List of Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

This is a list of all the episodes from the second Twilight Zone series.

Season 1

Episode # and segment	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original AirDate	Production Code
1a	"Shatterday"	Wes_Craven	Harlan Ellison / Alan Brennert	September 27, 1985
A man (Bruce Willis) accidentally phones his own home and winds up talking to his alter ego.
1b	"A Little Peace and Quiet"	Wes Craven	James Crocker	September 27, 1985
In a modern remake of the classic episode, "A Kind of Stopwatch," a woman (Melinda Dillon) discovers a necklace that gives its owner the ability to freeze time.
2a	"Wordplay"	Wes Craven	Rockne S. O'Bannon	October 4, 1985
An overworked businessman (Robert Klein) suddenly finds himself left out while the rest of his world speaks in mangled slang.
2b	"Dreams For Sale	Joe Gannon	October 4, 1985
A woman (Meg Foster) in the future traps herself in an idyllic, computer-generated fantasy in her mind.
2c	"Chameleon"	Wes Craven	James Crocker	October 4, 1985
A space shuttle returns from a mission and NASA discovers that something unusual has been picked up.
3a	"Healer"	Sigmund Neufeld Jr.	Michael Bryant	October 11, 1985
A thief (Eric Bogosian) steals a stone from a museum that gives him the power to heal and tries to pass himself as a faith healer.
3b	"Children's Zoo"	Robert Downey	Chris Hubbell and Gerrit Graham	October 11, 1985
A girl trades in her parents (Lorna Luft, Steven Keats) for new ones at a zoo.
3c	"Kentucky Rye"	John Hancock	Delree Todd Chip Duncan Richard Krzemien	October 11, 1985
A drunk driver (Jeffrey DeMunn) comes to in front of a strange bar called "Kentucky Rye."
4a	"Little Boy Lost"	Tommy Lee Wallace	Michael Cassutt	October 18, 1985
A young photojournalist (Season Hubley) spends time with a boy (Scott Grimes) who harbors a tragic secret.
4b	"Wish Bank"	Rick Friedberg	Michael Cassutt	October 18, 1985
A woman finds a magic lamp at a garage sale that takes her to a bank/DMV-style office where wishes are processed and filed.
4c	"Nightcrawlers"	William Friedkin	Robert R. McCammon / Philip DeGuere	October 18, 1985
A drifter (Scott Paulin) who fought during the Vietnam War possesses the power of mind over matter and turns his flashbacks into reality.
5a	"If She Dies"	John Hancock	David Bennett Carren	October 25, 1985
A father (Tony Lo Bianco) who has a daughter in a coma is guided to purchase an old bed by a young girl's ghost.
5b	"Ye Gods"	Peter Medak	Anne Collins	October 25, 1985
A man (David Dukes) who ignores Cupid's (Robert Morse) arrow finds himself untangling the love lives of the gods.
6a	"Examination Day"	Paul Lynch	Henry Slesar / Philip DeGuere	November 1, 1985
A 12-year-old boy (David Mendenhall) must go for mandatory intelligence testing.
6b	"A Message From Charity"	Paul Lynch	William M. Lee / Alan Brennert	November 1, 1985
A teenage boy (Robert Duncan McNeill) with a fever finds himself in telepathic contact with a girl (Kerry Noonan) living in colonial New England.
7a	"Teacher's Aide"	B.W.L. Norton	Steven Barnes	November 8, 1985
A teacher (Adrienne Barbeau) at a gang-filled school is possessed by a mysterious gargoyle.
7b	"Paladin of the Lost Hour"	Gilbert Cates (credited as Alan Smithee)	Harlan Ellison	November 8, 1985
Mr. Gaspar (Danny Kaye) is the protector of a magical timepiece, a pocket watch that holds The Last Hour.
8a	"Act Break"	Ted Flicker	Haskell Barkin	November 15, 1985
A playwright (James Coco) uses an ancient relic to make a single wish.
8b	"The Burning Man"	J.D. Feigelson	Ray Bradbury / J.D. Feigelson	November 15, 1985
A woman (Piper Laurie) and her nephew pick up a hitchhiker who warns of danger ahead.
8c	"Dealer's Choice"	Wes Craven	Donald Todd	November 15, 1985
