The Twilight Zone (1959)
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Thursday, May 16
One for the Angels
Season 1 • Episode 2
A sidewalk pitchman's deal with Death may cost a young girl her life.
Thursday, May 16
Execution
Season 1 • Episode 26
In the 1880s, outlaw Joe Caswell's body disappears from the hangman's noose.
Thursday, May 16
The Chaser
Season 1 • Episode 31
A frustrated lover buys a love potion from a professor, then gives it to his girlfriend.
Thursday, May 16
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Season 1 • Episode 4
A forgotten star of the '30s uses her old movies to re-create the spirit of her heyday.
Friday, May 17
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Season 1 • Episode 3
A has-been gunslinger regains his skill and agrees to a shoot-out.
Saturday, May 18
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Season 1 • Episode 4
A forgotten star of the '30s uses her old movies to re-create the spirit of her heyday.
Sunday, May 19
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5 • Episode 3
An airline passenger (William Shatner) sees a creature on the wing.
Monday, May 20
Walking Distance
Season 1 • Episode 5
A man's need to escape the pressure of his work takes him back to his childhood.
Tuesday, May 21
Escape Clause
Season 1 • Episode 6
A man afraid of death makes a pact with the devil for immortality.
Tuesday, May 21
The Hunt
Season 3 • Episode 19
An old man goes raccoon hunting with his beloved dog, a hunt from which neither return.
Tuesday, May 21
A Piano in the House
Season 3 • Episode 22
A piano given as a birthday present has a strange power over those who listen to it.
Tuesday, May 21
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Season 3 • Episode 23
A young man's funeral is rudely interrupted when he climbs out of the coffin.
Tuesday, May 21
Person or Persons Unknown
Season 3 • Episode 27
David Gurney wakes up with a hangover, but that's the least of his problems.
Tuesday, May 21
The Gift
Season 3 • Episode 32
A man named Williams accidentally crashes his aircraft near a small Mexican village.
Wednesday, May 22
The Lonely
Season 1 • Episode 7
A man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.
Thursday, May 23
Time Enough at Last
Season 1 • Episode 8
A meek bank teller (Burgess Meredith) longs for time to read.
Thursday, May 23
A Passage for Trumpet
Season 1 • Episode 32
A musician (Jack Klugman) must decide between life and death.
Thursday, May 23
The Little People
Season 3 • Episode 28
A space traveler finds an Earth-like civilization the size of ants.
Thursday, May 23
The Dummy
Season 3 • Episode 33
An average ventriloquist finds he has a not-so-average dummy. With Cliff Robertson.
Thursday, May 23
Young Man's Fancy
Season 3 • Episode 34
Newlywed Alex Walker returns to his home and yearns for the days of his childhood.
Thursday, May 23
The Big Tall Wish
Season 1 • Episode 27
A 6-year-old boy wishes for an aging boxer to win a comeback fight.
Friday, May 24
Perchance to Dream
Season 1 • Episode 9
Edward Hall hasn't slept in four days for fear that he will be killed by his dreams.
Saturday, May 25
Judgment Night
Season 1 • Episode 10
Crossing the wartime Atlantic in an English freighter, a man senses impending doom.
Saturday, May 25
I Sing the Body Electric
Season 3 • Episode 35
A widower rents an android grandmother to take care of his three children.
Saturday, May 25
In Praise of Pip
Season 5 • Episode 1
A bookie (Jack Klugman) learns his son was wounded in Vietnam.
Sunday, May 26
Steel
Season 5 • Episode 2
Two small-time promoters find that their fighter can't meet his opponent in the ring.
Sunday, May 26
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
Season 2 • Episode 23
The leader of a wagon train across the New Mexico territory in 1847 comes across a highway.
Monday, May 27
And When the Sky Was Opened
Season 1 • Episode 11
Three astronauts return from man's first flight into outer space and can't remember the trip.
Tuesday, May 28
What You Need
Season 1 • Episode 12
A down-and-outer tries to turn another man's ability to tell the future into profit.
Tuesday, May 28
The Silence
Season 2 • Episode 25
Archie Taylor wagers Jamie Tennyson that he can't keep his mouth shut for one year.
Wednesday, May 29
The Four of Us Are Dying
Season 1 • Episode 13
A man can change his face to make it look like anyone else's, but he doesn't choose too well.
Thursday, May 30
Third From the Sun
Season 1 • Episode 14
Two men plan to steal a spaceship to avoid the destruction of the planet.
Thursday, May 30
The Long Morrow
Season 5 • Episode 15
An astronaut returns from a 30-year mission to find that his girlfriend hasn't aged at all.
Thursday, May 30
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Season 5 • Episode 16
Salvadore Ross trades physical characteristics with others to win the affection of Leah Maitland.
Thursday, May 30
Caesar and Me
Season 5 • Episode 28
When a ventriloquist can't find work, his dummy goads him into robbery.
Thursday, May 30
The Jeopardy Room
Season 5 • Episode 29
An assassin plots a unique death for a defector (Martin Landau).
Friday, May 31
I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
Season 1 • Episode 15
Three astronauts, with little water left, land on what appears to be a deserted asteroid.
Saturday, June 1
The Hitchhiker
Season 1 • Episode 16
Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitchhiker on the road ahead.
Saturday, June 1
The Brain Center at Whipple's
Season 5 • Episode 33
A man resolves to make his plant the most automated manufacturing establishment in the world.
Saturday, June 1
Nick of Time
Season 2 • Episode 7
A fortune-telling device fascinates a couple. With William Shatner.
Saturday, June 1
The Lateness of the Hour
Season 2 • Episode 8
Jana rebels from the monotonous life she and her parents are living.
Sunday, June 2
The New Exhibit
Season 4 • Episode 13
A wax-museum employee moves the figures of several notorious murderers into his home.
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