The Twilight Zone - First Season Episodes 1959-1960

Where Is Everybody?
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Stevens

Greeted by empty streets, a man searches a small town to find that he is completely and inexplicably alone. The series pilot.
CAST: Earl Holliman, James Gregory, John Conwell, Paul Langton, James McCallion, Jay Overholts, Carter Mulavey, Jim Johnson, Gary Walberg.


One for the Angels
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Parrish

Informed that his time on Earth is about up, a gentle sidewalk salesman named Bookman talks Mr. Death into letting him make one really big pitch — "one for the angels" — before he dies.
CAST: Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway, Jay Overholts, Merritt Bohn, Mickey Maga


Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Allen Reisner

A broken-down gunslinger finds a magic potion that restores his shooting skill, but brings an end to his fast-draw career.
CAST: Dan Duryea, Malcolm Atterbury, Martin Landau, Ken Lynch, Doug McClure, Jeanne Cooper, Arthur Batanicles, Robert Burton.


The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Mitch Leisen

A forgotten star of the thirties uses films of her old movies to re-create the spirit of her heyday.
CAST: Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Alice Frost, Ted de Corsia, John Clarke, Jerome Cowan.


Walking Distance
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Stevens

A man's need to escape the pressure of his work is so great that he slips back 30 years into his own childhood.
CAST: Gig Young, Michael Montgomery, Byron Foulger, Joseph Corey, Frank Overton, Irene Tedrow, Buzz Martin.


Escape Clause
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Mitch Leisen

A man makes a pact with the devil for immortality then finds he doesn't get a kick out of living anymore.
CAST: David Wayne, Wendell Holmes, Raymond Bailey, Dick Wilson, Paul E. Burns, Allan Lurie, Virginia Christine, Thomas Gomez, Nesdon Booth, Joe Flynn, George Baxter.


The Lonely
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Jack Smight

Convicted of murder and sent to a deserted asteroid for 40 years, a man is given a robot woman for company.
CAST: Jack Warden, John Dehner, Jim Turley, Jean Marsh, Ted Knight.


Time Enough at Last
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brahm

Nearsighted, meek bank clerk Henry Bernis is the sole survivor of an H-bomb attack. At last he has the time to engulf himself in his passion for books. Or so he thinks.
CAST: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline de Wit, Lela Bliss.


Perchance to Dream
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Florey

A terrified man stumbles into a psychiatrist's office, afraid that if he falls asleep a woman in his dream will murder him.
CAST: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Eddie Marr, Ted Stanhope, Russell Trent.


Judgment Night
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brahm

A passenger on board a wartime freighter has a premonition that the ship will be sunk by a Nazi submarine at 1:15 a.m., but no one believes him.
CAST: Nehemiah Persoff, Patrick Macnee, Leslie Bradley, Kendrick Huxham, Ben Wright, Hugh Sanders, Deirdre Owen, James Franciscus.


And When the Sky Was Opened
Writer: Rod Serling, short story by Richard Matheson
Director: Douglas Hayes

Three astronauts, returning from man's first space flight, cannot remember the events of their trip. Then they begin to disappear one by one.
CAST: Rod Taylor, James Hutton, Charles Aidman, Sue Randall, Gloria Pall, Maxine Cooper, Paul Bryar.


What You Need
Writer: Rod Serling, story by Lewis Padgett (alias Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore)
Director: Alvin Ganzer

A down-and-out man tries to turn another man's ability to tell the future into a money-making scheme.
CAST: Steve Cochran, Read Morgan, Arline Sax, Frank Alloca, Ernest Truax, William Edmonson, Norman Sturgis, Mark Sunday.


The Four of Us Are Dying
Writer: Rod Serling, story by George Clayton Johnson
Director: John Brehm

Arch Hammer can change his face to look exactly like someone else, a talent that he depends on for a living.
CAST: Harry Townes, Philip Pine, Don Gordon, Bernard Fein, Beverly Garland, Ross Martin, Peter Brocco, Milton Frome.


Third from the Sun
Writer: Rod Serling, story by Richard Matheson
Director: Richard Bare

Two families steal a rocket ship and flee to another world before atomic war devastates their own.
CAST: Fritz Weaver, Edward Andrews, Lori March, Will J. White, Joe Maross, Denise Alexander, Jeanne Evans.


I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
Writer: Rod Serling, idea by Madelon Champion
Director: Stuart Rosenberg

A panicky astronaut traveler, believing his ship has crashed on a deserted asteroid, kills his two companions to save water, then discovers his shocking true location.
CAST: Dewey Martin, Edward Binns, Ted Otis.


The Hitch-Hiker
Writer: Rod Serling, radio play by Lucille Fletcher
Director: Alvin Ganzer

Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitch-hiker on the road ahead, beckoning her toward a fatal accident.
CAST: Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong, Adam Williams, Dwight Townsend, Mitzi McCall, Eleanor Audley, Lew Gallo, Russ Bender, George Mitchell.


