The original The Twilight Zone anthology series began on October 2, 1959, and ended on June 19, 1964, with five seasons and 156 episodes. It was created by Rod Serling and broadcast on CBS.
Later popularity of the series brought about a 1983 feature film and three "revival" television series in 1985, 2002, and 2019, though none reached the same level of success as the original run.
Rod Serling wrote a teleplay intending for it to be the pilot episode of a new series called The Twilight Zone. Although it ended up airing on a different show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse , it is considered the seed episode and has even been adapted as one of The Twilight Zone radio-show episodes.
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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"The Time Element" | Allen Reisner | Rod Serling | November 24, 1958 | |
A man (William Bendix) visits a psychoanalyst (Martin Balsam), complaining about a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu just prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, which takes a major psychological toll. |
The pilot episode for the series was called "Where is Everybody?" The episode was reformatted when included in the series. It differs from the broadcast episode in only minor ways.
Note: Episode titles were not shown on screen, but were announced by Serling at the end of the preceding week's episode. "Where is Everybody?" is an exception, as it was the first episode. Serling's promotional announcements were stripped from syndicated versions of season one, but restored (often only in audio form) on the Image Entertainment DVD releases. They have since been fully restored on the Blu-ray releases.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Music by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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1 | 1 | "Where Is Everybody?" | Robert Stevens | Rod Serling | Bernard Herrmann | October 2, 1959 | 173-3601 |
2 | 2 | "One for the Angels" | Robert Parrish | Rod Serling | N/A | October 9, 1959 | 173-3608 |
3 | 3 | "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" | Allen Reisner | Rod Serling | N/A | October 16, 1959 | 173-3609 |
4 | 4 | "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" | Mitchell Leisen | Rod Serling | Franz Waxman | October 23, 1959 | 173-3610 |
5 | 5 | "Walking Distance" | Robert Stevens | Rod Serling | Bernard Herrmann | October 30, 1959 | 173-3605 |
6 | 6 | "Escape Clause" | Mitchell Leisen | Rod Serling | N/A | November 6, 1959 | 173-3603 |
7 | 7 | "The Lonely" | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | Bernard Herrmann | November 13, 1959 | 173-3602 |
8 | 8 | "Time Enough at Last" | John Brahm | Based on a short story by : Lynn Venable Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Leith Stevens | November 20, 1959 | 173-3614 |
9 | 9 | "Perchance to Dream" | Robert Florey | Charles Beaumont | Van Cleave | November 27, 1959 | 173-3616 |
10 | 10 | "Judgment Night" | John Brahm | Rod Serling | N/A | December 4, 1959 | 173-3604 |
11 | 11 | "And When the Sky Was Opened" | Douglas Heyes | Based on a short story by : Richard Matheson Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Leonard Rosenman | December 11, 1959 | 173-3611 |
12 | 12 | "What You Need" | Alvin Ganzer | Based on a short story by : Lewis Padgett Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Van Cleave | December 25, 1959 | 173-3622 |
13 | 13 | "The Four of Us Are Dying" | John Brahm | Based on a short story by : George Clayton Johnson Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Jerry Goldsmith | January 1, 1960 | 173-3618 |
14 | 14 | "Third from the Sun" | Richard L. Bare | Based on a short story by : Richard Matheson Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | January 8, 1960 | 173-3615 |
