List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) episodes

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The original The Twilight Zone anthology series began on October 2, 1959, and ended on June 19, 1964, with five seasons and 156 episodes. It was created by Rod Serling and broadcast on CBS.

Later popularity of the series brought about a 1983 feature film and three "revival" television series in 1985, 2002, and 2019, though none reached the same level of success as the original run.

Series overview

Season		Episodes	Originally aired
			First aired	Last aired
	1	36	October 2, 1959 (1959-10-02)	July 1, 1960 (1960-07-01)
	2	29	September 30, 1960 (1960-09-30)	June 2, 1961 (1961-06-02)
	3	37	September 15, 1961 (1961-09-15)	June 1, 1962 (1962-06-01)
	4	18	January 3, 1963 (1963-01-03)	May 23, 1963 (1963-05-23)
	5	36	September 27, 1963 (1963-09-27)	June 19, 1964 (1964-06-19)

Episodes

Concept (1958)

Rod Serling wrote a teleplay intending for it to be the pilot episode of a new series called The Twilight Zone. Although it ended up airing on a different show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, it is considered the seed episode and has even been adapted as one of The Twilight Zone radio-show episodes.

Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date
"The Time Element"	Allen Reisner	Rod Serling	November 24, 1958 (1958-11-24)
A man (William Bendix) visits a psychoanalyst (Martin Balsam), complaining about a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which takes a major psychological toll.

Pilot (1959)

The pilot episode for the series was called "Where is Everybody?" The episode was reformatted when included in the series. It differs from the broadcast episode in only minor ways.

Season 1 (1959–60)

Main article: The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 1)

