FIRST SEASON 1959-1960
1. Where Is Everybody?
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Stevens
Greeted by empty streets, a man searches a small town to find that he is completely and inexplicably alone. The series pilot.
CAST: Earl Holliman, James Gregory, John Conwell, Paul Langton, James McCallion, Jay Overholts.
2. One for the Angels
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Parrish
Informed that his time on Earth is about up, a gentle sidewalk salesman named Bookman talks Mr. Death into letting him make one really big pitch — "one for the angels" — before he dies.
CAST: Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway, Jay Overholts, Merritt Bohn, Mickey Maga
3. Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Allen Reisner
A broken-down gunslinger finds a magic potion that restores his shooting skill, but brings an end to his fast-draw career.
CAST: Dan Duryea, Malcolm Atterbury, Martin Landau, Ken Lynch.
4. The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Mitch Leisen
A forgotten star of the thirties uses films of her old movies to re-create the spirit of her heyday.
CAST: Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Alice Frost, Ted de Corsia, John Clarke, Jerome Cowan.
5. Walking Distance
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Stevens
A man's need to escape the pressure of his work is so great that he slips back 30 years into his own childhood.
CAST: Gig Young, Michael Montgomery, Byron Foulger, Joseph Corey, Frank Overton, Irene Tedrow.
6. Escape Clause
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Mitch Leisen
A man makes a pact with the devil for immortality then finds he doesn't get a kick out of living anymore.
CAST: David Wayne, Wendell Holmes, Raymond Bailey, Dick Wilson, Paul E. Burns, Allan Lurie.
7. The Lonely
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Jack Smight
Convicted of murder and sent to a deserted asteroid for 40 years, a man is given a robot woman for company.
CAST: Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jim Turley, Jean Marsh, Ted Knight.
8. Time Enough at Last
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brahm
Nearsighted, meek bank clerk Henry Bernis is the sole survivor of an H-bomb attack. At last he has the time to engulf himself in his passion for books. Or so he thinks.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline de Wit, Lela Bliss.
9. Perchance to Dream
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Florey
A terrified man stumbles into a psychiatrist's office, afraid that if he falls asleep a woman in his dream will murder him.
CAST: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Eddie Marr, Ted Stanhope, Russell Trent.
10. Judgment Night
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brahm
A passenger on board a wartime freighter has a premonition that the ship will be sunk by a Nazi submarine at 1:15 a.m., but no one believes him.
CAST: Nehemiah Persoff, Patrick Macnee, Leslie Bradley, Kendrick Huxham, Ben Wright.
11. And When the Sky Was Opened
Writer: Rod Serling, short story by Richard Matheson
Director: Douglas Hayes
Three astronauts, returning from man's first space flight, cannot remember the events of their trip. Then they begin to disappear one by one.
CAST: Rod Taylor, James Hutton, Charles Aidman, Sue Randall, Gloria Pall, Maxine Cooper.
12. What You Need
Writer: Rod Serling, story by Lewis Padgett
Director: Alvin Ganzer
A down-and-out man tries to turn another man's ability to tell the future into a money-making scheme.
CAST: Steve Cochran, Read Morgan, Arline Sax, Frank Alloca, Ernest Truax, William Edmonson.
13. The Four of Us Are Dying
Writer: Rod Serling, story by George Clayton Johnson
Director: John Brehm
Arch Hammer can change his face to look exactly like someone else, a talent that he depends on for a living.
CAST: Harry Townes, Philip Pine, Don Gordon, Bernard Fein, Beverly Garland, Ross Martin.
14. Third from the Sun
Writer: Rod Serling, story by Richard Matheson
Director: Richard Bare
Two families steal a rocket ship and flee to another world before atomic war devastates their own.
CAST: Fritz Weaver, Edward Andrews, Lori March, Will J. White, Joe Maross, Denise Alexander.
15. I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
Writer: Rod Serling, idea by Madelon Champion
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
A panicky astronaut traveler, believing his ship has crashed on a deserted asteroid, kills his two companions to save water, then discovers his shocking true location.
CAST: Dewey Martin, Edward Binns, Ted Otis.
16. The Hitch-Hiker
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitch-hiker on the road ahead, beckoning her toward a fatal accident.
CAST: Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong, Adam Williams, Dwight Townsend, Mitzi McCall.
17. The Fever
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Florey
A man fanatically opposed to gambling battles a Las Vegas one-armed bandit with a malevolent will of its own.
CAST: Everett Sloane, William Kendis, Art Lewis, Carole Kent, Vivi Janiss, Lee Millar.
18. The Last Flight
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: William Claxton
Fleeing from a World War One dogfight, a cowardly British pilot lands his 1917 biplane at a modem jet air base in France ... in 1959.
CAST: Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, Simon Scott, Robert Warwick, Harry Raybould.
19. The Purple Testament
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Richard Bare
A soldier unexpectedly acquires the power to recognize death in the faces of men about to die in battle.
CAST: William Reynolds, Dick York, Barney Phillips, Warren Oates, Ron Masak, William Phipps.
