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The Twilight Zone (1985)

1985TV-143 seasons · 110 episodes

An updated version of the famous 1959 television series created by Rod Serling. Each week presents one to three tales about some unusual situation that turns out to be even more unusual than initially suspected. Whether the tone of the story is horror, suspense, or humor, there is always a surprise twist at the end.

Genres Drama · Mystery

Studio London Films Productions

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Seasons & Episodes

Season 159 episodes
1. Shatterday

A man accidentally phones his own home and winds up talking to his alter ego

2. A Little Peace and Quiet

In a modern remake of the classic episode, "A Kind of a Stopwatch", a woman discovers a necklace that gives its owner the ability to freeze time

3. Wordplay

An overworked businessman suddenly finds himself left out while the rest of his world speaks in mangled slang.

4. Dreams for Sale

A woman in the future traps herself in an idyllic, computer-generated fantasy in her mind.

5. Chameleon

A space shuttle returns from a mission and NASA discovers that something unusual has been picked up.

6. Healer

A thief steals a stone from a museum that gives him the power to heal and tries to pass himself as a faith healer.

7. Children's Zoo

A little girl's parents are always fighting and screaming at each other. She takes them to the Children's Zoo with a special invitation and she gets something very special, something her parents could not even imagine.

8. Kentucky Rye

Bob Spindler, a drunk driver, arrives at the "Kentucky Rye" bar where the customers are all victims of drunk drivers.

9. Little Boy Lost

A photographer torn between taking a plum overseas assignment and getting married, meets a strangely familiar little boy.

10. Wish Bank

Janice finds a magic lamp at a garage sale. Restrictions and lots of paperwork apply for her three wishes.

11. Nightcrawlers

A deputy trooper stops by a diner during a rainstorm where a Vietnam veteran's nightmares come to life.

12. If She Dies

A year after his wife died a man is involved in a car accident that leaves his young daughter in a coma. On his way home the man has a vision.

13. Ye Gods

Cupid arrives in the modern world. A love spell for his target does not work as well as he hopes.

14. Examination Day

In the far future, twelve-year-old Dickie must pass the mandatory government intelligence test.

15. A Message from Charity

A teenage boy with a fever finds himself in telepathic contact with a girl living in colonial New England.

16. Teacher's Aide

A teacher on a violent and gang infested high school has trouble controlling her students. The building is warded by some mysterious gargoyles, which give some special powers to the teacher.

17. Paladin of the Lost Hour

A Vietnam Vet named Billy saves an old man named Gasper from a mugging at a cemetery. He discovers that this old man holds the future of time in his watch.

18. Act Break

A landlord hounds a playwright named Maury for his rent. When the playwright's partner dies of a heart attack, he wishes he could become the greatest playwright ever.

19. The Burning Man

During a heat wave in the 1930's a mother and her son enjoy a drive in the country. They encounter a strange man who wants a ride.

20. Dealer's Choice

A group of friends playing cards suspect that their guest is the Devil.

21. Dead Woman's Shoes

Shy Maddie finds a pair of shoes and after trying them on, is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a rich murdered woman.

22. Wong's Lost and Found Emporium

David Wong searches for something he lost. He seeks the Lost and Found Emporium where he finds others looking for their lost items.

23. The Shadow Man

The Shadow Man, a mysterious entity made of darkness, defends a boy in exchange for being allowed to stay under his bed.

24. The Uncle Devil Show

Parents don't realize that the video their child watches demonstrates magic tricks like turning parents into lizards and giving dogs four eyes.

25. Opening Day

A beautiful woman and her boyfriend plan to kill her husband on the first day of duck hunting season.

26. The Beacon

A young doctor stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.

27. One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

A man who returns to his childhood home is transported to his past.

28. Her Pilgrim Soul

Two scientists create a holographic projector that has a woman appear in the display.

29. I of Newton

A professor attempting to solve a difficult math problem finds himself matching wits with a demon.

30. Night of the Meek

A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who go gift less and starving during Christmas. He is fired from his job at a department store when he shows up late, and subsequently finds a bag that he can pull any present anyone wants from it.

31. But Can She Type?

An overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated secretary uses a Xerox machine and wakes up in a parallel reality where no one has heard of her.

32. The Star

Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a planet long dead and a transmitter emitting a signal for eons.

33. Still Life

A professional photographer discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition.

34. The Little People of Killany Woods

An old Irishman has often been called a fool for his stories about Leprechauns.

35. The Misfortune Cookie

A food critic receives fortune cookie messages that get fulfilled.