Note: Episode titles were not shown on screen, but were announced by Serling at the end of the preceding week's episode. "Where is Everybody?" is an exception, as it was the first episode. Serling's promotional announcements were stripped from syndicated versions of season one, but restored (often only in audio form) on the Image Entertainment DVD releases. They have since been fully restored on the Blu-ray releases.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
1	1	"Where Is Everybody?"	Robert Stevens	Rod Serling	October 2, 1959 (1959-10-02)	173-3601
A man (Earl Holliman) with no memory of who he is finds himself in a strange empty town.
2	2	"One for the Angels"	Robert Parrish	Rod Serling	October 9, 1959 (1959-10-09)	173-3608
A pitchman (Ed Wynn) talks Death (Murray Hamilton) into sparing his life until he makes one last great pitch, but threatens the life of a little girl in the process.
3	3	"Mr. Denton on Doomsday"	Allen Reisner	Rod Serling	October 16, 1959 (1959-10-16)	173-3609
A town drunk (Dan Duryea) faces an infamous killer after magically regaining his gunfighting skills.
4	4	"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"	Mitchell Leisen	Rod Serling	October 23, 1959 (1959-10-23)	173-3610
An aging movie star (Ida Lupino) rewatches her old films in an attempt to recapture her youth.
5	5	"Walking Distance"	Robert Stevens	Rod Serling	October 30, 1959 (1959-10-30)	173-3605
An ad executive (Gig Young) under pressure at his job visits his old hometown, only to find himself returned to his childhood.
6	6	"Escape Clause"	Mitchell Leisen	Rod Serling	November 6, 1959 (1959-11-06)	173-3603
A mean-spirited hypochondriac (David Wayne) afraid of dying sells his soul with a form of the Devil (Thomas Gomez) for immortality.
7	7	"The Lonely"	Jack Smight	Rod Serling	November 13, 1959 (1959-11-13)	173-3602
In the year 2046, a convicted man (Jack Warden) serving his sentence on an uninhabited asteroid is given a female robot (Jean Marsh) for companionship.
8	8	"Time Enough at Last"	John Brahm	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Lyn Venable	November 20, 1959 (1959-11-20)	173-3614
A bank teller (Burgess Meredith) yearning for more time to read gets his wish when he becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust.
9	9	"Perchance to Dream"	Robert Florey	Charles Beaumont	November 27, 1959 (1959-11-27)	173-3616
A man (Richard Conte) with a severe heart condition who has been awake for a long time tells his psychiatrist that he will die if he goes to sleep, because a vixen (Suzanne Lloyd) is trying to kill him.
10	10	"Judgment Night"	John Brahm	Rod Serling	December 4, 1959 (1959-12-04)	173-3604
In 1942, a man (Nehemiah Persoff) from Germany does not remember how he boarded a British ship heading for New York, but he does have a feeling the ship will be sunk.
11	11	"And When the Sky Was Opened"	Douglas Heyes	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Richard Matheson	December 11, 1959 (1959-12-11)	173-3611
Three astronauts (Rod Taylor, Charles Aidman, Jim Hutton) return from the desert where their spacecraft crashed, but cannot remember what happened during their flight.
12	12	"What You Need"	Alvin Ganzer	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on the Short Story by: Lewis Padgett	December 25, 1959 (1959-12-25)	173-3622
A thug (Steve Cochran) tries to exploit the abilities of a peddler (Ernest Truex) who can see into the future and discern just what a person will need in an emergency.
13	13	"The Four of Us Are Dying"	John Brahm	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: George Johnson	January 1, 1960 (1960-01-01)	173-3618
A small-time con-man (Harry Townes) with the ability to change his face assumes the identities of a musician (Ross Martin), a gangster (Phillip Pine), and a boxer (Don Gordon).
14	14	"Third from the Sun"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on the Short Story by: Richard Matheson	January 8, 1960 (1960-01-08)	173-3615
With atomic war on the horizon, a scientist (Fritz Weaver) and his co-worker (Joe Maross) plot to board their families on a spaceship and escape to another planet.
15	15	"I Shot an Arrow into the Air"	Stuart Rosenberg	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on the Story by: Madelon Champion	January 15, 1960 (1960-01-15)	173-3626
Astronauts are deserted on what appears to be an uncharted asteroid.
16	16	"The Hitch-Hiker"	Alvin Ganzer	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on the Radio Play by: Lucille Fletcher	January 22, 1960 (1960-01-22)	173-3612
A woman (Inger Stevens) driving cross-country keeps seeing a hitchhiker (Leonard Strong) everywhere she goes.
17	17	"The Fever"	Robert Florey	Rod Serling	January 29, 1960 (1960-01-29)	173-3627
A man (Everett Sloan) whose wife (Vivi Janiss) won them tickets to Las Vegas gets addicted to gambling, courtesy of a slot machine that calls his name.
18	18	"The Last Flight"	William Claxton	Richard Matheson	February 5, 1960 (1960-02-05)	173-3607
A British World War I fighter pilot (Kenneth Haigh) flies through a strange cloud and lands his biplane on a modern-day American airbase.
19	19	"The Purple Testament"	Richard L. Bare	Rod Serling	February 12, 1960 (1960-02-12)	173-3619
An Army lieutenant (William Reynolds) serving in World War II has the ability to see who will die.
20	20	"Elegy"	Douglas Heyes	Charles Beaumont	February 19, 1960 (1960-02-19)	173-3625
Astronauts (Jeff Morrow, Kevin Hagen, Don Dubbins) land on an asteroid resembling Earth, but its inhabitants appear motionless.
21	21	"Mirror Image"	John Brahm	Rod Serling	February 26, 1960 (1960-02-26)	173-3623
A woman (Vera Miles) in a bus depot is treated by strangers as if they have seen her before, and soon realizes that she has a doppelgänger.
22	22	"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"	Ronald Winston	Rod Serling	March 4, 1960 (1960-03-04)	173-3620
A power failure causes the residents of a suburban neighborhood to suspect one another of being monsters from outer space planning an invasion.
23	23	"A World of Difference"	Ted Post	Richard Matheson	March 11, 1960 (1960-03-11)	173-3624
A businessman (Howard Duff) finds himself in another life as an actor playing a character in a movie.
24	24	"Long Live Walter Jameson"	Anton Leader	Charles Beaumont	March 18, 1960 (1960-03-18)	173-3621
A history professor (Kevin McCarthy) is revealed to have lived for thousands of years.
25	25	"People Are Alike All Over"	Mitchell Leisen	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Paul Fairman	March 25, 1960 (1960-03-25)	173-3613
Two astronauts (Roddy McDowall, Paul Comi) take an expedition to Mars, where one dies in a crash landing and the other learns how alike people really are.
26	26	"Execution"	David Orrick McDearmon	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: George Clayton Johnson	April 1, 1960 (1960-04-01)	173-3628
An outlaw cowboy (Albert Salmi) about to be hanged for murder in 1880 is brought to the 20th century by a time machine built by a professor (Russell Johnson).
27	27	"The Big Tall Wish"	Ronald Winston	Rod Serling	April 8, 1960 (1960-04-08)	173-3630
A boy (Stephen Perry) makes a wish for a boxer (Ivan Dixon) to win a comeback match.
28	28	"A Nice Place to Visit"	John Brahm	Charles Beaumont	April 15, 1960 (1960-04-15)	173-3632
A thief (Larry Blyden) is shot by police and winds up in a place where he has everything he has ever wanted upon meeting a strange man named Pip (Sebastian Cabot).
29	29	"Nightmare as a Child"	Alvin Ganzer	Rod Serling	April 29, 1960 (1960-04-29)	173-3635
A strange little girl (Terry Burnham) reveals secrets about the past of a school teacher (Janice Rule).
30	30	"A Stop at Willoughby"	Robert Parrish	Rod Serling	May 6, 1960 (1960-05-06)	173-3629
A stressed-out ad executive (James Daly) discovers a quiet 1880s town in his dreams that seem better than his waking life.
31	31	"The Chaser"	Douglas Heyes	Teleplay by: Robert Presnell, Jr. Based on the Short Story by: John Collier	May 13, 1960 (1960-05-13)	173-3636
A lovestruck man (George Grizzard) in love with a self-obsessed woman named Leila (Patricia Berry) buys a love potion that works too well.
32	32	"A Passage for Trumpet"	Don Medford	Rod Serling	May 20, 1960 (1960-05-20)	173-3633
A down-and-out trumpet player (Jack Klugman) gets another chance at life after attempting suicide.
33	33	"Mr. Bevis"	William Asher	Rod Serling	June 3, 1960 (1960-06-03)	173-3631
A guardian angel (Henry Jones) offers to help a good-natured man (Orson Bean) who is having a bad day.
34	34	"The After Hours"	Douglas Heyes	Rod Serling	June 10, 1960 (1960-06-10)	173-3637
A woman (Anne Francis) is told that the floor of a department store where she made a purchase does not exist.
35	35	"The Mighty Casey"	Alvin Ganzer and Robert Parrish	Rod Serling	June 17, 1960 (1960-06-17)	173-3617
A baseball manager (Jack Warden) takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher (Robert Sorrells).
36	36	"A World of His Own"	Ralph Nelson	Richard Matheson	July 1, 1960 (1960-07-01)	173-3634
A playwright (Keenan Wynn) has the ability to bring anything to life by describing it to a tape recorder.

