The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)

The first iteration of *The Twilight Zone* was narrated by creator Rod Serling and ran for five seasons on CBS from 1959 to 1964.

## Rod Serling (Creator)

1. S01E01: "Where Is Everybody?"
2. S01E02: "One for the Angels"
3. S01E03: "Mr. Denton on Doomsday"
4. S01E04: "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"
5. S01E05: "Walking Distance"
6. S01E06: "Escape Clause"
7. S01E07: "The Lonely"
8. S01E08: "Time Enough at Last"
9. S01E10: "Judgment Night"
10. S01E11: "And When the Sky Was Opened"
11. S01E12: "What You Need"
12. S01E13: "The Four of Us Are Dying"
13. S01E14: "Third from the Sun"
14. S01E15: "I Shot an Arrow into the Air"
15. S01E16: "The Hitch-Hiker"
16. S01E17: "The Fever"
17. S01E19: "The Purple Testament"
18. S01E21: "Mirror Image"
19. S01E22: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"
20. S01E25: "People Are Alike All Over"
21. S01E26: "Execution"
22. S01E27: "The Big Tall Wish"
23. S01E29: "Nightmare as a Child"
24. S01E30: "A Stop at Willoughby"
25. S01E32: "A Passage for Trumpet"
26. S01E33: "Mr. Bevis"
27. S01E34: "The After Hours"
28. S01E35: "The Mighty Casey"
29. S02E01: "King Nine Will Not Return"
30. S02E02: "The Man in the Bottle"
31. S02E03: "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room"
32. S02E04: "A Thing About Machines"
33. S02E06: "Eye of the Beholder"
34. S02E08: "The Lateness of the Hour"
35. S02E10: "A Most Unusual Camera"
36. S02E11: "The Night of the Meek"
37. S02E12: "Dust"
38. S02E13: "Back There"
39. S02E14: "The Whole Truth"
40. S02E17: "Twenty-Two"
41. S02E18: "The Odyssey of Flight 33"
42. S02E19: "Mr. Dingle, the Strong"
43. S02E23: "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"
44. S02E24: "The Rip Van Winkle Caper"
45. S02E25: "The Silence"
46. S02E27: "The Mind and the Matter"
47. S02E28: "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
48. S02E29: "The Obsolete Man"
49. S03E02: "The Arrival"
50. S03E03: "The Shelter"
51. S03E04: "The Passersby"
52. S03E06: "The Mirror"
53. S03E08: "It's a Good Life"
54. S03E09: "Deaths-Head Revisited"
55. S03E10: "The Midnight Sun"
56. S03E11: "Still Valley"
57. S03E14: "Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
58. S03E15: "A Quality of Mercy"
59. S03E17: "One More Pallbearer"
60. S03E20: "Showdown with Rance McGrew"
61. S03E24: "To Serve Man"
62. S03E28: "The Little People"
63. S03E29: "Four O'Clock"
64. S03E30: "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby"
65. S03E31: "The Trade-Ins"
66. S03E32: "The Gift"
67. S03E33: "The Dummy"
68. S03E36: "Cavender Is Coming"
69. S03E37: "The Changing of the Guard"
70. S04E02: "The Thirty-Fathom Grave"
71. S04E04: "He's Alive"
72. SO4E10: "No Time Like the Past"
73. S04E11: "The Parallel"
74. S04E14: "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"
75. S04E16: "On Thursday We Leave for Home"
76. S04E18: "The Bard"
77. S05E01: "In Praise of Pip"
78. S05E04: "A Kind of a Stopwatch"
79. S05E05: "The Last Night of a Jockey"
80. S05E07: "The Old Man in the Cave"
81. S05E08: "Uncle Simon"
82. S05E09: "Probe 7, Over and Out"
83. S05E10: "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms"
84. S05E11: "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"
85. S05E15: "The Long Morrow"
86. S05E25: "The Masks"
87. S05E26: "I Am the Night—Color Me Black"
88. S05E27: "Sounds and Silences"
89. S05E29: "The Jeopardy Room"
90. S05E32: "Mr. Garrity and the Graves"
91. S05E33: "The Brain Center at Whipple's"
92. S05E35: "The Fear"

