The Twilight Zone (1959)
Premiere
October 1959
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Overview
The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
Episodes
Season 5
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1.27 September 1963An alcoholic bookie 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.
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2.04 October 1963Boxing robot ""Battling Maxo"" breaks down before the scheduled bout, forcing his manager to take its place.
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3.11 October 1963Mr. Wilson believes he sees a gremlin on the wing of his commercial aircraft.
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4.18 October 1963The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
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5.25 October 1963Mickey Rooney delivers a tour de force solo performance in the Twilight Zone playlet "The Last Night of a Jockey." Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady (Rooney) boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego (also Rooney), but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
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6.01 November 1963Erich 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!
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7.08 November 1963A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
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8.15 November 1963Uncle Simon tries to strike Barbara with his cane. She grabs it and he falls down the stairs to his death. His will stipulates that she must care for his latest invention - a robot. The robot begins to take on Uncle Simon's traits. Barbara finally pushes it down the stairs, but that only gives it a limp identical to Uncle Simon's. She finally realizes that she will never be rid of Uncle Simon.
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9.29 November 1963The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
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10.06 December 1963Three National Guardsmen explore the site of Custer's Last Stand.
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11.13 December 1963Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
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12.20 December 1963An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
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13.27 December 1963Bunny receives a ring from her fan club in her home town. In the ring she sees the faces of people from her hometown telling her she's needed there. She arrives in Howardville on the day of the annual Founder's Day picnic. She tries to get the chairman of the picnic to postpone it a day, but he refuses. She then plans a one-woman show at the auditorium. Before the show, Bunny disappears. Later, a jet airliner crashes onto the picnic grounds. Thanks to Bunny, almost everyone is at the auditorium instead of the picnic grounds. They later find that Bunny was a passenger on the plane.
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14.03 January 1964Driving 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.
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15.10 January 1964Stansfield, an astronaut, is sent to a planetary system 141 light-years from Earth. The trip will take 20 years each way. To save him the ordeal of forty years of loneliness, he is to be placed in (newly-developed) suspended animation. Before leaving, he meets and becomes enchanted by his colleague Sandra Horn in just one evening, but by the time he returned, Horn would be 40 years older and Stansfield would still be young because of the suspended animation.
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16.17 January 1964A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
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17.24 January 1964In 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.
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18.31 January 1964Three 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.
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19.07 February 1964An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls overnight when she's alone.
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20.14 February 1964A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
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21.21 February 1964After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
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22.28 February 1964As 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...
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23.06 March 1964Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn't aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret.
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24.13 March 1964A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
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25.20 March 1964A dying man demands his family wear masks that he's given them at a Mardi Gras party.
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26.27 March 1964On 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.
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27.03 April 1964A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
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28.10 April 1964A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
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29.17 April 1964Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits.
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30.24 April 1964Bob and Millie wake up to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees, animals even cars.
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31.01 May 1964A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
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32.08 May 1964Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
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33.15 May 1964A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
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34.22 May 1964A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
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35.29 May 1964Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
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36.19 June 1964Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
Season 4
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1.03 January 1963A scientist creates an android that has the qualities which he feels he's lacking.
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2.10 January 1963A US naval destroyer investigates a mysterious tapping sound coming from a sunken submarine.
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3.17 January 1963A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.
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4.24 January 1963Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer's following grows, as does his ego...
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5.31 January 1963A 12-year-old girl who lost her parents in a fire doesn't speak because she has grown up in a secret telepathic community. The couple who take her in, and her teacher, are determined to help her adapt to their society, no matter the cost.
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6.07 February 1963A three-man spacecraft lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they are dead, but the captain refuses to see the truth.
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7.14 February 1963Jess-Belle enlists the aid of a local witch who casts a spell that makes Billy-Ben fall in love with her.
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8.21 February 1963A lonely man falls in love with a mini museum doll, which he believes is alive.
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9.28 February 1963The owner of a failing paper is given help by the Devil.
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10.07 March 1963A man travels back in time to try to prevent some of history's catastrophes.
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11.14 March 1963An astronaut blacks out orbiting the earth and ends up in a parallel universe.
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12.21 March 1963A man considers several possibilities when offered one wish by a genie.
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13.04 April 1963The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins...
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14.11 April 1963A bored, wealthy businessman gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with all the knowledge he's acquired...an arsenal that's not as powerful as he thinks.
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15.18 April 1963Toy designer Horace Ford spends most of his time reminiscing about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets a chance to go back to those years he gets a bitter taste of reality.
