The Twilight Zone Season 1
by heydawg | created - 13 Apr 2013 | updated - 03 Jun 2015 | PublicAverage Rating: 8.33
Highlights: Time Enough at Last, And When the Sky Was Opened, Third From the Sun, The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, A Stop at Willoughby, A World of His Own
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1.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Where Is Everybody?
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Mike Ferris finds himself alone in the small Oakwood town and without recollection about his name, where he is or who he is. Mike wanders through the town trying to find a living soul. The tension increases and Mike has a breakdown.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Earl Holliman, James Gregory, Paul Langton, James McCallion
Votes: 7,143
8.5(B-)
2.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
One for the Angels
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A pitchman is visited by Mr. Death and is forced to get his priorities in order.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Rod Serling, Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway
Votes: 6,051
8(C+)
3.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The town drunk in the old-west faces his past when Fate lends a hand.
Director: Allen Reisner | Stars: Rod Serling, Dan Duryea, Martin Landau, Jeanne Cooper
Votes: 5,146
8(C+)
4.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Barbara Jean Trenton is a faded film star who lives in the past by constantly re-watching her old movies instead of moving on with her life, so her associates try to lure her out of her self-imposed isolation.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Rod Serling, Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Jerome Cowan
Votes: 4,997
7.5(C)
5.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Walking Distance
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man, fed up with where he's at in life, finds himself not only in his old hometown, but back to the time when he was a boy.
Director: Robert Stevens | Stars: Rod Serling, Gig Young, Frank Overton, Irene Tedrow
Votes: 6,064
8.5(B)
6.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Escape Clause
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for several thousand years of immortality.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Rod Serling, David Wayne, Thomas Gomez, Virginia Christine
Votes: 4,641
8(C+)
7.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Lonely
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.
Director: Jack Smight | Stars: Rod Serling, Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jean Marsh
Votes: 5,358
8.5(B-)
8.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Time Enough at Last
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline deWit, Lela Bliss
Votes: 7,782
9.5(A-)
9.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Perchance to Dream
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A fatigued man fights to stay awake as he explains to a psychiatrist that if he falls asleep it will trigger a nightmare, which will cause his heart to fail.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Eddie Marr
Votes: 4,504
8(C+)
10.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Judgment Night
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
It's 1942, and a man finds himself on a ship in the Atlantic, not knowing who he is, nor how he got there. He does know the ship will soon be attacked by a German U-boat.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Rod Serling, Nehemiah Persoff, Deirdre Owens, Patrick Macnee
Votes: 4,128
7.5(C)
11.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
And When the Sky Was Opened
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Three astronauts return to Earth after seemingly having made an encounter that dooms them and their craft to erasure from existence itself.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Rod Taylor, Jim Hutton, Charles Aidman, Maxine Cooper
Votes: 5,031
9.5(A-)
12.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
What You Need
(1959)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Steve Cochran, Ernest Truex, Read Morgan, Arlene Martel
Votes: 4,353
8(C+)
13.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Four of Us Are Dying
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A man who can change his face to look like other people uses his ability to improve his life, regardless of his effect on others.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Harry Townes, Phillip Pine, Ross Martin, Don Gordon
Votes: 3,852
7.5(C)
14.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Third from the Sun
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Two families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to a nuclear war. They must also deal with a stooge who wants to stop them.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Fritz Weaver, Edward Andrews, Joe Maross, Denise Alexander
Votes: 4,491
9.5(A-)
15.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
I Shot an Arrow into the Air
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Order breaks down between three surviving crewmen whose rocket ship crashes on an unknown world with limited water and supplies.
Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Dewey Martin, Edward Binns, Ted Otis, Harry Bartell
Votes: 4,012
8.5(B-)
16.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Hitch-Hiker
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young woman driving cross-country becomes frantic when she keeps passing the same man on the side of the road. No matter how fast she drives, the man is always up ahead, hitching her for a ride.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Inger Stevens, Adam Williams, Lew Gallo, Leonard Strong
Votes: 5,227
8.5(B)
17.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Fever
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A middle-aged man catches gambling fever from a slot machine that he believes is calling his name.
Director: Robert Florey | Stars: Rod Serling, Everett Sloane, Vivi Janiss, William Kendis
Votes: 3,826
7.5(C-)
18.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Last Flight
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A World War I British fighter pilot lands at an American air base in 1959 France.
Director: William F. Claxton | Stars: Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, Simon Scott, Robert Warwick
Votes: 4,065
8.5(B-)
19.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Purple Testament
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A U.S. Army lieutenant serving in the Philippines during WWII develops a harrowing ability to see in the faces of the men of his platoon, the men who will be the next ones to die.
