The Twilight Zone - Season 1

The Twilight Zone - Season 1

Season 1

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Episodes59
DatesSep 27, 1985 - Apr 11, 1986
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Episodes

Shatterday
Season 1Episode 124 min

Shatterday

The story follows a man who finds that a double of himself has moved into his apartment and is taking over his life. A pushy fellow named Peter mistakenly dials his own telephone number in a bar and is astonished to find a nice guy named Peter answering at the other end. Peter is ‘both victim and victor of a brief struggle for the custody of a soul.

Sep 27, 1985
A Little Peace and Quiet
Season 1Episode 225 min

A Little Peace and Quiet

A woman discovers a pendant which allows her to freeze time. A housewife who finds an amulet that enables her to "freeze" the entire world around her merely by saying ‘'shut up." Eventually this cute ability finds itself confronting the specter of nuclear annihilation. 

Sep 27, 1985
Wordplay
Season 1Episode 319 min

Wordplay

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!

Oct 4, 1985
Dreams for Sale
Season 1Episode 49 min

Dreams for Sale

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.
Oct 4, 1985
Chameleon
Season 1Episode 521 min

Chameleon

A team of scientists contend with a shape-shifting alien.
Oct 4, 1985
Healer
Season 1Episode 622 min

Healer

A small-time crook acquires a stone that gives him miraculous healing powers.
Oct 11, 1985
Children's Zoo
Season 1Episode 79 min

Children's Zoo

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.
Oct 11, 1985
Kentucky Rye
Season 1Episode 818 min

Kentucky Rye

A drunk driver emerges from a crash to enter the bar of his dreams.
Oct 11, 1985
Little Boy Lost
Season 1Episode 919 min

Little Boy Lost

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.
Oct 18, 1985
Wish Bank
Season 1Episode 109 min

Wish Bank

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.
Oct 18, 1985
Nightcrawlers
Season 1Episode 1121 min

Nightcrawlers

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.
Oct 18, 1985
If She Dies
Season 1Episode 1220 min

If She Dies

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.
Oct 25, 1985
Ye Gods
Season 1Episode 1329 min

Ye Gods

A man's disinterest in pursuing love draws the wrath of Cupid and forces him into dealings with the gods of ancient mythology.
Oct 25, 1985
Examination Day
Season 1Episode 1411 min

Examination Day

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.
Nov 1, 1985
A Message from Charity
Season 1Episode 1538 min

A Message from Charity

A pair of teenagers–one from 1700, and one from 1985–share a mental link across time.
Nov 1, 1985
Teacher's Aide
Season 1Episode 1616 min

Teacher's Aide

A high school teacher begins picking fights with disruptive students after she is exposed to a mystic gargoyle.
Nov 8, 1985
Paladin of the Lost Hour
Season 1Episode 1733 min

Paladin of the Lost Hour

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.
Nov 8, 1985
Act Break
Season 1Episode 1815 min

Act Break

A playwright dying from a heart attack gives his partner a magical relic which grants the bearer one wish.
Nov 15, 1985
The Burning Man
Season 1Episode 1912 min

The Burning Man

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.
Nov 15, 1985
Dealer's Choice
Season 1Episode 2022 min

Dealer's Choice

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.
Nov 15, 1985
Dead Woman's Shoes
Season 1Episode 2125 min

Dead Woman's Shoes

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.
Nov 22, 1985
Wong's Lost and Found Emporium
Season 1Episode 2224 min

Wong's Lost and Found Emporium

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.
Nov 22, 1985
The Shadow Man
Season 1Episode 2320 min

The Shadow Man

A boy discovers that a murderous shadow person resides under his bed.
Nov 29, 1985
The Uncle Devil Show
Season 1Episode 247 min

The Uncle Devil Show

A boy learns strange magic tricks from a bizarre kids' show, unbeknownst to his oblivious parents.
Nov 29, 1985
Opening Day
Season 1Episode 2523 min

Opening Day

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.
Nov 29, 1985
The Beacon
Season 1Episode 2620 min

The Beacon

Young doctor Dennis Barrows stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.
Dec 6, 1985
One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
Season 1Episode 2729 min

One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

Gus Rosenthal returns to his childhood home, and finds himself transported to his past.
Dec 6, 1985
Her Pilgrim Soul
Season 1Episode 2840 min

Her Pilgrim Soul

Two scientists create a holographic projector, which shows something completely unexpected- the reincarnated soul of a young girl.
Dec 13, 1985
I of Newton
Season 1Episode 299 min

I of Newton

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.
Dec 13, 1985
Night of the Meek
Season 1Episode 3022 min

Night of the Meek

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.
Dec 20, 1985
But Can She Type?
Season 1Episode 3114 min

But Can She Type?

