The Twilight Zone

1959

The Twilight Zone

9 | TV-PG | en | Drama

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP1 In Praise of Pip

Sep. 27,1963

Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.

EP2 Steel

Oct. 04,1963

A small-time promoter desperately in need of money takes the place of his broken-down robot in a prize fight where humans are barred from participating.

EP3 Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Oct. 11,1963

A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.

EP4 A Kind of a Stopwatch

Oct. 18,1963

The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.

EP5 The Last Night of a Jockey

Oct. 25,1963

Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.

EP6 Living Doll

Nov. 01,1963

Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!

EP7 The Old Man in the Cave

Nov. 08,1963

A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.

EP8 Uncle Simon

Nov. 15,1963

To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.

EP9 Probe 7, Over and Out

Nov. 29,1963

The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.

EP10 The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

Dec. 06,1963

A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

EP11 A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

Dec. 13,1963

Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.

EP12 Ninety Years Without Slumbering

Dec. 20,1963

An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.

EP13 Ring-a-Ding Girl

Dec. 27,1963

A fan-club gift draws a movie star back home, where she disrupts local plans for a town picnic by offering a one-woman show.

EP14 You Drive

Jan. 03,1964

Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.

EP15 The Long Morrow

Jan. 10,1964

Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.

EP16 The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Jan. 17,1964

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

EP17 Number 12 Looks Just Like You

Jan. 24,1964

In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.

EP18 Black Leather Jackets

Jan. 31,1964

Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are.

EP19 Night Call

Feb. 07,1964

An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.

EP20 From Agnes – With Love

Feb. 14,1964

A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.

EP21 Spur of the Moment

Feb. 21,1964

After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.

EP22 An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Feb. 28,1964

As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...

EP23 Queen of the Nile

Mar. 06,1964

A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.

EP24 What's in the Box

Mar. 13,1964

A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.

EP25 The Masks

Mar. 20,1964

A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.

EP26 I Am the Night - Color Me Black

Mar. 27,1964

On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.

EP27 Sounds and Silences

Apr. 03,1964

A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.

EP28 Caesar and Me

Apr. 10,1964

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

EP29 The Jeopardy Room

Apr. 17,1964

A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.

EP30 Stopover in a Quiet Town

Apr. 24,1964

The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.

EP31 The Encounter

May. 01,1964

A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.

EP32 Mr. Garrity and the Graves

May. 08,1964

Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.

EP33 The Brain Center at Whipple's

May. 15,1964

A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

EP34 Come Wander with Me

May. 22,1964

A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

EP35 The Fear

May. 29,1964

Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.

EP36 The Bewitchin' Pool

Jun. 19,1964

Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.

9 | TV-PG | en | Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi | More Info

Released: 1959-10-02 | Released Producted By: CBS , Cayuga Productions Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://www.cbs.com/shows/the_twilight_zone/

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An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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Drama , Mystery , Sci-Fi

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Cast

Rod Serling

Director

Rod Serling

Producted By

CBS , Cayuga Productions

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Helping Hands The Twilight Zone Christmas Classics Rod Serling: Submitted for Your Approval The Twilight Zone: Tower of Terror The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror - Preshow The Exiles The Outer Space Connection The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond UFOs: Past, Present, and Future The Sixth Sense

Rod Serling

Executive Producer

Herbert Hirschman

Producer

Buck Houghton

Producer

The Twilight Zone Audience Reviews

Interesteg What makes it different from others?

Phonearl Good start, but then it gets ruined

Robert Joyner The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Johnny H. The Twilight Zone has become a bona-fide classic for damn good reason: as a television show it's still loved and discovered by audiences the world over, and it's still thought-provoking stuff almost six decades since it hit the airwaves in 1959. Rod Serling knew how to read the human condition and how its morale and place in the universe is never the same story told twice. The Twilight Zone is its own plane of reality that became a staple in American pop-culture. It's 50s-60s Americana that managed to foretell stories about nuclear-weapon-based-paranoia and asking big questions about the human condition itself; and even with its time-capsule related charms the stories themselves transcend its era's real-world politics and made sci-fi a smart and subversive way to criticize modern politics without having to be concerned about censorship. And every episode is a self-contained story that set the bar for anthology-driven storytelling from then onward.I think this show needs no introduction; its reputation precedes it, comparable to the original Star Trek and Mission Impossible series (all three being CBS franchises themselves).Rod Serling's television magnum-opus is an incomparable classic.

