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The New Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone (1985) is the revival of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series, of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication. It was Serling's decision to sell his share of the series back to the network that eventually allowed for a...
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Dreams for Sale

"Dreams for Sale" is the second segment of the second episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A woman (Meg Foster) finds that a relaxing outdoor picnic with her family is nothing more than an escapist...

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  • Oct 4, 1985

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  • 4

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A Little Peace and Quiet

"A Little Peace and Quiet" is the second segment of the first episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Penny, a housewife and mother of four, is awakened by her excessively loud clock radio. She gets up...

Original air date:

  • Sep 27, 1985

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  • 2

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Children's Zoo

Children's Zoo is the second segment of the third episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Debbie is a little girl starved for attention because her parents are always fighting; her mother yells at her...

Original air date:

  • Oct 11, 1985

Examination Day

Examination Day is the first segment of the sixth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Dickie Jordan is an intelligent and curious youth in a rather dystopic future. It is Dickie's twelfth...

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  • Nov 1, 1985

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Button, Button

"Button, Button" is the second segment of the twentieth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. Norma Lewis is the wife of a down-and-out man named Arthur, who has problems landing steady employment and...

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  • Mar 7, 1986

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A Message From Charity

"A Message From Charity" is the second segment of the sixth episode of the first season (1985-1986) from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Peter Wood is a teenager sick with a fever that puts him in telepathic contact with Charity Payne,...

Original air date:

  • Nov 1, 1985

The Shadow Man

The Shadow Man is the first segment of the tenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Danny Hayes, a nerdy kid regularly picked on by a bully named Eric, is once again tricked and frightened by...

Original air date:

  • Nov 29, 1985

I of Newton

I of Newton is the second segment of the twelfth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. A professor named Sam, trying to figure out a difficult math problem, angrily yells out, "I'd sell my soul to get...

Original air date:

  • Dec 13, 1985

A Small Talent for War

"A Small Talent for War" is the second segment of the fifteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) from the television series The New Twilight Zone. John Glover plays the role of an emissary from an alien race that claims to have genetically...

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  • Jan 24, 1986

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A Matter of Minutes

A Matter of Minutes is the third segment of the fifteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A young married couple, the Wrights, wake up one day to the sounds of construction. When they get a...

Original air date:

  • Jan 24, 1986

Quarantine

"Quarantine" is the second segment of the seventeenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. A man awakens from an apparently long sleep. His caretaker, a young woman, wants him to confirm that he was...

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  • Feb 7, 1986

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Profile in Silver

"Profile in Silver" is the first segment of the twentieth episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald, a Harvard University professor of history from the year 2172 has travelled back in...

Original air date:

  • Mar 7, 1986

The After Hours

The After Hours is the first segment of the twenty-eighth episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A sweet, naïve young woman frantically runs up to a mall's doors, hoping it still be open. A worker...

Original air date:

  • Oct 18, 1986

To See the Invisible Man

"To See the Invisible Man" is the second segment of the sixteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Mitchell Chaplin, a man living in a parallel world to ours, has been found guilty of the...

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  • Jan 31, 1986

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The Star

"The Star" is the third and final segment of the thirteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. On an interstellar journey, far in the future, an astrophysicist and a priest debate about the...

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  • Dec 20, 1985

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Need to Know

"Need to Know" is the first segment of the twenty-first episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the American television series The Twilight Zone. It first aired March 21, 1986. Edward Sayers is a government scientist/agent sent to a small town to...

Original air date:

  • Mar 21, 1986

Episode number:

  • 51

The Misfortune Cookie

"The Misfortune Cookie" is the third segment of the fourteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Harry Folger is a snobby and arrogant food critic for a major newspaper. Restaurants literally...

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  • Jan 3, 1986

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Healer

Healer is the first segment of the third episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Cat burglar Jackie Thompson breaks into a museum late one night and steals a rare stone from a display case. He trips...

Original air date:

  • Oct 4, 1985

Episode number:

  • 5

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Shatterday

"Shatterday" is the first segment of the first episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Day 1: Someday Peter Jay Novins sits in a bar. Intending to call someone else, he accidentally dials his own home...

Original air date:

  • Sep 27, 1985

Episode number:

  • 1

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Wong's Lost and Found Emporium

"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" is the second segment of the ninth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. The episode is based on the short story "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", by William F. Wu,...

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  • Nov 22, 1985

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Shadow Play

"Shadow Play" is the first segment of the twenty-third episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the American television series The Twilight Zone. The episode first aired April 4, 1986. A man named Adam Grant is being judged for the crime of murder...