20. Elegy
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Douglas Hayes
Earth-like scenes from many historical periods greet three space travelers who land on a strange planet.
CAST: Cecil Kellaway, Kevin Hagen, Jeff Morrow, Don Dubbins.
21. Mirror Image
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brahm
A young woman grows panicky when she is haunted by a strange double who keeps appearing in a bus depot.
CAST: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joe Hamilton.
22. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ron Winston
A mysterious power failure causes paranoid suburban residents to suspect one another of being disguised creatures from outer space.
CAST: Claude Akins, Jack Weston, Barry Atwater, Jan Handzlik, Burt Metcalfe, Mary Gregory.
23. A World of Difference
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Ted Post
A businessman inexplicably finds his office has become a set for a movie in which he is a character.
CAST: Howard Duff, Gail Kobe, Peter Walker, Eileen Ryan, Frank Maxwell.
24. Long Live Walter Jameson
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Anton Leader
A college professor is startled to learn that his young colleague and prospective son-in-law was born 2000 years ago with the gift of eternal life.
CAST: Kevin McCarthy, Edgar Stehli, Dody Heath, Estelle Winwood.
25. People Are Alike All Over
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Mitchell Leisen
Sam Conrad, the first human to visit Mars, is relieved to find that the Martians treat him kindly and even build him a house like his home on Earth — but with one big difference.
CAST: Roddy McDowell, Paul Comi, Vic Perrin, Susan Oliver, Byron Morrow, Vernon Gray.
26. Execution
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
An outlaw in the Wild West of the 1880s is snatched from the hangman's noose by a modern scientist's time machine.
CAST: Albert Salmi, Russell Johnson, Than Wyenn, George Mitchell, Jon Lormer, Fay Roope.
27. The Big Tall Wish
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ron Winston
A 10-year-old boy tells a prize fighter that he will make a wish for him to win his comeback fight.
CAST: Steven Perry, Ivan Dixon, Kim Hamilton.
28. A Nice Place to Visit
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: John Brahm
A small-time hoodlum gets killed by the police during a robbery and finds an afterlife where he can have anything he wants.
CAST: Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, Sandra Warner.
29. Nightmare as a Child
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Alvin Ganzer
A teacher's encounter with herself as a child unlocks her memory of witnessing her mother's murder.
CAST: Janice Rule, Terry Burnham, Sheppard Strudwick.
30. A Stop at Willoughby
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Parrish
A harassed executive escapes into the peaceful town of Willoughby … in July 1880.
CAST: James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue, James Maloney.
31. The Chaser
Writer: Robert Presnell Jr., story by John Collier
Director: Doug Heyes
A lovesick man finds unexpected results when he buys a potion from a stranger to help woo the woman he desires.
CAST: George Grizzard, John McIntire, Patricia Barry, J. Pat O'Malley.
32. A Passage for Trumpet
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford
A down-on-his-luck trumpet player is given a second crack at life after being struck down by a truck.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Mary Webster, John Anderson, Frank Wolff.
33. Mr. Bevis
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: William Asher
A happy-go-lucky man loses his job, his car and his home in one morning, then meets his "guardian angel" who tells him they will start the day anew.
CAST: Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane, William Schallert, Horace McMahon.
34. The After Hours
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Douglas Hayes
A woman who buys a thimble on the ninth floor of a department store later discovers the floor doesn't exist, and makes a startling discovery after the store closes.
CAST: Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Millhollin, John Conwell, Nancy Rennick.
35. The Mighty Casey
Writer: Rod Serling
Directors: Robert Parrish & Alvi Ganzer
The manager of a baseball team on a losing streak hires a robot pitcher called Casey.
CAST: Robert Sorrells, Jack Warden, Don O'Kelly, Abraham Sofaer.
36. A World of His Own
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Ralph Nelson
A playwright describes characters into his tape recorder and they materialize before his eyes.
CAST: Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Kirk, Mary La Roche.
1. King Nine Will Not Return
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Buzz Kulik
A downed bomber pilot crash-lands in the desert. When he regains consciousness he cannot find any of his crew members.
CAST: Bob Cummings, Gene Lyons, Seymour Green, Richard Lupino, Paul Lambert, Jenna McMahon.
2. The Man in the Bottle
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford
An impoverished pawnbroker is granted four wishes by a genie in a bottle. It's not just that his wishes ended up not being what he expected — it's what they did end up being.
CAST: Luther Alder, Joseph Ruskin, Vivi Janiss, Lisa Golm, Olan Soule, Peter Coe, Albert Szabo.
3. Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Douglas Hayes
A small-time hood assigned to kill an old man finds himself confronted by another version of himself in his own living reflection.
CAST: Joe Mantell, William D. Gordon.
4. A Thing About Machines
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
A bad-tempered writer is convinced the machines in his home are conspiring to destroy him.
CAST: Richard Haydn, Barbara Stuart, Barney Phillips.
5. The Howling Man
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Douglas Hayes
Taking refuge in a European monastery during a storm, a man hears someone howling and is told it's the Devil who is being held prisoner.
