Twilight Zone Chronology

This page places the events in The Twilight Zone into a cohesive timeline using dates from the episodes, airdates from episodes set in the modern age and speculation based on dialogue in the series.

Ancient History

Jurassic Age - A time-displaced Flight 33 flies over a wandering brontosaurus over the future area of New York City. ("The Odyssey of Flight 33")

• Contrary to the episode, the topography of Jurassic-era New York City would not resemble modern-era New York as the shoreline would be several miles further east. Furthermore, no brontosaurs lived in the area of NYC unless this was a rare undiscovered relative.

Late Pleistocene era - Astronaut Adam Cook crashlands on the planet after war destroys his home planet. He makes contact with the sole survivor of another crash named Norda and accepts her as a companion. ("Probe 7, Over and Out")

• Rod Serling postulates Adam and Norda are ancestors of humanity. However, had interstellar flight been available during the atomic wars of Henry Bemis ("Time Enough At Last" or Jeremy Wickwire ("Elegy")'s timelines, this might have been a storyline about an Earth astronaut on another planet.

c. 40 BC - The future Walter Jamison meets an alchemist who perfoms magic spells that retards his age, allowing him to stay the same age for the rest of his life. ("Long Live Walter Jameson")

• Jamison says this event occurs 2000 years before the episode.

30 BC, April 20 - Cleopatra VII fakes her death and uses Egyptian mysticism to elongate her life using scarab beetles. ("Queen of the Nile")

• Historical

c. 410 - 347 BC - Plato is one of the wisest teachers and philosophers in the Ancient World. ("Long Live Walter Jameson")

• Walter Jameson remarks that he knew Plato.

19th Century

1826, January 28 - William Burke is executed for the murders of 16 people whose bodies he sold to the medical colleges. his accomplice, William Hare, is acquitted of all charges. ("The New Exhibit")

• Historical

1846, May 7 - A group of settlers led by Christian Horn leave Illinois for California. ("A Hundred Yards Over The Rim")

• Occurs eleven months before the period events of the episodes.

1847, April 7 - Horn's group of settlers of Ohio stop briefly in the territory of New Mexico to look for water. Horn briefly disappears and returns with medicine for his sick son. ("A Hundred Yards Over The Rim") 1860, March - Shanghai'd as a member of an oyster sloop, Albert W. Hicks attacks his perpetrators Captain George H. Burr and two other crew members with an ax, murdering them and throwing their bodies overboard. During his escape, he collided with the schooner J. R. Mather. He was hanged for piracy on July 13, 1860 in New York City, New York ("The New Exhibit")

• Historical events

1863, January 17 - An unidentified man arrives in Peaceful Valley, New Mexico with superior technology and equations for a new power source. It is suspected he is extraterrestrial in origin. ("Valley of the Shadow")

• It's reported he arrived 100 years before the episode. The extraterrestrial might be the same figure or of the same race as the stranger in "The Gift."

1863, June 30 - A Confederate cavalry scout passes through a Virginia town where the denizens are frozen in place. He reports this to his officer who realizes recreating the spell elsewhere involves renouncing God. ("Still Valley")

• Rod Serling says this occurs before the Battle of Gettysburg on July 1, 1863.

1864, September 11 - Walter Jameson serves as an officer in the Union Army with William Tecumseh Sherman near Atlanta. ("Long Live Walter Jameson")

• Professor Kittridge uses a photo and diary entry from this date to confront Jameson. Sherman's March to Atlanta would be the closest American skirmish.

1865, February 28 - A Confederate sympathizer named Peyton Farquhar, is hanged for treason and sabotage against the Union Army. ("An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge")

• Hypothetical

1865, April 14 - John Wilkes Booth assassinates President Abaham Lincoln after Peter Corrigan tries to warn the police. One of the officers later develops a career in politics after trying to attract help for the president. ("Back There") 1865, April - Lavinia Goodwin and a Confederate Army Sergeant watch as several soldiers head down the road past the Godwin Mansion, ending with Abraham Lincoln. ("The Passersby")

• Rod Serling says this occurs in April, but the war wasn't officially over until May 13, 1865.

1876, June 25 - General George Custer leads the Seventh Calvary against an armed engagement between combined forces of the Lakota, Northern Cheyenne and Arapaho tribes along the Little Bighorn River in the Crow Indian Reservation in southeastern Montana Territory. ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms")

• Historical

1880, April 1 - Convicted killer and outlaw Joseph Caswell vanishes from his noose at his execution, replaced by a petty thief named Paul Johnson in strange clothing. ("Execution")

• The alteration to the past must be especially minor to not effect the future since Johnson dying in the past was possibly pre-determined and if authorites covered up the paranormal events.

1881, July 1 - Physicist Paul Driscoll starts renting a room in a boarding house in Homeville, Indiana. He meets and starts romancing school teacher Abigail Sloan, but after his actions involuntarily cause a local fire, he leaves town. ( "No Time Like the Past")

• Date from the episode.

1881, July 14 - Billy the Kid is cornered in Fort Sumter, New Mexico and shot by Pat Garrett. ("Showdown with Rance McGrew")

• Historical

1881, September 19 - President James Garfield is assassinated by Charles Guiteau in Washington D.C. ( "No Time Like the Past")

• Historical

1882, April 3 - Jesse James is shot in the back in his St. Joseph, Missour home by Bob Ford. ("Showdown with Rance McGrew")

• Historical

1887, May 7 - Dr. Christian Horn Jr. is an well-known physician in the Old West. ("A Hundred Yards Over The Rim")

• Placed forty years after the period events in the episode.

1888 - William Feathersmith born in Cliffordville, New York. ("Of Late, I Think Of Cliffordville")

• Feathersmith says he's seventy-five in the episode.

1888, August 31 - Five woman are murdered in the Whitel Chapel area of London by a figure the press calls Jack the Ripper. ("The New Exhibit")

• Historical

1889, March 4 - Benjamin Harrison is elected President of the United States. ("Once Upon A Time")

• Historical

1889, October 16 - A down-and-out gunslinger named Al Denton is forced into a stand-off with a rival gunslinger named Hotaling. The both attain injuries that keeping them from ever wielding guns again. ("Mr. Denton on Doomsday") 1889, January 6 - A young man named Luiz Gallegos is hanged for reportedly killing a girl while drunk, but the rope breaks and he survives the hanging. ("Dust")

• Old West date reused from "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" with the airdate.

1889, October 27 - Gunslinger Conny Miller is inexplicably found dead at the grave of local man Pinto Sykes although paranormal suspicions arise. ("The Grave")

• No date in this episode. Placed in chronology after "Dust."

1890, May 8 - The town of Happiness, Arizona is quickly abandoned by the locals after the visit of Jared Garrity and rumors of "dead rising from the grave." ("Mr. Garrity and the Graves") 1890, December 8 - A bumbling janitor named Woodrow Mulligan fools around with his employer's invention and disappears to the future for a few hours, returning with a man named Rollo. ("Once Upon a Time") 1897 - Viola Draper born. ("Queen of the Nile")

• Presumes Viola is the same age as actress Celia Lovsky.

20th Century

1902 - Bartlett Finchley is born. ("A Thing About Machines")

• Bartlett is 58 at the time of the episode.

