The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Twilight Zone (1959) - CBS

CBS

Series

1959

TVPG

Anthology

Science fiction

Fantasy

Thriller

Host Rod Serling introduces stories of fantasy and suspense; reboot in 1985 and 2019.

Where to Stream

1959–1964 Series 5 Seasons 168 Episodes

Upcoming TV Airings

The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.

Friday, March 27

From Agnes, With Love

Season 5 • Episode 20

A computer whiz works on the world's most advanced computer, which has the soul of a jealous woman.

Saturday, March 28

Spur of the Moment

Season 5 • Episode 21

While horseback riding, a wealthy girl is nearly run down by another woman, who chases her.

Saturday, March 28

The Lateness of the Hour

Season 2 • Episode 8

Jana rebels from the monotonous life she and her parents are living.

Saturday, March 28

Mr. Bevis

Season 1 • Episode 33

A happy-go-lucky man loses his job, gets evicted and wrecks his car, all in one day.

Saturday, March 28

Nothing in the Dark

Season 3 • Episode 16

An aged recluse hides in her home fearing the arrival of death. With Robert Redford.

Saturday, March 28

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.

Saturday, March 28

Person or Persons Unknown

Season 3 • Episode 27

A man awakens one morning to find that no one recognizes him, not even his mother.

Sunday, March 29

Dust

Season 2 • Episode 12

An unscrupulous traveling merchant claims he has a magical dust which will save a condemned man.

Sunday, March 29

Judgment Night

Season 1 • Episode 10

Crossing the wartime Atlantic in an English freighter, a man senses impending doom.

Tuesday, March 31

Queen of the Nile

Season 5 • Episode 23

The everlasting youth of a movie star arouses the curiosity of a magazine writer.

Tuesday, March 31

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.

Tuesday, March 31

The Trouble With Templeton

Season 2 • Episode 9

A distinguished but aging actor is thrust into the days of his youth.

Tuesday, March 31

Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room

Season 2 • Episode 3

A small-time thief sees a new reflection of himself in a mirror.

Tuesday, March 31

The New Exhibit

Season 4 • Episode 13

A wax-museum employee moves the figures of several notorious murderers into his home.

Tuesday, March 31

Mute

Season 4 • Episode 5

A couple raises their daughter using the powers of mental telepathy.

Wednesday, April 1

What's in the Box?

Season 5 • Episode 24

A man (William Demarest) sees himself on television, killing his wife (Joan Blondell).

Wednesday, April 1

The Chaser

Season 1 • Episode 31

A frustrated lover buys a love potion from a professor, then gives it to his girlfriend.

Wednesday, April 1

The Man in the Bottle

Season 2 • Episode 2

An impoverished pawnbroker buys a bottle inhabited by a genie, who offers him four wishes.

Wednesday, April 1

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Season 2 • Episode 16

A timid bank clerk acquires the ability to read other people's minds.

Wednesday, April 1

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 2

The Masks

Season 5 • Episode 25

A dying man forces his heirs to wear masks at a Mardi Gras party to receive their inheritance.

Thursday, April 2

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.

Thursday, April 2

The Fugitive

Season 3 • Episode 25

Old Ben has the strange power to change himself into anything, or anyone, he wants.

Thursday, April 2

Four O'Clock

Season 3 • Episode 29

Oliver Crangle decides to take revenge on all the evil people in the world.

Thursday, April 2

The Old Man in the Cave

Season 5 • Episode 7

An old man in a cave offers guidance to survivors of a nuclear-war apocalypse.

Thursday, April 2

Uncle Simon

Season 5 • Episode 8

A wealthy old man makes life difficult for his greedy niece even after he dies.

Thursday, April 2

Number Twelve Looks Just Like You

Season 5 • Episode 17

An ugly duckling can be stunning in a world of beautiful people.

Thursday, April 2

Hocus Pocus & Frisby

Season 3 • Episode 30

Mr. Frisby impresses quite a few people with his vivid imagination.

Thursday, April 2

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.

Thursday, April 2

The Arrival

Season 3 • Episode 2

Flight 107 arrives on schedule, but without passengers, pilots, or baggage.

Friday, April 3

I Am the Night, Color Me Black

Season 5 • Episode 26

Townspeople find themselves thrown into an unending night on the eve of an execution.

Saturday, April 4

Caesar and Me

Season 5 • Episode 28

When a ventriloquist can't find work, his dummy goads him into robbery.

