
The Twilight Zone
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Travel into the fifth dimension once again with The Twilight Zone, testing the limits of reality and exploring the mysteries of the universe. Airing from 1985 to 1989, this critically acclaimed anthology series carried on the legacy of the original Rod Serling program and attracted a brand new audience of fans.
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- 01I of NewtonA professor attempting to solve a difficult math problem idly comments that he would "sell his soul" to get it right. A demon shows up to collect, resulting in a battle of wits.
- 02ShatterdayThe story follows a man who finds that a double of himself has moved into his apartment and is taking over his life. A pushy fellow named Peter mistakenly dials his own telephone number in a bar and is astonished to find a nice guy named Peter answering at the other end. Peter is ‘both victim and victor of a brief struggle for the custody of a soul.
- 03HealerA small-time crook acquires a stone that gives him miraculous healing powers.
Cast
Episodes by season
Season01
- S01E01ShatterdaySeptember 27, 1985The story follows a man who finds that a double of himself has moved into his apartment and is taking over his life. A pushy fellow named Pe
- S01E02A Little Peace and QuietSeptember 27, 1985—A woman discovers a pendant which allows her to freeze time. A housewife who finds an amulet that enables her to "freeze" the entire world a
- S01E03WordplayOctober 4, 1985—Life is sure getting complicated for Bill Lawry (Robert Klein). His company is seling a new line of medical equipment and poor Bill has just
- S01E04Dreams for SaleOctober 4, 1985—A woman finds that a relaxing outdoor picnic with her family is nothing more than an escapist fantasy that is beamed directly into her brain
- S01E05ChameleonOctober 4, 1985A team of scientists contend with a shape-shifting alien.
- S01E06HealerOctober 11, 1985A small-time crook acquires a stone that gives him miraculous healing powers.
- S01E07Children's ZooOctober 11, 1985—Debbie is a four-year-old girl starved for attention because her parents are always fighting. Her mother yells at her and her father is too
- S01E08Kentucky RyeOctober 11, 1985—A drunk driver emerges from a crash to enter the bar of his dreams.
- S01E09Little Boy LostOctober 18, 1985—The story follows a woman who, while trying to decide between pursuing a globetrotting career and having a family, forms a relationship with
- S01E10Wish BankOctober 18, 1985—Upon finding a genie's lamp at a garage sale, a woman tries to cash in three wishes at the department of magical venues, a satire of the dep
- S01E11NightcrawlersOctober 18, 1985—State trooper Dennis Wells takes shelter from a downpour at a roadside diner. He describes to Bob the cook and the server a massacre that he
- S01E12If She DiesOctober 25, 1985—A widower's daughter falls into a coma with no prospects of recovery, and he is subsequently haunted by the apparition of an orphan who died
- S01E13Ye GodsOctober 25, 1985—A man's disinterest in pursuing love draws the wrath of Cupid and forces him into dealings with the gods of ancient mythology.
- S01E14Examination DayNovember 1, 1985—Dickie Jordan is an intelligent and curious youth. He and his family live in a dystopian future. On Dickie's twelfth birthday, he is require
- S01E15A Message from CharityNovember 1, 1985—A pair of teenagers–one from 1700, and one from 1985–share a mental link across time.
- S01E16Teacher's AideNovember 8, 1985—A high school teacher begins picking fights with disruptive students after she is exposed to a mystic gargoyle.
- S01E17Paladin of the Lost HourNovember 8, 1985—The story follows the friendship between a Vietnam veteran and an old man entrusted with forestalling the end of the universe. The televisio
- S01E18Act BreakNovember 15, 1985—A playwright dying from a heart attack gives his partner a magical relic which grants the bearer one wish.
- S01E19The Burning ManNovember 15, 1985—A boy and his aunt who, while driving on an isolated country road, encounter a crazed hitchhiker who claims to be an evil creature with a li
- S01E20Dealer's ChoiceNovember 15, 1985—Featuring an ensemble cast composed largely of veteran character actors, it follows the events of a poker night in which one of the players
- S01E21Dead Woman's ShoesNovember 22, 1985—It is a remake of "Dead Man's Shoes", an episode of the original Twilight Zone. It stars Helen Mirren as a timid woman who, upon trying on a
- S01E22Wong's Lost and Found EmporiumNovember 22, 1985—Based on the short story "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", by William F. Wu, first published in Amazing Stories in May 1983. It takes place
- S01E23The Shadow ManNovember 29, 1985—A boy discovers that a murderous shadow person resides under his bed.
