The Twilight Zone (1959) 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.
01 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...
10/2/1959
02 A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
10/9/1959
03 A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
10/16/1959
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine 04 An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
10/23/1959
05 A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child.
10/30/1959
06 A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
11/6/1959
07 In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.
11/13/1959
08 A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
11/20/1959
09 A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
11/27/1959
10 In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.
12/4/1959
And When the Sky Was Opened 11 Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.
12/11/1959
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 need the most.
12/25/1959
13 In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
1/1/1960
14 With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
1/8/1960
I Shot an Arrow into the Air 15 Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.
1/15/1960
16 Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.
1/22/1960
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 of a slot machine that calls his name.
1/29/1960
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!
2/5/1960
19 Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on the faces of his men before battle.
2/12/1960
20 Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
2/19/1960
21 In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
2/26/1960
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street 22 Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
3/4/1960
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, a movie star struggling with alcoholism and a declining career.
3/11/1960
24 Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.
3/18/1960
People are Alike All Over 25 After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.
3/25/1960
26 Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.
4/1/1960
27 Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent during a comeback fight, turning the tide in his favor.
4/8/1960
28 After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.
4/15/1960
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 about a man she saw earlier that day.
4/29/1960
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 Willoughby.
5/6/1960
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.
5/13/1960
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 hear or see him.
5/20/1960
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 there is a price for keeping it.
6/3/1960
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 gold thimble, doesn't exist.
6/10/1960
35 A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
6/17/1960
36 Coming home, Victoria catches her husband Gregory flirting with a beautiful woman in his study. His explanation that characters come to life before his eyes when he speaks into his dictation machine, leads Victoria to question his sanity.
7/1/1960
