The Twilight Zone

A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.

Cast:Robin Ward , Charles Aidman , Richard Mulligan , William Atherton , Julie Khaner , Roberts Blossom , Heather Haase , Ellen Albertini Dow , Burr Middleton , Chip Heller , Warren Van Evera , Adam Raber , Nan Martin , Martin Balsam , Jaclyn Bernstein , James Whitmore Jr. , Clare Torao , Danica McKellar

1Season 1

S1.E1 ∙ Shatterday/A Little Peace and Quiet

Fri, Sep 27, 1985

Peter Jay Novins calls his home, only to hear himself answer. / A harried housewife struggling with rambunctious children and the stress of modern life finds relief from an unusual source that brings both power and responsibility.

2Season 1

S1.E2 ∙ Wordplay/Dreams for Sale/Chameleon

Fri, Oct 4, 1985

A salesman at a medical firm finds everyone around him undergoing a linguistic transformation. / A woman finds that her idyllic picnic may not be what it seems. / Something unusual returns with a Shuttle mission.

3Season 1

S1.E3 ∙ Healer/Children's Zoo/Kentucky Rye

Fri, Oct 11, 1985

"Healer": Small-time crook Jackie Thompson finds that a rock possesses special abilities. "Children's Zoo": An invitation to a unique zoo offers a girl a solution to her bickering parents. "Kentucky Rye": Drunk driver Bob Spindler finds himself in an unusual bar after an accident.

4Season 1

S1.E4 ∙ Little Boy Lost/Wish Bank/Nightcrawlers

Fri, Oct 18, 1985

Struggling with a major life decision, Carol Shelton meets a boy who seems to be stalking her. Shopper Janice Hammond buys an antique oil lamp that can grant wishes. Drifter Price shares his Vietnam War memories with diner patrons.

5Season 1

S1.E5 ∙ If She Dies/Ye Gods

Fri, Oct 25, 1985

"If She Dies": After an accident leaves his daughter in a coma, a man sees an apparition of a young girl on top of an old orphanage. "Ye Gods": The only way a yuppie can resolve his divinely-influenced love life is by repairing Cupid's.

6Season 1

S1.E6 ∙ Examination Day/A Message from Charity

Fri, Nov 1, 1985

Puritan Charity Payne in the year 1700 and modern teenager Peter Wood, residents of the same Massachusetts town, are psychically connected due to delirium induced by a bacterial infection, and can see the world through each other's eyes.

7Season 1

S1.E7 ∙ Teacher's Aide/Paladin of the Lost Hour

Fri, Nov 8, 1985

"Teacher's Aide": A teacher at a tough inner-city school is possessed by a malevolent spirit. "Paladin of the Lost Hour": An old man with a special watch bonds with a tormented veteran.

8Season 1

S1.E8 ∙ Act Break/The Burning Man/Dealer's Choice

Fri, Nov 15, 1985

"Act Break": Selfish second-rate playwright Maury Winkler wishes for a better writing partner than his ailing colleague Harry. "The Burning Man": A strange figure appears on the road and tries to hitch a ride during a heat wave in 1936. "Dealer's Choice": Four poker pals sit down for a game with a mysterious stand-in named Nick.

9Season 1

S1.E9 ∙ Dead Woman's Shoes/Wong's Lost and Found Emporium

Fri, Nov 22, 1985

"Dead Woman's Shoes": A meek thrift store clerk is possessed by the spirit of a dead woman. "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium": A man in search of his compassion looks for it in a mysterious place.

10Season 1

S1.E10 ∙ The Shadow Man/The Uncle Devil Show/Opening Day

Fri, Nov 29, 1985

"The Shadow Man": A teenager discovers that a supernatural being lives underneath his bed. "The Uncle Devil Show": A children's video tape includes instructions in the black arts. "Opening Day": A golf pro who kills a businessman in order to be with his wife suddenly finds himself occupying the other man's life just before the murder.

11Season 1

S1.E11 ∙ The Beacon/One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

Fri, Dec 6, 1985

"The Beacon": A doctor stumbles across an isolated town with a secret. "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty": A troubled writer goes back to his childhood to trace the source of his problems.

12Season 1

S1.E12 ∙ Her Pilgrim Soul/I of Newton

Fri, Dec 13, 1985

In "Her Pilgrim Soul," two scientists must discover why the spirit of a woman is reliving a previous life within their holographic computer. "I of Newton" showcases a mathematician in a battle of wits with the Devil for his soul.