- S01E24The Uncle Devil ShowNovember 29, 1985—A boy learns strange magic tricks from a bizarre kids' show, unbeknownst to his oblivious parents.
- S01E25Opening DayNovember 29, 1985—Carl Wilkerson is targeted for murder on the opening day of duck hunting season by his wife's lover- who is also his best friend.
- S01E26The BeaconDecember 6, 1985—Young doctor Dennis Barrows stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.
- S01E27One Life, Furnished in Early PovertyDecember 6, 1985—Gus Rosenthal returns to his childhood home, and finds himself transported to his past.
- S01E28Her Pilgrim SoulDecember 13, 1985—Two scientists create a holographic projector, which shows something completely unexpected- the reincarnated soul of a young girl.
- S01E29Season's bestI of NewtonDecember 13, 1985A professor attempting to solve a difficult math problem idly comments that he would "sell his soul" to get it right. A demon shows up to co
- S01E30Night of the MeekDecember 20, 1985—In this remake of "The Night of the Meek", drunk, out-of-work department store Santa Henry Corwin finds a magic gift-giving bag and becomes
- S01E31But Can She Type?December 20, 1985—Overworked, underappreciated secretary Karen Billings is sent by a malfunctioning Xerox machine into a parallel reality where secretaries ar
- S01E32The StarDecember 20, 1985—On an interstellar journey, an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a long-dead world that has been emitting a signal for
- S01E33Still LifeJanuary 3, 1986—Professional photographer Dan Arnold discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition. But developing the photo
- S01E34The Little People of Killany WoodsJanuary 3, 1986A story-telling town moocher has an encounter with "little people".
- S01E35The Misfortune CookieJanuary 3, 1986—Snobby food critic Harry Folger receives fortune cookie messages that come true.
- S01E36Monsters!January 24, 1986—Young horror movie enthusiast Toby finds that his new neighbor is a vampire, who in turn shows him that everything he knows about vampires i
- S01E37A Small Talent for WarJanuary 24, 1986—An alien race that claims to have created mankind returns to judge them.
- S01E38
A Matter of MinutesJanuary 24, 1986—A married couple, the Wrights, awakens behind-the-scenes of how time works. - S01E39The ElevatorJanuary 31, 1986—Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.
- S01E40To See the Invisible ManJanuary 31, 1986—In a future society, uncaring man Mitchell Chaplin is sentenced to a year of social isolation.
- S01E41Tooth and ConsequencesJanuary 31, 1986—The Tooth Fairy gives dentist Myron Mandel what he wishes for.
- S01E42Welcome to WinfieldFebruary 7, 1986—Two people fleeing an agent of Death end up in an old west town that has avoided death for decades.
- S01E43QuarantineFebruary 7, 1986—Weapons designer Matthew Forman is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later, where he finds a post-war human race that has gr
- S01E44GrammaFebruary 14, 1986Young Georgie is afraid of his ailing grandmother. His mother leaves him alone to take care of her.
- S01E45Personal DemonsFebruary 14, 1986—Veteran television screenwriter Rockne S. O'Bannon suffers from diminutive creatures that plague his daily life.
- S01E46Cold ReadingFebruary 14, 1986—1940s voice actor Milo Trent gets a job on a popular radio show. The show's creator, Nelson Westbrook, involuntarily causes every sound desc
- S01E47The Leprechaun-ArtistFebruary 21, 1986—A vacationing leprechaun is forced to grant wishes, which come with unintended consequences, to the three boys who captured him.
- S01E48Dead RunFebruary 21, 1986—Truck driver Johnny Davis accepts the job of delivering souls to Hell, and finds Hell is not what he expected.
