This is a list of all the episodes from the original Twilight Zone series.
Season 1[]
Episode # and segment | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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1 | Where Is Everybody? | Robert Stevens | Rod Serling | October 2, 1959 | 173-3601 |
A man with no memory of who he is finds himself in a strange empty town. | |||||
2 | One for the Angels | Robert Parrish | Rod Serling | October 9, 1959 | 173-3608 |
A pitchman talks Death (Murray Hamilton) into sparing his life until he makes one last great pitch, but threatens the life of a little girl in the process. | |||||
3 | Mr. Denton on Doomsday | Allen Reisner | Rod Serling | October 16, 1959 | 173-3609 |
A town drunk faces an infamous killer after magically regaining his gunfighting skills. | |||||
4 | The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine | Mitchell Leisen | Rod Serling | October 23, 1959 | 173-3610 |
An aging movie star rewatches her old films in an attempt to recapture her youth. | |||||
5 | Walking Distance | Robert Stevens | Rod Serling | October 30, 1959 | 173-3605 |
An ad executive under pressure at his job visits his old hometown, only to find himself returned to his childhood. | |||||
6 | Escape Clause | Mitchell Leisen | Rod Serling | November 6, 1959 | 173-3603 |
A mean-spirited hypochondriac afraid of dying sells his soul to a form of the Devil for immortality. | |||||
7 | The Lonely | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | November 13, 1959 | 173-3602 |
In the year 2046, a convicted man serving his sentence on an uninhabited asteroid is given a female robot for companionship. | |||||
8 | Time Enough at Last | John Brahm | Rod Serling | November 20, 1959 | 173-3614 |
A bank teller yearning for more time to read gets his wish when he becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust. | |||||
9 | Perchance to Dream | Robert Florey | Charles Beaumont | November 27, 1959 | 173-3616 |
A man with a severe heart condition who has been awake for a long time tells his psychiatrist that he will die if he goes to sleep, because a vixen is trying to kill him. | |||||
10 | Judgment Night | John Brahm | Rod Serling | December 4, 1959 | 173-3604 |
In 1942, a man from Germany does not remember how he boarded a British ship heading for New York, but he does have a feeling the ship will be sunk. | |||||
11 | And When the Sky Was Opened | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | December 11, 1959 | 173-3611 |
Three astronauts return from the desert where their spacecraft crashed, but cannot remember what happened during their flight. | |||||
12 | What You Need | Alvin Ganzer | Rod Serling | December 25, 1959 | 173-3622 |
A thug tries to exploit the abilities of a peddler who can see into the future and discern just what a person will need in an emergency. | |||||
13 | The Four of Us Are Dying | John Brahm | Rod Serling | January 1, 1960 | 173-3618 |
A small-time con-man with the ability to change his face assumes the identities of a musician, a gangster, and a boxer. | |||||
14 | Third from the Sun | Richard L. Bare | Rod Serling | January 8, 1960 | 173-3615 |
With an atomic war on the horizon, a scientist and his co-worker plot to board their families on a spaceship and escape to another planet. | |||||
15 | I Shot an Arrow Into the Air | Stuart Rosenberg | Rod Serling | January 15, 1960 | 173-3626 |
Astronauts are deserted on what appears to be an uncharted asteroid. | |||||
16 | The Hitch-Hiker | Alvin Ganzer | Rod Serling | January 22, 1960 | 173-3612 |
A woman driving cross-country keeps seeing a hitchhiker everywhere she goes. | |||||
17 | The Fever | Robert Florey | Rod Serling | January 29, 1960 | 173-3627 |
A man whose wife won them tickets to Las Vegas gets addicted to gambling, courtesy of a slot machine that calls his name. | |||||
18 | The Last Flight | William F. Claxton | Richard Matheson | February 5, 1960 | 173-3607 |
A British World War I fighter pilot flies through a strange cloud and lands his biplane on a modern-day American airbase. | |||||