CAST: H.M. Wynant, John Carradine, Robin Hughes, Ezelle Poule.
6. The Eye of the Beholder
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Douglas Hayes
In a hospital room, her face completely covered by medical wrappings, a woman waits to see if a last-chance operation on her face has fixed the freakishness that will have her sent to a reservation of outcasts.
CAST: Joanna Hayes, Jennifer Howard, William D. Gordon, Maxine Stuart, Donna Douglas.
7. Nick of Time
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Richard L. Bare
A superstitious newlywed husband finds a penny fortune-telling machine that makes uncannily accurate predictions about his life.
CAST: William Shatner, Patricia Breslin.
8. The Lateness of the Hour
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Jack Smight
A young woman, bored with the precise, faultless routine of her family's life, persuades her father to dismantle their robot servants.
CAST: Inger Stevens, John Hoyt, Irene Tedrow, Mary Gregory.
9. The Trouble with Templeton
Writer: E. Jack Neuman
Director: Buzz Kulik
A distinguished, aging actor who reflects on the happier days of his youth gets a sobering glimpse of the past.
CAST: Brian Aherne, Pippa Scott, Charles S. Carlson, Sydney Pollack.
10. A Most Unusual Camera
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Rich
A pair of petty thieves find that a camera they have just stolen can predict the future by the pictures it takes.
CAST: Jean Carson, Fred Clark, Adam Williams.
11. Night of the Meek
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Jack Smight
Henry Corwin, a down-at-the-heels department store Santa, dispenses Christmas cheer to a mission house with the help of a sack that will produce whatever one asks for.
CAST: Art Carney, John Fiedler, Meg Wylie, Robert Lieb.
12. Dust
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Douglas Hayes
An unscrupulous traveling salesman sells some "magic dust" he claims will save a man due to hang for killing a little girl during a drunken spree.
CAST: Thomas Gomez, Vladimir Sokoloff, John Alonso, John Larch.
13. Back There
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
A man tries to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln when he finds himself thrust back in time.
CAST: Russell Johnson, Paul Hartman, Bartlett Robinson, John Lasell.
14. The Whole Truth
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: James Sheldon
The disreputable patter of a used-car dealer changes when he buys a haunted car from an old man and finds he is suddenly unable to lie to his customers.
CAST: Jack Carson, Jack Ging, Arte Johnson, Nan Peterson, George Chandler, Loring Smith.
15. The Invaders
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Douglas Hayes
A lone woman battles two miniature spacemen whose craft crashes into her isolated farmhouse.
CAST: Agnes Moorehead.
16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: James Sheldon
Timid bank clerk Victor Pool discovers that a coin that lands on its edge as he pays for a paper leaves him with the power to read minds.
CAST: Dick York, Dan Tobin, Hayden Rorke, June Dayton, Cyril Delevanti.
17. Twenty-Two
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Jack Smight
A young woman complains of a recurring nightmare in which she always ends up in Room 22: the hospital morgue.
CAST: Barbara Nichols, Jonathan Harris, Arline Sax, Fredd Wayne, Norma Connolly, Mary Adams.
18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Justus Addiss
A commercial airliner, en route to New York, breaks through the time barrier into the prehistoric past.
CAST: John Anderson, Paul Comi, Sandy Kenyon, Harp McGuire, Wayne Heffley, Nancy Rennick.
19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brehm
A timid little man is experimentally endowed with superhuman strength by a visiting Martian scientist.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles, James Westerfield, Edward Ryder, James Millhollin.
20. Static
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Buzz Kulik
An old radio picks up signals from the past that unexpectedly rejuvenate a pair of elderly lovers.
CAST: Dean Jagger, Carmen Matthews, Robert Emhardt.
21. The Prime Mover
Writer: Charles Beaumont, story by George Clayton Johnson
Director: Richard L. Bare
Two men try to make their fortune at Las Vegas from the power one of them has to move inanimate objects.
CAST: Dane Clark, Buddy Ebsen, Christine White, Nesdon Booth, Jane Burgess.
22. Long Distance Call
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: James Sheldon
A young boy keeps in touch with his dead grandmother via the toy telephone she once gave him.
CAST: Bill Mumy, Philip Abbott, Patricia Smith, Lili Darvas.
23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Buzz Kulik
A 19th-century Western settler, desperately searching for water for his sick son, takes a walk that inexplicably leads him into the next century.
CAST: Cliff Robertson, Miranda Jones, John Crawford, Evan Evans.
24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Justus Addiss
Four thieves plot to hide out with their loot for 100 years in a state of suspended animation.
CAST: Oscar Beregi, Simon Oakland, John Mitchum, Lew Gallo.
25. The Silence
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Boris Segal
A garrulous man, bet half a million dollars that he can't keep silent for one year, goes to bizarre lengths to win the wager.
CAST: Franchot Tone, Liam Sullivan, Jonathan Harris.
26. Shadow Play
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: John Brehm
A condemned man tries to convince the people around him that everything and everyone is merely part of a recurring nightmare that always ends in his execution.
