The Twilight Zone
CBS (ended 1964)
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Season 5
- Ep 36The Bewitchin' Pool6/19/64
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool. - Ep 35The Fear5/29/64
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial. - Ep 34Come Wander with Me5/22/64
A singer's song becomes tragically real.
- Ep 33The Brain Center at Whipple's5/15/64
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines. - Ep 32Mr. Garrity and the Graves5/8/64
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead. - Ep 31The Encounter5/1/64
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago. - Ep 30Stopover in a Quiet Town4/24/64
Bob and Millie wake up to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees, animals even cars. - Ep 29The Jeopardy Room4/17/64
Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits. - Ep 28Caesar and Me4/10/64
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries. - Ep 27Sounds and Silences4/3/64
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires. - Ep 26I Am the Night - Color Me Black3/27/64
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black. - Ep 25The Masks3/20/64
A dying man demands his family wear masks that he's given them at a Mardi Gras party. - Ep 24What's in the Box3/13/64
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and its horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set. - Ep 23Queen of the Nile3/6/64
Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn't aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret. - Ep 22An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge2/28/64
A Confederate spy is spared death when the rope meant to hang him miraculously breaks. Or does it? - Ep 21Spur of the Moment2/21/64
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life. - Ep 20From Agnes - With Love2/14/64
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life. - Ep 19Night Call2/7/64
Mysterious phone calls haunt a disabled woman. - Ep 18Black Leather Jackets1/31/64
Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are. - Ep 17Number Twelve Looks Just Like You1/24/64
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity. - Ep 16The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross1/17/64
A man finds that he can trade anything he has, including youth and personality, with anybody else. - Ep 15The Long Morrow1/10/64
Before leaving on his mission, an astronaut meets a woman. They fall in love… - Ep 14You Drive1/3/64
Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas. - Ep 13Ring-A-Ding Girl12/27/63
Bunny receives a ring from her fan club in her home town. In the ring she sees the faces of people from her hometown telling her she's needed there. She arrives in Howardville on the day of the annual Founder's Day picnic. She tries to get the chairman of the picnic to postpone it a day, but he refuses. She then plans a one-woman show at the auditorium. Before the show, Bunny disappears. Later, a jet airliner crashes onto the picnic grounds. Thanks to Bunny, almost everyone is at the auditorium instead of the picnic grounds. They later find that Bunny was a passenger on the plane.moreless - Ep 12Ninety Years Without Slumbering12/20/63
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running. - Ep 11A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain12/13/63
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum. - Ep 10The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms12/6/63
Three National Guardsmen explore the site of Custer's Last Stand and encounter mysterious phenomenon that hint at the original battle occurring just out of sight. - Ep 9Probe 7, Over and Out11/29/63
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet. - Ep 8Uncle Simon11/15/63
Uncle Simon tries to strike Barbara with his cane. She grabs it and he falls down the stairs to his death. His will stipulates that she must care for his latest invention - a robot. The robot begins to take on Uncle Simon's traits. Barbara finally pushes it down the stairs, but that only gives it a limp identical to Uncle Simon's. She finally realizes that she will never be rid of Uncle Simon.moreless - Ep 7The Old Man in the Cave11/8/63
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth. - Ep 6Living Doll11/1/63
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him! - Ep 5The Last Night of a Jockey10/25/63
A dejected jockey wants to be tall. - Ep 4A Kind of a Stopwatch10/18/63
Patrick Thomas McNulty, a long-winded and self-absorbed know-it-all, is given a fantastic device which brings literal meaning to the expression "stop the world; I want to get off." - Ep 3Nightmare at 20,000 Feet10/11/63
Mr. Wilson believes he sees a gremlin on the wing of the commercial aircraft he is taking back home... from the sanitarium, where he has been committed for six months after a mental breakdown during a similar flight. - Ep 2Steel10/4/63
Boxing robot "Battling Maxo" breaks down before the scheduled bout, forcing his manager to take its place. - Ep 1In Praise of Pip9/27/63
An alcoholic bookie regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.
