• Air date: 27 Sep '86 23 episodes
      The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.
  • List of Episodes (23)
    • 1. The Once and Future King

      27 Sep '86
      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

      27 Sep '86
      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?

      04 Oct '86
      What Are Friends For? is the first segment of the twenty-sixth episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
    • 4. Aqua Vita

      04 Oct '86
      This episode is a cruel ""fountain of youth"" spin-off. A fortyish reporter is at risk of losing her anchor position on a network evening news broadcast to a younger reporter. She hears about a special type of bottled water from a friend of hers. She orders some at a relatively low cost. It works. Yet she finds she must drink it every day in order to retain her youth. When she orders another 5-gallon container. The price jumps up to $200. She talks to the water deliveryman. He refers he to her
    • 5. The Storyteller

      11 Oct '86
      In the early 20th century a young woman takes a job as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. One of her students, Mica, secretly takes extra books home to read. When the teacher confronts him, she finds that the boy is reading the books to his ailing grandfather - who claims to be more than a hundred and forty years old!
    • 6. Nightsong

      11 Oct '86
      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

      18 Oct '86
      A Woman goes to a mall for a doll, but encounters strange things after the closing hours...
    • 8. Lost and Found

      18 Oct '86
      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

      18 Oct '86
      A hen-pecked man with a boring life and a secret yearn to build inventions finds a secret door in his basement that leads to a parallel world. In that world, his counterpart is a rich famous inventor in a Victorian-style setting who is equally bored with his life. The two switch lives and are happy ever after.
    • 10. The Toys of Caliban

      04 Dec '86
      An elderly husband and wife live in terror of their son, a retarded 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
    • 11. The Convict's Piano

      11 Dec '86
      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

      18 Dec '86
      A man who dodges the Vietnam draft is haunted by visions of his other life as a soldier during the war.
    • 13. The Card

      21 Feb '87
      A compulsive spender accepts ""The Card"" to keep up her habit. Unfortunately stringent penalties kick in for late payments.
    • 14. The Junction

      21 Feb '87
      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. The modern-day man helps the 1912 miner to survive, and the latter is rescued. The modern-day miner appears trapped...but the rescuers look in an unexpected spot and find him. It turns out the 1912 miner wrote a letter marked for delivery
    • 15. Joy Ride

      21 May '87
      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. Shelter Skelter

      21 May '87
      A survivalist traps himself in his bomb shelter when a nuclear blast finally comes.
    • 17. Private Channel

      21 May '87
      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.
    • 18. Time and Teresa Golowitz

      10 Jul '87
      A Broadway composer, Bluestone, who has just died of a heart attack is visited by ""Prince"", who gives him one wish because of his contributions to entertainment. Bluestone wants to relive a youthful encounter with the girl of his dreams, Mary Ellen Kasgrove. When he returns to the high school party, nothing is as he remembers it but one girl, Teresa Golowitz, sits by herself. Prince, in a girl's body, reminds him that Teresa commited suicide that night. Bluestone gets her to sing and convinces
    • 19. Voices in the Earth

      10 Jul '87
      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

      17 Jul '87
      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 doesn't approve of their love, locking away his daughter and punishing the boy. With the help of a wandering vagrant the girl finds a way to use a book to transfer both her and the boy into a primordial world where they become wolves and can live free and together.
    • 21. The Girl I Married

      17 Jul '87
      An attorney and his wife have successful careers. They feel something is lacking in their marriage. Soon, they encounter younger versions of their mates.
    • 29. The Toys of Caliban

      04 Dec '86
    • 30. The Convict's Piano

      11 Dec '86
      The Convict's Piano is the thirtieth episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.