A group of friends (Barney Martin, Garrett Morris, M. Emmet Walsh, and Morgan Freeman) playing cards suspect that their guest (Dan Hedaya) is the Devil.
9a	"Dead Woman's Shoes"	Peter Medak	Lynn Barker	November 22, 1985
A shy woman (Helen Mirren) tries on a pair of high heels at a thrift store that make her assertive, self-confident—and send her on a murderous mission.
9b	"Wong's Lost and Found Emporium"	Paul Lynch	William F. Wu / Alan Brennert	November 22, 1985
An Asian man (Brian Tochi) and an old white woman search for a mysterious shop that holds the secret to gaining back their lost emotions.
10a	"The Shadow Man"	Joe Dante	Rockne S. O'Bannon	November 29, 1985
The Shadow Man (Jeff Calhoun), a mysterious entity made of darkness, defends a boy (Jonathan Ward) in exchange for being allowed to stay under his bed.
10b	"The Uncle Devil Show"	David Steinberg	Donald Todd	November 29, 1985
A boy learns strange magic tricks from a bizarre kids' show.
10c	"Opening Day"	John Milius	Gerrit Graham Chris Hubbell	November 29, 1985
A man (Jeffrey Jones) is targeted for murder on the opening day of duck hunting season by his wife and her lover.
11a	"The Beacon"	Gerd Oswald	Martin Pasko Rebecca Parr	December 6, 1985
A young doctor (Charles Martin Smith) stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.
11b	"One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty"	Don Carlos Dunaway	Harlan Ellison / Alan Brennert	December 6, 1985
A man (Peter Riegert) who returns to his childhood home is transported to his past.
12a	"Her Pilgrim Soul"	Wes Craven	Alan Brennert	December 13, 1985
Two scientists (Kristoffer Tabori, Gary Cole) create a holographic projector that has a woman (Anne Twomey) appear in the display.
12b	"I of Newton"	Kenneth Gilbert	Joe Haldeman	December 13, 1985
A professor (Sherman Hemsley) attempting to solve a difficult math problem finds himself matching wits with a demon (Ron Glass).
13a	"Night of the Meek"	Martha Coolidge	Rockne S. O'Bannon/Rod Serling	December 20, 1985
In this remake of the classic Twilight Zone episode of the same name, a drunk, out-of-work department store Santa (Richard Mulligan) finds a magic gift-giving bag and becomes a real-life Santa Claus.
13b	"But Can She Type?"	Shelley Levinson	Martin Pasko & Rebecca Parr	December 20, 1985
An overworked secretary (Pam Dawber) is sent into a parallel reality by a malfunctioning Xerox machine.
13c	"The Star"	Gerd Oswald	Arthur C. Clarke / Alan Brennert	December 20, 1985
On an interstellar journey, far in the future, an astrophysicist (Donald Moffat) and a priest (Fritz Weaver) learn they have discovered a long-dead world that has been emitting a signal for eons.
14a	"Still Life"	Peter Medak	Gerrit Graham Chris Hubbell	January 3, 1986
A professional photographer (Robert Carradine) discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition.
14b	"The Little People of Killany Woods"	J.D. Feigelson	J.D. Feigelson	January 3, 1986
A story-telling town drunk has an encounter with little people.
14c	"The Misfortune Cookie"	Allan Arkush	Charles E. Fritch / Steven Rae aka Rockne S. O'Bannon	January 3, 1986
A food critic (Elliott Gould) receives fortune cookie messages that get fulfilled.
15a	"Monsters!"	B.W.L. Norton	Robert Crais	January 24, 1986
A boy who loves monster movies has a strange neighbor (Ralph Bellamy) move in.
15b	"A Small Talent for War"	Claudia Weill	Alan Brennert Carter Scholz	January 24, 1986
An alien race that claimed to have invented mankind returns to judge them.
15c	"A Matter of Minutes"	Sheldon Larry	Theodore Sturgeon Rockne S. O'Bannon	January 24, 1986
A married couple awakens to find reality being constructed around them.
16a	"The Elevator"	R.L. Thomas	Ray Bradbury	January 31, 1986
Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.