CAST: Dennis Weaver, Harry Townes, Wright King.
27. The Mind and the Matter
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Buzz Kulik
A book about thought gives a clerk the power to accomplish anything just by willing it, leaving him free to create an ideal world. Or at least his version of it.
CAST: Shelley Berman, Jack Grinnage, Jeane Wood, Chet Stratton.
28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Montgomery Pittman
On the night of a UFO sighting, seven people at a diner claim to be of Earth, though one of them is not.
CAST: Morgan Jones, John Archer, Bill Kendis, John Hoyt, Jack Elam, Jean Wiles, Barney Phillips.
29. The Obsolete Man
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Elliot Silverstein
A librarian in a future society is declared obsolete and told he must die.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver.
1. Two
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
Director: Montgomery Pittman
A man and a woman from different sides of a war are the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
CAST: Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery.
2. The Arrival
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Boris Segal
An airline official tests his theory that a newly arrived but totally empty plane is imaginary-with startling results.
CAST: Harold J. Stone, Robert Karnes, Jim Soles, Fredd Wayne, Bing Russell, Noah Keen.
3. The Shelter
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Lamont Johnson
A group of neighbors turns into a hostile mob when they try to invade one family's bomb shelter, believing a nuclear attack is imminent.
CAST: Larry Gates, Peggy Stewart, Michael Burns, Jack Albertson, John McLiam, Jo Helton.
4. The Passersby
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Elliot Silverstein
A crippled Civil War soldier comes to realize that he and the people around him are not walking away from battle-they are dead.
CAST: James Gregory, Joanne Linville, Austin Green, Rex Holman, David Garcia, Warren Kernmerling.
5. A Game of Pool
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: A. E. Houghton
A pool master returns from the dead to play one last game with an eager young hustler.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Jonathan Winters.
6. The Mirror
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford
A victorious revolutionary is shown a mirror in the presidential office that is reputed to show the watcher his own assassins.
CAST: Peter Falk, Richard Karlan, Tony Carbone, Val Ruffino, Arthur Batanides, Rodolfo Hoyos.
7. The Grave
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
Director: Montgomery Pittman
A hired gunman defies a Western outlaw's warning that if he ever came near his grave he'd reach up and snatch away his life.
CAST: Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef, Stafford Rapp, Richard Geary, James Best.
8. It's a Good Life
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby
Director: James Sheldon
A six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will.
CAST: Billy Mumy, Cloris Leachman, Alice Frost, Jeanne Bates, Casey Adams, John Larch.
9. Deaths-Head Revisited
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford
At the Dachau concentration camp, a former Nazi is tried by a phantom jury of his tortured victims.
CAST: Oscar Beregi, Joseph Schildkraut, Ben Wright, Karen Verne, Chuck Fox, Robert Boone.
10. The Midnight Sun
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Anton Leader
The Earth has fallen out of its orbit and is drawing closer to the Sun, inflicting ever-increasing heat on the planet.
CAST: Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde, Jason Wingreen, Ned Glass, June Ellis, John McLiam, William Keene, Robert J. Stevenson, Tom Reese.
11. Still Valley
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "The Valley Was Still" by Manly Wade Wellman
Director: James Sheldon
A Confederate scout is given a magical book that could guarantee their victory.
CAST: Gary Merrill, Jack Mann, Addison Myers, Ben Cooper, Vaughn Taylor, Mark Tapscott.
12. The Jungle
Writer: Charles Beaumont, based on his short story
Director: William Claxton
A prospector, threatened with death by a native conjuror for violating African land, feels himself stalked in the deserted streets of Manhattan by some giant jungle beast.
CAST: John Dehner, Emily McLaughlin, Walter Brooke, Jay Adler, Hugh Sanders, Howard Wright.
13. Once Upon a Time
Writer: Richard Matheson
Directors: Norman Z. McLeod
Nineteenth-century janitor Woodrow Mulligan tries on a time helmet invented by his boss and is catapulted 72 years into the future. Featured are two routines by the legendary silent comedian Buster Keaton's: the lock step and putting on a pair of trousers.
CAST: Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, Jesse White, Milton Parsons, Warren Parker, Gil Lamb.
14. Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "The Depository" by Marvin Petal
Director: Lamont Johnson
Five people (a ballet dancer, a major, a clown, tramp and a bagpipe player) are trapped in a featureless enclosure with no idea how they got there attempt to escape.
CAST: William Windom, Murray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood, Clark Allen.
15. A Quality of Mercy
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an idea by Sam Rolfe
Director: Buzz Kulik
During a battle, a fanatical and racist World War II soldier mysteriously experiences the situation in the body of a Japanese counterpart.
CAST: Dean Stockwell, Albert Salmi, Rayford Barnes, Leonard Nimoy, Michael Pataki, Ralph Votrian.
16. Nothing in the Dark
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: Lamont Johnson
An aged recluse barricades herself in an abandoned building in order to avoid "Mr. Death."
CAST: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, R.G. Armstrong
17. One More Pallbearer
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Lamont Johnson
A wealthy man devises an elaborate hoax to force three people to apologize for humiliating him earlier in his life.