15 | 15 | "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" | Stuart Rosenberg | Based on a story by : Madelon Champion Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | January 15, 1960 | 173-3626 |
16 | 16 | "The Hitch-Hiker" | Alvin Ganzer | Based on the radio play by : Lucille Fletcher Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | January 22, 1960 | 173-3612 |
17 | 17 | "The Fever" | Robert Florey | Rod Serling | N/A | January 29, 1960 | 173-3627 |
18 | 18 | "The Last Flight" | William F. Claxton | Richard Matheson | N/A | February 5, 1960 | 173-3607 |
19 | 19 | "The Purple Testament" | Richard L. Bare | Rod Serling | Lucien Moraweck | February 12, 1960 | 173-3619 |
20 | 20 | "Elegy" | Douglas Heyes | Charles Beaumont | Van Cleave | February 19, 1960 | 173-3625 |
21 | 21 | "Mirror Image" | John Brahm | Rod Serling | N/A | February 26, 1960 | 173-3623 |
22 | 22 | "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" | Ronald Winston | Rod Serling | Rene Garriguenc | March 4, 1960 | 173-3620 |
23 | 23 | "A World of Difference" | Ted Post | Richard Matheson | Van Cleave | March 11, 1960 | 173-3624 |
24 | 24 | "Long Live Walter Jameson" | Anton Leader | Charles Beaumont | N/A | March 18, 1960 | 173-3621 |
25 | 25 | "People Are Alike All Over" | Mitchell Leisen | Based on a short story by : Paul W. Fairman Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | March 25, 1960 | 173-3613 |
26 | 26 | "Execution" | David Orrick McDearmon | Based on a short story by : George Clayton Johnson Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | April 1, 1960 | 173-3628 |
27 | 27 | "The Big Tall Wish" | Ronald Winston | Rod Serling | Jerry Goldsmith | April 8, 1960 | 173-3630 |
28 | 28 | "A Nice Place to Visit" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | N/A | April 15, 1960 | 173-3632 |
29 | 29 | "Nightmare as a Child" | Alvin Ganzer | Rod Serling | Jerry Goldsmith | April 29, 1960 | 173-3635 |
30 | 30 | "A Stop at Willoughby" | Robert Parrish | Rod Serling | Nathan Scott | May 6, 1960 | 173-3629 |
31 | 31 | "The Chaser" | Douglas Heyes | Based on a short story by : John Collier Teleplay by : Robert Presnell, Jr. | N/A | May 13, 1960 | 173-3636 |
32 | 32 | "A Passage for Trumpet" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | Lyn Murray | May 20, 1960 | 173-3633 |
33 | 33 | "Mr. Bevis" | William Asher | Rod Serling | N/A | June 3, 1960 | 173-3631 |
34 | 34 | "The After Hours" | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | N/A | June 10, 1960 | 173-3637 |
35 | 35 | "The Mighty Casey" | Alvin Ganzer Robert Parrish | Rod Serling | N/A | June 17, 1960 | 173-3617 |
36 | 36 | "A World of His Own" | Ralph Nelson | Richard Matheson | N/A | July 1, 1960 | 173-3634 |
Unlike season 1, episode titles were shown on screen during the end credits.
Six consecutive episodes (production code #173-3662 through #173-3667) of this season were recorded on videotape (not on film as were all other episodes) at CBS Television City, as a cost-cutting measure mandated by CBS programming head James T. Aubrey. They are "The Lateness of the Hour", "The Night of the Meek", "The Whole Truth", "Twenty Two", "Static", and "Long Distance Call". These have a visual appearance which is distinctly different from those of episodes shot on film. In addition, videotape was a relatively primitive medium in the early 1960s; the editing of tape was next to impossible. Each of the episodes was therefore "camera-cut" as in live TV—on a studio sound stage, using a total of four cameras. The requisite multi-camera setup of the videotape experiment made location shooting difficult, severely limiting the potential scope of the storylines, so the short-lived experiment was abandoned.
