |
A television western hero is taken to task by a ghost from the old west. | |||||
86 | "Kick the Can" | Lamont Johnson | George Clayton Johnson | February 9, 1962 | 4821 |
A retirement home resident thinks that he has found the secret to youth. | |||||
87 | "A Piano in the House" | David Greene | Earl Hamner, Jr. | February 16, 1962 | 4825 |
A mean spirited drama critic finds out that a player piano he has purchased causes people to reveal their emotions. | |||||
88 | "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | February 23, 1962 | 4811 |
A man returns from the dead during his funeral. | |||||
89 | "To Serve Man" | Richard L. Bare | Damon Knight / Rod Serling | March 2, 1962 | 4807 |
An alien race arrives on earth with a promise to help. | |||||
90 | "The Fugitive" | Richard L. Bare | Charles Beaumont | March 9, 1962 | 4816 |
An alien fugitive befriends a group of children. | |||||
91 | "Little Girl Lost" | Paul Stewart | Richard Matheson | March 16, 1962 | 4828 |
A little girl crawls through an interdimensional doorway in her room. | |||||
92 | "Person or Persons Unknown" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | March 23, 1962 | 4829 |
A man wakes up in bed to find that his life has been erased. | |||||
93 | "The Little People" | William Claxton | Rod Serling | March 30, 1962 | 4822 |
A spaceman finds a tiny society on a planet that his ship lands on. | |||||
94 | "Four O'Clock" | Lamont Johnson | Price Day / Rod Serling | April 6, 1962 | 4832 |
Oliver Crangle is a man who maintains records of people he deems evil. | |||||
95 | "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" | Lamont Johnson | Frederic Louis Fox / Rod Serling | April 13, 1962 | 4833 |
A teller of tall tales meets a group of aliens. | |||||
96 | "The Trade-Ins" | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | April 20, 1962 | 4831 |
An older couple must decide which one will be made young. | |||||
97 | "The Gift" | Allen H. Miner | Rod Serling | April 27, 1962 | 4830 |
A misunderstood alien has brought a gift for mankind. | |||||
98 | "The Dummy" | Abner Biberman | Lee Polk / Rod Serling | May 4, 1962 | 4826 |
A ventriloquist is controlled by his dummy. | |||||
99 | "Young Man's Fancy" | Buck Houghton | Richard Matheson | May 11, 1962 | 4813 |
A newlywed man refuses to let go of the memory of his deceased mother and his childhood memories. | |||||
100 | "I Sing the Body Electric" | James Sheldon & William Claxton |
Ray Bradbury | May 18, 1962 | 4826 |
A robotic grandmother helps a widower raise his children. | |||||
101 | "Cavender Is Coming" | Christian Nyby | Rod Serling | May 25, 1962 | 4827 |
A guardian angel tries to help a woman improve her life. | |||||
102 | "The Changing of the Guard" | Robert Ellis Miller | Rod Serling | June 1, 1962 | 4835 |
A professor being forced to retire is visited by the ghosts of the students he inspired. |
[edit] Season 4: 1963
18 episodes
Note: This season of The Twilight Zone was used as a midseason replacement for the show that had replaced it on the 1962 fall schedule. To fill the timeslot, episodes were lengthened to one hour and moved to Thursday nights.
Episode # | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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103 | "In His Image" | Perry Lafferty | Charles Beaumont | January 3, 1963 | 4851 |
A man is troubled by his quickly-aged hometown and strange noises. | |||||
104 | "The Thirty-Fathom Grave" | Perry Lafferty | Rod Serling | January 10, 1963 | 4857 |
A 1963 navy destroyer discovers a World War II submarine on the ocean floor that's making noises. | |||||
105 | "Valley of the Shadow" | Perry Lafferty | Charles Beaumont | January 17, 1963 | 4861 |
A reporter finds that a town has amazing technology. | |||||
106 | "He's Alive" | Stuart Rosenberg | Rod Serling | January 24, 1963 | 4856 |
An American neo-Nazi is inspired by the ghost of Adolf Hitler. | |||||
107 | "Mute" | Stuart Rosenberg | Richard Matheson | January 31, 1963 | 4858 |
A mute girl with telepathic abilities is orphaned when her parents die in a fire. | |||||
108 | "Death Ship" | Don Medford | Richard Matheson | February 7, 1963 | 4850 |
After landing on a planet, a spaceship crew finds an indentical wrecked ship with their dead doppelgangers onboard. | |||||
109 | "Jess-Belle" | Buzz Kulik | Earl Hamner, Jr. | February 14, 1963 | 4855 |
A woman named Jess-Belle enlists a local witch to win back her sweetheart. | |||||
110 | "Miniature" | Walter Grauman | Charles Beaumont | February 21, 1963 | 4862 |
A man falls in love with a doll in a museum display. | |||||
111 | "Printer's Devil" | Ralph Senensky | Charles Beaumont | February 28, 1963 | 4864 |
