The Twilight Zone - 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.

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1986 (28 min)

Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin travels back in time and meets the real Elvis Presley.

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1986 (20 min)

Lonely waitress Margaret encounters a mysterious saucer with a message only for her.

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1986 (23 min)

A child's imaginary friend turns out to be his father's imaginary friend as well.

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1986 (25 min)

Christine, an aging news anchor, finds a method for youth at a steep price.

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1986 (26 min)

Young teacher Dorothy Livingston finds that the secret to immortality resides in stories.

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1986 (23 min)

DJ Andrea Fields must cope with the return of her lover after a 5-year disappearance.

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1986 (18 min)

In this remake of the 1960 Twilight Zone episode, a woman is trapped in a mall after hours with living mannequins.

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1986 (6 min)

A student's possessions mysteriously vanish.

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1986 (22 min)

A door in the basement leads to a parallel world, and both of a man's counterparts find the grass greener on the other side.

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1986 (24 min)

A mentally challenged child has immense, dangerous powers which his parents struggle to prevent his misusing.

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1986 (24 min)

A wrongfully convicted prisoner discovers an old piano in his prison with special powers.

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1986 (24 min)

A draft-dodger is haunted by the specter of a familiar-looking man in a wheelchair.

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1987 (23 min)

A woman with out-of-control spending habits finds her new credit card comes with unexpected penalties.

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1987 (23 min)

A miner who has been cheating on his wife is trapped by a cave-in with a miner from 1912.

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: May 21, 1987 (12 min)

Four teens take a recently deceased man's classic car for a joyride. The driver acts increasingly irrationally during the ride.

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: May 21, 1987 (24 min)

A survivalist and his friend live in his shelter after a nuclear bomb detonation.

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: May 21, 1987 (13 min)

After accidentally dropping his portable stereo in an airplane lavatory, a young man discovers that it allows him to hear other people's thoughts.

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1987 (25 min)

A Broadway composer accepts an offer from the devil and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. While there he sees an opportunity to prevent a classmate's suicide.

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1987 (24 min)

People return to a barren Earth to find that not everything had left when they thought it did.

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1987 (24 min)

In 1916, a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her disapproving father, the superintendent.

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1987 (23 min)

An attorney pines after the way his wife was in their younger years, only to encounter that younger woman in the present.

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1988 (22 min)

Edgar Witherspoon is ordered by a mysterious voice to collect junk in his apartment to keep the world in balance.

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1988 (22 min)

Ex-baseball player Ed Hamner, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports Hamner into the life of that player.

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1988 (22 min)

A stressed-out priest is haunted by the sight of a station wagon with a woman inside that keeps crashing.

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1988 (22 min)

An archeologist studies prehistoric paintings in a newly discovered cave. The project takes a dark turn after the carcasses of livestock from nearby farms begin turning up near the cave.

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1988 (22 min)

A man in a retirement home is trapped in the dreams of a catatonic widow.

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1988 (22 min)

A specialist in past life regression enters an alternate reality where everyone already remembers all their past lives.

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1988 (22 min)

An alcoholic goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem.

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1988 (22 min)

A young woman has her youth sucked out of her by her dying aunt.

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1988 (22 min)

A lonely man dials a wrong number and develops a close relationship with the woman on the other end. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and discovers she is a statue.

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1988 (22 min)

A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, an inhabitant of Atlantis. He begins involuntarily channeling a real spirit, one with a habit of insulting people.

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1988 (22 min)

A battered wife finds the strength to fight her abusive husband by looking at a statuette of a Doberman Pinscher.

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1988 (22 min)

Bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them, showing that his efforts to help a farmer avoid foreclosure are doomed to fail.

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1988 (22 min)

A writer of children's books autographs a book for a sick young fan. Later, she starts hearing the sound of children in her house.

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Dec 24, 1988 (22 min)

A motel proprietor discovers an empty trunk that grants wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are: no one.

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1988 (22 min)

After receiving a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed, incorporating a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1989 (22 min)

A cargo pilot on the frontiers of space finds an innocent stowaway on his ship, who the ship's fuel supply cannot support.

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1989 (22 min)

A young boy playing in a field meets a man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1989 (22 min)

While breaking into a house, an unemployed homeless man switches bodies with the house's owner.

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1989 (22 min)

A doctor at a sanitarium has a patient who is terribly frightened of patterns on clothing and furniture.

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1989 (22 min)

n this remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode, a pool player challenges the long-dead legend, Fats Brown, who returns from the afterlife to give him a high-stakes game.

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1989 (22 min)

A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. The Army calls upon a career soldier to investigate. He finds an idyllic world, and seemingly no way to get back.

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1989 (22 min)

Scientist Martin Decker is confined and interrogated by government agents for the location of his notes. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1989 (22 min)

To make ends meet, Simon Foster sells his memories to a pawn shop broker.

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1989 (22 min)

A shy woman becomes the lover of a cursed Casanova who turns into a cat during the daytime.

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1989 (22 min)

An old woman with an obsession with death finds an injured thief in her home. When Death arrives to collect him, she tries to persuade him to take her instead.

Episode: 3x26 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1989 (22 min)

An epidemic causes blindness. A nurse begins to believe that the disease is divine retribution.

Episode: 3x27 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1989 (22 min)

A man plotting to murder his wife's lover meets a blind singer who knows all about his plan.

Episode: 3x28 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1989 (22 min)

A man sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss he borrowed the track money from.

Episode: 3x29 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1989 (22 min)

A man finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.

Episode: 3x30 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1989 (22 min)

Upon brain death, a 79-year-old man has his brain data transplanted into an experimental robot brain. His son considers this an abomination and tries to have his father declared legally dead.