36. Monsters!

A boy who loves monster movies has a strange neighbor move in.

37. A Small Talent for War

An alien race that claimed to have invented mankind returns to judge them.

38. A Matter of Minutes

A young married couple discovers that their home is being remodeled by blue-clad workers who are workers of time that build and move objects from one time period to another.

39. The Elevator

Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.

40. To See the Invisible Man

An uncaring man is sentenced to a year of social isolation.

41. Tooth and Consequences

The Tooth Fairy gives a dentist what he wishes for.

42. Welcome to Winfield

The grim reaper arrives at a hospital to take possession of a dying man. The man's wife rescues him and takes him to the western town of Winfield where residents have been living for hundreds of years. Apparently, the reaper has failed to collect those living there.

43. Quarantine

An ill weapons designer is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later..

44. Gramma

A young boy is convinced his ailing grandmother is really a monster.

45. Personal Demons

A scriptwriter suffering from writers block is tormented by a group of small creatures.

46. Cold Reading

An actor arrives at a radio station to perform a radio play. An old voodoo stick is accidentally activated and the play becomes more real that anything anyone expected.

47. The Leprechaun Artist

Vacationing in the United States, an Irish leprechaun is caught by three boys. To be freed, he must grant them three wishes.

48. Dead Run

An out-of-work trucker takes on a bizarre job upon the recommendation of a friend: deliveryman of souls to Hell.

49. Profile in Silver

A researcher from the future, a descendent of President John F. Kennedy goes back in time to witness his ancestor's death.

50. Button, Button

A mysterious man offers a couple a bizarre deal: if they will push a button on a box that will kill one person they don't know, they will get a million dollars.

51. Need to Know

A government scientist/agent sent to a small town to help investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity which is spreading through the town.

52. Red Snow

A KGB investigator is sent to Siberia to investigate the deaths of communist party officials.

53. Take My Life...Please!

A successful comedianwho steals a routine from another comedian ends up paying a high price.

54. Devil's Alphabet

A group of friends in Victorian England find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.

55. The Library

Landing a new job at a private library a girl is warned never to look at the books. Taking a peek she learns that there's a book for everyone alive. When a neighbor pesters her, she rewrites his biography.

56. Shadow Play

A man is convinced that reality as we perceive it is dependent on his staying alive.

57. Grace Note

An opera singer is having a hard time. Her sister is at the hospital dying. Her sick sister leaves a gift: a glimpse into the future when the singer is a world-famous star.

58. A Day in Beaumont

In the 1950s a flying saucer crashes on Earth. The crash is seen by a couple. They run into town, but no one believes them.

59. The Last Defender of Camelot

In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights teams with Morgan le Fay to stop the return of Merlin.

Season 221 episodes
1. The Once and Future King

An Elvis impersonator is transported to the 1950s where he meets the real Elvis who thinks that the impersonator is his long dead brother.

2. A Saucer of Loneliness

A quiet waitress sees a glowing UFO, which gives her a message that everyone wants to know. She refuses to reveal exactly what the message is.

3. What Are Friends For?

A lonely boy finds a strange friendship in the woods around his home.

4. Aqua Vita

A woman finds a method for eternal youth at a steep price.

5. The Storyteller

A young woman finds that the secret to immortality resides in storie

6. Nightsong

A young DJ working the graveyard shift at a radio station rediscovers a record album by her boyfriend who disappeared five years ago. When he suddenly appears again, she is surprised and upset.

7. The After Hours

A Woman goes to a mall for a doll, but encounters strange things after the closing hours...

8. Lost and Found

A young college student has been losing personal items for some time. The mystery is resolved when she finds two time-travelers in her closet.

9. The World Next Door

Would-be inventor Barney Schlessinger is bored with his life until he meets another inventor in a parallel world who is far more successful than he is.

10. The Toys of Caliban

An elderly husband and wife live in terror of their son, a boy who has the power to summon anything he can conceive. They are forced to limit what he sees and reads, since anything he summons has to come from...somewhere. When he becomes sick from eating too much summoned food, they take him to a hospital and attract the attention of a social worker, who doesn't know of the boy's power and is shocked at the parents' harsh treatment. The boy inadvertently kills his mother when he sees a picture of a heart in a magazine, and "summons" it out of her chest. Later, as the social worker comes calling, the boy demonstrates his power by summoning his missing mother...who has been two weeks in the grave. As the worker summons the police, the boy's father has him summon an explosion, killing them both rather than have his son fall into the hands of the government.

11. The Convict's Piano

A man in prison who insists that he is innocent of a crime discovers a piano that transports him to the old days of gangsters.