Season 2 (1960–61)

Main article: The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 2)

Unlike season 1, episode titles were shown on screen during the end credits.

Six consecutive episodes (production code #173-3662 through #173-3667) of this season were recorded on videotape (not on film as were all other episodes) at CBS Television City, as a cost-cutting measure mandated by CBS programming head James T. Aubrey. They are "The Lateness of the Hour", "The Night of the Meek", "The Whole Truth", "Twenty Two", "Static", and "Long Distance Call". These have a visual appearance which is distinctly different from those of episodes shot on film. In addition, videotape was a relatively primitive medium in the early 1960s; the editing of tape was next to impossible. Each of the episodes was therefore "camera-cut" as in live TV—on a studio sound stage, using a total of four cameras. The requisite multi-camera setup of the videotape experiment made location shooting difficult, severely limiting the potential scope of the storylines, so the short-lived experiment was abandoned.

"A Most Unusual Camera" was produced for season one.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
37	1	"King Nine Will Not Return"	Buzz Kulik	Rod Serling	September 30, 1960 (1960-09-30)	173-3639
The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash (Robert Cummings) cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead.
38	2	"The Man in the Bottle"	Don Medford	Rod Serling	October 7, 1960 (1960-10-07)	173-3638
A genie (Joseph Ruskin) grants four wishes to an unsuccessful pawnbroker (Luther Adler) and his wife (Vivi Janiss).
39	3	"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room"	Douglas Heyes	Rod Serling	October 14, 1960 (1960-10-14)	173-3641
A nervous gangster (Joe Mantell)) faces himself when his boss (William D. Gordon) gives him his latest assignment.
40	4	"A Thing About Machines"	David Orrick McDearmon	Rod Serling	October 28, 1960 (1960-10-28)	173-3645
A writer (Richard Haydn) believes machines are conspiring against him.
41	5	"The Howling Man"	Douglas Heyes	Charles Beaumont	November 4, 1960 (1960-11-04)	173-3642
A man (H.M. Wynant) lost in a storm finds a monastery where the monks (John Carradine, Frederic Ledebur) claim a howling prisoner (Robin Hughes) is the Devil himself.
42	6	"Eye of the Beholder" "The Private World of Darkness"	Douglas Heyes	Rod Serling	November 11, 1960 (1960-11-11)	173-3640
A woman (Maxine Stuart) wrapped in bandages after facial surgery hopes that she will no longer be ugly.
43	7	"Nick of Time"	Richard L. Bare	Richard Matheson	November 18, 1960 (1960-11-18)	173-3643
A superstitious newlywed (William Shatner) becomes convinced, in spite of the protests of his bride (Patricia Breslin), that a Fortune-telling machine's predictions are quite accurate.
44	8	"The Lateness of the Hour"	Jack Smight	Rod Serling	December 2, 1960 (1960-12-02)	173-3652
A woman (Inger Stevens) disapproves of the robot servants of her father (John Hoyt).
45	9	"The Trouble with Templeton"	Buzz Kulik	E. Jack Neuman	December 9, 1960 (1960-12-09)	173-3649
A Broadway actor (Brian Aherne) yearning for the days when his wife (Pippa Scott) was alive gets his wish.
46	10	"A Most Unusual Camera"	John Rich	Rod Serling	December 16, 1960 (1960-12-16)	173-3606
A thieving couple (Fred Clark, Jean Carson) discover that a camera that they have stolen takes pictures of the future.
47	11	"The Night of the Meek"	Jack Smight	Rod Serling	December 23, 1960 (1960-12-23)	173-3663
A drunken department store Santa Claus (Art Carney) is fired by his boss (John Fiedler) on Christmas Eve and then finds a sack that gives people anything they want.
48	12	"Dust"	Douglas Heyes	Rod Serling	January 6, 1961 (1961-01-06)	173-3653
In the Old West, the desperate father (Vladimir Sokoloff) of a condemned man (John A. Alonzo) buys "magic dust" from a peddler (Thomas Gomez) to save his son.
49	13	"Back There"	David Orrick McDearmon	Rod Serling	January 13, 1961 (1961-01-13)	173-3648
A professor (Russell Johnson) travels through time to the date of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and tries to change history.
50	14	"The Whole Truth"	James Sheldon	Rod Serling	January 20, 1961 (1961-01-20)	173-3666
A used-car dealer (Jack Carson) is forced to tell the truth after buying a car from an old man (George Chandler) who says it is haunted.
51	15	"The Invaders"	Douglas Heyes	Richard Matheson	January 27, 1961 (1961-01-27)	173-3646
A woman (Agnes Moorehead) living alone in a rural house is stalked by tiny beings from another planet.
52	16	"A Penny for Your Thoughts"	James Sheldon	George Clayton Johnson	February 3, 1961 (1961-02-03)	173-3650
When a coin lands on its edge, a bank clerk (Dick York) gains the ability to hear other people's thoughts – and soon learns that you cannot always believe what you hear.
53	17	"Twenty-Two"	Jack Smight	Rod Serling Based on an Anecdote from: Bennett Cerf's "Famous Ghost Stories"	February 10, 1961 (1961-02-10)	173-3664
A dancer (Barbara Nichols) hospitalized for exhaustion has a recurring nightmare in which she is led to Room Twenty-Two, the morgue, by a sinister nurse (Arlene Martel).
54	18	"The Odyssey of Flight 33"	Jus Addiss	Rod Serling	February 24, 1961 (1961-02-24)	173-3651
A strange increase in speed causes a jet airliner to travel back in time.
55	19	"Mr. Dingle, the Strong"	John Brahm	Rod Serling	March 3, 1961 (1961-03-03)	173-3644
A meek vacuum cleaner salesman (Burgess Meredith) is given incredible strength by a two-headed Martian (Douglas Spencer, Michael Fox) as part of an experiment.
56	20	"Static"	Buzz Kulik	Charles Beaumont Based on a Story by: OCee Rich	March 10, 1961 (1961-03-10)	173-3665
A radio allows an old man (Dean Jagger) to listen to programs from his past.
57	21	"The Prime Mover"	Richard L. Bare	Charles Beaumont	March 24, 1961 (1961-03-24)	173-3647
A gambler (Dane Clark) uses the telekinetic powers of his friend (Buddy Ebsen) to win big in Las Vegas.
58	22	"Long Distance Call"	James Sheldon	Charles Beaumont and William Idelson	March 31, 1961 (1961-03-31)	173-3667
A boy (Bill Mumy) talks with his dead grandmother (Lili Darvas) on the toy telephone she gave him before she died.
59	23	"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"	Buzz Kulik	Rod Serling	April 7, 1961 (1961-04-07)	173-3654
In the year 1847, a pioneer (Cliff Robertson) traveling west with his family and friends scouts ahead for food and water and finds himself in the mid-20th century.
60	24	"The Rip Van Winkle Caper"	Jus Addiss	Rod Serling	April 21, 1961 (1961-04-21)	173-3655
A gang of gold thieves (Oscar Beregi, Jr., John Mitchum, Simon Oakland, Lew Gallo) use suspended animation chambers, set to revive them in a hundred years, to evade the authorities.
61	25	"The Silence"	Boris Sagal	Rod Serling	April 28, 1961 (1961-04-28)	173-3658
An aristocratic club member (Franchot Tone) bets that a talkative acquaintance (Liam Sullivan) cannot stay silent for an entire year.
62	26	"Shadow Play"	John Brahm	Charles Beaumont	May 5, 1961 (1961-05-05)	173-3657
A man (Dennis Weaver) convicted of murder and awaiting execution insists that everything happening is just a dream.
63	27	"The Mind and the Matter"	Buzz Kulik	Rod Serling	May 12, 1961 (1961-05-12)	173-3659
A man (Shelley Berman) uses the power of concentration to remake the world in his image.
64	28	"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"	Montgomery Pittman	Rod Serling	May 26, 1961 (1961-05-26)	173-3660
State troopers (John Archer, Morgan Jones) investigating a UFO sighting track footprints to a diner, where they try to determine which one of seven bus passengers is really a Martian.
65	29	"The Obsolete Man"	Elliot Silverstein	Rod Serling	June 2, 1961 (1961-06-02)	173-3661
In a future totalitarian society, a librarian (Burgess Meredith) is declared obsolete and makes rather unusual requests to the Chancellor (Fritz Weaver) as to the manner of his execution.

