Season 1 - Episode Guide

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1985 (24 min)

The story follows a man who finds that a double of himself has moved into his apartment and is taking over his life.

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1985 (25 min)

A woman discovers a pendant which allows her to freeze time.

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985 (19 min)

Life is sure getting complicated for Bill Lawry (Robert Klein). His company is seling a new line of medical equipment and poor Bill has just one week to memorize 67 new products. Biothermic dilator, Electromyograph. Entero-something-or-other. He studies until the wee hours and falls into a fitful sleep. Next morning, as he leaves for work, his neighbor happily informs Bill that his dog Ginger had her litter last night. There were nine puppies, "and that's quite a few for a small dog like an encyclopedia." Huh? A puzzled Bill heads for the office, where a young co-worker asks his advice on a good place to take a pretty girl for dinosaur. Come again? That afternoon, Bill hears people saying things like, "Wine mental eight van cattle renting jupiter." Everybody but Bill has a new vocabulary!

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985 (9 min)

A woman finds that a relaxing outdoor picnic with her family is nothing more than an escapist fantasy that is beamed directly into her brain.

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985 (21 min)

A team of scientists contend with a shape-shifting alien.

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1985 (22 min)

A small-time crook acquires a stone that gives him miraculous healing powers.

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1985 (9 min)

Debbie is a four-year-old girl starved for attention because her parents are always fighting. Her mother yells at her and her father is too lazy to give her any quality time. Debbie asks her parents to take her to the Children's Zoo. A friend gave her an invitation which specifies that both parents must accompany the child.

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1985 (18 min)

A drunk driver emerges from a crash to enter the bar of his dreams.

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985 (19 min)

The story follows a woman who, while trying to decide between pursuing a globetrotting career and having a family, forms a relationship with a mysterious young boy.

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985 (9 min)

Upon finding a genie's lamp at a garage sale, a woman tries to cash in three wishes at the department of magical venues, a satire of the department of motor vehicles.

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985 (21 min)

State trooper Dennis Wells takes shelter from a downpour at a roadside diner. He describes to Bob the cook and the server a massacre that he is investigating that occurred at a local motel. After almost getting into a collision outside, a Vietnam veteran named Price enters the diner. Concerned by Price's reckless driving, Wells interrogates him.

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1985 (20 min)

A widower's daughter falls into a coma with no prospects of recovery, and he is subsequently haunted by the apparition of an orphan who died before he was born.

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1985 (29 min)

A man's disinterest in pursuing love draws the wrath of Cupid and forces him into dealings with the gods of ancient mythology.

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1985 (11 min)

Dickie Jordan is an intelligent and curious youth. He and his family live in a dystopian future. On Dickie's twelfth birthday, he is required by law to undergo an intelligence examination. Dickie's birthday wish is to do well on his exam. His parents appear stressed and avoid his questions. When the time comes, his father brings him to a government testing facility. There he is given a serum to ensure he tells the truth and given a series of intelligence assessment questions.

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1985 (38 min)

A pair of teenagers–one from 1700, and one from 1985–share a mental link across time.

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1985 (16 min)

A high school teacher begins picking fights with disruptive students after she is exposed to a mystic gargoyle.

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1985 (33 min)

The story follows the friendship between a Vietnam veteran and an old man entrusted with forestalling the end of the universe. The television episode starred Danny Kaye in one of his final screen appearances.

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1985 (15 min)

A playwright dying from a heart attack gives his partner a magical relic which grants the bearer one wish.

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1985 (12 min)

A boy and his aunt who, while driving on an isolated country road, encounter a crazed hitchhiker who claims to be an evil creature with a life cycle similar to a periodical cicada.

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1985 (22 min)

Featuring an ensemble cast composed largely of veteran character actors, it follows the events of a poker night in which one of the players is secretly the Devil.

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1985 (25 min)

It is a remake of "Dead Man's Shoes", an episode of the original Twilight Zone. It stars Helen Mirren as a timid woman who, upon trying on a recently murdered woman's shoes, is possessed by her vengeful spirit.

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1985 (24 min)

Based on the short story "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", by William F. Wu, first published in Amazing Stories in May 1983. It takes place in a mystical shop where ephemeral things such as lost integrity and lost time can be recovered.

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1985 (20 min)

A boy discovers that a murderous shadow person resides under his bed.

Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1985 (7 min)

A boy learns strange magic tricks from a bizarre kids' show, unbeknownst to his oblivious parents.

Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1985 (23 min)

Carl Wilkerson is targeted for murder on the opening day of duck hunting season by his wife's lover- who is also his best friend.

Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1985 (20 min)

Young doctor Dennis Barrows stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.

