List of The Twilight Zone episodes

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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, it is still considered the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone and has even been adapted as one of the The Twilight Zone radio-show episodes.

# Title Original air date
01 "The Time Element" November 24, 1958

 

Seasons 1-3 and 5 were half-hour shows; Season 4 ran a full hour per episode. The series was hosted by Rod Serling. See The Twilight Zone (original series).

36 episodes

Title Original airdate #
Where Is Everybody? October 2, 1959 1
One for the Angels October 9, 1959 2
Mr. Denton on Doomsday October 16, 1959 3
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine October 23, 1959 4
Walking Distance October 30, 1959 5
Escape Clause November 6, 1959 6
The Lonely November 13, 1959 7
Time Enough at Last November 20, 1959 8
Perchance to Dream November 27, 1959 9
Judgment Night December 4, 1959 10
And When the Sky Was Opened December 11, 1959 11
What You Need December 25, 1959 12
The Four of Us Are Dying January 1, 1960 13
Third from the Sun January 8, 1960 14
I Shot an Arrow Into the Air January 15, 1960 15
The Hitch-Hiker January 22, 1960 16
The Fever January 29, 1960 17
The Last Flight February 5, 1960 18
The Purple Testament February 12, 1960 19
Elegy February 19, 1960 20
Mirror Image February 26, 1960 21
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street March 4, 1960 22
A World of Difference March 11, 1960 23
Long Live Walter Jameson March 18, 1960 24
People Are Alike All Over March 25, 1960 25
Execution April 1, 1960 26
The Big Tall Wish April 8, 1960 27
A Nice Place to Visit April 15, 1960 28
Nightmare as a Child April 29, 1960 29
A Stop at Willoughby May 6, 1960 30
The Chaser May 13, 1960 31
A Passage for Trumpet May 20, 1960 32
Mr. Bevis June 3, 1960 33
The After Hours June 10, 1960 34
The Mighty Casey June 17, 1960 35
A World of His Own July 1, 1960 36

29 episodes

Note: Six episodes of this season were consecutively recorded on videotape (not on film as all other episodes) at CBS Television City, as a cost-cutting measure mandated by CBS programming head James T. Aubrey.

Title Original airdate #
King Nine Will Not Return September 30, 1960 37
The Man in the Bottle October 7, 1960 38
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room October 14, 1960 39
A Thing About Machines October 28, 1960 40
The Howling Man November 4, 1960 41
The Eye of the Beholder November 11, 1960 42
Nick of Time November 18, 1960 43
The Lateness of the Hour December 2, 1960 44
The Trouble With Templeton December 9, 1960 45
A Most Unusual Camera December 16, 1960 46
Night of the Meek December 23, 1960 47
Dust January 6, 1961 48
Back There January 13, 1961 49
The Whole Truth January 20, 1961 50
The Invaders January 27, 1961 51
A Penny for Your Thoughts February 3, 1961 52
Twenty-Two February 10, 1961 53
The Odyssey of Flight 33 February 24, 1961 54
Mr. Dingle, the Strong March 3, 1961 55
Static March 10, 1961 56
The Prime Mover March 24, 1961 57
Long Distance Call March 31, 1961 58
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim April 7, 1961 59
The Rip Van Winkle Caper April 21, 1961 60
The Silence April 28, 1961 61
Shadow Play May 5, 1961 62
The Mind and the Matter May 12, 1961 63
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? May 26, 1961 64
The Obsolete Man June 2, 1961 65

37 episodes

Title Original airdate #
Two September 15, 1961 66
The Arrival September 22, 1961 67
The Shelter September 29, 1961 68
The Passersby October 6, 1961 69
A Game of Pool October 13, 1961 70
The Mirror October 20, 1961 71
The Grave October 27, 1961 72
It's a Good Life November 3, 1961 73
Deaths-Head Revisited November 10, 1961 74
The Midnight Sun November 17, 1961 75
Still Valley November 24, 1961 76
The Jungle December 1, 1961 77
Once Upon a Time December 15, 1961 78
Five Characters in Search of an Exit December 22, 1961 79
A Quality of Mercy December 29, 1961 80
Nothing in the Dark January 5, 1962 81
One More Pallbearer January 12, 1962 82
Dead Man's Shoes January 19, 1962 83
The Hunt January 26, 1962 84
Showdown With Rance McGrew February 2, 1962 85
Kick the Can February 9, 1962 86
A Piano in the House February 16, 1962 87
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank February 23, 1962 88
To Serve Man March 2, 1962 89
The Fugitive March 9, 1962 90
Little Girl Lost March 16, 1962 91
Person or Persons Unknown March 23, 1962 92
The Little People March 30, 1962 93
Four O'Clock April 6, 1962 94
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby April 13, 1962 95
The Trade-Ins April 20, 1962 96
The Gift April 27, 1962 97
The Dummy May 4, 1962 98
Young Man's Fancy May 11, 1962 99
I Sing the Body Electric May 18, 1962 100
Cavender Is Coming May 25, 1962 101
The Changing of the Guard June 1, 1962 102