The owner of a failing paper is given help by the Devil. | |||||
112 | "No Time Like the Past" | Justus Addiss | Rod Serling | March 7, 1963 | 4853 |
A man with a time machine tries to change historic events in the past. | |||||
113 | "The Parallel" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Rod Serling | March 14, 1963 | 4859 |
An astronaut blacks out orbiting the earth and ends up in a parallel universe. | |||||
114 | "I Dream of Genie" | Robert Gist | John Furia, Jr. | March 21, 1963 | 4860 |
A man is offered only one wish by a genie. | |||||
115 | "The New Exhibit" | John Brahm | Jerry Sohl | April 4, 1963 | 4866 |
An employee takes the wax figures of five murderers home when the wax museum he works in closes. | |||||
116 | "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" | David Lowell Rich | Malcolm Jameson / Rod Serling | April 11, 1963 | 4867 |
An elderly business tycoon makes a deal with the Devil to go back to his hometown and start life anew. | |||||
117 | "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" | Abner Biberman | Reginald Rose | April 18, 1963 | 4854 |
A toy designer nostalic for his youth returns to the neighborhood he grew up in. | |||||
118 | "On Thursday We Leave for Home" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | May 2, 1963 | 4868 |
The leader of a group of spaceship crash survivors tries to maintain control when his people are about to be rescued. | |||||
119 | "Passage on the Lady Anne" | Lamont Johnson | Charles Beaumont | May 23, 1963 | 4869 |
A couple with a troubled marriage end up on ship voyage with a group of elderly passengers. | |||||
120 | "The Bard" | David Butler | Rod Serling | May 23, 1963 | 4852 |
A bumbling script writer uses black magic to conjure up William Shakespeare. |
[edit] Season 5: 1963-1964
36 episodes
Episode # | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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121 | "In Praise of Pip" | Joseph M. Newman | Rod Serling | September 27, 1963 | 2607 |
A bookie makes the ultimate sacrifice to trade his life for his dying son. | |||||
122 | "Steel" | Don Weis | Richard Matheson | October 4, 1963 | 2602 |
At a time when human boxing is outlawed, a manager takes the place of his broken robot fighter. | |||||
123 | "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" | Richard Donner | Richard Matheson | October 11, 1963 | 2605 |
A man recovering from a nervous breakdown sees a creature on the wing of the airplane he's on. | |||||
124 | "A Kind of a Stopwatch" | John Rich | Rod Serling | October 18, 1963 | 2609 |
A man receives a stopwatch that can stop time. | |||||
125 | "The Last Night of a Jockey" | Joseph M. Newman | Rod Serling | October 25, 1963 | 2616 |
A jockey banned from horseracing wishes to be a big man. | |||||
126 | "Living Doll" | Richard C. Sarafian | Jerry Sohl | November 1, 1963 | 2621 |
A girl receives a doll that has a life of its own. | |||||
127 | "The Old Man in the Cave" | Alan Crosland Jr. | Rod Serling | November 8, 1963 | 2603 |
A mysterious "old man in the cave" guides a group of townspeople after a nuclear war. | |||||
128 | "Uncle Simon" | Don Siegel | Rod Serling | November 15, 1963 | 2604 |
A woman kills her uncle to get her inheritance. | |||||
129 | "Probe 7, Over and Out" | Ted Post | Rod Serling | November 29, 1963 | 2622 |
Space explorer Adam Cook crash lands on a seemingly deserted planet. | |||||
130 | "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" | Alan Crosland Jr. | Rod Serling | December 6, 1963 | 2606 |
A National Guard tank crew begins to see strange things while on war game manuvers near the Little Bighorn. | |||||
131 | "A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain" | Bernard Girard | Rod Serling | December 13, 1963 | 2614 |
An elderly man who has a young wife takes an experimental youth serum. | |||||
132 | "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" | Roger Kay | George Clayton Johnson / Richard DeRoy | December 20, 1963 | 2615 |
A man fears he will die if his grandfather clock stops. | |||||
133 | "Ring-a-Ding Girl" | Alan Crosland Jr. | Earl Hamner, Jr. | December 27, 1963 | 2623 |
A movie star receives a magic ring from her hometown fan club. | |||||
134 | "You Drive" | John Brahm | Earl Hamner, Jr. | January 3, 1964 | 2625 |
A hit and run driver's car forces him to confess. | |||||
135 | "The Long Morrow" | Robert Florey | Rod Serling | January 10, 1964 | 2624 |
A space explorer on a solitary 40 year mission makes a life altering decision. | |||||
136 | "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" | Don Siegel | Jerry McNeely | January 17, 1964 | 2612 |