"A Most Unusual Camera" was produced for season one, but it ended up in season two for unknown reasons.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Music by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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37 | 1 | "King Nine Will Not Return" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | Fred Steiner | September 30, 1960 | 173-3639 |
38 | 2 | "The Man in the Bottle" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | N/A | October 7, 1960 | 173-3638 |
39 | 3 | "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | Jerry Goldsmith | October 14, 1960 | 173-3641 |
40 | 4 | "A Thing About Machines" | David Orrick McDearmon | Rod Serling | N/A | October 28, 1960 | 173-3645 |
41 | 5 | "The Howling Man" | Douglas Heyes | Charles Beaumont | N/A | November 4, 1960 | 173-3642 |
42 | 6 | "Eye of the Beholder" "The Private World of Darkness" | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | Bernard Herrmann | November 11, 1960 | 173-3640 |
43 | 7 | "Nick of Time" | Richard L. Bare | Richard Matheson | N/A | November 18, 1960 | 173-3643 |
44 | 8 | "The Lateness of the Hour" | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | N/A | December 2, 1960 | 173-3662 |
45 | 9 | "The Trouble with Templeton" | Buzz Kulik | E. Jack Neuman | Jeff Alexander | December 9, 1960 | 173-3649 |
46 | 10 | "A Most Unusual Camera" | John Rich | Rod Serling | N/A | December 16, 1960 | 173-3606 |
47 | 11 | "The Night of the Meek" | Jack Smight | Rod Serling | N/A | December 23, 1960 | 173-3665 |
48 | 12 | "Dust" | Douglas Heyes | Rod Serling | Jerry Goldsmith | January 6, 1961 | 173-3653 |
49 | 13 | "Back There" | David Orrick McDearmon | Rod Serling | Jerry Goldsmith | January 13, 1961 | 173-3648 |
50 | 14 | "The Whole Truth" | James Sheldon | Rod Serling | N/A | January 20, 1961 | 173-3664 |
51 | 15 | "The Invaders" | Douglas Heyes | Richard Matheson | Jerry Goldsmith | January 27, 1961 | 173-3646 |
52 | 16 | "A Penny for Your Thoughts" | James Sheldon | George Clayton Johnson | N/A | February 3, 1961 | 173-3650 |
53 | 17 | "Twenty Two" | Jack Smight | Based on an anecdote by : Bennett Cerf Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | February 10, 1961 | 173-3666 |
54 | 18 | "The Odyssey of Flight 33" | Jus Addiss | Rod Serling | N/A | February 24, 1961 | 173-3651 |
55 | 19 | "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" | John Brahm | Rod Serling | N/A | March 3, 1961 | 173-3644 |
56 | 20 | "Static" | Buzz Kulik | Based on a story by : OCee Ritch Teleplay by : Charles Beaumont | N/A | March 10, 1961 | 173-3663 |
57 | 21 | "The Prime Mover" | Richard L. Bare | Charles Beaumont | N/A | March 24, 1961 | 173-3647 |
58 | 22 | "Long Distance Call" | James Sheldon | Charles Beaumont and William Idelson | N/A | March 31, 1961 | 173-3667 |
59 | 23 | "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | Fred Steiner | April 7, 1961 | 173-3654 |
60 | 24 | "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" | Jus Addiss | Rod Serling | N/A | April 21, 1961 | 173-3655 |
61 | 25 | "The Silence" | Boris Sagal | Rod Serling | N/A | April 28, 1961 | 173-3658 |
62 | 26 | "Shadow Play" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | N/A | May 5, 1961 | 173-3657 |
63 | 27 | "The Mind and the Matter" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | N/A | May 12, 1961 | 173-3659 |
64 | 28 | "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" | Montgomery Pittman | Rod Serling | N/A | May 26, 1961 | 173-3660 |
65 | 29 | "The Obsolete Man" | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | N/A | June 2, 1961 | 173-3661 |
