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The Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series created by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964 and remains syndicated to this day. The show consisted of unrelated vignettes depicting paranormal, futuristic, dystopian, or simply disturbing events, usually...
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Where Is Everybody?
"Where is Everybody?" is the first episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Opening narration (help·info):
A man finds himself alone in a strange town. He is dressed in an Air Force jumpsuit, but he does not remember...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 1
- x Original air date:
- Oct 2, 1959
One for the Angels
"One for the Angels" is the second episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Opening narration (help·info):
A salesman, Lew Bookman, is told by Death that he is to die at midnight. Mr. Bookman argues that his life's...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 2
- x Original air date:
- Oct 2, 1959
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
"Mr. Denton on Doomsday" is the third episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. This is the first The Twilight Zone episode to be rerun.
Washed-up gunslinger Al Denton is given another chance by a mysterious man by the...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 3
- x Original air date:
- Oct 16, 1959
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Aging film star Barbara Jean Trenton secludes herself in her private screening room, where she reminisces about her past by watching her old...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 4
- x Original air date:
- Oct 23, 1959
Walking Distance
"Walking Distance" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode was listed as the 3rd best episode in the history of The Twilight Zone by Time Magazine.
A middle-aged man, Martin Sloan (Gig Young), is...
- x Season:
- x Episode number:
- x Original air date:
- Oct 30, 1959
Escape Clause
"Escape Clause" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone and aired on CBS on November 6, 1959.
A mean-spirited, abusive hypochondriac sells his soul to the Devil (appearing as a rotund rogue who calls himself ...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 6
- x Original air date:
- Nov 6, 1959
The Lonely
"The Lonely" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
In 2046, an inmate sentenced to solitary confinement on the desert planet Ceres is visited by a spacecraft that regularly brings him supplies and news from the...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 7
- x Original air date:
- Nov 13, 1959
Time Enough at Last
"Time Enough at Last" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It was adapted from a short story by Lyn Venable, which had been published in the January 1953 edition of the science fiction magazine If: Worlds of...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone - Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 8
- x Original air date:
- Nov 20, 1959
Perchance to Dream
"Perchance to Dream" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Edward Hall (Conte), a man with a heart condition, believes that if he falls asleep, he'll die. On the other hand, keeping himself awake will put too...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 9
- x Original air date:
- Nov 27, 1959
Judgment Night
"Judgment Night" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
A somewhat nervous passenger by the name of Carl Lanser appears aboard a British ship in 1942. As the story opens, it becomes clear that Lanser has no idea...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 10
- x Original air date:
- Dec 4, 1959
And When the Sky Was Opened
"And When the Sky Was Opened" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It was first aired on December 11, 1959.
Three astronauts flying the X-20 DynaSoar into space for the first time disappear from radar on a...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 11
- x Original air date:
- Dec 11, 1959
What You Need
"What You Need" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Pedott, a peddler, has the curious ability to give people exactly what they need before they need it. The old man enters a cafe where he first gives a woman...
- x Season:
- x Episode number:
- 12
- x Original air date:
- Dec 25, 1959
The Four of Us Are Dying
"The Four of Us Are Dying" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Arch Hammer is a conman who can change his face to make it look like anyone he chooses. He first walks into a night club where he impersonates...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 13
- x Original air date:
- Jan 1, 1960
Third from the Sun
"Third from the Sun" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It is based on a short story of the same name by Richard Matheson.
Will Sturka, a scientist who works at a military base run by the government, has...
- x Season:
- x Episode number:
- 14
- x Original air date:
- Jan 8, 1960
I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
"I Shot an Arrow into the Air" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
A manned space flight crash lands on what the astronauts believe to be an unknown asteroid. Their expectations of survival or rescue are...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 15
- x Original air date:
- Jan 15, 1960
The Hitch-Hiker
"The Hitch-Hiker" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
The story begins with a woman, Nan Adams, who has been in a car accident on a cross-country road trip from New York to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 16
- x Original air date:
- Jan 22, 1960
The Fever
"The Fever" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Franklin and his wife Flora go to Las Vegas, Nevada because she won a competition. He detests gambling, but his wife is excited about their vacation. Franklin...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 17
- x Original air date:
- Jan 29, 1960
The Last Flight
"The Last Flight" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Part of the production was filmed on location at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California. The vintage 1918 Nieuport biplane was both owned and...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 18
- x Original air date:
- Feb 5, 1960
The Purple Testament
"The Purple Testament" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It's "the story of a man who can forecast death."
William Fitzgerald, a lieutenant serving in World War II, suddenly gains the mysterious ability to...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 19
- x Original air date:
- Feb 12, 1960
Elegy
"Elegy" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Running out of fuel, astronauts Meyers, Webber, and Kirby land their spaceship on a remote asteroid. They find the place quite Earth-like with buildings and people,...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 20
- x Original air date:
- Feb 19, 1960
Mirror Image
"Mirror Image" is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.