16b	"To See the Invisible Man"	Noel Black	Robert Silverberg / Steven Barnes	January 31, 1986
An uncaring man (Cotter Smith) is sentenced to a year of social isolation.
16c	"Tooth and Consequences"	Robert Downey	Haskell Barkin	January 31, 1986
The Tooth Fairy gives a dentist (David Birney) what he wishes for.
17a	"Welcome to Winfield"	Bruce Bilson	Les Enloe	February 7, 1986	48
A man fleeing Death (Gerrit Graham) ends up in an old west town.
17b	"Quarantine"	Martha Coolidge	Alan Brennert	February 7, 1986	49
An ill weapons designer (Scott Wilson) is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later.
18a	"Gramma"	Bradford May	Stephen King / Harlan Ellison	February 14, 1986
A young boy (Barret Oliver) is convinced his ailing grandmother is really a monster.
18b	"Personal Demons"	Peter Medak	Rockne S. O'Bannon	February 14, 1986
A scriptwriter (Martin Balsam) suffering from writers block is tormented by a group of small creatures.
18c	"Cold Reading"	Gus Trikonis	Martin Pasko Rebecca Parr	February 14, 1986
An actor (Larry Poindexter) gets a job on a popular radio show only to find that everything described on the show becomes real inside the studio.
19a	"The Leprechaun-Artist"	Tommy Lee Wallace	Tommy Lee Wallace	February 21, 1986
A vacationing leprechaun is forced to grant wishes to the three boys who captured him.
19b	"Dead Run"	Paul Tucker	Greg Bear Alan Brennert	February 21, 1986
A truck driver (Steve Railsback) accepts the job of delivering souls to Hell.
20a	"Profile in Silver"	John Hancock	J. Neil Schulman	March 7, 1986
A history professor (Lane Smith) from the future is sent back to observe the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
20b	"Button, Button"	Peter Medak	Richard Matheson	March 7, 1986
A stranger gives a down-and-out couple (Mare Winningham, Brad Davis) a box with a button on it. He states that if they press the button, they would receive a large sum of money but also that someone would die. (This story was remade into the 2009 film "The Box".)
21a	"Need to Know"	Paul Lynch	Mary Sheldon	March 21, 1986
A government scientist/agent (William Petersen) sent to a small town to help investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity which is spreading through the town.
21b	"Red Snow"	Jeannot Szwarc	Michael Cassutt	March 21, 1986
A KGB colonel (George Dzundza) is sent to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of the local Communist Party officials.
22a	"Take My Life...Please!"	Gus Trikonis	Gordon Mitchell	March 28, 1986
A successful comedian (Tim Thomerson) who steals a routine from another comedian (Xander Berkeley) ends up paying a high price.
22b	"Devil's Alphabet"	Ben Bolt	Arthur Gray	March 28, 1986
A group of friends in Victorian England find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.
22c	"The Library"	John Hancock	Anne Collins	March 28, 1986
A woman (Frances Conroy) is hired to work in a private library and soon discovers that the books document the lives of everyone alive, updated instantly and in the smallest detail.
23a	"Shadow Play"	Paul Lynch	James Crocker/Charles Beaumont	April 4, 1986
A man (Peter Coyote) is convinced that reality as we perceive it is dependent on his staying alive.
23b	"Grace Note"	Peter Medak	Patrice Messina	April 4, 1986
A young woman (Julia Migenes) gains a glimpse of her future.
24a	"A Day in Beaumont"	Philip DeGuere	David Gerrold	April 11, 1986
After witnessing the landing of a flying saucer, a young couple (Victor Garber, Stacy Nelson) find themselves in the midst of an alien invasion.
24b	"The Last Defender of Camelot"	Jeannot Szwarc	Roger Zelazny George R.R. Martin	April 11, 1986
In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights (Richard Kiley) teams with Morgan le Fay (Jenny Agutter) to stop the return of Merlin (Norman Lloyd).

