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Season 1 – The Twilight Zone

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"The Twilight Zone" was the brainchild of Emmy Award-winner Rod Serling, who served as host and wrote over 80 episodes of the original show's 150-plus episode run. It's a strange mix of horror, science-fiction, drama, comedy and superstition. Serling introduced each episode, and many of the black and white hours concluded with a surprise ending. Actors such as Burt Reynolds, Roddy McDowell and Robert Redford made appearances in some of the more well-known stories.
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The Twilight Zone — Season 1

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You're about to enter a show, a show not only of frights and fears but of mind. A journey into the limitless world of imagination. A show that pushes the boundaries of what a show can be. Next stop, The Twilight Zone.

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Denver Post Staff Denver Post 05/09/2018
So far ahead of its time... that the episodes resonate thrillingly 50 years later. Go to Full Review Emily St. James Vox 05/04/2018
Every episode is its own story, and that story can be thoughtful or provocative or goofy. Or it can just be downright terrifying. Go to Full Review Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com 05/04/2018
Serling's show never cut artistic corners. It didn't just rely on the twist. Go to Full Review Sayan Ghosh The Hindu 09/27/2023
The phenomenon is one of the most emulated shows in the history of broadcasting — but the original creation by Rod Serling has no peers... Go to Full Review Matt Brunson Film Frenzy 05/08/2023
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Classic and perpetually popular. Go to Full Review Sean Axmaker Stream on Demand 05/06/2023
Submitted for your approval: Rod Serling, a writer. Ambitious, talented, turning out the finest television plays of the 1950s while chafing against censorship.... His ingenious solution: slip in the social politics... behind the façade of fantasy. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Elaina P. @elainafaithh Apr 13 Best show to ever exist. See more Wesley H. @historynerdnumber1 07/18/2025 The monsters are due on Mable street 100/10 See more ThatBoiCarter I @RT94044319 07/17/2025 best show ever i liked the music they used in the intro was better than the intro music from the rest of the series best show ever made See more Raquel R @RT13129906 12/18/2023 The best ever! Incredible then and incredible today. See more Teddy B @RT38636458 10/08/2023 The absolute epitome of the most thoughtful and impactful pieces of television in history. The poetry weaved into certain stories has such a disquieting effect that still cannot be copied today. See more 07/16/2022 Way beyond its time, have watched this original Twilight Zone so many times and it never gets old, yet it is. You don't get anything like this anymore. Sterling was a creative genius! See more Read all reviews
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Jack Warden