A man uses magic to make trades with people to improve himself. | |||||
137 | "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" | Abner Biberman | Charles Beaumont / John Tomerlin | January 24, 1964 | 2618 |
In a society of the future, a young woman chooses not to undergo a medical procedure which everyone has at the age of nineteen to make themselves beautiful and immune to disease. | |||||
138 | "Black Leather Jackets" | Joseph M. Newman | Earl Hamner, Jr. | January 31, 1964 | 2628 |
Although looking like a motorcycle gang, a group of men are really the vanguard of an alien invasion force. | |||||
139 | "Night Call" | Jacques Tourneur | Bernard C. Schoenfeld | February 7, 1964 | 2610 |
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls overnight when she's alone. | |||||
140 | "From Agnes—With Love" | Richard Donner | Richard Matheson | February 14, 1964 | 2629 |
A computer programer has his life upset when the supercomputer he works with falls in love with him. | |||||
141 | "Spur of the Moment" | Elliot Silverstein | Richard Matheson | February 21, 1964 | 2608 |
A young woman is terrorized by a mysterious woman on horseback. | |||||
142 | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Robert Enrico | Ambrose Bierce | February 28, 1964 | NA |
A Civil War civilian prisoner is about to be hanged from Owl Creek Bridge. | |||||
143 | "Queen of the Nile" | John Brahm | Jerry Sohl / Charles Beaumont |
March 6, 1964 | 2626 |
A movie actress is interviewed by a columnist who learns the secret of her enduring youth. | |||||
144 | "What's in the Box" | John Brahm | Martin M. Goldsmith | March 13, 1964 | 2635 |
A man's television starts showing his past, present and future after being repaired. | |||||
145 | "The Masks" | Ida Lupino | Rod Serling | March 20, 1964 | 2601 |
A dying man makes his family members' faces their true selves. | |||||
146 | "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" | Abner Biberman | Rod Serling | March 27, 1964 | 2630 |
The sun doesn't rise on the execution day of a man who was wrongly accused. | |||||
147 | "Sounds and Silences" | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | April 3, 1964 | 2631 |
A man who enjoys loudness begins having problems. | |||||
148 | "Caesar and Me" | Robert Butler | A.T. Strassfield | April 10, 1964 | 2636 |
An unsuccessful ventriloquist starts to commit robberies based on the advice of his dummy. | |||||
149 | "The Jeopardy Room" | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | April 17, 1964 | 2639 |
A KGB agent who is trying to defect is trapped in his hotel room. | |||||
150 | "Stopover in a Quiet Town" | Ron Winston | Earl Hamner, Jr. | April 24, 1964 | 2611 |
A married couple wake up alone in a strange town after leaving a party the night before. | |||||
151 | "The Encounter" | Robert Butler | Martin M. Goldsmith | May 1, 1964 | 2640 |
A World War II vet and a young Japanese man have a fateful encounter. | |||||
152 | "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" | Ted Post | Rod Serling | May 8, 1964 | 2637 |
A traveling peddler offers to raise up all the dead in a western town. | |||||
153 | "The Brain Center at Whipple's" | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | May 15, 1964 | 2632 |
The owner of a manufacturing plant replaces his employees with machines. | |||||
154 | "Come Wander With Me" | Richard Donner | Anthony Wilson | May 22, 1964 | |
The Rock-A-Billy Kid arrives at a small town in search of a new song. | |||||
155 | "The Fear" | Ted Post | Rod Serling | May 29, 1964 | 2633 |
A sheriff and a brooding New York socialite find themselves trapped in a remote cabin as unexplained occurrences indicate the presence of a mysterious force. | |||||
156 | "The Bewitchin' Pool" | Joseph M. Newman | Earl Hamner, Jr. | June 19, 1964 | 2619 |
Two children escape their unhappy lives to a never-never land by way of their swimming pool. |
[edit] Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
This two-hour Twilight Zone offering contains four installments: three remakes of classic episodes, plus an entirely new story.
4 episodes
Title | Original airdate | # |
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A Quality of Mercy | June 24, 1983 | 1 |
Kick the Can | June 24, 1983 | 2 |
It's a Good Life | June 24, 1983 | 3 |
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | June 24, 1983 | 4 |
- Note- The links in the above table are to the original episodes that were the basis for the movie adaptation.
[edit] Rod Serling's Lost Classics
After Rod Serling's widow found an unfilmed screenplay among his belongings, CBS decided to create a new Twilight Zone TV-movie in 1994.