Season 3 (1961–62)

Main article: The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 3)

Beginning with this season, episode titles were shown on screen after Serling's opening monologues. "The Grave" and "Nothing in the Dark" are the exceptions since they were produced for season two.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
66	1	"Two"	Montgomery Pittman	Montgomery Pittman	September 15, 1961 (1961-09-15)	4802
Two soldiers, a man (Charles Bronson) and a woman (Elizabeth Montgomery), are the only survivors of a war – and they are from opposing sides.
67	2	"The Arrival"	Boris Sagal	Rod Serling	September 22, 1961 (1961-09-22)	4814
An FFA inspector (Harold J. Stone) and members of the airport staff (Noah Keen, Fredd Wayne, Robert Karnes, and Bing Russell) investigate a plane that arrives without a single person onboard – and each sees it differently.
68	3	"The Shelter"	Lamont Johnson	Rod Serling	September 29, 1961 (1961-09-29)	4803
An alert is issued for an imminent nuclear attack, prompting neighbors to unite against the physician (Larry Gates) whose bomb shelter has room enough only for his family.
69	4	"The Passersby"	Elliot Silverstein	Rod Serling	October 6, 1961 (1961-10-06)	4817
At the end of the Civil War, wounded soldiers pass by the house of a woman (Joanne Linville).
70	5	"A Game of Pool"	Buzz Kulik	George Clayton Johnson	October 13, 1961 (1961-10-13)	4815
A legendary pool player (Jonathan Winters) returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark (Jack Klugman) with the shark's life at stake.
71	6	"The Mirror"	Don Medford	Rod Serling	October 20, 1961 (1961-10-20)	4819
In Central America, a mirror allows a dictator (Peter Falk) to see the faces of his enemies.
72	7	"The Grave"	Montgomery Pittman	Montgomery Pittman	October 27, 1961 (1961-10-27)	3656
A hired killer (Lee Marvin) is challenged to visit the grave of the outlaw (Dick Geary) who died swearing vengeance against him.
73	8	"It's a Good Life"	James Sheldon	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Jerome Bixby	November 3, 1961 (1961-11-03)	4801
A six-year-old boy (Bill Mumy) terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality. Note: A remake, directed by Joe Dante, was Segment III of Twilight Zone: The Movie. A sequel, "It's Still A Good Life" also starring Mumy, was broadcast on February 19, 2003 as part of the 2002 revival series.
74	9	"Deaths-Head Revisited"	Don Medford	Rod Serling	November 10, 1961 (1961-11-10)	4804
A former SS Captain (Oscar Beregi, Jr.) visits the now-deserted concentration camp he commanded where he is tried for his crimes by the ghosts of his prisoners.
75	10	"The Midnight Sun"	Anton Leader	Rod Serling	November 17, 1961 (1961-11-17)	4818
A landlady (Betty Garde) and her tenant (Lois Nettleton) struggle to survive when the Earth changes its orbit and begins moving toward the sun.
76	11	"Still Valley"	James Sheldon	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Manly Wade Wellman	November 24, 1961 (1961-11-24)	4808
During the Civil War, a Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place.
77	12	"The Jungle"	William Claxton	Charles Beaumont	December 1, 1961 (1961-12-01)	4806
An engineer (John Dehner) building a dam in Africa is cursed by natives who object to his plans.
78	13	"Once Upon a Time"	Norman Z. McLeod	Richard Matheson	December 8, 1961 (1961-12-08)	4820
A janitor (Buster Keaton) travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet.
79	14	"Five Characters in Search of an Exit"	Lamont Johnson	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Marvin Petal	December 15, 1961 (1961-12-15)	4805
An Army major (William Windom), a clown (Murray Matheson), a hobo (Paul Wexler), a ballerina (Susan Harrison) and a bagpipe player (Clark Allen) find themselves in a cylinder with no memory of how they got there.
80	15	"A Quality of Mercy"	Buzz Kulik	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on an Idea by: Sam Rolfe	December 22, 1961 (1961-12-22)	4809
During World War II, a U.S. lieutenant (Dean Stockwell) gets a unique opportunity to see the conflict from the Japanese point of view.
81	16	"Nothing in the Dark"	Lamont Johnson	George Clayton Johnson	January 5, 1962 (1962-01-05)	3662
An elderly recluse (Gladys Cooper) facing imminent eviction refuses to allow anyone into her apartment, fearing that any visitor might be Death incarnate; her resolve is tested when a young police officer (Robert Redford) is seriously wounded outside her door.
82	17	"One More Pallbearer"	Lamont Johnson	Rod Serling	January 12, 1962 (1962-01-12)	4823
Staging a fake nuclear war, a millionaire (Joseph Wiseman) offers shelter to three people (Katherine Squire, Trevor Bardette, Gage Clark) he believes wronged him in the past if they will only beg his forgiveness.
