- Twilight Zone Episodes 1 -

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1. A Game of Pool:
   After a young pool played wishes he could play the deceased all-time champion, the champion suddenly appears. He challenges the young player to a pool game where the stakes are life and death. The young player beats the champ, only to be condemned to having to prove himself to all challengers after he dies.
   
   
2. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim:
   An easterner heading west in 1847 travels over a rim and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico. After resting, he discovers that his son, who is ill, will later become a famous physician. He makes it back over the rim with medicine for his son and knowledge of nearby food and water.
   
   
3. A Kind of a Stopwatch:
   A total stranger gives A boorish man a magical stopwatch. The stopwatch has the ability to stop time. He uses it to rob a bank vault, but on the way out he drops the watch. The watch breaks, leaving him trapped in a frozen world.
   
   
4. A Most Unusual Camera:
   A thief and his wife steal an unusual camera while robbing an antique store. The camera proves to be able to photograph Five-Minute s into the future. It correctly predicts the return of the man's no-good brother from jail and the winning horses at a race. It also predicts all their deaths.
   
   
5. A Nice Place to Visit:
   A two-bit gangster is shot to death by policeman and ends up in what he believe to be heaven. His guardian angel shows him the sights. Everything the gangster wants becomes his, and he wins at everything. This gets to be tiring, and he wants to go to the other place. The guardian angel tells him that this is the other place.
   
   
6. A Passage for Trumpet:
   A trumpet player who is also an alcoholic throws himself in front of a truck after he's forced to sell his beloved trumpet. He enters a stage between life and death and meets an angel named Gabe. Thanks to some advice from Gabe, the trumpet player opts to go back to the living.
   
   
7. A Penny for Your Thoughts:
   After a bank employee flips a coin that lands on its edge, he suddenly is capable of reading other people's thoughts. At first this gets him into trouble, and eventually fired. But he is redeemed, and he gets his job back with a promotion thanks to blackmail.
   
   
8. A Piano in the House:
   A cruel theater critic purchases a piano as a present for his wife, but the piano has an unusual side effect. It reveals people's hidden natures and desires. He uses it at a party to humiliate various people, but his wife turns the tables and reveals who the critic really is :
   a scared and angry little boy.
   
   
9. A Quality of Mercy:
   A young lieutenant eager to prove himself in war insists on assaulting a cave of Japanese soldiers that could be easily bypassed. Suddenly, he finds himself on the other side of the war, and realizes the meaning of mercy.
   
   
10. A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain:
    A aged wealthy man married to a younger woman gets his brother (a doctor) to inject him with a youth serum. The experiment backfires and the man regresses to an infant. His wife is forced to stay and raise him or else she will be cut off from his fortune.
    
    
11. A Stop at Willoughby:
    An advertising executive gets fed up with the stress of everyday life and constantly dreams of a peaceful place called Willoughby while on the train. After he finally snaps, he exits the train while in his dream so he can live in Willoughby. In reality, he jumped off the train to his death. The funeral service that handles the body is called Willoughby & Son.
    
    
12. A Thing About Machines:
    An eccentric who hates machines learns that the feeling is mutual. His typewriter, electric razor, television, and telephone all harass him endlessly. He is then chased by his car, and ends up at the bottom of his swimming pool.
    
    
13. A World of Difference:
    One man's life suddenly becomes a movie stage, and everyone tries to convince him that he is somebody else. Hearing that the stage is about to be torn down, the man rushes back and is able to rejoin his other life.
    
    
14. A World of His Own:
    A playwright is discovered by his wife to be fooling around with another woman. He tries to convince her that it's nothing more than a fantasy and that he can create anything by speaking into a dictaphone. She doesn't believe him, and eventually she is also revealed to be his creation.
    
    
15. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge:
    A confederate spy is saved from a hanging when his rope breaks and he falls to the river below. After a successful escape, he makes it to his home and his wife. Just when he is about to reach her, the noose snaps his neck. There was no escape.
    
    
16. And When the Sky Was Opened:
    Three astronauts return to Earth after the first manned space flight in history. However, one of them disappears, with nobody else but one of the astronauts remembering who he was. In a short time, all three men and the spaceship are erased from existence.
    