CAST: Joseph Wiseman, Gage Clark, Trevor Bardette, Katherine Squire, Ray Galvin.
18. Dead Man's Shoes
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Montgomery Pittman
A down-and-out man steals the fancy shoes from the body of a murdered gangster and finds himself living in the dead man's footsteps.
CAST: Warren Stevens, Ben Wright, Harry Swoger, Joan Marshall, Eugene Borden, Richard Devon.
19. The Hunt
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: Harold Schuster
A hunter and his faithful dog are drowned while chasing a raccoon, and confront a gatekeeper who implies that he is St. Peter and that Heaven lies inside.
CAST: Arthur Hunnicutt, Titus Moede, Charles Seel, Dexter Dupont, Jeanette Nolan, Orville Sherman.
20. Showdown with Rance McGrew
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an idea by Frederic Louis Fox
Director: Christian Nyby
The ghost of Jesse James takes revenge on an insufferable cowboy star for his shabby film treatment of all the bad guys.
CAST: Larry Blyden, Arch Johnson, Robert Cornthwaite, Robert Kline, William McLean, Troy Melton.
21. Kick the Can
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: Lamont Johnson
The magic of a children's game enables a group of old people to recapture their youth.
CAST: Ernest Truex, Hank Patterson, Russell Collins, Earle Hodgins, Burt Mustin, Gregory McCabe.
22. A Piano in the House
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: David Greene
A strange piano allows the listener's hidden character to be suddenly revealed.
CAST: Barry Morse, Joan Hackett, Muriel Landers, Don Durant, Phil Coolidge, Cyril Delevanti
23. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
Director: Montgomery Pittman
When a young man steps out of his coffin at his own funeral the townsfolk grow to suspect that the devil has assumed the man's body.
CAST: James Best, Ralph Moody, Ezelle Poule, Vickie Barnes, Sherry Jackson, Helen Wallace.
24. To Serve Man
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the story by Damon Knight
Director: Richard L. Bare
Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.
CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse.
25. The Fugitive
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Richard L. Bare
A magical old man delights the local children with his power to change his appearance.
CAST: J. Pat O'Malley, Nancy Kulp, Susan Gordon, Russ Bender, Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp.
26. Little Girl Lost
Writer: Richard Matheson, based on his short story
Director: Paul Stewart
A couple is awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their six-year-old daughter who has fallen through a mysterious door into another dimension.
CAST: Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson, Tracy Stratford, Charles Aidman.
27. Person or Persons Unknown
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: John Brahm
A man awakens one morning to find that no one recognizes him, not even his mother.
CAST: Richard Long, Frank Silvera, Shirley Ballard, Julie Van Zandt, Betty Harford, Ed Glover.
28. The Little People
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: William Claxton
A space traveler terrorizes the tiny inhabitants of a space station into accepting him as their God, but when another space ship arrives the tyrannical man discovers everything is relative….
CAST: Joe Maross, Claude Akins, Michael Ford, Robert Eaton.
29. Four O'Clock
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story by Price Day
Director: Lamont Johnson
To combat all that he considers evil, a cranky man decides to make every evil person two feet tall at exactly 4 p.m.
CAST: Theodore Bikel, Phyllis Love, Linden Chiles.
30. Hocus Pocus and Frisby
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an unpublished story by Frederic Louis Fox
Director: Lamont Johnson
A celebrated yam-spinner finds no one will believe his latest tale — that he was kidnapped by aliens.
CAST: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Larry Breitman, Howard McNear, Dabbs Greer, Clem Bevans.
31. The Trade-Ins
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Unable to afford a personality transplant for both himself and his wife, a pain-wracked old man has his mind placed in a new youthful body at his wife's insistence.
CAST: Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt, Noah Keen, Theodore Marcuse, Edson Stroll.
32. The Gift
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Allen H. Miner
A crashed space traveler is hounded to death by mistrustful villagers.
CAST: Geoffrey Horne, Nico Minardos, Cliff Osmond, Edmund Vargas, Carmen D'Antonio, Paul Mazursky, Vladimir Sokoloff, Vito Scotti, Henry Corden.
33. The Dummy
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an unpublished story by Lee Polk
Director: Abner Biberman
A ventriloquist becomes convinced that his dummy has a will and a life of its own.
CAST: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, Bethelynn Grey, John Harmon, Sandra Warner.
34. Young Man's Fancy
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: John Brehm
A man's intense longing for the happy days of his boyhood succeeds in actually making the past reappear — to the chagrin of his new bride.
CAST: Alex Nicol, Phyllis Thaxter, Wallace Rooney, Ricky Kalman, Helen Brown.
35. I Sing the Body Electric
Writer: Ray Bradbury, based on his short story
Directors: James Sheldon and William Claxton
A widowed father buys his three young children an electronic grandmother to the delight of all but one of them.
CAST: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, June Vincent, Vaughn Taylor, Judy Morton.