- S01E49Profile in SilverMarch 7, 1986—History professor Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald is sent back in time to observe the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but he botches the j
- S01E50Button, ButtonMarch 7, 1986—A mysterious stranger gives down-and-out couple Norma and Arthur Lewis a box with a button on it. He states that if they press the button, t
- S01E51Need to KnowMarch 21, 1986—Government scientist Edward Sayers is sent to a small town to investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity.
- S01E52Red SnowMarch 21, 1986—KGB Colonel Ilyanov is sent to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of the local Communist Party officials.
- S01E53Take My Life... Please!March 28, 1986—Comedian Billy Diamond must perform an act that will decide his fate in the afterlife.
- S01E54Devil's AlphabetMarch 28, 1986—The members of a poetry society find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.
- S01E55The LibraryMarch 28, 1986—Writer Ellen Pendleton is hired to work in a private library and where the books document the lives of everyone alive, updated instantly.
- S01E56
Shadow PlayApril 4, 1986—A remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode. Sentenced to death, Adam Grant desperately tries to convince his prosecutor that their reality i - S01E57Grace NoteApril 4, 1986—Opera singer Rosemary Miletti gains a glimpse of her future with a wish from her dying sister.
- S01E58A Day in BeaumontApril 11, 1986—After witnessing the landing of a flying saucer, a young couple find themselves in the midst of an alien invasion.
- S01E59The Last Defender of CamelotApril 11, 1986—In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights teams with Morgan le Fay to stop the return of Merlin.
Season02
- S02E01The Once and Future KingSeptember 27, 1986—Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin travels back in time and meets the real Elvis Presley.
- S02E02A Saucer of LonelinessSeptember 27, 1986—Lonely waitress Margaret encounters a mysterious saucer with a message only for her.
- S02E03What Are Friends For?October 4, 1986—A child's imaginary friend turns out to be his father's imaginary friend as well.
- S02E04Aqua VitaOctober 4, 1986—Christine, an aging news anchor, finds a method for youth at a steep price.
- S02E05The StorytellerOctober 11, 1986—Young teacher Dorothy Livingston finds that the secret to immortality resides in stories.
- S02E06NightsongOctober 11, 1986—DJ Andrea Fields must cope with the return of her lover after a 5-year disappearance.
- S02E07The After HoursOctober 18, 1986—In this remake of the 1960 Twilight Zone episode, a woman is trapped in a mall after hours with living mannequins.
- S02E08Lost and FoundOctober 18, 1986—A student's possessions mysteriously vanish.
- S02E09The World Next DoorOctober 18, 1986—A door in the basement leads to a parallel world, and both of a man's counterparts find the grass greener on the other side.
- S02E10The Toys of CalibanDecember 4, 1986—A mentally challenged child has immense, dangerous powers which his parents struggle to prevent his misusing.
- S02E11The Convict's PianoDecember 11, 1986—A wrongfully convicted prisoner discovers an old piano in his prison with special powers.
- S02E12The Road Less TraveledDecember 18, 1986—A draft-dodger is haunted by the specter of a familiar-looking man in a wheelchair.
- S02E13The CardFebruary 21, 1987—A woman with out-of-control spending habits finds her new credit card comes with unexpected penalties.
- S02E14The JunctionFebruary 21, 1987—A miner who has been cheating on his wife is trapped by a cave-in with a miner from 1912.
- S02E15Joy RideMay 21, 1987—Four teens take a recently deceased man's classic car for a joyride. The driver acts increasingly irrationally during the ride.
- S02E16Shelter SkelterMay 21, 1987—A survivalist and his friend live in his shelter after a nuclear bomb detonation.
- S02E17Private ChannelMay 21, 1987—After accidentally dropping his portable stereo in an airplane lavatory, a young man discovers that it allows him to hear other people's tho
- S02E18Time and Teresa GolowitzJuly 10, 1987—A Broadway composer accepts an offer from the devil and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. While there he sees an oppo
- S02E19Voices in the EarthJuly 10, 1987—People return to a barren Earth to find that not everything had left when they thought it did.
- S02E20Song of the Younger WorldJuly 17, 1987—In 1916, a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her disapproving father, the super
- S02E21The Girl I MarriedJuly 17, 1987—An attorney pines after the way his wife was in their younger years, only to encounter that younger woman in the present.
