THE TWILIGHT ZONE (1959 - 1964)

 




















Created by: Rod Serling
Directed by: Justus Addiss, William Asher, Richard L. Bare, Abner Biberman, John Brahm, David Butler, Robert Butler, William F. Claxton, Alan Crosland Jr, Richard Donner, Robert Enrico, Robert Florey, Alvin Ganzer, Bernard Girard, Robert Gist, Walter Grauman, David Greene, Douglas Heyes, Lamont Johnson, Roger Kay, Buzz Kulik, Perry Lafferty, Anton Leader, Mitchell Leisen, Ida Lupino, David Orrick McDearmon, Norman Z. McLeod, Don Medford, Robert Ellis Miller, Allen H. Miner, Ralph Nelson, Joseph M. Newman, Christian Nyby, Robert Parrish, Montgomery Pittman, Ted Post, Allen Reisner, David Lowell Rich, John Rich, Stuart Rosenberg, Boris Sagal, Richard C. Sarafian, Harold Schuster, Ralph Senensky, James Sheldon, Don Siegel, Elliot Silverstein, Jack Smight, Robert Stevens, Paul Stewart, Jacques Tourneur, Don Weis, Ronald Winston
Starring: Philip Abbott, Dorothy Adams, Mary Adams, Stanley Adams, Louis Adelin, Jay Adler, Luther Adler, Brian Aherne, Charles Aidman, Claude Akins, Jack Albertson, Hardie Albright, Frank Aletter, Denise Alexander, Clark Allen, Elizabeth Allen, Sheldon Allman, John A. Alonzo, Totty Ames, John Anderson, Dana Andrews, Edward Andrews, Tod Andrews, Richard Angarola, John Archer, David Armstrong, R.G. Armstrong, Phil Arnold, John Astin, Malcolm Atterbury, Barry Atwater, Renee Aubry, Jacques Aubuchon, Eleanor Audley, Pam Austin, Val Avery, Mary Badham, Raymond Bailey, Shirley Ballard, Martin Balsam, Trevor Bardette, Rayford Barnes, Vickie Barnes, Leslie Barrett, Barbara Barrie, Patricia Barry, Harry Bartell, Martine Bartlett, Anne Barton, Wolfe Barzell, Richard Basehart, Joe Bassett, Arthur Batanides, Jeanne Bates, Barbara Baxley, Paul Baxley, Orson Bean, Billy Beck, Terry Becker, Henry Beckman, Bonnie Beecher, Frank Behrens, Fred Beir, Leon Belasco, Russ Bender, Billy Benedict, Marjorie Bennett, Tony Benson, Oscar Beregi Jr, Shelley Berman, Barry Bernard, Joseph Bernard, Shari Lee Bernath, James Best, Clem Bevans, Philippa Bevans, Theodore Bikel, Edward Binns, Bill Bixby, Larry J. Blake, Joan Blondell, Larry Blyden, Ann Blyth, Lloyd Bochner, Merritt Bohn, Jim Boles, John Bolt, David Bond, Robert Boon, Randy Boone, Billy Booth, John Bose, Willis Bouchey, Antoinette Bower, Rudy Bowman, Leslie Bradley, Neville Brand, Chet Brandenburg, Robert Bray, Larry Breitman, Patricia Breslin, Morgan Brittany, Peter Brocco, James Broderick, Charles Bronson, Walter Brooke, Beverly Brown, Helen Brown, Lew Brown, Robert Brubaker, Claudia Bryar, Paul Bryar, Edgar Buchanan, Jane Burgess, Walter Burke, Carol Burnett, Terry Burnham, Bart Burns, Michael Burns, Carol Byron, Jeffrey Byron, Sebastian Cabot, Howard Caine, King Calder, James T. Callahan, Antony Carbone, Charles S. Carlson, Art Carney, John Carradine, Jack Carson, Jean Carson, Conlan Carter, Veronica Cartwright, Mary Carver, Seymour Cassel, Jerry Catron, Marc Cavell, William Challee, Joan Chambers, Phil Chambers, George Chandler, Linden Chiles, Virginia Christine, Dane Clark, Fred Clark, Gage Clark, John Clarke, John Cliff, James Coburn, Steve Cochran, Russell Collins, Sheridan Comerate, Paul Comi, Norma Connolly, Michael Conrad, John Considine, Michael