18 episodes

Note: This season was a midseason replacement for the show that originally replaced it on the 1962 fall schedule. To fill the timeslot, episodes were lengthened to one hour and moved to Thursday nights.

Title Original airdate #
In His Image January 3, 1963 103
The Thirty-Fathom Grave January 10, 1963 104
Valley of the Shadow January 17, 1963 105
He's Alive January 24, 1963 106
Mute January 31, 1963 107
Death Ship February 7, 1963 108
Jess-Belle February 14, 1963 109
Miniature February 21, 1963 110
Printer's Devil February 28, 1963 111
No Time Like the Past March 7, 1963 112
The Parallel March 14, 1963 113
I Dream of Genie March 21, 1963 114
The New Exhibit April 4, 1963 115
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville April 11, 1963 116
The Incredible World of Horace Ford April 18, 1963 117
On Thursday We Leave for Home May 2, 1963 118
Passage on the Lady Anne May 9, 1963 119
The Bard May 23, 1963 120

36 episodes

Title Original airdate #
In Praise of Pip September 27, 1963 121
Steel October 4, 1963 122
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet October 11, 1963 123
A Kind of a Stopwatch October 18, 1963 124
The Last Night of a Jockey October 25, 1963 125
Living Doll November 1, 1963 126
The Old Man in the Cave November 8, 1963 127
Uncle Simon November 15, 1963 128
Probe 7, Over and Out November 29, 1963 129
The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms December 6, 1963 130
A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain December 13, 1963 131
Ninety Years Without Slumbering December 20, 1963 132
Ring-a-Ding Girl December 27, 1963 133
You Drive January 3, 1964 134
The Long Morrow January 10, 1964 135
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross January 17, 1964 136
Number 12 Looks Just Like You January 24, 1964 137
Black Leather Jackets January 31, 1964 138
Night Call February 7, 1964 139
From Agnes—With Love February 14, 1964 140
Spur of the Moment February 21, 1964 141
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge February 28, 1964 142
Queen of the Nile March 6, 1964 143
What's in the Box March 13, 1964 144
The Masks March 20, 1964 145
I Am the Night—Color Me Black March 27, 1964 146
Sounds and Silences April 3, 1964 147
Caesar and Me April 10, 1964 148
The Jeopardy Room April 17, 1964 149
Stopover in a Quiet Town April 24, 1964 150
The Encounter May 1, 1964 151
Mr. Garrity and the Graves May 8, 1964 152
The Brain Center at Whipple's May 15, 1964 153
Come Wander With Me May 22, 1964 154
The Fear May 29, 1964 155
The Bewitchin' Pool June 19, 1964 156

This two-hour Twilight Zone offering contains four installments: three remakes of classic episodes, plus an entirely new story.

4 episodes

Title Original airdate #
A Quality of Mercy June 24, 1983 1
Kick the Can June 24, 1983 2
It's a Good Life June 24, 1983 3
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet June 24, 1983 4

After Rod Serling's widow found an unfilmed screenplay among his belongings, CBS decided to create a new Twilight Zone TV-movie.

2 episodes

Title Original airdate #
Where the Dead Are May 19, 1994 1
The Theater May 19, 1994 2

Season one ran as pairs of half-hour episodes made into a one-hour show; season two contained hour-long episodes; season three was half-hour episodes, aired individually. The show was hosted first by Charles Aidman, then by Robin Ward. See The New Twilight Zone.

