Season 1 Episode 1
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…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 2, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Where is Everybody?” premiered”Season 2 Episode 4
A writer (Richard Haydn) believes machines are conspiring against him.
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Season 2 Episode 3
A nervous gangster (Joe Mantell) faces himself when his boss (William D. Gordon) gives him his latest assignment.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 14, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room” premiered”Season 2 Episode 2
A genie (Joseph Ruskin) grants four wishes to an unsuccessful pawnbroker (Luther Adler) and his wife (Vivi Janiss).
Read more “Horror History: Friday, October 7, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Man in the Bottle” premiered”Season 2 Episode 1
The sole survivor of a World War II bomber crash (Robert Cummings) cannot find any trace of his crew, but he does see jet planes flying overhead.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, September 30, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “King Nine Will Not Return” premiered”Season 1 Episode 36
A playwright makes characters come to life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, July 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A World of His Own” premiered”Season 1 Episode 35
Dr. Stillman arranges to have his human-looking robot signed up as the star pitcher of the Hoboken Zephyrs. The team zooms to fourth place thanks to Casey. After he’s beaned by a ball, a doctor discovers Casey has no heart. The rules say nine men make up a team, and without a heart Casey is not a man. Dr. Stillman gives Casey a heart, but he becomes too compassionate to strike out other players. The Zephyrs lose the pennant, and Casey is washed up in baseball. Dr. Stillman gives the coach, Mouth McGarry, Casey’s blueprints as a memento. Looking at them, McGarry gets a sudden inspiration, and chases after the doctor.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 17, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Mighty Casey” premiered”Season 1 Episode 34
A woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn’t exist – and that her “saleslady” is really a mannequin!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 10, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The After Hours” premiered”Season 1 Episode 33
An eccentric loser gets a new life from his guardian angel, but there is a price to keeping it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, June 3, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mr. Bevis” premiered”Season 1 Episode 32
A 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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 20, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Passage for Trumpet” premiered”Season 1 Episode 31
A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, slips her a love potion. He is overjoyed that the potion works so well…at first.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 13, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Chaser” premiered”Season 1 Episode 30
Riding home on the train one day, a man falls asleep and dreams it is 1880, and he is entering a small town called Willoughby.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, May 6, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Stop at Willoughby” premiered”Season 1 Episode 29
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment. The little girl seems to know her, and tries to jog her memory about a man she saw earlier that day. The man arrives at Helen’s door…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 29, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Nightmare as a Child” premiered”Season 1 Episode 28
After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 15, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A Nice Place to Visit” premiered”Season 1 Episode 27
An over-the-hill boxer gets a boost from one of his biggest fans – a little boy with an unwavering belief in magic.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 8, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Big Tall Wish” premiered”Season 1 Episode 26
Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, a man in 1880 is transported into the year 1959 by a professor who soon realizes that he has brought forward a savage killer.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, April 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Execution” premiered”Season 1 Episode 25
When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently just like us…
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 25, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “People Are Alike All Over” premiered”Season 1 Episode 24
Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 18, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Long Live Walter Jameson” premiered”Season 1 Episode 23
Businessman Arthur Curtis discovers that life as he knows it doesn’t really exist.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 11, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “A World of Difference” premiered”Season 1 Episode 22
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, March 4, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” premiered”Season 1 Episode 21
Millicent Barnes finds herself playing cat-and-mouse at a bus depot with a mysterious duplicate that seems intent on taking over her life.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 26, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mirror Image” premiered”Season 1 Episode 20
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left–only all of the people seem frozen in time.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 19, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Elegy” premiered”Season 1 Episode 19
Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has the disquieting ability to see who is about to die.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 12, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Purple Testament” premiered”Season 1 Episode 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!
Read more “Horror History: Friday, February 5, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Last Flight” premiered”Season 1 Episode 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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 29, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Fever” premiered”Season 1 Episode 16
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 22, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Hitch-Hiker” premiered”Season 1 Episode 15
Three astronauts crash on what they believe to be an asteroid. Unfortunately they have only limited water supplies to sustain them.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 15, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” premiered”Season 1 Episode 14
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 8, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Third From the Sun” premiered”Season 1 Episode 13
A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, January 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Four of Us are Dying” premiered”Season 1 Episode 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.
Read more “Horror History: Friday, December 25, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “What You Need” premiered”