Overworked, underappreciated secretary Karen Billings is sent by a malfunctioning Xerox machine into a parallel reality where secretaries are honored and revered.
Dec 20, 1985
The Star
Season 1Episode 3212 min

The Star

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.
Dec 20, 1985
Still Life
Season 1Episode 3318 min

Still Life

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.
Jan 3, 1986
The Little People of Killany Woods
Season 1Episode 3416 min

The Little People of Killany Woods

A story-telling town moocher has an encounter with "little people".
Jan 3, 1986
The Misfortune Cookie
Season 1Episode 3515 min

The Misfortune Cookie

Snobby food critic Harry Folger receives fortune cookie messages that come true.
Jan 3, 1986
Monsters!
Season 1Episode 3624 min

Monsters!

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.
Jan 24, 1986
A Small Talent for War
Season 1Episode 378 min

A Small Talent for War

An alien race that claims to have created mankind returns to judge them.
Jan 24, 1986
A Matter of Minutes
Season 1Episode 3817 min

A Matter of Minutes

A married couple, the Wrights, awakens behind-the-scenes of how time works.
Jan 24, 1986
The Elevator
Season 1Episode 3911 min

The Elevator

Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.
Jan 31, 1986
To See the Invisible Man
Season 1Episode 4023 min

To See the Invisible Man

In a future society, uncaring man Mitchell Chaplin is sentenced to a year of social isolation.
Jan 31, 1986
Tooth and Consequences
Season 1Episode 4114 min

Tooth and Consequences

The Tooth Fairy gives dentist Myron Mandel what he wishes for.
Jan 31, 1986
Welcome to Winfield
Season 1Episode 4226 min

Welcome to Winfield

Two people fleeing an agent of Death end up in an old west town that has avoided death for decades.
Feb 7, 1986
Quarantine
Season 1Episode 4322 min

Quarantine

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.
Feb 7, 1986
Gramma
Season 1Episode 4421 min

Gramma

Young Georgie is afraid of his ailing grandmother. His mother leaves him alone to take care of her.
Feb 14, 1986
Personal Demons
Season 1Episode 4512 min

Personal Demons

Veteran television screenwriter Rockne S. O'Bannon suffers from diminutive creatures that plague his daily life.
Feb 14, 1986
Cold Reading
Season 1Episode 4616 min

Cold Reading

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.
Feb 14, 1986
The Leprechaun-Artist
Season 1Episode 4721 min

The Leprechaun-Artist

A vacationing leprechaun is forced to grant wishes, which come with unintended consequences, to the three boys who captured him.
Feb 21, 1986
Dead Run
Season 1Episode 4828 min

Dead Run

Truck driver Johnny Davis accepts the job of delivering souls to Hell, and finds Hell is not what he expected.
Feb 21, 1986
Profile in Silver
Season 1Episode 4928 min

Profile in Silver

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.
Mar 7, 1986
Button, Button
Season 1Episode 5021 min

Button, Button

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.
Mar 7, 1986
Need to Know
Season 1Episode 5119 min

Need to Know

Government scientist Edward Sayers is sent to a small town to investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity.
Mar 21, 1986
Red Snow
Season 1Episode 5230 min

Red Snow

KGB Colonel Ilyanov is sent to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of the local Communist Party officials.
Mar 21, 1986
Take My Life... Please!
Season 1Episode 5314 min

Take My Life... Please!

Comedian Billy Diamond must perform an act that will decide his fate in the afterlife.
Mar 28, 1986
Devil's Alphabet
Season 1Episode 5417 min

Devil's Alphabet

The members of a poetry society find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.
Mar 28, 1986
The Library
Season 1Episode 5518 min

The Library

Writer Ellen Pendleton is hired to work in a private library and where the books document the lives of everyone alive, updated instantly.
Mar 28, 1986
Shadow Play
Season 1Episode 5629 min

Shadow Play

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.
Apr 4, 1986
Grace Note
Season 1Episode 5720 min

Grace Note

Opera singer Rosemary Miletti gains a glimpse of her future with a wish from her dying sister.
Apr 4, 1986
A Day in Beaumont
Season 1Episode 5819 min

A Day in Beaumont

After witnessing the landing of a flying saucer, a young couple find themselves in the midst of an alien invasion.
Apr 11, 1986
The Last Defender of Camelot
Season 1Episode 5930 min

The Last Defender of Camelot

In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights teams with Morgan le Fay to stop the return of Merlin.
Apr 11, 1986

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