The Twilight Zone (1959)
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Saturday, July 5
Shadow Play
Season 2 • Episode 26
Adam Grant is sentenced to death, and has recurring dreams about his execution.
Saturday, July 5
Long Live Walter Jameson
Season 1 • Episode 24
Sam Kittredge accidentally discovers that his prospective son-in-law fought in the Civil War.
Saturday, July 5
Night Call
Season 5 • Episode 19
A woman confined to her bed and wheelchair is haunted by mysterious phone calls on a dead line.
Saturday, July 5
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.
Saturday, July 5
The Invaders
Season 2 • Episode 15
A lone woman battles two miniature spacemen whose craft crashes into her isolated farmhouse.
Saturday, July 5
A Penny for Your Thoughts
Season 2 • Episode 16
A timid bank clerk acquires the ability to read other people's minds.
Saturday, July 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.
Saturday, July 5
The Last Flight
Season 1 • Episode 18
Fleeing from a World War I aerial battle, a pilot gets lost in both space and time.
Sunday, July 6
Young Man's Fancy
Season 3 • Episode 34
Newlywed Alex Walker returns to his home and yearns for the days of his childhood.
Sunday, July 6
Showdown With Rance McGrew
Season 3 • Episode 20
An insufferable cowboy star comes face to face with the real Jesse James.
Sunday, July 6
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.
Sunday, July 6
The Bewitchin' Pool
Season 5 • Episode 36
Two children follow a make-believe friend into a happier world.
Sunday, July 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.
Sunday, July 6
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.
Sunday, July 6
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.
Sunday, July 6
Valley of the Shadow
Season 4 • Episode 3
A man discovers a peaceful village which guards the secret of a way to create and destroy matter.
Sunday, July 6
In His Image
Season 4 • Episode 1
A scientific genius creates an almost-perfect mechanical man.
Sunday, July 6
The Grave
Season 3 • Episode 7
A gunman (Lee Marvin) visits the grave of a man who vowed revenge.
Sunday, July 6
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.
Sunday, July 6
Hocus Pocus & Frisby
Season 3 • Episode 30
Mr. Frisby impresses quite a few people with his vivid imagination.
Sunday, July 6
Probe 7: Over & Out
Season 5 • Episode 9
An astronaut (Richard Basehart) learns war has killed his people.
Sunday, July 6
One More Pallbearer
Season 3 • Episode 17
Wealthy Paul Radin arranges an intricate revenge for those he thinks have wronged him in his life.
Sunday, July 6
A Quality of Mercy
Season 3 • Episode 15
A newly commissioned officer arrives in the Philippines in the waning years of World War II.
Sunday, July 6
I Sing the Body Electric
Season 3 • Episode 35
A widower rents an android grandmother to take care of his three children.
Sunday, July 6
Steel
Season 5 • Episode 2
Two small-time promoters find that their fighter can't meet his opponent in the ring.
Sunday, July 6
Four O'Clock
Season 3 • Episode 29
Oliver Crangle decides to take revenge on all the evil people in the world.
Sunday, July 6
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.
Sunday, July 6
Uncle Simon
Season 5 • Episode 8
A wealthy old man makes life difficult for his greedy niece even after he dies.
Sunday, July 6
The Jungle
Season 3 • Episode 12
An African conjurer curses an American businessman for violating African soil.
Sunday, July 6
The Mind and the Matter
Season 2 • Episode 27
Archibald Beechcroft discovers that he can will anything he wants.
Sunday, July 6
The Gift
Season 3 • Episode 32
A man named Williams accidentally crashes his aircraft near a small Mexican village.
Sunday, July 6
The Mirror
Season 3 • Episode 6
A guerrilla leader succeeds in overthrowing the regime of the corrupt government of his country.
Sunday, July 6
Little Girl Lost
Season 3 • Episode 26
Chris and Ruth Miller are awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their child.
Sunday, July 6
The Little People
Season 3 • Episode 28
A space traveler finds an Earth-like civilization the size of ants.
Sunday, July 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.
Sunday, July 6
Mirror Image
Season 1 • Episode 21
A woman thinks it's a prank when someone keeps moving her suitcase around within a bus terminal.
Sunday, July 6
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.
Sunday, July 6
The Odyssey of Flight 33
Season 2 • Episode 18
On the way from England to America, a jetliner and its crew travel backward in time.