Constantine, Richard Conte, Curt Conway, John Conwell, Philip Coolidge, Ben Cooper, Gladys Cooper, Jackie Cooper, Jeanne Cooper, Maxine Cooper, Henry Corden, Joseph Corey, Anne Cornaly, Robert Cornthwaite, Hazel Court, Kay Cousins Johnson, Jerome Cowan, Wally Cox, Susan Crane, Nick Cravat, John Craven, John Crawford, Gary Crosby, Pat Crowley, Robert Cummings, Susan Cummings, Carmen D'Antonio, Irene Dailey, Maurice Dallimore, James Daly, Pierre Danny, Lili Darvas, Andrea Darvi, Jerry Davis, Roger Davis, June Dayton, Ted de Corsia, Terence De Marney, Francis De Sales, Richard Deacon, Edgar Dearing, John Dehner, Cyril Delevanti, William Demarest, Andy Devine, Laura Devon, Richard Devon, Jacqueline deWit, Bobby Diamond, Dana Dillaway, Ivan Dixon, Molly Dodd, Rudy Dolan, Patricia Donahue, Ludwig Donath, James Doohan, Susan Dorn, Donna Douglas, Ken Drake, Don Dubbins, Howard Duff, Douglass Dumbrille, Angus Duncan, Dexter Dupont, Don Durant, Dan Duryea, Robert Duvall, Robert Eaton, Buddy Ebsen, William Edmonson, Johnny Eiman, Jack Elam, Josip Elic, Ross Elliott, Jill Ellis, June Ellis, Robert Emhardt, Richard Erdman, Ben Erway, Bill Erwin, Douglas Evans, Evans Evans, Jeanne Evans, Shelley Fabares, Peter Falk, William Fawcett, Herbie Faye, Bernard Fein, Frank Ferguson, Stephane Fey, John Fiedler, Elizabeth Fielding, Paul Fix, James Flavin, Harry Fleer, Lester Fletcher, Gertrude Flynn, Joe Flynn, June Foray, Constance Ford, Michael Ford, Michael Forest, Steve Forrest, Donald Foster, Ron Foster, Byron Foulger, Robert Foulk, Michael Fox, Anne Francis, James Franciscus, Camille Franklin, David Fresco, Milton Frome, Alice Frost, Lance Fuller, Lew Gallo, David Garcia, Betty Garde, Beverly Garland, Kelton Garwood, Larry Gates, Don Gazzaniga, Dick Geary, Paul Genge, Betty Lou Gerson, Bobby Gilbert, Connie Gilchrist, Tom Gilleran, Jack Ging, Everett Glass, Ned Glass, Edmund Glover, Lisa Golm, Thomas Gomez, Don Gordon, Gerald Gordon, Susan Gordon, William D. Gordon, Michael Gorfain, Harold Gould, Sandra Gould, Vernon Gray, Austin Green, Raymond Greenleaf, Dabbs Greer, Virginia Gregg, James Gregory, Mary Gregory, Bethelynn Grey, Duane Grey, Jack Grinnage, Claire Griswold, George Grizzard, Joan Hackett, Kevin Hagen, Ron Hagerthy, Kenneth Haigh, Barnaby Hale, Bernie Hamilton, Joe Hamilton, Kim Hamilton, Murray Hamilton, Reid Hammond, Jan Handzlik, Cedric Hardwicke, Betty Harford, John Harmon, Buck Harrington, Jonathan Harris, Susan Harrison, Buddy Hart, Dee Hartford, Mariette Hartley, Paul Hartman, Ed Haskett, Bob Hastings, Tom Hatcher, Joe Haworth, Richard Haydn, Ryan Hayes, Brooke Hayward, Dody Heath, Kim Hector, Wayne Heffley, Jo Helton, Percy Helton, Charles Herbert, Irene Hervey, Douglas Heyes, Barton Heyman, Chuck Hicks, Joe Higgins, Marcel Hillaire, Pat Hingle, Earle Hodgins, Robert J. Hogan, Earl Holliman, Sterling Holloway, Rex Holman, Wendell Holmes, Dennis Hopper, Geoffrey Horne, Russell Horton, Charles Horvath, James Houghton, Jennifer Howard, Ron Howard, Rodolfo Hoyos Jr, Clegg Hoyt, John Hoyt, Billy Hughes, Robin Hughes, Arthur Hunnicutt, Marsha Hunt, Henry Hunter, Josephine Hutchinson, Jim Hutton, Kendrick Huxham, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Diana Hyland, Bill Idelson, Greg