2 episodes
Title | Original airdate | # |
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Where the Dead Are (IMDB) | May 19, 1994 | 1 |
The Theater (IMDB) | May 19, 1994 | 2 |
[edit] The Twilight Zone television series (First revival 1985 – 1989)
The show was hosted by:
- Charles Aidman (1985 - 1987)
- Robin Ward (1987 - 1989)
[edit] Season 1 1985 – 1986
Season One consisted of two or three segments within each episode.
Episode # and Segment | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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1a | "Shatterday" | Wes Craven | Harlan Ellison / Alan Brennert | September 27, 1985 | |
A man accidentally phones his own home and winds up talking to his alter ego. | |||||
1b | "A Little Peace and Quiet" | Wes Craven | James Crocker | September 27, 1985 | |
A woman has the ability to freeze time. | |||||
2a | "Wordplay" | Wes Craven | Rockne S. O'Bannon | October 4, 1985 | |
An overworked businessman, when pressed to learn his company's new product line, is surprised when the entire world starts speaking in gibberish. | |||||
2b | "Dreams for Sale" | Tommy Lee Wallace | Joe Gannon | October 4, 1985 | |
A woman finds that a relaxing outdoor picnic with her family is nothing more than an escapist fantasy being beamed directly into her brain. | |||||
2c | "Chameleon" | Wes Craven | James Crocker | October 4, 1985 | |
A space shuttle returns from a mission and NASA discovers that something unusual has been picked up. | |||||
3a | "Healer" | Sigmund Neufeld Jr. | Michael Bryant | October 11, 1985 | |
A man steals a stone from a museum that gives him the power to heal. | |||||
3b | "Children's Zoo" | Robert Downey | Chris Hubbell and Gerrit Graham | October 11, 1985 | |
A girl trades in her parents for new ones. | |||||
3c | "Kentucky Rye" | John Hancock | Delree Todd Chip Duncan Richard Krzemien |
October 11, 1985 | |
A drunk driver comes to in front of a bar called "Kentucky Rye." | |||||
4a | "Little Boy Lost" | Tommy Lee Wallace | Michael Cassutt | October 18, 1985 | |
A young photojournalist is forced to choose between her career and her current relationship when she meets a familiar boy. | |||||
4b | "Wish Bank" | Rick Friedberg | Michael Cassutt | October 18, 1985 | |
A woman finds a magic lamp at a garage sale. | |||||
4c | "Nightcrawlers" | William Friedkin | Philip DeGuere | October 18, 1985 | |
A Vietnam vet who deserted his unit is afraid his ex-comrades are hunting him down. | |||||
5a | "If She Dies" | John Hancock | David Bennett Carren | October 25, 1985 | |
A father, who has a daughter in a coma, is guided to purchase an old bed by a young girl's ghost. | |||||
5b | "Ye Gods" | Peter Medak | Anne Collins | October 25, 1985 | |
A man ignores Cupid's arrow. | |||||
6a | "Examination Day" | Paul Lynch | Henry Slesar / Philip DeGuere | November 1, 1985 | |
A 12 year boy must go for mandatory intelligence testing. | |||||
6b | "A Message From Charity" | Peter Medak | William M. Lee / Alan Brennert | November 1, 1985 | |
A teenage boy with a fever is in telepathic contact with a Puritan girl from the past. | |||||
7a | "Teacher's Aide" | B.W.L. Norton | Steven Barnes | November 8, 1985 | |
A teacher at a gang filled school receives help from a mysterious gargoyle. | |||||
7b | "Paladin of the Lost Hour" | Gilbert Cates (credited as Alan Smithee) |
Harlan Ellison | November 8, 1985 | |
Mr. Gaspar is the protector of a magical timepiece, a pocket watch that holds The Last Hour. | |||||
8a | "Act Break" | Ted Flicker | Haskell Barkin | November 15, 1985 | |
A playwright uses an ancient relic to make a single wish. | |||||
8b | "The Burning Man" | J.D. Feigelson | Ray Bradbury / J.D. Feigelson | November 15, 1985 | |
A woman and her nephew pick up a hitchhiker who warns of danger ahead. | |||||
8c | "Dealer's Choice" | Wes Craven | Donald Todd | November 15, 1985 | |
A group of friends playing cards believe that their guest is the Devil. | |||||
9a | "Dead Woman's Shoes" | Peter Medak | Lynn Barker | November 22, 1985 | |
A shy, timid woman working at a thrift shop tries on a pair of shoes and her personality completely changes. | |||||
9b | "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" | Paul Lynch | William F. Wu / Alan Brennert | November 22, 1985 | |
