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The Twilight Zone

Fri, Sep 27, 1985
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
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Synopsis

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

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  • Robin Ward
    Robin Ward
    as Narrator (voice)
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Episodes

3 seasons · 110 episodes

Ended · 110 aired
Season 1
59 episodes · 59 aired
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  • E1
    Shatterday
    Aired · Sat, Sep 28, 1985 · 24m

    The story follows a man who finds that a double of himself has moved into his apartment and is taking over his life. A pushy fellow named Peter mistakenly dials his own telephone number in a bar and is astonished to find a nice guy named Peter answering at the other end. Peter is ‘both victim and victor of a brief struggle for the custody of a soul.

  • E2
    A Little Peace and Quiet
    Aired · Sat, Sep 28, 1985 · 25m

    A woman discovers a pendant which allows her to freeze time. A housewife who finds an amulet that enables her to "freeze" the entire world around her merely by saying ‘'shut up." Eventually this cute ability finds itself confronting the specter of nuclear annihilation.

  • E3
    Wordplay
    Aired · Fri, Oct 4, 1985 · 19m

    Life is sure getting complicated for Bill Lawry (Robert Klein). His company is seling a new line of medical equipment and poor Bill has just one week to memorize 67 new products. Biothermic dilator, Electromyograph. Entero-something-or-other. He studies until the wee hours and falls into a fitful sleep. Next morning, as he leaves for work, his neighbor happily informs Bill that his dog Ginger had her litter last night. There were nine puppies, "and that's quite a few for a small dog like an encyclopedia." Huh? A puzzled Bill heads for the office, where a young co-worker asks his advice on a good place to take a pretty girl for dinosaur. Come again? That afternoon, Bill hears people saying things like, "Wine mental eight van cattle renting jupiter." Everybody but Bill has a new vocabulary!

  • E4
    Dreams for Sale
    Aired · Fri, Oct 4, 1985 · 9m

    A woman finds that a relaxing outdoor picnic with her family is nothing more than an escapist fantasy that is beamed directly into her brain.

  • E5
    Chameleon
    Aired · Fri, Oct 4, 1985 · 21m

    A team of scientists contend with a shape-shifting alien.

  • E6
    Healer
    Aired · Fri, Oct 11, 1985 · 22m

    A small-time crook acquires a stone that gives him miraculous healing powers.

  • E7
    Children's Zoo
    Aired · Fri, Oct 11, 1985 · 9m

    Debbie is a four-year-old girl starved for attention because her parents are always fighting. Her mother yells at her and her father is too lazy to give her any quality time. Debbie asks her parents to take her to the Children's Zoo. A friend gave her an invitation which specifies that both parents must accompany the child.

  • E8
    Kentucky Rye
    Aired · Fri, Oct 11, 1985 · 18m

    A drunk driver emerges from a crash to enter the bar of his dreams.

  • E9
    Little Boy Lost
    Aired · Fri, Oct 18, 1985 · 19m

    The story follows a woman who, while trying to decide between pursuing a globetrotting career and having a family, forms a relationship with a mysterious young boy.

  • E10
    Wish Bank
    Aired · Fri, Oct 18, 1985 · 9m

    Upon finding a genie's lamp at a garage sale, a woman tries to cash in three wishes at the department of magical venues, a satire of the department of motor vehicles.

  • E11
    Nightcrawlers
    Aired · Fri, Oct 18, 1985 · 21m

    State trooper Dennis Wells takes shelter from a downpour at a roadside diner. He describes to Bob the cook and the server a massacre that he is investigating that occurred at a local motel. After almost getting into a collision outside, a Vietnam veteran named Price enters the diner. Concerned by Price's reckless driving, Wells interrogates him.

  • E12
    If She Dies
    Aired · Fri, Oct 25, 1985 · 20m

    A widower's daughter falls into a coma with no prospects of recovery, and he is subsequently haunted by the apparition of an orphan who died before he was born.

  • E13
    Ye Gods
    Aired · Fri, Oct 25, 1985 · 29m

    A man's disinterest in pursuing love draws the wrath of Cupid and forces him into dealings with the gods of ancient mythology.

  • E14
    Examination Day
    Aired · Fri, Nov 1, 1985 · 11m

    Dickie Jordan is an intelligent and curious youth. He and his family live in a dystopian future. On Dickie's twelfth birthday, he is required by law to undergo an intelligence examination. Dickie's birthday wish is to do well on his exam. His parents appear stressed and avoid his questions. When the time comes, his father brings him to a government testing facility. There he is given a serum to ensure he tells the truth and given a series of intelligence assessment questions.