Episode: 1x27 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1985 (29 min)

Gus Rosenthal returns to his childhood home, and finds himself transported to his past.

Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1985 (40 min)

Two scientists create a holographic projector, which shows something completely unexpected- the reincarnated soul of a young girl.

Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1985 (9 min)

A professor attempting to solve a difficult math problem idly comments that he would "sell his soul" to get it right. A demon shows up to collect, resulting in a battle of wits.

Episode: 1x30 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1985 (22 min)

In this remake of "The Night of the Meek", drunk, out-of-work department store Santa Henry Corwin finds a magic gift-giving bag and becomes a real-life Santa Claus.

Episode: 1x31 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1985 (14 min)

Overworked, underappreciated secretary Karen Billings is sent by a malfunctioning Xerox machine into a parallel reality where secretaries are honored and revered.

Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1985 (12 min)

On an interstellar journey, an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a long-dead world that has been emitting a signal for eons.

Episode: 1x33 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1986 (18 min)

Professional photographer Dan Arnold discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition. But developing the photos brings its subjects into the world.

Episode: 1x34 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1986 (16 min)

A story-telling town moocher has an encounter with "little people".

Episode: 1x35 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1986 (15 min)

Snobby food critic Harry Folger receives fortune cookie messages that come true.

Episode: 1x36 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1986 (24 min)

Young horror movie enthusiast Toby finds that his new neighbor is a vampire, who in turn shows him that everything he knows about vampires is wrong.

Episode: 1x37 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1986 (8 min)

An alien race that claims to have created mankind returns to judge them.

Episode: 1x38 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1986 (17 min)

A married couple, the Wrights, awakens behind-the-scenes of how time works.

Episode: 1x39 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1986 (11 min)

Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.

Episode: 1x40 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1986 (23 min)

In a future society, uncaring man Mitchell Chaplin is sentenced to a year of social isolation.

Episode: 1x41 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1986 (14 min)

The Tooth Fairy gives dentist Myron Mandel what he wishes for.

Episode: 1x42 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1986 (26 min)

Two people fleeing an agent of Death end up in an old west town that has avoided death for decades.

Episode: 1x43 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1986 (22 min)

Weapons designer Matthew Forman is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later, where he finds a post-war human race that has grown telepathic powers and rejected technology.

Episode: 1x44 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986 (21 min)

Young Georgie is afraid of his ailing grandmother. His mother leaves him alone to take care of her.

Episode: 1x45 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986 (12 min)

Veteran television screenwriter Rockne S. O'Bannon suffers from diminutive creatures that plague his daily life.

Episode: 1x46 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986 (16 min)

1940s voice actor Milo Trent gets a job on a popular radio show. The show's creator, Nelson Westbrook, involuntarily causes every sound described on that week's episode to become real inside the studio.

Episode: 1x47 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1986 (21 min)

A vacationing leprechaun is forced to grant wishes, which come with unintended consequences, to the three boys who captured him.

Episode: 1x48 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1986 (28 min)

Truck driver Johnny Davis accepts the job of delivering souls to Hell, and finds Hell is not what he expected.

Episode: 1x49 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1986 (28 min)

History professor Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald is sent back in time to observe the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but he botches the job in the worst possible way.

Episode: 1x50 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1986 (21 min)

A mysterious stranger gives down-and-out couple Norma and Arthur Lewis a box with a button on it. He states that if they press the button, they will receive $200,000 and someone they don't know will die.

Episode: 1x51 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1986 (19 min)

Government scientist Edward Sayers is sent to a small town to investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity.

Episode: 1x52 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1986 (30 min)

KGB Colonel Ilyanov is sent to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of the local Communist Party officials.

Episode: 1x53 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1986 (14 min)

Comedian Billy Diamond must perform an act that will decide his fate in the afterlife.

Episode: 1x54 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1986 (17 min)

The members of a poetry society find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.

Episode: 1x55 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1986 (18 min)

Writer Ellen Pendleton is hired to work in a private library and where the books document the lives of everyone alive, updated instantly.

Episode: 1x56 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1986 (29 min)

A remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode. Sentenced to death, Adam Grant desperately tries to convince his prosecutor that their reality is actually a recurring nightmare of his- and everyone will cease to exist once he's executed at midnight.

Episode: 1x57 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1986 (20 min)

Opera singer Rosemary Miletti gains a glimpse of her future with a wish from her dying sister.

Episode: 1x58 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1986 (19 min)

After witnessing the landing of a flying saucer, a young couple find themselves in the midst of an alien invasion.

Episode: 1x59 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1986 (30 min)

In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights teams with Morgan le Fay to stop the return of Merlin.