Saturday, April 4

The Midnight Sun

Season 3 • Episode 10

The Earth falls out of its orbit and starts moving toward the sun.

Saturday, April 4

A Kind of Stopwatch

Season 5 • Episode 4

Thomas Patrick McNulty is given a watch that possesses a strange power.

Sunday, April 5

Cavender Is Coming

Season 3 • Episode 36

An angel (Jesse White) can earn his wings by helping a down-on-her-luck woman (Carol Burnett).

Sunday, April 5

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.

Tuesday, April 7

The Jeopardy Room

Season 5 • Episode 29

An assassin plots a unique death for a defector (Martin Landau).

Tuesday, April 7

A Nice Place to Visit

Season 1 • Episode 28

A small-time hoodlum is killed by the police for robbing a loan company.

Tuesday, April 7

Night Call

Season 5 • Episode 19

A woman confined to her bed and wheelchair is haunted by mysterious phone calls on a dead line.

Tuesday, April 7

Ring-a-Ding Girl

Season 5 • Episode 13

A movie star receives a ring which enables her to see images of her friends and family.

Tuesday, April 7

Steel

Season 5 • Episode 2

Two small-time promoters find that their fighter can't meet his opponent in the ring.

Tuesday, April 7

I Sing the Body Electric

Season 3 • Episode 35

A widower rents an android grandmother to take care of his three children.

Tuesday, April 7

A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain

Season 5 • Episode 11

When a man takes a youth serum, the potion goes beyond its intended effect.

Tuesday, April 7

Ninety Years Without Slumbering

Season 5 • Episode 12

An old man (Ed Wynn) fears death if his grandfather clock stops.

Tuesday, April 7

Time Enough at Last

Season 1 • Episode 8

A meek bank teller (Burgess Meredith) longs for time to read.

Tuesday, April 7

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.

Tuesday, April 7

Shadow Play

Season 2 • Episode 26

Adam Grant is sentenced to death, and has recurring dreams about his execution.

Tuesday, April 7

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.

Wednesday, April 8

Stopover in a Quiet Town

Season 5 • Episode 30

The morning after a wild party, a couple wakes up in a totally unfamiliar and artificial place.

Thursday, April 9

Mr. Garrity and the Graves

Season 5 • Episode 32

The man who tries to con the people of Happiness, Ariz., is in for a big shock.

Thursday, April 9

I Am the Night, Color Me Black

Season 5 • Episode 26

Townspeople find themselves thrown into an unending night on the eve of an execution.

Thursday, April 9

Caesar and Me

Season 5 • Episode 28

When a ventriloquist can't find work, his dummy goads him into robbery.

Thursday, April 9

The Fear

Season 5 • Episode 35

Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an alien.

Thursday, April 9

The Bewitchin' Pool

Season 5 • Episode 36

Two children follow a make-believe friend into a happier world.

Thursday, April 9

Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

Season 4 • Episode 14

A wealthy businessman strikes a deal with Satan and relives his past.

Thursday, April 9

Walking Distance

Season 1 • Episode 5

A man's need to escape the pressure of his work takes him back to his childhood.

Thursday, April 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.

Thursday, April 9

Sounds and Silences

Season 5 • Episode 27

A man who enjoys loud noises is driven crazy when trivial sounds become deafening to him.

Thursday, April 9

The Jeopardy Room

Season 5 • Episode 29

An assassin plots a unique death for a defector (Martin Landau).

Thursday, April 9

Mr. Garrity and the Graves

Season 5 • Episode 32

The man who tries to con the people of Happiness, Ariz., is in for a big shock.

Friday, April 10

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, April 11

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.

Saturday, April 11

A Game of Pool

Season 3 • Episode 5

A pool master returns from the dead to play one last game with an eager young hustler.

Saturday, April 11

Mr. Denton on Doomsday

Season 1 • Episode 3

A has-been gunslinger regains his skill and agrees to a shoot-out.

Saturday, April 11

The Passersby

Season 3 • Episode 4

A crippled soldier drops out of a marching column and meets a woman.

Saturday, April 11

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.

Saturday, April 11

On Thursday We Leave for Home

Season 4 • Episode 16

Expedition leader to a remote asteroid cannot face his return to Earth.

Saturday, April 11

The Howling Man

Season 2 • Episode 5

A man tells of a prisoner in a monastery. With John Carradine.

