The Twilight Zone - Season 1

The first season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from October 2, 1959 to July 1, 1960. There are 36 episodes, including the pilot, "Where Is Everybody?". The theme music for this season, written by Bernard Herrman, is different from the music most commonly associated with the series, written by Marius Constant for the second season onwards.

36 Episodes

Where Is Everybody?

Season 1 - Episode 1

Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...

One for the Angels

Season 1 - Episode 2

A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.

Mr. Denton on Doomsday

Season 1 - Episode 3

A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.

The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

Season 1 - Episode 4

An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

Walking Distance

Season 1 - Episode 5

A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds thi...

Escape Clause

Season 1 - Episode 6

A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

The Lonely

Season 1 - Episode 7

In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during h...

Time Enough at Last

Season 1 - Episode 8

A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.

Perchance to Dream

Season 1 - Episode 9

A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear ...

Judgment Night

Season 1 - Episode 10

In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.

And When the Sky Was Opened

Season 1 - Episode 11

Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists...

What You Need

Season 1 - Episode 12

A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they n...

The Four of Us are Dying

Season 1 - Episode 13

In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

Third from the Sun

Season 1 - Episode 14

With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

I Shot an Arrow into the Air

Season 1 - Episode 15

Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.

The Hitch-Hiker

Season 1 - Episode 16

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points i...

The Fever

Season 1 - Episode 17

Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell ...

The Last Flight

Season 1 - Episode 18

A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

The Purple Testament

Season 1 - Episode 19

Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on ...

Elegy

Season 1 - Episode 20

Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

Mirror Image

Season 1 - Episode 21

In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.

The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

Season 1 - Episode 22

Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

A World of Difference

Season 1 - Episode 23

Arthur Curtis, a successful businessman sitting in his office discovers that he is on a film set and everyone refers to him as Gerry Reagan,...

Long Live Walter Jameson

Season 1 - Episode 24

Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

People are Alike All Over

Season 1 - Episode 25

After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendl...

Execution

Season 1 - Episode 26

Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.

The Big Tall Wish

Season 1 - Episode 27

Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent d...

A Nice Place to Visit

Season 1 - Episode 28

After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everythi...

Nightmare as a Child

Season 1 - Episode 29

Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory ...

A Stop at Willoughby

Season 1 - Episode 30

Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called...

The Chaser

Season 1 - Episode 31

A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, seeks the help of an old professor, who provides him with a love potion.

A Passage for Trumpet

Season 1 - Episode 32

A down-and-out trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can ...

Mr. Bevis

Season 1 - Episode 33

After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but th...

The After Hours

Season 1 - Episode 34

Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a ...

The Mighty Casey

Season 1 - Episode 35

A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.

A World of His Own

Season 1 - Episode 36

Coming home, Victoria catches her husband Gregory flirting with a beautiful woman in his study. His explanation that characters come to life...