19 | The Purple Testament | Richard L. Bare | Rod Serling | February 12, 1960 | 173-3619 |
An Army lieutenant serving in World War II has the ability to see who will die. | |||||
20 | Elegy | Douglas Heyes | Charles Beaumont | February 19, 1960 | 173-3625 |
Astronauts land on an asteroid resembling Earth, but its inhabitants appear motionless. | |||||
21 | Mirror Image | John Brahm | Rod Serling | February 26, 1960 | 173-3623 |
A woman in a bus depot is treated by strangers as if they have seen her before and soon realizes that she has a doppelgänger. | |||||
22 | The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street | Ronald Winston | Rod Serling | March 4, 1960 | 173-3620 |
A power failure causes the residents of a suburban neighborhood to suspect one another of being monsters from outer space planning an invasion. | |||||
23 | A World of Difference | Ted Post | Richard Matheson | March 11, 1960 | 173-3624 |
A businessman finds himself in another life as an actor playing a character in a movie. | |||||
24 | Long Live Walter Jameson | Anton Leader | Charles Beaumont | March 18, 1960 | 173-3621 |
A history professor is revealed to have lived for thousands of years. | |||||
25 | People Are Alike All Over | Mitchell Leisen | Rod Serling | March 25, 1960 | 173-3613 |
Two astronauts take an expedition to Mars, where one dies in a crash landing and the other learns how alike people really are. | |||||
26 | Execution | David Orrick McDearmon | Rod Serling | April 1, 1960 | 173-3628 |
An outlaw cowboy about to be hanged for murder in 1880 is brought to the 20th century by a time machine built by a professor. | |||||
27 | The Big Tall Wish | Ronald Winston | Rod Serling | April 8, 1960 | 173-3630 |
A boy (Stephen Perry) makes a wish for a boxer to win a comeback match. | |||||
28 | A Nice Place to Visit | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | April 15, 1960 | 173-3632 |
A thief is shot by police and winds up in a place where he has everything he has ever wanted upon meeting a strange man named Pip . | |||||
29 | Nightmare as a Child | Alvin Ganzer | Rod Serling | April 29, 1960 | 173-3635 |
A strange little girl (Terry Burnham) reveals secrets about the past of a school teacher | |||||
30 | A Stop at Willoughby | Robert Parrish | Rod Serling | May 6, 1960 | 173-3629 |
A stressed-out ad executive (James Daly) discovers a quiet 1880s town in his dreams that seem better than his waking life. | |||||
31 | The Chaser | Douglas Heyes | Robert Presnell, Jr. | 13 May 1960 | 173-3636 |
A lovestruck man in love with a self-obsessed woman named Leilabuys a love potion that works too well. | |||||
32 | A Passage for Trumpet | Don Medford | Rod Serling | May 20, 1960 | 173-3633 |
A down-and-out trumpet player gets another chance at life after attempting suicide. | |||||
33 | Mr. Bevis | William Asher | Rod Serling | June 3, 1960 | 173-3631 |
A guardian angel offers to help a good-natured man who is having a bad day. | |||||
34 | The After Hours | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | June 10, 1960 | 173-3637 |
A woman is told that the floor of a department store where she made a purchase does not exist. | |||||
35 | The Mighty Casey | Alvin Ganzer Robert Parrish |
Rod Serling | June 17, 1960 | 173-3617 |
A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher. | |||||
36 | A World of His Own | Ralph Nelson | Richard Matheson | July 1, 1960 | 173-3634 |
A playwright has the ability to bring anything to life by describing it to a tape recorder. |
Season 2[]
Episode # and segment | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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37 | King Nine Will Not Return | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | September 30, 1960 | 173-3639 |
The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead. | |||||
38 | The Man in the Bottle | Don Medford | Rod Serling | October 7, 1960 | 173-3638 |
A genie grants four wishes to an unsuccessful pawnbroker and his wife. | |||||
39 | Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | October 14, 1960 | 173-3641 |
