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, 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.
Sunday, May 10
Two
Season 3 • Episode 1
The sole survivors of a devastating war meet in the shambles of a city destroyed six years prior.
Sunday, May 10
The Purple Testament
Season 1 • Episode 19
During World War II, a man acquires the ability to see death in the faces of men about to die.
Sunday, May 10
Spur of the Moment
Season 5 • Episode 21
While horseback riding, a wealthy girl is nearly run down by another woman, who chases her.
Sunday, May 10
A Piano in the House
Season 3 • Episode 22
A strange piano allows the listener's hidden character to be suddenly revealed.
Sunday, May 10
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.
Sunday, May 10
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5 • Episode 3
An airline passenger (William Shatner) sees a creature on the wing.
Sunday, May 10
The Bard
Season 4 • Episode 18
A would-be writer summons William Shakespeare to help him write a teleplay.
Sunday, May 10
Nick of Time
Season 2 • Episode 7
A fortune-telling device fascinates a couple. With William Shatner.
Sunday, May 10
Once Upon a Time
Season 3 • Episode 13
A janitor mischievously puts on a helmet which really is a time machine.
Sunday, May 10
The Lonely
Season 1 • Episode 7
A man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.
Sunday, May 10
No Time Like the Past
Season 4 • Episode 10
Through the use of a time machine, a man attempts to alter history.
Sunday, May 10
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
Season 4 • Episode 14
A wealthy businessman strikes a deal with Satan and relives his past.
Sunday, May 10
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, May 10
The Jeopardy Room
Season 5 • Episode 29
An assassin plots a unique death for a defector (Martin Landau).
Sunday, May 10
Sounds and Silences
Season 5 • Episode 27
A man who enjoys loud noises is driven crazy when trivial sounds become deafening to him.
Sunday, May 10
Queen of the Nile
Season 5 • Episode 23
The everlasting youth of a movie star arouses the curiosity of a magazine writer.
Sunday, May 10
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, May 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.
Sunday, May 10
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.
Sunday, May 10
Caesar and Me
Season 5 • Episode 28
When a ventriloquist can't find work, his dummy goads him into robbery.
Sunday, May 10
The Fear
Season 5 • Episode 35
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an alien.
Sunday, May 10
The Bewitchin' Pool
Season 5 • Episode 36
Two children follow a make-believe friend into a happier world.
Sunday, May 10
Shadow Play
Season 2 • Episode 26
Adam Grant is sentenced to death, and has recurring dreams about his execution.
Sunday, May 10
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Season 5 • Episode 12
An old man (Ed Wynn) fears death if his grandfather clock stops.
Sunday, May 10
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.
Sunday, May 10
One for the Angels
Season 1 • Episode 2
A sidewalk pitchman's deal with Death may cost a young girl her life.
Sunday, May 10
Walking Distance
Season 1 • Episode 5
A man's need to escape the pressure of his work takes him back to his childhood.
Sunday, May 10
Time Enough at Last
Season 1 • Episode 8
A meek bank teller (Burgess Meredith) longs for time to read.
Sunday, May 10
Night Call
Season 5 • Episode 19
A woman confined to her bed and wheelchair is haunted by mysterious phone calls on a dead line.
Monday, May 11
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.
Monday, May 11
Steel
Season 5 • Episode 2
Two small-time promoters find that their fighter can't meet his opponent in the ring.
Monday, May 11
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, May 11
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).
Monday, May 11
Uncle Simon
Season 5 • Episode 8
A wealthy old man makes life difficult for his greedy niece even after he dies.
Monday, May 11
Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
Season 5 • Episode 17
An ugly duckling can be stunning in a world of beautiful people.
Monday, May 11
The Arrival
Season 3 • Episode 2
Flight 107 arrives on schedule, but without passengers, pilots, or baggage.
Monday, May 11
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.
Monday, May 11
A Kind of Stopwatch
Season 5 • Episode 4
Thomas Patrick McNulty is given a watch that possesses a strange power.
Monday, May 11
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.
Monday, May 11
The Midnight Sun
Season 3 • Episode 10
The Earth falls out of its orbit and starts moving toward the sun.
Monday, May 11
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.
Monday, May 11
Where Is Everybody?
Season 1 • Episode 1
An amnesiac (Earl Holliman) in an empty town feels he is being watched.
Tuesday, May 12
The Purple Testament
Season 1 • Episode 19
During World War II, a man acquires the ability to see death in the faces of men about to die.
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