Season 1

Season • Oct 2, 1959–Jul 1, 1960

The first season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from October 2, 1959 to July 1, 1960. There are 36 episodes, including the pilot, "Where Is Everybody?". The theme music for this season, written by Bernard Herrman, is different from the music most commonly associated with the series, written by Marius Constant for the second season onwards.
  1. S1E1 - Where Is Everybody?

    Where Is Everybody?

    26 min • Oct 2, 1959 (67 years ago)

    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...

  2. S1E2 - One for the Angels

    One for the Angels

    26 min • Oct 9, 1959 (67 years ago)

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

  3. S1E3 - Mr. Denton on Doomsday

    Mr. Denton on Doomsday

    26 min • Oct 16, 1959 (67 years ago)

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

  4. S1E4 - The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

    The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

    26 min • Oct 23, 1959 (66 years ago)

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

  5. S1E5 - Walking Distance

    Walking Distance

    26 min • Oct 30, 1959 (66 years ago)

    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.

  6. S1E6 - Escape Clause

    Escape Clause

    26 min • Nov 6, 1959 (66 years ago)

    A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

  7. S1E7 - The Lonely

    The Lonely

    26 min • Nov 13, 1959 (66 years ago)

    In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.

  8. S1E8 - Time Enough at Last

    Time Enough at Last

    26 min • Nov 20, 1959 (66 years ago)

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

  9. S1E9 - Perchance to Dream

    Perchance to Dream

    26 min • Nov 27, 1959 (66 years ago)

    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.

  10. S1E10 - Judgment Night

    Judgment Night

    26 min • Dec 4, 1959 (66 years ago)

    In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.

  11. S1E11 - And When the Sky Was Opened

    And When the Sky Was Opened

    26 min • Dec 11, 1959 (66 years ago)

    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.

  12. S1E12 - What You Need

    What You Need

    26 min • Dec 25, 1959 (66 years ago)

    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.

  13. S1E13 - The Four of Us are Dying

    The Four of Us are Dying

    26 min • Jan 1, 1960 (66 years ago)

    In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

  14. S1E14 - Third from the Sun

    Third from the Sun

    26 min • Jan 8, 1960 (66 years ago)

    With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

  15. S1E15 - I Shot an Arrow into the Air

    I Shot an Arrow into the Air

    26 min • Jan 15, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.

  16. S1E16 - The Hitch-Hiker

    The Hitch-Hiker

    26 min • Jan 22, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.

  17. S1E17 - The Fever

    The Fever

    26 min • Jan 29, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  18. S1E18 - The Last Flight

    The Last Flight

    26 min • Feb 5, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

  19. S1E19 - The Purple Testament

    The Purple Testament

    26 min • Feb 12, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  20. S1E20 - Elegy

    Elegy

    26 min • Feb 19, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

  21. S1E21 - Mirror Image

    Mirror Image

    26 min • Feb 26, 1960 (66 years ago)

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

  22. S1E22 - The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

    The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

    26 min • Mar 4, 1960 (66 years ago)

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

  23. S1E23 - A World of Difference

    A World of Difference

    26 min • Mar 11, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  24. S1E24 - Long Live Walter Jameson

    Long Live Walter Jameson

    26 min • Mar 18, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

  25. S1E25 - People are Alike All Over

    People are Alike All Over

    26 min • Mar 25, 1960 (66 years ago)

    After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.

  26. S1E26 - Execution

    Execution

    26 min • Apr 1, 1960 (66 years ago)

    Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.

  27. S1E27 - The Big Tall Wish

    The Big Tall Wish

    26 min • Apr 8, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  28. S1E28 - A Nice Place to Visit

    A Nice Place to Visit

    26 min • Apr 15, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  29. S1E29 - Nightmare as a Child

    Nightmare as a Child

    26 min • Apr 29, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  30. S1E30 - A Stop at Willoughby

    A Stop at Willoughby

    26 min • May 6, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  31. S1E31 - The Chaser

    The Chaser

    26 min • May 13, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  32. S1E32 - A Passage for Trumpet

    A Passage for Trumpet

    26 min • May 20, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  33. S1E33 - Mr. Bevis

    Mr. Bevis

    26 min • Jun 3, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  34. S1E34 - The After Hours

    The After Hours

    26 min • Jun 10, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.

  35. S1E35 - The Mighty Casey

    The Mighty Casey

    26 min • Jun 17, 1960 (66 years ago)

    A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.

  36. S1E36 - A World of His Own

    A World of His Own

    26 min • Jul 1, 1960 (66 years ago)

    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.