A nervous gangster faces himself when his boss (William D. Gordon) gives him his latest assignment. | |||||
40 | A Thing About Machines | David Orrick McDearmon | Rod Serling | October 28, 1960 | 173-3645 |
A writer believes machines are conspiring against him. | |||||
41 | The Howling Man | Douglas Heyes | Charles Beaumont | November 4, 1960 | 173-3642 |
A man lost in a storm finds a monastery where the monks claim a howling prisoneris the Devil himself. | |||||
42 | Eye of the Beholder | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | November 11, 1960 | 173-3640 |
A woman wrapped in bandages after facial surgery hopes that she will no longer be ugly. | |||||
43 | Nick of Time | Richard L. Bare | Richard Matheson | November 18, 1960 | 173-3643 |
A superstitious newlywed becomes convinced, in spite of the protests of his bride, that a Fortune-telling machine's predictions are quite accurate. | |||||
44 | The Lateness of the Hour | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | December 2, 1960 | 173-3662 |
A woman disapproves of the robot servants of her father. | |||||
45 | The Trouble With Templeton | Buzz Kulik | E. Jack Neuman | December 9, 1960 | 173-3649 |
A Broadway actor yearning for the days when his wife was alive gets his wish. | |||||
46 | A Most Unusual Camera | John Rich | Rod Serling | December 16, 1960 | 173-3606 |
A thieving couple discover that a camera that they have stolen takes pictures of the future. | |||||
47 | The Night of the Meek | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | December 23, 1960 | 173-3665 |
A drunken department store Santa Claus is fired by his boss on Christmas Eve and then finds a sack that gives people anything they want. | |||||
48 | Dust | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | January 6, 1961 | 173-3653 |
In the Old West, the desperate father of a condemned man buys "magic dust" from a peddler to save his son. | |||||
49 | Back There | David Orrick McDearmon | Rod Serling | January 13, 1961 | 173-3648 |
A professor travels through time to the date of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and tries to change history. | |||||
50 | The Whole Truth | James Sheldon | Rod Serling | January 20, 1961 | 173-3664 |
A used-car dealer is forced to tell the truth after buying a car from an old man who says it is haunted. | |||||
51 | The Invaders | Douglas Heyes | Richard Matheson | January 27, 1961 | 173-3646 |
A woman living alone in a rural house is stalked by tiny beings from another planet. | |||||
52 | A Penny for Your Thoughts | James Sheldon | George Clayton Johnson | February 3, 1961 | 173-3650 |
When a coin lands on its edge, a bank clerk gains the ability to hear other people's thoughts – and soon learns that you cannot always believe what you hear. | |||||
53 | Twenty-Two | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | February 10, 1961 | 173-3666 |
A dancer hospitalized for exhaustion has a recurring nightmare in which she is led to Room Twenty-Two, the morgue, by a sinister nurse. | |||||
54 | The Odyssey of Flight 33 | Jus Addiss | Rod Serling | February 24, 1961 | 173-3651 |
A strange increase in speed causes a jet airliner to travel back in time. | |||||
55 | Mr. Dingle, the Strong | John Brahm | Rod Serling | March 3, 1961 | 173-3644 |
A meek vacuum cleaner salesman is given incredible strength by a two-headed Martian as part of an experiment. | |||||
56 | Static | Buzz Kulik | Charles Beaumont | March 10, 1961 | 173-3663 |
A radio allows an old man to listen to programs from his past. | |||||
57 | The Prime Mover | Richard L. Bare | Charles Beaumont | March 24, 1961 | 173-3647 |
A gambler uses the telekinetic powers of his friend to win big in Las Vegas. | |||||
58 | Long Distance Call | James Sheldon | Charles Beaumont and William Idelson | March 31, 1961 | 173-3667 |
A boy talks with his dead grandmother on the toy telephone she gave him before she died. | |||||
59 | A Hundred Yards Over the Rim | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | April 7, 1961 | 173-3654 |
In the year 1847, a pioneer traveling west with his family and friends scouts ahead for food and water and finds himself in the mid-20th century. | |||||