Original air date:

  • Apr 4, 1986

Episode number:

  • 56

Appointment on Route 17

Appointment on Route 17 is the fiftieth episode (the fifteenth episode of the third season (1988-1989) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Tom Bennett, a rather callous, ruthless businessman, returns to his office after becoming the...

Original air date:

  • Dec 31, 1988

Episode number:

  • 50

Extra Innings

Extra Innings is the thirty-seventh episode (the second episode of the third season (1988-1989) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A down and out, injured baseball player named Ed Hamner tries to juggle his love for baseball and a new...

Original air date:

  • Oct 1, 1988

Episode number:

  • 37

The Once and Future King

The Once and Future King is the first segment of the twenty-fifth episode (the first episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The Twilight Zone. Gary, an Elvis impersonator, opens in a smoke-filled lounge, singing ...

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  • Sep 27, 1986

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Act Break

"Act Break" is the first segment of the eighth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Maury is a playwright who is desperately behind in his rent. After incessant hounding by his landlord, and...

Original air date:

  • Nov 15, 1985

But Can She Type

"But Can She Type?" is the second segment of the thirteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Karen Billings, an overworked, very underappreciated secretary, in her attempt to make copies for...

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  • Dec 20, 1985

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Her Pilgrim Soul

Her Pilgrim Soul is the first segment of the twelfth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Two scientists create a holographic projector. One day a fetus appears in the projector. The two watch as...

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  • Dec 13, 1985

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Private Channel

Private Channel is the third segment of the thirty-third episode (the ninth episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Keith Barnes is an obnoxious teenager aboard an airplane, whose love of his radio,...

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  • May 21, 1987

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Dead Run

"Dead Run" is the second segment of the nineteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Johnny Davis is an out-of-work truck driver, due to his many accidents. In a roadside diner, Johnny asks...

Original air date:

  • Feb 21, 1986

Episode number:

  • 19

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What Are Friends For?

What Are Friends For? is the first segment of the twenty-sixth episode (the second episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Alternate opening narration found on syndication airing on the Chiller (TV...

Original air date:

  • Oct 4, 1986

Lost and Found

"Lost and Found" is the second segment of the twenty-eighth episode (the fourth episode of the second season (1986-1987) television series The Twilight Zone. Jenny Templeton is a young college student who discovers she has been losing personal items...

Original air date:

  • Oct 18, 1986

Aqua Vita

Aqua Vita is the second segment of the twenty-sixth episode (the fourth episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. It was written by Paul Chitlik and Jeremy Bertrand Finch, writers who went on the become...

Original air date:

  • Oct 4, 1986

The Library

"The Library" is the third segment of the twenty-second episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the American television series The Twilight Zone. Ellen Pendleton, an aspiring writer looking to earn some money on the side, gets a job at a private...

Original air date:

  • Mar 28, 1986

Episode number:

  • 22

Nightcrawlers

Nightcrawlers is the third and final segment of the fourth episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. It is taken from a short story of the same name by Robert R. McCammon, first published in the 1984...

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  • Oct 18, 1985

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  • 4

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Take My Life...Please!

"Take My Life...Please!" is the first segment of the twenty-second episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the American television series The Twilight Zone. Billy Diamond (Tim Thomerson), a successful stand-up comedian, steals a routine from Dave...

Original air date:

  • Mar 28, 1986

Episode number:

  • 53

Gramma

"Gramma" is the first segment of the eighteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. George is a young boy left alone with his infirm grandmother, after his mother must tend to his brother, who...

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  • Feb 14, 1986

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  • 18

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Crazy as a Soup Sandwich

Crazy as a Soup Sandwich is the sixty-fourth episode (the twenty-ninth episode of the third season (1988-1989) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A petty con man named Arky Lochner fumbles and stumbles down a dark alley with some thing...

Original air date:

  • Apr 2, 1989

Episode number:

  • 64

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Wordplay

"Wordplay" is the first segment of the second episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Bill Lowery is a salesman whose company has switched to a medical supply product line forcing him to stay up nights...

Original air date:

  • Oct 4, 1985

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  • 3

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Teacher's Aide

"Teacher's Aide" is the first segment of the seventh episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone.

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  • Nov 8, 1985

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Chameleon

"Chameleon" is the third and final segment of the second episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A United States space shuttle orbits the Earth. The shuttle TV camera starts to malfunction, and the...