36. Cavender Is Coming
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Christian Nyby (credited as Chris Nyby)
A hapless apprentice angel is given one last chance to win his wings, by helping awkward, inept Agnes Grep. The pilot for an unmade series, it is the only Twilight Zone episode with a laugh track.
CAST: Carol Burnett, Jesse White, Howard Smith, William O'Connell.
37. The Changing of the Guard
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
A well-loved teacher feels his useful life is over when he is asked to retire.
CAST: Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan, Philippa Bevans, Bob Biheller, Kevin O'Neal, Jimmy Baird,
1. In His Image
Writer: Charles Beaumont, based on his short story
Director: Perry Lafferty
A scientific genius creates an almost-perfect mechanical man, combining all the qualities he feels are missing in his own imperfect, human self.
CAST: George Grizzard, Gail Kobe, Katherine Squire, Wallace Rooney, Sherry Granato, James Seay.
2. The Thirty-Fathom Grave
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Perry Lafferty
Sounds heard from a submarine sunk 20 years before haunt the man who believes himself responsible for the sinking.
CAST: Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, David Sheiner, John Considine, Bill Bixby, Tony Call.
3. Valley of the Shadow
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Perry Lafferty
A reporter comes upon a peaceful village that guards the secret of creating and obliterating matter. Once he learns the secret, it takes another miracle to release him from the responsibility of the knowledge.
CAST: Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, David Opatoshu, James Doohan, Suzanne Cupito, Dabbs Greer.
4. He's Alive
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
The ghost of Adolf Hitler inspires a young American hatemonger to achieve a short-lived success.
CAST: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Curt Conway, Paul Mazursky, Howard Caine, Barnaby Hale.
5. Mute
Writer: Richard Matheson, based on his short story
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Experimenting with the powers of telepathy, a mother and father try to raise their daughter in a world free of verbal communication.
CAST: Ann Jillian, Frank Overton, Barbara Baxley, Irene Dailey, Oscar Beregi, Claudia Bryar.
6. Death Ship
Writer: Richard Matheson, based on his short story
Director: Don Medford
Facing odd circumstances on another planet, an astronaut refuses to admit that he and his crew may be dead.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, Frederick Beir, Mary Webster, Tammy Marihugh, Ross Elliot.
7. Jess-Belle
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: Buzz Kulik
A girl strikes a deadly bargain with a witch to ensure the attention of a young man.
CAST: Anne Francis, James Best, Laura Devon, Jeanette Nolan, Virginia Gregg, George Mitchell.
8. Miniature
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Walter E. Grauman
Charley Parkes, a shy bachelor, falls in love with a tiny, beautiful museum doll who he believes is alive.
CAST: Robert Duval, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, Len Weinrib, William Windom, John McLiam.
9. Printer's Devil
Writer: Charles Beaumont, based on his short story, "The Devil, You Say?"
Director: Ralph Senensky
A newspaper editor who is facing bankruptcy hires a man who claims to be the Devil.
CAST: Robert Sterling, Patricia Crowley, Burgess Meredith, Ray Teal, Charles Thompson.
10. No Time Like the Past
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Justus Addis
A time traveler attempts to alter history by trying to wam the people of Hiroshima, assassinate Hitler and persuade the captain of the Lusitania to change course.
CAST: Dana Andrews, Patricia Breslin, Malcolm Atterbury, Robert Comthwaite, John Zaremba.
11. The Parallel
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Alan Crosland
An orbiting astronaut passes into a strange parallel world.
CAST: Steve Forrest, Jacqueline Scott, Frank Aletter, Philip Abbott, Shari Lee Bernath, Paul Comi.
12. I Dream of Genie
Writer: John Furia Jr.
Director: Robert Gist
A mild-mannered clerk finds Aladdin's lamp but decides that using his one wish for wealth, power or the girl of his dreams would be a waste of the lamp's power.
CAST: Howard Morris, Patricia Barry, Mark Miller, Jack Albertson, Loring Smith, Joyce Jameson.
13. The New Exhibit
Writers: Jerry Sohl
Director: Bert Granet
A wax museum's custodian takes in the discarded effigies of famous murderers.
CAST: Martin Balsam, Will Kuluva, Maggie Mahoney, William Mims, Milton Parsons, David Bond.
14. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson
Director: Bert Granet
A ruthless captain of industry strikes a deal with the Devil and goes back in time to the life he remembers as a young man.
CAST: Albert Salmi, Julie Newmar, John Anderson, Wright King, Guy Raymond, Christine Burke.
15. The Incredible World of Horace Ford
Writer: Reginald Rose
Director: Abner Biberman
A toy manufacturer recalls his youth with such longing that he becomes a boy again.
CAST: Pat Hingle, Nan Martin, Ruth White
16. On Thursday We Leave for Home
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Buzz Kulik
The leader of an expedition to a remote asteroid cannot bring himself to face the dissipation of his authority that returning to Earth would bring.
CAST: James Whitmore, Tim O'Connor, James Broderick, Paul Langton, Jo Helton, Marcedes Shirlev.
