
twilight-zone
Season 1
Season 1, Episode 1: Where Is Everybody?
Original Air Date 2 October 1959
A man finds himself in a town devoid of people and with no memory of who he is.
Season 1, Episode 2: One for the Angels
Original Air Date 9 October 1959
A pitchman (Ed Wynn) is visited by Death and is forced to get his priorities in order.
Season 1, Episode 3: Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Original Air Date 16 October 1959
The town drunk in the old-west faces his past when Fate lends a hand.
Season 1, Episode 4: The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine
Original Air Date 23 October 1959
Barbara Jean Trenton is a faded film star who lives in the past by constantly re-watching her old movies instead of moving on with her life, so her associates try to lure her out of her self-imposed isolation.
Season 1, Episode 5: Walking Distance
Original Air Date 30 October 1959
A man makes a time travel to his childhood, when he’s just a few miles away from his native town.
Season 1, Episode 6: Escape Clause
Original Air Date 6 November 1959
A hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for one million years of immortality.
Season 1, Episode 7: The Lonely
Original Air Date 13 November 1959
A convict, living alone in an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.
Season 1, Episode 8: Time Enough at Last
Original Air Date 20 November 1959
A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war
Season 1, Episode 9: Perchance to Dream
Original Air Date 27 November 1959
A fatigued man fights to stay awake as he explains to a psychiatrist that if he falls asleep it will trigger a nightmare, which will cause his heart to fail.
Season 1, Episode 10: Judgment Night
Original Air Date 4 December 1959
A man finds himself on a ship in the Atlantic in 1942 not knowing who he was or how he got there. He does know that the ship would be attacked by a German submarine.
Season 1, Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened
Original Air Date 11 December 1959
Three U.S. astronauts blast off from Earth on an initial test flight in an experimental rocket-ship, but during the flight into space the ship disappears from radar, then reappears. On return, the rocket-ship is hangared and put under a tarp, pending an investigation. One crewman (Jim Hutton) is hospitalized for a leg broken on landing, and is visited by the other two. Next the pair go for a drink, and then one crewman (Charles Aidman) phones his parents from a bar phone-booth – but they say they have no son! The astronaut immediately disappears, and no one in the bar remembers him, except the other astronaut in the bar, the Captain (Rod Taylor).
Season 1, Episode 12: What You Need
Original Air Date 25 December 1959
A small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.
Season 1, Episode 13: The Four of Us Are Dying
Original Air Date 1 January 1960
A man who can change his face to look like other people uses his ability to improve his life regardless of his affect on others.
Season 1, Episode 14: Third from the Sun
Original Air Date 8 January 1960
Two families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to World War III. They must also deal with a stooge who wants to stop them.
Season 1, Episode 15: I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Original Air Date 15 January 1960
Order breaks down between three surviving crewmen whose rocket ship crashes on an unknown world with limited water and supplies.
Season 1, Episode 16: The Hitch-Hiker
Original Air Date 22 January 1960
A young woman driving cross country becomes frantic when she keeps passing the same man on the side of the road. No matter how fast she drives the man is always up ahead, hitching her for a ride.
Season 1, Episode 17: The Fever
Original Air Date 29 January 1960
An elderly man catches gambling fever from a slot machine that he believes is calling his name.
Season 1, Episode 18: The Last Flight
Original Air Date 5 February 1960
A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air force base in France 42 years in the future.
Season 1, Episode 19: The Purple Testament
Original Air Date 12 February 1960
A U.S. army lieutenant serving in the Philippines during WWII develops a harrowing ability to see in the faces of the men of his platoon, who will be the next ones to die.
Season 1, Episode 20: Elegy
Original Air Date 19 February 1960
Three astronauts touch down on an asteroid, where they discover a world of people that appear to be frozen in time. Confused, they theorize as to why everyone is motionless, until a man springs to life and explains
Season 1, Episode 21: Mirror Image
Original Air Date 26 February 1960
While waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.
Season 1, Episode 22: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Original Air Date 4 March 1960
On a peaceful city street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stokes the residents’ paranoid to disastrous intensity.
