The Twilight Zone (1959)
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Rod Serling — Writer
Episodes 95
The Time Element (Pilot) from Desilu Playhouse
A man (William Bendix) visits a psychoanalyst, complaining about a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
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 S01E06, it is still considered the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone.
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Read MoreWhere Is Everybody?
Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
Read MoreOne for the Angels
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
Read MoreMr. Denton on Doomsday
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
Read MoreThe Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
Read MoreWalking Distance
A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child.
Read MoreEscape Clause
A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
Read MoreThe Lonely
In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.
Read MoreTime Enough at Last
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
Read MoreJudgment Night
In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.
Read MoreAnd When the Sky Was Opened
Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.
Read MoreWhat You Need
A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
Read MoreThe Four of Us Are Dying
In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
Read MoreThird from the Sun
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
Read MoreI Shot an Arrow into the Air
Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.
Read MoreThe Hitch-Hiker
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.
Read MoreThe Purple Testament
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on the faces of his men before battle.
Read MoreMirror Image
In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
Read MoreThe Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
Read MorePeople Are Alike All Over
After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.
Read MoreThe Big Tall Wish
Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent during a comeback fight, turning the tide in his favor.
Read MoreNightmare as a Child
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory about a man she saw earlier that day.
Read MoreA Stop at Willoughby
Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called Willoughby.
Read MoreA Passage for Trumpet
A down-and-out trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.
Read MoreThe After Hours
Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist.
Read MoreThe Mighty Casey
A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
Read MoreKing Nine Will Not Return
A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane, and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.
Read MoreThe Man in the Bottle
A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
Read MoreNervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
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.
Read MoreA Thing About Machines
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
Read MoreEye of the Beholder
A young woman is forced to undergo experimental treatments in an attempt to make her appear "normal."
Read MoreThe Lateness of the Hour
Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter, however, feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is.
Read MoreA Most Unusual Camera
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.
Read MoreThe Night of the Meek
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
Read MoreBack There
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.
Read MoreThe Whole Truth
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
Read MoreTwenty Two
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
Read MoreThe Odyssey of Flight 33
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
Read MoreMr. Dingle, the Strong
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
Read MoreA Hundred Yards Over the Rim
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
Read MoreThe Rip Van Winkle Caper
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
Read MoreThe Silence
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
Read MoreThe Mind and the Matter
A book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are two different things!
Read MoreWill the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
State 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…
Read MoreThe Obsolete Man
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.
Read MoreThe Arrival
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
Read MoreThe Shelter
When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
Read MoreThe Passersby
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.
Read MoreThe Mirror
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.
Read MoreIt's a Good Life
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.
Read MoreDeaths-Head Revisited
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
Read MoreThe Midnight Sun
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
Read MoreStill Valley
Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
Read MoreFive Characters in Search of an Exit
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Read MoreA Quality of Mercy
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.
Read MoreOne More Pallbearer
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
Read MoreShowdown with Rance McGrew
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.
Read MoreTo Serve Man
The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
Read MoreThe Little People
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
Read MoreFour O'Clock
Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.
Read MoreHocus-Pocus and Frisby
A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
Read MoreThe Trade-Ins
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
Read MoreCavender is Coming
Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.
Read MoreThe Changing of the Guard
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.
Read MoreThe Thirty-Fathom Grave
A US naval destroyer investigates a mysterious tapping sound coming from a sunken submarine.
Read MoreHe's Alive
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...
Read MoreNo Time Like the Past
A man travels back in time to try to prevent some of history's catastrophes.
Read MoreThe Parallel
An astronaut blacks out while orbiting the earth and ends up in a parallel universe.
Read MoreOf Late I Think of Cliffordville
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.
Read MoreOn Thursday We Leave For Home
The leader of an expedition on an asteroid tries to convince the others that Earth is not worth returning to.
Read MoreIn Praise of Pip
Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that 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.
Read MoreA Kind of a Stopwatch
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Read MoreThe Last Night of a Jockey
Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
Read MoreThe Old Man in the Cave
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
Read MoreUncle Simon
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
Read MoreProbe 7, Over and Out
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
Read MoreThe 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Read MoreA Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
Read MoreThe Long Morrow
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
Read MoreI Am the Night - Color Me Black
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.
Read MoreSounds and Silences
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
Read MoreThe Jeopardy Room
A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.
Read MoreMr. Garrity and the Graves
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
Read MoreThe Brain Center at Whipple's
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
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