The Twilight Zone — Season 1
All 36 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
A man named Mike Ferris finds himself walking down a deserted road toward an apparently uninhabited town. However, upon his arrival, he soon suspects that he is being watched, but not sure of by who. He then starts going crazy trying to figure out what's going on.
- 02
When Mr. Bookman, a sidewalk salesman gets visited by the angel of death, informing him that he will be dying at midnight that night, he convinces the angel that he has one big pitch to make before he dies. The angel agrees to a delay, but instead causes a neighbor's daughter to have an accident and "Mr. Death" comes to take her. Mr. Bookman realizes he has to make the pitch of his life.
- 03
The town drunk in the old-west faces his past when Fate lends a hand.
- 04
An aging, forgotten movie star from the 1930's longs to go back in time to her heyday, despite the pleas from her manager. However, his attempts to get her to live in the present backfires when he brings an old co-star by for a visit when she is shocked to discover how much he has aged over the years.
- 05
An overworked executive begins to wish for the easier times of his childhood. As a result, he manages to go back then and ultimately manages to make some subtle changes in the present.
- 06
A hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for several thousand years of immortality.
- 07
A prisoner is isolated to a deserted asteroid, and a sympathetic starship captain takes pity on him and delivers an android woman.
- 08
Henry Bemis is a bank teller who loves to read books. However, he gets in trouble for reading on his breaks at work and condemned by his wife at home when he attempts to read in his free time. Upon finding himself to be the lone survivor of a nuclear attack, Henry Bemis soon finds he has time enough to read any book he wants, only fate has other plans for him.
- 09
After failing to sleep for four days, Edward Hall goes to see a psychiatrist, sharing his fear that if he were to fall asleep, his dreams will ultimately kill him.
- 10
A man wakes up on an ocean liner with no memory of how he got there... and a Nazi U-boat soon begins stalking the liner.
- 11
Three astronauts return from the first journey into space. However, one by one they disappear... and no one else remembers that they ever existed.
- 12
A peddler uses his uncanny ability to tell what a person needs to supply them with the proper item at the proper moment. However, a thug gets wind of his ability and forces the peddler to use it for him or die.
- 13
A small-time con-man (Harry Townes) with the ability to change his face assumes the identities of a musician (Ross Martin), a gangster (Phillip Pine), and a boxer (Don Gordon).
- 14
With atomic war on the horizon, a scientist (Fritz Weaver) and his co-worker (Joe Maross) plot to board their families on a spaceship and escape to another planet.
- 15
Earth's first manned spaceship, Arrow One, disappears on its maiden flight. The three surviving crewmen fight for survival on a barren asteroid with no hope of rescue, and one of them takes any steps necessary to live.
- 16
A woman on a cross-country road trip is haunted by a mysterious hitchhiker who she can't avoid no matter how far she travels.
- 17
A determined anti-gambler gives in to temptation during a trip to Las Vegas and gambles away his life's savings on a one-armed bandit that seems to bear him a grudge.
- 18
A World War I pilot lands at a modern-day Air Force base, and discovers he must try and find his way back to his own time and right a wrong.
- 19
A World War II soldier in the Pacific gains the uncanny ability to see a glow in the faces of those who will soon die.
- 20
Three lost astronauts find themselves on an asteroid surrounded by lifeless tableaus of people from the early 20th century.
- 21
A woman at a bus stop finds herself haunted by a mysterious figure: herself.
- 22
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Panic breaks out in a suburban neighborhood when the power goes out, and all contact with the outside world is lost. The people begin to suspect each other of being alien invaders out to conquer the planet.
- 23
A businessman discovers that he's been transported into a world where he is an actor and his life is a movie set. Now he has to get back before the set is torn down.
- 24
A college professor suspects that his colleague, a Civil War expert, is much older than he appears.
- 25
Two astronauts crash on Mars, and the survivor meets with the Martians... and discovers that people are alike all over.
- 26
A scientist brings a condemned outlaw from the 19th century to his lab via a time travel machine, but soon discovers that he's in over his head.
- 27
A young boy wishes that his hero, a washed-up boxer, could win one last fight... and he does.
- 28
A punk criminal is gunned down by the police... and a mysterious white-suited Mr. Pip welcomes him to the afterlife and gives him everything that he wants.
- 29
A young girl named Markie is sitting outside the apartment of schoolteacher Helen Foley. Upon being invited into Helen's apartment, Markie seems to make Helen feel uncomfortable with how much she knows about her. It is ultimately revealed that Markie is there to help Helen remember the events of her mother's murder before the killer returns to take care of loose ends.
- 30
An overworked, stressed ad executive named Williams falls asleep on a train ride home from work and dreams of a small 19th century town called Willoughby. A few days later, upon learning that a young protégé jump ships and goes to a competing agency, he snaps and ultimately quits his job. Later, as he travels home, Williams decides to get off the next time the train makes its stop at Willoughby – only to jump off the rear of the train and is ultimately put into the back of a hearse owned by a funeral parlor called Willoughby & Son.
- 31
A young man tries to win the attention of an uninterested young woman. After being pointed in the direction of a mysterious professor, the young man gets a love potion to the woman of his dreams. However, it doesn't take long for him to tire of her nonstop affection, and he soon returns to the professor for help.
- 32
A down-and-out trumpet player (Jack Klugman) gets another chance at life after attempting suicide.
- 33
After having a bad day, Mr. Bevis receives a visit from his guardian angel and is offered the opportunity to relive his day, with a few changes. However, it doesn't take long for Bevis to wish for the way things were.
- 34
While shopping at a local department store, a young woman is looking for a thimble to give to her mother as a gift. After being advised to go to a non-existent floor to make her purchase, she has an encounter with a rude clerk and attempts to complain to the store manager, only to be locked in the store as it closes. It is at this time that the young woman comes to the realization that she is one of the store mannequins, who had the opportunity to live life as a real person for a month.
- 35
McGarry, the desperate manager of the last place and desperate baseball team called the Hoboken Zephyrs, goes to some drastic measures to ensure his team will start to win some games by bringing in a mysterious and young pitcher that goes by the name of Casey. When it is discovered that Casey is actually a robot, McGarry takes some extreme measures to ensure Casey becomes more human. However, things don't go quite like he expected.
- 36
A playwright (Keenan Wynn) has the ability to bring anything to life by describing it to a tape recorder.
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