Beginning with this season, episode titles were shown on screen after Serling's opening monologues. "The Grave" and "Nothing in the Dark" are the exceptions since they were produced for season two.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Music by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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66 | 1 | "Two" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | Van Cleave | September 15, 1961 | 4802 |
67 | 2 | "The Arrival" | Boris Sagal | Rod Serling | N/A | September 22, 1961 | 4814 |
68 | 3 | "The Shelter" | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | N/A | September 29, 1961 | 4803 |
69 | 4 | "The Passersby" | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | Fred Steiner | October 6, 1961 | 4817 |
70 | 5 | "A Game of Pool" | Buzz Kulik | George Clayton Johnson | N/A | October 13, 1961 | 4815 |
71 | 6 | "The Mirror" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | N/A | October 20, 1961 | 4819 |
72 | 7 | "The Grave" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | N/A | October 27, 1961 | 3656 |
73 | 8 | "It's a Good Life" | James Sheldon | Based on a short story by : Jerome Bixby Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | November 3, 1961 | 4801 |
74 | 9 | "Deaths-Head Revisited" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | N/A | November 10, 1961 | 4804 |
75 | 10 | "The Midnight Sun" | Anton Leader | Rod Serling | Van Cleave | November 17, 1961 | 4818 |
76 | 11 | "Still Valley" | James Sheldon | Based on a short story by : Manly Wade Wellman Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Wilbur Hatch | November 24, 1961 | 4808 |
77 | 12 | "The Jungle" | William F. Claxton | Charles Beaumont | N/A | December 1, 1961 | 4806 |
78 | 13 | "Once Upon a Time" | Norman Z. McLeod | Richard Matheson | William Lava Ray Turner | December 15, 1961 | 4820 |
79 | 14 | "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" | Lamont Johnson | Based on a short story by : Marvin Petal Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | December 22, 1961 | 4805 |
80 | 15 | "A Quality of Mercy" | Buzz Kulik | Based on an idea by : Sam Rolfe Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | December 29, 1961 | 4809 |
81 | 16 | "Nothing in the Dark" | Lamont Johnson | George Clayton Johnson | N/A | January 5, 1962 | 3652 |
82 | 17 | "One More Pallbearer" | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | N/A | January 12, 1962 | 4823 |
83 | 18 | "Dead Man's Shoes" | Montgomery Pittman | Charles Beaumont | N/A | January 19, 1962 | 4824 |
84 | 19 | "The Hunt" | Harold Schuster | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Robert Drasnin | January 26, 1962 | 4810 |
85 | 20 | "Showdown with Rance McGrew" | Christian Nyby | Based on an idea by : Frederic Louis Fox Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | February 2, 1962 | 4812 |
86 | 21 | "Kick the Can" | Lamont Johnson | George Clayton Johnson | N/A | February 9, 1962 | 4821 |
87 | 22 | "A Piano in the House" | David Greene | Earl Hamner, Jr. | N/A | February 16, 1962 | 4825 |
88 | 23 | "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | Tommy Morgan | February 23, 1962 | 4811 |
89 | 24 | "To Serve Man" | Richard L. Bare | Based on a short story by : Damon Knight Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | March 2, 1962 | 4807 |
90 | 25 | "The Fugitive" | Richard L. Bare | Charles Beaumont | N/A | March 9, 1962 | 4816 |
91 | 26 | "Little Girl Lost" | Paul Stewart | Richard Matheson | Bernard Herrmann | March 16, 1962 | 4828 |
92 | 27 | "Person or Persons Unknown" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | N/A | March 23, 1962 | 4829 |
