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An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
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Episode 1
Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.
Directed by Joseph M. NewmanWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Bill Mumy, Bobby Diamond, Connie Gilchrist, Jack Klugman, S. John Launer
Episode 2
A small-time promoter desperately in need of money takes the place of his broken-down robot in a prize fight where humans are barred from participating.
Directed by Don WeisWritten by Richard MathesonGuest stars Lee Marvin, Frank London, Chuck Hicks, Joe Mantell
Episode 3
A man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Richard MathesonGuest stars William Shatner, Nick Cravat, Ed Kemmer, Christine White, Asa Maynor
Episode 4
The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.
Directed by John RichWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Roy Roberts, Doris Singleton, Richard Erdman, Herbie Faye, Dick Wessel, Sam Balter
Episode 5
Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.
Directed by Joseph M. NewmanWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Mickey Rooney
Episode 6
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!
Directed by Richard C. SarafianWritten by Jerry Sohl, Charles BeaumontGuest stars June Foray, Telly Savalas, Tracy Stratford, Mary LaRoche
Episode 7
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.Written by Rod Serling, Henry SlesarGuest stars James Coburn, John Craven, John Anderson, Josie Lloyd, John Marley, Gene Coogan, Violet N. Cane, Ann Cameron
Episode 8
To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.
Directed by Don SiegelWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Constance Ford, Cedric Hardwicke, Ian Wolfe, John McLiam
Episode 9
The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Harold Gould, Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower
Episode 10
A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.Written by Rod SerlingGuest stars Robert Bray, Warren Oates, Greg Morris, Randy Boone, Ron Foster, Warren Oates, Wayne Mallory
Episode 11
Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.
Directed by Bernard GirardWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Ruta Lee, Walter Brooke, Patrick O'Neal
Episode 12
An old man fears that he will die if his grandfather clock stops running.
Directed by Roger KayWritten by George Clayton Johnson, Richard De RoyGuest stars Ed Wynn, Carolyn Kearney, Carol Byron, John Pickard, James T. Callahan, William Sargent, Chuck Hicks, Dick Wilson
Episode 13
A fan-club gift draws a movie star back home, where she disrupts local plans for a town picnic by offering a one-woman show.
Directed by Alan Crosland, Jr.Written by Earl Hamner, Jr.Guest stars Betty Lou Gerson, Maggie McNamara, Hank Patterson, David Macklin, Bing Russell, Vic Perrin, Mary Munday, Bill Hickman
Episode 14
Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas.
Directed by John BrahmWritten by Earl Hamner, Jr.Guest stars Helen Westcott, Kevin Hagen, Edward Andrews, Totty Ames, John Hanek, Robert McCord, Michael Gorfain
Episode 15
Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.
Directed by Robert FloreyWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Mariette Hartley, Robert Lansing, George Macready, Edward Binns, William Swan, Don Spruance
Episode 16
A man finds that he can trade characteristics with others.
Directed by Don SiegelWritten by Henry Slesar, Jerry McNeelyGuest stars Douglass Dumbrille, J. Pat O'Malley, Gail Kobe, Vaughn Taylor, Don Gordon, Douglas Lambert, Ted Jacques, Kathleen O'Malley
Episode 17
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.
Directed by Abner BibermanWritten by Charles Beaumont, John TomerlinGuest stars Suzy Parker, Collin Wilcox Paxton, Richard Long, Pamela Austin
Episode 18
Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are.
Directed by Joseph M. NewmanWritten by Earl Hamner, Jr.Guest stars Shelley Fabares, Denver Pyle, Michael Forest, Irene Hervey, Lee Kinsolving, Tom Gilleran, Michael Conrad, Wayne Heffley
Episode 19
An elderly, wheelchair-bound lady receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night.
Directed by Jacques TourneurWritten by Richard MathesonGuest stars Gladys Cooper, Martine Bartlett, Nora Marlowe
Episode 20
A computer technician must deal with the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who wreaks havoc on his love life.