Season 1, Episode 23: A World of Difference
Original Air Date 11 March 1960
A businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is a movie star. Uninterested in the newfound fame, he fights to get back to his home and family.
Season 1, Episode 24: Long Live Walter Jameson
Original Air Date 18 March 1960
A father forbids a history professor from marrying his daughter when he discovers that the captivating lecturer is actually an immortal who has lived for thousands of years.
Season 1, Episode 25: People Are Alike All Over
Original Air Date 25 March 1960
A crash landing on Mars leaves a fretful scientist as the lone survivor of an expedition. After something starts banging on the outside of the spaceship, he opens the door to discover a race of human-like Martians, who comfort him, temporarily, in homey settings.
Season 1, Episode 26: Execution
Original Air Date 1 April 1960
When a 20th century scientist tests out his time machine he accidentally retrieves a 19th century murderer – saving him from the hangman’s noose. Unaware of the man’s history, the two attempt to acclimatize to their new surroundings.
Season 1, Episode 27: The Big Tall Wish
Original Air Date 8 April 1960
An aging boxer loses a televised match – until he comes home, and speaks with his neighbor’s son, whose wish turns the boxer into the winner.
Season 1, Episode 28: A Nice Place to Visit
Original Air Date 15 April 1960
After being shot in the act of a robbery, small-time bottom-feeder Rocky Valentine is visited by the angelic and portly “Mr. Pip” who transports him into a reality in which he can do no wrong. Rocky quickly discovers that “having” is not so pleasing a thing as “wanting”. Especially, in the Twilight Zone.
Season 1, Episode 29: Nightmare as a Child
Original Air Date 29 April 1960
A schoolteacher keeps seeing a strange little girl in her apartment building.
Season 1, Episode 30: A Stop at Willoughby
Original Air Date 6 May 1960
Tired of his miserable job and wife, a businessman starts dreaming on the train each night, about an old, idyllic town called Willoughby. Soon he has to know whether the town is real and fancies the thought of seeking refuge there.
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Season 1, Episode 31: The Chaser
Original Air Date 13 May 1960
A young man obsessed with winning over an uninterested beauty gets more than he bargained for when he buys a love potion to gain her affection.
Season 1, Episode 32: A Passage for Trumpet
Original Air Date 20 May 1960
A suicidally despondent trumpet player finds himself in a bizarre world where he seems to be the only moving being, except for one helpful other musician.
Season 1, Episode 33: Mr. Bevis
Original Air Date 3 June 1960
An eccentric loser gets a new life from his guardian angel, but there is a price to keeping it.
Season 1, Episode 34: The After Hours
Original Air Date 10 June 1960
A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.
Season 1, Episode 35: The Mighty Casey
Original Air Date 17 June 1960
A down-and-out baseball team’s fortunes are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly unbeatable young player.
Season 1, Episode 36: A World of His Own
Original Air Date 1 July 1960
A writer demonstrates he can control reality simply by dictating changes.
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October 3rd, 2009 at 7:17 pm
“Fifty years ago on October 2, American television viewers first heard the words: ‘You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into… the Twilight Zone.’
Like the time-space warps that anchored so many of the show’s plots, Rod Serling’s veiled commentary remains as soul-baring today as it did a half-century ago, and the show’s popularity endures in multiple facets of American pop culture, appearing nearly uninterrupted through television, syndication and DVD releases and under license to air in 30 countries.
‘The whole idea of “The Twilight Zone” jumped off the television screen and became a catchphrase, a buzzword for something much beyond the TV show itself,’ says Robert Thompson, director of the Center for the Study of Popular Television at Syracuse University.
‘When you say Twilight Zone, it’s its own genre.’ The original show ran just five seasons, 1959 to 1964, with 156 episodes filmed; Serling wrote 92 of them, and other contributors included Richard Matheson and Ray Bradbury.
Anniversary observances were held at Ithaca College in New York, where Serling taught from 1967 until his death in 1975, and which keeps Serling’s archives; and also at Antioch College in Ohio, where Serling was a student.”