Irwin, Dale Ishimoto, Sherry Jackson, Ted Jacques, Roger Jacquet, Dean Jagger, Joyce Jameson, Vivi Janiss, Ann Jillian, Arch W. Johnson, Cissie Johnson, Russell Johnson, Henry Jones, Miranda Jones, Morgan Jones, Donald Journeaux, Byron Kane, Richard Karlan, Robert Karnes, Carolyn Kearney, Buster Keaton, Don Keefer, Noah Keen, William Keene, Michael Keep, Robert Keith, Cecil Kellaway, Sally Kellerman, Mike Kellin, Robert Kelljan, Ray Kellog, Rickey Kelman, Pert Kelton, Edward Kemmer, Warren Kemmerling, Doris Kemper, William Kendis, Madge Kennedy, Sandy Kenyon, Richard Kiel, Wright King, Lenore Kingston, Lee Kinsolving, Ron Kipling, Phyllis Kirk, Helen Kleeb, Jack Klugman, Ted Knight, Gail Kobe, Kenneth Konopka, Danny Kulick, Nancy Kulp, Will Kuluva, Gil Lamb, Douglas Lambert, Paul Lambert, Martin Landau, Muriel Landers, Charles Lane, Paul Langton, Robert Lansing, William Lanteau, John Larch, Mary LaRoche, Anker Larsen, Henry Lascoe, John Lasell, Wesley Lau, S. John Launer, Cloris Leachman, Norman Leavitt, Frederic Ledebur, Ruta Lee, George Lindsey, Joanne Linville, Josie Lloyd, Suzanne Lloyd, Felix Locher, Frank London, Richard Long, Jon Lormer, Donald Losby, Phyllis Love, Celia Lovsky, Tom Lowell, Ida Lupino, Ken Lynch, Denise Lynn, Gene Lyons, Herbert Lytton, Moyna Macgill, David Macklin, Florence MacMichael, Patrick Macnee, George Macready, Maggie Mahoney, Wayne Mallory, Nancy Malone, James Maloney, Jack Mann, Joe Mantell, Ralph Manza, Lori March, Theodore Marcuse, Tammy Marihugh, John Marley, Nora Marlowe, Florence Marly, Lea Marmer, Joe Maross, Jean Marsh, Joan Marshall, Sarah Marshall, Arlene Martel, Dewey Martin, Kreg Martin, Nan Martin, Ross Martin, Strother Martin, Thomas Martin, Lee Marvin, Ron Masak, Murray Matheson, Carmen Mathews, Frank Maxwell, Jenny Maxwell, Asa Maynor, Paul Mazursky, Kevin McCarthy, Doug McClure, Robert McCord, Roddy McDowall, John McGiver, Harp McGuire, Carl McIntire, John McIntire, Emily McLaughlin, William McLean, John McLiam, Horace McMahon, Jenna McMahon, Mary McMahon, Maggie McNamara, Howard McNear, Eve McVeagh, William Meader, Troy Melton, Doro Merande, Burgess Meredith, Gary Merrill, Burt Metcalfe, Vera Miles, Mark Miller, James Millhollin, Martin Milner, William Mims, Nico Minardos, Bob Mitchell, George Mitchell, John Mitchum, Titus Moede, Elizabeth Montgomery, Ralph Moody, Agnes Moorehead, Boyd Red Morgan, Greg Morris, Howard Morris, Jeffrey Morris, Byron Morrow, Jeff Morrow, Barry Morse, Judee Morton, Bill Mumy, Mary Munday, George Murdock, Kate Murtagh, Burt Mustin, Alan Napier, Tommy Nello, Barry Nelson, Ed Nelson, Paul Nesbitt, Lois Nettleton, Dorothea Neumann, Paul Newlan, Julie Newmar, John Newton, Barbara Nichols, Alex Nicol, Leonard Nimoy, Stuart Nisbit, Jeanette Nolan, Maidie Norman, Karen Norris, William H. O'Brien, Tim O'Connor, Pat O'Hara, Shirley O'Hara, J. Pat O'Malley, Kathleen O'Malley, Patrick O'Moore, Anne O'Neal, Patrick O'Neal, Simon Oakland, Warren Oates, Philip Ober, Susan Oliver, Nelson Olmstead, David Opatoshu, Cliff Osmond, Ted Otis, Jay Overholts, Frank Overton, Tudor Owen, Deirdre Owens, Doris Packer, Gloria Pall, Mavis Neal Palmer, Suzy Parker, Warren Parker, Milton Parsons, Hank Patterson, Alice Pearce, Richard