The Twilight Zone - Season 1
Season 1
Network
Episodes59
DatesSep 27, 1985 - Apr 11, 1986
Episodes
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
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
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
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
Season 1Episode 521 min
Chameleon
A team of scientists contend with a shape-shifting alien.
Oct 4, 1985
Season 1Episode 622 min
Healer
A small-time crook acquires a stone that gives him miraculous healing powers.
Oct 11, 1985
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
Season 1Episode 818 min
Kentucky Rye
A drunk driver emerges from a crash to enter the bar of his dreams.
Oct 11, 1985
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Season 1Episode 2320 min
The Shadow Man
A boy discovers that a murderous shadow person resides under his bed.
Nov 29, 1985
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Season 1Episode 3416 min
The Little People of Killany Woods
A story-telling town moocher has an encounter with "little people".
Jan 3, 1986
Season 1Episode 3515 min
The Misfortune Cookie
Snobby food critic Harry Folger receives fortune cookie messages that come true.
Jan 3, 1986
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
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
Season 1Episode 3817 min
A Matter of Minutes
A married couple, the Wrights, awakens behind-the-scenes of how time works.
Jan 24, 1986
Season 1Episode 3911 min
The Elevator
Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.
Jan 31, 1986
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
Season 1Episode 4114 min
Tooth and Consequences
The Tooth Fairy gives dentist Myron Mandel what he wishes for.
Jan 31, 1986
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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