The Twilight Zone: Season 1
1959 · 36 episodes · ★ 7.3
What Season 1 of The Twilight Zone
The first season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from October 2, 1959 to July 1, 1960. There are 36 episodes, including the pilot, "Where Is Everybody?". The theme music for this season, written by Bernard Herrman, is different from the music most commonly associated with the series, written by Marius Constant for the second season onwards.
Season 1 Episodes
1x01 Where Is Everybody?
Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Earl Holliman, Garry Walberg, Paul Langton, Jay Overholts
1x02 One for the Angels
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
Directed by Robert Parrish · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway, Jay Overholts
1x03 Mr. Denton on Doomsday
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
Directing: Allen Reisner · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Jeanne Cooper, Martin Landau, Doug McClure, Dan Duryea
1x04 The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
Directing: Mitchell Leisen · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Martin Balsam, Ted de Corsia, Jerome Cowan, Alice Frost
1x05 Walking Distance
A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child.
Directing: Robert Stevens · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Frank Overton, Gig Young, Irene Tedrow, Pat O'Malley
1x06 Escape Clause
A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.
Directed by Mitchell Leisen · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Virginia Christine, David Wayne, Thomas Gomez, Dick Wilson
1x07 The Lonely
In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.
Directing: Jack Smight · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Jean Marsh, Ted Knight, John Dehner, Jack Warden
1x08 Time Enough at Last
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.
Directing: John Brahm · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Vaughn Taylor, Burgess Meredith, Jacqueline deWit, Lela Bliss
1x09 Perchance to Dream
A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
Directed by Robert Florey · Written by Charles Beaumont · Starring Richard Conte, Suzanne Lloyd, John Larch, Max Wagner
1x10 Judgment Night
In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.
Directing: John Brahm · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Patrick Macnee, Nehemiah Persoff, James Franciscus, Ben Wright
1x11 And When the Sky Was Opened
Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.
Directing: Douglas Heyes · Writing: Richard Matheson, Rod Serling · Starring: Charles Aidman, Maxine Cooper, Gloria Pall, Sue Randall
1x12 What You Need
A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.
Directing: Alvin Ganzer · Writing: Rod Serling, Lewis Padgett · Starring: Ernest Truex, Steve Cochran, Read Morgan, William Edmonson
1x13 The Four of Us are Dying
In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.
Directing: John Brahm · Writing: George Clayton Johnson, Rod Serling · Starring: Ross Martin, Peter Brocco, Beverly Garland, Milton Frome
1x14 Third from the Sun
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.
Directing: Richard L. Bare · Writing: Richard Matheson, Rod Serling · Starring: Edward Andrews, Joe Maross, Denise Alexander, Fritz Weaver
1x15 I Shot an Arrow into the Air
Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.
Directing: Stuart Rosenberg · Writing: Rod Serling, Madelon Champion · Starring: Dewey Martin, Harry Bartell, Edward Binns, Ted Otis
1x16 The Hitch-Hiker
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.
Directing: Alvin Ganzer · Writing: Lucille Fletcher, Rod Serling · Starring: Eleanor Audley, Mitzi McCall, Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong
1x17 The Fever
Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name.
Directed by Robert Florey · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Everett Sloane, Vivi Janiss, William Kendis, Lee Sands
1x18 The Last Flight
A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!
Directing: William F. Claxton · Writing: Richard Matheson · Starring: Jack Perkins, Alexander Scourby, Kenneth Haigh, Robert Warwick
1x19 The Purple Testament
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on the faces of his men before battle.
Directed by Richard L. Bare · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Ron Masak, Warren Oates, William Reynolds, William Phipps
1x20 Elegy
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
Directed by Douglas Heyes · Written by Charles Beaumont · Starring Kevin Hagen, Don Dubbins, Cecil Kellaway, Jeff Morrow
1x21 Mirror Image
In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.
Directing: John Brahm · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Vera Miles, Martin Milner, Ferris Taylor, Naomi Stevens
1x22 The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.
Directing: Ron Winston · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Claude Akins, Barry Atwater, Amzie Strickland, Jack Weston
1x23 A World of Difference
Arthur Curtis, a successful businessman sitting in his office discovers that he is on a film set and everyone refers to him as Gerry Reagan, a movie star struggling with alcoholism and a declining career.