A man who has lost his happiness searches for it at a store. | |||||
10a | "The Shadow Man" | Joe Dante | Rockne S. O'Bannon | November 29, 1985 | |
The Shadow Man, a mysterious entity made of darkness, defends a boy in exchange for being allowed to stay under his bed. | |||||
10b | "The Uncle Devil Show" | David Steinberg | Donald Todd | November 29, 1985 | |
A young boy named Joey is taught strange magic tricks by Uncle Devil, the host of a children's show. | |||||
10c | "Opening Day" | John Milius | Gerrit Graham Chris Hubbell |
November 29, 1985 | |
A woman plans to kill her husband on the opening day of duck hunting season. | |||||
11a | "The Beacon" | Gerd Oswald | Martin Pasko Rebecca Parr |
December 6, 1985 | |
A young doctor stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse. | |||||
11b | "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" | Don Carlos Dunaway | Harlan Ellison / Alan Brennert | December 6, 1985 | |
A man who returns to his childhood home is transported to his past. | |||||
12a | "Her Pilgrim Soul" | Wes Craven | Alan Brennert | December 13, 1985 | |
Two scientists create a holographic projector that has a woman appear in the display. | |||||
12b | "I of Newton" | Kenneth Gilbert | Joe Haldeman | December 13, 1985 | |
A professor offers to sell his soul in order to receive help with a difficult math problem. | |||||
13a | "Night of the Meek" | Martha Coolidge | Rockne S. O'Bannon | December 20, 1985 | |
A fired department store Santa ends up with a magic gift giving bag | |||||
13b | "But Can She Type" | Shelley Levinson | Alan Brennert | December 20, 1985 | |
An overworked secretary who is sent into a parallel reality when she tries to make copies using a malfunctioning Xerox machine. | |||||
13c | "The Star" | Gerd Oswald | Arthur C. Clarke / Alan Brennert | December 20, 1985 | |
On an interstellar journey, far in the future, an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a long-dead world that has been emitting a signal for eons. | |||||
14a | "Still Life" | Peter Medak | Gerrit Graham Chris Hubbell |
January 3, 1986 | |
A professional photographer brings home an antique trunk for his wife. He discovers a Kodak Brownie 100 camera inside the false bottom of the trunk. | |||||
14b | "The Little People of Killany Woods" | J.D. Feigelson | J.D. Feigelson | January 3, 1986 | |
A story telling town drunk has an encounter with little people. | |||||
14c | "The Misfortune Cookie" | Allan Arkush | Charles E. Fritch / Steven Rae aka Rockne S. O'Bannon | January 3, 1986 | |
A food critic receives fortune cookie messages that get fulfilled. | |||||
15a | "Monsters!" | B.W.L. Norton | Robert Crais | January 24, 1986 | |
A boy who loves monster movies has a strange neighbor move in. | |||||
15b | "A Small Talent for War" | Claudia Weill | Alan Brennert Carter Scholz |
January 24, 1986 | |
An alien race that claimed to have invented mankind has now returned to judge them. | |||||
15c | "A Matter of Minutes" | Sheldon Larry | Harlan Ellison Rockne S. O'Bannon |
January 24, 1986 | |
A married couple wakes up to find that the world around them has stopped. | |||||
16a | "The Elevator" | R.L. Thomas | Ray Bradbury | January 31, 1986 | |
Two brothers break in their father's lab to steal his research. | |||||
16b | "To See the Invisible Man" | Noel Black | Robert Silverberg / Steven Barnes | January 31, 1986 | |
A man is sentenced to a year of social isolation. | |||||
16c | "Tooth and Consequences" | Robert Downey | Haskell Barkin | January 31, 1986 | |
The Tooth Fairy gives a dentist what he wishes for. | |||||
17a | "Welcome to Winfield" | Bruce Bilson | Les Enloe | February 7, 1986 | 48 |
A man fleeing Death ends up in an old west town. | |||||
17b | "Quarantine" | Martha Coolidge | Alan Brennert | February 7, 1986 | 49 |
An ill weapons designer is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later | |||||
18a | "Gramma" | Bradford May | Stephen King / Harlan Ellison | February 14, 1986 | |
A young boy is convinced his ailing grandmother is really a monster. | |||||
18b | "Personal Demons" | Peter Medak | Rockne S. O'Bannon | February 14, 1986 | |
A professional writer, Rockne S. O'Bannon, begins seeing creatures after complaining about having writers block. | |||||