A woman named Millicent Barnes is waiting at a bus stop for a bus to Cortland, en route to start a new job in Buffalo, New York. Upon looking at a wall clock she notices the...
- x Season:
- x Episode number:
- 21
- x Original air date:
- Feb 26, 1960
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Originally aired when memories of the Second Red Scare were still fresh in the minds of viewers, the episode is often presented...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 22
- x Original air date:
- Mar 4, 1960
A World of Difference
"A World of Difference" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Arthur Curtis is a businessman. One day, he finds his phone no longer works, and is surprised to hear a voice yell, "Cut!" Suddenly he is faced with...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 23
- x Original air date:
- Mar 11, 1960
Long Live Walter Jameson
"Long Live Walter Jameson" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Walter Jameson, a professor, has the gift of eternal youth, and is engaged to a young woman named Susanna Kittridge. The woman's father, Samuel...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 24
- x Original air date:
- Mar 18, 1960
People Are Alike All Over
"People Are Alike All Over" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
A rocket piloted by two astronauts heads out on a mission to Mars. One of them, Marcusson, is a positive thinker who believes that people are...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 25
- x Original air date:
- Mar 25, 1960
Execution
"Execution" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It features Albert Salmi, who also plays the lead character in the Season 4 episode "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville".
In 1880, a man named Joe Caswell is...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 26
- x Original air date:
- Apr 1, 1960
The Big Tall Wish
"The Big Tall Wish" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, with an original score by Jerry Goldsmith.
Bolie Jackson is a washed-up boxer who accidentally breaks the knuckles of his hand right before his big...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 27
- x Original air date:
- Apr 8, 1960
A Nice Place to Visit
"A Nice Place to Visit" is an episode of the American Television anthology series The Twilight Zone and aired on CBS on April 15, 1960. The title comes from the saying, "A nice place to visit, but I wouldn't want to live there."
In 1965, a slightly...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 28
- x Original air date:
- Apr 15, 1960
Nightmare as a Child
"Nightmare as a Child" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Schoolteacher Helen Foley (Janice Rule) finds a strange and very serious little girl named Markie (Terry Burnham) on the stairs outside her apartment...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 29
- x Original air date:
- Apr 29, 1960
A Stop at Willoughby
"A Stop at Willoughby" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. Rod Serling cited this as his favorite story from the first season of the series.
Gart Williams is an overstressed New York advertising executive who...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 30
- x Original air date:
- May 6, 1960
The Chaser
"The Chaser" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Roger Shackleforth is desperately in love with Leila. He visits an old professor looking for advice on how to win her. The professor, after some resistance,...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 31
- x Original air date:
- May 13, 1960
A Passage for Trumpet
"A Passage for Trumpet" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Waiting at the back door of a night club is Joey Crown, a down and out trumpet player. He hopes to see a former boss, Baron, to beg for a chance to...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 32
- x Original air date:
- May 20, 1960
Mr. Bevis
"Mr. Bevis" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
A kindly fellow's life is turned topsy-turvy when he receives "help" from his guardian angel.
Mr. Bevis loses his job, wrecks his car and gets evicted from his...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 33
- x Original air date:
- Jun 3, 1960
The After Hours
"The After Hours" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Marsha White, a woman browsing for a gift for her mother in a department store, decides on a gold thimble. She is taken by the elevator man to the 9th...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 34
- x Original air date:
- Jun 10, 1960
The Mighty Casey
"The Mighty Casey" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
The episode title is a reference to the baseball poem "Casey at the Bat".
"Mouth" McGarry, the manager of a broken-down baseball team on its last legs,...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 35
- x Original air date:
- Jun 17, 1960
A World of His Own
"A World of His Own" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Coming home, Victoria West spots her husband, playwright Gregory West, through the window sharing a drink with Mary, an attractive blonde. But when...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 1
- x Episode number:
- 36
- x Original air date:
- Jul 1, 1960
King Nine Will Not Return
"King Nine Will Not Return" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
The World War II bomber King Nine has crashed in the desert. Captain James Embry finds himself stranded, alone except for the wreckage and the...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 37
- x Original air date:
- Sep 30, 1960
The Man in the Bottle
"The Man in the Bottle" is an episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.
A downtrodden pawnbroker and his wife are offered four wishes by a genie. Distrustful, they use their first wish to repair a broken glass cabinet to prove the...