  • E15
    A Message from Charity
    Aired · Fri, Nov 1, 1985 · 38m

    A pair of teenagers–one from 1700, and one from 1985–share a mental link across time.

  • E16
    Teacher's Aide
    Aired · Fri, Nov 8, 1985 · 16m

    A high school teacher begins picking fights with disruptive students after she is exposed to a mystic gargoyle.

  • E17
    Paladin of the Lost Hour
    Aired · Fri, Nov 8, 1985 · 33m

    The story follows the friendship between a Vietnam veteran and an old man entrusted with forestalling the end of the universe. The television episode starred Danny Kaye in one of his final screen appearances.

  • E18
    Act Break
    Aired · Fri, Nov 15, 1985 · 15m

    A playwright dying from a heart attack gives his partner a magical relic which grants the bearer one wish.

  • E19
    The Burning Man
    Aired · Fri, Nov 15, 1985 · 12m

    A boy and his aunt who, while driving on an isolated country road, encounter a crazed hitchhiker who claims to be an evil creature with a life cycle similar to a periodical cicada.

  • E20
    Dealer's Choice
    Aired · Fri, Nov 15, 1985 · 22m

    Featuring an ensemble cast composed largely of veteran character actors, it follows the events of a poker night in which one of the players is secretly the Devil.

  • E21
    Dead Woman's Shoes
    Aired · Fri, Nov 22, 1985 · 25m

    It is a remake of "Dead Man's Shoes", an episode of the original Twilight Zone. It stars Helen Mirren as a timid woman who, upon trying on a recently murdered woman's shoes, is possessed by her vengeful spirit.

  • E22
    Wong's Lost and Found Emporium
    Aired · Fri, Nov 22, 1985 · 24m

    Based on the short story "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", by William F. Wu, first published in Amazing Stories in May 1983. It takes place in a mystical shop where ephemeral things such as lost integrity and lost time can be recovered.

  • E23
    The Shadow Man
    Aired · Fri, Nov 29, 1985 · 20m

    A boy discovers that a murderous shadow person resides under his bed.

  • E24
    The Uncle Devil Show
    Aired · Fri, Nov 29, 1985 · 7m

    A boy learns strange magic tricks from a bizarre kids' show, unbeknownst to his oblivious parents.

  • E25
    Opening Day
    Aired · Fri, Nov 29, 1985 · 23m

    Carl Wilkerson is targeted for murder on the opening day of duck hunting season by his wife's lover- who is also his best friend.

  • E26
    The Beacon
    Aired · Fri, Dec 6, 1985 · 20m

    Young doctor Dennis Barrows stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.

  • E27
    One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty
    Aired · Fri, Dec 6, 1985 · 29m

    Gus Rosenthal returns to his childhood home, and finds himself transported to his past.

  • E28
    Her Pilgrim Soul
    Aired · Fri, Dec 13, 1985 · 40m

    Two scientists create a holographic projector, which shows something completely unexpected- the reincarnated soul of a young girl.

  • E29
    I of Newton
    Aired · Fri, Dec 13, 1985 · 9m

    A professor attempting to solve a difficult math problem idly comments that he would "sell his soul" to get it right. A demon shows up to collect, resulting in a battle of wits.

  • E30
    Night of the Meek
    Aired · Fri, Dec 20, 1985 · 22m

    In this remake of "The Night of the Meek", drunk, out-of-work department store Santa Henry Corwin finds a magic gift-giving bag and becomes a real-life Santa Claus.

  • E31
    But Can She Type?
    Aired · Fri, Dec 20, 1985 · 14m

    Overworked, underappreciated secretary Karen Billings is sent by a malfunctioning Xerox machine into a parallel reality where secretaries are honored and revered.

  • E32
    The Star
    Aired · Fri, Dec 20, 1985 · 12m

    On an interstellar journey, an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a long-dead world that has been emitting a signal for eons.

  • E33
    Still Life
    Aired · Fri, Jan 3, 1986 · 18m

    Professional photographer Dan Arnold discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition. But developing the photos brings its subjects into the world.

  • E34
    The Little People of Killany Woods
    Aired · Fri, Jan 3, 1986 · 16m

    A story-telling town moocher has an encounter with "little people".

  • E35
    The Misfortune Cookie
    Aired · Fri, Jan 3, 1986 · 15m

    Snobby food critic Harry Folger receives fortune cookie messages that come true.