Peel, Jack Perkins, Vic Perrin, Barbara Perry, Joseph V. Perry, Stephen Perry, Nehemiah Persoff, Nan Peterson, George O. Petrie, Lee Philips, Barney Phillips, Ruth Phillips, William Phipps, John Pickard, Phillip Pine, Alma Platt, Edward Platt, Donald Pleasence, Sydney Pollack, Ezelle Poule, Denver Pyle, Jack Raine, Sue Randall, Thalmus Rasulala, Harry Raybould, Guy Raymond, Robert Redford, Marge Redmond, Walter Reed, Tom Reese, Nancy Rennick, Stafford Repp, Burt Reynolds, William Reynolds, Darryl Richard, Frank Richards, Peter Mark Richman, Don Rickles, Robby the Robot, Roy Roberts, Cliff Robertson, Bartlett Robinson, Nina Roman, Mickey Rooney, Wallace Rooney, Fay Roope, Hayden Rorke, Gene Roth, Janice Rule, Joseph Ruskin, Bing Russell, Eileen Ryan, Edward Ryder, Albert Salmi, Robert Sampson, Hugh Sanders, Cosmo Sardo, William Sargent, Telly Savalas, Arline Sax, William Schallert, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacqueline Scott, Pippa Scott, Simon Scott, Vito Scotti, Alexander Scourby, James Seay, Charles Seel, Sarah Selby, Milton Selzer, Lenore Shanewise, William Shatner, David Sheiner, Orville Sherman, Mercedes Shirley, Max Showalter, Roy N. Sickner, Frank Silvera, Georgia Simmons, Robert F. Simon, Doris Singleton, Penny Singleton, Everett Sloane, Howard Smith, Loring Smith, Patricia Smith, Abraham Sofaer, Vladimir Sokoloff, Robert Sorrells, Olan Soule, Douglas Spencer, Katherine Squire, Edgar Stehli, Robert Sterling, Inger Stevens, Naomi Stevens, Warren Stevens, Robert J. Stevenson, Peggy Stewart, Dean Stockwell, George E. Stone, Harold J. Stone, Judy Strangis, Tracy Stratford, Chet Stratton, Amzie Strickland, Edson Stroll, Leonard Strong, Sheppard Strudwick, Barbara Stuart, Maxine Stuart, Alan Sues, Liam Sullivan, Frank Sutton, Harry Swoger, Éva Szörényi, Ralph Taeger, Sara Taft, George Takei, Stephen Talbot, Mark Tapscott, Dub Taylor, Rod Taylor, Vaughn Taylor, Ray Teal, Irene Tedrow, Phyllis Thaxter, Charles P. Thompson, David Thursby, Jim E. Titus, Dan Tobin, Franchot Tone, Harry Townes, Paul Tripp, Barry Truex, Ernest Truex, Natalie Trundy, James Turley, Lurene Tuttle, James Tyler, Lee Van Cleef, John Van Dreelan, Joyce Van Patten, Julie van Zandt, Edmund Vargas, Karen Verne, Billy Vincent, Lea Waggner, Garry Walberg, Bill Walker, Peter Walker, Helen Wallace, Bill Walsh, John Ward, Jack Warden, Sandra Warner, Robert Warwick, David Wayne, Fredd Wayne, Dennis Weaver, Fritz Weaver, Mary Webster, Lennie Weinrib, Richard Wessel, Helen Westcott, James Westerfield, Jack Weston, Paul Wexler, Christine White, David White, Jesse White, Ruth White, James Whitmore, Patrick Whyte, Collin Wilcox, Guy Wilkerson, Elen Willard, Jean Willes, Adam Williams, Edy Williams, John Williams, Mack Williams, Rhoda Williams, Dave Willock, Dick Wilson, William Windom, Jason Wingreen, Jonathan Winters, Estelle Winwood, Joseph Wiseman, Ian Wolfe, Frank Wolff, Jeane Wood, Lindsay Workman, Ben Wright, Howard Wright, Than Wyenn, Meg Wyllie, H.M. Wynant, Ed Wynn, Keenan Wynn, James Yagi, Dick York, Carleton Young, Gig Young, John Zaremba, Jean-Francois Zeller, Bill Zuckert

156 episodes
(TV-PG - sci-fi/fantasy violence)

PLOT:
Classic anthology sci-fi series, notable for its memorable plot twists.