The Fever
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Florey

A man fanatically opposed to gambling battles a Las Vegas one-armed bandit with a malevolent will of its own.
CAST: Everett Sloane, William Kendis, Art Lewis, Carole Kent, Vivi Janiss, Lee Millar.


The Last Flight
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: William Claxton

Fleeing from a World War One dogfight, a cowardly British pilot lands his 1917 biplane at a modem jet air base in France ... in 1959.
CAST: Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, Simon Scott, Robert Warwick, Harry Raybould.


The Purple Testament
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Richard Bare

A soldier unexpectedly acquires the power to recognize death in the faces of men about to die in battle.
CAST: William Reynolds, Dick York, Barney Phillips, Warren Oates, Ron Masak, William Phipps, Marc Cavell, Paul Mazursky.


Elegy
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Douglas Hayes

Earth-like scenes from many historical periods greet three space travelers who land on a strange planet.
CAST: Cecil Kellaway, Kevin Hagen, Jeff Morrow, Don Dubbins.


Mirror Image
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: John Brahm

A young woman grows panicky when she is haunted by a strange double who keeps appearing in a bus depot.
CAST: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Joe Hamilton.


The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ron Winston

A mysterious power failure causes paranoid suburban residents to suspect one another of being disguised creatures from outer space.
CAST: Claude Akins, Jack Weston, Barry Atwater, Jan Handzlik, Burt Metcalfe, Mary Gregory, Anne Barton, Lea Waggner, Ben Erway, Lyn Guild, Sheldon Allman, William Walsh.


A World of Difference
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Ted Post

A businessman inexplicably finds his office has become a set for a movie in which he is a character.
CAST: Howard Duff, Gail Kobe, Peter Walker, Eileen Ryan, Frank Maxwell.


Long Live Walter Jameson
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Anton Leader

A college professor is startled to learn that his young colleague and prospective son-in-law was born 2000 years ago with the gift of eternal life.
CAST: Kevin McCarthy, Edgar Stehli, Dody Heath, Estelle Winwood.


People Are Alike All Over
Writer: Rod Serling, story by Paul Fairman
Director: Mitchell Leisen

Sam Conrad, the first human to visit Mars, is relieved to find that the Martians treat him kindly and even build him a house like his home on Earth — but with one big difference.
CAST: Roddy McDowell, Paul Comi, Vic Perrin, Susan Oliver, Byron Morrow, Vernon Gray.


Execution
Writer: Rod Serling, story by George Clayton Johnson
Director: David Orrick McDearmon

An outlaw in the Wild West of the 1880s is snatched from the hangman's noose by a modern scientist's time machine.
CAST: Albert Salmi, Russell Johnson, Than Wyenn, George Mitchell, Jon Lormer, Fay Roope, Richard Karlan, Joe Howarth.


The Big Tall Wish
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Ron Winston

A 10-year-old boy tells a prize fighter that he will make a wish for him to win his comeback fight.
CAST: Steven Perry, Ivan Dixon, Kim Hamilton.


A Nice Place to Visit
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: John Brahm

A small-time hoodlum gets killed by the police during a robbery and finds an afterlife where he can have anything he wants.
CAST: Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, Sandra Warner.


Nightmare as a Child
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Alvin Ganzer

A teacher's encounter with herself as a child unlocks her memory of witnessing her mother's murder.
CAST: Janice Rule, Terry Burnham, Sheppard Strudwick.


A Stop at Willoughby
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Parrish

A harassed executive escapes into the peaceful town of Willoughby in July 1880.
CAST: James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue, James Maloney.


The Chaser
Writer: Robert Presnell Jr., story by John Collier
Director: Doug Heyes

A lovesick man finds unexpected results when he buys a potion from a stranger to help woo the woman he desires.
CAST: George Grizzard, John McIntire, Patricia Barry, J. Pat O'Malley.


A Passage for Trumpet
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford

A down-on-his-luck trumpet player is given a second crack at life after being struck down by a truck.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Mary Webster, John Anderson, Frank Wolff.


Mr. Bevis
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: William Asher

A happy-go-lucky man loses his job, his car and his home in one morning, then meets his "guardian angel" who tells him they will start the day anew.
CAST: Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane, William Schallert, Horace McMahon.


The After Hours
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Douglas Hayes

A woman who buys a thimble on the ninth floor of a department store later discovers the floor doesn't exist, and makes a startling discovery after the store closes.
CAST: Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Millhollin, John Conwell, Nancy Rennick.


The Mighty Casey
Writer: Rod Serling
Directors: Robert Parrish & Alvi Ganzer

The manager of a baseball team on a losing streak hires a robot pitcher called Casey.
CAST: Robert Sorrells, Jack Warden, Don O'Kelly, Abraham Sofaer.


A World of His Own
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Ralph Nelson

A playwright describes characters into his tape recorder and they materialize before his eyes.
CAST: Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Kirk, Mary La Roche.

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