12. The Road Less Traveled

A man who dodges the Vietnam draft is haunted by visions of his other life as a soldier during the war.

13. The Card

A woman with out-of-control spending habits finds her new credit card comes with unexpected penalties.

14. The Junction

A modern-day miner has an argument with his wife and then goes off to work in the local mine. A collapse traps him, but he finds another survivor - a miner who claims to be from 1912. The two men figure out that somehow they have become connected through time.

15. Joy Ride

Two teenage boys and their girlfriends steal a recently deceased man's classic car. While they are on a joyride, they accidentally kill a policeman.

16. Private Channel

On board an airplane, a lightning storm transforms a boy's walkman into a telepathic tuning device that informs him that the man sitting next to him is carrying a bomb.

17. Shelter Skelter

A survivalist traps himself in his bomb shelter when a nuclear blast finally comes.

18. Time and Teresa Golowitz

A Broadway composer accepts an offer from the Prince of Darkness and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. It's not as pleasant as he expected and soon, he sees a classmate who met a tragic end that night..

19. Voices in the Earth

In the far future. an expedition returns to a desolate barren Earth where a scientist begins to see the ghosts of those who died years ago.

20. Song of the Younger World

In 1916 a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her father, the superintendent. He finds out and does not approve of their love, locking away his daughter and punishing the boy. Luckily, the girl has a secret plan to escape so she can be forever with the love of her life.

21. The Girl I Married

An attorney and his wife have successful careers. They feel something is lacking in their marriage. Soon, they encounter younger versions of their mates.

Season 330 episodes
1. The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

Edgar Witherspoon is an elderly man with a Rube Goldberg machine filling his apartment. His niece is concerned and arranges for a social worker to look in on him. It turns out that the machine is an allegory for the world. Edgar is constantly making modifications and additions to the machine to keep the world running right.

2. Extra Innings

Ex-baseball player Ed Hamner, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a 1909 baseball card of a player that looks exactly like him, Monte Hanks. The card is magical in that he becomes drawn into it and lives out the life of the player in the past. Hamner must choose between being healthy and playing his favorite sport in the past, or live in the present with his despairing wife who fears he'll never grow up.

3. The Crossing

A stressed-out priest repeatedly encounters a station wagon containing a young girl. The car keeps crashing and bursting into flames.

4. The Hunters

A young boy falls into an undiscovered cave near a housing project. An archeologist studies strange paintings on its walls and then bizarre things begin to happen. Cave items move around and animals are killed and brought into the cave.

5. Dream Me a Life

Roger, a curmudgeonly man in a retirement home, has nightmares of an unknown woman trying to hold back some strange creature behind a door in a room filled with candles. He is shocked when that woman, a cataleptic, becomes his next-door neighbor. Roger soon comes to realize that he is somehow tied to the woman, and that even in the dream he can be hurt and possibly killed. The next time he is drawn into the dream he tries to help her, only to realize that she is holding something in - the spirit of her dead husband, as she can't let go of his memory. Roger releases him to pass on to the other side, and slowly begins to reconcile with the woman as she comes back to life.

6. Memories

A hypnotist who specializes in helping people relive their past lives tries to find her own history. She hypnotizes herself and when she awakens, she learns that everyone can now remember their past lives. They also desperately want to forget them.

7. The Hellgramite Method

An alcoholic, Miley Judson, is approached by a doctor who offers to provide him with a unique cure. Desperate, Judson agrees and is secretly given a "hellgramite" insect. The insect in his stomach will keep him sober no matter how much he drinks, and will feed on any alcohol he does drink. The more Judson drinks, the larger it will get until it is fatal. Judson can stop drinking, but if he does the insect will force him through terrible withdrawal pains until it goes into hibernation. Judson manages to make it, and offers a card for the doctor to another alcoholic buddy.

8. Our Selena is Dying

A young woman, Diane, comes to live with her family, including the dying patriarch Sylena. Much to the doctor's astonishment, Sylena begins to make an astonishing recovery, while Diane begins to show all the signs of rapid aging. The doctor soon deduces the truth: the Brockman's have discovered a way to assure immortality, at the sacrifice of their younger members. When the doctor confronts Sylena, a fire breaks out burning down the house. Diane is restored to her normal youth, and Sylena is taken in as a Jane Doe, and begins to heal herself as a nurse nearby complains of inexplicable burn injuries.

9. The Call

A lonely man accidentally phones the wrong number and finds an intriguing female to whom he grows attached. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and finds the phone in a museum next to the statue of a woman.

