The Twilight Zone (1959)
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Upcoming TV Airings
The airings below are based on a generic national schedule. Times and dates can vary by TV provider.
Sunday, May 5
Dead Man's Shoes
Season 3 • Episode 18
Nate Bledsoe steals a pair of fancy shoes from a dead man's body that he found in an alley.
Sunday, May 5
A Most Unusual Camera
Season 2 • Episode 10
A stolen camera has the ability to predict the future with the pictures it takes.
Monday, May 6
Caesar and Me
Season 5 • Episode 28
When a ventriloquist can't find work, his dummy goads him into robbery.
Tuesday, May 7
The Jeopardy Room
Season 5 • Episode 29
An assassin plots a unique death for a defector (Martin Landau).
Tuesday, May 7
Shadow Play
Season 2 • Episode 26
Adam Grant is sentenced to death, and has recurring dreams about his execution.
Tuesday, May 7
The Miniature
Season 4 • Episode 8
A lonely man falls in love with a museum doll he comes to believe is alive.
Wednesday, May 8
Stopover in a Quiet Town
Season 5 • Episode 30
The morning after a wild party, a couple wakes up in a totally unfamiliar and artificial place.
Thursday, May 9
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Season 5 • Episode 32
The man who tries to con the people of Happiness, Ariz., is in for a big shock.
Thursday, May 9
Walking Distance
Season 1 • Episode 5
A man's need to escape the pressure of his work takes him back to his childhood.
Thursday, May 9
Escape Clause
Season 1 • Episode 6
A man afraid of death makes a pact with the devil for immortality.
Thursday, May 9
The Lonely
Season 1 • Episode 7
A man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.
Thursday, May 9
Time Enough at Last
Season 1 • Episode 8
A meek bank teller (Burgess Meredith) longs for time to read.
Friday, May 10
The Brain Center at Whipple's
Season 5 • Episode 33
A man resolves to make his plant the most automated manufacturing establishment in the world.
Saturday, May 11
Come Wander With Me
Season 5 • Episode 34
A folk singer goes into the backwoods to find a song that will bring him commercial success.
Saturday, May 11
Perchance to Dream
Season 1 • Episode 9
Edward Hall hasn't slept in four days for fear that he will be killed by his dreams.
Saturday, May 11
Judgment Night
Season 1 • Episode 10
Crossing the wartime Atlantic in an English freighter, a man senses impending doom.
Saturday, May 11
And When the Sky Was Opened
Season 1 • Episode 11
Three astronauts return from man's first flight into outer space and can't remember the trip.
Saturday, May 11
What You Need
Season 1 • Episode 12
A down-and-outer tries to turn another man's ability to tell the future into profit.
Saturday, May 11
The Four of Us Are Dying
Season 1 • Episode 13
A man can change his face to make it look like anyone else's, but he doesn't choose too well.
Saturday, May 11
Third From the Sun
Season 1 • Episode 14
Two men plan to steal a spaceship to avoid the destruction of the planet.
Saturday, May 11
I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
Season 1 • Episode 15
Three astronauts, with little water left, land on what appears to be a deserted asteroid.
Saturday, May 11
The Hitchhiker
Season 1 • Episode 16
Driving cross-country, a girl keeps seeing the same hitchhiker on the road ahead.
Saturday, May 11
The Fever
Season 1 • Episode 17
A man becomes hooked on gambling after seeing someone hit the jackpot on a one-armed bandit.
Saturday, May 11
The Last Flight
Season 1 • Episode 18
Fleeing from a World War I aerial battle, a pilot gets lost in both space and time.
Saturday, May 11
The Purple Testament
Season 1 • Episode 19
During World War II, a man acquires the ability to see death in the faces of men about to die.
Saturday, May 11
Elegy
Season 1 • Episode 20
Three astronauts land on a strange planet and meet its caretaker.
Saturday, May 11
Mirror Image
Season 1 • Episode 21
A woman thinks it's a prank when someone keeps moving her suitcase around within a bus terminal.
