The worst episodes of The Twilight Zone
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- 01
A bumbling screenwriter, Julius K. Moomer, is becoming desperate for a sale after 23 years working on unproduced scripts. When his agent mentions that he is submitting another writer's pitch for a television series about black magic, Julius pleads to be allowed to be given first crack at the series. Knowing nothing about the subject, he attempts some research but turns up only an actual book of black magic. While experimenting with the book he accidentally conjures William Shakespeare, who says he is at the service of the conjurer. Deciding not to waste Shakespeare's talent on a television pilot, Julius directs him to write a film.
- 02
A scientist (Dana Andrews) goes back in time to try and change history.
- 03
The Incredible World of Horace Ford
A middle-aged toy designer (Pat Hingle) goes back to his childhood when he visits his old neighborhood.
- 04
The pilot of a World War 2 Bomber called King Nine crashes in an African desert, wondering when and where he is. The Captain soon regains consciousness, he starts searching his surroundings and soon finds the graves of his crew and eventually wakes up in a hospital bed, 17 years after the crash. As the psychiatrist assures the nurse that the Captain is only reliving what happened in his mind, she begins to wonder, especially after finding sand in his shoes.
- 05
A writer (Richard Haydn) believes machines are conspiring against him.
- 06
When singer Floyd Burney travels to a small, backwoods community looking for an authentic folk song to become his next hit song, he gets more than he bargained for when he meets a beautiful girl who was destined to share a song with him.
- 07
A radio allows an old man (Dean Jagger) to listen to programs from his past.
- 08
During the Civil War, a Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place.
- 09
A boorish man with an obsession of loud noises drives his wife to leave him, and as a result, gets institutionalized when the smallest, most innocent sounds start sounding so magnified that cause him to go insane.
- 10
Two children escape their bickering parents through a portal in the bottom of their swimming pool to a magical land watched over by a kindly old woman the children call Aunt T.
- 11
A hapless vacuum cleaner salesman is given super-strength by a Martian as a means of testing humanity.
- 12
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
As family and friends sit through the funeral of Jeff Myrtlebank, they are in for a rude awakening when he sits up from his coffin, demanding to know what's going on. They then begin to fear Jeff came back to life, possessed by a demon and soon bow to his will for fear of what might happen to their crops and loved ones.
- 13
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.
- 14
A washed-up jockey gets his wish while waiting for the results of his race fixing hearing.
- 15
A struggling ventriloquist (Jackie Cooper) has a dummy who talks him into a life of crime.
- 16
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.
- 17
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
A nervous little hustler, Jackie Rhoades, is ordered to make a hit on someone for a mobster. However, when he tries to leave his hotel room, he discovers that he first must conquer his ultimate enemy: the face in the mirror.
- 18
A used-car dealer (Jack Carson) is forced to tell the truth after buying a car from an old man (George Chandler) who says it is haunted.
- 19
A homeless man (Warren Stevens) literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse.
- 20
A visitor from outer space (Geoffrey Horne) tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion.
- 21
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.
- 22
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.
- 23
The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
Three National Guardsmen (Ron Foster, Randy Boone, and Warren Oates) exploring the site of Custer's Last Stand wind up getting involved in the actual battle.
- 24
A young boy wishes that his hero, a washed-up boxer, could win one last fight... and he does.
- 25
While traveling down an apparently deserted road, toward the end of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate Soldier stops to take a rest on the steps of a destroyed mansion. While there, he meets a widow of a Confederate Officer. They soon watch as soldiers, from the North and South, travel down the road, and ultimately realize that at the end of the road is the Promised Land.
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