Season03
- S03E01The Curious Case of Edgar WitherspoonSeptember 24, 1988—Edgar Witherspoon is ordered by a mysterious voice to collect junk in his apartment to keep the world in balance.
- S03E02Extra InningsOctober 1, 1988—Ex-baseball player Ed Hamner, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports
- S03E03The CrossingOctober 8, 1988—A stressed-out priest is haunted by the sight of a station wagon with a woman inside that keeps crashing.
- S03E04The HuntersOctober 15, 1988—An archeologist studies prehistoric paintings in a newly discovered cave. The project takes a dark turn after the carcasses of livestock fro
- S03E05Dream Me a LifeOctober 22, 1988—A man in a retirement home is trapped in the dreams of a catatonic widow.
- S03E06MemoriesOctober 29, 1988—A specialist in past life regression enters an alternate reality where everyone already remembers all their past lives.
- S03E07The Hellgramite MethodNovember 5, 1988—An alcoholic goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem.
- S03E08Our Sylena is DyingNovember 12, 1988—A young woman has her youth sucked out of her by her dying aunt.
- S03E09The CallNovember 19, 1988—A lonely man dials a wrong number and develops a close relationship with the woman on the other end. When she refuses to meet him, he invest
- S03E10The TranceNovember 26, 1988—A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, an inhabitant of Atlantis. He begins involuntarily channeling a real spirit, one with
- S03E11Acts of TerrorDecember 3, 1988—A battered wife finds the strength to fight her abusive husband by looking at a statuette of a Doberman Pinscher.
- S03E1220/20 VisionDecember 10, 1988—Bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them, showing that his efforts to help a
- S03E13There Was an Old WomanDecember 17, 1988—A writer of children's books autographs a book for a sick young fan. Later, she starts hearing the sound of children in her house.
- S03E14The TrunkDecember 24, 1988—A motel proprietor discovers an empty trunk that grants wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends
- S03E15Appointment on Route 17December 31, 1988—After receiving a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed, incorporating a strange attraction to a waitress at a road dine
- S03E16The Cold EquationsJanuary 7, 1989—A cargo pilot on the frontiers of space finds an innocent stowaway on his ship, who the ship's fuel supply cannot support.
- S03E17Stranger in Possum MeadowsJanuary 14, 1989—A young boy playing in a field meets a man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.
- S03E18Street of ShadowsJanuary 21, 1989—While breaking into a house, an unemployed homeless man switches bodies with the house's owner.
- S03E19Something in the WallsJanuary 28, 1989—A doctor at a sanitarium has a patient who is terribly frightened of patterns on clothing and furniture.
- S03E20A Game of PoolDecember 31, 1989—n this remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode, a pool player challenges the long-dead legend, Fats Brown, who returns from the afterlife t
- S03E21The WallFebruary 25, 1989—A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. The Army calls upon a career soldier to investigate. He finds an idyllic worl
- S03E22Room 2426February 11, 1989—Scientist Martin Decker is confined and interrogated by government agents for the location of his notes. Escape for Martin comes from the mi
- S03E23The Mind of Simon FosterFebruary 18, 1989—To make ends meet, Simon Foster sells his memories to a pawn shop broker.
- S03E24Cat and MouseMarch 4, 1989—A shy woman becomes the lover of a cursed Casanova who turns into a cat during the daytime.
- S03E25Rendezvous in a Dark PlaceMarch 12, 1989—An old woman with an obsession with death finds an injured thief in her home. When Death arrives to collect him, she tries to persuade him t
- S03E26Many, Many MonkeysMarch 18, 1989—An epidemic causes blindness. A nurse begins to believe that the disease is divine retribution.
- S03E27Love is BlindMarch 25, 1989—A man plotting to murder his wife's lover meets a blind singer who knows all about his plan.
- S03E28Crazy as a Soup SandwichApril 1, 1989—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
- S03E29Special ServiceApril 8, 1989—A man finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.
- S03E30Father & Son GameApril 15, 1989—Upon brain death, a 79-year-old man has his brain data transplanted into an experimental robot brain. His son considers this an abomination
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