## Charles Beaumont

1. S01E09: "Perchance to Dream"
2. S01E20: "Elegy"
3. S01E24: "Long Live Walter Jameson"
4. S01E28: "A Nice Place to Visit"
5. S02E05: "The Howling Man"
6. S02E20: "Static"
7. S02E21: "The Prime Mover"
8. S02E22: "Long Distance Call" -- Co-written with William Idelson
9. S02E26: "Shadow Play"
10. S03E12: "The Jungle"
11. S03E18: "Dead Man's Shoes"
12. S03E24: "The Fugitive"
13. S03E26: "Person or Persons Unknown"
14. S04E01: "In His Image"
15. S04E03: "Valley of the Shadow"
16. S04E08: "Miniature"
17. S04E09: "Printer's Devil"
18. S04E13: "The New Exhibit"
19. S04E17: "Passage on the Lady Anne"
20. S05E06: "Living Doll"
21. S05E17: "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" -- Co-written with John Tomerlin
22. S05E23: "Queen of the Nile"

## Richard Matheson

1. S01E18: "The Last Flight"
2. S01E23: "A World of Difference"
3. S01E36: "A World of His Own"
4. S02E07: "Nick of Time"
5. S02E15: "The Invaders"
6. S03E13: "Once Upon a Time"
7. S03E26: "Little Girl Lost"
8. S03E34: "Young Man's Fancy"
9. S04E05: "Mute"
10. S04E06: "Death Ship"
11. S05E02: "Steel"
12. S05E03: "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
13. S05E19: "Night Call"
14. S05E21: "Spur of the Moment"

## Earl Hamner, Jr.

1. S03E19: "The Hunt"
2. S03E22: "A Piano in the House"
3. S04E07: "Jess-Belle"
4. S05E13: "Ring-a-Ding Girl"
5. S05E14: "You Drive"
6. S05E18: "Black Leather Jackets"
7. S05E30: "Stopover in a Quiet Town"
8. S05E36: "The Bewitchin' Pool"

## George Clayton Johnson

1. S02E16: "A Penny for Your Thoughts"
2. S03E05: "A Game of Pool"
3. S03E16: "Nothing in the Dark"
4. S03E21: "Kick the Can"

## Montgomery Pittman

1. S03E01: "Two"
2. S03E06: "The Grave"
3. S03E23: "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"

## Martin M. Goldsmith

1. S05E24: "What's in the Box"
2. S05E31: "The Encounter"

## Richard De Roy

1. S05E12: "Ninety Years Without Slumbering"

## Robert Enrico

1. S05E22: "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

## William Idelson

1. S02E22: "Long Distance Call" -- Co-written with Charles Beaumont

## Jerry McNeely

1. S05E16: "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"

## Reginald Rose

1. S04E15: "The Incredible World of Horace Ford"

## John Tomerlin

1. S05E17: "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" -- Co-written with Charles Beaumont

## Story credits

1. ↑ Based on a short story by Lynn Venable
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Based on a short story by Richard Matheson
3. ↑ Based on a short story by Lewis Padgett
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Based on a short story by George Clayton Johnson
5. ↑ Based on a story by Madelon Champion
6. ↑ Based on the radio play by Lucille Fletcher
7. ↑ Based on a short story by Paul Fairman
8. ↑ Based on an anecdote from Bennett Cerf's "Famous Ghost Stories"
9. ↑ Based on a short story by Jerome Bixby
10. ↑ Based on a short story by Manly Wade Wellman
11. ↑ Based on a short story by Marvin Petal
12. ↑ Based on an idea by Sam Rolfe
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Based on a story by Fredric Louis Fox
14. ↑ Based on a short story by Damon Knight
15. ↑ Based on a short story by Price Day
16. ↑ Based on a story by Lee Polk
17. ↑ Based on the short story "Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson
18. ↑ Based on a story by Michael D. Rosenthal
19. ↑ 19.0 19.1 Based on a short story by Henry Slesar
20. ↑ Based on a story by Lou Holz
21. ↑ Based on a story by Mike Korologos
22. ↑ Based on a story by OCee Ritch
23. ↑ Story by George Clayton Johnson (credited as Johnson Smith)
24. ↑ From a story by Ambrose Bierce
25. ↑ Based on a short story by John Collier