18c | "Cold Reading" | Gus Trikonis | Martin Pasko Rebecca Parr |
February 14, 1986 | |
A actor gets a job on a popular radio show only to find that everything described on the show becomes real inside the studio. | |||||
19a | "The Leprechaun Artist" | Tommy Lee Wallace | Tommy Lee Wallace | February 21, 1986 | |
Three boys capture a leprechaun that has gone on vacation to the United States. | |||||
19b | "Dead Run" | Paul Tucker | Greg Bear Alan Brennert |
February 21, 1986 | |
A truck driver accepts the job of delivering souls to Hell. | |||||
20a | "Profile in Silver" | John Hancock | J. Neil Schulman | March 7, 1986 | |
A professor from the future is sent back to observe the President John F. Kennedy assassination. | |||||
20b | "Button, Button" | Peter Medak | Richard Matheson | March 7, 1986 | |
A stranger gives a down and out couple a box with a button on it. He states that if they press the button, they would receive a large sum of money but also that someone would die. | |||||
21a | "Need to Know" | Paul Lynch | Mary Sheldon | March 21, 1986 | |
A government scientist/agent sent to a small town to help investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity which is spreading through the town. | |||||
21b | "Red Snow" | Jeannot Szwarc | Michael Cassutt | March 21, 1986 | |
Russian army Colonel Ilyanov is sent by train to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of the local Communist Party officials. | |||||
22a | "Take My Life...Please!" | Gus Trikonis | Gordon Mitchell | March 28, 1986 | |
A successful comedian steals a routine from another comedian and ends up paying a high price. | |||||
22b | "Devil's Alphabet" | March 28, 1986 | |||
22c | "The Library" | John Hancock | Anne Collins | March 28, 1986 | |
A woman is hired to work in a private library and soon discovers that the books document the lives of everyone alive, updated instantly and in the smallest detail. | |||||
23a | "Shadow Play" | Paul Lynch | James Crocker | April 4, 1986 | |
A man is convinced that reality as we perceive it is dependent on his staying alive. | |||||
23b | "Grace Note" | April 4, 1986 | |||
24a | "A Day in Beaumont" | 11 April 1986 | |||
24b | "The Last Defender of Camelot" | 11 April 1986 | |||
[edit] Season 2: 1986 – 1987
Season Two episodes were comprised of one, two, or three segments within each episode.
Episode # and Segment | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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25a | "The Once and Future King" | ||||
An Elvis impersonator travels back in time and meets Elvis Presley. | |||||
25b | "A Saucer of Loneliness" | September 27, 1986 | |||
26a | "What Are Friends For?" | ||||
26b | "Aqua Vita" | ||||
27a | "The Storyteller" | ||||
27b | "Nightsong" | ||||
28a | "The After Hours" | ||||
28b | "Lost and Found" | ||||
28c | "The World Next Door" | ||||
29 | "The Toys of Caliban" | ||||
30 | "The Convict's Piano" | ||||
31 | "The Road Less Traveled" | ||||
32a | "The Card" | ||||
32b | "The Junction" | ||||
33a | "Joy Ride" | ||||
33b | "Shelter Skelter" | ||||
33c | "Private Channel" | ||||
34a | "Time and Teresa Golowitz" | ||||
34b | "Voices in the Earth" | ||||
35a | "Song of the Younger World" | ||||
35b | "The Girl I Married" | ||||
[edit] Season 3: 1988 – 1989
Season Three was made up of half-hour episodes that aired individually.
- "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon"
- "Extra Innings"
- "The Crossing"
- "The Hunters"
- "Dream Me a Life"
- "Memories"
- "The Hellgramite Method"
- "Our Sylena is Dying"
- "The Call"
- "The Trance"
- "Acts of Terror"
- "20/20 Vision"
- "There Was an Old Woman"
- "The Trunk"
- "Appointment on Route 17"
- "The Cold Equations"
- "Strangers in Possum Meadows"
- "Street of Shadows"
- "Something in the Walls"
- "A Game of Pool"
- "The Wall"
- "Room 2426"
- "The Mind of Simon Foster"
- "Cat and Mouse"
- "Many, Many Monkeys"
- "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
- "Special Service"
- "Love is Blind"
- "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"
- "Father and Son Game"
[edit] The Twilight Zone televison series (Second revival 2002 – 2003)
These episodes ran for a half-hour each, but were aired together in pairs to make a full-hour format. They were hosted by Forest Whitaker.