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Season 4
- Ep 18The Bard5/23/63
An untalented would-be writer's career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespeare writes his script. - Ep 17Passage on the Lady Anne5/9/63
Instead of the cruise bringing them closer together, the Ransomes agree to get a divorce when they return home. Eileen disappears, and when Allan finds her she is wearing a nightgown that a passenger wore on her honeymoon. Seeing her, Allan realizes how much he still loves her. The passengers force them into a lifeboat, with plenty of provisions, and set them adrift. The Lady Anne sails off.moreless - Ep 16On Thursday We Leave For Home5/2/63
A man named Benteen leads a colony of Americans stranded on a desert planet for 30 years. - Ep 15The Incredible World of Horace Ford4/18/63
Toy designer Horace Ford spends most of his time reminiscing about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets a chance to go back to those years he gets a bitter taste of reality. - Ep 14Of Late I Think of Cliffordville4/11/63
A bored, wealthy businessman gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with all the knowledge he's acquired...an arsenal that's not as powerful as he thinks. - Ep 13The New Exhibit4/4/63
The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins... - Ep 12I Dream of Genie3/21/63
A man considers several possibilities when offered one wish by a genie. - Ep 11The Parallel3/14/63
An astronaut arrives back on Earth, then notices several differences. - Ep 10No Time Like the Past3/7/63
A man travels back in time to try to prevent some of history's catastrophes. - Ep 9Printer's Devil2/28/63
Douglas Winter's paper, The Courier, is in financial trouble. Mr. Smith appears and offers to pay off the debts, and run the linotype machine. Douglas agrees, but soon regrets when he realizes Mr. Smith is the devil. Mr. Smith offers him a contract guaranteeing The Courier's success in exchange for Doug's soul. Afraid of losing Mr. Smith, he agrees. Mr. Smith proceeds to cause all kinds of disasters. Doug asks him to stop, and Mr. Smith makes him another offer: He'll stop if Doug will kill himself. He agrees, but gets an idea. He sets in type a story that says he and the devil's contract is void, and that Mr. Smith is banished from Earth. He decides to run the paper fair and square; the first thing is to destroy that linotype machine.moreless - Ep 8Miniature2/21/63
A lonely man falls in love with a mini museum doll, which he believes is alive. - Ep 7Jess-Belle2/14/63
Jess-Belle enlists the aid of a local witch who casts a spell that makes Billy-Ben fall in love with her. - Ep 6Death Ship2/7/63
A three-man spacecraft lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they are dead, but the captain refuses to see the truth. - Ep 5Mute1/31/63
A 12-year-old girl who lost her parents in a fire doesn't speak because she has grown up in a secret telepathic community. The couple who take her in, and her teacher, are determined to help her adapt to their society, no matter the cost. - Ep 4He's Alive1/24/63
Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer's following grows, as does his ego... - Ep 3Valley of the Shadow1/17/63
A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things. - Ep 2The Thirty-Fathom Grave1/10/63
A US naval destroyer investigates a mysterious tapping sound coming from a sunken submarine. - Ep 1In His Image1/3/63
A scientist creates an android that has the qualities which he feels he's lacking.