Season 2 (1986–1987)

Season Two episode were composed of one, two, or three segments.

Episode #	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original AirDate	Production Code
25a	"The Once and Future King"	Jim McBride	Bryce Maritano/George R.R. Martin	September 27, 1986
An Elvis impersonator named Gary travels back in time and meets the real Elvis Presley.
25b	"A Saucer of Loneliness"	John D. Hancock	David Gerrold/Theodore Sturgeon	September 27, 1986
A man finds a woman who earlier had encountered a mysterious saucer.
26a	"What Are Friends For?"	Gus Trikonis	J. Michael Straczynski	October 4, 1986
A child's imaginary friend turns out to be more than just his friend.
26b	"Aqua Vita"	Paul Tucker	Jeremy Bertrand Finch & Paul Chitlik	October 4, 1986
A woman finds a method for eternal youth at a steep price.
27a	"The Storyteller"	Paul Lynch	Rockne S. O'Bannon	October 11, 1986
A young woman finds that the secret to immortality resides in stories.
27b	"Nightsong"	Bradford May	Michael Reaves	October 11, 1986
A DJ finds that when she plays a certain song, her deceased lover appears.
28a	"The After Hours"	Bruce Malmuth	Rod Serling/Rockne S. O'Bannon	October 18, 1986
A young woman is pursued by mysterious strangers.
28b	"Lost and Found"	Gus Trikonis	Phyllis Eisenstein/George R.R. Martin	October 18, 1986
A woman's possessions mysteriously vanish.
28c	"The World Next Door"	Paul Lynch	Lan O'Kun	October 18, 1986
A door in the basement leads two people to enhance their lives.
29	"The Toys of Caliban"	Thomas J. Wright	Terry Matz/George R.R. Martin	December 4, 1986
A mentally challenged child has strange powers.
30	"The Convict's Piano"	Thomas J. Wright	Patrice Messina/James Crocker	December 11, 1986
A wrongfully-convicted convict discovers an old piano in his prison with special powers.
31	"The Road Less Traveled"	Wes Craven	George R.R. Martin	December 18, 1986
A draft-dodger is haunted by the specter of a familiar-looking man in a wheelchair.
32a	"The Card"	Bradford May Michael Cassutt	February 21, 1987
A woman with out-of-control spending habits finds her new credit card comes with unexpected penalties.
32b	"The Junction"	Bill Duke	Virginia Aldridge	February 21, 1987
A modern-day miner has an argument with his wife and then goes off to work in the local mine. A collapse traps him, but he finds another survivor - a miner who claims to be from 1912. The two men figure out that somehow they have become connected through time.
33a	"Joy Ride"	Gil Bettman	Cal Willingham	May 21, 1987
Four teens take a recently deceased man's classic car for a joyride. But the driver acts increasingly irrational during the ride...
33b	"Shelter Skelter"	Martha Coolidge	Ron Cobb	May 21, 1987
A survivalist and his friend find themselves cut off in his shelter after a nuclear bomb detonation.
33c	"Private Channel" Peter Medak	Edward Redlich	May 21, 1987
After accidentally dropping his portable stereo in an airplane lavatory, a young man discovers that it allows him to hear other people's thoughts.
34a	"Time and Teresa Golowitz"	Shelley Levinson	Alan Brennert/Parke Godwin	July 10, 1987
A Broadway composer accepts an offer from the Prince of Darkness and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. It's not as pleasant as he expected and soon, he sees a classmate who met a tragic end that night. He uses the opportunity to prevent the classmate's suicide.
34b	"Voices in the Earth"	Curtis Harrington	Alan Brennert	July 10, 1987
People return to a barren Earth to find that not everything had left when they thought it did.
35a	"Song of the Younger World"	Noel Black	Anthony & Nancy Lawrence	July 17, 1987
In 1916 a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her father, the superintendent. He finds out and does not approve of their love, locking away his daughter and punishing the boy. Luckily, the girl has a secret plan to escape so she can be forever with the love of her life.
35b	"The Girl I Married"	Philip DeGuere	J. M. DeMatteis	July 17, 1987
An attorney (James Whitmore Jr.) and his wife (Linda Kelsey) have successful careers. They feel something is lacking in their marriage. Soon, they encounter younger versions of their mates.

