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 Seasons168 Episodes

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

The Fear

Season 5 • Episode 35

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

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).

Tuesday, July 22

The Eye of the Beholder

Season 2 • Episode 6

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

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