  • E36
    Monsters!
    Aired · Fri, Jan 24, 1986 · 24m

    Young horror movie enthusiast Toby finds that his new neighbor is a vampire, who in turn shows him that everything he knows about vampires is wrong.

  • E37
    A Small Talent for War
    Aired · Fri, Jan 24, 1986 · 8m

    An alien race that claims to have created mankind returns to judge them.

  • E38
    A Matter of Minutes
    Aired · Fri, Jan 24, 1986 · 17m

    A married couple, the Wrights, awakens behind-the-scenes of how time works.

  • E39
    The Elevator
    Aired · Fri, Jan 31, 1986 · 11m

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

  • E40
    To See the Invisible Man
    Aired · Fri, Jan 31, 1986 · 23m

    In a future society, uncaring man Mitchell Chaplin is sentenced to a year of social isolation.

  • E41
    Tooth and Consequences
    Aired · Fri, Jan 31, 1986 · 14m

    The Tooth Fairy gives dentist Myron Mandel what he wishes for.

  • E42
    Welcome to Winfield
    Aired · Fri, Feb 7, 1986 · 26m

    Two people fleeing an agent of Death end up in an old west town that has avoided death for decades.

  • E43
    Quarantine
    Aired · Fri, Feb 7, 1986 · 22m

    Weapons designer Matthew Forman is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later, where he finds a post-war human race that has grown telepathic powers and rejected technology.

  • E44
    Gramma
    Aired · Fri, Feb 14, 1986 · 21m

    Young Georgie is afraid of his ailing grandmother. His mother leaves him alone to take care of her.

  • E45
    Personal Demons
    Aired · Fri, Feb 14, 1986 · 12m

    Veteran television screenwriter Rockne S. O'Bannon suffers from diminutive creatures that plague his daily life.

  • E46
    Cold Reading
    Aired · Fri, Feb 14, 1986 · 16m

    1940s voice actor Milo Trent gets a job on a popular radio show. The show's creator, Nelson Westbrook, involuntarily causes every sound described on that week's episode to become real inside the studio.

  • E47
    The Leprechaun-Artist
    Aired · Fri, Feb 21, 1986 · 21m

    A vacationing leprechaun is forced to grant wishes, which come with unintended consequences, to the three boys who captured him.

  • E48
    Dead Run
    Aired · Fri, Feb 21, 1986 · 28m

    Truck driver Johnny Davis accepts the job of delivering souls to Hell, and finds Hell is not what he expected.

  • E49
    Profile in Silver
    Aired · Fri, Mar 7, 1986 · 28m

    History professor Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald is sent back in time to observe the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but he botches the job in the worst possible way.

  • E50
    Button, Button
    Aired · Fri, Mar 7, 1986 · 21m

    A mysterious stranger gives down-and-out couple Norma and Arthur Lewis a box with a button on it. He states that if they press the button, they will receive $200,000 and someone they don't know will die.

  • E51
    Need to Know
    Aired · Fri, Mar 21, 1986 · 19m

    Government scientist Edward Sayers is sent to a small town to investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity.

  • E52
    Red Snow
    Aired · Fri, Mar 21, 1986 · 30m

    KGB Colonel Ilyanov is sent to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of the local Communist Party officials.

  • E53
    Take My Life... Please!
    Aired · Fri, Mar 28, 1986 · 14m

    Comedian Billy Diamond must perform an act that will decide his fate in the afterlife.

  • E54
    Devil's Alphabet
    Aired · Fri, Mar 28, 1986 · 17m

    The members of a poetry society find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.

  • E55
    The Library
    Aired · Fri, Mar 28, 1986 · 18m

    Writer Ellen Pendleton is hired to work in a private library and where the books document the lives of everyone alive, updated instantly.

  • E56
    Shadow Play
    Aired · Fri, Apr 4, 1986 · 29m

    A remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode. Sentenced to death, Adam Grant desperately tries to convince his prosecutor that their reality is actually a recurring nightmare of his- and everyone will cease to exist once he's executed at midnight.

  • E57
    Grace Note
    Aired · Fri, Apr 4, 1986 · 20m

    Opera singer Rosemary Miletti gains a glimpse of her future with a wish from her dying sister.

  • E58
    A Day in Beaumont
    Aired · Fri, Apr 11, 1986 · 19m

    After witnessing the landing of a flying saucer, a young couple find themselves in the midst of an alien invasion.

  • E59
    The Last Defender of Camelot
    Aired · Fri, Apr 11, 1986 · 30m

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

Season 2
21 episodes · 21 aired
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  • E1
    The Once and Future King
    Aired · Sat, Sep 27, 1986 · 28m

    Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin travels back in time and meets the real Elvis Presley.