- x Season:
- x Episode number:
- 38
- x Original air date:
- Oct 7, 1960
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. According to the book The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic by Martin Grams, Serling wrote the teleplay in...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 39
- x Original air date:
- Oct 14, 1960
A Thing About Machines
"A Thing About Machines" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
An ill-tempered writer who reviles and constantly abuses machines starts to think machines are conspiring against him. The people he tells about...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 40
- x Original air date:
- Oct 28, 1960
The Howling Man
"The Howling Man" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
The story is told in a flashback by an American called David Ellington. While on a walking trip through post-World War I Europe, Ellington becomes lost,...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 41
- x Original air date:
- Nov 4, 1960
The Eye of the Beholder
"The Eye of the Beholder" (also titled "The Private World Of Darkness" when initially rebroadcast in the summer of 1962) is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Janet Tyler has undergone her eleventh treatment in...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 42
- x Original air date:
- Nov 11, 1960
Nick of Time
"Nick of Time" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
When Don and Pat Carter's automobile breaks down in Ridgeview, Ohio, they decide to have lunch at the Busy Bee Cafe. The booth they sit in has a fortune...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 43
- x Original air date:
- Nov 18, 1960
The Lateness of the Hour
"The Lateness of the Hour" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone that was originally broadcast in the United States on the December 2, 1960.
At the foot of the staircase in the Loren mansion—as Dr. Loren and the...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 44
- x Original air date:
- Dec 2, 1960
The Trouble With Templeton
"The Trouble With Templeton" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Aging Broadway actor Booth Templeton is at home and sees his wife at the side of their pool flirting with her new flint, Ed Page. Booth's...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 45
- x Original air date:
- Dec 9, 1960
A Most Unusual Camera
"A Most Unusual Camera" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Two thieves, Chester and Paula, rob a curio shop, and among the things they steal is a strange camera. The pair come to realize that its pictures...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 46
- x Original air date:
- Dec 16, 1960
Back There
"Back There" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
On April 14, 1961, Peter Corrigan feels faint after a discussion of time travel with his friends at the Potomac Club, and finds it's April 14, 1865, the day of...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 49
- x Original air date:
- Jan 13, 1961
The Whole Truth
"The Whole Truth" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
As the Old Man drives his Model A car into Harvey Hunnicut's lot and gets out, the camera pans to the right to reveal Rod Serling standing four steps up...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 50
- x Original air date:
- Jan 20, 1961
The Invaders
"The Invaders" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
An old woman (Agnes Moorehead) is apparently living alone in a very rustic cabin. She is dressed shabbily and there are no modern conveniences in evidence....
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 51
- x Original air date:
- Jan 27, 1961
A Penny for Your Thoughts
"A Penny for Your Thoughts" is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.
Hector B. Poole, a timid bank clerk, gains telepathic powers after tossing a coin that miraculously stands on its edge. He discovers that he is able to "read"...
- x Season:
- x Episode number:
- 52
- x Original air date:
- Feb 3, 1961
Night of the Meek
"The Night of the Meek" is the December 23, 1960 episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
As heavy snow begins to fall, a drunk and dejected Henry Corwin, wearing his Santa Claus suit, stumbles and half-falls at a...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 47
- x Original air date:
- Dec 23, 1960
Dust
"Dust" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
An unscrupulous peddler, after selling the executioner some rope needed for a hanging, sells a bag of "magic dust" to the condemned man's father. The dust is...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 48
- x Original air date:
- Jan 6, 1961
The Odyssey of Flight 33
"The Odyssey of Flight 33" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
This episode takes place on Global Airlines Flight 33, en route from London to New York City. About fifty minutes from Idlewild Airport, Captain...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 54
- x Original air date:
- Feb 24, 1961
Twenty-Two
"Twenty Two" is an episode of the American television series The Twilight Zone.
In one uninterrupted shot, Liz Powell runs through the corridor of the hospital basement, pushes the elevator button and, as the doors open, lurches into the elevator....
- x Season:
- x Episode number:
- 53
- x Original air date:
- Feb 10, 1961
Mr. Dingle, the Strong
"Mr. Dingle, the Strong" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
In an experiment, two Martians give vacuum-cleaner salesman and perennial loser Luther Dingle superhuman strength. Discovering his new powers,...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 55
- x Original air date:
- Mar 3, 1961
The Prime Mover
"The Prime Mover" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
Ace Larsen discovers his partner, Jimbo Cobb, has telekinetic powers after a car crashes outside their café. Ace plans to use those powers to win big in...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 57
- x Original air date:
- Mar 24, 1961
Long Distance Call
"Long Distance Call" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
In the dining room, Billy Bayles is seen from the back, as he speaks on the toy telephone, while Chris Bayles and his dying mother slowly walk upstairs...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 58
- x Original air date:
- Mar 31, 1961
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
In the year 1847, Chris Horn (Cliff Robertson) is one of the leaders of a small wagon train from Ohio attempting to reach California. Horn's...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 59
- x Original air date:
- Apr 7, 1961
Static
"Static" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
As Ed Lindsay retrieves his old radio from the boarding house basement, he says to a boy watching him, "Don't you know what a radio is?". "Sure", says the kid, ...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 56
- x Original air date:
- Mar 10, 1961
The Rip Van Winkle Caper
"The Rip Van Winkle Caper" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
To escape the law after stealing $1 million worth of gold bricks, a band of four gold thieves, led by foreign-accented scientist-mastermind...
- x Season:
- The Twilight Zone Season 2
- x Episode number:
- 60
- x Original air date:
- Apr 21, 1961
