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An anthology series 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

8.2/1062 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
8.0/1042 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
7.9/1032 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
7.8/1043 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
7.7/1054 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
7.7/1026 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
7.7/1027 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
7.6/1076 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
7.6/1054 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
7.6/1037 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
7.6/1035 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
7.6/1028 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
7.5/1031 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
7.4/1064 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
7.4/1029 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 F. Claxton
Writer: Richard Matheson
7.4/1032 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
7.4/1025 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
7.3/1034 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
7.3/1032 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
7.3/1027 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
7.2/1049 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
7.2/1027 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
7.0/1045 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
7.0/1041 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
7.0/1029 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
7.0/1026 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
6.9/1060 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
6.8/1034 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
6.8/1022 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
6.8/1025 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
6.7/1055 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
6.6/1028 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
6.5/1024 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
6.3/1028 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
6.2/1026 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
5.8/1020 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