Horror History: Friday, March 4, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street” premiered

Season 1 Episode 22

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

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Horror History: Friday, February 26, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mirror Image” 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.

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Horror History: Friday, February 19, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Elegy” 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.

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Horror History: Friday, February 12, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Purple Testament” 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.

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Horror History: Friday, February 5, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Last Flight” 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!

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Horror History: Friday, January 29, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Fever” 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.

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Horror History: Friday, January 22, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Hitch-Hiker” premiered

Season 1 Episode 16

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.

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Horror History: Friday, January 15, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “I Shot an Arrow into the Air” 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.

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Horror History: Friday, January 8, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Third From the Sun” 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.

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Horror History: Friday, January 1, 1960: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Four of Us are Dying” premiered

Season 1 Episode 13

A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

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Horror History: Friday, December 25, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “What You Need” 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.

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Horror History: Friday, December 11, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “And When the Sky Was Opened” premiered

Season 1 Episode 11

Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling…

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Horror History: Friday, December 4, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Judgment Night” premiered

Season 1 Episode 10

In 1942, a German wonders why he’s on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.

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Horror History: Friday, November 27, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Perchance to Dream” premiered

Season 1 Episode 9

A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.

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Horror History: Friday, November 20, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Time Enough at Last” premiered

Season 1 Episode 8

A bank teller, Henry Bemis, longs for time alone to read books. He gets his wish…

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Horror History: Friday, November 13, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Lonely” premiered

Season 1 Episode 7

Corry is stranded on an asteroid after being convicted of a crime. He receives as a present a robot who looks, sounds, and acts like a real woman.

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Horror History: Friday, November 6, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Escape Clause” premiered

Season 1 Episode 6

A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

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Horror History: Friday, October 30, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Walking Distance” premiered

Season 1 Episode 5

Martin Sloan, 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. He soon realizes he’s gone back in time.

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Horror History: Friday, October 23, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” premiered

Season 1 Episode 4

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

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Horror History: Friday, October 16, 1959: “The Twilight Zone” episode “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” premiered

Season 1 Episode 3

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

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