Saturday, May 11
The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Season 1 • Episode 22
Strange occurrences in a small town lead people to believe they are being invaded.
Saturday, May 11
A World of Difference
Season 1 • Episode 23
Arthur Curtis is unexpectedly thrown into the world of Hollywood.
Saturday, May 11
Long Live Walter Jameson
Season 1 • Episode 24
Sam Kittredge accidentally discovers that his prospective son-in-law fought in the Civil War.
Saturday, May 11
People Are Alike All Over
Season 1 • Episode 25
An astronaut (Roddy McDowall) experiences martian hospitality.
Saturday, May 11
A Nice Place to Visit
Season 1 • Episode 28
A small-time hoodlum is killed by the police for robbing a loan company.
Saturday, May 11
Nightmare as a Child
Season 1 • Episode 29
A teacher returns to her apartment to find a child waiting for her.
Saturday, May 11
A Stop at Willoughby
Season 1 • Episode 30
On his way home, a man falls asleep on a train and awakens in a town named Willoughby.
Saturday, May 11
Mr. Bevis
Season 1 • Episode 33
A happy-go-lucky man loses his job, gets evicted and wrecks his car, all in one day.
Saturday, May 11
The After Hours
Season 1 • Episode 34
Marsha White goes to a department store to buy a gold thimble.
Saturday, May 11
The Mighty Casey
Season 1 • Episode 35
Casey is a left-handed pitcher who can help a baseball team out of last place.
Saturday, May 11
A World of His Own
Season 1 • Episode 36
Gregory West's wife is jealous when she sees him with another woman in his arms.
Saturday, May 11
King Nine Will Not Return
Season 2 • Episode 1
The captain of a crashed B-25 bomber can't figure out where he is or what year it is.
Saturday, May 11
The Man in the Bottle
Season 2 • Episode 2
An impoverished pawnbroker buys a bottle inhabited by a genie, who offers him four wishes.
Saturday, May 11
Nervous Man in a Four-Dollar Room
Season 2 • Episode 3
A small-time thief sees a new reflection of himself in a mirror.
Saturday, May 11
The Prime Mover
Season 2 • Episode 21
A gambler exploits a friend's (Buddy Ebsen) telekinetic powers.
Saturday, May 11
Long Distance Call
Season 2 • Episode 22
A boy (Billy Mumy) talks to his dead grandmother on a toy phone.
Saturday, May 11
The Mind and the Matter
Season 2 • Episode 27
Archibald Beechcroft discovers that he can will anything he wants.
Saturday, May 11
Still Valley
Season 3 • Episode 11
A confederate scout is given a book of magic which will help the Confederacy win the Civil War.
Saturday, May 11
Once Upon a Time
Season 3 • Episode 13
A janitor mischievously puts on a helmet which really is a time machine.
Saturday, May 11
A Quality of Mercy
Season 3 • Episode 15
A newly commissioned officer arrives in the Philippines in the waning years of World War II.
Saturday, May 11
One More Pallbearer
Season 3 • Episode 17
Wealthy Paul Radin arranges an intricate revenge for those he thinks have wronged him in his life.
Sunday, May 12
Showdown With Rance McGrew
Season 3 • Episode 20
An insufferable cowboy star comes face to face with the real Jesse James.
Sunday, May 12
Kick the Can
Season 3 • Episode 21
An old man thinks children's games can restore youth.
Sunday, May 12
To Serve Man
Season 3 • Episode 24
Aliens with ulterior motives show humans how to live peacefully with one another.
Sunday, May 12
The Fugitive
Season 3 • Episode 25
Old Ben has the strange power to change himself into anything, or anyone, he wants.
Sunday, May 12
Little Girl Lost
Season 3 • Episode 26
Chris and Ruth Miller are awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their child.
Sunday, May 12
The Changing of the Guard
Season 3 • Episode 37
A well-liked professor at a boys school is asked by the trustees to end his teaching career.
