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.

Upcoming TV Airings

The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.

Tuesday, January 6

A Most Unusual Camera

Season 2 • Episode 10

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

Tuesday, January 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.

Tuesday, January 6

Person or Persons Unknown

Season 3 • Episode 27

A man awakens one morning to find that no one recognizes him, not even his mother.

Tuesday, January 6

The Trade-Ins

Season 3 • Episode 31

After 50 years of bliss, John and Martha decide that it would be nice to start it all over again.

Tuesday, January 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.

Tuesday, January 6

In His Image

Season 4 • Episode 1

A scientific genius creates an almost-perfect mechanical man.

Tuesday, January 6

Walking Distance

Season 1 • Episode 5

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

Wednesday, January 7

Dust

Season 2 • Episode 12

An unscrupulous traveling merchant claims he has a magical dust which will save a condemned man.

Wednesday, January 7

The Thirty-Fathom Grave

Season 4 • Episode 2

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

Wednesday, January 7

Mute

Season 4 • Episode 5

A couple raises their daughter using the powers of mental telepathy.

Wednesday, January 7

Jess-Belle

Season 4 • Episode 7

A girl strikes a deadly bargain with a witch to assure herself of a young man's attentions.

Wednesday, January 7

Judgment Night

Season 1 • Episode 10

Crossing the wartime Atlantic in an English freighter, a man senses impending doom.

Wednesday, January 7

Death Ship

Season 4 • Episode 6

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

Thursday, January 8

Back There

Season 2 • Episode 13

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

Thursday, January 8

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.

Thursday, January 8

What You Need

Season 1 • Episode 12

A down-and-outer tries to turn another man's ability to tell the future into profit.

Thursday, January 8

The Fever

Season 1 • Episode 17

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

Thursday, January 8

The Last Flight

Season 1 • Episode 18

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

Thursday, January 8

Elegy

Season 1 • Episode 20

Three astronauts land on a strange planet and meet its caretaker.

Friday, January 9

The Invaders

Season 2 • Episode 15

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

Friday, January 9

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.

Friday, January 9

People Are Alike All Over

Season 1 • Episode 25

An astronaut (Roddy McDowall) experiences martian hospitality.

Friday, January 9

Execution

Season 1 • Episode 26

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

Friday, January 9

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.

Friday, January 9

Nightmare as a Child

Season 1 • Episode 29

A teacher returns to her apartment to find a child waiting for her.

Friday, January 9

The Chaser

Season 1 • Episode 31

A frustrated lover buys a love potion from a professor, then gives it to his girlfriend.

Friday, January 9

A Passage for Trumpet

Season 1 • Episode 32

A musician (Jack Klugman) must decide between life and death.

Friday, January 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.

Friday, January 9

The Mighty Casey

Season 1 • Episode 35

The manager of a baseball team on a losing streak hires a robot pitcher called Casey.

Friday, January 9

A World of His Own

Season 1 • Episode 36

A playwright describes characters into his tape recorder and they materialize before his eyes.

Saturday, January 10

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Season 2 • Episode 16

A timid bank clerk acquires the ability to read other people's minds.

Saturday, January 10

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.

Saturday, January 10

The Man in the Bottle

Season 2 • Episode 2

An impoverished pawnbroker buys a bottle inhabited by a genie, who offers him four wishes.

Sunday, January 11

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, January 11

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, January 11

The Lateness of the Hour

Season 2 • Episode 8

Jana rebels from the monotonous life she and her parents are living.

Monday, January 12

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.

Monday, January 12

The Trouble With Templeton

Season 2 • Episode 9

A distinguished but aging actor is thrust into the days of his youth.

Monday, January 12

Dust

Season 2 • Episode 12

An unscrupulous traveling merchant claims he has a magical dust which will save a condemned man.

Monday, January 12

Back There

Season 2 • Episode 13

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

Monday, January 12

A Penny for Your Thoughts

Season 2 • Episode 16

A timid bank clerk acquires the ability to read other people's minds.

Monday, January 12

Twenty-Two

Season 2 • Episode 17

Liz Powell has a recurring dream in which she follows a nurse to the hospital morgue.

Monday, January 12

Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Season 2 • Episode 19

A timid man (Burgess Meredith) acquires superhuman strength; with Don Rickles.

Tuesday, January 13

Mr. Dingle, the Strong

Season 2 • Episode 19

A timid man (Burgess Meredith) acquires superhuman strength; with Don Rickles.

Tuesday, January 13

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.

Tuesday, January 13

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

Season 2 • Episode 24

Four men pull off a perfect heist, then plan to hide out until they can safely spend their loot.

Tuesday, January 13

Shadow Play

Season 2 • Episode 26

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

Tuesday, January 13

The Arrival

Season 3 • Episode 2

Flight 107 arrives on schedule, but without passengers, pilots, or baggage.

Tuesday, January 13

The Passersby

Season 3 • Episode 4

A crippled soldier drops out of a marching column and meets a woman.

Tuesday, January 13

The Mirror

Season 3 • Episode 6

A guerrilla leader succeeds in overthrowing the regime of the corrupt government of his country.