  1. "Shatterday" and "A Little Peace and Quiet"
  2. "Wordplay", "Dreams for Sale" and "Chameleon"
  3. "Healer", "Children's Zoo" and "Kentucky Rye"
  4. "Little Boy Lost", "Wish Bank" and "Nightcrawlers"
  5. "If She Dies" and "Ye Gods"
  6. "Examination Day" and "A Message From Charity"
  7. "Teacher's Aide" and "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
  8. "Act Break", "The Burning Man" and "Dealer's Choice"
  9. "Dead Woman's Shoes" and "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"
  10. "The Shadow Man", "The Uncle Devil Show" and "Opening Day"
  11. "The Beacon" and "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty"
  12. "Her Pilgrim Soul" and "I of Newton"
  13. "Night of the Meek", "But Can She Type" and "The Star"
  14. "Still Life", "The Little People of Killany Woods" and "The Misfortune Cookie"
  15. "Monsters!", "A Small Talent for War" and "A Matter of Minutes"
  16. "The Elevator", "To See the Invisible Man" and "Tooth or Consequences"
  17. "Welcome to Winfield" and "Quarantine"
  18. "Gramma", "Personal Demons" and "Cold Reading"
  19. "The Leprechaun Artist" and "Dead Run"
  20. "Profile in Silver" and "Button, Button"
  21. "Need to Know" and "Red Snow"
  22. "Take My Life...Please!", "Devil's Alphabet" and "The Library"
  23. "Shadow Play" and "Grace Note"
  24. "A Day in Beaumont" and "The Last Defender of Camelot"

  1. "The Once and Future King" and "A Saucer of Loneliness"
  2. "What Are Friends For?" and "Aqua Vita"
  3. "The Storyteller" and "Nightsong"
  4. "The After Hours", "Lost and Found" and "The World Next Door"
  5. "The Toys of Caliban"
  6. "The Convict's Piano"
  7. "The Road Less Traveled"
  8. "The Card" and "The Junction"
  9. "Joy Ride", "Shelter Skelter" and "Private Channel"
  10. "Time and Teresa Golowitz" and "Voices in the Earth"
  11. "Song of the Younger World" and "The Girl I Married"

  1. "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon"
  2. "Extra Innings"
  3. "The Crossing"
  4. "The Hunters"
  5. "Dream Me a Life"
  6. "Memories"
  7. "The Hellgramite Method"
  8. "Our Sylena is Dying"
  9. "The Call"
  10. "The Trance"
  11. "Acts of Terror"
  12. "20/20 Vision"
  13. "There Was an Old Woman"
  14. "The Trunk"
  15. "Appointment on Route 17"
  16. "The Cold Equations"
  17. "Strangers in Possum Meadows"
  18. "Street of Shadows"
  19. "Something in the Walls"
  20. "A Game of Pool"
  21. "The Wall"
  22. "Room 2426"
  23. "The Mind of Simon Foster"
  24. "Cat and Mouse"
  25. "Many, Many Monkeys"
  26. "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
  27. "Special Service"
  28. "Love is Blind"
  29. "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"
  30. "Father and Son Game"

These episodes ran for a half-hour each, but were aired together in pairs to make a full-hour format. They were hosted by Forest Whitaker.

Ep# Title Original air date
01 "Evergreen" September 18, 2002

Jenna is a rebellious teenager. In a bid to control their daughter, Jenna's family decides to move to an exclusive gated community, Evergreen Estates, which her parents believe will help change her for the better. 

02 "One Night at Mercy" September 18, 2002

Dr Jay Ferguson saves a man dying, but then a new patient arrives in the hospital. He tries to hang himself but the doctor saves him. When they ask him what his name is, he replies, "I'm... Death". 

03 "Shades of Guilt" September 25, 2002

After leaving a black man who's asking for help, Matt McGreevy would soon regret it. Because he's now looking more and more like him... 

04 "Dream Lover" September 25, 2002

Andrew Lomax somehow makes his dream girl real to help him with his writers block. But, as we dig deeper into this tale, the lines of reality and fantasy start to blur and mix. And we don't know who is the writer... and who is the dream person. 

05 "Cradle of Darkness" October 2, 2002

In order to stop World War II, Andrea Collins goes back in time to kill Adolf Hitler as a baby. But, this becomes harder than she expected... 

06 "Night Route" -

After nearly being hit by a car, a woman is haunted by a strange bus appearing in her street. The driver says he is "waiting for her". 