13Season 1

S1.E13 ∙ Night of the Meek/But Can She Type?/The Star

Fri, Dec 20, 1985

"Night of the Meek": Henry Corwin, a department store Santa Claus, is fired from his job, but finds his toy sack is a magical deliverer of Christmas cheer. "But Can She Type?": Miserable secretary Karen Billings comes across a copy machine that transports her to a world where secretaries are adored and honored. "The Star": In the far future, a survey ship stumbles upon a planet whose civilization died thousand of years ago when its star went super nova.

14Season 1

S1.E14 ∙ Still Life/The Little People of Killany Woods/The Misfortune Cookie

Fri, Jan 3, 1986

Dan Arnold finds that an antique camera used on an Amazon expedition years earlier yields mysterious photos. The town drunk claims to see leprechauns in a forest. Food critic Harry Folger pans a Chinese eatery without tasting the food.

15Season 1

S1.E15 ∙ Monsters!/A Small Talent for War/A Matter of Minutes

Fri, Jan 24, 1986

A young boy befriends an elderly neighbor and discovers his dark secret. / An alien ambassador comes to Earth and threatens its destruction. / A couple get knocked out of sync with time and meet the work crew that builds each minute.

16Season 1

S1.E16 ∙ The Elevator/To See the Invisible Man/Tooth and Consequences

Fri, Jan 31, 1986

"The Elevator": Brothers Will and Roger locate their father's growth serum, which was developed to ensure a plentiful food supply. "To See the Invisible Man": Emotionally cold Mitchell Chaplin is sentenced to one year of social invisibility as punishment. "Tooth and Consequences": Despondent dentist Myron Mandel receives a visit from the Tooth Fairy.

17Season 1

S1.E17 ∙ Welcome to Winfield/Quarantine

Fri, Feb 7, 1986

"Welcome to Winfield": Two people fleeing an agent of Death hide in an unusual town. "Quarantine": A weapons engineer is awakened from suspended animation to deal with an imminent threat from space.

18Season 1

S1.E18 ∙ Gramma/Personal Demons/Cold Reading

Fri, Feb 14, 1986

A boy is terrified of his odd, sinister, bed-ridden grandma. / A hack with writer's block is tormented by impish hell-raising creatures that only he can see. / An understudy copes with radio director's insistence on real sound effects.

19Season 1

S1.E19 ∙ The Leprechaun-Artist/Dead Run

Fri, Feb 21, 1986

"The Leprechaun-Artist": Three teenage boys are each granted a wish after catching a vacationing leprechaun. "Dead Run": A down-on-his-luck trucker accepts a job hauling an unusual cargo.

20Season 1

S1.E20 ∙ Profile in Silver/Button, Button

Fri, Mar 7, 1986

"Profile in Silver": After preventing the assassination of President Kennedy, a historian from the future faces the consequences of his act. "Button, Button": A couple receives a box with a button -- and an unusual offer.

21Season 1

S1.E21 ∙ Need to Know/Red Snow

Fri, Mar 21, 1986

"Need to Know": Government investigator Edward Sayers visits a small rural community where insanity is spreading among the residents. "Red Snow": Russian KGB Colonel Ulyanov goes to a Siberian labor camp to investigate violent deaths of Communist party officials.

22Season 1

S1.E22 ∙ Take My Life... Please!/Devil's Alphabet/The Library

Fri, Mar 28, 1986

"Take My Life - Please!": Comedian Billy Diamond plays a tough gig in the afterlife. "Devil's Alphabet": In Victorian England, Cambridge graduates are bound by a youthful oath even after they die. "The Library": A young woman goes to work in an unusual library.

23Season 1

S1.E23 ∙ Shadow Play/Grace Note

Fri, Apr 4, 1986

"Shadow Play": Death Row inmate Adam Grant is terrified that the participants in his trial will cease to exist when he is executed. "Grace Note": Rosemarie Miletti aspires to be a famous opera singer and receives a surprising glimpse into the future.

24Season 1

S1.E24 ∙ A Day in Beaumont/The Last Defender of Camelot

Fri, Apr 11, 1986

"A Day in Beaumont": Scientist Kevin Carlson and his fiancée Faith can't get anyone to believe that they saw a flying saucer land. "The Last Defender of Camelot": Lancelot is summoned by Morgan le Fay to meet with the wizard Merlin, who plans to restore Camelot.

1Season 2

S2.E1 ∙ The Once and Future King/A Saucer of Loneliness

Sat, Sep 27, 1986

"The Once and Future King": Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin finds himself transported back to Elvis' time after a car accident. "A Saucer of Loneliness": Shy, lonely Margaret receives a private message from a flying saucer.

2Season 2

S2.E2 ∙ What Are Friends For?/Aqua Vita

Sat, Oct 4, 1986

Alex Mattingly wonders whether his son Jeff's new friend Mike is real or imaginary. / Television newscaster Christie Copperfield discovers a fountain of youth in the form of bottled water and takes a liking to it, but then the price rises.

