• Air date: 02 Oct '59 37 episodes
      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.
  • List of Episodes (37)
    • 0. Rod Serling Pitch to Advertisers

      This is the first episode but with an introduction by Rod Serling pitching the show to network execs and potential advertisers.
    • 1. Where Is Everybody?

      02 Oct '59
      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...
    • 2. One for the Angels

      09 Oct '59
      "One for the Angels" is the second episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
    • 3. Mr. Denton on Doomsday

      16 Oct '59
      A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
    • 4. The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

      23 Oct '59
      An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
    • 5. Walking Distance

      30 Oct '59
      "Walking Distance" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The episode was listed as the ninth best episode in the history of The Twilight Zone by Time.
    • 6. Escape Clause

      06 Nov '59
      A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
    • 7. The Lonely

      13 Nov '59
      Corry, a man stranded on an asteroid after being convicted of a crime, receives a present of a robot who looks and sounds like a real woman.
    • 8. Time Enough at Last

      20 Nov '59
      A bank teller, obsessed with reading, finds himself alone after a nuclear blast.
    • 9. Perchance to Dream

      27 Nov '59
      A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
    • 10. Judgment Night

      04 Dec '59
      In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.
    • 11. And When the Sky Was Opened

      11 Dec '59
      Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling.
    • 12. What You Need

      25 Dec '59
      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.
    • 13. The Four of Us Are Dying

      01 Jan '60
      A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
    • 14. Third from the Sun

      08 Jan '60
      With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
    • 15. I Shot an Arrow into the Air

      15 Jan '60
      Three astronauts believe they have crashed on an asteroid.
    • 16. The Hitch-Hiker

      22 Jan '60
      Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.
    • 17. The Fever

      29 Jan '60
      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.
    • 18. The Last Flight

      05 Feb '60
      A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
    • 19. The Purple Testament

      12 Feb '60
      Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has the disquieting ability to see who is about to die.
    • 20. Elegy

      19 Feb '60
      Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
    • 21. Mirror Image

      26 Feb '60
      Millicent Barnes sees her double at a bus terminal.
    • 22. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

      04 Mar '60
      Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
    • 23. A World of Difference

      10 Mar '60
      A businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is a movie star. Uninterested in the newfound fame, he fights to get back to his home and family.
    • 24. Long Live Walter Jameson

      18 Mar '60
      Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it.