07 "Time Lapse" -

A man experiences periods of missing time, with the 'gaps' seeming to involve a plot to assassinate the President's daughter... 

08 "Dead Man's Eyes" -

After a woman's husband is murdered, she is inconsolable. At the trial, she absentmindedly places his glasses on her face-and suddenly, she is able to see through his eyes. The glasses recorded the man's last moments, so his wife decides to try and solve the case-but she must face a very dangerous and familiar murderer... 

09 "Pool Guy" -

A pool cleaner (Lou Diamond Phillips) has repeated nightmares of being shot. 

10 "Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine" -

A boy seeks a superhero's help against his abusive father. 

11 "The Lineman, Part 1"

After being struck by lightning, Tyler gains the ability to hear other people's thoughts - a power best not abused... 

12 "The Lineman, Part 2" -

 

13 "Harsh Mistress" -

A struggling musician named Cory purchases a rather infamous guitar, which leads to him gaining vast international stardom and wealth, but both come with surprising price tag. 

14 "Upgrade" -

 

15 "To Protect and Serve" -

 

16 "Chosen" -

 

17 "Sensuous Cindy" -

 

18 "Hunted" -

 

19 "Mr Motivation" -

 

20 "Sanctuary" -

 

21 "Future Trade" -

 

22 "Found and Lost" -

 

23 "Gabe's Story" -

Unlucky Gabe (Christopher Titus) wonders who's writing his story and decides to have a talk with them. 

24 "Last Lap" -

 

25 "The Path" -

 

26 "Fair Warning" -

 

27 "Another Life" -

An unhappy man is approached by a unique company that specializes in cases like his. It offers a life-swapping program that swaps one person's life with another. The man goes through with it and finds himself in a gorgeous mansion, with money, power-and enemies... 

28 "Rewind" -

 

29 "Tagged" -

 

30 "Into the Light" -

 

31 "It's Still a Good Life" February 19, 2003

In a sequel of It's a Good Life, we have Anthony Fremont and his daughter, Audrey. We have Anthony still causing hell in the town of Peaksville, Ohio... and we have his daughter inherting his God-like powers. 

32 "Monsters on Maple Street" -

When a suburban neighborhood loses power and communications, they suspect a mysteriously unaffected family of terrorism. 

33 "Memphis" February 26, 2003

Ray Ellison (Eriq La Salle), a law clerk, is a single black man in his 30s. After just finding out that he has a brain tumor and only has six months to live, he's hit by an oncoming car and is temporarily knocked out. Waking up, he finds himself in Memphis of April 1968. He later finds out that it's the same time Martin Luther King, Jr. is assassinated. Can he change history for the better? Based on The Twilight Zone 1959 episode, Back There

34 "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?" -

A woman who is contemplating divorce finds herself on a twisted game show. She must put herself in horribly dangerous situations for two big, big prizes. The first is a million dollars, but the second is a little more valuable...her son. 

35 "The Placebo Effect" -

A man goes to a hospital believing that he has a horribly deadly disease, which he describes in great detail. The hospital staff finds all of the symptoms of the disease on his body, but no pathogens within it. They realize that the man has the power to make whatever he believes to come true-which proves deadly when he decides to infect the world to prove himself right. 

36 "Cold Fusion" -

 

37 "The Pharaoh's Curse" -

An aspiring magician (Shawn Hatosy) seeks to learn the secret behind a legendary trick. But why is it performed only once a generation? 

38 "The Collection" -

 

39 "Eye of the Beholder" -

 

40 "Developing" -

 

41 "The Executions of Grady Finch" -

 

42 "Homecoming" -

 

43 "Sunrise" -

Three college students explore an Aztec site. They carelessly knock over a jug filled with blood-and in an instant, the sun goes out. The Earth will die unless something is done- and according to some carvings, the only way to reverse the curse is to sacrifice someone... 

44 "Burned" -

 

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Series

The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) | The New Twilight Zone | The Twilight Zone (2002 series)

Key People

Rod Serling | Buck Houghton | Charles Beaumont | Richard Matheson | Jerry Sohl | George Clayton Johnson | Earl Hamner Jr. | Reginald Rose | Ray Bradbury

See Also

Playhouse 90 | List of The Twilight Zone episodes | List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) guest stars | The Twilight Zone (pinball) | Twilight Zone: The Movie | The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

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