  • E2
    A Saucer of Loneliness
    Aired · Sat, Sep 27, 1986 · 20m

    Lonely waitress Margaret encounters a mysterious saucer with a message only for her.

  • E3
    What Are Friends For?
    Aired · Sat, Oct 4, 1986 · 23m

    A child's imaginary friend turns out to be his father's imaginary friend as well.

  • E4
    Aqua Vita
    Aired · Sat, Oct 4, 1986 · 25m

    Christine, an aging news anchor, finds a method for youth at a steep price.

  • E5
    The Storyteller
    Aired · Sat, Oct 11, 1986 · 26m

    Young teacher Dorothy Livingston finds that the secret to immortality resides in stories.

  • E6
    Nightsong
    Aired · Sat, Oct 11, 1986 · 23m

    DJ Andrea Fields must cope with the return of her lover after a 5-year disappearance.

  • E7
    The After Hours
    Aired · Sat, Oct 18, 1986 · 18m

    In this remake of the 1960 Twilight Zone episode, a woman is trapped in a mall after hours with living mannequins.

  • E8
    Lost and Found
    Aired · Sat, Oct 18, 1986 · 6m

    A student's possessions mysteriously vanish.

  • E9
    The World Next Door
    Aired · Sat, Oct 18, 1986 · 22m

    A door in the basement leads to a parallel world, and both of a man's counterparts find the grass greener on the other side.

  • E10
    The Toys of Caliban
    Aired · Thu, Dec 4, 1986 · 24m

    A mentally challenged child has immense, dangerous powers which his parents struggle to prevent his misusing.

  • E11
    The Convict's Piano
    Aired · Thu, Dec 11, 1986 · 24m

    A wrongfully convicted prisoner discovers an old piano in his prison with special powers.

  • E12
    The Road Less Traveled
    Aired · Thu, Dec 18, 1986 · 24m

    A draft-dodger is haunted by the specter of a familiar-looking man in a wheelchair.

  • E13
    The Card
    Aired · Sat, Feb 21, 1987 · 23m

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

  • E14
    The Junction
    Aired · Sat, Feb 21, 1987 · 23m

    A miner who has been cheating on his wife is trapped by a cave-in with a miner from 1912.

  • E15
    Joy Ride
    Aired · Thu, May 21, 1987 · 12m

    Four teens take a recently deceased man's classic car for a joyride. The driver acts increasingly irrationally during the ride.

  • E16
    Shelter Skelter
    Aired · Thu, May 21, 1987 · 24m

    A survivalist and his friend live in his shelter after a nuclear bomb detonation.

  • E17
    Private Channel
    Aired · Thu, May 21, 1987 · 13m

    After accidentally dropping his portable stereo in an airplane lavatory, a young man discovers that it allows him to hear other people's thoughts.

  • E18
    Time and Teresa Golowitz
    Aired · Fri, Jul 10, 1987 · 25m

    A Broadway composer accepts an offer from the devil and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. While there he sees an opportunity to prevent a classmate's suicide.

  • E19
    Voices in the Earth
    Aired · Fri, Jul 10, 1987 · 24m

    People return to a barren Earth to find that not everything had left when they thought it did.

  • E20
    Song of the Younger World
    Aired · Fri, Jul 17, 1987 · 24m

    In 1916, a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her disapproving father, the superintendent.

  • E21
    The Girl I Married
    Aired · Fri, Jul 17, 1987 · 23m

    An attorney pines after the way his wife was in their younger years, only to encounter that younger woman in the present.

Season 3
30 episodes · 30 aired
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  • E1
    The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon
    Aired · Sat, Sep 24, 1988 · 22m

    Edgar Witherspoon is ordered by a mysterious voice to collect junk in his apartment to keep the world in balance.

  • E2
    Extra Innings
    Aired · Sat, Oct 1, 1988 · 22m

    Ex-baseball player Ed Hamner, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports Hamner into the life of that player.

  • E3
    The Crossing
    Aired · Sat, Oct 8, 1988 · 22m

    A stressed-out priest is haunted by the sight of a station wagon with a woman inside that keeps crashing.

  • E4
    The Hunters
    Aired · Sat, Oct 15, 1988 · 22m

    An archeologist studies prehistoric paintings in a newly discovered cave. The project takes a dark turn after the carcasses of livestock from nearby farms begin turning up near the cave.

  • E5
    Dream Me a Life
    Aired · Sat, Oct 22, 1988 · 22m

    A man in a retirement home is trapped in the dreams of a catatonic widow.

