A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing.

The Arrival

Rod Serling

Buck Houghton

Boris Sagal

The Shelter

A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.

When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.

The Passersby

Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.

A Game of Pool

After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.

The Mirror

Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.

The Grave

On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.

It's a Good Life

A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.

Deaths-Head Revisited

The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.

The Midnight Sun

Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.

Still Valley

Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.

The Jungle

Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962.

Once Upon a Time

A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

Five Characters in Search of an Exit

A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.

A Quality of Mercy

A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."

Nothing in the Dark

Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.

One More Pallbearer

A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.

Dead Man's Shoes

On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.

The Hunt

The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.

Showdown with Rance McGrew

A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".

Kick the Can

Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.

A Piano in the House

Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A team of linguists sets out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."

To Serve Man

Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

The Fugitive

Awakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished, even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.

Little Girl Lost

David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

Person or Persons Unknown

An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.

The Little People

Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.

Four O'Clock

A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.

Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.

The Trade-Ins

An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.

The Gift

A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil.  He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy:  plans that Willie doesn't support!

The Dummy

When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.

Young Man's Fancy

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

I Sing the Body Electric

Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.

Cavender is Coming

An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.

The Changing of the Guard

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

The Arrival

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