The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 1

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Ron Winston

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

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

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

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: Rod Serling, Lucille Fletcher

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

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

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: Rod Serling, Paul W. Fairman

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

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

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

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

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

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

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

Director: Robert Parrish

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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

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

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

A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

Director: Mitchell Leisen

Writer: Rod Serling

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

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