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The Twilight Zone is a mystery and sci-fi & fantasy TV series that premiered on CBS on October 2, 1959. It has 5 seasons and 156 episodes so far and has ended. The latest episode, Season 5 Episode 36 "The Bewitchin' Pool", aired on June 19, 1964.
An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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156 episodes · 5 seasons
1959 · 36 episodes · Last episode: 66 years ago
The first season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from October 2, 1959 to July 1, 1960. There are 36 episodes, including the pilot, "Where Is Everybody?". The theme music for this season, written by Bernard Herrman, is different from the music most commonly associated with the series, written by Marius Constant for the second season onwards.
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E36
Coming home, Victoria catches her husband Gregory flirting with a beautiful woman in his study. His explanation that characters come to life before his eyes when he speaks into his dictation machine, leads Victoria to question his sanity.
E35
A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
E34
Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist.
E33
After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.
E32
A down-and-out trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.
E31
A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, seeks the help of an old professor, who provides him with a love potion.
E30
Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called Willoughby.
E29
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory about a man she saw earlier that day.
E28
After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.
E27
Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent during a comeback fight, turning the tide in his favor.
E26
Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.
E25
After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.
E24
Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.
E23
Arthur Curtis, a successful businessman sitting in his office discovers that he is on a film set and everyone refers to him as Gerry Reagan, a movie star struggling with alcoholism and a declining career.
E22
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
E21
In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
E20
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
E19
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on the faces of his men before battle.
E18
A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
E17
Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name.
E16
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.
E15
Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.
E14
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
E13
In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
E12
A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
E11
Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.
E10
In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.
E9
A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
E8
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
E7
In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.
E6
A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
E5
A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child.
E4
An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
E3
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
E2
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
E1
Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
1960 · 29 episodes · Last episode: 65 years ago
The second season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from September 30, 1960 to June 2, 1961. There are 29 episodes.
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E29
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.
E28
State Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people boarded his bus…
E27
A book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are two different things!
E26
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
E25
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
E24
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
E23
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
E22
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
E21
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
E20
Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.
E19
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
E18
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
E17
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
E16
The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.
E15
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
E14
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
E13
It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has moved back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination.
E12
After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."
E11
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
E10
Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future.
E9
Booth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear.
E8
Jana, the daughter of inventor Dr. Loren, struggles with her parents' reliance on lifelike robot servants, urging her father to dismantle them despite his attachment to his creations.
E7
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
E6
A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.
E5
A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.
E4
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
E3
Ordered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a smalltime hood nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he could have been--confident, strong...and determined to get out.
E2
A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
E1
A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane, and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.
1961 · 37 episodes · Last episode: 64 years ago
The third season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from September 15, 1961 to June 1, 1962. There are 37 episodes. Continuing with Marius Constant's theme music, a different set of graphics was used for the opening, consisting of a rotating cone with concentric circles suggesting a spiral, receding into a star field. Rod Serling's narration from the second season was used, with the verse "That's the signpost up ahead" taken out: "You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop—The Twilight Zone." Some subtle changes in the opening's acoustics were made beginning with Person or Persons Unknown.
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E37
An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.
E36
Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.
E35
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
E34
When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
E33
A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!
E32
An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.
E31
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
E30
A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
E29
Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.
E28
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
E27
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
E26
Awakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished, even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.
E25
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
E24
An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A team of linguists sets out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."
E23
Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
E22
Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.
E21
A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".
E20
The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.
E19
On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.
E18
A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.
E17
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
E16
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
E15
A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.
E14
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
E13
Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962.
E12
Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
E11
Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
E10
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.
E9
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
E8
On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
E7
Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.
E6
After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.
E5
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
E4
On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.
E3
When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
E2
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing.