season 1 -
A man with no memory of who he is finds himself in a strange empty town. A pitchman talks Death into sparing his life until he makes one last great pitch, but threatens the life of a little girl in the process. A town drunk faces an infamous killer after magically regaining his gunfighting skills. An aging movie star rewatches her old films in an attempt to recapture her youth. An ad executive under pressure at his job visits his old hometown, only to find himself returned to his childhood. A mean-spirited hypochondriac afraid of dying sells his soul to the Devil for immortality. In the year 2046, a convicted man serving his sentence on an uninhabited asteroid is given a female robot for companionship. A bank teller yearning for more time to read gets his wish when he becomes the sole survivor of a nuclear holocaust. A man with a severe heart condition who has been awake for a long time tells his psychiatrist that he will die if he goes to sleep, because a vixen is trying to kill him. In 1942, a man from Germany does not remember how he boarded a British ship heading for New York, but he does have a feeling the ship will be sunk. Three astronauts return from the desert where their spacecraft crashed, but cannot remember what happened during their flight. A thug tries to exploit the abilities of a peddler who can see into the future and discern just what a person will need in an emergency. A small-time con-man with the ability to change his face assumes the identities of a musician, a gangster, and a boxer. With an atomic war on the horizon, a scientist and his co-worker plot to board their families on a spaceship and escape to another planet. Astronauts are deserted on what appears to be an uncharted asteroid. A woman driving cross-country keeps seeing a hitchhiker everywhere she goes. A man whose wife won them tickets to Las Vegas gets addicted to gambling, courtesy of a slot machine that calls his name. A British World War I fighter pilot flies through a strange cloud and lands his biplane on a modern-day American airbase. An Army lieutenant serving in World War II has the ability to see who will die. In the late 22nd century, astronauts land on an asteroid resembling Earth, but its inhabitants appear motionless. A woman in a bus depot is treated by strangers as if they have seen her before and soon realizes that she has a doppelgänger. A power failure causes the residents of a suburban neighborhood to suspect one another of being monsters from outer space planning an invasion. A businessman finds himself in another life as an actor playing a character in a movie. A history professor is revealed to have lived for thousands of years. Two astronauts take an expedition to Mars, where one dies in a crash landing and the other learns how alike people really are. An outlaw cowboy about to be hanged for murder in 1880 is brought to 1960 by a time machine built by a professor. A boy makes a wish for a boxer to win a comeback match. A thief is shot by police and winds up in a place where he has everything he has ever wanted upon meeting a strange man named Pip. A strange little girl reveals secrets about the past of a school teacher. A stressed-out ad executive discovers a quiet 1880s town in his dreams that seems better than his waking life. A lovestruck man in love with a self-obsessed woman named Leila buys a love potion that works too well. A down-and-out trumpet player gets another chance at life after attempting suicide. A guardian angel offers to help a good-natured man who is having a bad day. A woman is told that the floor of a department store where she made a purchase does not exist. A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher. A playwright has the ability to bring anything to life by describing it to a tape recorder.