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16.02 May 1963Benteen has kept the colony alive with tales of the greatness of Earth. When the rescue ship comes, he realizes his power over everyone is going to be gone when they leave the planet. He tells them Earth is really hell, an awful place, and that they'll die if they go there. No one believes him, and he says he's staying. As the spaceship is preparing to leave, he returns to the caves and pretends everyone is still there. While talking about Earth, he suddenly remembers what he has been saying for so long. He runs out but the ship is gone. He is left there all alone.
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17.09 May 1963Instead of the cruise bringing them closer together, the Ransome's agree to get a divorce when they return home. Eileen disappears, and when Allan finds her she is wearing a nightgown that a passenger wore on her honeymoon. Seeing her, Allan realizes how much he still loves her. The passengers force them into a lifeboat, with plenty of provisions, and set them adrift. The Lady Anne sails off.
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18.23 May 1963An untalented would-be writer's career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespeare writes his script.
Season 3
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1.15 September 1961A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
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2.22 September 1961A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
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3.29 September 1961When a UFO invasion appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbours fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
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4.06 October 1961On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.
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5.13 October 1961Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
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6.20 October 1961After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.
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7.27 October 1961Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.
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8.03 November 1961Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
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9.10 November 1961A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
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10.17 November 1961The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
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11.24 November 1961Paradine wanders into a town full of Union soldiers. They are all frozen in time by a old man with a black book. Knowing he will die soon, the old man gives the book to Paradine, telling him to use it to win the war. He takes the book back to camp and convinces his commanding officer to allow him to try to freeze the entire Union army. When he starts to read the book aloud he realizes a shocking truth... he will have to call on the Devil, and renounce God to cast the spell.
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12.01 December 1961Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
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13.15 December 1961Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!
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14.22 December 1961A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
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15.29 December 1961A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view.
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16.05 January 1962A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting ""Mr. Death.""
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17.12 January 1962Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
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18.19 January 1962A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.
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19.26 January 1962On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.
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20.02 February 1962Rance McGrew is the star of a western TV series. While his character in the show is a hero, Rance is a arrogant star who pushes others around and doesn't even do his own stunts. While shooting a scene where "Jesse James" shoots him in the back, he's transported to a real Old West saloon. During the confusion the real Jesse James enters. He tells Rance that he and the other desperadoes of old are tired of the way they are being portrayed and challenges Rance to a gun fight.
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21.09 February 1962The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called ""kick-the-can.""
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22.16 February 1962Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music it plays makes people reveal their true essence. At the party, Fortune uses the piano to humiliate the guests - an overweight woman reveals fantasies of being thin and a playwright admits to being in love with Fortune's wife. Fortune hands his wife another roll to put in the piano, but his wife substitutes a different roll - one that enchants Fortune. He reveals himself to be nothing more than a sadistic, mean-spirited child. The guests all leave along with Fortune's wife.
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23.23 February 1962Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
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24.02 March 1962The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
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25.09 March 1962Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
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26.16 March 1962A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever.
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27.23 March 1962David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him. He is put in an asylum, but escapes and finds a picture of himself and his wife, proving who he is. When the police arrive, the picture has changed and only shows David by himself. He falls to the floor and wakes up in his bed. It was just a dream. His wife gets up and goes to the bathroom to remove some cream from her face. When she returns David is shocked to see that although she talks the same as always, she looks nothing like the wife he knows.
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28.30 March 1962An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
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29.06 April 1962Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock. When four o'clock comes around, it is he who shrinks.
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30.13 April 1962A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
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31.20 April 1962An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
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32.27 April 1962An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.
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33.04 May 1962A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!
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34.11 May 1962When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
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35.18 May 1962A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
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36.25 May 1962Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired. He sets her up in a mansion, with a fortune. However, none of her friends from her old neighborhood remember her. She decides she would rather have friends than money. She asks to be returned to her old life. Cavender's boss is furious, until he notices that Agnes is extremely happy. He decides maybe other people could use Cavender's help.
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37.01 June 1962A retiring professor contemplates suicide.
Season 2
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1.30 September 1960A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane. Where is his crew? And why are futuristic jet planes flying overhead?
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2.07 October 1960A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
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3.14 October 1960Ordered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a smalltime hood nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he could have been--confident, strong...and determined to get out.
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4.28 October 1960A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
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5.04 November 1960A man, on a walking trip of Europe, gets caught in a storm. He finds remote monastery that contains a prisoner.
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6.11 November 1960A young woman undergoes ""experimental treatments"" in an attempt to make her appear ""normal"".
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7.18 November 1960A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
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8.02 December 1960Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter, however, feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is.
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9.09 December 1960Booth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear.
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10.16 December 1960Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future.
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11.23 December 1960A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
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12.06 January 1961After selling the rope for a hanging, a conscienceless peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of ""magic dust"".