93 | 28 | "The Little People" | William F. Claxton | Rod Serling | N/A | March 30, 1962 | 4822 |
94 | 29 | "Four O'Clock" | Lamont Johnson | Based on a short story by : Price Day Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | April 6, 1962 | 4832 |
95 | 30 | "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" | Lamont Johnson | Based on a story by : Frederic Louis Fox Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Tommy Morgan | April 13, 1962 | 4833 |
96 | 31 | "The Trade-Ins" | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | N/A | April 20, 1962 | 4831 |
97 | 32 | "The Gift" | Allen H. Miner | Rod Serling | Laurindo Almeida | April 27, 1962 | 4830 |
98 | 33 | "The Dummy" | Abner Biberman | Based on a story by : Lee Polk Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | May 4, 1962 | 4834 |
99 | 34 | "Young Man's Fancy" | John Brahm | Richard Matheson | Nathan Scott | May 11, 1962 | 4813 |
100 | 35 | "I Sing the Body Electric" | William F. Claxton and James Sheldon | Ray Bradbury | Van Cleave | May 18, 1962 | 4826 |
101 | 36 | "Cavender Is Coming" | Christian Nyby | Rod Serling | N/A | May 25, 1962 | 4827 |
102 | 37 | "The Changing of the Guard" | Robert Ellis Miller | Rod Serling | N/A | June 1, 1962 | 4835 |
For season four, the series was lengthened to one hour and moved to Thursdays at 9:30 pm (Eastern Time), replacing Fair Exchange on the schedule.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Music by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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103 | 1 | "In His Image" | Perry Lafferty | Charles Beaumont | N/A | January 3, 1963 | 4851 |
104 | 2 | "The Thirty Fathom Grave" | Perry Lafferty | Rod Serling | N/A | January 10, 1963 | 4857 |
105 | 3 | "Valley of the Shadow" | Perry Lafferty | Charles Beaumont | N/A | January 17, 1963 | 4861 |
106 | 4 | "He's Alive" | Stuart Rosenberg | Rod Serling | N/A | January 24, 1963 | 4856 |
107 | 5 | "Mute" | Stuart Rosenberg | Richard Matheson | Fred Steiner | January 31, 1963 | 4858 |
108 | 6 | "Death Ship" | Don Medford | Richard Matheson | N/A | February 7, 1963 | 4850 |
109 | 7 | "Jess-Belle" | Buzz Kulik | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Van Cleave | February 14, 1963 | 4855 |
110 | 8 | "Miniature" | Walter Grauman | Charles Beaumont | Fred Steiner | February 21, 1963 | 4862 |
111 | 9 | "Printer's Devil" | Ralph Senensky | Charles Beaumont | N/A | February 28, 1963 | 4864 |
112 | 10 | "No Time Like the Past" | Justus Addiss | Rod Serling | N/A | March 7, 1963 | 4853 |
113 | 11 | "The Parallel" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Rod Serling | N/A | March 14, 1963 | 4859 |
114 | 12 | "I Dream of Genie" | Robert Gist | John Furia, Jr. | Fred Steiner | March 21, 1963 | 4860 |
115 | 13 | "The New Exhibit" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | N/A | April 4, 1963 | 4866 |
116 | 14 | "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" | David Lowell Rich | Based on the short story "Blind Alley" by : Malcolm Jameson Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | April 11, 1963 | 4867 |
117 | 15 | "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" | Abner Biberman | Reginald Rose | N/A | April 18, 1963 | 4854 |
118 | 16 | "On Thursday We Leave for Home" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | N/A | May 2, 1963 | 4868 |
119 | 17 | "Passage on the Lady Anne" | Lamont Johnson | Charles Beaumont | Rene Garriguenc | May 9, 1963 | 4869 |
120 | 18 | "The Bard" | David Butler | Rod Serling | Fred Steiner | May 23, 1963 | 4852 |
In the fifth and final season, the series went back to a half-hour format, returned to a fall start, and aired Fridays at 9:30 pm (Eastern Time) on CBS.