3Season 2

S2.E3 ∙ The Storyteller/Nightsong

Sat, Oct 11, 1986

The Storyteller: Adolescent Micah Frost keeps his great-great-great-grandfather alive by making up serialized stories that continue night after night. Nightsong: Disc jockey Andrea Fields plays an obscure record made by her lost lover Simon Locke, who mysteriously reappears after a long absence.

4Season 2

S2.E4 ∙ The After Hours/Lost and Found/The World Next Door

Sat, Oct 18, 1986

The After Hours: Marsha Cole detects shadowy figures and mysterious voices around her during a trip to a local shopping mall. Lost and Found: College student Jennifer Templeton finds out why her possessions have been vanishing. The World Next Door: Would-be inventor Barney Schlessinger is bored with his life until he meets another inventor in a parallel world.

5Season 2

S2.E5 ∙ The Toys of Caliban

Thu, Dec 4, 1986

Elderly Ernie Ross and his wife Mary live in fear of their son Toby, who has the magical ability to turn any imagined item into reality.

6Season 2

S2.E6 ∙ The Convict's Piano

Thu, Dec 11, 1986

Ricky Frost has been wrongly convicted of murder and sent to prison, but his musical talent might see him free if he continues to play a certain piano.

7Season 2

S2.E7 ∙ The Road Less Travelled

Thu, Dec 18, 1986

Vietnam-era draft dodger Jeff McDowell sees something familiar about a wheelchair-bound man who has appeared in his house unexpectedly.

8Season 2

S2.E8 ∙ The Card/The Junction

Sat, Feb 21, 1987

"The Card": Severe penalties await shopper Linda Wolfe when she fails to pay her credit card bills on time. "The Junction": John Parker and Ray Dobson are trapped inside the local mine. But when one is rescued, the other disappears.

9Season 2

S2.E9 ∙ Joy Ride/Shelter Skelter/Private Channel

Thu, May 21, 1987

A joy ride is disrupted by the car's dead owner. At the onset of a nuclear war, Harry Dobbs and Nick Gatlin race to a fallout shelter and soon face cabin fever. A mishap turns airline flier Keith Barnes' radio into a mind-reading device.

10Season 2

S2.E10 ∙ Time and Teresa Golowitz/Voices in the Earth

Fri, Jul 10, 1987

Offered any wish by the Devil, musician Bluestone travels back in time as he regretted not doing before. Professor Donald Knowles returns to Earth with other expedition members and is affected by the Earthlings of centuries earlier.

11Season 2

S2.E11 ∙ Song of the Younger World/The Girl I Married

Fri, Jul 17, 1987

Song of the Younger World: In the early 20th century, reform school inmate Tanner Smith tempts fate by falling in love with puritanical Warden Mordecai Hawkline's daughter Amy. The Girl I Maried: Middle-aged corporate lawyer Ira Richman misses young Valerie, the girl he married twenty years ago and is surprised to see her materialize.

1Season 3

S3.E1 ∙ The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

Sat, Sep 24, 1988

Edgar Witherspoon is an elderly man with a Rube Goldberg machine filling his apartment. His niece is concerned and arranges for a social worker to look in on him. It turns out that the machine is an allegory for the world. Edgar is constantly making modifications and additions to the machine to keep the world running right.

2Season 3

S3.E2 ∙ Extra Innings

Sat, Oct 1, 1988

To the chagrin of his wife Cindy, fading baseball star Ed Hamner sees an uncanny resemblance between himself and Monte Hanks, a fellow baseball player who has the same stats as Ed but lived 78 years ago.

3Season 3

S3.E3 ∙ The Crossing

Sat, Oct 8, 1988

Mark Cassidy, a hard-working priest in need of a vacation, sees visions of a car that bursts into flame with a child inside.

4Season 3

S3.E4 ∙ The Hunters

Sat, Oct 15, 1988

An archaeologist investigates newly-discovered cave paintings that prove to be more than they seem.

5Season 3

S3.E5 ∙ Dream Me a Life

Sat, Oct 22, 1988

Retirement home resident Roger Simpson Leeds has nightmares of an unknown woman being stalked.

6Season 3

S3.E6 ∙ Memories

Sat, Oct 29, 1988

A regression therapist wakes up in a world in which everyone can recall their past lives.

7Season 3

S3.E7 ∙ The Hellgramite Method

Sat, Nov 5, 1988

An alcoholic agrees to a unique treatment, one that will stop him from drinking -- or kill him in the process.

8Season 3

S3.E8 ∙ Our Selena Is Dying

Sat, Nov 12, 1988

A doctor becomes suspicious when a young woman mysteriously begins losing her youth to her dying aunt.

