The Twilight Zone - Top 40 Episodes
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- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsLloyd BochnerSusan CummingsRichard KielAn alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. Linguists Michael Chambers, Patricia Brody, and their team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsDick YorkJune DaytonDan TobinGaining telepathic abilities when his coin lands on its edge, bank clerk Hector B. Poole learns about the difference between other people's plans and fantasies.
- DirectorAlvin GanzerStarsInger StevensAdam WilliamsLew GalloA young woman driving cross-country becomes frantic when she keeps passing the same man on the side of the road. No matter how fast she drives, the man is always up ahead, hitching her for a ride.
- DirectorRichard DonnerStarsWilliam ShatnerChristine WhiteEd KemmerA man, newly recovered from a nervous breakdown, becomes convinced that a monster only he sees is damaging the plane he's flying in.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsRod SerlingVera MilesMartin MilnerWhile waiting in a bus station, Millicent Barnes has the strange feeling that her doppelganger is trying to take over her life.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsDennis WeaverHarry TownesWright KingConvicted killer Adam Grant is trapped in a recurring nightmare in which he is sentenced to death by electrocution. He tries to convince those around him that they are imaginary and will cease to exist if he is executed.
- DirectorJack SmightStarsRod SerlingJack WardenJohn DehnerA convict, living alone on an asteroid, receives from the police a realistic woman-robot.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.1 (2.7K)TV EpisodeDirectorAbner BibermanStarsCollin Wilcox PaxtonRichard LongPamela AustinIn a future society, everyone must undergo an operation at age 19 to become beautiful and conform to society. Since her father killed himself after his surgery, 18-year-old Marilyn Cubberle desperately wants to hold on to her identity.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsMaxine StuartWilliam D. GordonJennifer HowardA 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."
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsBurgess MeredithVaughn TaylorJacqueline deWitA henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsRod SerlingJames DalyHoward SmithTired 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.
- DirectorAnton LeaderStarsLois NettletonBetty GardeTom ReeseWhen Earth deviates from its normal orbit and moves closer to the sun, painter Norma and her landlady Mrs. Bronson try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned New York City.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsWilliam ShatnerPatricia BreslinGuy WilkersonA pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune-telling machine in a local diner.
- DirectorJustus AddissStarsJohn AndersonPaul ComiSandy KenyonPassing through the sound barrier, a commercial airliner inadvertently travels back in time.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsFritz WeaverEdward AndrewsJoe MarossTwo families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to a nuclear war. They must also deal with a stooge who wants to stop them.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsSusan GordonJ. Pat O'MalleyNancy KulpYoung lame Jenny and the other neighborhood kids don't realize that their kind playmate Old Ben is really an intergalactic fugitive hiding out - until two serious men come looking for him and asking questions that test their friendship.
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsJack KlugmanJonathan WintersDee SharonFrustrated pool champion Jesse Cardiff has beaten everyone except for the deceased James Howard "Fats" Brown. Jesse can only curse his name. But guess who just walked into the pool room on Randolph Street?
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsFranchot ToneLiam SullivanCyril DelevantiAnnoyed by fellow country club member Jamie Tennyson's constant chatter, Colonel Archie Taylor bets half a million dollars that Jamie cannot be completely silent for one year while living in a glass enclosure in the club's basement.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsRoddy McDowallSusan OliverPaul ComiFearing the worst, the lone survivor of a crash-landing on Mars finds the native inhabitants, to his relief, very hospitable indeed, but there's a catch.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsJoe MarossClaude AkinsMichael FordAfter crash landing on a seemingly desolate planet, astronauts Bill Fletcher and Peter Craig find a society of very small beings. While Fletcher repairs the spaceship, Craig becomes a megalomaniac and decides to rule their society.
- DirectorRobert FloreyStarsRobert LansingMariette HartleyEdward BinnsBefore leaving on a decades-long solo mission into deep space, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets attractive Space Agency employee Sandra Horn, and they both fall deeply in love. But what kind of a future can there be for them?
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsEarl HollimanJames GregoryPaul LangtonMike Ferris finds himself alone in the small Oakwood town and without recollection about his name, where he is or who he is. Mike wanders through the town trying to find a living soul.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsRod SerlingAnne FrancisElizabeth AllenA woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.9 (6.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorRon WinstonStarsRod SerlingClaude AkinsBarry AtwaterOn a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences and mysterious people stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsRichard LongFrank SilveraShirley BallardAfter a night of excess drinking during a neighbor's party, bank teller David Andrew Gurney wakes up to another ordinary day. Except today, nobody knows who he is - including his own wife Wilma.