aa56 I enjoyed The Twilight Zone immensely when I was a kid, but seeing it as an adult, I was staggered by the lack of scientific and historical knowledge of the writers and dismayed by enough plot holes to drive a herd of buffaloes through. Here are some examples:An astronaut goes nuts just for being kept in a capsule for a few days.Asteroids are miniature earths.A space explorer crash-lands on a planet 4.3 light years from his origin, but he communicates in real time to his mission control.An old geezer goes nuts over a slot machine, and the casino workers just stand there watching until he pushes it over. Try that in a casino.The writer(s) are clueless as to when the U.S. entered WWI.Mannequins come to life for a month and live among real people. Where do they live? How do they get money? How did Marsha come to know she has a mother to buy a gift for?A young woman allegedly has serious surgery on her face, but when her head is unwrapped, there is not a sign of it.A man can stop time all over the earth with a stopwatch, yet he can move objects. Why don't aircraft fall from the sky? Does he stop Earth in its rotation and orbit? How about the entire solar system?Enough. One Step Beyond I believe was a better show. If one accepts the paranormal aspect, it is far more believable and better written.

bullfox When I wrote this review I was feeling like I myself am there "In the fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man."To say that the Serling's show is good — it's to say nothing. In the 60's, when television was not yet a part of the everyday life of humanity, as it is now, many were stunned by approach to thing, what seems to be pure entertainment for the evening at a bottle of beer. That's how the things was at first. But Rod Serling would not be Rod Serling, if he had been so simple, naive and vulgar. By itself, the TV series "The Twilight Zone" — it is something, that hardly anyone is still able to repeat. And although it was already almost nearly 56 years since had been shown a pilot series of this intellectual sight (which is, unlike most modern shows, really valued intelligence of its audience) which turned an idea of how to do a good and quality television work — I still never saw anything like that. There were many sequels, reimaginings, imitations and so on, but it was not even close to original. "The Twilight Zone" — the one and only thing in it's genre (unless, of course, you will be able to define it). Now I would like to say about the actual show itself.Each series is a little history on the theme "You are about to enter another dimension." No matter what the time is there. It may be past, present or future. Perhaps it is our planet, but it may be completely different, it may be even a parallel world — and everything is going in this vein. And, of course, the main characters and the characters of the series — the actual people. In a relatively short history "The Twilight Zone" has managed to light up a huge number of stars of the first magnitude (for many people involved in the project it was the first success, which led to further career). Telly Savalas, William Shatner, Burgess Meredith, Dennis Hopper, Jonathan Winters, Peter Falk — you can't count them all. Talk about drama and acting component may be a long time but I will confine myself a couple of words — they are gorgeous. Each new series — a look into the depths of yourself, it is a casual but creative self-analysis. And in our time it's not typical for all television programs, and (most important thing in my opinion) — an attempt to show the people in those circumstances, and those roles, in which person may have never been and never will be. The creators wanted to give us something, that we usually avoid — awareness of who could we were, perhaps not specific people, but rather specific types of people, in quite ordinary situations, but clearly not in the everyday surroundings. Show is asking questions like "Who are we in this (and, possibly, in the other) world?", "What is evil and what is good?" and much more of familiar and eternal questions, but not in familiar way.People always believe what they were taught to believe since childhood. And if you seem for a moment that you see something unexplainable perhaps it is your imagination and perhaps your journey on the "Twilight Zone" is not over "If you need a drug to become a good writer, then you're not a good writer."© Rodman Edward Serling

gilligan1965 This TV show came out in 1959; I've been watching it since the early 1970s when I was a child, and, I'm still watching it into my '50s...now, when it's on the Sci-Fi channel.Many of these stories, although 'technically' outdated, STILL APPLY to today's society and people in general - if for some reason there 'is' a "DIFFERENT" dimension where there exists aliens, monsters, and, 'different plains.' I can't get enough of it! It's so creative and so imaginative! With writers like Rod Serling (the screenplays for "Planet of the Apes;" "Seven Days in May;" and, many more); Richard Matheson (the novels "I Am Legend;" "Stir of Echoes;" and, many more); Earl Hamner ("The Waltons"); Charles Beaumont; and, so many more great writers! This TV show, in a way (I believe), is much like the ORIGINAL "Star Trek" series, where, indeed, it lasted all-too-shortly on TV...but, it lasts forever in our minds!To me...that's PERFECTION! :) They made their lasting point!