17. Passage on the Lady Anne
Writer: Charles Beaumont, based on his short story "Song for a Lady"
Director: Lamont Johnson
An unhappily married couple on a last-attempt cruise to save their marriage find themselves on an old ship filled with even older couples and an ageless secret.
CAST: Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway, Gladys Cooper.
18. The Bard
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: David Butler
A hack TV writer conjures up William Shakespeare to act as his collaborator, but his network bosses have their own ideas about what makes for "great television."
CAST: Jack Weston, John Williams, Burt Reynolds, John McGiver, Henry Lascoe, Judy Strangis.
1. In Praise of Pip
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Bookie Max Phillips learn that his soldier son, Pip, has been critically wounded in Vietnam. Remorseful over the way he raised him, Max pleads with God to take his life in place of his son's.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Billy Mumy, Bob Diamond, Connie Gilchrist, John Launer, Ross Elliott.
2. Steel
Writer: Richard Matheson, based on his short story
Director: Don Weis
A small-time promoter, desperate for his purse from a robot prize fight, secretly takes the place of his damaged robot in the ring.
CAST: Lee Marvin, Joe Mantell, Merritt Bohn, Frank London, Tipp McClure, Larry Barton.
3. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Writer: Richard Matheson, based on his short story
Director: Richard Donner
A newly released mental patient is the only one able to see a gremlin ripping up the wing of his airliner.
CAST: William Shatner, Christine White, Nick Cravat, Edward Kammer, Asa Maynor.
4. A Kind of Stopwatch
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Rich
A talkative man acquires a stopwatch with the power to halt all other action in the world.
CAST: Richard Erdman, Leon Balasco, Herbie Faye, Roy Roberts, Doris Singleton, Richard Wessel.
5. The Last Night of a Jockey
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Joseph M. Newman
A down-and-out jockey yearns to be a giant of a man so that everyone would look up at him.
CAST: Mickey Rooney.
6. Living Doll
Writers: Charles Beaumont
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
A man is threatened with revenge by the expensive talking doll he is planning to dispose of.
CAST: Telly Savalas, Tracy Stratford, Mary LaRoche.
7. The Old Man in the Cave
Writers: Rod Serling, based on the short story "The Old Man" by Henry Slesar
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
A small community has survived the aftermath of a nuclear holocaust by accepting the advice of The Old Man in the Cave.
CAST: James Coburn, John Anderson, Josie Lloyd, John Craven, Natalie Masters, John Marley.
8. Uncle Simon
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Siegel
A woman learns that she has inherited the estate of the uncle she left to die provided she looks after his latest invention, a robot that mysteriously takes on the nature of her dead uncle.
CAST: Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Ford, John McLiam, Ian Wolfe.
9. Probe 7: Over and Out
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ted Post
The lone survivors of two devastated planets meet on a new world.
CAST: Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower, Barton Heyman, Harold Gould.
10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
During maneuvers near the site of Custer's Last Stand, three national guardsmen find themselves plunged into the Battle of Little Big Horn.
CAST: Ron Foster, Warren Oates, Randy Boone, Robert Bray, Wayne Mallory, Greg Morris.
11. A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Bernard Girard
A wealthy old man begs his doctor-brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
CAST: Patrick O'Neal, Ruta Lee, Walter Brooke.
12. Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Writers: Richard deRoy
Director: Roger Kay
An old man believes that his life will end the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.
CAST: Ed Wynn, Carolyn Kearney, James Callahan, William Sargent, Carol Byron, John Pickard.
13. Ring-a-Ding Girl
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
A movie star receives a gift from her hometown fan club that gives her a premonition of the future.
CAST: Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Macklin, George Mitchell, Bing Russell.
14. You Drive
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr. Director: John Brehm
A motorist's car won't let him forget his guilt over killing a young cyclist and fleeing from the scene.
CAST: Edward Andrews, Kevin Hagen, Hellena Westcott, Totty, Ames, John Hanek.
15. The Long Morrow
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Florey
A deep-space astronaut smashes the suspended-animation device that will keep him young, so that he can age at the same rate as the woman he loves.
CAST: Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley, George MacReady, Edward Binns, William Swan.
16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Writer: Jerry McNeeley, based on the short story by Henry Slesar
Director: Don Siegel
A man finds he has the power to trade character traits, infirmities and even his lifespan with others.
CAST: Don Gordon, Gail Kobe, Vaughn Taylor, Douglass Dumbrille, Doug Lambert, J. Pat O'Malley.
17. Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
Writer: John Tomerlin
Director: Abner Biberman
A young woman resists pressure to be transformed into a state-controlled image of flawless beauty.
CAST: Collin Wilcox, Suzy Parker, Richard Long, Pam Austin.
18. Black Leather Jackets
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: Joseph Newman
An advance party of an alien invasion force arrive in a quiet residential neighborhood disguised as leather-jacketed motorcycle youths.
CAST: Lee Kinsolving, Shelley Fabares, Michael Forest, Tom Gilleran, Denver Pyle, Irene Hervey.
