The Twilight Zone (1985)

CBS (ended 1989)
  • Season 3
    • Ep 30
      Father and Son Game
      4/15/89
      7.1
      A 79-year-old man wants to keep on living so he transplants his brain into a younger body. His son, however, resents his father's continued life and tries to wrestle power from him.
    • Ep 29
      Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
      4/1/89
      7.8
      A man sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss he borrowed the track money from.
    • Ep 28
      Love is Blind
      3/25/89
      7.6
      A man plotting to murder his wife's lover meets a blind singer who seems to know all about his plans.
    • Ep 27
      Special Service
      4/8/89
      8.0
      A man finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.
    • Ep 26
      Rendezvous in a Dark Place
      3/12/89
      7.1
      An old woman with an obsession with death attends funerals for entertainment. One night when an injured thief breaks into her home, she lets him die and waits for Death to come and collect him.
    • Ep 25
      Many, Many Monkeys
      3/18/89
      5.2
      An epidemic breaks out and many people are struck blind. Something more happens, however: People have become cold and heartless toward each other.
    • Ep 24
      Cat and Mouse
      3/4/89
      6.6
      A shy woman finds that a cat is actually a cursed "Casanova." She falls for the man but finds that her Prince Charming is actually a scoundrel.
    • Ep 23
      The Mind of Simon Foster
      2/18/89
      8.5
      In an impoverished future, Simon Foster goes to a pawnshop to sell some personal items to raise money for rent. The shop owner offers to buy some of his memories. In Simon Foster's life, what could be possibly be valuable?
    • Ep 22
      Room 2426
      2/11/89
      8.4
      Martin Decker is confined to a special room for acts and thoughts against the state. They want the formula for a weapon he does not want to reveal. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.
    • Ep 21
      The Wall
      2/25/89
      5.9
      A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. After sending through one team, the Army calls upon a career soldier to investigate, where he finds an idyllic planet. He has to decide whether to stay or go back to his old life.
    • Ep 20
      A Game of Pool
      12/31/89
      7.0
      A pool champion has defeated everyone. Except for the long dead legend, Fats Brown.
    • Ep 19
      Something in the Walls
      1/28/89
      7.9
      A doctor arrives at his new job in a sanitarium. He discovers the case of a woman who is terribly frightened of things that appear on her walls.
    • Ep 18
      Street of Shadows
      1/21/89
      4.0
      While taking a walk in a wealthy neighborhood. an unemployed man living in a shelter experiences an unusual transformation.
    • Ep 17
      Stranger in Possum Meadows
      1/14/89
      6.3
      A young boy playing in a field meets an old man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.
    • Ep 16
      The Cold Equations
      1/7/89
      7.6
      A rescue pilot on the frontiers of space is faced with unpleasant prospects when he finds an innocent stowaway on his ship.
    • Ep 15
      Appointment on Route 17
      12/31/88
      6.4
      After finishing a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed. He also discovers that he has a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.
    • Ep 14
      The Trunk
      12/24/88
      6.4
      A young man at a motel discovers an empty trunk that grants any wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are.
    • Ep 13
      There Was an Old Woman
      12/17/88
      6.3
      A writer of children's books gives a book to a sick young fan. Later, she starts hearing the sound of children in her house.
    • Ep 12
      20/20 Vision
      12/10/88
      6.6
      Newly promoted bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them. Faced with seeing the future of the farmers whose farms he must foreclose on, Warren can't bring himself to foreclose. Right away he's torn into doing his job or standing up for the people he helps. He manages to get his way by using his knowledge of the future to blackmail his conniving boss and convincing him to let things go.moreless
    • Ep 11
      Acts of Terror
      12/3/88
      8.2
      A woman terrorized by her abusive husband finds some small consolation in a statue of a dog given to her by her sympathetic sister.
    • Ep 10
      The Trance
      11/26/88
      6.1
      A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, a former inhabitant of Atlantis. Together with a partner, he makes a living off of it. The day of his big break, he channels another spirit, one who could cause him to lose everything. Is it punishment or a lesson from the Twilight Zone?moreless
    • Ep 9
      The Call
      11/19/88
      7.3
      A lonely man accidentally phones the wrong number and finds an intriguing female to whom he grows attached. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and finds the phone in a museum next to the statue of a woman.
    • Ep 8
      Our Selena is Dying
      11/12/88
      5.9
      A young woman, Debra, comes to live with her mysterious family, including the dying patriarch Selena. After Selena clutches Debra's hand firmly leaving an odd spot on it, Debra begins to age very fast while Selena rejuvenates.
    • Ep 7
      The Hellgramite Method
      11/5/88
      8.1
      An alcoholic goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem. He has to choose which is more important - the bottle or his life.
    • Ep 6
      Memories
      10/29/88
      7.9
      A hypnotist who specializes in helping people relive their past lives tries to find her own history. She hypnotizes herself and when she awakens, she learns that everyone can now remember their past lives. They also desperately want to forget them.
    • Ep 5
      Dream Me a Life
      10/22/88
      5.6
      A man in a retirement home dreams of a woman holding back a monster, and in real life realizes the woman is his cataleptic neighbor.