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Bernard C. SchoenfeldGuest stars Wally Cox, Ralph Taeger, Don Keefer, Sue Randall, Raymond Bailey, Byron Kane, Nan Peterson
Episode 21
After being chased on horseback by a terrifying, unidentified figure in black, Anne Henderson faces the biggest decision of her life.
Directed by Elliot SilversteinWritten by Richard MathesonGuest stars Diana Hyland, Marsha Hunt, Robert Hogan, Philip Ober, Roger Davis, Jack Raine
Episode 22
As a Confederate spy is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. Finally free, he races for his home where his family awaits... as does the terrible truth of his future...
Directed by Robert EnricoWritten by Ambrose BierceGuest stars Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly
Episode 23
A columnist interviews a famous movie actress who has a secret to her eternal beauty.
Directed by John BrahmWritten by Jerry Sohl, Charles BeaumontGuest stars Celia Lovsky, Ann Blyth, Frank Ferguson, Lee Philips, Ruth Phillips
Episode 24
A cheating husband sees his secret revealed and it's horrible consequences on his just-repaired TV set.
Directed by Richard L. BareWritten by Martin GoldsmithGuest stars William Demarest, Joan Blondell, Sterling Holloway, Robert McCord, Sandra Gould, Herbert Lytton, Howard Wright, Ted Christy
Episode 25
A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.
Directed by Ida LupinoWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Robert Keith, Alan Sues, Milton Selzer, Willis Bouchey, Brooke Hayward, Virginia Gregg, Maidie Norman, Bill Walker
Episode 26
On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.
Directed by Abner BibermanWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Ivan Dixon, Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, George Lindsey, Terry Becker, Elizabeth Harrower, Eve McVeagh, Robert McCord
Episode 27
A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Penny Singleton, Francis De Sales, William Benedict, Michael Fox, John McGiver, Renee Aubry, Lurene Tuttle
Episode 28
A ventriloquist's dummy goads him into committing burglaries.
Directed by Robert ButlerWritten by Adele T. StrassfieldGuest stars Jackie Cooper, Stafford Repp, Morgan Brittany, Sarah Selby, Don Gazzaniga, Robert McCord, Olan Soule, Kenneth Konopka
Episode 29
A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars John van Dreelen, Martin Landau, Bob Kelljan
Episode 30
The morning after a wild night of partying, a hungover married couple awaken in an unfamiliar and artificial place.
Directed by Ron WinstonWritten by Earl Hamner, Jr.Guest stars Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone, Karen Norris
Episode 31
A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago.
Directed by Robert ButlerWritten by Martin GoldsmithGuest stars George Takei, Neville Brand
Episode 32
Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Stanley Adams, John Mitchum, J. Pat O'Malley, John Dehner, Percy Helton, Norman Leavitt, Edgar Dearing, Patrick O'Moore
Episode 33
A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Thalmus Rasulala, Richard Deacon, Paul Newlan, Ted de Corsia, Shawn Michaels, Burt Conroy
Episode 34
A singer searches for an authentic folk song.
Directed by Richard DonnerWritten by Anthony WilsonGuest stars Hank Patterson, Gary Crosby, Bonnie Beecher, Jonathan Bolt
Episode 35
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.
Directed by Ted PostWritten by Rod SerlingGuest stars Peter Mark Richman, Hazel Court
Episode 36
Two unhappy children find a happy escape in a swimming pool.
Directed by Joseph M. NewmanWritten by Earl Hamner, Jr.Guest stars Jeffrey Byron, Tod Andrews, Mary Badham, Dee Hartford, Kim Hector, Georgia Simmons, June Foray
Episode information updated Jul 23, 2026
Rod SerlingSelf - Host
Jon LormerMinister
James BestBilly-Ben Turner
Bill ErwinWilcox (uncredited)
Pat O'MalleyAttendant
Hank PattersonMr. Gentry
Paul MazurskyFrank
Ben WrightDoctor
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