19. Night Call
Writer: Richard Matheson, based on his short story "Long Distance Call"
Director: Jacques Tourneau
A bedridden spinster receives mysterious phone calls from her long-dead fiancé.
CAST: Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe, Martine Bartlett.
20. From Agnes, With Love
Writer: Bernard C. Shoenfeld
Director: Richard Donner
A computer programmer grows to realize that under the stainless-steel exterior of the world's most advanced computer is the complex soul of a jealous woman who has fallen in love with him.
CAST: Wally Cox, Ralph Taeger, Sue Randall, Raymond Bailey, Don Keefer, Nan Peterson.
21. Spur of the Moment
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Elliot Silverstein
A young woman out riding fails to understand the significance of an encounter with her future, older self...until it is too late.
CAST: Diana Hyland, Marsha Hunt, Philip Ober, Roger Davis, Robert Hogan, Jack Raine.
22. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Writer: Robert Enrico, story by Ambrose Bierce
Director: Robert Enrico
A Confederate spy is sentenced to hang during the Civil War but appears to make a miraculous escape.
CAST: Roger Jacquet with Anne Cornaly, Anker Larsen, Stephane Fey, Pierre Danny, Louis Adelin.
23. Queen of the Nile
Writer: Jerry Sohl, plotted by Sohl and Charles Beaumont
Director: John Brehm
A magazine writer is determined to discover the secret of an ageless movie star's everlasting youth.
CAST: Ann Blyth, Lee Philips, James Tyler, Celia Lovsky, Ruth Phillips, Frank Ferguson.
24. What's in the Box?
Writer: Martin M. Goldsmith
Director: Richard L. Bare
A cab driver turns on the television and sees a portent of his wife's death after an argument. When he tries to tell his wife, she won't listen to him — and an argument starts....
CAST: Joan Blondell, William Demarest, Sterling Holloway, Herbert Lytton, Sandra Gould.
25. The Masks
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ida Lupino
A wealthy old man compels his hateful family to wear masks they think are the opposite of their personalities. When they remove the masks a frightening change has taken place.
CAST: Robert Keith, Milton Selzer, Brooke Hayward, Virginia Gregg, Alan Sues, Willis Bouchey.
26. I Am the Night: Color Me Black
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Abner Biberman
The sun fails to rise on the morning that a town's "idealist" is due to be executed for killing one of his bigoted neighbors, and the community finds itself locked in the darkness of hate.
CAST: Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, George Lindsey, Terry Becker, Ivan Dixon, Eve McVeagh.
27. Sounds and Silences
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Richard Donner
A man who has lived his life joyously surrounded by loud noise suddenly finds that trivial sounds, such as dripping water, begin to drive him insane.
CAST: John McGiver, Penny Singleton, Michael Fox, Francis Defales, Renee Aubrey, William Benedict.
28. Caesar and Me
Writer: A. T. Strassfield
Director: Robert Butler
An impoverished ventriloquist accedes to his dummy's demands that he turn to crime to make money.
CAST: Jackie Cooper, Susanne Cupito, Sarah Selby, Olan Soule, Stafford Repp, Don Gazzaniga.
29. The Jeopardy Room
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Richard Donner
A KGB agent sent to kill a Russian defector plants a bomb in the man's hotel room and gives him three hours to find and disarm it and so win his freedom, or else fail and die.
CAST: Martin Landau, John van Dreelen, Robert Kelljan.
30. Stopover in a Quiet Town
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: Ron Winston
The day after a drunken party, a married couple awakens in an unfamiliar house with no idea how they got there.
CAST: Barry Nelson, Karen Norris, Nancy Malone, Denise Lyon.
31. The Encounter
Writer: Martin M. Goldsmith
Director: Robert Butler
A Japanese gardener finds that a samurai sword has vowed to avenge the murder of its master.
CAST: Neville Brand, George Takei.
32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ted Post
A con man convinces the inhabitants of a Western town that he can raise the dead from the local cemetery.
CAST:John Dehner, Stanley Adams, J. Pat O'Malley, Norman Leavitt, Percy Helton, John Mitchum
33. The Brain Center at Whipple's
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Richard Donner
A heartless industrialist fires his entire factory staff and replaces them with machines. Then the machines start acting mischievously.
CAST: Richard Deacon, Paul Newlan, Shawn Michaels, Ted de Corsia, Burt Conroy, Jack Crowder
34. Come Wander with Me
Writer: Anthony Wilson
Director: Richard Donner
A popular folk singer persuades a backwoods girl to sing an authentic ballad into his tape recorder and finds the song coming tragically true.
CAST: Gary Crosby, Bonnie Beecher, John Bolt, Hank Patterson.
35. The Fear
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ted Post
A state trooper and an unstable woman both think they have found traces of a giant visitor from outer space.
CAST: Mark Richman, Hazel Court.
36. The Bewitchin' Pool
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: Joseph Newman
Two unloved children escape from their squabbling parents to a world that offers them a chance of happiness with a strange, kindly woman.
CAST: Mary Badham, Tim Stafford, Georgia Simmons, Kim Hector, Tod Andrews, Dee Hartford
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