83	18	"Dead Man's Shoes"	Montgomery Pittman	Charles Beaumont	January 19, 1962 (1962-01-19)	4824
A homeless man (Warren Stevens) literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse.
84	19	"The Hunt"	Harold Schuster	Earl Hamner	January 26, 1962 (1962-01-26)	4810
A mountain man (Arthur Hunnicutt) goes hunting for raccoons with his dog. When he returns, he comes to realize that something is much changed.
85	20	"Showdown with Rance McGrew"	Christian Nyby	Rod Serling Based on an Idea by: Frederic L. Fox	February 2, 1962 (1962-02-02)	4812
The egotistic star (Larry Blyden) of a western TV series comes face to face with the real Jesse James (Arch Johnson).
86	21	"Kick the Can"	Lamont Johnson	George Clayton Johnson	February 9, 1962 (1962-02-09)	4821
The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game. Note: Steven Spielberg remade this as Segment II of Twilight Zone: The Movie, showing the nursing-home residents being offered a second chance at youth by their new arrival, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers).
87	22	"A Piano in the House"	David Greene	Earl Hamner	February 16, 1962 (1962-02-16)	4825
A cynical theater critic (Barry Morse) takes advantage of a player piano that reveals people's hidden selves.
88	23	"The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"	Montgomery Pittman	Montgomery Pittman	February 23, 1962 (1962-02-23)	4811
When a "dead" man (James Best) sits up in the coffin at his funeral during the mid-1920s, the townsfolk become suspicious whether it's really him, especially when he doesn't behave the way he used to.
89	24	"To Serve Man"	Richard L. Bare	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Damon Knight	March 2, 1962 (1962-03-02)	4807
Representatives of a 9 ft. tall alien race (Richard Kiel) come to Earth and offer mankind cures for all earthly ills.
90	25	"The Fugitive"	Richard L. Bare	Charles Beaumont	March 9, 1962 (1962-03-09)	4816
A fugitive (J. Pat O'Malley) from another world befriends a handicapped girl (Susan Gordon).
91	26	"Little Girl Lost"	Paul Stewart	Richard Matheson	March 16, 1962 (1962-03-16)	4828
When a little girl (Tracy Stratford) disappears from her bedroom without a trace, her parents (Robert Sampson, Sarah Marshall) call their physicist friend (Charles Aidman) to help investigate her disappearance.
92	27	"Person or Persons Unknown"	John Brahm	Charles Beaumont	March 23, 1962 (1962-03-23)	4829
A man (Richard Long) discovers that all traces of his identity have been erased when no one, including his own wife, recognizes him.
93	28	"The Little People"	William Claxton	Rod Serling	March 30, 1962 (1962-03-30)	4822
When two astronauts (Claude Akins, Joe Maross) land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people.
94	29	"Four O'Clock"	Lamont Johnson	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Price Day	April 6, 1962 (1962-04-06)	4832
A fanatical one-man moral crusader (Theodore Bikel) decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock.
95	30	"Hocus-Pocus and Frisby"	Lamont Johnson	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Frederic Louis Fox	April 13, 1962 (1962-04-13)	4833
A teller of tall tales (Andy Devine) attracts unwanted attention from aliens.
96	31	"The Trade-Ins"	Elliot Silverstein	Rod Serling	April 20, 1962 (1962-04-20)	4831
An elderly couple (Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt) want new young bodies for the two of them, but can pay for only one.
97	32	"The Gift"	Allen H. Miner	Rod Serling	April 27, 1962 (1962-04-27)	4830
A visitor from outer space (Geoffrey Horne) tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion.
98	33	"The Dummy"	Abner Biberman	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Lee Polk	May 4, 1962 (1962-05-04)	4834
A ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act.
99	34	"Young Man's Fancy"	John Brahm	Richard Matheson	May 11, 1962 (1962-05-11)	4813
A newlywed husband (Alex Nicol) refuses to give up his childhood home.
100	35	"I Sing the Body Electric"	William Claxton and James Sheldon	Ray Bradbury	May 18, 1962 (1962-05-18)	4826
A widower (David White) buys a robot grandmother (Josephine Hutchinson) to care for his children.
101	36	"Cavender Is Coming"	Christian Nyby	Rod Serling	May 25, 1962 (1962-05-25)	4827
A clumsy theater worker (Carol Burnett) meets her equally bumbling guardian angel (Jesse White).
102	37	"The Changing of the Guard"	Robert Ellis Miller	Rod Serling	June 1, 1962 (1962-06-01)	4835
A professor (Donald Pleasence) who is forced into retirement contemplates suicide, but changes his mind when the ghosts of his former students that were killed in the war persuade him of his worth.