Directing: Ted Post · Writing: Richard Matheson · Starring: Howard Duff, Eileen Ryan, David White, Frank Maxwell
1x24 Long Live Walter Jameson
Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.
Directing: Anton Leader · Writing: Charles Beaumont · Starring: Kevin McCarthy, Estelle Winwood, Edgar Stehli, Dody Heath
1x25 People are Alike All Over
After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.
Directed by Mitchell Leisen · Written by Paul W. Fairman, Rod Serling · Starring Roddy McDowall, Vic Perrin, Byron Morrow, Susan Oliver
1x26 Execution
Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.
Directing: David Orrick McDearmon · Writing: George Clayton Johnson, Rod Serling · Starring: Jon Lormer, Albert Salmi, Russell Johnson, Than Wyenn
1x27 The Big Tall Wish
Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent during a comeback fight, turning the tide in his favor.
Directing: Ron Winston · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Ivan Dixon, Walter Burke, Steven Perry, Kim Hamilton
1x28 A Nice Place to Visit
After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.
Directed by John Brahm · Written by Charles Beaumont · Starring Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, Sandra Warner, Bill Mullikin
1x29 Nightmare as a Child
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory about a man she saw earlier that day.
Directing: Alvin Ganzer · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Shepperd Strudwick, Michael Fox, Morgan Brittany, Janice Rule
1x30 A Stop at Willoughby
Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called Willoughby.
Directing: Robert Parrish · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Jason Wingreen, James Daly, Howard Smith, Billy Booth
1x31 The Chaser
A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, seeks the help of an old professor, who provides him with a love potion.
Directing: Douglas Heyes · Writing: John Collier, Robert Presnell Jr. · Starring: J. Pat O'Malley, John McIntire, Rusty Wescoatt, Marjorie Bennett
1x32 A Passage for Trumpet
A down-and-out trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.
Directing: Don Medford · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: John Anderson, Jack Klugman, Frank Wolff, Ned Glass
1x33 Mr. Bevis
After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.
Directing: William Asher · Writing: Rod Serling · Starring: Vito Scotti, William Schallert, Orson Bean, Charles Lane
1x34 The After Hours
Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist.
Directed by Douglas Heyes · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Elizabeth Allen, Patrick Whyte, James Millhollin, John Conwell
1x35 The Mighty Casey
A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.
Directed by Robert Parrish, Alvin Ganzer · Written by Rod Serling · Starring Robert Sorrells, Abraham Sofaer, Rusty Lane, Alan Dexter
1x36 A World of His Own Season Finale
Coming home, Victoria catches her husband Gregory flirting with a beautiful woman in his study. His explanation that characters come to life before his eyes when he speaks into his dictation machine, leads Victoria to question his sanity.
Directing: Ralph Nelson · Writing: Richard Matheson · Starring: Keenan Wynn, Phyllis Kirk, Mary LaRoche
Season 1 Cast
Robert McCordMan Walking in Lobby8 episodes
S. John LaunerMr. Harrington3 episodes
Bernard SellExecutive3 episodes
Jay OverholtsReporter #22 episodes
Bill ErwinWilcox (uncredited)2 episodes
George MitchellGas Station Man2 episodes
Don AndersonGambler2 episodes
Mike LallyHandler2 episodes
Vito ScottiPeddlerEpisode 1
Claude AkinsSteve BrandEpisode 1
All Seasons
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Season 31961 · 37 ep. · ★ 7.0
Season 41963 · 18 ep. · ★ 6.7
Season 51963 · 36 ep. · ★ 6.9Where to Watch Season 1 of The Twilight Zone
It is currently not available on any streaming platform in Spain.
Frequently Asked Questions
How many episodes does Season 1 of The Twilight Zone have?
Season 1 of The Twilight Zone has 36 episodes.
When did season 1 of The Twilight Zone premiere?
Aired October 2, 1959.
Where to Watch Season 1 of The Twilight Zone?
It is not currently available on any subscription platform in Spain.
What is the best episode of Season 1?
According to the audience rating on TMDB, episode 1x08, «Time Enough at Last», with a 8.2.