Season 1
36 episodes · Oct 2, 1959
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.
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S1E1Where Is Everybody?
Oct 2, 195926mMike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
S1E2One for the Angels
Oct 9, 195926mA street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
S1E3Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Oct 16, 195926mA has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
S1E4The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Oct 23, 195926mAn aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
S1E5Walking Distance
Oct 30, 195926mA 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.
S1E6Escape Clause
Nov 6, 195926mA hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
S1E7The Lonely
Nov 13, 195926mIn 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.
S1E8Time Enough at Last
Nov 20, 195926mA bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
S1E9Perchance to Dream
Nov 27, 195926mA 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.
S1E10Judgment Night
Dec 4, 195926mIn 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.
S1E11And When the Sky Was Opened
Dec 11, 195926mRecovering 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.
S1E12What You Need
Dec 25, 195926mA 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.
S1E13The Four of Us are Dying
Jan 1, 196026mIn this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
S1E14Third from the Sun
Jan 8, 196026mWith all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
S1E15I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Jan 15, 196026mThree astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.
S1E16The Hitch-Hiker
Jan 22, 196026mAlone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.
S1E17The Fever
Jan 29, 196026mTight 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.
S1E18The Last Flight
Feb 5, 196026mA World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
S1E19The Purple Testament
Feb 12, 196026mLieutenant 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.
S1E20Elegy
Feb 19, 196026mThree astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
S1E21Mirror Image
Feb 26, 196026mIn a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
S1E22The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Mar 4, 196026mParanoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
S1E23A World of Difference
Mar 11, 196026mArthur 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.
S1E24Long Live Walter Jameson
Mar 18, 196026mWalter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.
S1E25People are Alike All Over
Mar 25, 196026mAfter a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.
S1E26Execution
Apr 1, 196026mJust before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.
S1E27The Big Tall Wish
Apr 8, 196026mWashed-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.
S1E28A Nice Place to Visit
Apr 15, 196026mAfter 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.
S1E29Nightmare as a Child
Apr 29, 196026mSchoolteacher 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.
S1E30A Stop at Willoughby
May 6, 196026mRiding 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.
S1E31The Chaser
May 13, 196026mA man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, seeks the help of an old professor, who provides him with a love potion.
S1E32A Passage for Trumpet
May 20, 196026mA 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.
S1E33Mr. Bevis
Jun 3, 196026mAfter 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.
S1E34The After Hours
Jun 10, 196026mPuzzled 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.
S1E35The Mighty Casey
Jun 17, 196026mA baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
S1E36A World of His Own
Jul 1, 196026mComing 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.