The Twilight Zone (1959)
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Episode 1 - Where Is Everybody?
Release Date: 1959-10-02Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
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Episode 2 - One for the Angels
Release Date: 1959-10-09A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
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Episode 3 - Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Release Date: 1959-10-16A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
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Episode 4 - The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Release Date: 1959-10-23An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
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Episode 5 - Walking Distance
Release Date: 1959-10-30A 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.
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Episode 6 - Escape Clause
Release Date: 1959-11-06A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
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Episode 7 - The Lonely
Release Date: 1959-11-13In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.
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Episode 8 - Time Enough at Last
Release Date: 1959-11-20A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
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Episode 9 - Perchance to Dream
Release Date: 1959-11-27A 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.
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Episode 10 - Judgment Night
Release Date: 1959-12-04In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.
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Episode 11 - And When the Sky Was Opened
Release Date: 1959-12-11Recovering 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.
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Episode 12 - What You Need
Release Date: 1959-12-25A 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.
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Episode 13 - The Four of Us Are Dying
Release Date: 1960-01-01In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
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Episode 14 - Third from the Sun
Release Date: 1960-01-08With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
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Episode 15 - I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Release Date: 1960-01-15Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.
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Episode 16 - The Hitch-Hiker
Release Date: 1960-01-22Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.
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Episode 17 - The Fever
Release Date: 1960-01-29Tight 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.
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Episode 18 - The Last Flight
Release Date: 1960-02-05A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
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Episode 19 - The Purple Testament
Release Date: 1960-02-12Lieutenant 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.
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Episode 20 - Elegy
Release Date: 1960-02-19Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
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Episode 21 - Mirror Image
Release Date: 1960-02-26In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
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Episode 22 - The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Release Date: 1960-03-04Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
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Episode 23 - A World of Difference
Release Date: 1960-03-11Arthur 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.
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Episode 24 - Long Live Walter Jameson
Release Date: 1960-03-18Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.
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Episode 25 - People Are Alike All Over
Release Date: 1960-03-25After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.
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Episode 26 - Execution
Release Date: 1960-04-01Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.
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Episode 27 - The Big Tall Wish
Release Date: 1960-04-08Washed-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.
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Episode 28 - A Nice Place to Visit
Release Date: 1960-04-15After 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.
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Episode 29 - Nightmare as a Child
Release Date: 1960-04-29Schoolteacher 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.
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Episode 30 - A Stop at Willoughby
Release Date: 1960-05-06Riding 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.
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Episode 31 - The Chaser
Release Date: 1960-05-13A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, seeks the help of an old professor, who provides him with a love potion.
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Episode 32 - A Passage for Trumpet
Release Date: 1960-05-20A 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.
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Episode 33 - Mr. Bevis
Release Date: 1960-06-03After 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.
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Episode 34 - The After Hours
Release Date: 1960-06-10Puzzled 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.
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Episode 35 - The Mighty Casey
Release Date: 1960-06-17A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
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Episode 36 - A World of His Own
Release Date: 1960-07-01Coming 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.