Sunday, July 6
The Dummy
Season 3 • Episode 33
A ventriloquist becomes convinced that his dummy has a will and a life of its own.
Sunday, July 6
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.
Sunday, July 6
Still Valley
Season 3 • Episode 11
A confederate scout is given a magical book that could guarantee their victory.
Sunday, July 6
The 7th Is Made up of Phantoms
Season 5 • Episode 10
National Guardsmen maneuvering at Little Big Horn find ominous signs of an impending Indian attack.
Monday, July 7
Young Man's Fancy
Season 3 • Episode 34
Newlywed Alex Walker returns to his home and yearns for the days of his childhood.
Monday, July 7
Death Ship
Season 4 • Episode 6
A man's refusal to admit to his death keeps him and his two companions alive.
Monday, July 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.
Monday, July 7
The Bewitchin' Pool
Season 5 • Episode 36
Two children follow a make-believe friend into a happier world.
Monday, July 7
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.
Monday, July 7
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.
Monday, July 7
To Serve Man
Season 3 • Episode 24
Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.
Monday, July 7
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.
Monday, July 7
Kick the Can
Season 3 • Episode 21
An old man thinks children's games can restore youth.
Monday, July 7
Person or Persons Unknown
Season 3 • Episode 27
A man awakens one morning to find that no one recognizes him, not even his mother.
Monday, July 7
The Chaser
Season 1 • Episode 31
A frustrated lover buys a love potion from a professor, then gives it to his girlfriend.
Tuesday, July 8
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.
Tuesday, July 8
A Passage for Trumpet
Season 1 • Episode 32
A musician (Jack Klugman) must decide between life and death.
Wednesday, July 9
Mr. Bevis
Season 1 • Episode 33
A happy-go-lucky man loses his job, gets evicted and wrecks his car, all in one day.
Thursday, July 10
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, July 10
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.
Thursday, July 10
In His Image
Season 4 • Episode 1
A scientific genius creates an almost-perfect mechanical man.
Thursday, July 10
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, July 10
The After Hours
Season 1 • Episode 34
Marsha White goes to a department store to buy a gold thimble.
Friday, July 11
The Mighty Casey
Season 1 • Episode 35
The manager of a baseball team on a losing streak hires a robot pitcher called Casey.
Saturday, July 12
The Thirty-Fathom Grave
Season 4 • Episode 2
A man hears sounds from a submarine he feels responsible for sinking 20 years earlier.
Saturday, July 12
Mute
Season 4 • Episode 5
A couple raises their daughter using the powers of mental telepathy.
Sunday, July 13
Valley of the Shadow
Season 4 • Episode 3
A man discovers a peaceful village which guards the secret of a way to create and destroy matter.
Monday, July 14
Jess-Belle
Season 4 • Episode 7
A girl strikes a deadly bargain with a witch to assure herself of a young man's attentions.
Monday, July 14
A World of His Own
Season 1 • Episode 36
A playwright describes characters into his tape recorder and they materialize before his eyes.
Tuesday, July 15
He's Alive
Season 4 • Episode 4
A power-hungry American Nazi receives advice from a mysterious benefactor.
Tuesday, July 15
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.
Tuesday, July 15
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.
Wednesday, July 16
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, July 17
Sounds and Silences
Season 5 • Episode 27
A man who enjoys loud noises is driven crazy when trivial sounds become deafening to him.
Thursday, July 17
The Miniature
Season 4 • Episode 8
A lonely man falls in love with a museum doll he comes to believe is alive.
Thursday, July 17
Printer's Devil
Season 4 • Episode 9
A newspaper editor who is facing bankruptcy hires the Devil as his chief reporter.
Thursday, July 17
Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room
Season 2 • Episode 3
A small-time thief sees a new reflection of himself in a mirror.
Friday, July 18
A Thing About Machines
Season 2 • Episode 4
A bad-tempered writer is convinced the machines in his home are conspiring to destroy him.
Sunday, July 20
Caesar and Me
Season 5 • Episode 28
When a ventriloquist can't find work, his dummy goads him into robbery.
Monday, July 21
Printer's Devil
Season 4 • Episode 9
A newspaper editor who is facing bankruptcy hires the Devil as his chief reporter.
Monday, July 21
The Howling Man
Season 2 • Episode 5
A man tells of a prisoner in a monastery. With John Carradine.
Tuesday, July 22
The Jeopardy Room
Season 5 • Episode 29
An assassin plots a unique death for a defector (Martin Landau).
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