Season 4 (1963)

Main article: The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 4)

For season four, the series was lengthened to one hour and moved to Thursdays at 9:30 pm (Eastern Time), replacing Fair Exchange on the schedule.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
103	1	"In His Image"	Perry Lafferty	Charles Beaumont	January 3, 1963 (1963-01-03)	4851
A man (George Grizzard) is confused by a murderous impulse and a loss of his memory.
104	2	"The Thirty-Fathom Grave"	Perry Lafferty	Rod Serling	January 10, 1963 (1963-01-10)	4857
A strange tapping sound draws a ship to the site of a sunken World War II submarine.
105	3	"Valley of the Shadow"	Perry Lafferty	Charles Beaumont	January 17, 1963 (1963-01-17)	4861
A newspaper reporter (Ed Nelson) discovers a small town with incredibly advanced technology that they wish to keep secret.
106	4	"He's Alive"	Stuart Rosenberg	Rod Serling	January 24, 1963 (1963-01-24)	4856
The struggling leader of a small group of Neo-Nazis (Dennis Hopper) receives advice from a mysterious stranger (Curt Conway) about gaining followers.
107	5	"Mute"	Stuart Rosenberg	Richard Matheson	January 31, 1963 (1963-01-31)	4858
A mute telepathic girl (Ann Jillian) is the sole survivor of a fire that kills her parents.
108	6	"Death Ship"	Don Medford	Richard Matheson	February 7, 1963 (1963-02-07)	4850
Three astronauts (Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, and Fred Beir) discover exact duplicates of their spaceship and themselves on a distant planet.
109	7	"Jess-Belle"	Buzz Kulik	Earl Hamner, Jr.	February 14, 1963 (1963-02-14)	4855
A mountain girl (Anne Francis) enlists a witch (Jeanette Nolan) to help her win back her lover (James Best).
110	8	"Miniature"	Walter Grauman	Charles Beaumont	February 21, 1963 (1963-02-21)	4862
A timid clerk (Robert Duvall) sees the figurines of a museum's 19th-century miniature dollhouse come to life.
111	9	"Printer's Devil"	Ralph Senensky	Charles Beaumont	February 28, 1963 (1963-02-28)	4864
A newspaperman (Robert Sterling) saves his failing periodical by hiring the mysterious Mr. Smith (Burgess Meredith), who reports disasters before they happen on his own Linotype machine.
112	10	"No Time Like the Past"	Jus Addiss	Rod Serling	March 7, 1963 (1963-03-07)	4853
A scientist (Dana Andrews) goes back in time to try and change history.
113	11	"The Parallel"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Rod Serling	March 14, 1963 (1963-03-14)	4859
An astronaut (Steve Forrest) returns from a space flight to find things much changed during his absence.
114	12	"I Dream of Genie"	Robert Gist	John Furia, Jr.	March 21, 1963 (1963-03-21)	4860
An office worker (Howard Morris) acquires a lamp with a genie (Jack Albertson) who offers him a wish.
115	13	"The New Exhibit"	John Brahm	Charles Beaumont	April 4, 1963 (1963-04-04)	4866
A wax museum curator (Martin Balsam) lovingly maintains wax figures of five infamous killers in his basement after the museum discards them. When he loses his job, his enemies are mysteriously murdered.
116	14	"Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"	David Lowell Rich	Rod Serling Based on a Short Story "Blind Valley" by: Malcolm Jameson	April 11, 1963 (1963-04-11)	4867
An aging tycoon (Albert Salmi) exchanges his fortune for a trip to the past and a new beginning when he meets the mysterious Miss Devlin (Julie Newmar).
117	15	"The Incredible World of Horace Ford"	Abner Biberman	Reginald Rose	April 18, 1963 (1963-04-18)	4854
A middle-aged toy designer (Pat Hingle) goes back to his childhood when he visits his old neighborhood.
118	16	"On Thursday We Leave for Home"	Buzz Kulik	Rod Serling	May 2, 1963 (1963-05-02)	4868
In 1991, a group of space pioneers prepare for a return trip to Earth upon having failed to establish a new society on a distant planet. The group's leader (James Whitmore) refuses to give up his authority.
119	17	"Passage on the Lady Anne"	Lamont Johnson	Charles Beaumont	May 9, 1963 (1963-05-09)	4869
To save their marriage, a couple (Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten) book a cruise on a ship whose other passengers are elderly.
120	18	"The Bard"	David Butler	Rod Serling	May 23, 1963 (1963-05-23)	4852
An aspiring screenwriter (Jack Weston) conjures up the spirit of William Shakespeare (John Williams) to help him in his television script.