1905, March 18 - Walter Jameson marries Laurette Bowen, but he leaves her after several years after she starts showing her age. ("Long Live Walter Jameson")

• Estimated from actress Estelle Winwood's age.

1910, April 11 - Thirty-three year old William Feathersmith tries to build his fortune anew with his knowledge of the future, but he is detered by his bad memory and seventy-five year old physique. ("Of Late, I Think Of Cliffordville")

• See ALTERNATE FUTURE G

1911 - Professor Ellis Fowler begins teaching literature at Rock Hill Spring School in Vermont. ("The Changing of the Guard")

• Occurs fifty-one years before the episode.

1915, May 7 - The Captain of the S.S. Lusitania dismisses an American passenger trying to get him to change course right before a German U-Boat torpedos the ship. ( "No Time Like the Past")

• Historical

1917, March 5 - Flight Lieutenant William Terrance Decker, Royal Flying Corps, vanishes during a reconnaissance with American pilot Alexander "Old Leadbottom" Mackay, later returning guns blaring and giving his life to save Mackay. ("The Last Flight")

• Date from the episode.

1917, October 14 - Actress Constance Taylor is believed killed in a cave-in after filming the silent movie "Queen of the Nile" in Egypt. ("Queen of the Nile")

• Date from Theda Bara's silent movie about Cleopatra.

1921, November 7 - Henri Desire Landru is executed in Paris for the murders of ten women. ("The New Exhibit")

• Historical

1922 - Martin Sloan is born in Homewood, New York. ("Walking Distance") Garth Williams is born. ("A Stop at Willoughby") Patrick Thomas McNulty is born. ("A Kind of A Stopwatch")

• This date presumes young Martin is the same age as the actor who played him. Garth Williams is 38 at the time of his episode, and McNulty is 41 in his episode.

1924 - Arthur Curtis is born. ("A World of Difference")

• Arthur is 36 at the time of his episode.

1925, April 18 - Horace Ford is born in New York City. ("The Incredible World of Horace Ford")

• Ford celebrates his birthday on this date in 1963.

1925, November 4 - David Ellington becomes lost on a post-WWI walking tour of Europe and gets lost near Wolfring Castle near the village of Schwartzhoff, freeing a man he suspects is being held captive. ("The Howling Man")

• Occurs after World War One

1925, February 23 - Local youth Jeff Myrtlebank wakes up at his funeral which results in numerous rumors about his demise through the locals. ("The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank")

• According to Serling, this episode occurs during the mid-twenties in the southernmost section of the Midwest.

1926 - Robert Wilson is born. ("Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")

• Wilson is 37 at the time of the episode.

1926, March 10 - Radio station WPDA in Cedarburg, New Jersey goes off the air. ("Static")

• Event happens fifteen years prior to the episode.

1927 - Booth Templeton and Barbara Jean Trenton are at the heights of their film and stage careers. ("The Trouble with Templeton" and "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine")

• Year from "the Trouble With Templeton")

1933 - Nan Stevens is born. ("The Hitch-Hiker")

• Nan is 27 at the time of the episode.

1933, April 4 - The Ferguson Was Museum opens featuring wax figures of Jack The Ripper, Henri Landru, Burke and Hare and Albert Hicks by wax sculptor Henri Guilmont. ("The New Exhibit")

• Ferguson says he's been in business for thirty years in 1963.

1934, October 30 - Twelve-year old Martin Sloan grows up in Homewood, New York. He injures his leg after getting scared by a man on the local carousel. ("Walking Distance")

• This date presumes young Martin is the same age as the actor who played him.

1934, November 15 - Barbara Polk is taken in by her cantankerous Uncle Simon Polk, a roboticist. ("Uncle Simon")

• The episode mentions she has lived with him for 25 years.

1935 - Millicent Barnes is born. ("Mirror Image")

• Millicent is 25 at the time of the episode.

1937, May 11 - Helen Walker liives in her home with her son, Alex. ("Young Man's Fancy")

• Photo of Helen taken 25 years before episode.

1938 - Salvatore Ross is born. ("The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross")

• Ross is 26 at the time of the episode.

1939 - Helen Foley is born. ("Nightmare as A Child")

• Predisposes Foley is the same age as actress Janice Rule.

1939, February - An air traffic controller at La Guardia Airport gets a radio message from a Flight 33 jet airplane that goes off radar. ("The Odyssey of Flight 33")

• It is possible but unconfirmed there was an FAA report about this.

1939, August - Adolf Hitler speaks at a rally in Germany. A susupicious chambermaid in a hotel over the rally alerts the Gestapo to a suspicious American that disappears. ( "No Time Like the Past")

• Date from the episode.

1939, September 1 - German Armies invade Poland, setting into motion the events of World War Two. ("Judgement Night" / "King Nine Will Not Return" / "The Purple Testament" / "The Man in the Bottle" / "Death Head Revisted")

• Historical

1939, September 22 - Grant Sheckley begins his career with the FAA. ("The Arrival")

• Occurs 22 years before the episode

1940, March 6 - Pamela Norris poses for a portrait she later claims is "a projection of what she would look like as an adult." ("Queen of the Nile")

• Year from the episode. Date is from the episode.

1941, March 10 - Bachelor Edward Lindsay re-starts his life with fellow boarder Vinnie Brown. ("Static")

• Predisposes Lindsay's spirit is pulled back in time from the date of the episode.

1942, April 29 - Helen Foley's mother is murdered by an employee embezzling her. She represses the memory well into her adult years. ("Nightmare as a Child")

• Month from the episode. Based on ages of Janice Rule and Terry Burnham.

1942, August 7 - Seamen Bell accidentally drops his light and alerts the Japanese Navy to his position. His submarine is sunk off Quadalcanal with nearly all lives on board, only Bell survives. ("The Thirty Fathom Grave")

• Date from the episode.

1942, December 4 - The S.S. Queen of Glasgow one day out of Liverpool, England for New York City is torpedoed by a German U-Boat under command of Captain Carl Lanser who orders the crew to machine-gun the survivors. His afterlife is condemned to re-live the sinking of the ship. ("Judgement Night") 1943, January 3 - Walter Ryder Jr. leaves Coeursville at five-years-old, but he retains a memory of it. ("In His Image")

• Occurs twenty years before the episode. Assumes Walter same age as actor George Grizzard.

1943, September 30 - Captain James Embry has an illness that prevents him from joining his crew in King Nine, a B-25 medium bomber leaving Tunisia to bomb Italy, but the craft disappears and is never recovered. ("King Nine Will Not Return") 1944, April 3 - Roswell G. Flemington gets married. ("Sounds and Silences")

• They were married twenty years at the time of their divorce.

1944, September 22 - Flight 107 out of Buffalo vanishes in a fog; it's the only case Grant Sheckley fails to answer. ("The Arrival")

• Occurs 17 years prior to the episode.

1945, February 12 - Lieutenant William Fitzgerald, A Company, First Platoon, stationed in the Philippines reveals he he can see a glow of anyone about to die in combat. ("The Purple Testament")

• Year from the episode; month and day is the airdate of the episode.