    
17. Back There:
    After having a conversation about the theory of time travel, a man actually travels back to the day Lincoln was assassinated. He tried to prevent this horrible tragedy, but is defeated by Lincoln's assassin himself. Having determined that changing the past is impossible, he returns to the present only to realize that he has, in fact, changed something.
    
    
18. Black Leather Jackets:
    Three aliens in black leather jackets ride into town in an attempt to poison the water supply. One of the three aliens try to warn his new girlfriend about the invasion, but he is taken away by other aliens intent on keeping their mission a secret.
    
    
19. Caesar and Me:
    An unsuccessful ventriloquist starts to commit robberies based on the advice of his dummy. He is done in by the landlady's niece who calls the police. The ventriloquist is taken to jail and the dummy gets away with it.
    
    
20. Cavender is Coming:
    An unemployed woman has a guardian angel assigned to her. The angel gives her a fortune and a beautiful house, but none of the woman's old friends like her anymore. The woman goes back to her old life. The angel's boss is angry until he discovers that the woman is now happy.
    
    
21. Come Wander With Me:
    A rockabilly singer journeys into the woodlands in an attempt to steal some folk songs. He meets a charming girl who gives him a great song, but his trip goes downhill once he kills one of the Rayford brothers. The other brothers seek him out and get their revenge.
    
    
22. Dead Man's Shoes:
    A bum finds a dead body and steals his shoes, but once he puts them on the soul of the dead man inhabits the bum. He confronts the gangster responsible for his death, but is killed again. Another bum steals the shoes, and the cycle begins again.
    
    
23. Death Ship:
    A three-man spacecraft lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they are all dead, but the captain refuses to see the truth. They eventually end up back at the beginning of the story.
    
    
24. Deaths-Head Revisited:
    A former captain in the S.S. returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce. He runs into the ghost of a former inmate who informs him that the other dead victims have risen up to serve justice. The ex-captain is forced to undergo the same horrors as the inmates, and he is rendered insane.
    
    
25. Dust:
    A man is about to be hung and his father meets a peddler and ends up buying what the peddler claims is "magic powder" that can turn hate into love. The father throws the powder on the crowd around his execution, but it has no effect. But the rope at the gallows breaks, and the son is later pardoned.
    
    
26. Elegy:
    Three astronauts crash land on an asteroid where everything seems to be frozen in place. They do find one living thing, which explains he is a caretaker of what is an exclusive cemetery. To preserve the tranquility of the asteroid, the caretaker poisons the astronauts.
    
    
27. Escape Clause:
    A man scared to die strikes a deal with the devil:
    immortality in exchange for the man's soul. Soon, immortality begins to bore him, so he confesses to his wife's death after she accidentally falls off their roof. Instead of experiencing the electric chair, he received life in prison, a long time for an immortal.
    
    
28. Execution:
    A violent man in the old west is about to be hanged when he is picked at random and transported to the present by a scientist. When the scientist realizes his mistake and tries to send him back, the westerner kills him. An intruder, who accidentally activates the time machine and ends up in the noose meant for someone else, later kills him.
    
    
29. Five Characters in Search of an Exit:
    An army major, a clown, a hobo, a dancer, and a bagpipe player find themselves in a giant cylinder with no memory of how they got there. They form a human ladder and the army major is able to reach the top before he falls over the side. A little girl puts him back in the cylinder, since he is nothing more than a doll.
    
    
30. Four O'clock:
    A fanatic plans to shrink every person he has deemed evil down to two feet tall at four o'clock. The plan backfires, as he is the one that shrinks to two feet tall when four o'clock rolls around.
    
    
31. From Agnes - With Love:
    A computer programmer's life is screwed up due to the advice of the supercomputer he works on. The computer reveals that it is in love with him. The programmer is unable to deal with this and his mind snaps.
    
    
32. He's Alive:
    The leader of a small Nazi group is visited by Adolph Hitler and is taught how to enthrall a crowd. He is successful at first, but is later done in when the elderly Jewish man he lives with interrupts a speech and denounces him. The Nazi eventually kills the Jewish man and is gunned down by the police.
    
