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Saturday, December 13
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.
Saturday, December 13
Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room
Season 2 • Episode 3
A small-time thief sees a new reflection of himself in a mirror.
Sunday, December 14
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, December 14
Third From the Sun
Season 1 • Episode 14
Two men plan to steal a spaceship to avoid the destruction of the planet.
Monday, December 15
A Nice Place to Visit
Season 1 • Episode 28
A small-time hoodlum is killed by the police for robbing a loan company.
Tuesday, December 16
Nightmare as a Child
Season 1 • Episode 29
A teacher returns to her apartment to find a child waiting for her.
Wednesday, December 17
A Stop at Willoughby
Season 1 • Episode 30
A harassed executive escapes into the peaceful town of Willoughby in July 1880.
Thursday, December 18
The Chaser
Season 1 • Episode 31
A frustrated lover buys a love potion from a professor, then gives it to his girlfriend.
Friday, December 19
A Passage for Trumpet
Season 1 • Episode 32
A musician (Jack Klugman) must decide between life and death.
Saturday, December 20
Mr. Bevis
Season 1 • Episode 33
A happy-go-lucky man loses his job, gets evicted and wrecks his car, all in one day.
Monday, December 22
The After Hours
Season 1 • Episode 34
Marsha White goes to a department store to buy a gold thimble.
Tuesday, December 23
The Mighty Casey
Season 1 • Episode 35
The manager of a baseball team on a losing streak hires a robot pitcher called Casey.
Wednesday, December 24
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Season 3 • Episode 14
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Thursday, December 25
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.
Thursday, December 25
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, December 25
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, December 25
Elegy
Season 1 • Episode 20
Three astronauts land on a strange planet and meet its caretaker.
Thursday, December 25
People Are Alike All Over
Season 1 • Episode 25
An astronaut (Roddy McDowall) experiences martian hospitality.
Thursday, December 25
The Fugitive
Season 3 • Episode 25
Old Ben has the strange power to change himself into anything, or anyone, he wants.
Thursday, December 25
The Little People
Season 3 • Episode 28
A space traveler finds an Earth-like civilization the size of ants.
Thursday, December 25
Hocus Pocus & Frisby
Season 3 • Episode 30
Mr. Frisby impresses quite a few people with his vivid imagination.
Thursday, December 25
Probe 7: Over & Out
Season 5 • Episode 9
An astronaut (Richard Basehart) learns war has killed his people.
Thursday, December 25
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, December 25
Black Leather Jackets
Season 5 • Episode 18
Tough aliens from outer space try to poison the population of earth.
Thursday, December 25
The Fear
Season 5 • Episode 35
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an alien.
Thursday, December 25
The Parallel
Season 4 • Episode 11
An orbiting astronaut passes into a world remarkably like his own, except for a few small details.
Thursday, December 25
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, December 25
On Thursday We Leave for Home
Season 4 • Episode 16
Expedition leader to a remote asteroid cannot face his return to Earth.
Thursday, December 25
The Bard
Season 4 • Episode 18
A would-be writer summons William Shakespeare to help him write a teleplay.
Thursday, December 25
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
Season 4 • Episode 14
A wealthy businessman strikes a deal with Satan and relives his past.
Thursday, December 25
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.
Thursday, December 25
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.
Thursday, December 25
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, December 25
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.
Thursday, December 25
A Nice Place to Visit
Season 1 • Episode 28
A small-time hoodlum is killed by the police for robbing a loan company.
Thursday, December 25
The Night of the Meek
Season 2 • Episode 11
A drunken department-store Santa (Art Carney) finds a magic bag of gifts.
Thursday, December 25
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Season 3 • Episode 14
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Thursday, December 25
To Serve Man
Season 3 • Episode 24
Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.
Thursday, December 25
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5 • Episode 3
An airline passenger (William Shatner) sees a creature on the wing.
Thursday, December 25
The Eye of the Beholder
Season 2 • Episode 6
A woman's natural beauty makes her a freak in a futuristic society.
Thursday, December 25
The Invaders
Season 2 • Episode 15
A lone woman battles two miniature spacemen whose craft crashes into her isolated farmhouse.
Thursday, December 25
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up
Season 2 • Episode 28
Police must figure out if a diner patron is actually a martian invader.
Thursday, December 25
Time Enough at Last
Season 1 • Episode 8
A meek bank teller (Burgess Meredith) longs for time to read.
Thursday, December 25
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.
Thursday, December 25
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.
Friday, December 26
The Dummy
Season 3 • Episode 33
A ventriloquist becomes convinced that his dummy has a will and a life of its own.
Friday, December 26
He's Alive
Season 4 • Episode 4
A power-hungry American Nazi receives advice from a mysterious benefactor.
Friday, December 26
A World of His Own
Season 1 • Episode 36
A playwright describes characters into his tape recorder and they materialize before his eyes.
Friday, December 26
Sounds and Silences
Season 5 • Episode 27
A man who enjoys loud noises is driven crazy when trivial sounds become deafening to him.
Friday, December 26
The Miniature
Season 4 • Episode 8
A lonely man falls in love with a museum doll he comes to believe is alive.
Friday, December 26
Printer's Devil
Season 4 • Episode 9
A newspaper editor who is facing bankruptcy hires the Devil as his chief reporter.
Friday, December 26
The Jeopardy Room
Season 5 • Episode 29
An assassin plots a unique death for a defector (Martin Landau).
Friday, December 26
The Encounter
Season 5 • Episode 31
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American are trapped in the veteran's attic.
Friday, December 26
No Time Like the Past
Season 4 • Episode 10
Through the use of a time machine, a man attempts to alter history.
Friday, December 26
The New Exhibit
Season 4 • Episode 13
A wax-museum employee moves the figures of several notorious murderers into his home.
Saturday, December 27
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.
Monday, December 29
The Man in the Bottle
Season 2 • Episode 2
An impoverished pawnbroker buys a bottle inhabited by a genie, who offers him four wishes.
Tuesday, December 30
Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room
Season 2 • Episode 3
A small-time thief sees a new reflection of himself in a mirror.
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