10. The Trance

A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, a former inhabitant of Atlantis. Together with a partner, he makes a living off of it. The day of his big break, he channels another spirit, one who could cause him to lose everything. Is it punishment or a lesson from the twilight zone?

11. Acts of Terror

A woman terrorized by her abusive husband finds some small consolation in a statue of a dog given to her by her sympathetic sister. The woman soon discovers that she can summon the dog to life as a huge ferocious beast that will respond when her husband abuses her. He manages to break the statue but the dog is not sent away. Begging for his life, she decides to simply leave, accepting the dog into herself. He tries to stop her but the dog is still there when she needs it.

12. 20/20 Vision

Newly promoted bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them. Faced with seeing the future of the farmers whose farms he must foreclose on, Warren can't bring himself to foreclose. Right away he's torn into doing his job or standing up for the people he helps. He manages to get his way by using his knowledge of the future to blackmail his conniving boss and convincing him to let things go.

13. There Was an Old Woman

A famous children's book writer visits a sick boy and reads him one of her stories. Later, at home, she is disturbed by children's voices throughout her house and learns from his parents that the boy has died.

14. The Trunk

A young man at a motel discovers an empty trunk that grants any wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are.

15. Appointment on Route 17

After finishing a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed. He also discovers that he has a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.

16. The Cold Equations

A shuttle pilot on the outer fringes of space finds a stowaway on board his ship. Because of the extra weight, he does not have enough fuel for his journey and faces a dilemma forcing him to consider jettisoning her into space.

17. Stranger in Possum Meadows

A young boy playing in a field meets an old man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.

18. Street of Shadows

Unemployed Steve Cranston lives with his family in a soon-to-be-closed homeless shelter. One night, he breaks into the home of wealthy Frederick Perry, who pulls a gun. The resulting struggle has a deep effect on several lives.

19. Something in the Walls

A doctor arrives at his new job in a sanitarium. He discovers the case of a woman who is terribly frightened of things that appear on her walls.

20. A Game of Pool

Young Jesse has spent his entire life mastering pool, and wants to beat the best: the deceased Fats Brown. Summoned, Fats Brown appears to challenge him to a game of pool. The stakes: Jesse's life. After a tense match, Jesse fails to make a critical shot. Fats tells him that he will indeed "die": he'll die as the second-rate player he always is. Fats departs as Jesse vows to keep playing until he's good enough to beat Brown.

21. The Wall

At a lab a dimensional portal appears. Major Alex McAndrews is sent through the portal to learn what is on the other side. He discovers a pastoral paradise. When he returns to Earth, he discovers that the military has plans for the portal.

22. Room 2426

Biochemist Martin Decker is imprisoned, interrogated, and tortured, but still refuses to reveal a secret formula to his captors. However, his new cell mate's knowledge of teleportation of living matter may provide him with an escape route.

23. The Mind of Simon Foster

In an impoverished future, Simon Foster goes to a pawnshop to sell some personal items to raise money for rent. The shop owner offers to buy some of his memories. In Simon Foster's life, what could be possibly be valuable?

24. Cat and Mouse

Andrea, a plain, shy, secluded girl longs for love. One day, love comes to her in the form of a cat who transforms into the man of her dreams. The man was cursed to become a cat by a scorned woman centuries ago. Unfortunately, the cursed prince is a little more than Andrea can handle, particularly when he starts "catting around". Andrea gets revenge by drugging him and then taking him to the vet to be neutered.

25. Rendezvous in a Dark Place

An old woman with an obsession with death attends funerals for entertainment. One night when an injured thief breaks into her home, she lets him die and waits for Death to come and collect him.

26. Many, Many Monkeys

An epidemic breaks out and many people are struck blind. Something more happens, however: People have become cold and heartless toward each other.

27. Love is Blind

In a bar, a very mysterious blind man plays the piano, and gives some very special advice to a jealous boyfriend.

28. Crazy as a Soup Sandwich

A man sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss he borrowed the track money from.

29. Special Service

A normal, everyday guy discovers a camera in his closet. Puzzled, a repairman shows up to fix it, and secretly informs him that his life is being televised, and is a top-ratings grabber. The guy, John, doesn't want his life to be aired, and decides to quit. He soon finds that he misses the fame and popularity, albeit was kept secret from him. He has the repairman secretly reinstall the camera, begins to go back to his everyday "popular" televised life, and the ratings start pouring in again.

30. Father & Son Game

A 79-year-old man wants to keep on living so he transplants his brain into a younger body. His son, however, resents his father's continued life and tries to wrestle power from him.