Season 5 (1963–64)

Main article: The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 5)

In the fifth and final season, the series went back to a half-hour format, returned to a fall start, and aired Fridays at 9:30 pm (Eastern Time) on CBS.

No. in series	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original air date	Production code
121	1	"In Praise of Pip"	Joseph M. Newman	Rod Serling	September 27, 1963 (1963-09-27)	2607
A bookie (Jack Klugman) receives news that his son Pip (Bobby Diamond) has been seriously wounded in combat. He soon gets the chance to not only see his son one last time but also to save him.
122	2	"Steel"	Don Weis	Richard Matheson	October 4, 1963 (1963-10-04)	2602
In 1974, a boxing promoter (Lee Marvin) tries to get the most out of his broken-down robot boxer.
123	3	"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"	Richard Donner	Richard Matheson	October 11, 1963 (1963-10-11)	2605
A salesman (William Shatner) recovering from a nervous breakdown sees a creature on the wing of the airplane he is on, but no one believes him. Note: This was remade as Segment IV of Twilight Zone: The Movie, with George Miller directing.
124	4	"A Kind of a Stopwatch"	John Rich	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Michael D. Rosenthal	October 18, 1963 (1963-10-18)	2609
A talkative bore (Richard Erdman) acquires a stopwatch that halts time.
125	5	"The Last Night of a Jockey"	Joseph M. Newman	Rod Serling	October 25, 1963 (1963-10-25)	2616
A disgraced jockey (Mickey Rooney) is granted his wish to be "big."
126	6	"Living Doll"	Richard C. Sarafian	Charles Beaumont	November 1, 1963 (1963-11-01)	2621
A man (Telly Savalas) finds himself being actually physically threatened by his stepdaughter's (Tracy Stratford) new talking doll (voiced by June Foray).
127	7	"The Old Man in the Cave"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story "The Old Man" by: Henry Slesar	November 8, 1963 (1963-11-08)	2603
In 1974, a former soldier (James Coburn) and his band of scavengers cause discord for a community of atomic war survivors who are being guided by an unseen cave dweller.
128	8	"Uncle Simon"	Don Siegel	Rod Serling	November 15, 1963 (1963-11-15)	2604
The long-suffering niece (Constance Ford) of a grumpy inventor (Cedric Hardwicke) finds no peace after his passing.
129	9	"Probe 7, Over and Out"	Ted Post	Rod Serling	November 29, 1963 (1963-11-29)	2622
An astronaut (Richard Basehart) crash-lands on a distant planet and learns that his own planet has been destroyed by nuclear war. He soon discovers that he is not alone on this new world when he meets a humanoid alien survivor (Antoinette Bower) from a runaway planet.
130	10	"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms"	Alan Crosland Jr.	Rod Serling	December 6, 1963 (1963-12-06)	2606
Three National Guardsmen (Ron Foster, Randy Boone, and Warren Oates) exploring the site of Custer's Last Stand wind up getting involved in the actual battle.
131	11	"A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"	Bernard Girard	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Lou Holz	December 13, 1963 (1963-12-13)	2614
An old man (Patrick O'Neal) married to a younger self-absorbed woman (Ruta Lee) takes an untested youth serum.
132	12	"Ninety Years Without Slumbering"	Roger Kay	Teleplay by: Richard De Roy Story by: Johnson Smith	December 20, 1963 (1963-12-20)	2615
An old man (Ed Wynn) believes he will die the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.
133	13	"Ring-a-Ding Girl"	Alan Crosland, Jr.	Earl Hamner, Jr.	December 27, 1963 (1963-12-27)	2623
A movie star (Maggie McNamara) receives a ring from her fan club that draws her back to her home town, where she offers to do a one-woman show to stop plans for a town picnic.
134	14	"You Drive"	John Brahm	Earl Hamner, Jr.	January 3, 1964 (1964-01-03)	2625
A hit-and-run driver (Edward Andrews) is haunted by his car after he runs into a paperboy (Michael Gorfain).
135	15	"The Long Morrow"	Robert Florey	Rod Serling	January 10, 1964 (1964-01-10)	2624
An astronaut (Robert Lansing) falls in love with a woman (Mariette Hartley) before going on a 40-year mission into space.
136	16	"The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"	Don Siegel	Teleplay by: Jerry McNeely Based on a Short Story by: Henry Slesar	January 17, 1964 (1964-01-17)	2612
A suitor (Don Gordon) discovers he can trade his physical assets for those of others.
137	17	"Number 12 Looks Just Like You"	Abner Biberman	Charles Beaumont and John Tomerlin	January 24, 1964 (1964-01-24)	2618
In the year 2000, a young woman (Collin Wilcox) resists having the surgery that her society requires to make everyone beautiful and identical.
138	18	"Black Leather Jackets"	Joseph M. Newman	Earl Hamner, Jr.	January 31, 1964 (1964-01-31)	2628
