List of The Twilight Zone episodes
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This is a 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.
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| 01 | "The Time Element" | November 24, 1958 |
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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
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.
37 episodes
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.
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| 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
This two-hour Twilight Zone offering contains four installments: three remakes of classic episodes, plus an entirely new story.
4 episodes
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| 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
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| 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.
- "Shatterday" and "A Little Peace and Quiet"
- "Wordplay", "Dreams for Sale" and "Chameleon"
- "Healer", "Children's Zoo" and "Kentucky Rye"
- "Little Boy Lost", "Wish Bank" and "Nightcrawlers"
- "If She Dies" and "Ye Gods"
- "Examination Day" and "A Message From Charity"
- "Teacher's Aide" and "Paladin of the Lost Hour"
- "Act Break", "The Burning Man" and "Dealer's Choice"
- "Dead Woman's Shoes" and "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"
- "The Shadow Man", "The Uncle Devil Show" and "Opening Day"
- "The Beacon" and "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty"
- "Her Pilgrim Soul" and "I of Newton"
- "Night of the Meek", "But Can She Type" and "The Star"
- "Still Life", "The Little People of Killany Woods" and "The Misfortune Cookie"
- "Monsters!", "A Small Talent for War" and "A Matter of Minutes"
- "The Elevator", "To See the Invisible Man" and "Tooth or Consequences"
- "Welcome to Winfield" and "Quarantine"
- "Gramma", "Personal Demons" and "Cold Reading"
- "The Leprechaun Artist" and "Dead Run"
- "Profile in Silver" and "Button, Button"
- "Need to Know" and "Red Snow"
- "Take My Life...Please!", "Devil's Alphabet" and "The Library"
- "Shadow Play" and "Grace Note"
- "A Day in Beaumont" and "The Last Defender of Camelot"
- "The Once and Future King" and "A Saucer of Loneliness"
- "What Are Friends For?" and "Aqua Vita"
- "The Storyteller" and "Nightsong"
- "The After Hours", "Lost and Found" and "The World Next Door"
- "The Toys of Caliban"
- "The Convict's Piano"
- "The Road Less Traveled"
- "The Card" and "The Junction"
- "Joy Ride", "Shelter Skelter" and "Private Channel"
- "Time and Teresa Golowitz" and "Voices in the Earth"
- "Song of the Younger World" and "The Girl I Married"
- "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon"
- "Extra Innings"
- "The Crossing"
- "The Hunters"
- "Dream Me a Life"
- "Memories"
- "The Hellgramite Method"
- "Our Sylena is Dying"
- "The Call"
- "The Trance"
- "Acts of Terror"
- "20/20 Vision"
- "There Was an Old Woman"
- "The Trunk"
- "Appointment on Route 17"
- "The Cold Equations"
- "Strangers in Possum Meadows"
- "Street of Shadows"
- "Something in the Walls"
- "A Game of Pool"
- "The Wall"
- "Room 2426"
- "The Mind of Simon Foster"
- "Cat and Mouse"
- "Many, Many Monkeys"
- "Rendezvous in a Dark Place"
- "Special Service"
- "Love is Blind"
- "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"
- "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.
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| 01 | "Evergreen" | September 18, 2002 |
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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. |
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| 02 | "One Night at Mercy" | September 18, 2002 |
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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". |
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| 03 | "Shades of Guilt" | September 25, 2002 |
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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... |
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| 04 | "Dream Lover" | September 25, 2002 |
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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. |
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| 05 | "Cradle of Darkness" | October 2, 2002 |
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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... |
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| 06 | "Night Route" | - |
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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". |
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| 07 | "Time Lapse" | - |
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A man experiences periods of missing time, with the 'gaps' seeming to involve a plot to assassinate the President's daughter... |
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| 08 | "Dead Man's Eyes" | - |
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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... |
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| 09 | "Pool Guy" | - |
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A pool cleaner (Lou Diamond Phillips) has repeated nightmares of being shot. |
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| 10 | "Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine" | - |
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A boy seeks a superhero's help against his abusive father. |
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| 11 | "The Lineman, Part 1" | |
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After being struck by lightning, Tyler gains the ability to hear other people's thoughts - a power best not abused... |
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| 12 | "The Lineman, Part 2" | - |
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| 13 | "Harsh Mistress" | - |
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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. |
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| 14 | "Upgrade" | - |
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| 15 | "To Protect and Serve" | - |
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| 16 | "Chosen" | - |
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| 17 | "Sensuous Cindy" | - |
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| 18 | "Hunted" | - |
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| 19 | "Mr Motivation" | - |
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| 20 | "Sanctuary" | - |
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| 21 | "Future Trade" | - |
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| 22 | "Found and Lost" | - |
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| 23 | "Gabe's Story" | - |
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Unlucky Gabe (Christopher Titus) wonders who's writing his story and decides to have a talk with them. |
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| 24 | "Last Lap" | - |
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| 25 | "The Path" | - |
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| 26 | "Fair Warning" | - |
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| 27 | "Another Life" | - |
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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... |
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| 28 | "Rewind" | - |
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| 29 | "Tagged" | - |
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| 30 | "Into the Light" | - |
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| 31 | "It's Still a Good Life" | February 19, 2003 |
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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. |
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| 32 | "Monsters on Maple Street" | - |
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When a suburban neighborhood loses power and communications, they suspect a mysteriously unaffected family of terrorism. |
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| 33 | "Memphis" | February 26, 2003 |
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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. |
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| 34 | "How Much Do You Love Your Kid?" | - |
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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. |
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| 35 | "The Placebo Effect" | - |
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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. |
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| 36 | "Cold Fusion" | - |
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| 37 | "The Pharaoh's Curse" | - |
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An aspiring magician (Shawn Hatosy) seeks to learn the secret behind a legendary trick. But why is it performed only once a generation? |
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| 38 | "The Collection" | - |
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| 39 | "Eye of the Beholder" | - |
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| 40 | "Developing" | - |
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| 41 | "The Executions of Grady Finch" | - |
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| 42 | "Homecoming" | - |
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| 43 | "Sunrise" | - |
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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... |
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| 44 | "Burned" | - |
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- TV Tome series page for original series
- TV Tome series page for first revival
- TV Tome series page for second revival
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) | The New Twilight Zone | The Twilight Zone (2002 series) |
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Rod Serling | Buck Houghton | Charles Beaumont | Richard Matheson | Jerry Sohl | George Clayton Johnson | Earl Hamner Jr. | Reginald Rose | Ray Bradbury |
| See Also |
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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 |