E1
A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
1963 · 18 episodes · Last episode: 63 years ago
The fourth season of The Twilight Zone aired Thursdays at 9:00–10:00 pm on CBS from January 3 to May 23, 1963. This season broke with the previous seasons in presenting hour-long episodes instead of the earlier half-hour episodes. A very different and more complex set of graphics was used for the intro, and Rod Serling's narration changed from the earlier seasons as well: "You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone."
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E18
An untalented would-be writer's career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespeare writes his script.
E17
A quarrelsome young couple find themselves taking a trip on the Lady Anne, an old passenger liner that is transporting a group of equally old passengers.
E16
The leader of an expedition on an asteroid tries to convince the others that Earth is not worth returning to.
E15
Toy designer Horace Ford spends most of his time reminiscing about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets a chance to go back to those years he gets a bitter taste of reality.
E14
A bored, wealthy businessman gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with all the knowledge he's acquired...an arsenal that's not as powerful as he thinks.
E13
The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins...
E12
A man considers several possibilities when offered one wish by a genie.
E11
An astronaut blacks out while orbiting the earth and ends up in a parallel universe.
E10
A man travels back in time to try to prevent some of history's catastrophes.
E9
A wily old man, hired by a bankrupt newspaper editor, has the knack of predicting headline stories and claims to be the Devil.
E8
A lonely man falls in love with a mini museum doll, which he believes is alive.
E7
Jess-Belle enlists the aid of a local witch who casts a spell that makes Billy-Ben Turner fall in love with her.
E6
A three-man spacecraft lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they are dead, but the captain refuses to see the truth.
E5
A 12-year-old girl who lost her parents in a fire doesn't speak because she has grown up in a secret telepathic community. The couple who take her in, and her teacher, are determined to help her adapt to their society, no matter the cost.
E4
A small American Neo-Nazi group struggles pathetically to succeed in a big city. A mysterious figure begins to guide their young, insecure leader, and the group begins to draw more attention.
E3
A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.
E2
A US naval destroyer investigates a mysterious tapping sound coming from a sunken submarine.
E1
A scientist tries to correct his imperfections by building a mechanical likeness of himself, which includes of all the finer qualities he is lacking.
1963 · 36 episodes · Last episode: 62 years ago
The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 9:30–10:00 pm on CBS from September 27, 1963 to June 19, 1964. It featured the same intro as the fourth season, but reverted to the original half-hour format.
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E36
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
E35
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
E34
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
E33
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
E32
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
E31
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
E30
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
E29
A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.
E28
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
E27
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
E26
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
E25
A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.
E24
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
E23
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
E22
As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...
E21
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
E20
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
E19
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
E18
Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are.
E17
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.
E16
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
E15
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
E14
Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
E13
A fan-club gift draws a movie star back home, where she disrupts local plans for a town picnic by offering a one-woman show.
E12
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
E11
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
E10
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
E9
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
E8
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
E7
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
E6
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!
E5
Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
E4
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
E3
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
E2
A small-time promoter desperately in need of money takes the place of his broken-down robot in a prize fight where humans are barred from participating.
E1
Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.
Created by Rod Serling
Ed Wynn
Lou Bookman
Edward Andrews
Carling
June Foray
Talky Tina (voice)
Philip Abbott
Stanley Eaton
William Shatner
Bob Wilson
Patricia Breslin
Pat Carter
Vito Scotti
Peddler
John Fiedler
Mr. Dundee
Claude Akins
Steve Brand
David White
George Rogers
Vaughn Taylor
Salesman
Dabbs Greer
Evans
Howard McNear
Bramhoff
Lee Marvin
Steel Kelly
Irene Dailey
Miss Frank
Keenan Wynn
Gregory West
The Twilight Zone has ended, so no new episodes are scheduled. The final episode aired on June 19, 1964.
The most recent episode of The Twilight Zone, Season 5 Episode 36 "The Bewitchin' Pool", aired on June 19, 1964.
The Twilight Zone has 5 seasons with 156 episodes in total.
The Twilight Zone first aired on CBS on October 2, 1959.
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