The Twilight Zone (1959)
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Upcoming TV Airings
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Wednesday, April 22
Walking Distance
Season 1 • Episode 5
A man's need to escape the pressure of his work takes him back to his childhood.
Wednesday, April 22
Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Season 2 • Episode 19
A timid man (Burgess Meredith) acquires superhuman strength; with Don Rickles.
Wednesday, April 22
Nothing in the Dark
Season 3 • Episode 16
An aged recluse hides in her home fearing the arrival of death. With Robert Redford.
Wednesday, April 22
The Prime Mover
Season 2 • Episode 21
A gambler exploits a friend's (Buddy Ebsen) telekinetic powers.
Wednesday, April 22
Dead Man's Shoes
Season 3 • Episode 18
Nate Bledsoe steals a pair of fancy shoes from a dead man's body that he found in an alley.
Wednesday, April 22
Judgment Night
Season 1 • Episode 10
Crossing the wartime Atlantic in an English freighter, a man senses impending doom.
Wednesday, April 22
Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room
Season 2 • Episode 3
A small-time thief sees a new reflection of himself in a mirror.
Wednesday, April 22
A Penny for Your Thoughts
Season 2 • Episode 16
A timid bank clerk acquires the ability to read other people's minds.
Thursday, April 23
Escape Clause
Season 1 • Episode 6
A man afraid of death makes a pact with the devil for immortality.
Thursday, April 23
The Chaser
Season 1 • Episode 31
A frustrated lover buys a love potion from a professor, then gives it to his girlfriend.
Thursday, April 23
King Nine Will Not Return
Season 2 • Episode 1
The captain of a crashed B-25 bomber can't figure out where he is or what year it is.
Thursday, April 23
The New Exhibit
Season 4 • Episode 13
A wax-museum employee moves the figures of several notorious murderers into his home.
Thursday, April 23
The Trouble With Templeton
Season 2 • Episode 9
A distinguished but aging actor is thrust into the days of his youth.
Thursday, April 23
Dust
Season 2 • Episode 12
An unscrupulous traveling merchant claims he has a magical dust which will save a condemned man.
Thursday, April 23
Mute
Season 4 • Episode 5
A couple raises their daughter using the powers of mental telepathy.
Thursday, April 23
The Man in the Bottle
Season 2 • Episode 2
An impoverished pawnbroker buys a bottle inhabited by a genie, who offers him four wishes.
Thursday, April 23
A Thing About Machines
Season 2 • Episode 4
A bad-tempered writer is convinced the machines in his home are conspiring to destroy him.
Thursday, April 23
Young Man's Fancy
Season 3 • Episode 34
Newlywed Alex Walker returns to his home and yearns for the days of his childhood.
Friday, April 24
The Lonely
Season 1 • Episode 7
A man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.
Saturday, April 25
Time Enough at Last
Season 1 • Episode 8
A meek bank teller (Burgess Meredith) longs for time to read.
Tuesday, April 28
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.
Wednesday, April 29
Judgment Night
Season 1 • Episode 10
Crossing the wartime Atlantic in an English freighter, a man senses impending doom.
Thursday, April 30
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.
Friday, May 1
What You Need
Season 1 • Episode 12
A down-and-outer tries to turn another man's ability to tell the future into profit.
Saturday, May 2
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.
Tuesday, May 5
Third From the Sun
Season 1 • Episode 14
Two men plan to steal a spaceship to avoid the destruction of the planet.
Tuesday, May 5
Hocus Pocus & Frisby
Season 3 • Episode 30
Mr. Frisby impresses quite a few people with his vivid imagination.
Tuesday, May 5
The Whole Truth
Season 2 • Episode 14
Used-car dealer Harvey Hunnicut buys a car from an old man, only to be haunted by the vehicle.
Tuesday, May 5
Death's Head Revisited
Season 3 • Episode 9
At the Dachau concentration camp, a former Nazi is tried by a phantom jury of his tortured victims.
Tuesday, May 5
The Mind and the Matter
Season 2 • Episode 27
Archibald Beechcroft discovers that he can will anything he wants.
Tuesday, May 5
The Obsolete Man
Season 2 • Episode 29
Librarian Romney Wordsworth is condemned to death for obsolescence.
Tuesday, May 5
The Big Tall Wish
Season 1 • Episode 27
A 10-year-old boy tells a prizefighter that he will make a wish for him to win his comeback fight.
Tuesday, May 5
The Fugitive
Season 3 • Episode 25
Old Ben has the strange power to change himself into anything, or anyone, he wants.
Tuesday, May 5
Four O'Clock
Season 3 • Episode 29
Oliver Crangle decides to take revenge on all the evil people in the world.
Tuesday, May 5
A Nice Place to Visit
Season 1 • Episode 28
A small-time hoodlum is killed by the police for robbing a loan company.
Wednesday, May 6
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.
Wednesday, May 6
To Serve Man
Season 3 • Episode 24
Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.
Wednesday, May 6
The Last Night of a Jockey
Season 5 • Episode 5
A jockey's wish to become a giant in his profession has repercussions he may regret.
Wednesday, May 6
The Hitchhiker
Season 1 • Episode 16
Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitchhiker on the road ahead.
Wednesday, May 6
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.
Wednesday, May 6
The Gift
Season 3 • Episode 32
A man named Williams accidentally crashes his aircraft near a small Mexican village.
Wednesday, May 6
The Invaders
Season 2 • Episode 15
A lone woman battles two miniature spacemen whose craft crashes into her isolated farmhouse.
Wednesday, May 6
The Eye of the Beholder
Season 2 • Episode 6
A woman's natural beauty makes her a freak in a futuristic society.
Wednesday, May 6
The Changing of the Guard
Season 3 • Episode 37
A well-liked professor at a boys school is asked by the trustees to end his teaching career.
Wednesday, May 6
I Dream of Genie
Season 4 • Episode 12
A man considers several possibilities when he is offered one wish by a genie in a magic lamp.
Thursday, May 7
The Hitchhiker
Season 1 • Episode 16
Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitchhiker on the road ahead.
Thursday, May 7
I Sing the Body Electric
Season 3 • Episode 35
A widower rents an android grandmother to take care of his three children.
Thursday, May 7
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Season 1 • Episode 3
A has-been gunslinger regains his skill and agrees to a shoot-out.
Thursday, May 7
In His Image
Season 4 • Episode 1
A scientific genius creates an almost-perfect mechanical man.
Thursday, May 7
Probe 7: Over & Out
Season 5 • Episode 9
An astronaut (Richard Basehart) learns war has killed his people.
Thursday, May 7
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.
Thursday, May 7
Come Wander With Me
Season 5 • Episode 34
A folk singer goes into the backwoods to find a song that will bring him commercial success.
Thursday, May 7
The Passersby
Season 3 • Episode 4
A crippled soldier drops out of a marching column and meets a woman.
Thursday, May 7
Passage on the Lady Anne
Season 4 • Episode 17
A woman hopes a trans-Atlantic cruise and holiday in London will help save her marriage.
Friday, May 8
The Fever
Season 1 • Episode 17
A man becomes hooked on gambling after seeing someone hit the jackpot on a one-armed bandit.
Saturday, May 9
The Last Flight
Season 1 • Episode 18
Fleeing from a World War I aerial battle, a pilot gets lost in both space and time.
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