The Twilight Zone (1959)
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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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