    
33. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby:
    A gas station owner specializes in the tall tale that no one ever believes. One day he is visited by aliens and taken aboard their spaceship. He escapes by playing his harmonica, which knocks the aliens out. However, at his birthday party later, no one believes his wild story.
    
    
34. I Am the Night - Color Me Black:
    On the day of a man's hanging, the sun does not rise in the morning. There is also some dispute as to whether of not the man is really guilty. However, the man is hanged anyway, much to the pleasure of the town. The sun still does not rise, and the disturbance spreads to other places of hate.
    
    
35. I Dream of Genie:
    A bookkeeper stumbles across a genie lamp, but only gets one wish. He dreams about what would happen if he was to choose love, money, or power. None of his dreams work out, but he finally chooses his wish. Some time later, when a street bum finds the same lamp in an alley, it is the bookkeeper who is now the genie.
    
    
36. I Shot an Arrow Into the Air:
    A space shuttle crash-lands on an unknown asteroid and only three astronauts survive. One of them kills the other two, then discovers power lines. The entire time they had actually been in the desert in Nevada.
    
    
37. I Sing the Body Electric:
    A widow decides to purchase a robot to act as a mother for his three kids. One of the kids fails to embrace the surrogate grandmother until she saves the kid's life. After the kids have grown up, the robot grandmother retires.
    
    
38. In His Image:
    After traveling back to his hometown with his fiancée and discovering that it's nothing like he remembers, a man discovers that he is really an android. He goes to meet his creator, who looks just like him. The creator is forced to shut down the android due to his murderous impulses.
    
    
39. In Praise of Pip:
    A bookie finds out that his son is dying in Vietnam. After being wounded by his boss, he stumbles into an amusement park and runs into his son who is now a child again. After having some fun, the son explains that he's dying and vanishes. The bookie makes a deal with G-d and dies so that his son may live.
    
    
40. It's a Good Life:
    In a small town, a boy monster holds control of the entire town, for he can read thoughts and do things with his mind. At a birthday party one night, he turns the guest of honor into a jack-in-the-box because he sang Perry Como too loud. Then he makes it snow, which will kill off most the crops.
    
    
41. Jess-Belle:
    A countryman falls under the spell of his ex-girlfriend, but the girl pays a price. She is transformed into a witch by the local witch and is forced to prowl at night as a leopard. The town gathers together one night and shoots the leopard, which ends the spell. However, she comes back after her man marries somebody else. She is vanquished when one of her dresses is stabbed through the heart.
    
    
42. Judgment Night:
    A German finds himself on a British liner during WWII with no idea how he got there, but he has a feeling that something bad will happen at 1:
    15. At that time, a German submarine downs the liner with the same man as the Captain.
    
    
43. Kick the Can:
    A resident of Sunnyvale Rest Home thinks that he has discovered the secret to staying young - it lies in acting young. He convinces the other residents save one to play kick the can after dark, and that game transforms them back into little kids.
    
    
44. King Nine Will Not Return:
    A captain finds himself stranded in the desert with nothing but the wreckage of his plane and the mystery of what happened to his crew, who have seemingly disappeared. The captain is revealed to be hallucinating this while in a hospital, but the nurse finds his shoes full of sand.
    
    
45. Little Girl Lost:
    The parents of a little girl frantically try to find her after she falls under her bed and disappears. Their friend, who is a physicist, discovers that the girl fell through the wall, which is actually a gap between dimensions. The father is forced to go through the wall and rescue his daughter before the gap closes permanently.
    
    
46. Living Doll:
    A man's stepdaughter brings home an unusual doll that says things like "I'm going to kill you." The man tries various ways to get rid of the doll, but only succeeds in alienating his family. The doll gets its revenge when the man falls down the stairs and dies.
    
    
47. Long Distance Call:
    A boy receives a toy telephone from his grandma on his birthday, but later that day the grandmother dies. Soon, he is able to communicate with her through the telephone, which leads to him trying to kill himself. His father is able to save his life by talking to grandma over the phone and convincing her to let him live.
    
    
48. Long Live Walter Jameson:
    A professor is revealed to be a 2,000-year-old immortal by a colleague whose daughter he is about to marry. Before that can happen, an old wife of his returns and kills him.
    