season 2 -
The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead. A genie grants four wishes to an unsuccessful pawnbroker and his wife. A nervous gangster faces himself when his boss gives him his latest assignment. A writer believes machines are conspiring against him. A man lost in a storm finds a monastery where the monks claim a howling prisoner is the Devil himself. A woman wrapped in bandages after facial surgery hopes that she will no longer be ugly. A superstitious newlywed becomes convinced, in spite of the protests of his bride, that a Fortune-telling machine's predictions are quite accurate. A woman disapproves of the robot servants of her father. A Broadway actor yearning for the days when his wife was alive gets his wish. A thieving couple discover that a camera that they have stolen takes pictures of the future. A drunken department store Santa Claus is fired by his boss on Christmas Eve and then finds a sack that gives people anything they want. In the Old West, the desperate father of a condemned man buys "magic dust" from a peddler to save his son. An engineer travels through time to the date of Abraham Lincoln's assassination and tries to change history. A used-car dealer is forced to tell the truth after buying a car from an old man who says it is haunted. A woman living alone in a rural house is stalked by tiny beings from another planet. When a coin lands on its edge, a bank clerk gains the ability to hear other people's thoughts – and soon learns that you cannot always believe what you hear. A dancer hospitalized for exhaustion has a recurring nightmare in which she is led to Room Twenty-Two, the morgue, by a sinister nurse. A strange increase in speed causes a jet airliner to travel back in time. A meek vacuum cleaner salesman is given incredible strength by a two-headed Martian as part of an experiment. A radio allows an old man to listen to programs from his past. A gambler uses the telekinetic powers of his friend to win big in Las Vegas. A boy talks with his dead grandmother on the toy telephone she gave him before she died. In the year 1847, a pioneer traveling west with his family and friends scouts ahead for food and water and finds himself in the year 1961. A gang of gold thieves use suspended animation chambers, set to revive them in a hundred years, to evade the authorities. An aristocratic club member bets that a talkative acquaintance cannot stay silent for an entire year. A man convicted of murder and awaiting execution insists that everything happening is just a dream. A man uses the power of concentration to remake the world in his image. State troopers investigating a UFO sighting track footprints to a diner, where they try to determine which one of seven bus passengers is really a Martian. In a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and makes rather unusual requests to the Chancellor as to the manner of his execution.

season 3 -
Two soldiers, a man and a woman, are the only inhabitants of a deserted city, and both are soldiers from opposing sides. An FAA inspector and members of the airport staff investigate a plane that arrives without a single person onboard – and each sees it differently. An alert is issued for an imminent nuclear attack, prompting neighbors to unite against the physician whose bomb shelter has room enough only for his family. At the end of the Civil War, wounded soldiers pass by the house of a woman. A legendary pool player returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark with the shark's life at stake. In Central America, a mirror allows a dictator to see the faces of his enemies. A hired killer is challenged to visit the grave of the outlaw who died swearing vengeance against him. A six-year-old boy terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality. A former SS Captain visits the now-deserted concentration camp he commanded where he is tried for his crimes by the ghosts of his prisoners. A landlady and her tenant struggle to survive when the Earth changes its orbit and begins moving toward the sun. During the Civil War, a Confederate scout enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place. An engineer building a dam in Africa is cursed by natives who object to his plans. A janitor travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet built by a scientist. An Army major, a clown, a hobo, a ballerina and a bagpiper find themselves in a cylinder with no memory of how they got there. During World War II, a U.S. lieutenant gets a unique opportunity to see the conflict from the Japanese point of view. An elderly recluse facing imminent eviction refuses to allow anyone into her apartment, fearing that any visitor might be Death incarnate; her resolve is tested when a young police officer is seriously wounded outside her door. Staging a fake nuclear war, a millionaire offers shelter to three people he believes wronged him in the past if they will only beg his forgiveness. A homeless man literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse. A mountain man goes hunting for raccoons with his dog. When he returns, he comes to realize that something is much changed. The egotistic star of a western TV series comes face to face with the real Jesse James. The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game. A cynical theater critic takes advantage of a player piano that reveals people's hidden selves. When a "dead" man sits up in the coffin at his funeral during the mid-1920s, the townsfolk become suspicious whether it's really him, especially when he doesn't behave the way he used to. Representatives of a 9 ft. tall alien race come to Earth and offer mankind cures for all earthly ills. A fugitive from another world befriends a handicapped girl. When a little girl disappears from her bedroom without a trace, her parents call their physicist friend to help investigate her disappearance. A man discovers that all traces of his identity have been erased when no one, including his own wife, recognizes him. When two astronauts land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people. A fanatical one-man moral crusader decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock. A teller of tall tales attracts unwanted attention from aliens. An elderly couple want new young bodies for the two of them, but can pay for only one. A visitor from outer space tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion. A ventriloquist believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act. A newlywed husband refuses to give up his childhood home. A widower buys a robot grandmother to care for his children. A clumsy theater worker meets her equally bumbling guardian angel. A professor who is forced into retirement contemplates suicide, but changes his mind when the ghosts of his former students that were killed in the war persuade him of his worth.