1945, April 30 - Fuhrer Adolf Hitler, Supreme Chancellor of Germany, takes his life in his Berlin Bunker as the Russian Army takes the city. His death marks the end of World War Two in Europe. ("The Man in the Bottle" / "He's Alive")

• Historical

1945, May 1 - Former S.S. Captain Gunther Lutze murders refugee Alfred Becker on the night US troops came close to Dachau. ("Death's Head Revisited") Ernst Ganz completes nine years in Dachau. ("He's Alive")

• Although Lutze remembers he killed Becker 17 years prior, however, American history books say Dachau was liberated on May 1, 1945. Ganz says he did nine years in Dachau.

1945, August 6 - A police captain in Hiroshima, Japan dismisses an American claimg a bomb will be dropped on the city hours before the United States Air Corp drops an atomic bomb on the city. ( "No Time Like the Past")

• Historical

1945, August 22 - In the Philippine Islands, Second Lieutenant Katell and his unit realize they have a group of sick and wounded Japanese soldiers holed up in a cave. ("A Quality of Mercy")

• Month and year from the episode

1945, September 2 - Japan surrenders to American Forces, signifying the end of World war Two. ("A Quality of Mercy" / "The Attic")

• Historical

1946 - Anne Marie Henderson is born. ("Spur of the Moment")

• Anne Marie is 18 at the time of the episode.

1948, March 18 - Walter Jameson gets a job as a history professor at an unknown university where he meets Professor Samuel Kittridge, eventually dating Arthur's daughter, Susanna. ("Long Live Walter Jameson")

• Samuel says they had met for the first time twelve years prior to the episode.

1957, May 9 - The Lady Anne vanishes during it's 13-day journey from New York City to London. ("Passage on the Lady Anne")

• Presumes the Lady Anne reappears every year on the anniversary of its disappearance.

1951, January 31 - Ilse Neilsen is born in Germany. ("Mute")

• Ilse is said to be twelve in the episode.

1953, January 31 - A group of people living in Germany start teaching their children to be telepathic. Ilse Neilsen is among the children, but she later emigrates to German Corners, Pennsylvania. ("Mute")

• Year from the episode.

1953, January 17 - The hotel in Peaceful Valley, New Mexico stops getting guests. ("Valley of the Shadow")

• Year from the episode

1953, October 18 - Patrick McNulty moves to New York City.

• It's suggested he's been living in New York City and annoying people for ten years.

1955, November 1 - Christie Streator is born. ("Living Doll")

• This date presumes Christie is the same age as the actress playing her.

1955, November 3 - Anthony Fremont is born in Peaksville, Ohio. ("It's a Good Life")

• Anthony celebrates his fifth birthday in the episode.
• See ALTERNATE FUTURE D

1957, May 9 - Alan and Eileen Ransome are married. ("Passage on the Lady Anne")

• Occurs six months before the episode.

1957, March 31 - William "Billy" Bayles is born. ("Long Distance Call")

• Bayles is born five years before the episode.

1959, March 5 - A man claiming to be Flight Lieutenant William Terrance Decker is questioned after landing his WWI biplane on an American base in France. After hearing Air Vice Marshall Alexander "Old Leadbottom" Mackay is coming for an inspection, he escapes, leaving behind Decker's WWI identification. ("The Last Flight")

• Date from the episode.

1959, July 9 - A salesman named Lew Bookman passes away in his apartment after meeting a character claiming to be Death. A neighborhood girl named Maggie survives getting hit by a truck. ("One for the Angels")

• This episode is pushed back because of the July setting.

1959, August 4 - A riot occurs in a Maple Street neighborhood after a power failure occurs. Engineers are unable to locate the cause of the failure or verify the claims of the witnesses. ("The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street")

• This presumes no evidence of the alien activity was discovered. Even if it had, it would not have been featured in the newspapers. The events occur Late Summer.

1959, October 2 - Astronaut Mike Ferris is pulled from 484-day suspended animation in preparation for a trip to the moon. Removed from the experiment, he describes being in a town where he was the only citizen. ("Where Is Everybody?")
1959, October 23 - Fading Hollywood movie actress Barbara Jean Trenton inexplicably vanishes from her Beverly Hills home after years as a recluse obsessing about her former career. ("The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine")
1959, October 30 - An advertising executive named Martin Sloan re-visits his childhood in his old home town, Homewood. ("Walking Distance")
1959, November 6 - A hypochondriac named Walter Bedeker dies in jail of unknown causes after attempting suicide and accidentally killing his wife. ("Escape Clause")
1959, November 20 - Bank teller Henry Bemis is harassed by his wife for his choice to read than be sociable. ("Time Enough At Last")

• Start of ALTERNATE FUTURE A

1959, November 26 - While waiting in a bus depot in Ithaca, New York for a bus to Cortland, en route to a new job. Millicent Barnes claims to be haunted by her doppelganger to Paul Grinstead, who calls the police to have her committed before experincing the activity himself. ("Mirror Image")

• Episode pushed back since the episode occurs in November. Day from airdate.

1959, November 27 - Edward Hall goes to a psychiatrist over his fear of sleeping, but he passes away almost right after he arrives (hallucinating his visit and suicide). ("Perchance to Dream")
1959, December 25 - A malcontent named Fred Renard is struck and killed by a vehicle in New York City after haraasing a peddler named Pendott. ("What You Need")
1960, January 1 - A con-artist named Arch Hammer is murdered by Andrew Marshak, the father of boxer Andy Marshak. Hammer is linked to a possible extortion scheme with a known gangster named Pernell. ("The Four of Us Are Dying")

• Presumes Andy Marshak was named for his father.

1960, January 8 - A group of travelers led by a man named William Sturka develop an isolated community in the United States. Federal officials try to determine their origins. ("Third from the Sun")

• Presumes aftermath of the episode

1960, January 22 - Motorist Nan Stevens is killed in an auto accident in Pennsylvania while driving from New York City to Los Angeles. ("The Hitch-Hiker") 1960, January 26 - Flora Gibbs wins a three-day Las Vegas vacation. ("The Fever")

• This takes place before the episode

1960, January 28 - The mother of Nan Stevens gets a phone call from a woman claiming to be her daughter. ("The Hitch-Hiker")

• Six days take place between the accident and the phone call.

1960, January 29 - Franklin Gibbs dies from a fall from the window of his Las Vegas hotel after experiencing hallucinations. ("The Fever")
1960, March 11 - Businessman Arthur Curtis is shifted to a parallel timeline where his identity is Gerry Raigan, an alcoholic movie star caught in the middle of a brutal divorce and a declining career. He fights to keep his identity and escape back to his own world. ("A World of Difference")

• It's not revealed where the real Gerry Raigen is. It is also presumed this parallel timeline is also responsible for the events in "Person or Persons Unknown," "Mirror Image," "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and "And When the Sky Was Opened."
  

1960, March 18 - Professor Samuel Kittridge discovers Jameson is functionally immortal and refuses to allow him to marry his daughter, but Jameson is murdered by Laurette Bowen, his elderly ex-wife, and crumbles into dust. ("Long Live Walter Jameson")
1960, April 1 - A physicist named Professor George Manion is found dead in his laboratory near the body of 1880s outlaw Joseph Caswell who has been removed from his hanging in the past. The bodies are found by police searching for a petty thief named Paul Johnson. ("Execution")

• It's unrevealed if Manion's experiments also caused the time-slips in "The Last Flight" or "The Odyssey of Flight 33" or even the shifting between time lines in "The Parallel" or "A Hundred Years Over The Rim." It is unclear where Manion acquired the power required for his experiments.
  