9Season 3

S3.E9 ∙ The Call

Sat, Nov 19, 1988

A telephone number dialed in error could spell the end of loneliness for Norman Blane.

10Season 3

S3.E10 ∙ The Trance

Sat, Nov 26, 1988

A phony trance-channeler gets an unexpected message from the beyond.

11Season 3

S3.E11 ∙ Acts of Terror

Sat, Dec 3, 1988

Louise Simonson receives a gift that may help her escape from the clutches of her abusive husband Jack.

12Season 3

S3.E12 ∙ 20/20 Vision

Sat, Dec 10, 1988

A pair of damaged glasses allows a loan officer at a rural bank to see into the future and consider the consequences of his actions.

13Season 3

S3.E13 ∙ There Was an Old Woman

Sat, Dec 17, 1988

Hallie Parker is a renowned author of children's books feeling no longer needed, until she meets some of her fans.

14Season 3

S3.E14 ∙ The Trunk

Sat, Dec 24, 1988

Down-on-his-luck hotel manager Willy Gardner finds a steamer trunk with magical powers.

15Season 3

S3.E15 ∙ Appointment on Route 17

Sat, Dec 31, 1988

Heart transplant recipient Tom Bennett experiences a personality change when he is attracted to a diner waitress named Mary Jo, who is in mourning for her recently deceased lover.

16Season 3

S3.E16 ∙ The Cold Equations

Sat, Jan 7, 1989

Marilyn Lee Cross may not survive after she stows away on board a spacecraft.

17Season 3

S3.E17 ∙ Stranger in Possum Meadows

Sat, Jan 14, 1989

Young Danny Wilkins is playing in a field when he meets a scout who is collecting specimens of all sorts.

18Season 3

S3.E18 ∙ Street of Shadows

Sat, Jan 21, 1989

Unemployed Steve Cranston lives with his family in a soon-to-be-closed homeless shelter. One night, he breaks into the home of wealthy Frederick Perry, who pulls a gun. The resulting struggle has a deep effect on several lives.

19Season 3

S3.E19 ∙ Something in the Walls

Sat, Jan 28, 1989

Sanitarium patient Sharon Miles is convinced that she has seen some kind of creatures in the walls of her cell.

20Season 3

S3.E20 ∙ A Game of Pool

Sat, Feb 4, 1989

Pool hustler Jesse Cardiff plays against all-time champion "Fats" Brown. The stakes? Only Jesse's life...

21Season 3

S3.E21 ∙ Room 2426

Sat, Feb 11, 1989

Biochemist Martin Decker is imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured, but still refuses to reveal a secret formula to his captors. However, his new cell mate's knowledge of teleportation of living matter may provide him with an escape route.

22Season 3

S3.E22 ∙ The Mind of Simon Foster

Sat, Feb 18, 1989

Downwardly mobile Simon Foster makes the mistake of selling his memories in order to survive.

23Season 3

S3.E23 ∙ The Wall

Sat, Feb 25, 1989

Washed-up military test pilot Major Alex McAndrews volunteers to travel through an energy portal to search for others who went through but haven't returned. Will he find the others? Can he find a way back?

24Season 3

S3.E24 ∙ Cat and Mouse

Sat, Mar 4, 1989

Lonely Andrea Moffatt finds a stray cat, who is actually Guillaume de Marchaux, a suave Frenchman who turns human at night but reverts to feline form during the day due to an old curse. Will he end her loneliness?

25Season 3

S3.E25 ∙ Rendezvous in a Dark Place

Sat, Mar 11, 1989

Barbara LeMay is so obsessed with death that she frequently attends the funerals of complete strangers. She soon comes face to face with the Grim Reaper himself.

26Season 3

S3.E26 ∙ Many, Many Monkeys

Sat, Mar 18, 1989

Registered nurse Claire Hendricks believes there's a deeper reason why blindness is spreading quickly through her community.

27Season 3

S3.E27 ∙ Love Is Blind

Sat, Mar 25, 1989

Jealous husband Jack Haines takes his rage to a bar, where he meets a blind blues singer whose song tells an eerily familiar story.

28Season 3

S3.E28 ∙ Crazy as a Soup Sandwich

Sat, Apr 1, 1989

Underworld kingpin Nino Lancaster battles an angry demon named Volkerps for the soul of unfortunate Arky Lochner.

29Season 3

S3.E29 ∙ Special Service

Sat, Apr 8, 1989

John Selig discovers that his life is secretly being videotaped and is a huge hit on a cable television show.

30Season 3

S3.E30 ∙ Father & Son Game

Sat, Apr 15, 1989

The 79-year-old Darius Stephens wants to go on living and has his consciousness transferred into a cyborg body. However, his son Michael disapproves.