The Twilight Zone

Name: The Twilight Zone
Genre: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama
Released: 1959-10-02
Rating: 8.5
Cast: Rod Serling

ENDED5 Seasons156 Episodes★ 8.5

The Twilight Zone is a sci-fi and fantasy series on CBS that ran from 1959 to 1964, ending after 5 seasons and 156 episodes.

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NetworkCBS

First AiredOct 2, 1959

Last AiredJun 19, 1964

GenreSci-Fi & Fantasy, Mystery, Drama

Runtime25 min

Created ByRod Serling

LanguageEnglish

CountryUnited States

ProductionCayuga Productions, CBS

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

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Cast

Rod Serling

Self - Host

Seasons & Episodes5 seasons · 156 episodes

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The fifth and final season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 9:30–10:00 pm on CBS from September 27, 1963 to June 19, 1964. It featured the same intro as the fourth season, but reverted to the original half-hour format.

E1In Praise of Pip

Sep 27, 196326m★ 6.2

Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.

E2Steel

Oct 4, 196326m★ 6.5

A small-time promoter desperately in need of money takes the place of his broken-down robot in a prize fight where humans are barred from participating.

E3Nightmare at 20,000 Feet

Oct 11, 196326m★ 8.2

A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.

E4A Kind of a Stopwatch

Oct 18, 196326m★ 7.2

The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.

E5The Last Night of a Jockey

Oct 25, 196326m★ 6.3

Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.

E6Living Doll

Nov 1, 196326m★ 7.6

Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!

E7The Old Man in the Cave

Nov 8, 196326m★ 7.7

A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.

E8Uncle Simon

Nov 15, 196326m★ 7.0

To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.

E9Probe 7, Over and Out

Nov 29, 196326m★ 7.1

The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.

E10The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

Dec 6, 196326m★ 6.1

A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

E11A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

Dec 13, 196326m★ 6.3

Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.

E12Ninety Years Without Slumbering

Dec 20, 196326m★ 6.0

An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.

E13Ring-a-Ding Girl

Dec 27, 196326m★ 6.8

A fan-club gift draws a movie star back home, where she disrupts local plans for a town picnic by offering a one-woman show.

E14You Drive

Jan 3, 196426m★ 7.9

Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.

E15The Long Morrow

Jan 10, 196426m★ 7.5

Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.

E16The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross

Jan 17, 196426m★ 7.5

A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.

E17Number 12 Looks Just Like You

Jan 24, 196426m★ 7.7

In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.

E18Black Leather Jackets

Jan 31, 196426m★ 5.9

Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are.

E19Night Call

Feb 7, 196426m★ 7.0

An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.

E20From Agnes – With Love

Feb 14, 196426m★ 6.4

A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.

E21Spur of the Moment

Feb 21, 196426m★ 6.4

After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.

E22An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Feb 28, 196426m★ 7.9

As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...

E23Queen of the Nile

Mar 6, 196426m★ 6.3

A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.

E24What's in the Box

Mar 13, 196426m★ 7.0

A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.

E25The Masks

Mar 20, 196426m★ 8.4

A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.

E26I Am the Night - Color Me Black

Mar 27, 196426m★ 7.1

On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.

E27Sounds and Silences

Apr 3, 196426m★ 5.5

A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.

E28Caesar and Me

Apr 10, 196426m★ 6.0

A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.

E29The Jeopardy Room

Apr 17, 196426m★ 7.2

A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.

E30Stopover in a Quiet Town

Apr 24, 196426m★ 7.3

The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.

E31The Encounter

May 1, 196426m★ 6.8

A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.

E32Mr. Garrity and the Graves

May 8, 196426m★ 7.4

Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.

E33The Brain Center at Whipple's

May 15, 196426m★ 6.3

A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

E34Come Wander with Me

May 22, 196426m★ 6.1

A singer searches for an authentic folk song.

E35The Fear

May 29, 196426m★ 6.9

Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.

E36The Bewitchin' Pool

Jun 19, 196426m★ 6.1

Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.

About The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is a sci-fi & fantasy, mystery, drama series on CBS. The show first aired on Oct 2, 1959 and currently has 5 seasons and 156 episodes. The Twilight Zone has ended. It has a rating of 8.5/10 based on 1,085 votes. The cast includes Rod Serling. Created by Rod Serling.