[edit] Season 1: 2002 – 2003
Ep# | Title | Original air date |
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01 | "Evergreen" | September 18, 2002 |
Jenna (Amber Tamblyn) is a rebellious teenager. In a bid to control their daughter, Jenna's family decides to move to an exclusive gated community, Evergreen Estates, which her parents believe will help change her for the better. | ||
02 | "One Night at Mercy" | September 18, 2002 |
Dr Jay Ferguson saves a man dying, but then a new patient (Jason Alexander) arrives in the hospital. He tries to hang himself but the doctor saves him. When they ask him what his name is, he replies, "I'm... Death". | ||
03 | "Shades of Guilt" | September 25, 2002 |
After leaving a black man who's asking for help, Matt McGreevy would soon regret it. Because he's now looking more and more like him... | ||
04 | "Dream Lover" | September 25, 2002 |
Andrew Lomax (Adrian Pasdar) somehow makes his dream girl real to help him with his writers block. But, as we dig deeper into this tale, the lines of reality and fantasy start to blur and mix. And we don't know who is the writer... and who is the dream person. | ||
05 | "Cradle of Darkness" | October 2, 2002 |
Andrea Collins (Katherine Heigl) discovers an incredible gift-she has the power of time travel. She decides to go back in time to kill young Adolf Hitler and prevent World War II. She manages to snatch the young infant from his crib-but her plan soon meets a unique flaw. | ||
06 | "Night Route" | - |
After nearly being hit by a car, a woman (Ione Skye) is haunted by a strange bus appearing in her street. The driver says he is "waiting for her". | ||
07 | "Time Lapse" | - |
A man experiences periods of missing time, with the 'gaps' seeming to involve a plot to assassinate the President's daughter... | ||
08 | "Dead Man's Eyes" | - |
After a woman's (Portia de Rossi) husband is murdered, she is inconsolable. At the trial, she absentmindedly places his glasses on her face-and suddenly, she is able to see through his eyes. The glasses recorded the man's last moments, so his wife decides to try and solve the case-but she must face a very dangerous and familiar murderer... | ||
09 | "Pool Guy" | - |
A pool cleaner (Lou Diamond Phillips) has repeated nightmares of being shot. | ||
10 | "Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine" | - |
A young boy (Rory Culkin), beset by an abusive father and neighborhood bullies, wills his favorite superhero (Patrick Warburton) to life, who teaches him about vengeance and courage. | ||
11 | "The Lineman, Part 1" | - |
After being struck by lightning, Tyler (Jeremy Piven)gains the ability to hear other people's thoughts - a power best not abused... | ||
12 | "The Lineman, Part 2" | - |
Using his newfound powers for his own personal and financial gain, he soon realizes that everything comes with a price. | ||
13 | "Harsh Mistress" | - |
A struggling musician named Cory (Lukas Haas) purchases a rather infamous guitar, which leads to him gaining vast international stardom and wealth, but both come with surprising price tag. | ||
14 | "Upgrade" | - |
A housewife (Susanna Thompson) gets her dream of replacing her immediate relatives with an ideal family. She soon discovers that someone wants to replace her too. | ||
15 | "To Protect and Serve" | - |
An idealistic cop (Usher), determined to keep a prostitute (Samantha Becker) safe from her pimp, will stop at nothing in this world to protect her. | ||
16 | "Chosen" | - |
A hopeless and destitute man angrily rebuffs two persistent missionaries who may well have the answer to all of his problems. | ||
17 | "Sensuous Cindy" | - |
Having sworn off all other women upon getting engaged, a man (Greg Germann) is put to the test by a virtual-reality beauty (Jaime Pressly). | ||
18 | "Hunted" | - |
A futuristic society is attacked by a vicious and mysterious murderer. | ||
19 | "Mr Motivation" | - |
A sinister toy doll encourages a timid man (Wallace Langham) to stand up to his boss (Christopher McDonald) and take control of his life. | ||
20 | "Sanctuary" | - |
Stranded in a modern day Garden of Eden, a man (Rob Estes) and woman (Elizabeth Berkley) cannot resist the temptation of technology. | ||
21 | "Future Trade" | - |
A man with a dead-end job and a dysfunctional family is lured into trading his future for that of a seemingly privileged man with a trophy wife. | ||
22 | "Found and Lost" | - |
A businessman (Brian Austin Green) gets a chance to revisit the past and make another bid for the woman (Moira Kelly) he loved. | ||
23 | "Gabe's Story" | - |
A man (Christopher Titus) suffering from consistent bad luck is given a surprising chance to change his destiny. | ||
24 | "Last Lap" | - |
A terminally ill young man (Clifton Collins Jr.)and his best friend (Greg Serano) take a final ride in their souped-up racer that results in unexpected consequences for both. | ||
25 | "The Path" | - |
A dissatisfied tabloid writer (Linda Cardellini) entrusts her fate in the hands of a fortune teller who gives her scoops in advance. Naturally, her "sure thing" has hidden problems. | ||
26 | "Fair Warning" | - |