1960, April 8 - A prize fighter named Bolie Jackson wins a boxing match based on the wish of a young fan named Henry, but when Jackson refuses to believe in the wish, history resets itself and he loses the fight. ("The Big Tall Wish")
1960, April 15 - The police take down Henry "Rocky" Valentine after he robs a pawnshop and murders the security guard. (Valentine gets trapped in a hellish afterlife with a being named Pip.) ("A Nice Place to Visit")
1960, May 13 - Roger Shackleford buys a love potion from a man specializing in elixirs to get Leila, a woman in his apartment building, to fall in love with him. ("The Chaser")
1960, May 20 - A struggling musician named Joey Crown sells his trumpet and tries to take his life by jumping in front of a truck, bu he survives with a new lease on life. (In the afterlife, he briefly meets the angel Gabriel.) ("A Passage for Trumpet")
1960, June 3 - A struggling office worker named James B. W. Bevis meets J. Hardy Hempstead, his guardian angel who offers to help him. ("Mr. Bevis")
1960, June 10 - Employees at a department store deal with a customer named Marsha White who vanishes after accidentally being locked in the store over night. ("The After Hours")
1960, July 1 - Playwright Gregory West seemingly divorces his first wife, Victoria West, for his new wife, Mary West. ("A World of His Own")
1960, June 17 - In Hoboken, New Jersey, Mouth McGarry, manager of the minor league team, the Hoboken Zephyrs, brings in a robot named Casey resembling a baseball player to pitch for his team. After the secret gets out, the updates to Casey deter his ability to play baseball. ("The Mighty Casey")

• Without moving this episode into the future, this episode marks the first major advance in robotics in history.

1960, September 30 - James Embry collapses in the street after reading a newspaper that reports the desert discovery of the long-lost King Nine, which had not returned to base from a mission during the war. ("King Nine Will Not Return")
1960, October 20 - A revolutionist named Ramos Clemente begins a revolution to overthrow General De Cruz. Clemente, the ruler of his small South American country. ("The Mirror")
1960, October 7 - A pawnbroker named Arthur Castle encounters a djinni ("genie") that offers him four wishes, but the only thing he gets out of it is a tax audit. ("Man From A Bottle")
1960, October 14 - Jack Rhoades faces his conscience in his hotel room after being ordered by a mob boss to kill a bartender not paying extortion payments. ("Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room")
1960, October 28 - Gourmet critic Bartlett Finchley is discovered dead at the bottom of his swimming pool, allegedly of a heartattack. ("A Thing About Machines")
1960, November 4 - David Ellington warns the maid not to free the person held captive in his apartment. ("The Howling Man")
1960, November 6, - A stressed-out ad executive named Gart Williams takes his life from a commuter train passing over a bridge, (His afterlife takes the form of an 1880s town in the South.) ("A Stop at Willoughby")

• Month from the episode.

1960, November 11 - On a planet with a society on par to Earth, citizens are required to adhere to strict conformity in appearance; denizens who look too "human" are exiled to a community with "their own kind. ("Eye of the Beholder")
1960, November 13 - After six months of marriage, Roger Shackleford returns to the Professor to break the spell on Leila after she has become too devoted to him, but he loses his nerve after she announces she pregnant. ("The Chaser")
1960 , November 18 - Recently married Don and Pat Carter are briefly stranded in Ridgeview, Ohio when their car breaks down. ("Nick Of Time")
1960, November 29 - Helen Foley is haunted by the figure of a little girl named Markie who forces her to remember the identity of her mother's killer. The killer, Paul Selden, is captured by the police. ("Nightmare as a Child")

• Month from the episode

1960, December 2 - Jana Loren implores her father to give up his robotic servants. ("The Lateness of the Hour")

• Much like "The Mighty Casey," this episode suggests a much more earlier advancement in robotics than real history suggests; it is unrevealed if Dr. William Loren or Dr. Stillman were collaborators. It is also unclear if Dr. Loren's achievements were publicly known

1960, December 9 -Booth Templeton works on a new play on Broadway. ("The Trouble With Templeton")
1960, December 16 - Husband-and-wife thieves, Chester and Paula Diedrich rob a curio shop, and turn up dead on a Las Vegas street, along with Paula's brother, Woodard, and Pierre, a waiter at their hotel. ("A Most Unusual Camera")
1960, December 24 - Henry Corwin, a department store Santa, disappears after passing out thousands of dollars of gifts from an old cloth bag. ("The Night of the Meek")

• Date from the episode

1961, January 20 - Used car salesman Harvey Hunnicut gets stuck with vintage Model A car he can't sell, but after several tries, he eventually sells the car as a potential anti-American propaganda tool in outdated U.S. automobile workmanship to Russian President Nikita Khrushchev. ("The Whole Truth")
1961, February 3 - Bank clerk Hector Poole loses his job after accusing a colleague of robbing the bank, but he's reinstated with an advancement after a client named Sykes is arrested for gambling with company money. ("A Penny for Your Thoughts")
1961, February 10 - In the hospital for exhaustion, dancer Elizabeth Powell has a dream with a strange nurse trying to admit her to the morgue. When she's released, a stewardess at the airport resembling her frightens her off a plane that crashes. ("22")
1961, February 24 - Global Flight 33 from London to New York City vanishes en route. ("The Odyssey of Flight 33")

• Predisposes the flight never returned.
  

1961, March 3 - A vacuum cleaner salesman named Luther Dingle is endowed with temporary superhuman strength and superior mental acuity. (The abilities are the product of Martian and Venusian scouts doing experiments on Earth people.) ("Mr. Dingle The Strong") 1961, March 10 - Retiree Edward Lindsay becomes obsessed with the old 1930s music from a vintage radio. ("Static")
1961, March 24 - Gambler Ace Larsen wins a fortune in Las Vegas (aided by his partner Jimbo Cobb) only to lose it to Chicago gangster Phil Nolan. ("The Prime Mover")
1961, March 31 - William "Billy" Bayles celebrates his birthday; his grandmother passes on the same day. ("Long Distance Call) 1961, April 7 - Locals at a New Mexico encounter a man from the desert talking about a wagon train in the desert. When he flees, he leaves behind a period rifle. ("A Hundred Yards Over The Rim")
1961, April 14 - Professor Peter Corrigan is involved in a discussion with colleagues at the Potomac Club regarding time travel. He returns several minutes after departing to discover a previous server named William is now a member of the club. ("Back There")

• Date from the episode.

1961, April 21 - Four unidentified thieves steal $1 million worth in gold bricks from a train moving from Fort Knox to Los Angeles, California. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper")

• Assumes the police never identified the thieves otherwise they would have traced Farwell to his property in Death Valley.

