The Twilight Zone

Two

1961-09-15 · 26m

A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.

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Episode 2

The Arrival

1961-09-22 · 26m

A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing.

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Episode 3

★ 8.4

The Shelter

1961-09-29 · 26m

When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

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Episode 4

The Passersby

1961-10-06 · 26m

On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.

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Episode 5

A Game of Pool

1961-10-13 · 26m

Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.

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Episode 6

★ 6.3

The Mirror

1961-10-20 · 26m

After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.

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Episode 7

The Grave

1961-10-27 · 26m

Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.

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Episode 8

★ 8.2

It's a Good Life

1961-11-03 · 26m

On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.

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Episode 9

Deaths-Head Revisited

1961-11-10 · 26m

A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.

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Episode 10

★ 7.9

The Midnight Sun

1961-11-17 · 26m

The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.

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Episode 11

★ 6.1

Still Valley

1961-11-24 · 26m

Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.

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Episode 12

★ 6.6

The Jungle

1961-12-01 · 26m

Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.

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Episode 13

★ 7.2

Once Upon a Time

1961-12-15 · 26m

Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962.

Still from Five Characters in Search of an Exit

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Episode 14

★ 7.9

Five Characters in Search of an Exit

1961-12-22 · 26m

A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

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Episode 15

★ 7.1

A Quality of Mercy

1961-12-29 · 26m

A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.

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Episode 16

★ 7.8

Nothing in the Dark

1962-01-05 · 26m

A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."

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Episode 17

★ 6.6

One More Pallbearer

1962-01-12 · 26m

Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.

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Episode 18

Dead Man's Shoes

1962-01-19 · 26m

A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.

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Episode 19

The Hunt

1962-01-26 · 26m

On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.

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Episode 20

Showdown with Rance McGrew

1962-02-02 · 26m

The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.

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Episode 21

★ 7.3

Kick the Can

1962-02-09 · 26m

A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".

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Episode 22

★ 7.1

A Piano in the House

1962-02-16 · 26m

Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.

Still from The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

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Episode 23

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

1962-02-23 · 26m

Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...

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Episode 24

★ 8.5

To Serve Man

1962-03-02 · 26m

An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A team of linguists sets out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."

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Episode 25

The Fugitive

1962-03-09 · 26m

Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

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Episode 26

★ 7.1

Little Girl Lost

1962-03-16 · 26m

Awakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished, even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.

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Episode 27

★ 7.5

Person or Persons Unknown

1962-03-23 · 26m

David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

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Episode 28

★ 7.3

The Little People

1962-03-30 · 26m

An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.

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Episode 29

★ 5.9

Four O'Clock

1962-04-06 · 26m

Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.

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Episode 30

Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

1962-04-13 · 26m

A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.

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Episode 31

★ 6.9

The Trade-Ins

1962-04-20 · 26m

An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.

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Episode 32

★ 6.2

The Gift

1962-04-27 · 26m

An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.

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Episode 33

The Dummy

1962-05-04 · 26m

A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!

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Episode 34

★ 5.9

Young Man's Fancy

1962-05-11 · 26m

When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.

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Episode 35

I Sing the Body Electric

1962-05-18 · 26m

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

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Episode 36

★ 6.3

Cavender is Coming

1962-05-25 · 25m

Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.

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Episode 37

★ 6.9

The Changing of the Guard

1962-06-01 · 25m

An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.