60 | The Rip Van Winkle Caper | Jus Addiss | Rod Serling | April 21, 1961 | 173-3655 |
A gang of gold thieves use suspended animation chambers, set to revive them in a hundred years, to evade the authorities. | |||||
61 | The Silence | Boris Sagal | Rod Serling | April 28, 1961 | 173-3658 |
An aristocratic club member bets that a talkative acquaintance cannot stay silent for an entire year. | |||||
62 | Shadow Play | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | May 5, 1961 | 173-3657 |
A man convicted of murder and awaiting execution insists that everything happening is just a dream. | |||||
63 | The Mind and the Matter | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | May 12, 1961 | 173-3659 |
A man uses the power of concentration to remake the world in his image. | |||||
64 | Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? | Montgomery Pittman | Rod Serling | May 26, 1961 | 173-3660 |
State troopers investigating a UFO sighting track footprints to a diner, where they try to determine which one of seven bus passengers is really a Martian. | |||||
65 | The Obsolete Man | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | June 2, 1961 | 173-3661 |
In a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and makes rather unusual requests to the Chancellor as to the manner of his execution. |
Season 3[]
Episode # and segment | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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66 | Two | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | September 15, 1961 | 4802 |
Two soldiers, a man and a woman, are the only survivors of a war – and they are from opposing sides. | |||||
67 | The Arrival | Boris Sagal | Rod Serling | September 22, 1961 | 4814 |
An FAA inspector and members of the airport staff investigate a plane that arrives without a single person onboard – and each sees it differently. | |||||
68 | The Shelter | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | September 29, 1961 | 4803 |
An alert is issued for an imminent nuclear attack, prompting neighbors to unite against the physician whose bomb shelter has room enough only for his family. | |||||
69 | The Passersby | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | October 6, 1961 | 4817 |
At the end of the Civil War, wounded soldiers pass by the house of a woman. | |||||
70 | A Game of Pool | Buzz Kulik | George Clayton Johnson | October 13, 1961 | 4815 |
A legendary pool player returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark with the shark's life at stake. | |||||
71 | The Mirror | Don Medford | Rod Serling | October 20, 1961 | 4819 |
In Central America, a mirror allows a dictator to see the faces of his enemies. | |||||
72 | The Grave | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | October 27, 1961 | 3656 |
A hired killer is challenged to visit the grave of the outlaw who died swearing vengeance against him. | |||||
73 | It's a Good Life | James Sheldon | Rod Serling | November 3, 1961 | 4801 |
A six-year-old boy terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality. | |||||
74 | Death's Head Revisited | Don Medford | Rod Serling | November 10, 1961 | 4804 |
A former SS Captain visits the now-deserted concentration camp he commanded where he is tried for his crimes by the ghosts of his prisoners. | |||||
75 | The Midnight Sun | Anton Leader | Rod Serling | November 17, 1961 | 4818 |
A landlady and her tenant struggle to survive when the Earth changes its orbit and begins moving toward the sun. | |||||
76 | Still Valley | James Sheldon | Rod Serling | November 24, 1961 | 4808 |
During the Civil War, a Confederate scout enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place. | |||||
77 | The Jungle | William F. Claxton | Charles Beaumont | December 1, 1961 | 4806 |
An engineer building a dam in Africa is cursed by Indigenous peoples|natives who object to his plans. | |||||
78 | Once Upon a Time | Norman Z. McLeod | Richard Matheson | December 15, 1961 | 4820 |
A janitor travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet. | |||||