Saturday, April 11

The Invaders

Season 2 • Episode 15

A lone woman battles two miniature spacemen whose craft crashes into her isolated farmhouse.

Saturday, April 11

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Season 5 • Episode 16

Salvadore Ross trades physical characteristics with others to win the affection of Leah Maitland.

Saturday, April 11

An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Season 5 • Episode 22

Ambrose Bierce relates the tale of a Confederate soldier's execution at the end of the Civil War.

Saturday, April 11

The Incredible World of Horace Ford

Season 4 • Episode 15

A grown man recalls his youth with such intense longing that he becomes a boy again.

Saturday, April 11

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.

Saturday, April 11

The Mind and the Matter

Season 2 • Episode 27

Archibald Beechcroft discovers that he can will anything he wants.

Saturday, April 11

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.

Saturday, April 11

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.

Saturday, April 11

Living Doll

Season 5 • Episode 6

A vindictive doll takes revenge on a man who wants it destroyed. With Telly Savalas.

Saturday, April 11

Still Valley

Season 3 • Episode 11

A confederate scout is given a magical book that could guarantee their victory.

Saturday, April 11

He's Alive

Season 4 • Episode 4

A power-hungry American Nazi receives advice from a mysterious benefactor.

Saturday, April 11

A Quality of Mercy

Season 3 • Episode 15

A newly commissioned officer arrives in the Philippines in the waning years of World War II.

Saturday, April 11

The Obsolete Man

Season 2 • Episode 29

Librarian Romney Wordsworth is condemned to death for obsolescence.

Saturday, April 11

Mirror Image

Season 1 • Episode 21

A woman thinks it's a prank when someone keeps moving her suitcase around within a bus terminal.

Saturday, April 11

The Silence

Season 2 • Episode 25

Archie Taylor wagers Jamie Tennyson that he can't keep his mouth shut for one year.

Saturday, April 11

The Encounter

Season 5 • Episode 31

A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American are trapped in the veteran's attic.

Saturday, April 11

Where Is Everybody?

Season 1 • Episode 1

An amnesiac (Earl Holliman) in an empty town feels he is being watched.

Saturday, April 11

The Gift

Season 3 • Episode 32

A man named Williams accidentally crashes his aircraft near a small Mexican village.

Saturday, April 11

The Hitchhiker

Season 1 • Episode 16

Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitchhiker on the road ahead.

Saturday, April 11

The Eye of the Beholder

Season 2 • Episode 6

A woman's natural beauty makes her a freak in a futuristic society.

Saturday, April 11

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, April 11

To Serve Man

Season 3 • Episode 24

Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.

Sunday, April 12

In His Image

Season 4 • Episode 1

A scientific genius creates an almost-perfect mechanical man.

Sunday, April 12

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.

Sunday, April 12

A Most Unusual Camera

Season 2 • Episode 10

A stolen camera has the ability to predict the future with the pictures it takes.

Sunday, April 12

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up

Season 2 • Episode 28

Police must figure out if a diner patron is actually a martian invader.

Sunday, April 12

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.

Sunday, April 12

Escape Clause

Season 1 • Episode 6

A man afraid of death makes a pact with the devil for immortality.

Sunday, April 12

A World of Difference

Season 1 • Episode 23

A businessman inexplicably finds his office has become a set for a movie in which he is a character.

Sunday, April 12

Long Distance Call

Season 2 • Episode 22

A young boy keeps in touch with his dead grandmother via the toy telephone she once gave him.

Sunday, April 12

The Shelter

Season 3 • Episode 3

Families fearing invasion beg a neighbor to let them share his bomb shelter.

Sunday, April 12

You Drive

Season 5 • Episode 14

Oliver Pope kills a bicyclist in a hit-and-run, but a business rival is identified as the driver.

Sunday, April 12

The Mirror

Season 3 • Episode 6

A guerrilla leader succeeds in overthrowing the regime of the corrupt government of his country.

Sunday, April 12

Long Live Walter Jameson

Season 1 • Episode 24

Sam Kittredge accidentally discovers that his prospective son-in-law fought in the Civil War.

Sunday, April 12

The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Season 1 • Episode 22

Strange occurrences in a small town lead people to believe they are being invaded.

Sunday, April 12

Probe 7: Over & Out

Season 5 • Episode 9

An astronaut (Richard Basehart) learns war has killed his people.

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