The Twilight Zone (1959)
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Upcoming TV Airings
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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 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.
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