79 | Five Characters in Search of an Exit | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | December 22, 1961 | 4805 |
An Army major, a clown, a hobo, a ballerina and a bagpiper find themselves in a cylinder with no memory of how they got there. | |||||
80 | A Quality of Mercy | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | December 29, 1961 | 4809 |
During World War II, a U.S. lieutenant gets a unique opportunity to see the conflict from the Japanese point of view. | |||||
81 | Nothing in the Dark | Lamont Johnson | George Clayton Johnson | January 5, 1962 | 3652 |
An elderly recluse facing imminent eviction refuses to allow anyone into her apartment, fearing that any visitor might be Death incarnate; her resolve is tested when a young police officer is seriously wounded outside her door. | |||||
82 | One More Pallbearer | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | January 12, 1962 | 4823 |
Staging a fake nuclear war, a millionaire offers shelter to three people he believes wronged him in the past if they will only beg his forgiveness. | |||||
83 | Dead Man's Shoes | Montgomery Pittman | Charles Beaumont | January 19, 1962 | 4824 |
A homeless man literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse. | |||||
84 | The Hunt | Harold Schuster | Earl Hamner, Jr. | January 26, 1962 | 4810 |
A mountain man goes hunting for raccoons with his dog. When he returns, he comes to realize that something is much changed. | |||||
85 | Showdown with Rance McGrew | Christian Nyby | Rod Serling | February 2, 1962 | 4812 |
The egotistic star of a western TV series comes face to face with the real Jesse James. | |||||
86 | Kick the Can | Lamont Johnson | George Clayton Johnson | February 9, 1962 | 4821 |
The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game. | |||||
87 | A Piano in the House | David Greene | Earl Hamner, Jr. | February 16, 1962 | 4825 |
A cynical theater critic takes advantage of a player piano that reveals people's hidden selves. | |||||
88 | The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | February 23, 1962 | 4811 |
When a "dead" mansits up in the coffin at his funeral during the mid-1920s, the townsfolk become suspicious whether it's really him, especially when he doesn't behave the way he used to. | |||||
89 | To Serve Man | Richard L. Bare | Rod Serling | March 2, 1962 | 4807 |
Representatives of a 9 ft. tall Extraterrestrial life|alien race come to Earth and offer mankind cures for all earthly ills. | |||||
90 | The Fugitive | Richard L. Bare | Charles Beaumont | March 9, 1962 | 4816 |
A fugitive from another world befriends a handicapped girl. | |||||
91 | Little Girl Lost | Paul Stewart | Richard Matheson | March 16, 1962 | 4828 |
When a little girl disappears from her bedroom without a trace, her parents call their physicist friend to help investigate her disappearance. | |||||
92 | Person or Persons Unknown | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | March 23, 1962 | 4829 |
A man discovers that all traces of his identity have been erased when no one, including his own wife, recognizes him. | |||||
93 | The Little People | William F. Claxton | Rod Serling | March 30, 1962 | 4822 |
When two astronauts land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people. | |||||
94 | Four O'Clock | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | April 6, 1962 | 4832 |
A fanatical one-man moral crusader decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock. | |||||
95 | Hocus-Pocus and Frisby | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | April 13, 1962 | 4833 |
A teller of tall tales attracts unwanted attention from aliens. | |||||
96 | The Trade-Ins | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | April 20, 1962 | 4831 |
An elderly couple want new young bodies for the two of them, but can pay for only one. | |||||
97 | The Gift | Allen H. Miner | Rod Serling | April 27, 1962 | 4830 |
A visitor from outer space tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion. | |||||
98 | The Dummy | Abner Biberman | Rod Serling | May 4, 1962 | 4834 |