    
49. Miniature:
    A shy bachelor stumbles into a museum and discovers a dollhouse where the doll seems to be alive. His actions cause him to be committed to an asylum. He pretends to be cured to get out of the asylum, and he heads back to the dollhouse. To save himself, he manages to escape into the dollhouse.
    
    
50. Mirror Image:
    A woman waiting for a bus in a lonely terminal realizes that an identical version of her is trying to replace her in this dimension. A stranger she meets doesn't believe her, but after having her taken away by the police, he ends up chasing his own double.
    
    
51. Mr. Bevis:
    An underachiever is introduced to his guardian angel and has his mediocre life improved. However, all the little joys of his life disappear. He decides to go back to his old life.
    
    
52. Mr. Denton on Doomsday:
    A drunk in the Wild West is able to redeem himself after magically winning a showdown with his bully. After a young rival challenges him, a magical potion that guarantees perfect accuracy forever alters his life.
    
    
53. Mr. Dingle, the Strong:
    A rather ordinary vacuum cleaner salesman is given the strength of three hundred men by two invisible Monsters. The salesman uses his powers for amusement only, and is soon a media darling. This disgusts the Monsters, who take away his power while on television. The salesman is disgraced, until a couple of Venusians give him the intelligence of three hundred men.
    
    
54. Mr. Garrity and the Graves:
    A man who claims to be able to resurrect the dead plans to bring back all 128 of Happiness' dead at midnight. Gradually, he collects money from the town's citizens not to bring them back. The resurrector is nothing more than a con man, but despite that fact the dead of the town have risen and are anxious to rejoin the living.
    
    
55. Mute:
    A mute little girl whose parents communicated with her through telepathy, is taken in by the town sheriff after her parents die. Her teacher tries to teach her how to talk, and eventually discovers that the girl is telepathic. However, her teachings destroy the girl's telepathic powers.
    
    
56. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room:
    A mousy thug is ordered by his boss to take out a bar owner by 2:
    00am or he will die. Before he can commit the crime, his conscience appears in the mirror and tries to stop him. Eventually, he and his better half switch places.
    
    
57. Nick of Time:
    A couple's car breaks down in a small town in Ohio. To pass the time, they go to a cafe but the husband becomes obsessed with a fortune-telling device at their booth. Thanks to his determined wife, he is able to break free of the machine, but another couple proves not so lucky.
    
    
58. Night Call:
    An elderly lady starts receiving mysterious anonymous phone calls in the middle of the night. The phone company traces the problem to a fallen telephone line. The line is resting on the grave of the lady's ex-fiancée. However, he stops calling after she tells him to stop before she knew who was calling.
    
    
59. Night of the Meek:
    A drunk playing a department store Santa Claus stumbles upon a magical bag that will dispense whatever anyone wishes. The drunk is able to prove what he's giving out is not stolen merchandise, and later is taken away on a sleigh driven by reindeer and an elf.
    
    
60. Nightmare as a Child:
    A schoolteacher is visited by a strange little girl who tries to warn her of the importance of a man she saw earlier that day. The man later comes to her apartment and reveals that he was the one that killed her mother, and that he's there to tie up loose ends. Thanks to the little girl, who turned out to be the teacher as a child, the teacher is able to kill the intruder.
    
    
61. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet:
    A salesman on a plane for the first time since his nervous breakdown spots a gremlin on the wing of the plane. However, every time someone else looks out the window the gremlin flies away. The salesman steals a gun from the policeman and opens the window to kill the gremlin who is trying to sabotage the engines.
    
    
62. Ninety Years Without Slumbering:
    An elderly man is convinced that he will die if his grandfather clock stops ticking. However, when the clock does stop and the man's spirit tries to take him away, the man claims that it's nonsense and the spirit goes away.
    
    
63. No Time Like the Past:
    An ambitious man utilizes a time machine to change several important events of the past. Unable to change any of them, he settles on living in the past, determined not to change anything. When he discovers an impending disaster, his attempt to stop it actually causes it. He leaves the past behind and moves on to tomorrow.
    
