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A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Season 1

  • Where Is Everybody?
    7.9/108,048 votes

    Where Is Everybody?

    Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/2/1959

    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...

    Director: Robert Stevens

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • One for the Angels
    7.6/106,795 votes

    One for the Angels

    Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/9/1959

    A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.

    Director: Robert Parrish

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Mr. Denton on Doomsday
    7.1/105,758 votes

    Mr. Denton on Doomsday

    Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/16/1959

    A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.

    Director: Allen Reisner

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
    6.8/105,586 votes

    The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

    Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/23/1959

    An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

    Director: Mitchell Leisen

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Walking Distance
    8.2/106,756 votes

    Walking Distance

    Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/30/1959

    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.

    Director: Robert Stevens

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Escape Clause
    7.3/105,165 votes

    Escape Clause

    Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/6/1959

    A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

    Director: Mitchell Leisen

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Lonely
    8.1/105,996 votes

    The Lonely

    Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/13/1959

    In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.

    Director: Jack Smight

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Time Enough at Last
    8.9/108,622 votes

    Time Enough at Last

    Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/20/1959

    A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Perchance to Dream
    7.4/105,029 votes

    Perchance to Dream

    Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/27/1959

    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.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

  • Judgment Night
    7.3/104,597 votes

    Judgment Night

    Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/4/1959

    In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • And When the Sky Was Opened
    8.3/105,585 votes

    And When the Sky Was Opened

    Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/11/1959

    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.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

  • What You Need
    8.0/104,860 votes

    What You Need

    Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1959

    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.

    Director: Alvin Ganzer

    Writer: Rod Serling, Lewis Padgett

  • The Four of Us are Dying
    7.1/104,281 votes

    The Four of Us are Dying

    Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/1/1960

    In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: George Clayton Johnson, Rod Serling

  • Third from the Sun
    8.1/104,988 votes

    Third from the Sun

    Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/8/1960

    With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Richard Matheson, Rod Serling

  • I Shot an Arrow into the Air
    7.6/104,453 votes

    I Shot an Arrow into the Air

    Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/15/1960

    Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.

    Director: Stuart Rosenberg

    Writer: Rod Serling, Madelon Champion

  • The Hitch-Hiker
    8.2/105,807 votes

    The Hitch-Hiker

    Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/22/1960

    Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.

    Director: Alvin Ganzer

    Writer: Lucille Fletcher, Rod Serling

  • The Fever
    6.6/104,236 votes

    The Fever

    Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 1/29/1960

    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.

    Director: Robert Florey

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Last Flight
    8.0/104,551 votes

    The Last Flight

    Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1960

    A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

    Director: William Claxton

    Writer: Richard Matheson

  • The Purple Testament
    7.3/103,847 votes

    The Purple Testament

    Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/12/1960

    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.

    Director: Richard L. Bare

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Elegy
    7.5/104,048 votes

    Elegy

    Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/19/1960

    Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

  • Mirror Image
    7.9/104,782 votes

    Mirror Image

    Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/26/1960

    In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
    8.9/106,851 votes

    The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

    Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1960

    Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

    Director: Ron Winston

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • A World of Difference
    7.6/104,033 votes

    A World of Difference

    Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1960

    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.

    Director: Ted Post

    Writer: Richard Matheson

  • Long Live Walter Jameson
    8.0/104,255 votes

    Long Live Walter Jameson

    Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1960

    Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

    Director: Anton Leader

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

  • People are Alike All Over
    8.1/104,396 votes

    People are Alike All Over

    Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 3/25/1960

    After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.

    Director: Mitchell Leisen

    Writer: Paul W. Fairman, Rod Serling

  • Execution
    7.2/103,613 votes

    Execution

    Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1960

    Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.

    Director: David Orrick McDearmon

    Writer: George Clayton Johnson, Rod Serling

  • The Big Tall Wish
    6.6/103,590 votes

    The Big Tall Wish

    Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 4/8/1960

    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.

    Director: Ron Winston

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • A Nice Place to Visit
    7.8/104,236 votes

    A Nice Place to Visit

    Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 4/15/1960

    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.

    Director: John Brahm

    Writer: Charles Beaumont

  • Nightmare as a Child
    7.3/103,790 votes

    Nightmare as a Child

    Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/29/1960

    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.

    Director: Alvin Ganzer

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • A Stop at Willoughby
    8.5/105,201 votes

    A Stop at Willoughby

    Season 1 Episode 30 - Aired 5/6/1960

    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.

    Director: Robert Parrish

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Chaser
    6.9/103,452 votes

    The Chaser

    Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 5/13/1960

    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.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: John Collier

  • A Passage for Trumpet
    7.2/103,442 votes

    A Passage for Trumpet

    Season 1 Episode 32 - Aired 5/20/1960

    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.

    Director: Don Medford

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • Mr. Bevis
    6.7/103,365 votes

    Mr. Bevis

    Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 6/3/1960

    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

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The After Hours
    8.4/105,035 votes

    The After Hours

    Season 1 Episode 34 - Aired 6/10/1960

    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.

    Director: Douglas Heyes

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • The Mighty Casey
    6.1/103,336 votes

    The Mighty Casey

    Season 1 Episode 35 - Aired 6/17/1960

    A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.

    Director: Robert Parrish, Alvin Ganzer

    Writer: Rod Serling

  • A World of His Own
    8.1/104,038 votes

    A World of His Own

    Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 7/1/1960

    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.

    Director: Ralph Nelson

    Writer: Richard Matheson