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Season 3
- Ep 37The Changing of the Guard6/1/62
An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years. - Ep 36Cavender is Coming5/25/62
Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired. - Ep 35I Sing the Body Electric5/18/62
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children. - Ep 34Young Man's Fancy5/11/62
When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist. - Ep 33The Dummy5/4/62
A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support! - Ep 32The Gift4/27/62
An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present. - Ep 31The Trade-Ins4/20/62
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies. - Ep 30Hocus-Pocus and Frisby4/13/62
A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens. - Ep 29Four O'Clock4/6/62
Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock. - Ep 28The Little People3/30/62
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants. - Ep 27Person or Persons Unknown3/23/62
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him. - Ep 26Little Girl Lost3/16/62
A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever. - Ep 25The Fugitive3/9/62
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl. - Ep 24To Serve Man3/2/62
The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man. - Ep 23The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank2/23/62
Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely... - Ep 22A Piano in the House2/16/62
Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence. - Ep 21Kick the Can2/9/62
The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called "kick-the-can." - Ep 20Showdown with Rance McGrew2/2/62
Actor Rance McGrew makes TV Westerns for a living, but he's a lousy actor and a worse cowboy. Despite that, each week he "wins" against the bad guys. Finally the bad guys have enough and send Jesse James to Earth to teach McGrew a lesson. - Ep 19The Hunt1/26/62
On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him. - Ep 18Dead Man's Shoes1/19/62
A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer. - Ep 17One More Pallbearer1/12/62
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter. - Ep 16Nothing in the Dark1/5/62
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death." - Ep 15A Quality of Mercy12/29/61
A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces. - Ep 14Five Characters in Search of an Exit12/22/61
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder. - Ep 13Once Upon a Time12/15/61
Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time traveling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down. - Ep 12The Jungle12/1/61
Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's witch doctor puts a curse on him. - Ep 11Still Valley11/24/61
Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them. - Ep 10The Midnight Sun11/17/61
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction. - Ep 9Deaths-Head Revisited11/10/61
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims. - Ep 8It's a Good Life11/3/61
Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing. - Ep 7The Grave10/27/61
Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse. - Ep 6The Mirror10/20/61
After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy. - Ep 5A Game of Pool10/13/61
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game. - Ep 4The Passersby10/6/61
On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow. - Ep 3The Shelter9/29/61
When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter. - Ep 2The Arrival9/22/61
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing! - Ep 1Two9/15/61
A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
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Season 2
- Ep 29The Obsolete Man6/2/61
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death. - Ep 28Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up5/26/61
Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people boarded his bus… - Ep 27The Mind and the Matter5/12/61
A book on the power of thought enables an irritable man to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. - Ep 26Shadow Play5/5/61
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real. - Ep 25The Silence4/28/61
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000. - Ep 24The Rip Van Winkle Caper4/21/61
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars. - Ep 23A Hundred Yards over the Rim4/7/61
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico. - Ep 22Long Distance Call3/31/61
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone. - Ep 21The Prime Mover3/24/61
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big. - Ep 20Static3/10/61
Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone. - Ep 19Mr. Dingle, the Strong3/3/61
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men. - Ep 18The Odyssey of Flight 332/24/61
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time. - Ep 17Twenty-Two2/10/61
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue. - Ep 16A Penny For Your Thoughts2/3/61
The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read. - Ep 15The Invaders1/27/61
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens. - Ep 14The Whole Truth1/20/61
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth. - Ep 13Back There1/13/61
It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has moved back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination. - Ep 12Dust1/6/61
After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust." - Ep 11The Night of the Meek12/23/60
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers the Christmas spirit. - Ep 10A Most Unusual Camera12/16/60
Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future. - Ep 9The Trouble with Templeton12/9/60
Booth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear. - Ep 8The Lateness of the Hour12/2/60
Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter, however, feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is. - Ep 7Nick of Time11/18/60
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble. - Ep 6The Eye of the Beholder11/11/60
A young woman is forced to undergo experimental treatments in an attempt to make her appear "normal." - Ep 5The Howling Man11/4/60
A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner. - Ep 4A Thing About Machines10/28/60
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him. - Ep 3Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room10/14/60
Ordered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a smalltime hood nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he could have been--confident, strong...and determined to get out. - Ep 2The Man in the Bottle10/7/60
A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes. - Ep 1King Nine Will Not Return9/30/60
A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane. Where is his crew? And why are futuristic jet planes flying overhead?
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Season 1
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Specials