1961, April 28 - A member of an elite men's club, Archie Taylor challenges fellow member Jamie Tennyson to not talk for one year, placing him in self-imposed quarantine for a year. ("The Silence")
1961, May 5 - Convicted killer Adam Grant is executed for murder, but he lives out his conviction in a loop in the afterlife. ("Shadowplay")

• Speculation - The recurring events of the episode remain unexplained.

1961, May 12 - Office-worker Archibald Beechcroft becomes annoyed with humanity and tries to change it using mind over matter. After two attempts, he accepts it for what it is. ("The Mind and the Matter")
1961, September 22 - FAA inspector Grant Sheckly arrives at a New york airfield to inspect a missing flight without the knowlegde of the field crew. ("The Arrival")

• It can be guessed the opening sequence of the plane's arrival is part of Sheckley's delusion.

1961, September 29 - Satellites detected passing through the United States Defense Grid drives several American families into their air raid shelters. In one town, the neighbors break into the air raid shelter of the Stockton family before the error is realized. ("The Shelter")
1961, October 13 - A pool-player named Jesse Cardiff passes away while playing pool in Lister's Pool Room in Chicago (replacing Fats Brown in the afterlife). ("A Game of Pool")
1961, October 20 - South American revolutionist Ramos Clemente overthrows General De Cruz. Clemente, the ruler of his small South American country, only to take his life a few days later. ("The Mirror")
1961, November 10 - Former S.S. Captain Gunther Lutze traveling under the name of Schmidt is found dead at the site of his former concentration camp near Dachau. ("Death's Head Revisited")
1961, November 17 - Landlady Mrs. Bronson becomes friends with her tenant, Norma. ("The Midnight Sun")

• See ALTERNATE FUTURE E

1961, December 1 - Contractor Alan Richards and his wife Doris are found mauled in their NYC apartment after returning from African. (A suspected paranormal cause is to blame.) ("The Jungle")
1961, December 8 - A man named Rollo encounters a man named Woodrow Mulligan claiming to be a time-traveler. He disappears with him to the past, seemingly returning several days later.

• It is not revealed how many days Rollo stays in the past, but it's possible he returns just a few hours after departing.

1961, December 11 - A charity worker tries collecting dolls for Christmas. ("Five Characters in Search of an Exit")
1962, January 5 - Demolition on an old apartment is temporarily halted after the last tenant is found deceased in her apartment. ("Nothing in the Dark")
1962, January 12 - Millionaire Paul Radin has a mental breakdown after holding captive three people he has grudges with for a similated nuclear devastation. ("One More Pallbearer")
1962, January 19 - A vagrant named Nathan Edward Bledsoe in the Bowery neighborborhood of New York City is gunned down by Dagget, a local crime boss. ("Dead Man's Shoes")
1962, January 26 - A mountain man named Hyder Simpson drowns during a hunting trip. He is survived by his wife. ("The Hunt")
1962, February 2 - Television actor Rance McGrew encounters the ghost of Jesse James on the exterior film location of his TV series before meeting his new manager. ("Showdown with Rance McGrew")
1962, February 9 - Charles Whitley and several of the retirees at the Sunnyvale Rest Home vanish except for Charles's oldest and best friend, Ben Conroy. ("Kick the Can")
1962, February 23 - Jeff Myrtlebank II is a prominent United States Senator. ("The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank")

• Theoretical. Serling says Jeff and comfort are still alive and their son is a US senator.

1962, February 26 - A bus carrying several people and two state troopers in a police car are killed under a rickety bridge one wintry night amidst accusations of extra-terrestrial contact. (It is covertly revealed Venusian agents have been infiltrating Earth and hindering a Martian invasion.) ("Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?")

• Month named in the episode.

1962, February 16 - Theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano from the local Throckmorton's Curio Shop for his wife's birthday present, discovering it has the ability to bring out the inner emotions of others, which doesn't stay secret for long. ("A Piano in the House") 1962, March 2 - Michael Chambers heads the United States code department. ("To Serve Man")

• See ALTERNATE FUTURE F

1962, March 9 - The authorities search for an old-timer named Ben after he vanishes with a young girl named Jenny. ("The Fugitive")
1962, March 17 - A group of research physicists equipped with numerous devices investigate the Miller House after the girl living there disappears and reappears under odd circumstances. ("Little Girl Lost")
1962, March 30 - David Gurney vanishes from his home. (He reappears in a separate timeline where he doesn't exist.) ("Person or Persons Unknown")

• It's not revealed where the real David Gurney is. It is also presumed this parallel timeline is also responsible for the events in "A World Of Difference," "Mirror Image," "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and "And When the Sky Was Opened."

1962, April 6 - Fanatic Oliver Crangle plans on striking at people he believes harmful to society, only to be foisted by his own perturb.

• Possibly Crangle studied the same mind over matter book as Archibald Beechcroft in "The Mind and the Matter."

1962, April 13 - In Pitchville Flats, Iowa, Somerset Frisby, the local general store own, regales the locals of his encounter with extraterrestrials, but no one believes him because of his propensity for tall tales. ("Hocus-Pocus and Frisby")
1962, April 27 - The superstitious citizens of a mountain village just across the Texas-Mexico border murder a man named Mr. Williams claiming to be from space and bringing a gift for humanity. ("The Gift")
1962, April 28 - Jamie Tennyson departs from exile in a glass chamber at his men's club to discover member Archie Taylor can't pay out his bet. Tennyson reveals he had surgery to remove his ability to talk to win the bet. ("The Silence")

• One year after the episode.
  

1962, May 4 - Ventriloquist Jerry Etherson has a nervous breakdown after claiming his dummy Willie is alive. ("The Dummy")
1962, May 11 - Alex and Virginia Walker go to clean out his childhood home, but Virginia feels his mother's precense in the house. ("Young Man's Fancy")
1962, May 25 - Mrs. Agnes Grep encounters her guardian angel who seems to be incredibly inept at his duties. ("Cavender Is Coming")
1962, December 25 - Professor Ellis Fowler learns his tenure at Rock Hill Spring School is over. Contemplating suicide, he considers taking his life in his classroom before being visited by the spirits of deceased students. ("The Changing of the Guard")
1962, December 26 - Walter Ryder Jr. completes Alan Talbot, an android in his likeness, but Alan attacks him with scissors and escapes. ("In His image")

• Occurs eight days before the episode.

1962, December 30 - Alan meets and starts dating Jessica Connelly. ("In His Image")

• Occurs six days before the episode.

1963, January 3 - Alan Talbot returns to Walter and tells him about Jessica before attacking him, but Walter shuts him down after a struggle. ("In His image")
1963, January 10 - A U.S. Navy destroyer is on a routine patrol off Guadalcanal when sonar picks up the sound of metallic clanging beneath the waves from an unrecorded submarine lost during the war. Officer Bell dives into the sea thinking his old sub wants him back. ("The Thirty Fathom Grave")
1963, January 17 - A reporter named Philip Redfield gets lost while driving on unfamiliar back roads and a brief stop in Peaceful Valley, New Mexico, later departing with no memories of his stop. ("Valley of the Shadow")
1963, January 24 - Peter Vollmer, the leader of a small and struggling Neo-Nazi group, is arrested for the murder of his Jewish landlord, Ernst Ganz. ("He's Alive")
1951, January 31 - Ilse Neilsen loses her parents in a fire in her home. She is taken in by sheriff Henry Wheeler and his wife. ("Mute")
1963, February 14 - William Ben Turner of the Blue Ridge Mountains asks Ellwyn Glover to marry him, but he later changes his mind to marry local girl, Jess-Belle. ("Jess-Belle")

• There is no date to place this episode in the past so I placed it on the date of the episode.