A ventriloquist believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act. | |||||
99 | Young Man's Fancy | John Brahm | Richard Matheson | May 11, 1962 | 4813 |
A newlywed husband refuses to give up his childhood home. | |||||
100 | I Sing the Body Electric | William F. Claxton and James Sheldon |
Ray Bradbury | May 18, 1962 | 4826 |
A widower buys a robot grandmother to care for his children. | |||||
101 | Cavender is Coming | Christian Nyby | Rod Serling | May 25, 1962 | 4827 |
A clumsy theater worker meets her equally bumbling guardian angel. | |||||
102 | The Changing of the Guard | Robert Ellis Miller | Rod Serling | June 1, 1962 | 4835 |
A professor who is forced into retirement contemplates suicide, but changes his mind when the ghosts of his former students that were killed in the war persuade him of his worth. |
Season 4[]
Episode # and segment | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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103 | In His Image | Perry Lafferty | Charles Beaumont | January 3, 1963 | 4851 |
A man is confused by a murderous impulse and a loss of his memory. | |||||
104 | The Thirty-Fathom Grave | Perry Lafferty | Rod Serling | January 10, 1963 | 4857 |
A strange tapping sound draws a ship to the site of a sunken World War II submarine. | |||||
105 | Valley of the Shadow | Perry Lafferty | Charles Beaumont | January 17, 1963 | 4861 |
A newspaper reporter discovers a small town with incredibly advanced technology that they wish to keep secret. | |||||
106 | He's Alive | Stuart Rosenberg | Rod Serling | January 24, 1963 | 4856 |
The struggling leader of a small group of Neo-Nazis receives advice from a mysterious stranger about gaining followers. | |||||
107 | Mute | Stuart Rosenberg | Richard Matheson | January 31, 1963 | 4858 |
A mute telepathic girl is the sole survivor of a fire that kills her parents. | |||||
108 | Death Ship | Don Medford | Richard Matheson | February 7, 1963 | 4850 |
Three astronauts discover exact duplicates of their spaceship and themselves on a distant planet. | |||||
109 | Jess-Belle | Buzz Kulik | Earl Hamner, Jr. | February 14, 1963 | 4855 |
A mountain girl enlists a witch to help her win back her lover. | |||||
110 | Miniature | Walter Grauman | Charles Beaumont | February 21, 1963 | 4862 |
A timid clerk sees the figurines of a museum's 19th-century miniature dollhouse come to life. | |||||
111 | Printer's Devil | Ralph Senensky | Charles Beaumont | February 28, 1963 | 4864 |
A newspaperman saves his failing periodical by hiring the mysterious Mr. Smith, who reports disasters before they happen on his own Linotype machine. | |||||
112 | No Time Like the Past | Justus Addiss | Rod Serling | March 7, 1963 | 4853 |
A scientist goes back in time to try and change history. | |||||
113 | The Parallel | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Rod Serling | March 14, 1963 | 4859 |
An astronaut returns from a space flight to find things much changed during his absence. | |||||
114 | I Dream of Genie | Robert Gist | John Furia, Jr. | March 21, 1963 | 4860 |
An office worker acquires a lamp with a genie who offers him a wish. | |||||
115 | The New Exhibit | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | April 4, 1963 | 4866 |
A wax museum curator lovingly maintains wax figures of five infamous killers in his basement after the museum discards them. When he loses his job, his enemies are mysteriously murdered. | |||||
116 | Of Late I Think of Cliffordville | David Lowell Rich | Rod Serling | April 11, 1963 | 4867 |
An aging tycoon exchanges his fortune for a trip to the past and a new beginning when he meets the mysterious Miss Devlin. | |||||
117 | The Incredible World of Horace Ford | Abner Biberman | Reginald Rose | April 18, 1963 | 4854 |
A middle-aged toy designer goes back to his childhood when he visits his old neighborhood. | |||||
118 | On Thursday We Leave for Home | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | May 2, 1963 | 4868 |
In 2021, a group of space pioneers prepare for a return trip to Earth upon having failed to establish a new society on a distant planet. The group's leader refuses to give up his authority. | |||||
119 | Passage on the Lady Anne | Lamont Johnson | Charles Beaumont | May 9, 1963 | 4869 |
To save their marriage, a couple book a cruise on a ship whose other passengers are elderly. | |||||
120 | The Bard | David Butler | Rod Serling | May 23, 1963 | 4852 |
An aspiring screenwriter conjures up the spirit of William Shakespeare to help him in his television script. |
Season 5[]
Episode # and segment | Title | Director | Writer(s) | Original AirDate | Production Code |
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121 | In Praise of Pip | Joseph M. Newman | Rod Serling | September 27, 1963 | 2607 |
A bookie receives news that his son Pip (Bobby Diamond) has been seriously wounded in combat. He soon gets the chance to not only see his son one last time but also to save him. | |||||
122 | Steel | Don Weis | Richard Matheson | 1963 | 2602 |
In 1974, a boxing promoter tries to get the most out of his broken-down robot boxer. | |||||
123 | Nightmare at 20,000 Feet | Richard Donner | Richard Matheson | 1963 | 2605 |
A salesman recovering from a nervous breakdown sees a Gremlin|creature on the wing of the airplane he is on, but no one believes him. | |||||
124 | A Kind of a Stopwatch | John Rich | Rod Serling | 1963 | 2609 |
A talkative bore acquires a stopwatch that halts time. | |||||
125 | The Last Night of a Jockey | Joseph M. Newman | Rod Serling | 1963 | 2616 |
A disgraced jockey is granted his wish to be "big." | |||||
126 | Living Doll | Richard C. Sarafian | Charles Beaumont | November 1, 1963 | 2621 |
A man finds himself being actually physically threatened by his stepdaughter's new talking doll. | |||||
127 | The Old Man in the Cave | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Rod Serling | November 8, 1963 | 2603 |
In 1974, a former soldier and his band of scavengers cause discord for a community of atomic war survivors who are being guided by an unseen cave dweller. | |||||
128 | Uncle Simon | Don Siegel | Rod Serling | November 15, 1963 | 2604 |
The long-suffering niece of a grumpy inventor finds no peace after his passing. | |||||
129 | Probe 7, Over and Out | Ted Post | Rod Serling | November 29, 1963 | 2622 |
An astronaut crash-lands on a distant planet and learns that his own planet has been destroyed by nuclear war. He soon discovers that he is not alone on this new world when he meets a humanoid alien survivor from a runaway planet. | |||||
130 | The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms | Alan Crosland Jr. | Rod Serling | December 6, 1963 | 2606 |
Three National Guardsmen exploring the site of Custer's Last Stand wind up getting involved in the actual battle. | |||||
131 | A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain | Bernard Girard | Rod Serling | December 13, 1963 | 2614 |
An old man married to a younger self-absorbed woman takes an untested youth serum. | |||||
132 | Ninety Years Without Slumbering | Roger Kay | Richard De Roy | December 20, 1963 | 2615 |
An old man believes he will die the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking. | |||||
133 | Ring-a-Ding Girl | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Earl Hamner, Jr. | December 27, 1963 | 2623 |
A movie star receives a ring from her fan club that draws her back to her home town, where she offers to do a one-woman show to stop plans for a town picnic. | |||||
134 | You Drive | John Brahm | Earl Hamner, Jr. | January 3, 1964 | 2625 |
A hit-and-run driver is haunted by his car after he runs into a paperboy. | |||||
135 | The Long Morrow | Robert Florey | Rod Serling | January 10, 1964 | 2624 |
An astronaut falls in love with a woman before going on a 40-year mission into space. | |||||
136 | The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross | Don Siegel | Jerry McNeely | January 17, 1964 | 2612 |
A suitor discovers he can trade his physical assets for those of others. | |||||
137 | Number 12 Looks Just Like You | Abner Biberman | Charles Beaumont and John Tomerlin | January 24, 1964 | 2618 |
