The Twilight Zone
Season 1
195936 episodes
The first season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm 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 Herrman, is different from the music most commonly associated with the series, written by Marius Constant for the second season onwards.
Episode 1
Where Is Everybody?
Oct 2, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.6TMDB
Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
Episode 2
One for the Angels
Oct 9, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
Episode 3
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Oct 16, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
Episode 4
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Oct 23, 195926m
TMDB rating 6.8TMDB
An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
Episode 5
Walking Distance
Oct 30, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.8TMDB
A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child.
Episode 6
Escape Clause
Nov 6, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.2TMDB
A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
Episode 7
The Lonely
Nov 13, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.7TMDB
In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.
Episode 8
Time Enough at Last
Nov 20, 195926m
TMDB rating 8.2TMDB
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
Episode 9
Perchance to Dream
Nov 27, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.1TMDB
A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
Episode 10
Judgment Night
Dec 4, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.
Episode 11
And When the Sky Was Opened
Dec 11, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.8TMDB
Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.
Episode 12
What You Need
Dec 25, 195926m
TMDB rating 7.7TMDB
A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
Episode 13
The Four of Us are Dying
Jan 1, 196026m
TMDB rating 6.9TMDB
In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
Episode 14
Third from the Sun
Jan 8, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
Episode 15
I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Jan 15, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.4TMDB
Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.
Episode 16
The Hitch-Hiker
Jan 22, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.6TMDB
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.
Episode 17
The Fever
Jan 29, 196026m
TMDB rating 6.4TMDB
Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name.
Episode 18
The Last Flight
Feb 5, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
Episode 19
The Purple Testament
Feb 12, 196026m
TMDB rating 6.9TMDB
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on the faces of his men before battle.
Episode 20
Elegy
Feb 19, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
Episode 21
Mirror Image
Feb 26, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.4TMDB
In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
Episode 22
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Mar 4, 196026m
TMDB rating 8.0TMDB
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
Episode 23
A World of Difference
Mar 11, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.4TMDB
Arthur Curtis, a successful businessman sitting in his office discovers that he is on a film set and everyone refers to him as Gerry Reagan, a movie star struggling with alcoholism and a declining career.
Episode 24
Long Live Walter Jameson
Mar 18, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.4TMDB
Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.
Episode 25
People are Alike All Over
Mar 25, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.7TMDB
After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.
Episode 26
Execution
Apr 1, 196026m
TMDB rating 6.6TMDB
Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.
Episode 27
The Big Tall Wish
Apr 8, 196026m
TMDB rating 6.3TMDB
Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent during a comeback fight, turning the tide in his favor.
Episode 28
A Nice Place to Visit
Apr 15, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.3TMDB
After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.
Episode 29
Nightmare as a Child
Apr 29, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.2TMDB
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory about a man she saw earlier that day.
Episode 30
A Stop at Willoughby
May 6, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.9TMDB
Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called Willoughby.
Episode 31
The Chaser
May 13, 196026m
TMDB rating 6.7TMDB
A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, seeks the help of an old professor, who provides him with a love potion.
Episode 32
A Passage for Trumpet
May 20, 196026m
TMDB rating 6.8TMDB
A down-and-out trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.
Episode 33
Mr. Bevis
Jun 3, 196026m
TMDB rating 6.5TMDB
After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.
Episode 34
The After Hours
Jun 10, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist.
Episode 35
The Mighty Casey
Jun 17, 196026m
TMDB rating 5.8TMDB
A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
Episode 36
A World of His Own
Jul 1, 196026m
TMDB rating 7.6TMDB
Coming home, Victoria catches her husband Gregory flirting with a beautiful woman in his study. His explanation that characters come to life before his eyes when he speaks into his dictation machine, leads Victoria to question his sanity.