1963, February 21 - Single milquetoast Charley Parkes becomes obsessed with the activity in the miniature house of a local museum and is institutionalized. On his release a few days later, his disappears completely after sneaking back into the museum. ("Miniature")
1963, February 28 - Douglas Winter, the editor of The Courier, hires a typesetter "Mr. Smith," who briefly produces several disturbing news article with prophetic knowledge. ("Printer's Devil")
1963, March 7 - Physicist Paul Driscoll perfects a time machine to move through history and try to alter the past, but his efforts force him to realize history can't be changed. ("No Time Like the Past")

• Possibly the technology is developed from the research of physicist Professor George Manion from "Execution."

1963, March 14 - Astronaut Robert Gaines is briefly lost in space, returning with undocumented knowledge of a parallel time-line nearly identical to his own. ("The Parallel")

• It is presumed this parallel timeline is also responsible for the events in "A World Of Difference," "Mirror Image," "Persons or Persons Unknown," "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" and "And When the Sky Was Opened."

1963, March 21 - Office worker George Hanley disappears after buying a genie's lamp he meant to give as a gift. ("I Dream of Genie")
1963, April 4 - After the owner of the Ferguson Wax Museum announces he has to close the museum, his tour guide Martin Senescu pleads with him to let him store the Murderer's Row figures in his house. ("The New Exhibit")
1963, April 11 - Tycoon William Feathersmith acquires the Dietrich Tool and Die Company to keep it from going bankrupt. He disappears shortly thereafter. ("Of Late I Think of Cliffordville")
1963, April 18 - Horace Ford is haunted by the memories of his childhood on Randolph Street in New York City. ("The Incredible World of Horace Ford")
1963, May 2 - The Senescu's are broke from keeping their basement cold to preserve the Guilmont figures. Martin's wife, Emma, reportedly leaves him to stay with his sister, and her suspicious brother, Dave, vanishes soon after. ("The New Exhibit")

• Estimated. Apparently a few weeks after the airdate.

1963, May 8 - Mr. Ferguson comes to tell Martin Senescu he has sold the Guilmont figures to the Marchand Museum in Brussels, but when he disappears, the police investigate and find him buried in the Senescu basement with Martin's wife and brother-in-law. ("The New Exhibit")

• Theoretical. It is postulated a week occurs between Dave and Mr. Ferguson's murders.

1963, May 9 - Alan and Eileen Ransome are found adrift in the ocean with supplies in a lifeboat from the Lady Anne. ("Passage on the Lady Anne") 1963, May 11 - Salesman Robert Wilson has a nervous break down and enters a sanitarium. ("Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")

• Occurs six months before the episode.

1963, May 23 - Screenwriter Julius K. Moomer uses a book to conjure William Shakespeare to help polish his TV scripts. ("The Bard")
1963, June 1 - The publicity in the Senescu Murders inspires Guilmont to create a figure of Martin Senescu to add to their previous five figures in the Murder's Row exhibit. ("The New Exhibit")

• Speculation. It is uncertain how long the police would have held the figures before honoring the sale to the Marchand Museum.

1963, September 23 - Bookie Max Phillips is shot and killed near Pacific Ocean Park, an amusement park in Santa Monica, California while his son lies dying in a field hospital in Vietnam. ("In Praise of Pip")
1963, October 11 - Leaving the sanitarium, Robert Wilson is reinstitutionalized after stealing a gun from an Air Marshall and firing it at a figure he sees on the wing of the plane. ("Nightmare at 20,000 Feet")
1963, October 18 - Patrick McNulty disappears after acquiring a strange pocket watch from a patron at his local bar. (He becomes trapped in a mystical time warp as the rest of the world experience time in its natural state.) ("A Kind of a Stopwatch")
1963, October 25 - A Florida jockey named Grady is hospitalized with a medical condition that has caused him to grow ten feet in height. ("The Last Night of a Jockey")
1963, November 1 - Christie Streator gets a Talky Tina doll for her birthday. The following night, her stepfather, Eric Streator, dies from falling over it on the stairs. ("Living Doll")
1963, November 15 - After the death of her uncle under suspicious circumstances, Barbara Polk inherits his estate on the proviso that she also tends a robot designed by him and programmed with his characteristics. ("Uncle Simon")
1963, December 13 - Millionaire Harmon Gordon disappears from public appearances as his much younger wife, Flora, is contractually obligated to raise an infant. ("A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain")
1963, December 20 - Elderly Sam Forstmann reveals to his family his believe that he will pass away when his grandfather clock winds down. ("Ninety Years Without Slumbering")
1963, December 27 - Actress Bunny Blake dies in a plane crash outside of her hometown of Howardville, New York. However, her cloest friends and family inexplicably believe she was not on the plane. ("Ring-a-Ding Girl")
1964, December 27 - An unidentified driver strikes and nearly kills a young boy on a rainy street. Three days later, businessman Oliver Pope wanders into the police station to confess he was the driver. ("You Drive")
1964, January 10 - Two weeks after selling his clock, Sam Forstmann is unable to wind it after the new owners go on a weekend vacation. He has a "near-death experience" that dissuades his fear of the clock." ("Ninety Years Without Slumbering")

• Two weeks after the episode.

1964, January 17 - Salvadore Ross romantically pursues a lovely young social worker named Leah Maitland, but he is murdered by her father a week later. ("The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross")
1964, January 31 - Ellen Tillman romances a young man named Scott, one of three men who arive in town, but their romance is brought to an abrupt halt. ("Black Leather Jackets")
1964, February 7 - Miss Elva Keene of London Flats, Maine keeps getting a series of late night phone calls even after her phone lines are danaged near the local cemetery. ("Late Night Call")
1964, February 14 - Computer programmer James Elwood is stymied with romancing a co-worker named Millie and with a computer program named AGNES. ("From Agnes – With Love") A year after the disappearance of Jesse-Belle, William Ben Turner again asks Ellwyn Glover to marry him, but he must first exorcise the spirit of Jess-Belle from his home. ("Jess-Belle")
1964, February 21 - Anne Marie Henderson is terrified by a strange woman in black while horseback-riding. She rushes home and elopes with David Mitchell, her boyfriend, than submit to an arranged marriage with Robert Blake. ("Spur of the Moment")
1964, March 6 - A Hollywood journalist named Jordan Harrick disappears after interviewing actress Pamela Norris. ("Queen of the Nile")
1964, March 13 - A cab driver named Joe Britt is arrested after pushing his wife, Phyllis Britt, out of a window during a fight. ("What's In The Box")
1964, March 20 - Millionaire Jason Foster orders her children to wear hideous masks during Mardi Gras in New Orleans. After he passes, the children remove their masks to hideous deformations. ("the Masks")
1964, March 20 - In the Southern United States, a man named Jagger is placed on trial for the murder of a local man, but despite the fact that he might be innocent, his conviction is pushed through to guarantee his execution. ("I Am the Night—Color Me Black")

• Placed a week before his execution.