A flower shop clerk is viciously stalked by one of the multiple personalities of a troubled pet store employee. | ||
27 | "Another Life" | - |
An unhappy man is approached by a unique company that specializes in cases like his. It offers a life-swapping program that swaps one person's life with another. The man goes through with it and finds himself in a gorgeous mansion, with money, power-and enemies... | ||
28 | "Rewind" | - |
A compulsive gambler (Eddie Kaye Thomas) who mysteriously learns how to travel back in time, believes he has found a sure bet to win big at the casinos. He soon discovers, however, that everything is a gamble. | ||
29 | "Tagged" | - |
A gang member confesses to murder when a mural painted by the victim transforms itself into a version of the crime scene. | ||
30 | "Into the Light" | - |
A teacher (Samantha Mathis) inherits a horrifying gift that enables her to foresee the deaths of her students. | ||
31 | "It's Still a Good Life" | February 19, 2003 |
In a sequel of It's a Good Life, we have Anthony Fremont (Billy Mumy) and his daughter, Audrey (Liliana Mumy). We have Anthony still causing hell in the town of Peaksville, Ohio... and we have his daughter inheriting his God-like powers. | ||
32 | "The Monsters on Maple Street" | - |
When a suburban neighborhood loses power and communications, they suspect a mysteriously unaffected family of terrorism. Remake of the Rod Serling classic script starring Andrew McCarthy. | ||
33 | "Memphis" | February 26, 2003 |
Ray Ellison (Eriq La Salle), a law clerk, is a single black man in his 30s. After just finding out that he has a brain tumor and only has six months to live, he's hit by an oncoming car and is temporarily knocked out. Waking up, he finds himself in Memphis of April 1968. He later finds out that it's the same time Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. Can he change history for the better? Based on The Twilight Zone 1959 episode, Back There. | ||
34 | "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?" | - |
A woman who is contemplating divorce finds herself on a twisted game show. She must put herself in horribly dangerous situations for two big, big prizes. The first is a million dollars, but the second is a little more valuable...her son. | ||
35 | "The Placebo Effect" | - |
A man goes to a hospital believing that he has a horribly deadly disease, which he describes in great detail. The man's housekeeper and a doctor contract the disease... | ||
36 | "Cold Fusion" | - |
A brilliant physicist is ordered by the military to a remote Arctic lab where the final start-up preparations for an infinite power source are taking place. He becomes involved in a deadly psychological struggle with the device's creator. | ||
37 | "The Pharaoh's Curse" | - |
An aspiring magician (Shawn Hatosy) seeks to learn the secret behind a legendary trick. But why is it performed only once a generation? | ||
38 | "The Collection" | - |
A night of babysitting turns to cold terror when a young woman (Jessica Simpson) realizes that the childs eerily lifelike doll collection may explain the mysterious disappearance of the previous sitters. | ||
39 | "Eye of the Beholder" | - |
A woman desperate to conform to society's physical ideal goes under the knife for the eleventh time, leading her into a literal chamber of horrors. Remake of the Rod Serling episode. | ||
40 | "Developing" | - |
A young widow discovers photos of her dead husband that could never had been taken and remains convinced that it is her deceased spouse calling her to be with him in death. | ||
41 | "The Executions of Grady Finch" | - |
After three gruesome execution attempts, a death row inmate (Jeremy Sisto) is granted a new trial. His lawywer succeeds in freeing him, only to see a greater justice prevail. | ||
42 | "Homecoming" | - |
An Army officer (Gil Bellows) comes home to try and make amends with his wayward son (Penn Badgley) before the boy learns his terrible secret. | ||
43 | "Sunrise" | - |
Three college students explore an Aztec site. They carelessly knock over a jug filled with blood-and in an instant, the sun goes out. The Earth will die unless something is done- and according to some carvings, the only way to reverse the curse is to sacrifice someone... | ||
44 | "Burned" | - |
An agoraphobic man (Jason Bateman) is haunted by the ghosts of children killed in an arson he paid a man to commit. |
[edit] External links
- http://www.scifi.com/twilightzone/
- The Original Twilight Zone Episode List
- Postcards from the Zone (Extensive episode guides, including photos)
- TV Tome series page for original series
- TV Tome series page for first revival
- TV Tome series page for second revival
Series |
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) | The New Twilight Zone | The Twilight Zone (2002 series) |
Key People |
Rod Serling | Buck Houghton | Charles Beaumont | Richard Matheson | Jerry Sohl | George Clayton Johnson | Earl Hamner Jr. | Reginald Rose | Ray Bradbury |
See Also |
Playhouse 90 | List of The Twilight Zone episodes | List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) guest stars | The Twilight Zone (pinball) | Twilight Zone: The Movie | The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror |