The Twilight Zone (1959)

The Twilight Zone (1959) - CBS

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1959

TVPG

Anthology

Science fiction

Fantasy

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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.

Tuesday, March 3

I Sing the Body Electric

Season 3 • Episode 35

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

Tuesday, March 3

The Dummy

Season 3 • Episode 33

A ventriloquist becomes convinced that his dummy has a will and a life of its own.

Tuesday, March 3

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.

Tuesday, March 3

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.

Tuesday, March 3

A Nice Place to Visit

Season 1 • Episode 28

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

Tuesday, March 3

Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up

Season 2 • Episode 28

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

Wednesday, March 4

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).

Wednesday, March 4

To Serve Man

Season 3 • Episode 24

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

Wednesday, March 4

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Season 5 • Episode 16

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

Wednesday, March 4

The Invaders

Season 2 • Episode 15

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

Wednesday, March 4

Mr. Denton on Doomsday

Season 1 • Episode 3

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

Wednesday, March 4

A Most Unusual Camera

Season 2 • Episode 10

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

Wednesday, March 4

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.

Wednesday, March 4

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.

Wednesday, March 4

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.

Thursday, March 5

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, March 5

Living Doll

Season 5 • Episode 6

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

Thursday, March 5

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, March 5

The Howling Man

Season 2 • Episode 5

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

Thursday, March 5

The Eye of the Beholder

Season 2 • Episode 6

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

Thursday, March 5

The Hitchhiker

Season 1 • Episode 16

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

Thursday, March 5

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, March 5

Escape Clause

Season 1 • Episode 6

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

Friday, March 6

In Praise of Pip

Season 5 • Episode 1

A bookie (Jack Klugman) learns his son was wounded in Vietnam.

Saturday, March 7

Steel

Season 5 • Episode 2

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

Saturday, March 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.

Saturday, March 7

The Bewitchin' Pool

Season 5 • Episode 36

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

Saturday, March 7

Two

Season 3 • Episode 1

The sole survivors of a devastating war meet in the shambles of a city destroyed six years prior.

Saturday, March 7

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, March 7

It's a Good Life

Season 3 • Episode 8

A 6-year-old controls his town with his ability to create or destroy anything with his mind.

Saturday, March 7

The Lonely

Season 1 • Episode 7

A man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.

Saturday, March 7

Caesar and Me

Season 5 • Episode 28

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

Saturday, March 7

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 7

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 7

Queen of the Nile

Season 5 • Episode 23

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

Saturday, March 7

What's in the Box?

Season 5 • Episode 24

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

Saturday, March 7

The Fear

Season 5 • Episode 35

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

Saturday, March 7

The Jeopardy Room

Season 5 • Episode 29

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

Saturday, March 7

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.

Saturday, March 7

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.

Saturday, March 7

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.

Saturday, March 7

Third From the Sun

Season 1 • Episode 14

Two men plan to steal a spaceship to avoid the destruction of the planet.

Saturday, March 7

The Night of the Meek

Season 2 • Episode 11

A drunken department-store Santa (Art Carney) finds a magic bag of gifts.

Saturday, March 7

Sounds and Silences

Season 5 • Episode 27

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

Saturday, March 7

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.

Saturday, March 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.

Saturday, March 7

Back There

Season 2 • Episode 13

A man (Russell Johnson) travels back to the night of Lincoln's assassination.

Saturday, March 7

Nick of Time

Season 2 • Episode 7

A fortune-telling device fascinates a couple. With William Shatner.

Saturday, March 7

Shadow Play

Season 2 • Episode 26

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

Saturday, March 7

Static

Season 2 • Episode 20

An old radio picks up signals from the past that unexpectedly rejuvenate a pair of elderly lovers.

Saturday, March 7

The Last Flight

Season 1 • Episode 18

Fleeing from a World War I aerial battle, a pilot gets lost in both space and time.

Saturday, March 7

Execution

Season 1 • Episode 26

In the 1880s, outlaw Joe Caswell's body disappears from the hangman's noose.

Saturday, March 7

Walking Distance

Season 1 • Episode 5

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

Saturday, March 7

A Stop at Willoughby

Season 1 • Episode 30

A harassed executive escapes into the peaceful town of Willoughby in July 1880.