Wednesday, January 14

The Prime Mover

Season 2 • Episode 21

A gambler exploits a friend's (Buddy Ebsen) telekinetic powers.

Wednesday, January 14

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.

Wednesday, January 14

The Midnight Sun

Season 3 • Episode 10

The Earth falls out of its orbit and starts moving toward the sun.

Wednesday, January 14

The Fugitive

Season 3 • Episode 25

Old Ben has the strange power to change himself into anything, or anyone, he wants.

Wednesday, January 14

The Gift

Season 3 • Episode 32

A man named Williams accidentally crashes his aircraft near a small Mexican village.

Wednesday, January 14

The Little People

Season 3 • Episode 28

A space traveler finds an Earth-like civilization the size of ants.

Wednesday, January 14

Four O'Clock

Season 3 • Episode 29

Oliver Crangle decides to take revenge on all the evil people in the world.

Wednesday, January 14

Hocus Pocus & Frisby

Season 3 • Episode 30

Mr. Frisby impresses quite a few people with his vivid imagination.

Thursday, January 15

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.

Thursday, January 15

Young Man's Fancy

Season 3 • Episode 34

Newlywed Alex Walker returns to his home and yearns for the days of his childhood.

Thursday, January 15

I Sing the Body Electric

Season 3 • Episode 35

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

Thursday, January 15

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).

Thursday, January 15

In Praise of Pip

Season 5 • Episode 1

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

Thursday, January 15

Steel

Season 5 • Episode 2

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

Thursday, January 15

A Kind of Stopwatch

Season 5 • Episode 4

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

Thursday, January 15

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.

Thursday, January 15

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, January 16

The Rip Van Winkle Caper

Season 2 • Episode 24

Four men pull off a perfect heist, then plan to hide out until they can safely spend their loot.

Friday, January 16

Uncle Simon

Season 5 • Episode 8

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

Friday, January 16

Night Call

Season 5 • Episode 19

A woman confined to her bed and wheelchair is haunted by mysterious phone calls on a dead line.

Friday, January 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.

Friday, January 16

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.

Friday, January 16

Ninety Years Without Slumbering

Season 5 • Episode 12

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

Friday, January 16

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.

Friday, January 16

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.

Friday, January 16

Number Twelve Looks Just Like You

Season 5 • Episode 17

An ugly duckling can be stunning in a world of beautiful people.

Friday, January 16

The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Season 5 • Episode 27536916

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

Saturday, January 17

The Silence

Season 2 • Episode 25

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

Sunday, January 18

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.

Monday, January 19

Shadow Play

Season 2 • Episode 26

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

Monday, January 19

Spur of the Moment

Season 5 • Episode 21

While horseback riding, a wealthy girl is nearly run down by another woman, who chases her.

Monday, January 19

Queen of the Nile

Season 5 • Episode 23

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

Monday, January 19

What's in the Box?

Season 5 • Episode 24

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

Monday, January 19

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.

Monday, January 19

Sounds and Silences

Season 5 • Episode 26110212

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

Monday, January 19

Caesar and Me

Season 5 • Episode 28

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

Monday, January 19

The Jeopardy Room

Season 5 • Episode 29

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

Tuesday, January 20

The Mind and the Matter

Season 2 • Episode 27

Archibald Beechcroft discovers that he can will anything he wants.

Tuesday, January 20

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.

Tuesday, January 20

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.

Tuesday, January 20

The Fear

Season 5 • Episode 35

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

Tuesday, January 20

The Bewitchin' Pool

Season 5 • Episode 36

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

Tuesday, January 20

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, January 20

The Lonely

Season 1 • Episode 7

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

Wednesday, January 21

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, January 21

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, January 21

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.

Wednesday, January 21

Third From the Sun

Season 1 • Episode 14

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

Wednesday, January 21

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.

Wednesday, January 21

Long Live Walter Jameson

Season 1 • Episode 24

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

Wednesday, January 21

The After Hours

Season 1 • Episode 34

Marsha White goes to a department store to buy a gold thimble.

Wednesday, January 21

The Howling Man

Season 2 • Episode 5

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

Wednesday, January 21

Nick of Time

Season 2 • Episode 7

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

Thursday, January 22

The Obsolete Man

Season 2 • Episode 29

Librarian Romney Wordsworth is condemned to death for obsolescence.

Thursday, January 22

A Most Unusual Camera

Season 2 • Episode 10

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

Thursday, January 22

The Night of the Meek

Season 2 • Episode 11

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

Thursday, January 22

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, January 22

Static

Season 2 • Episode 20

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

Thursday, January 22

Two

Season 3 • Episode 1

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

Friday, January 23

Two

Season 3 • Episode 1

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

Friday, January 23

Probe 7: Over & Out

Season 5 • Episode 9

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

Friday, January 23

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.

Friday, January 23

Black Leather Jackets

Season 5 • Episode 18

Tough aliens from outer space try to poison the population of earth.

Friday, January 23

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.

Friday, January 23

Mr. Denton on Doomsday

Season 1 • Episode 3

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

Friday, January 23

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.

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