List of The Twilight Zone episodes

This is a list of The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone

The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...

episodes.

Pre-series pilot

Rod Serling wrote a teleplay intending for it to be the pilot episode of a new series called The Twilight Zone. Although it ended up airing on a different show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse is an American television anthology series produced by Desilu Productions. The show ran on CBS television between 1958 and 1960...

, it is still considered the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone and has even been adapted as one of The Twilight Zone radio-show episodes.

Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original AirDate

The Twilight Zone television series (1959–1964)

Seasons 1–3 and 5 were half-hour shows; Season 4 ran a full hour per episode. The series was hosted by Rod Serling

Rod Serling

Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form...

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Season 1: (1959–1960)

36 episodes

Note: Episode titles were not presented on screen, but instead were usually announced by Rod Serling at the end of the preceding week's episode. "Where is Everybody?" is an exception being the first episode. Serling's promotional announcements were stripped from syndicated versions of Season 1 but restored (often only in audio form) on the Image Entertainment DVD releases.

Episode #	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original AirDate	Production Code

Season 2: (1960–1961)

29 episodes

Note: Six episodes of this season were recorded on videotape

Videotape

A videotape is a recording of images and sounds on to magnetic tape as opposed to film stock or random access digital media. Videotapes are also used for storing scientific or medical data, such as the data produced by an electrocardiogram...

 (not on film as all other episodes) at CBS Television City

CBS Television City

CBS Television City is a television studio complex located in the Fairfax District of Los Angeles at 7800 Beverly Boulevard, at the corner of North Fairfax Avenue...

, as a cost-cutting measure mandated by CBS programming head James T. Aubrey. They were "The Lateness of the Hour

The Lateness of the Hour

"The Lateness of the Hour" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone that was originally broadcast in the United States on December 2, 1960.-Synopsis:...

", "The Night of the Meek", "The Whole Truth", "Twenty-Two", "Static

Static (The Twilight Zone)

"Static" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Opening narration:As Ed Lindsay retrieves his old radio from the boarding house basement, he says to a boy watching him, "Don't you know what a radio is?". "Sure", says the kid, "but I've never seen one like that ...

", and "Long Distance Call

Long Distance Call

"Long Distance Call" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:A boy communicates with his father's European-immigrant mother, who had recently died, using a toy telephone that she gave him on his birthday before her passing. The boy, Billy, runs out in...

", all of which have a visual appearance which is distinctly different than episodes shot on film. In addition, videotape was a relatively primitive medium in the early 1960s, thus the editing of tape was next to impossible. Each of the 6 episodes was therefore "camera-cut" as in live TV, on a studio sound stage, using a total of four cameras. The requisite multicamera setup of the videotape experiment made location shooting difficult, severely limiting the potential scope of the storylines, and so, the short-lived experiment was abandoned.

Episode #	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original AirDate	Production Code

Season 3: (1961–1962)

37 episodes

Episode #	Title	Director	Writer(s)	|Production Code

Season 4: (1963)

18 episodes

Note: This season of The Twilight Zone was used as a mid-season replacement for the show that had replaced it on the 1962 fall schedule. To fill the timeslot, episodes were lengthened to one hour and moved to Thursday nights.

Episode #	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original AirDate	Production Code

Season 5: (1963–1964)

36 episodes

Episode #	Title	Director	Writer(s)	Original AirDate	Production Code

All half-hour episodes aired on a Friday. All full-hour episodes aired on a Thursday.

Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

This two-hour Twilight Zone movie contains an original prologue and four segments. The first segment, "Time Out", develops the themes of two of the original series episodes ("A Quality of Mercy

A Quality of Mercy

"A Quality of Mercy" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The title is taken from William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice...

" and "Deaths-Head Revisited

Deaths-Head Revisited

"Deaths-Head Revisited" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.-Synopsis:Gunther Lutze, a former sadistic captain in the SS, returns to the ruins of Dachau concentration camp to relive the memories of his time as its commandant during World War II...

") into an entirely new story. The three remaining segments are remakes of the original series episodes.

Note- The links in the table below are to the original episodes that were the basis for the movie adaptation.

Segment	Title	Director	Movie Screenplay Writer(s)

The Twilight Zone – 1985–1989 revival series

See: List of The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) episodes

Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994)

After Rod Serling's widow found an unfilmed screenplay among his belongings, CBS decided to create a new Twilight Zone TV-movie in 1994.

2 episodes

Title	|#
Where The Dead Are (IMDB)	May 19, 1994	1
The Theatre (IMDB)	May 19, 1994	2

The Twilight Zone – 2002–2003 revival series

See: List of The Twilight Zone episodes (2002)

External links

• SCIFI.com
• The Original Twilight Zone Episode List
• Postcards from the Zone (Extensive episode guides, including photos)