Director: Richard L. Bare | Stars: Rod Serling, Dick York, William Reynolds, William Phipps
Votes: 3,472
8(C+)
20.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Elegy
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Three astronauts touch down on an asteroid, where they discover a world of people that appear to be frozen in time. Confused, they theorize as to why everyone is motionless, until a man springs to life and explains.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Cecil Kellaway, Jeff Morrow, Don Dubbins, Kevin Hagen
Votes: 3,639
8(C+)
21.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Mirror Image
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
While waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Rod Serling, Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joseph Hamilton
Votes: 4,330
8.5(B)
22.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.
Director: Ron Winston | Stars: Rod Serling, Claude Akins, Barry Atwater, Jack Weston
Votes: 6,150
9.5(A-)
23.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A World of Difference
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is a movie star. Uninterested in the newfound fame, he fights to get back to his home and family.
Director: Ted Post | Stars: Howard Duff, David White, Frank Maxwell, Eileen Ryan
Votes: 3,629
8.5(B)
24.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Long Live Walter Jameson
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A father forbids a history professor from marrying his daughter when he discovers that the captivating lecturer is actually an immortal who has lived for thousands of years.
Director: Anton Leader | Stars: Kevin McCarthy, Edgar Stehli, Estelle Winwood, Dodie Heath
Votes: 3,854
8.5(B-)
25.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
People Are Alike All Over
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Fearing the worst, the lone survivor of a crash-landing on Mars finds the native inhabitants, to his relief, very hospitable indeed, but there's a catch.
Director: Mitchell Leisen | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Susan Oliver, Paul Comi, Byron Morrow
Votes: 3,967
9(B+)
26.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Execution
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a 20th-century scientist tests out his time machine he accidentally retrieves a murderer from 1880, saving him from the hangman's noose. Unaware of the man's history, the scientist attempts to acclimatize him to his new surroundings.
Director: David Orrick McDearmon | Stars: Albert Salmi, Russell Johnson, Than Wyenn, George Mitchell
Votes: 3,260
8(C+)
27.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Big Tall Wish
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
An aging boxer finds himself the winner of a match he thought he had lost, the result a six-year-old's frantic wish. But can a world-weary, embittered man still believe in miracles, or will he turn his back on them?
Director: Ron Winston | Stars: Rod Serling, Ivan Dixon, Steven Perry, Kim Hamilton
Votes: 3,224
7.5(C-)
28.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Nice Place to Visit
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When bad guy Henry Francis Valentine dies in a shootout with police, he wakes up in the next world where his every wish is granted forever, and ever.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, John Close, Louise De Carlo
Votes: 3,838
8.5(B)
29.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Nightmare as a Child
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A schoolteacher keeps seeing a strange little girl in her apartment building.
Director: Alvin Ganzer | Stars: Rod Serling, Janice Rule, Shepperd Strudwick, Terry Burnham
Votes: 3,426
8(C+)
30.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Stop at Willoughby
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Tired of his miserable job and wife, a businessman starts dreaming on the train each night, about an old, idyllic town called Willoughby. Soon he has to know whether the town is real and fancies the thought of seeking refuge there.
Director: Robert Parrish | Stars: Rod Serling, James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue
Votes: 4,715
9.5(A-)
31.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Chaser
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A young man obsessed with winning over an uninterested beauty gets more than he bargained for when he buys a love potion to gain her affection.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: John McIntire, Patricia Barry, George Grizzard, J. Pat O'Malley
Votes: 3,104
7.5(C)
32.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A Passage for Trumpet
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A suicidally despondent trumpet player finds himself in a bizarre world where he seems to be invisible to everyone, except for one helpful other musician.
Director: Don Medford | Stars: Rod Serling, Jack Klugman, John Anderson, Frank Wolff
Votes: 3,102
8(C+)
33.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Mr. Bevis
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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 there is a price for keeping it.
Director: William Asher | Stars: Rod Serling, Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane
Votes: 3,031
7.5(C-)
34.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The After Hours
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.
Director: Douglas Heyes | Stars: Rod Serling, Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Millhollin
Votes: 4,523
9(B+)
35.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
The Mighty Casey
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A down-and-out baseball team's fortunes are lifted by a mysterious but seemingly unbeatable young player.
Directors: Alvin Ganzer, Robert Parrish | Stars: Rod Serling, Jack Warden, Abraham Sofaer, Robert Sorrells
Votes: 3,010
7.5(C)
36.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
A World of His Own
(1960)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A writer demonstrates he can control reality simply by dictating changes.
Director: Ralph Nelson | Stars: Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Kirk, Mary LaRoche, Modoc
Votes: 3,621
9.5(A-)
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