season 4 -
A man is confused by a murderous impulse and a loss of his memory. A strange tapping sound draws a ship to the site of a sunken World War II submarine. A newspaper reporter discovers a small town with incredibly advanced technology that they wish to keep secret. The struggling leader of a small group of Neo-Nazis receives advice from a mysterious stranger about gaining followers. A mute telepathic girl is the sole survivor of a fire that kills her parents. Three astronauts discover exact duplicates of their spaceship and themselves on a distant planet. A mountain girl enlists a witch to help her win back her lover. A timid clerk sees the figurines of a museum's 19th-century miniature dollhouse come to life. A newspaperman saves his failing periodical by hiring the mysterious Mr. Smith, who reports disasters before they happen on his own Linotype machine. A scientist uses his time machine to go back in time to try and change history. An astronaut returns from a space flight to find things much changed during his absence. An office worker acquires a lamp with a genie who offers him a wish. A wax museum curator lovingly maintains wax figures of five infamous killers in his basement after the museum discards them. When he loses his job, his enemies are mysteriously murdered. An aging tycoon exchanges his fortune for a trip to the past and a new beginning when he meets the mysterious Miss Devlin. A middle-aged toy designer goes back to his childhood when he visits his old neighborhood. In 2021, a group of space pioneers prepare for a return trip to Earth upon having failed to establish a new society on a distant planet. The group's leader refuses to give up his authority. To save their marriage, a couple book a cruise on a ship whose other passengers are elderly. An aspiring screenwriter conjures up the spirit of William Shakespeare to help him in his television script.

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A bookie receives news that his son Pip has been seriously wounded in combat. He soon gets the chance to not only see his son one last time but also to save him. In 1974, a boxing promoter tries to get the most out of his broken-down robot boxer. A salesman recovering from a nervous breakdown sees a creature on the wing of the airplane he is on, but no one believes him. A talkative bore acquires a stopwatch that halts time. A disgraced jockey is granted his wish to be "big." A man finds himself being actually physically threatened by his stepdaughter's new talking doll. In 1974, a former soldier and his band of scavengers cause discord for a community of atomic war survivors who are being guided by an unseen cave dweller. The long-suffering niece of a grumpy inventor finds no peace after his passing. An astronaut crash-lands on a distant planet and learns that his own planet has been destroyed by nuclear war. He soon discovers that he is not alone on this new world when he meets a humanoid alien survivor from a runaway planet. Three National Guardsmen exploring the site of Custer's Last Stand wind up getting involved in the actual battle. An old man married to a younger self-absorbed woman takes an untested youth serum. An old man believes he will die the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking. A movie star receives a ring from her fan club that draws her back to her home town, where she offers to do a one-woman show to stop plans for a town picnic. A hit-and-run driver is haunted by his car after he runs into a paperboy. In 1987, an astronaut falls in love with a woman before going on a 40-year mission into space. A suitor discovers he can trade his physical assets for those of others. In a future society, a young woman resists having the surgery that her society requires to make everyone beautiful and identical. Three motorcycle-riding young men are actually part of an alien invasion force. One of them falls for a local teenage girl. An old woman keeps receiving frightening phone calls. A computer programmer receives advice on his love life from a computer that is in love with him. In 1939, an engaged woman is chased for some unknown reason by a woman in black on horseback. A Confederate sympathizer is about to be hanged when the rope breaks, allowing him to escape and return home. A columnist discovers the secret behind the apparent eternal youth of a film actress. After the TV set is fixed by a strange TV repairman, an unhappy couple's TV set shows them hurting each other. At Mardi Gras, a wealthy dying man orders his daughter and her family to wear masks that show their true selves as part of a requirement to obtain his inheritance. A man is to be hanged at sunrise. On the appointed day, the sun fails to rise which starts the sheriff and the rest of the civilians wondering why there is only darkness. A man has an obsession with loud noises which causes his wife to leave him. Then all of the sounds in his life go haywire. A struggling ventriloquist has a dummy who talks him into a life of crime. A political defector is forced into a game of cat-and-mouse with a rather artistic and sadistic hitman. A married couple wakes up after drinking too much at a party and find themselves in a strange town devoid of life – except for the distant laughter of a child. A samurai sword sparks a conflict between a World War II veteran and a Japanese-American. In 1890, a strange traveling peddler brings a dog back from the dead and offers to do the same for those in the town cemetery, making the townsfolk of Happiness, Arizona uneasy. A factory owner decides to replace his human employees with machines. A professional rockabilly singer looks for an authentic song in the mountains, where he gets in trouble with the locals. A state trooper and a secluded woman experience strange incidents after the woman reports seeing lights in the sky. Two children escape from their bickering parents by way of their swimming pool to a special place where the mysterious Aunt T lives.