The Twilight Zone is a TV series starring Rod Serling, Robert McCord, and Jay Overholts. Ordinary people find themselves in extraordinarily astounding situations, which they each try to solve in a remarkable manner.
Release Date: October 1959
10. A Stop at Willoughby
Air Date: 6 May 1960Season 1, Episode 30
Tired of his miserable job and wife, a businessman starts dreaming on the train each night, about an old, idyllic town called Willoughby. Soon he has to know whether the town is real and fancies the thought of seeking refuge there.
9. It’s a Good Life
Air Date: 3 Nov. 1961Season 3, Episode 8
On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
8. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
Air Date: 26 May 1961Season 2, Episode 28
Following a frantic phone call about a crashed spaceship, two policeman try and determine who among the passengers of a bus at a snowed-in roadside diner is from another world.
7. Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Air Date: 22 Dec. 1961Season 3, Episode 14
An army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.
6. The Obsolete Man
Air Date: 2 Jun. 1961Season 2, Episode 29
In a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.
5. Time Enough at Last
Air Date: 20 Nov. 1959Season 1, Episode 8
A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
4. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
Air Date: 23 Jun. 1964Season 1, Episode 22
On a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents’ paranoia to a disastrous intensity.
3. Eye of the Beholder
Air Date: 11 Nov. 1960Season 2, Episode 6
A young woman lying in a hospital bed, her head wrapped in bandages, awaits the outcome of a surgical procedure performed by the State in a last-ditch attempt to make her look “normal.”
2. Living Doll
Air Date: 1 Nov. 1963Season 5, Episode 6
A frustrated father does battle with his stepdaughter’s talking doll, whose vocabulary includes such phrases as “I hate you” and “I’m going to kill you”.
1. To Serve Man
Air Date: 2 Mar. 1962Season 3, Episode 24
An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A linguist and his team set out to translate the aliens’ language, using a book whose title they deduce is “To Serve Man”.