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First Aired: October 2nd, 1959
Status: Ended
Network: CBS
Summary: A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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# of Episodes: 156
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Season 1
Episode 1: Where Is Everybody?
Air Date: October 2nd, 1959
Summary: 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...
Episode 2: One for the Angels
Air Date: October 9th, 1959
Summary: A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
Episode 3: Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Air Date: October 16th, 1959
Summary: A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
Episode 4: The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Air Date: October 23rd, 1959
Summary: An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
Episode 5: Walking Distance
Air Date: October 30th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 6: Escape Clause
Air Date: November 6th, 1959
Summary: A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
Episode 7: The Lonely
Air Date: November 13rd, 1959
Summary: In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.
Episode 8: Time Enough at Last
Air Date: November 20th, 1959
Summary: A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
Episode 9: Perchance to Dream
Air Date: November 27th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 10: Judgment Night
Air Date: December 4th, 1959
Summary: In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.
Episode 11: And When the Sky Was Opened
Air Date: December 11st, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 12: What You Need
Air Date: December 25th, 1959
Summary: 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.
Episode 13: The Four of Us Are Dying
Air Date: January 1st, 1960
Summary: In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
Episode 14: Third from the Sun
Air Date: January 8th, 1960
Summary: With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
Episode 15: I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Air Date: January 15th, 1960
Summary: Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.
Episode 16: The Hitch-Hiker
Air Date: January 22nd, 1960
Summary: Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.
Episode 17: The Fever
Air Date: January 29th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 18: The Last Flight
Air Date: February 5th, 1960
Summary: A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
Episode 19: The Purple Testament
Air Date: February 12nd, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 20: Elegy
Air Date: February 19th, 1960
Summary: Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
Episode 21: Mirror Image
Air Date: February 26th, 1960
Summary: In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
Episode 22: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Air Date: March 4th, 1960
Summary: Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
Episode 23: A World of Difference
Air Date: March 11st, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 24: Long Live Walter Jameson
Air Date: March 18th, 1960
Summary: Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.
Episode 25: People Are Alike All Over
Air Date: March 25th, 1960
Summary: After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.
Episode 26: Execution
Air Date: April 1st, 1960
Summary: Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.
Episode 27: The Big Tall Wish
Air Date: April 8th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 28: A Nice Place to Visit
Air Date: April 15th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 29: Nightmare as a Child
Air Date: April 29th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 30: A Stop at Willoughby
Air Date: May 6th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 31: The Chaser
Air Date: May 13rd, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 32: A Passage for Trumpet
Air Date: May 20th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 33: Mr. Bevis
Air Date: June 3rd, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 34: The After Hours
Air Date: June 10th, 1960
Summary: 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.
Episode 35: The Mighty Casey
Air Date: June 17th, 1960
Summary: A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
Episode 36: A World of His Own
Air Date: July 1st, 1960
Summary: 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.
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