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13.13 January 1961It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club, Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has somehow traveled back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination. Knowing what is about to happen, he tries to warn everyone at Ford's Theater before t's too late.
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14.20 January 1961A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
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15.27 January 1961An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
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16.03 February 1961The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.
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17.10 February 1961Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 in a morgue.
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18.24 February 1961A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
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19.03 March 1961Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
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20.10 March 1961Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.
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21.24 March 1961Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
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22.31 March 1961A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
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23.07 April 1961In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
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24.21 April 1961Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
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25.28 April 1961Archie Taylor, who wants his men's club quiet, offers Jamie Tennyson half a million dollars to remain silent for one year. To insure his unbroken silence, he will live in the club's basement. In debt, and with a wife that has expensive tastes, Tennyson agrees. During the year, Taylor tries every trick in the book to get Tennyson to talk, however he remains silent. Finally, the year is up and Tennyson emerges from the basement to collect his money. Taylor then reveals that he lost his fortune ten years before, and never intended to pay off the bet. Tennyson remains silent, but writes a note to Taylor. It says: "I knew I would not be able to keep my part of the bargain, so one year ago I had the nerves to my vocal chords severed!"
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26.05 May 1961Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man (Dennis Weaver) tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
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27.12 May 1961A book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker (Shelley Berman) to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are two different things!
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28.26 May 1961State troopers follow tracks from an unidentified flying object to a diner where they try to determine which of the seven bus passengers stranded inside is really a Martian.
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29.02 June 1961In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian (Burgess Meridith) is judged obsolete by the Chancellor (Fritz Weaver) and sentenced to death.
Season 1
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1.02 October 1959Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
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2.09 October 1959A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
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3.16 October 1959A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
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4.23 October 1959An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
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5.30 October 1959Martin Sloan, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child. He soon realizes he's gone back in time.
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6.06 November 1959A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
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7.13 November 1959Corry, a man stranded on an asteroid after being convicted of a crime, receives a present of a robot who looks and sounds like a real woman.
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8.20 November 1959A bank teller, obsessed with reading, finds himself alone after a nuclear blast.
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9.27 November 1959A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
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10.04 December 1959In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.
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11.11 December 1959Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling.
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12.25 December 1959A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
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13.01 January 1960A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
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14.08 January 1960With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
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15.15 January 1960Three astronauts believe they have crashed on an asteroid.
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16.22 January 1960Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
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17.29 January 1960Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name.
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18.05 February 1960A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
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19.12 February 1960Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has the disquieting ability to see who is about to die.
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20.19 February 1960Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
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21.26 February 1960Millicent Barnes sees her double at a bus terminal.
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22.04 March 1960Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
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23.11 March 1960Businessman Arthur Curtis finds his phone dead. He is then surprised to hear a voice yell, "Cut!" and see that his office is just a set on a sound stage. Everyone tells him that he is Jerry Raigan, a drunken movie star on the decline, and "Arthur Curtis" is a character he is playing in the movie "The Private World of Arthur Curtis".
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24.18 March 1960Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it.
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25.25 March 1960When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently just like us...
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26.01 April 1960Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, a man in 1880 is transported into the future.
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27.08 April 1960Even though Jackson breaks his hand prior to the fight, he wins because Henry - a boy who adores the fighter and believes in magic - made the ""big, tall wish."" After the fight the boxer refuses to believe in magic. Henry tells him if he doesn't believe, it won't be true. Jackson just can't believe. Suddenly, Jackson is back in the ring, and counted out.
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28.15 April 1960After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.
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29.29 April 1960Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment. The little girl seems to know her, and tries to jog her memory about a man she saw earlier that day. The man arrives at Helen's door.
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30.06 May 1960Riding home on the train one day, a man falls asleep and dreams it is 1880, and he is entering a small town called Willoughby.
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31.13 May 1960A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, slips her a love potion. He is overjoyed that the potion works so well...at first.
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32.20 May 1960A trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.
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33.03 June 1960A man (Bevis) meets his guardian angel.
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34.10 June 1960A woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist - and that her ""saleslady"" is really a mannequin!
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35.17 June 1960Dr. Stillman arranges to have his human-looking robot signed up as the star pitcher of the Hoboken Zephyrs. The team zooms to fourth place thanks to Casey. After he's beaned by a ball, a doctor discovers Casey has no heart. The rules say nine men make up a team, and without a heart Casey is not a man. Dr. Stillman gives Casey a heart, but he becomes too compassionate to strike out other players. The Zephyrs lose the pennant, and Casey is washed up in baseball. Dr. Stillman gives the coach, Mouth McGarry, Casey's blueprints as a momento. Looking at them, Mcgarry gets a sudden inspiration, and chases after the doctor
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36.01 July 1960A playwright makes characters come to life.
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