

A groundbreaking series by Rod Serling, this half-hour anthology featured tales of the strange, the macabre, and the unusual. Some were science fiction, some were supernatural, and some defied easy categorization.This five-season series is best known for its twist endings. Many of the stories were written by Serling himself, others were crafted by Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Earl Hammer Jr. and Ray Bradbury.
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30mA man named Mike Ferris finds himself walking down a deserted road toward an apparently uninhabited town. However, upon his arrival, he soon suspects that he is being watched, but not sure of by who. He then starts going crazy trying to figure out what's going on.
30mWhen Mr. Bookman, a sidewalk salesman gets visited by the angel of death, informing him that he will be dying at midnight that night, he convinces the angel that he has one big pitch to make before he dies. The angel agrees to a delay, but instead causes a neighbor's daughter to have an accident and "Mr. Death" comes to take her. Mr. Bookman realizes he has to make the pitch of his life.
30mThe town drunk in the old-west faces his past when Fate lends a hand.
30mAn aging, forgotten movie star from the 1930's longs to go back in time to her heyday, despite the pleas from her manager. However, his attempts to get her to live in the present backfires when he brings an old co-star by for a visit when she is shocked to discover how much he has aged over the years.
30mAn overworked executive begins to wish for the easier times of his childhood. As a result, he manages to go back then and ultimately manages to make some subtle changes in the present.
30mA hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for several thousand years of immortality.
30mA prisoner is isolated to a deserted asteroid, and a sympathetic starship captain takes pity on him and delivers an android woman.
30mHenry Bemis is a bank teller who loves to read books. However, he gets in trouble for reading on his breaks at work and condemned by his wife at home when he attempts to read in his free time. Upon finding himself to be the lone survivor of a nuclear attack, Henry Bemis soon finds he has time enough to read any book he wants, only fate has other plans for him.
30mAfter failing to sleep for four days, Edward Hall goes to see a psychiatrist, sharing his fear that if he were to fall asleep, his dreams will ultimately kill him.
30mA man wakes up on an ocean liner with no memory of how he got there... and a Nazi U-boat soon begins stalking the liner.
30mThree astronauts return from the first journey into space. However, one by one they disappear... and no one else remembers that they ever existed.
30mA peddler uses his uncanny ability to tell what a person needs to supply them with the proper item at the proper moment. However, a thug gets wind of his ability and forces the peddler to use it for him or die.
30mA small-time con-man (Harry Townes) with the ability to change his face assumes the identities of a musician (Ross Martin), a gangster (Phillip Pine), and a boxer (Don Gordon).
30mWith atomic war on the horizon, a scientist (Fritz Weaver) and his co-worker (Joe Maross) plot to board their families on a spaceship and escape to another planet.
30mEarth's first manned spaceship, Arrow One , disappears on its maiden flight. The three surviving crewmen fight for survival on a barren asteroid with no hope of rescue, and one of them takes any steps necessary to live.
30mA woman on a cross-country road trip is haunted by a mysterious hitchhiker who she can't avoid no matter how far she travels.
30mA determined anti-gambler gives in to temptation during a trip to Las Vegas and gambles away his life's savings on a one-armed bandit that seems to bear him a grudge.
30mA World War I pilot lands at a modern-day Air Force base, and discovers he must try and find his way back to his own time and right a wrong.
30mA World War II soldier in the Pacific gains the uncanny ability to see a glow in the faces of those who will soon die.
30mThree lost astronauts find themselves on an asteroid surrounded by lifeless tableaus of people from the early 20th century.

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A groundbreaking series by Rod Serling, this half-hour anthology featured tales of the strange, the macabre, and the unusual. Some were science fiction, some were supernatural, and some defied easy categorization.This five-season series is best known for its twist endings. Many of the stories were written by Serling himself, others were crafted by Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Earl Hammer Jr. and Ray Bradbury.
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The catalogue lists an episode length of 33 minutes; individual episodes may vary.
The listed premiere date is 2 October 1959.