Season 3 (1988–1989)

Season Three was made up of half-hour episodes that aired individually.

Episode #	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original AirDate	Production Code
36	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon"	René Bonnière	Haskell Barkin / J. Michael Straczynski	24 September 1988
An old man known as Uncle Edgar (Harry Morgan) is ordered by a mysterious voice to collect junk in his apartment to keep the world in balance.
37	"Extra Innings"	Douglas Jackson	Tom Palmer	1 October 1988
Ex-baseball player Ed Hamler (Marc Singer), lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports Hamler to the past to be the player he used to be.
38	"he Crossing"	Paul Lynch	Ralph Phillips	8 October 1988
A stressed-out priest (Ted Shackelford) is haunted by the sight of a station wagon with a young girl inside that keeps crashing.
39	"The Hunters"	Paul Lynch	Paul Chitlik & Jeremy Bertrand Finch	15 October 1988
A young boy falls into an undiscovered cave near a housing project. An archeologist studies strange paintings on its walls and then bizarre things begin to happen. Cave items move around and animals are killed and brought into the cave.
40	"Dream Me a Life"	Allan King	J. Michael Straczynski	22 October 1988
A man in a retirement home is trapped in the dreams of a catatonic widow.
41	"Memories"	Ryszard Bugajski	Bob Underwood	29 October 1988
A hypnotist who specializes in helping people relive their past lives tries to find her own history—and finds that everyone she ever helped hates their past lives.
42	"The Hellgramite Method"	Gilbert M. Shilton	William Selby	5 November 1988
An alcoholic goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem. He has to choose which is more important - the bottle or his life.
43	"Our Selena is Dying"	Bruce Pittman	J. Michael Straczynski / Rod Serling	12 November 1988
A young woman and her dying mother switch bodies during a visit.
44	"The Call"	Gilbert M. Shilton	J. Michael Straczynski	19 November 1988
A lonely man accidentally phones the wrong number and finds an intriguing female to whom he grows attached. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and finds the phone in a museum next to the statue of a woman.
45	"The Trance"	Randy Bradshaw	Jeff Stuart & J. Michael Straczynski	26 November 1988
A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, a former inhabitant of Atlantis. Together with a partner, he makes a living off of it. The day of his big break, he channels another spirit, one who could cause him to lose everything. Is it punishment or a lesson from the Twilight Zone?
46	"Acts of Terror"	Brad Turner	J. Michael Straczynski	3 December 1988
A battered wife living with her abusive husband finds the strength to leave him in the form of a Doberman pinscher statue.
47	"20/20 Vision"	Jim Purdy	Robert Walden	10 December 1988
Newly promoted bank loan officer Warren Cribbens (Michael Moriarty) cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them. Faced with seeing the future of the farmers whose farms he must foreclose on, Warren can't bring himself to foreclose. Right away he's torn between doing his job and standing up for the people he helps.
48	"There Was an Old Woman"	Otta Hanus	Tom J. Astle	17 December 1988
A writer of children's books (Colleen Dewhurst) autographs a book for a sick young fan. Later, she starts hearing the sound of children in her house.
49	"The Trunk"	Steve DiMarco	Paul Chitlik & Jeremy Bertrand Finch	24 December 1988
A young man (Bud Cort) at a motel discovers an empty trunk that grants any wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are.
50	"Appointment on Route 17"	René Bonnière	Haskell Barkin	31 December 1988
After receiving a heart transplant, a man (Paul Le Mat) finds his personality has changed. He also discovers that he has a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.