    
64. Nothing in the Dark:
    A lonely old lady is so scared of death that she barricades herself in her apartment. She lets in a cop who's been shot, but later a construction worker barges his way through but can't see the cop. The cop is actually death, and he shows the woman that death is not something to be feared.
    
    
65. Number Twelve Looks Just Like You:
    In a future society, a young woman chooses not to undergo the mandatory procedure called the transformation. After seeing a doctor and psychiatrist, she is eventually forced into the transformation and loses her identity.
    
    
66. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville:
    A greedy financier is given the opportunity to go back to Cliffordville and rebuild his entire empire. However, he fails to do so thanks to his poor memory of the times. To get back to his own time, he sells the deed on oil-rich land and this transaction alters the future. He is now a janitor, and the previous janitor is now a millionaire.
    
    
67. On Thursday We Leave for Home:
    A civilization stranded on a stifling hot asteroid is finally rescued after thirty years. However, the leader of the civilization has trouble letting go of his people. He tries to convince them not to return to Earth and he tries to destroy the rescue ship. Eventually he is left behind, and he realizes his mistake too late.
    
    
68. Once Upon a Time:
    A janitor in 1890 accidentally activates a time machines that transports him to 1962. After having to fix the machine, he and a person obsessed with the nineteenth century get back to 1890, but the other man decides to return to his own time.
    
    
69. One for the Angels:
    A salesman tries to outwit Mr. Death and strikes a deal that he won't die until he delivers his one big pitch. However, the salesman is forced to deliver his pitch in order to prevent Mr. Death from taking a young girl in his place.
    
    
70. One More Pallbearer:
    An eccentric millionaire plans an elaborate trick on the three people who nearly ruined his life. He fakes a nuclear attack and forces them to plead with him to stay in his shelter. However, they refuse to stay with him and he is driven insane by the experience.
    
    
71. Passage on the Lady Anne:
    A couple trying to save their marriage travel to London by way of the Lady Anne, the slowest ship possible. After agreeing to get a divorce, the lady mysteriously vanishes and then reappears after the man has already searched the entire ship. Their love is rekindled, but they are forced off the ship at gunpoint for no reason. After they are picked up by another ship, they discover the Lady Anne disappeared without a trace.
    
    
72. People Are Alike All Over:
    Two astronauts, one skeptical and one optimistic, are on a space mission to Mars. When they crash land, the optimistic one dies, but the other astronaut comes to trust the Monsters after they present him with an Earth house. The house, however, turns out to be a cage in their zoo.
    
    
73. Perchance to Dream:
    A man with a heart condition goes to see a psychiatrist after he becomes convinced that if he goes to sleep one more time he will die. The man jumps out the window, but it was just a dream. He fell asleep on the psychiatrist's couch, let out a scream, and died.
    
    
74. Person or Persons Unknown:
    A man wakes from a night of drinking only to discover that nobody, not even his wife, has any recollection of him whatsoever. He tries to find proof of his identity yet fails to find any. Before being taken away by the police, he reawakens in his bed to another nightmare:
    his wife looks nothing like she used to.
    
    
75. Printer's Devil:
    An editor is about to kill himself when an old man who offers to save his paper stops him. Soon, the old man has done just that thanks to scooping several news stories before the other town newspaper. However, the old man turns out to be the devil, and he plans to kill the editor's girlfriend unless the editor kills himself. The editor outsmarts the devil thanks to a modified linotype machine.
    
    
76. Probe 7 - Over and Out:
    An astronaut crash-lands on a strange planet as his own world is destroyed by war. He finds a female astronaut also stranded because her planet was destroyed. Together, they decide to start a new life on this planet she calls Earth.
    
    
77. Queen of the Nile:
    A newspaper reporter goes to interview a movie star and secretly discovers that she is actually an immortal. When he confronts her with the news, she confirms it and also drains the life from him using a live scarab.
    
    
78. Ring-a-Ding Girl:
    A movie star receives a unique ring that shows the faces of the people she used to know in her home town. She travels back home and tries to convince people not to attend the Founder's Day picnic. She disappears before a plane crashes on the picnic grounds. Somehow, she was a passenger on the plane.