Saturday, March 7

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, March 7

The Masks

Season 5 • Episode 25

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

Saturday, March 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.

Saturday, March 7

Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

Season 4 • Episode 14

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

Sunday, March 8

No Time Like the Past

Season 4 • Episode 10

Through the use of a time machine, a man attempts to alter history.

Sunday, March 8

Time Enough at Last

Season 1 • Episode 8

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

Sunday, March 8

Long Live Walter Jameson

Season 1 • Episode 24

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

Sunday, March 8

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Season 5 • Episode 3

An airline passenger (William Shatner) sees a creature on the wing.

Sunday, March 8

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, March 8

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.

Sunday, March 8

One for the Angels

Season 1 • Episode 2

A sidewalk pitchman's deal with Death may cost a young girl her life.

Sunday, March 8

Probe 7: Over & Out

Season 5 • Episode 9

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

Sunday, March 8

Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Season 5 • Episode 3

An airline passenger (William Shatner) sees a creature on the wing.

Monday, March 9

A Kind of Stopwatch

Season 5 • Episode 4

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

Tuesday, March 10

Still Valley

Season 3 • Episode 11

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

Tuesday, March 10

The Mind and the Matter

Season 2 • Episode 27

Archibald Beechcroft discovers that he can will anything he wants.

Tuesday, March 10

The Obsolete Man

Season 2 • Episode 29

Librarian Romney Wordsworth is condemned to death for obsolescence.

Tuesday, March 10

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.

Tuesday, March 10

Mirror Image

Season 1 • Episode 21

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

Tuesday, March 10

Where Is Everybody?

Season 1 • Episode 1

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

Tuesday, March 10

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, March 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.

Wednesday, March 11

He's Alive

Season 4 • Episode 4

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

Wednesday, March 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.

Wednesday, March 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.

Wednesday, March 11

The Encounter

Season 5 • Episode 31

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

Wednesday, March 11

The Silence

Season 2 • Episode 25

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

Wednesday, March 11

Living Doll

Season 5 • Episode 6

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

Thursday, March 12

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, March 12

On Thursday We Leave for Home

Season 4 • Episode 16

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

Thursday, March 12

In His Image

Season 4 • Episode 1

A scientific genius creates an almost-perfect mechanical man.

Thursday, March 12

Showdown With Rance McGrew

Season 3 • Episode 20

An insufferable cowboy star comes face to face with the real Jesse James.

Thursday, March 12

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.

Friday, March 13

Uncle Simon

Season 5 • Episode 8

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

Saturday, March 14

A Piano in the House

Season 3 • Episode 22

A strange piano allows the listener's hidden character to be suddenly revealed.

Saturday, March 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.

Sunday, March 15

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, March 15

The Shelter

Season 3 • Episode 3

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

Sunday, March 15

Probe 7: Over & Out

Season 5 • Episode 9

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

Monday, March 16

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.

Tuesday, March 17

Ninety Years Without Slumbering

Season 5 • Episode 12

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

Wednesday, March 18

The Hunt

Season 3 • Episode 19

An old man goes raccoon hunting with his beloved dog, a hunt from which neither return.

Wednesday, March 18

Kick the Can

Season 3 • Episode 21

An old man thinks children's games can restore youth.

Wednesday, March 18

The Bard

Season 4 • Episode 18

A would-be writer summons William Shakespeare to help him write a teleplay.

Wednesday, March 18

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.

Wednesday, March 18

Death Ship

Season 4 • Episode 6

A man's refusal to admit to his death keeps him and his two companions alive.

Wednesday, March 18

Once Upon a Time

Season 3 • Episode 13

A janitor mischievously puts on a helmet which really is a time machine.

Wednesday, March 18

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.

Thursday, March 19

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.

Thursday, March 19

The Thirty-Fathom Grave

Season 4 • Episode 2

A man hears sounds from a submarine he feels responsible for sinking 20 years earlier.

Thursday, March 19

The Fever

Season 1 • Episode 17

A man becomes hooked on gambling after seeing someone hit the jackpot on a one-armed bandit.

Thursday, March 19

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.

Thursday, March 19

The Parallel

Season 4 • Episode 11

An orbiting astronaut passes into a world remarkably like his own, except for a few small details.

Thursday, March 19

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.

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