In a future society, a young woman resists having the surgery that her society requires to make everyone beautiful and identical. | |||||
138 | Black Leather Jackets | Joseph M. Newman | Earl Hamner, Jr. | January 31, 1964 | 2628 |
Three motorcycle-riding young men are actually part of an alien invasion force. One of them falls for a local teenage girl. | |||||
139 | Night Call | Jacques Tourneur | Richard Matheson | 7 February 1964 | 2610 |
An old woman keeps receiving frightening phone calls. | |||||
140 | From Agnes—With Love | Richard Donner | Bernard C. Schoenfeld | February 14, 1964 | 2629 |
A computer programmer receives advice on his love life from a computer that is in love with him. | |||||
141 | Spur of the Moment | Elliot Silverstein | Richard Matheson | February 21, 1964 | 2608 |
An engaged woman is terrorized for some unknown reason by a woman in black on horseback. | |||||
142 | An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge | Robert Enrico | Robert Enrico | February 28, 1964 | N/A |
A Confederate sympathizer is about to be hanged when the rope breaks, allowing him to escape and return home. | |||||
143 | Queen of the Nile | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | March 6, 1964 | 2626 |
A columnist discovers the secret behind the apparent eternal youth of a film actress. | |||||
144 | What's in the Box | Richard L. Bare | Martin Goldsmith | March 13, 1964 | 2635 |
After being fixed by a strange TV repairman, an unhappy couple's TV set shows them hurting each other. | |||||
145 | The Masks | Ida Lupino | Rod Serling | March 20, 1964 | 2601 |
At Mardi Gras, a wealthy dying man Robert Keith) orders his daughter and her family to wear masks that show their true selves as part of a requirement to obtain his inheritance. | |||||
146 | I Am the Night—Color Me Black | Abner Biberman | Rod Serling | March 27, 1964 | 2630 |
A man is to be hanged at sunrise. On the appointed day, the sun fails to rise which starts the sheriff and the rest of the civilians wondering why there is only darkness. | |||||
147 | Sounds and Silences | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | April 3, 1964 | 2631 |
A man has an obsession with loud noises which causes his wife to leave him. Then all of the sounds in his life go haywire. | |||||
148 | Caesar and Me | Robert Butler | Adele T. Strassfield | April 10, 1964 | 2636 |
A struggling ventriloquist has a dummy who talks him into a life of crime. | |||||
149 | The Jeopardy Room | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | April 17, 1964 | 2639 |
A political defector is forced into a game of cat-and-mouse with a rather artistic and sadistic hitman. | |||||
150 | Stopover in a Quiet Town | Ron Winston | Earl Hamner, Jr. | April 24, 1964 | 2611 |
A married couple wakes up after drinking too much at a party and find themselves in a strange town devoid of life – except for the distant laughter of a child. | |||||
151 | The Encounter | Robert Butler | Martin M. Goldsmith | May 1, 1964 | 2640 |
A katana sparks a conflict between a World War II veteran and a Japanese-American. | |||||
152 | Mr. Garrity and the Graves | Ted Post | Rod Serling | May 8, 1964 | 2637 |
A strange traveling peddler brings a dog back from the dead and offers to do the same for those in the town cemetery, making the townsfolk of Happiness, Arizona uneasy. | |||||
153 | The Brain Center at Whipple's | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | May 15, 1964 | 2632 |
A factory owner decides to replace his human employees with machines. | |||||
154 | Come Wander With Me | Richard Donner | Anthony Wilson | May 22, 1964 | 2641 |
A professional rockabilly singer looks for an authentic song in the mountains, where he gets in trouble with the locals. | |||||
155 | The Fear | Ted Post | Rod Serling | May 29, 1964 | 2633 |
A state trooper and a secluded woman experience strange incidents after the woman reports seeing lights in the sky. | |||||
156 | The Bewitchin' Pool | Joseph M. Newman | Earl Hamner, Jr. | June 19, 1964 | 2619 |
Two children escape from their bickering parents by way of their swimming pool to a special place where the mysterious Aunt T lives. |