    • Ep 4
      The Hunters
      10/15/88
      5.6
      A young boy falls into an undiscovered cave near a housing project. An archeologist studies strange paintings on its walls and then bizarre things begin to happen. Cave items move around and animals are killed and brought into the cave.
    • Ep 3
      The Crossing
      10/8/88
      4.9
      A stressed-out priest repeatedly encounters a station wagon containing a young girl. The car keeps crashing and bursting into flames.
    • Ep 2
      Extra Innings
      10/1/88
      7.3
      Ex-baseball player Ed Hamler, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a 1909 baseball card of a player that looks exactly like him. The card is magical in that he becomes drawn into it and lives out the life of the player in the past.
    • Ep 1
      The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon
      9/24/88
      8.2
      A woman tries to get her Uncle Edgar committed, believing that he is senile. The investigating doctor finds Edgar living in an apartment containing all kinds of junk. Edgar claims that a mysterious Voice tells him him what junk to collect, and to assemble it into a device that constantly keeps the world in balance.moreless
  • Season 2
    • Ep 21
      The Girl I Married
      7/17/87
      6.7
      An attorney and his wife have successful careers. They feel something is lacking in their marriage. Soon, they encounter younger versions of their mates.
    • Ep 20
      Song of the Younger World
      7/17/87
      7.2
      In 1916 a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her father, the superintendent. He finds out and doesn't approve of their love, locking away his daughter and punishing the boy. Luckily, the girl has a secret plan to escape so she can be forever with the love of her life.moreless
    • Ep 19
      Voices in the Earth
      7/10/87
      7.2
      In the far future. an expedition returns to a desolate barren Earth where a scientist begins to see the ghosts of those who died years ago.
    • Ep 18
      Time and Teresa Golowitz
      7/10/87
      8.5
      A Broadway composer accepts an offer from the Prince of Darkness and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. It's not as pleasant as he expected and soon, he sees a classmate who met a tragic end that night. He uses the opportunity to prevent the classmate's suicide.moreless
    • Ep 17
      Private Channel
      5/21/87
      5.9
      On board an airplane, a lightning storm transforms a boy's walkman into a telepathic tuning device that informs him that the man sitting next to him is carrying a bomb.
    • Ep 16
      Shelter Skelter
      5/21/87
      7.5
      A survivalist traps himself in his bomb shelter when a nuclear blast finally comes.
    • Ep 15
      Joy Ride
      5/21/87
      6.0
      Four teens take a recently deceased man's classic car for a joyride. But the driver acts increasingly irrational during the ride...
    • Ep 14
      The Junction
      2/21/87
      7.4
      A modern-day miner has an argument with his wife and then goes off to work in the local mine. A collapse traps him, but he finds another survivor - a miner who claims to be from 1912. The two men figure out that somehow they have become connected through time.
    • Ep 13
      The Card
      2/21/87
      7.3
      A compulsive spender accepts "The Card" to keep up her habit. Unfortunately stringent penalties kick in for late payments.
    • Ep 12
      The Road Less Traveled
      12/18/86
      7.0
      A man who dodged the Vietnam draft sees how life would have been like if he hadn't.
    • Ep 11
      The Convict's Piano
      12/11/86
      8.3
      A wrongfully imprisoned piano player discovers an old piano that can transport him to other decades in the past.
    • Ep 10
      The Toys of Caliban
      12/4/86
      8.6
      An elderly couple keeps their mentally disabled son isolated because he can "bring" anything he sees in a picture.
    • Ep 9
      The World Next Door
      10/18/86
      6.6
      A hen-pecked man with a boring life and a secret yearn to build inventions finds a secret door in his basement that leads to a parallel world. In that world, his counterpart is a rich famous inventor in a Victorian-style setting who is equally bored with his life.
    • Ep 8
      Lost and Found
      10/18/86
      6.3
      A young college student has been losing personal items for some time. The mystery is resolved when she finds two time-travelers in her closet.
    • Ep 7
      The After Hours
      10/18/86
      7.6
      A woman goes to a mall for a doll, but encounters strange things after the closing hours...
    • Ep 6
      Nightsong
      10/11/86
      6.9
      A young DJ working the graveyard shift at a radio station rediscovers a record album by her boyfriend who disappeared five years ago. When he suddenly appears again, she is surprised and upset.
    • Ep 5
      The Storyteller
      10/11/86
      7.2
      In the early 20th century a young woman takes a job as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. One of her students, Mica, secretly takes extra books home to read. When the teacher confronts him, she finds that the boy is reading the books to his ailing grandfather - who claims to be more than a hundred and forty years old!moreless
    • Ep 4
      Aqua Vita
      10/4/86
      7.6
      Aging women become addicted to Aqua Vita, which will keep them young forever, but at great cost.
    • Ep 3
      What Are Friends For?
      10/4/86
      7.2
      A friendless boy finds the perfect playmate in the woods behind his house.
    • Ep 2
      A Saucer of Loneliness
      9/27/86
      7.6
      A quiet waitress sees a glowing UFO, which gives her a message that everyone wants to know. She refuses to reveal exactly what the message is.
    • Ep 1
      The Once and Future King
      9/27/86
      7.5
      An Elvis impersonator is transported to the 1950s where he meets the real Elvis who thinks that the impersonator is his long dead brother.
  • Season 1