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Music by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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121 | 1 | "In Praise of Pip" | Joseph M. Newman | Rod Serling | Rene Garriguenc | September 27, 1963 | 2607 |
122 | 2 | "Steel" | Don Weis | Richard Matheson | Van Cleave | October 4, 1963 | 2602 |
123 | 3 | "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" | Richard Donner | Richard Matheson | N/A | October 11, 1963 | 2605 |
124 | 4 | "A Kind of a Stopwatch" | John Rich | Based on a story by : Michael D. Rosenthal Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Van Cleave | October 18, 1963 | 2609 |
125 | 5 | "The Last Night of a Jockey" | Joseph M. Newman | Rod Serling | N/A | October 25, 1963 | 2616 |
126 | 6 | "Living Doll" | Richard C. Sarafian | Charles Beaumont | Bernard Herrmann | November 1, 1963 | 2621 |
127 | 7 | "The Old Man in the Cave" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Based on the short story "The Old Man" by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | November 8, 1963 | 2603 |
128 | 8 | "Uncle Simon" | Don Siegel | Rod Serling | N/A | November 15, 1963 | 2604 |
129 | 9 | "Probe 7, Over and Out" | Ted Post | Rod Serling | N/A | November 29, 1963 | 2622 |
130 | 10 | "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Rod Serling | N/A | December 6, 1963 | 2606 |
131 | 11 | "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" | Bernard Girard | Based on a story by : Lou Holz Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | December 13, 1963 | 2614 |
132 | 12 | "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" | Roger Kay | Story by : George Clayton Johnson [a] Teleplay by : Richard De Roy | Bernard Herrmann | December 20, 1963 | 2615 |
133 | 13 | "Ring-a-Ding Girl" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Earl Hamner, Jr. | N/A | December 27, 1963 | 2623 |
134 | 14 | "You Drive" | John Brahm | Earl Hamner, Jr. | N/A | January 3, 1964 | 2625 |
135 | 15 | "The Long Morrow" | Robert Florey | Rod Serling | N/A | January 10, 1964 | 2624 |
136 | 16 | "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" | Don Siegel | Based on a short story by : Henry Slesar Teleplay by : Jerry McNeely | N/A | January 17, 1964 | 2612 |
137 | 17 | "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" | Abner Biberman | Charles Beaumont and John Tomerlin | N/A | January 24, 1964 | 2618 |
138 | 18 | "Black Leather Jackets" | Joseph M. Newman | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Van Cleave | January 31, 1964 | 2628 |
139 | 19 | "Night Call" | Jacques Tourneur | Richard Matheson | N/A | February 7, 1964 [b] | 2610 |
140 | 20 | "From Agnes—With Love" | Richard Donner | Bernard C. Schoenfeld | Van Cleave | February 14, 1964 | 2629 |
141 | 21 | "Spur of the Moment" | Elliot Silverstein | Richard Matheson | Rene Garriguenc | February 21, 1964 | 2608 |
142 | 22 | "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" | Robert Enrico | From a story by : Ambrose Bierce Adapted by : Robert Enrico | Henri Lanoe | February 28, 1964 | N/A |
143 | 23 | "Queen of the Nile" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | Lucien Moraweck | March 6, 1964 | 2626 |
144 | 24 | "What's in the Box" | Richard L. Bare | Martin M. Goldsmith | N/A | March 13, 1964 | 2635 |
145 | 25 | "The Masks" | Ida Lupino | Rod Serling | N/A | March 20, 1964 | 2601 |
146 | 26 | "I Am the Night—Color Me Black" | Abner Biberman | Rod Serling | N/A | March 27, 1964 | 2630 |
147 | 27 | "Sounds and Silences" | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | N/A | April 3, 1964 | 2631 |
148 | 28 | "Caesar and Me" | Robert Butler | Adele T. Strassfield | Richard Shores | April 10, 1964 | 2636 |
149 | 29 | "The Jeopardy Room" | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | N/A | April 17, 1964 | 2639 |
150 | 30 | "Stopover in a Quiet Town" "Strangers in Town" | Ron Winston | Earl Hamner, Jr. | N/A | April 24, 1964 | 2611 |
151 | 31 | "The Encounter" | Robert Butler | Martin M. Goldsmith | N/A | May 1, 1964 | 2640 |
152 | 32 | "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" | Ted Post | Based on a story by : Mike Korologos Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Tommy Morgan | May 8, 1964 | 2637 |
153 | 33 | "The Brain Center at Whipple's" | Richard Donner | Rod Serling | N/A | May 15, 1964 | 2632 |
154 | 34 | "Come Wander with Me" | Richard Donner | Anthony Wilson | Jeff Alexander | May 22, 1964 | 2641 |
155 | 35 | "The Fear" | Ted Post | Rod Serling | N/A | May 29, 1964 | 2633 |
156 | 36 | "The Bewitchin' Pool" | Joseph M. Newman | Earl Hamner, Jr. | N/A | June 19, 1964 | 2619 |
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The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series which aired from September 27, 1985, to April 15, 1989. It is the first of three revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1959–64 television series, and like the original it featured a variety of speculative fiction, commonly containing characters from a seemingly normal world stumbling into paranormal circumstances. Unlike the original, however, most episodes contained multiple self-contained stories instead of just one. The voice-over narrations were still present, but were not a regular feature as they were in the original series; some episodes had only an opening narration, some had only a closing narration, and some had no narration at all. The multi-segment format liberated the series from the usual time constraints of episodic television, allowing stories ranging in length from 8-minutes to 40-minute mini-movies. The series ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
Playhouse 90 is an American television anthology drama series that aired on CBS from 1956 to 1960 for a total of 133 episodes. The show was produced at CBS Television City in Los Angeles, California. Since live anthology drama series of the mid-1950s usually were hour-long shows, the title highlighted the network's intention to present something unusual: a weekly series of hour-and-a-half-long dramas rather than 60-minute plays.
