The Twilight Zone — Season 1

Aired 2 October 1959 • 26 min

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...

Aired 9 October 1959 • 26 min

A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.

Aired 16 October 1959 • 26 min

A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.

Aired 23 October 1959 • 26 min

An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

Aired 30 October 1959 • 26 min

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.

Aired 6 November 1959 • 26 min

A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

Aired 13 November 1959 • 26 min

In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.

Aired 20 November 1959 • 26 min

A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.

Aired 27 November 1959 • 26 min

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.

Aired 4 December 1959 • 26 min

In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.

Aired 11 December 1959 • 26 min

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.

Aired 25 December 1959 • 26 min

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.

Aired 1 January 1960 • 26 min

In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

Aired 8 January 1960 • 26 min

With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

Aired 15 January 1960 • 26 min

Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.

Aired 22 January 1960 • 26 min

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.

Aired 29 January 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 5 February 1960 • 26 min

A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

Aired 12 February 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 19 February 1960 • 26 min

Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

Aired 26 February 1960 • 26 min

In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.

Aired 4 March 1960 • 26 min

Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

Aired 11 March 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 18 March 1960 • 26 min

Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

Aired 25 March 1960 • 26 min

After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.

Aired 1 April 1960 • 26 min

Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.

Aired 8 April 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 15 April 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 29 April 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 6 May 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 13 May 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 20 May 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 3 June 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 10 June 1960 • 26 min

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.

Aired 17 June 1960 • 26 min

A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.

Aired 1 July 1960 • 26 min

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.