  • E6
    Memories
    Aired · Sat, Oct 29, 1988 · 22m

    A specialist in past life regression enters an alternate reality where everyone already remembers all their past lives.

  • E7
    The Hellgramite Method
    Aired · Sat, Nov 5, 1988 · 22m

    An alcoholic goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem.

  • E8
    Our Sylena is Dying
    Aired · Sat, Nov 12, 1988 · 22m

    A young woman has her youth sucked out of her by her dying aunt.

  • E9
    The Call
    Aired · Sat, Nov 19, 1988 · 22m

    A lonely man dials a wrong number and develops a close relationship with the woman on the other end. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and discovers she is a statue.

  • E10
    The Trance
    Aired · Sat, Nov 26, 1988 · 22m

    A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, an inhabitant of Atlantis. He begins involuntarily channeling a real spirit, one with a habit of insulting people.

  • E11
    Acts of Terror
    Aired · Sat, Dec 3, 1988 · 22m

    A battered wife finds the strength to fight her abusive husband by looking at a statuette of a Doberman Pinscher.

  • E12
    20/20 Vision
    Aired · Sat, Dec 10, 1988 · 22m

    Bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them, showing that his efforts to help a farmer avoid foreclosure are doomed to fail.

  • E13
    There Was an Old Woman
    Aired · Sat, Dec 17, 1988 · 22m

    A writer of children's books autographs a book for a sick young fan. Later, she starts hearing the sound of children in her house.

  • E14
    The Trunk
    Aired · Sat, Dec 24, 1988 · 22m

    A motel proprietor discovers an empty trunk that grants wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are: no one.

  • E15
    Appointment on Route 17
    Aired · Sat, Dec 31, 1988 · 22m

    After receiving a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed, incorporating a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.

  • E16
    The Cold Equations
    Aired · Sat, Jan 7, 1989 · 22m

    A cargo pilot on the frontiers of space finds an innocent stowaway on his ship, who the ship's fuel supply cannot support.

  • E17
    Stranger in Possum Meadows
    Aired · Sat, Jan 14, 1989 · 22m

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

  • E18
    Street of Shadows
    Aired · Sat, Jan 21, 1989 · 22m

    While breaking into a house, an unemployed homeless man switches bodies with the house's owner.

  • E19
    Something in the Walls
    Aired · Sat, Jan 28, 1989 · 22m

    A doctor at a sanitarium has a patient who is terribly frightened of patterns on clothing and furniture.

  • E20
    A Game of Pool
    Aired · Sun, Dec 31, 1989 · 22m

    n this remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode, a pool player challenges the long-dead legend, Fats Brown, who returns from the afterlife to give him a high-stakes game.

  • E21
    The Wall
    Aired · Sat, Feb 25, 1989 · 22m

    A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. The Army calls upon a career soldier to investigate. He finds an idyllic world, and seemingly no way to get back.

  • E22
    Room 2426
    Aired · Sat, Feb 11, 1989 · 22m

    Scientist Martin Decker is confined and interrogated by government agents for the location of his notes. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.

  • E23
    The Mind of Simon Foster
    Aired · Sat, Feb 18, 1989 · 22m

    To make ends meet, Simon Foster sells his memories to a pawn shop broker.

  • E24
    Cat and Mouse
    Aired · Sat, Mar 4, 1989 · 22m

    A shy woman becomes the lover of a cursed Casanova who turns into a cat during the daytime.

  • E25
    Rendezvous in a Dark Place
    Aired · Sun, Mar 12, 1989 · 22m

    An old woman with an obsession with death finds an injured thief in her home. When Death arrives to collect him, she tries to persuade him to take her instead.

  • E26
    Many, Many Monkeys
    Aired · Sat, Mar 18, 1989 · 22m

    An epidemic causes blindness. A nurse begins to believe that the disease is divine retribution.

  • E27
    Love is Blind
    Aired · Sat, Mar 25, 1989 · 22m

    A man plotting to murder his wife's lover meets a blind singer who knows all about his plan.

  • E28
    Crazy as a Soup Sandwich
    Aired · Sat, Apr 1, 1989 · 22m

    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.

  • E29
    Special Service
    Aired · Sat, Apr 8, 1989 · 22m

    A man finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.

  • E30
    Father & Son Game
    Aired · Sat, Apr 15, 1989 · 22m

    Upon brain death, a 79-year-old man has his brain data transplanted into an experimental robot brain. His son considers this an abomination and tries to have his father declared legally dead.