James A. Corry

Charles Lane

Mr. Peckinpaugh

Mary Webster

Nan

Earl Holliman

Mike Ferris

Don Kelly

Monk

Leslie Bradley

Major Devereaux

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Oct 2, 1959 Where Is Everybody? An amnesiac (Earl Holliman) in an empty town feels he is being watched. Details Episode 2 Aired Oct 9, 1959 One for the Angels A sidewalk pitchman's deal with Death may cost a young girl her life. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 16, 1959 Mr. Denton on Doomsday A broken-down gunslinger finds a magic potion that restores his shooting skill, but brings an end to his fast-draw career. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 23, 1959 The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine A forgotten star of the '30s uses her old movies to re-create the spirit of her heyday. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 30, 1959 Walking Distance A man's need to escape the pressure of his work takes him back to his childhood. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 19, 2013 Escape Clause A man makes a pact with the devil for immortality then finds he doesn't get a kick out of living anymore. Details Episode 7 Aired Nov 13, 1959 The Lonely Convicted of murder, a man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 20, 1959 Time Enough at Last Unique circumstances allow a meek bank teller to indulge his passion for reading. With Burgess Meredith. Details Episode 9 Aired Oct 27, 2013 Perchance to Dream A terrified man stumbles into a psychiatrist's office, afraid that if he falls asleep a woman in his dream will murder him. Details Episode 10 Aired Dec 4, 1959 Judgment Night A passenger on board a wartime freighter has a premonition that the ship will be sunk by a Nazi submarine at 1:15 a.m., but no one believes him. Details Episode 11 Aired Nov 2, 2013 And When the Sky Was Opened Three astronauts, returning from man's first space flight, can not remember the events of their trip; they begin to disappear one by one. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 25, 1959 What You Need A down-and-out man tries to turn another man's ability to tell the future into a money-making scheme. Details Episode 13 Aired Nov 2, 2013 The Four of Us Are Dying Arch Hammer can change his face to look exactly like someone else, a talent that he depends on for a living. Details Episode 14 Aired Jul 4, 2013 Third From the Sun Two families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to a nuclear war. Details Episode 15 Aired Jan 15, 1960 I Shot an Arrow Into the Air Three astronauts, with little water left, land on what appears to be a deserted asteroid. Details Episode 16 Aired Jan 22, 1960 The Hitchhiker Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitchhiker on the road ahead, beckoning her toward a fatal accident. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 29, 1960 The Fever A man fanatically opposed to gambling battles a Las Vegas one-armed bandit with a malevolent will of its own. Details Episode 18 Aired Feb 5, 1960 The Last Flight Fleeing from a World War I aerial battle, a pilot gets lost in both space and time. Details Episode 19 Aired Feb 12, 1960 The Purple Testament A soldier unexpectedly acquires the power to recognize death in the faces of men about to die in battle. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 19, 1960 Elegy Three astronauts land on a strange planet and meet its caretaker. Details Episode 21 Aired Nov 8, 2013 Mirror Image A young woman grows panicky when she is haunted by a strange double who keeps appearing in a bus depot. Details Episode 22 Aired Jul 4, 2013 The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street A mysterious power failure causes paranoid suburban residents to suspect one another of being disguised creatures from outer space. Details Episode 23 Aired Mar 11, 1960 A World of Difference A businessman inexplicably finds his office has become a set for a movie in which he is a character. Details Episode 24 Aired Mar 18, 1960 Long Live Walter Jameson Sam Kittredge accidentally discovers that his prospective son-in-law fought in the Civil War. Details Episode 25 Aired Mar 25, 1960 People Are Alike All Over An astronaut (Roddy McDowall) experiences Martian hospitality. Details Episode 26 Aired Apr 1, 1960 Execution In the 1880s, outlaw Joe Caswell's body disappears from the hangman's noose. Details Episode 27 Aired Apr 8, 1960 The Big Tall Wish A 10-year-old boy tells a prizefighter that he will make a wish for him to win his comeback fight. Details Episode 28 Aired Nov 16, 2013 A Nice Place to Visit A small-time hoodlum gets killed by the police during a robbery and finds an afterlife where he can have anything he wants. Details Episode 29 Aired Apr 29, 1960 Nightmare as a Child A teacher returns to her apartment to find a child waiting for her. Details Episode 30 Aired Jul 4, 2013 A Stop at Willoughby A harassed executive escapes into the peaceful town of Willoughby in July 1880. Details Episode 31 Aired May 13, 1960 The Chaser A lovesick man finds unexpected results when he buys a potion from a stranger to help woo the woman he desires. Details Episode 32 Aired May 20, 1960 A Passage for Trumpet A down-on-his-luck trumpet player is given a second crack at life after being struck down by a truck. Details Episode 33 Aired Jun 3, 1960 Mr. Bevis A happy-go-lucky man loses his job, gets evicted and wrecks his car, all in one day. Details Episode 34 Aired Jun 10, 1960 The After Hours Marsha White goes to a department store to buy a gold thimble. Details Episode 35 Aired Jun 17, 1960 The Mighty Casey The manager of a baseball team on a losing streak hires a robot pitcher called Casey. Details Episode 36 Aired Jul 1, 1960 A World of His Own A playwright describes characters into his tape recorder, and they materialize before his eyes. Details

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The Twilight Zone — Season 1

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Season Info

Director
Alvin Ganzer, John Brahm, Doug Heyes, Ralph Nelson, Robert Parrish, Douglas Heyes, Ron Winston, Richard L. Bare, Mitch Leisen, Robert Stevens, David Orrick McDearmon, Tony Leader, Ted Post
Screenwriter
Rod Serling, Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Robert Presnell Jr.
Network
CBS
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language
English
Release Date
Oct 2, 1959