1964, April 3 - Roswell G. Flemington is institutionalized after losing his grasp on reality and screaming at people to make some noise. ("Sounds and Silences") 1964, April 10 - Struggling Irish ventriloquist Johnathan West is arrested in suspicion of a series of burglaries as his ventriloquist dummy comes into the possession of a girl in his apartment building. ("Caesar And Me")

• It is unknown if West got his dummy second hand through Jerry Etherson ("The Dummy") or if it's just an identical make and model.

1964, April 17 - Two Communist agents are found by the authorities in the wreckage of a bombed NYC apartment. ("The Jeopardy Room")
1964, April 24 - Robert and Millie Frazier disappear after attending a cocktail party in Upstate New York. ("Stopover in a Quiet Town") 1964, May 1 - A young Japanese-American named Arthur Takamori takes his life from the home of a local man named Fenton, found dead in the attic of his house. ("The Encounter")
1964, May 22 - Entertainer Floyd Burney is shot and murdered in the South by the Rayford Brothers over the murder of their brother. (He gets trapped re-living the events in the afterlife.) ("Come Wander with Me")
1964, May 29 - Highway Patrol trooper Robert Franklin is called to investigate strange activity at the remote home of New York socialite Charlotte Scott. ("The Fear")
1964, June 19 - Hollywood police and detectives search for Jeb and Sport Sherwood after their parents report the children have vanished in their swimming pool. ("The Bewitchin' Pool")
1964, June 25 - Three National Guardsmen, Sgt. William Connors, Pvt. Michael McCluskey, Cpl. Richard Langsford, are reported missing after exploring the site of Custer's Last Stand. ("The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms")

• Date from the episode.

1967, May 15 - Wallace V. Whipple, owner of a vast manufacturing corporation, decides to upgrade his plant to increase output by replacing his employees with machines, but he is eventually dismissed himself.

• Year from the episode. The make and model of the robot suggests Whipples owns the patents and designs of Simon Polk ("Uncle Simon").

1975, March 30 - After the end of the Viet Nam War, Private Max "Pip" Phillips returns home to visit the Pacific Ocean Park in memory of his father.

• Date and Pip's real name theoretical

1989, February 21 - Anne Marie Henderson is bankrupt after marrying David Mitchell. While horseback riding near her old house, she encounters her past self and speeds after her trying to convince her not to marry her boyfriend. ("Spur of the Moment")

• 25 years after the episode

The Future

ALTERNATE FUTURE A

1959, November 20 - An nuclear bomb destroys the planet, leaving behind bank teller Henry Bemis who survives by sneaking into a bank vault to read a book. ("Time Enough At Last") 1964, March 1 - An American soldier encounters a female Russian agent in the ruins of an American town. After some mistrust, they learn to co-exist. ("Two")

• Rod Serling says this episode occurs after five years after war decinated the planet.

1969, November 8 - The post-apocalyptic denizens of a small town survive under the guidance of a Mr. Goldsmith taking advice from "an old man in a cave," but Major French shows up with armed soldiers and takes over the town, destroying the computer Goldsmith has been concealing. ("The Old Man in the Cave")

• Variant of events happening ALTERNATE FUTURE H

ALTERNATE FUTURE B

1968, October 4 - After repeated injuries in the sport of boxing, human fighters are outlawed in the sport and replaced by robots with human boxers criminalized. ("Steel")

• Theoretical. The year comes from the episode.

c. 1970, May 18 - The company, Facsimile Ltd., turns out robotic duplicates similar to people to act as nannys and servants. A new robotic grandmother is created for the siblings Annie, Tom and Karen. ("I Sing the Body Electric")

• Date speculatory. The technology for the duplicates is possibly from the merged research of Mr. Stillman ("The Mighty Casey"), Dr. William Loren ("The Lateness of the Hour") and Walter Ryder Jr. ("In His Image").

1974, October 4 - Former boxer Steel Kelly manages a B2-model robot called "Battling Maxo." ("Steel")

• It is probable the robots in the boxing Dr. Stillman were developed from prototypes from Dr. Stillman ("The Mighty Casey").

c. 1978, May 18 - Now ready for college, Annie, Tom and Karen say good-bye to the robotic nanny they know as Grandma. ("I Sing the Body Electric").

• Eight years have passed.

c. 1980, April 20 - Medical technology has advanced to a point to download memories into younger physical bodies, but the process is too expensive for retirees John and Marie Holt, who are interested in the process. ("The Trade-Ins")

• Date speculatory. Possibly huge strides in medicine and robotics are made since "I Sing The Body Electric" but before the atomic war mentioned in "Elegy."

1985, February 19 - Most of Earth's surface was destroyed in an atomic war. It takes over 200 years to restore things. ("Elegy")

• Date from dialogue in the episode.

1987, January 10 - NASA resumes its space exploration programs by preparing for its first interstellar space flights. Research and Development begin on the Arrow-One and Commander Douglas Stansfield is placed in suspended animation to a planetary system 141 light-years from Earth. The trip will take 20 years each way with over forty years of complete isolation. ("The Long Morrow")

• Date from the episode. This would suggest NASA re-devotes time to space travel due to damage to the Earth. Arrow-One is established as four and a half years prior to episode.

1991, May 2 - Earth develops colony ships to send groups of people to colonize far-off planets. One of them is the Pilgrim I manned by Captain William Benteen, who leads the colony for a planet in the V-9 Gamma star system. ("On Thursday We Leave for Home")

• Thirty years prior to the episode

1991, June 15 - The Arrow-One space flight is lost during the first manned air flight. ("I Shot an Arrow into the Air")

• Presumes no trace of the craft or the lost astronauts was ever found. Also placed before the incidents in "And When the Sky Was Opened" since this episode describes a first-manned flight, suggesting a second more successful launch was later attempted.

1991, December 11 - Astronauts Lieutenant Colonel Gregg Forbes, Major William Gart and Colonel Ed Harrington test fly the X-20 DynaSoar into space for the first time, disappearing from radar on a test flight and reappearing with the crew ending up in the hospital. ("And When the Sky Was Opened")

• Year unrevealed in episode. Pushed forward to accommodate other space travel episodes.

1991, March 25 - NASA loses contact with a manned space flight to Mars with astronauts Samuel A. Conrad (31) and Warren Marcusson (35). Unbeknownst to to NASA, Marcusson dies in the crash, and Conrad is placed in a zoo by the locals. ("People Are Alike All Over")

• Year not revealed in the episode. This year is speculated on the premise that research in space exploration continued since "And When the Sky Was Opened" and NASA has not yet reached the point to visit planets beyond the Earth's star system, as in "Death Ship" and "Little People." It is also odd that the Martians here don't resemble those in "Mr. Dingle The Strong" or "Will The Real Martian Please Stand Up," although it is possible there has been some kind of genetic genocide to eliminate certain Martian types.

2021, April 2 - Benteen's Colony gets a radio message from Earth that a spacecraft has been developed to bring them home. ("On Thursday We Leave for Home")

• One month before the episode. It should be noted that the episode "The Long Morrow" establishes that interstellar flights are now possible to make the events in "On Thursday We Leave for Home" and "The Lonely" possible in this timeline.