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  • Oct 4, 1985

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  • 5

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The Storyteller

The Storyteller is the first segment of the twenty-seventh episode (the third episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Dorothy Livingston, a retired teacher, is visiting her niece when she bumps into...

Original air date:

  • Oct 11, 1986

Paladin of the Lost Hour

"Paladin of the Lost Hour" is the second segment of the seventh episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. An old man standing at a grave, apparently grieving, is suddenly attacked by a couple of...

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  • Nov 8, 1985

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The Uncle Devil Show

"The Uncle Devil Show" is the second segment of the tenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. The story opens with a young boy named Joey being given a gift by his father: a video called "Tim Ferrit...

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  • Nov 29, 1985

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Kentucky Rye

"Kentucky Rye" is the third and final segment of the third episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Bob Spindler is celebrating the closing of a big deal with co-workers in a bar after work, and...

Original air date:

  • Oct 11, 1985

Episode number:

  • 1

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Little Boy Lost

"Little Boy Lost" is the first segment of the fourth episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A young photojournalist, Carol, is being pressed to choose between a new job offer and marrying her...

Original air date:

  • Oct 18, 1985

Wish Bank

Wish Bank is the second segment of the fourth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twlight Zone. Visiting a garage sale with her friend, Mary Ellen, Janice Hamill stumbles upon a golden lamp that is engraved ...

Original air date:

  • Oct 18, 1985

If She Dies

"If She Dies" is the first segment of the fifth episode of the first season (1985-1986) from the television series The New Twilight Zone. After a recently-widowed father's only daughter is put into a coma, he is guided by the apparition of another...

Original air date:

  • Oct 25, 1985

Ye Gods

"Ye Gods" is the second segment of the fifth episode of the first season (1985-1986) from the television series The New Twilight Zone. Todd Ettinger, a yuppie, discusses buying a new car over lunch with a friend when a woman strides by. They check...

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  • Oct 25, 1985

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The Burning Man

"The Burning Man" is the second segment of the eighth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. On a hot summer day, a woman and her nephew are driving along a dusty, country road. It is apparently...

Original air date:

  • Nov 15, 1985

Dealer's Choice

"Dealer's Choice" is the third segment of the eighth episode of the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. A group of friends are playing a game of poker when they start to think one of their guests may be the Devil...

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  • Nov 15, 1985

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Dead Woman's Shoes

"Dead Woman's Shoes" is the first segment of the ninth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Maddie Duncan is a shy, timid woman working at a thrift shop who tries on a pair of shoes and her...

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  • Nov 22, 1985

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Opening Day

"Opening Day" is the third and final segment of the tenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. At a party given by themselves, a young socialite, Sally, and her wealthy husband, Carl give the...

Original air date:

  • Nov 29, 1985

The Beacon

"The Beacon" is the first segment of the eleventh episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. The story opens on the aftermath of an automobile accident, which apparently resulted in a death. The young...

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  • Dec 6, 1985

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One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty is the second segment of the eleventh episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. Gus is an angry middle aged man, very dissatisfied with his life. One day, one of his...

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  • Dec 6, 1985

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Night of the Meek (1986)

"Night of the Meek" is the first segment of the thirteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) from the television series the The Twilight Zone. Henry Corwin, a department store Santa Claus, is fired from his job after coming to work while...

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  • Dec 20, 1985

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A Saucer of Loneliness

The Saucer of Loneliness is the second segment of the twenty-fifth episode (the first episode of the second season (1986-1987) of the television series The Twilight Zone. Margaret is a lonely waitress who seems to enjoy spending time walking on the...

Original air date:

  • Sep 27, 1986

Still Life

"Still Life" is the first segment of the fourteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) from the television series The New Twilight Zone. A professional photographer, Daniel, brings home an antique trunk for his wife. He discovers a false...

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  • Jan 3, 1986

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The Little People of Killany Woods

"The Little People of Killany Woods" is the second segment of the fourteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. In a small Irish town, a frantic man named O'Shaughnessy dashes into the local pub...

Original air date:

  • Jan 3, 1986

The Elevator

The Elevator is the first segment of the sixteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The New Twilight Zone. Late at night, two brothers, Will and Roger, arrive at a closed factory in search of their missing father,...

Original air date:

  • Jan 31, 1986

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Cold Reading

"Cold Reading" is the third and final segment of the eighteenth episode from the first season (1985-1986) of the television series The Twilight Zone. Milo Trent, an aspiring radio drama actor back in the '30s, is invited as a last-minute replacement...

Original air date:

  • Feb 14, 1986
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