51	"The Cold Equations"	Martin Lavut	Alan Brennert / Tom Godwin	7 January 1989
A rescue pilot on the frontiers of space is faced with unpleasant prospects when he finds an innocent stowaway on his ship.
52	"Stranger in Possum Meadows"	Sturla Gunnarsson	Paul Chitlik & Jeremy Bertrand Finch	14 January 1989
A young boy playing in a field meets an old man (Steve Kanaly) who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.
53	"Street of Shadows"	Ryszard Bugajski	Michael Reaves	21 January 1989
While taking a walk in a wealthy neighborhood, an unemployed man (Charles Haid) living in a shelter experiences an unusual transformation.
54	"Something in the Walls"	Allan Kroeker	J. Michael Straczynski	28 January 1989
A doctor (Damir Andrei) arrives at his new job in a sanitarium. He discovers the case of a woman (Deborah Raffin) who is terribly frightened of things that appear on her walls.
55	"A Game of Pool"	Randy Bradshaw	George Clayton Johnson	4 February 1989
In a remake of an episode from the original series, a pool champion (Esai Morales) has defeated everyone at his local pool hall, except for the long dead legend, Fats Brown (Maury Chaykin), who returns from the afterlife to challenge him to a high-stakes game.
56	"The Wall"	Atom Egoyan	J. Michael Straczynski	25 February 1989
A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. After sending through one team, the Army calls upon a career soldier (John Beck) to investigate, where he finds an idyllic planet. He has to decide whether to stay or go back to his old life.
57	"Room 2426"	Ryszard Bugajski	Jeremy Bertrand Finch & Paul Chitlik	11 February 1989
Martin Decker is confined to a special room for acts and thoughts against the state. They want the formula for a weapon he does not want to reveal. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.
58	"The Mind of Simon Foster"	Douglas Jackson	J. Michael Straczynski	18 February 1989
In an impoverished future, Simon Foster (Bruce Weitz) goes to a pawnshop to sell some personal items to raise money for rent. The shop owner offers to buy some of his memories. In Simon Foster's life, what could possibly be valuable?
59	"Cat and Mouse"	Eric Till	Christy Marx	4 March 1989
A shy woman (Pamela Bellwood) finds that a cat is actually a cursed "Casanova." She falls for the man (Page Fletcher) but finds that her Prince Charming is actually a scoundrel.
60	"Many, Many Monkeys"	Ryszard Bugajski	William Froug	18 March 1989
An epidemic breaks out and many people (Karen Valentine, Jackie Burroughs, Ken Pogue) are struck blind. Something more happens, however: People have become cold and heartless toward each other.
61	"Rendezvous in a Dark Place"	René Bonnière	J. Michael Straczynski	11 March 1989
An old woman (Janet Leigh) with an obsession with death attends funerals for entertainment. One night when an injured thief breaks into her home, she lets him die and waits for Death to come and collect him.
62	"Special Service"	Randy Bradshaw	J. Michael Straczynski	8 April 1989
A man (David Naughton) finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.
63	"Love is Blind"	Gilbert M. Shilton	Cal Willingham	25 March 1989
A man (Ben Murphy) plotting to murder his wife's lover meets a blind singer who seems to know all about his plans.
64	"Crazy as a Soup Sandwich"	Paul Lynch	Harlan Ellison	1 April 1989
A man (Wayne Robson) sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss he borrowed the track money from.
65	"Father and Son Game"	Randy Bradshaw	Jeremy Bertrand Finch & Paul Chitlik	15 April 1989
A 79-year-old man (Ed Marinaro) wants to keep on living so he transplants his brain into a younger body. His son (Eugene Robert Glazer), however, resents his father's continued life and tries to wrestle power from him.

See also

• List of Twilight Zone (original series) episodes
• List of Twilight Zone (2002) episodes
• List of Twilight Zone (2019) episodes