Sunday, May 12
The Trade-Ins
Season 3 • Episode 31
After 50 years of bliss, John and Martha decide that it would be nice to start it all over again.
Sunday, May 12
Hocus Pocus & Frisby
Season 3 • Episode 30
Mr. Frisby impresses quite a few people with his vivid imagination.
Sunday, May 12
Four O'Clock
Season 3 • Episode 29
Oliver Crangle decides to take revenge on all the evil people in the world.
Sunday, May 12
Cavender Is Coming
Season 3 • Episode 36
An angel (Jesse White) can earn his wings by helping a down-on-her-luck woman (Carol Burnett).
Sunday, May 12
A Kind of Stopwatch
Season 5 • Episode 4
Thomas Patrick McNulty is given a watch that possesses a strange power.
Sunday, May 12
Sounds and Silences
Season 5 • Episode 27
A man who enjoys loud noises is driven crazy when trivial sounds become deafening to him.
Sunday, May 12
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Season 1 • Episode 3
A has-been gunslinger regains his skill and agrees to a shoot-out.
Sunday, May 12
To Serve Man
Season 3 • Episode 24
Aliens with ulterior motives show humans how to live peacefully with one another.
Monday, May 13
The Fear
Season 5 • Episode 35
Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an alien.
Tuesday, May 14
The Bewitchin' Pool
Season 5 • Episode 36
Two children follow a make-believe friend into a happier world.
Tuesday, May 14
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Season 3 • Episode 14
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Tuesday, May 14
Nothing in the Dark
Season 3 • Episode 16
An aged recluse hides in her home fearing the arrival of death. With Robert Redford.
Wednesday, May 15
Where Is Everybody?
Season 1 • Episode 1
An amnesiac (Earl Holliman) in an empty town feels he is being watched.
Thursday, May 16
One for the Angels
Season 1 • Episode 2
A sidewalk pitchman's deal with Death may cost a young girl her life.
Thursday, May 16
Execution
Season 1 • Episode 26
In the 1880s, outlaw Joe Caswell's body disappears from the hangman's noose.
Thursday, May 16
The Chaser
Season 1 • Episode 31
A frustrated lover buys a love potion from a professor, then gives it to his girlfriend.
Thursday, May 16
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Season 1 • Episode 4
A forgotten star of the '30s uses her old movies to re-create the spirit of her heyday.
Friday, May 17
Mr. Denton on Doomsday
Season 1 • Episode 3
A has-been gunslinger regains his skill and agrees to a shoot-out.
Saturday, May 18
The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
Season 1 • Episode 4
A forgotten star of the '30s uses her old movies to re-create the spirit of her heyday.
Sunday, May 19
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Season 5 • Episode 3
An airline passenger (William Shatner) sees a creature on the wing.
Monday, May 20
Walking Distance
Season 1 • Episode 5
A man's need to escape the pressure of his work takes him back to his childhood.
Tuesday, May 21
Escape Clause
Season 1 • Episode 6
A man afraid of death makes a pact with the devil for immortality.
Tuesday, May 21
The Hunt
Season 3 • Episode 19
An old man goes raccoon hunting with his beloved dog, a hunt from which neither return.
Tuesday, May 21
A Piano in the House
Season 3 • Episode 22
A piano given as a birthday present has a strange power over those who listen to it.
Tuesday, May 21
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Season 3 • Episode 23
A young man's funeral is rudely interrupted when he climbs out of the coffin.
Tuesday, May 21
Person or Persons Unknown
Season 3 • Episode 27
David Gurney wakes up with a hangover, but that's the least of his problems.
Tuesday, May 21
The Gift
Season 3 • Episode 32
A man named Williams accidentally crashes his aircraft near a small Mexican village.
Wednesday, May 22
The Lonely
Season 1 • Episode 7
A man is sent to a deserted asteroid in space to serve a 50-year prison sentence.
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