2021, May 2 - The spacecraft arrive to take the survivors of Benteen's Colony home, but William Benteen tries to stop them from departing. He ultimately chooses to be left behind. ("On Thursday We Leave for Home")

• This episode marks the first opportunities for space travel in the Earth's system.

2027, January 10 - Commander Douglas Stansfield returns to Earth after forty years. Having turned off his suspended animation, he returns forty years older than Sandra Horn, his girlfriend who was placed in suspended animation to wait for him. ("The Long Morrow")

• Forty years after the events in the episode.

2040 - On Earth, a program is developed to exile dangerous criminals to isolated planets.

• This occurs sometime prior to "The Lonely."

2046, November 13 - A convicted man named James A. Corry is serving his sentence on an uninhabited asteroid is given a female robot for companionship. ("The Lonely")

• The robot is possibly based on designs by Walter Ryder ("In His Image") and William Loren ("The Lateness of the Hour").

2046, October 13 - Corry is pardoned, but he is not allowed to take the female robot he calls Alicia back to Earth. ("The Lonely")

• This occurs eleven months later after the delivery.

2061, April 21 - Criminal scientist Farwell stumbles out of the desert a hundred years after robbing a Fort Knox shipment to Los Angeles, California. ("The Rip Van Winkle Caper")

• Occurs 100 years after the events in the episode.

2173 - A group of millionaires on Earth fuel their resources to create Happy Glades in space to live out their dreams. ("Elegy")

• Wickwire says Happy Glades was founded in 1973. Even by "Twilight Zone" standards, this date ascerts that intersteller travel was available even for the very wealthy only four years after Neil Armstong reached the moon. This is possibly one of the few moments where the Twilight Zone writers seriously missed the mark so I moved the date here.

2185, September 19 - Captain James Webber, Professor Kurt Meyers and Peter Kirby depart Earth. ("Elegy") 2186, February 19 - Astronauts James Webber, Kurt Meyers and Peter Kirby land on the Happy Glades asteroid resembling Earth in orbit around Saturn with an evironment resembling Earth, but its inhabitants appear motionless due to an android named Wickwire. ("Elegy")

• It has been pointed out that the 655 million miles from Earth given in the episode would put the asteroid (and any allegeded binary star system) within the orbit of Saturn.

2187, January 27 - NASA loses contact with two of its astronauts exploring a planet beyond our star system. ("The Invaders")

• Placed after the events of "Elegy" since it appears Earth now has interstellar flight using saucer technology instead of rocket ship technology.

2188, March 30 - Astronauts William Fletcher and Peter Craig land on a distant planet where Craig makes contact with a miniscule life form and refuses to leave them. After Fletcher abandons him, Craig meets a second more massive life form. ("The Little People")

• Date speculation. The giant aliens are possibly the same race as seen in "Stopover in a Quiet Town." It also seems the astronauts are still using the older rocket stage system of "Elegy" rather than the saucer technology of "The Invaders."

2195, February 7 - NASA loses contact with Spaceship E-89 on a scientific scouting mission to the thirteenth planet in star system fifty-one. ("Death Ship")

• According to the episode, this episode occurs in the year 1997, but I've pushed it forward 200 years since interstellar traffic isn't accomplished until 2186 in "Elegy."

c. 2200? - Society develops across excessively hedonistic lines and ideals of physical perfection. Technology is developed that forces individuals to be submitted to genetic perfection although several individuals try to resist this process. ("Number 12 Looks Just Like You")

• Date speculatory.

ALTERNATE FUTURE C

3061, June 2 - In a future totalitarian society, a librarian named Romney Wordsworth is declared obsolete and makes rather unusual requests to the Chancellor of the government as to the manner of his execution.

• Date speculatory. It is guessed this future is not linked to the previous alternate futures.

ALTERNATE FUTURE D

1955, November 3 - The world disappears from around Peaksville, Ohio and replaced by cornfields. The town is held under the subserviance of Anthony Fremont's psychic powers over reality. ("It's a Good Life")

• It is uncertain of Anthony wiped out the rest of the world or if he merely relocated his world to its own dimension.

1994, February 19 - Audrey Fremont born.

• Presumes Audrey the same age as Lilianna Mumy.

2003, February 19 - Anthony's daughter, Audrey reveals she has his powers after long keeping them secret. She gets rid of everyone else left in Peaksville before bringing them back.

• Sequel from the 2003 series.

ATERNATE E

1964, March 24 - A man is held for execution for the murder of a local man, but despite the fact its at sunrise, there is no light or stars and complete darkness surrounds the planet. ("I Am the Night—Color Me Black")

• Had this episode occurred pre-1960, this incident could be linked to the astronomical event in "The Midnight Sun" (ALTERNATE FUTURE E).

ALTERNATE FUTURE F

1961, October 17 - A unrevealed astronomical event pulls the Earth out of its orbit and into a wider orbit. ("The Midnight Sun")

• The episode suggests this event occurs a month prior.
• 1961, November 17 - A NYC tenant named Norma has a dream the Earth is moving into the sun as it actually moves away from it. ("The Midnight Sun")

ALTERNATE FUTURE F

1962, March 2 - EartG makes First Contact with a race of extra-terrestrial beings called Kanamits who promise to solve all ot the Earth's problems. Unted States Intelligence assisted by Michael Chambers of the code department tries to translate their book which turns out far too late to be a cookbook. ("To Serve Man")

ALTERNATE FUTURE G

1963, April 11 - William Feathersmith now makes a living as a janitor to Hecate Industries due to his changes to the past. ("Of Late I Think of Cliffordville")

• This alternate future predisposes the first half of the episode is mainstream history and the result is the alternate timeline caused by the tampering of it.

ALTERNATE FUTURE H

c. 1960 - Fearing atomic war is evident, the United States Defense Department places computers in underground bunkers powered by geothermal energies in order to rebuild society afterward. Knowledge of these computers is made to only a few. ("The Old Man in the Cave")

• Theoretical. It is unexplained if Mr. Goldsmith was such an agent or found the computer and learned to use it by trial and error.

1963, November 8 - Most of Earth's surface was destroyed in an atomic war. ("The Old Man in the Cave")

• This incident is placed ten years prior to the events in the episode.

1974, November 8 - The post-apocalyptic denizens of a small town survive under the guidance of a Mr. Goldsmith taking advice from "an old man in a cave," but Major French shows up with armed soldiers and takes over the town, destroying the computer Goldsmith has been concealing. ("The Old Man in the Cave")

• Year mentioned in the episode. Some variant of these events possibly occurs in the timeline of Mr. Bemis ("Time Enough At Last"). The computer in the cave is possibly from the same computer company in "From Agnes With Love."

ALTERNATE FUTURE I

1964, March 27 - In the American South, a man named Jagger is lead to his execution for the murder of a local man, but despite the fact its at sunrise, there is no light or stars and complete darkness surrounds the planet. ("I Am the Night—Color Me Black")

• Had this episode occurred pre-1960, this incident could be linked to the astronomical event in "The Midnight Sun" (ALTERNATE FUTURE E).