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 - Two
Release Date: 1961-09-15A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
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Episode 2 - The Arrival
Release Date: 1961-09-22A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
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Episode 3 - The Shelter
Release Date: 1961-09-29When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
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Episode 4 - The Passersby
Release Date: 1961-10-06On 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.
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Episode 5 - A Game of Pool
Release Date: 1961-10-13Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
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Episode 6 - The Mirror
Release Date: 1961-10-20After 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.
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Episode 7 - The Grave
Release Date: 1961-10-27Before 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.
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Episode 8 - It's a Good Life
Release Date: 1961-11-03Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
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Episode 9 - Deaths-Head Revisited
Release Date: 1961-11-10A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
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Episode 10 - The Midnight Sun
Release Date: 1961-11-17The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
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Episode 11 - Still Valley
Release Date: 1961-11-24Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
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Episode 12 - The Jungle
Release Date: 1961-12-01Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
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Episode 13 - Once Upon a Time
Release Date: 1961-12-15Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!
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Episode 14 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Release Date: 1961-12-22A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
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Episode 15 - A Quality of Mercy
Release Date: 1961-12-29A 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.
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Episode 16 - Nothing in the Dark
Release Date: 1962-01-05A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
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Episode 17 - One More Pallbearer
Release Date: 1962-01-12Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
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Episode 18 - Dead Man's Shoes
Release Date: 1962-01-19A 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.
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Episode 19 - The Hunt
Release Date: 1962-01-26On 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.
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Episode 20 - Showdown with Rance McGrew
Release Date: 1962-02-02Actor Rance McGrew makes TV Westerns for a living, but he's a lousy actor and a worse cowboy. Despite that, each week he "wins" against the bad guys. Finally the bad guys have enough and send Jesse James to Earth to teach McGrew a lesson.
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Episode 21 - Kick the Can
Release Date: 1962-02-09The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called "kick-the-can."
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Episode 22 - A Piano in the House
Release Date: 1962-02-16Fortune 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.
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Episode 23 - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Release Date: 1962-02-23Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
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Episode 24 - To Serve Man
Release Date: 1962-03-02The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
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Episode 25 - The Fugitive
Release Date: 1962-03-09Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
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Episode 26 - Little Girl Lost
Release Date: 1962-03-16A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever.
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Episode 27 - Person or Persons Unknown
Release Date: 1962-03-23David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
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Episode 28 - The Little People
Release Date: 1962-03-30An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
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Episode 29 - Four O'Clock
Release Date: 1962-04-06Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.
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Episode 30 - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
Release Date: 1962-04-13A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
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Episode 31 - The Trade-Ins
Release Date: 1962-04-20An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
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Episode 32 - The Gift
Release Date: 1962-04-27An 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.
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Episode 33 - The Dummy
Release Date: 1962-05-04A 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!
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Episode 34 - Young Man's Fancy
Release Date: 1962-05-11When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
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Episode 35 - I Sing the Body Electric
Release Date: 1962-05-18A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
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Episode 36 - Cavender is Coming
Release Date: 1962-05-25Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.
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Episode 37 - The Changing of the Guard
Release Date: 1962-06-01An 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.