Three motorcycle-riding young men (Lee Kinsolving, Michael Forest and Tom Gilleran) are actually part of an alien invasion force. One of them falls for a local teenage girl (Shelley Fabares).
139	19	"Night Call"	Jacques Tourneur	Richard Matheson	February 7, 1964 (1964-02-07)	2610
An old woman (Gladys Cooper) keeps receiving frightening phone calls.
140	20	"From Agnes – With Love"	Richard Donner	Bernard C. Schoenfeld	February 14, 1964 (1964-02-14)	2629
A computer programmer (Wally Cox) receives advice on his love life from a computer that is in love with him.
141	21	"Spur of the Moment"	Elliot Silverstein	Richard Matheson	February 21, 1964 (1964-02-21)	2608
An engaged woman (Diana Hyland) is terrorized for some unknown reason by a woman in black on horseback.
142	22	"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"	Robert Enrico	From a Story by: Ambrose Bierce Adapted by: Robert Enrico	February 28, 1964 (1964-02-28)	N/A
A Confederate sympathizer (Roger Jacquet) is about to be hanged when the rope breaks, allowing him to escape and return home.
143	23	"Queen of the Nile"	John Brahm	Charles Beaumont	March 6, 1964 (1964-03-06)	2626
A columnist (Lee Philips) discovers the secret behind the apparent eternal youth of a film actress (Ann Blythe).
144	24	"What's in the Box"	Richard L. Bare	Martin M. Goldsmith	March 13, 1964 (1964-03-13)	2635
The television of an unhappy couple (William Demarest, Joan Blondell) that was repaired by a strange TV repairman (Sterling Holloway) set shows them hurting each other.
145	25	"The Masks"	Ida Lupino	Rod Serling	March 20, 1964 (1964-03-20)	2601
At Mardi Gras, a wealthy dying man (Robert Keith) orders his daughter (Virginia Gregg) and her family (Milton Selzer, Alan Sues and Brooke Hayward) to wear masks that show their true selves as part of a requirement to obtain his inheritance.
146	26	"I Am the Night—Color Me Black"	Abner Biberman	Rod Serling	March 27, 1964 (1964-03-27)	2630
A man (Terry Becker) is to be hanged at sunrise. On the appointed day, the sun fails to rise which starts the sheriff (Michael Constantine) and the rest of the civilians wondering why there is only darkness.
147	27	"Sounds and Silences"	Richard Donner	Rod Serling	April 3, 1964 (1964-04-03)	2631
A man (John McGiver) has an obsession with loud noises which causes his wife (Penny Singleton) to leave him. Then all of the sounds in his life go haywire.
148	28	"Caesar and Me"	Robert Butler	Adele T. Strassfield	April 10, 1964 (1964-04-10)	2636
A struggling ventriloquist (Jackie Cooper) has a dummy who talks him into a life of crime.
149	29	"The Jeopardy Room"	Richard Donner	Rod Serling	April 17, 1964 (1964-04-17)	2639
A political defector (Martin Landau) is forced into a game of cat-and-mouse with a rather artistic and sadistic hitman (John Van Dreelan).
150	30	"Stopover in a Quiet Town"	Ron Winston	Earl Hamner, Jr.	April 24, 1964 (1964-04-24)	2611
A married couple (Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone) wakes up after drinking too much at a party and find themselves in a strange town devoid of life – except for the distant laughter of a child.
151	31	"The Encounter"	Robert Butler	Martin M. Goldsmith	May 1, 1964 (1964-05-01)	2640
A samurai sword sparks a conflict between a World War II veteran (Neville Brand) and a Japanese-American (George Takei).
152	32	"Mr. Garrity and the Graves"	Ted Post	Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Mike Korologos	May 8, 1964 (1964-05-08)	2637
A strange traveling peddler (John Dehner) brings a dog back from the dead and offers to do the same for those in the town cemetery, making the townsfolk of Happiness, Arizona uneasy.
153	33	"The Brain Center at Whipple's"	Richard Donner	Rod Serling	May 15, 1964 (1964-05-15)	2632
A factory owner (Richard Deacon) decides to replace his human employees with machines.
154	34	"Come Wander with Me"	Richard Donner	Anthony Wilson	May 22, 1964 (1964-05-22)	2641
A professional rockabilly singer (Gary Crosby looks for an authentic song in the mountains, where he gets in trouble with the locals.
155	35	"The Fear"	Ted Post	Rod Serling	May 29, 1964 (1964-05-29)	2633
A state trooper (Peter Mark Richman) and a secluded woman (Hazel Court) experience strange incidents after the woman reports seeing lights in the sky.
156	36	"The Bewitchin' Pool"	Joseph M. Newman	Earl Hamner, Jr.	June 19, 1964 (1964-06-19)	2619
Two children (Mary Badham, Jeffrey Byron) escape from their bickering parents (Tod Andrews, Dee Hartford) by way of their swimming pool to a special place where the mysterious Aunt T (Georgia Simmons) lives.

External links

• Syfy.com
• The Original Twilight Zone Episode List
• Postcards from the Zone (Extensive episode guides for the 1980s series, including photos)
• The Twilight Zone Podcast (Audio reviews of every episode)