The Twilight Zone is a nationally syndicated radio drama series featuring radio play adaptations of the classic 1959–1964 television series The Twilight Zone. The series was produced for the British digital radio station BBC Radio 4 Extra airing for 176 episodes between October 2002 and 2012. In the United States, it aired on nearly 200 radio stations including WCCO, KSL, KOA, WIND, XM Satellite Radio channel 163 and Sirius XM Book Radio. Most of the stations aired two episodes each week, usually on the weekends and many times back to back.
The Twilight Zone is an American fantasy science fiction horror anthology television series created and presented by Rod Serling, which ran for five seasons on CBS from October 2, 1959, to June 19, 1964. Each episode presents a standalone story in which characters find themselves dealing with often disturbing or unusual events, an experience described as entering "the Twilight Zone", often with a surprise ending and a moral. Although often considered predominantly science-fiction, the show's paranormal and Kafkaesque events leaned the show much closer to fantasy and horror. The phrase "twilight zone" has entered the vernacular, used to describe surreal experiences.
The Loner is an American Western television series that played for one season on CBS from 1965 to 1966, with the alternate sponsorship of Philip Morris and Procter & Gamble. The series was created by Rod Serling a year after the cancellation of the series The Twilight Zone. It was one of the last TV series broadcast by CBS in black-and-white.
Fair Exchange is an American television sitcom that ran from September 21, 1962 to December 28, 1962 and from March 28, 1963 to September 19, 1963 on CBS. It starred Judy Carne.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on the Columbia Broadcasting System between 1958 and 1960. Three of its 48 episodes served as pilots for the 1950s television series The Twilight Zone and The Untouchables.
The Twilight Zone is a science fiction horror anthology television series, presented by Forest Whitaker. It is the second of three revivals of Rod Serling's original 1959–64 television series. It aired for one season on the UPN network, with actor Forest Whitaker assuming Serling's role as narrator and on-screen host. It was a co-production between Spirit Dance Entertainment, Trilogy Entertainment Group, Joshmax Productions Services, and New Line Television. It premiered on September 18, 2002, and aired its final episode on May 21, 2003.
The first season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm (EST) on CBS from October 2, 1959, to July 1, 1960. There are 36 episodes, including the pilot, "Where Is Everybody?" The theme music for this season, written by Bernard Herrmann, is different from the music most commonly associated with the series, written by Marius Constant for the second season onwards.
The Twilight Zone is an American anthology television series developed by Simon Kinberg, Jordan Peele, and Marco Ramirez, based on the original 1959 television series created by Rod Serling. Peele serves as narrator, in addition to executive producing through Monkeypaw Productions. The weekly series premiered on April 1, 2019, on CBS All Access, and was renewed for a second season halfway through its first set of 10 episodes. The second season was released in its entirety on June 25, 2020. In February 2021, the producers announced the series would not return for additional seasons.