Serie de televisión especializada en el género de la ciencia-ficción. Fue creada por su narrador y anfitrión, Rod Serling, y cada episodio recrea un relato de fantasía, terror, suspense o ciencia ficción, a menudo rematado por un final sorprendente.
King Nine Will Not Return (Episodio 1) 6.0
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1960-09-30
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane, and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.
The Man in the Bottle (Episodio 2) 6.8
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1960-10-07
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room (Episodio 3) 6.5
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1960-10-14
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Ordered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a smalltime hood nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he could have been--confident, strong...and determined to get out.
A Thing About Machines (Episodio 4) 6.0
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1960-10-28
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
The Howling Man (Episodio 5) 7.4
Guionista: Charles Beaumont
Fecha de emisión: 1960-11-04
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.
Eye of the Beholder (Episodio 6) 8.5
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1960-11-11
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.
Nick of Time (Episodio 7) 7.8
Guionista: Richard Matheson
Fecha de emisión: 1960-11-18
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
The Lateness of the Hour (Episodio 8) 6.5
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1960-12-02
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Jana, the daughter of inventor Dr. Loren, struggles with her parents' reliance on lifelike robot servants, urging her father to dismantle them despite his attachment to his creations.
The Trouble with Templeton (Episodio 9) 6.5
Guionista: E. Jack Neuman
Fecha de emisión: 1960-12-09
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Booth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear.
A Most Unusual Camera (Episodio 10) 7.3
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1960-12-16
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future.
The Night of the Meek (Episodio 11) 7.4
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1960-12-23
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
Dust (Episodio 12) 6.5
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-01-06
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."
Back There (Episodio 13) 7.1
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-01-13
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has moved back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination.
The Whole Truth (Episodio 14) 5.7
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-01-20
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
The Invaders (Episodio 15) 7.5
Guionista: Richard Matheson
Fecha de emisión: 1961-01-27
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
A Penny For Your Thoughts (Episodio 16) 8.0
Guionista: George Clayton Johnson
Fecha de emisión: 1961-02-03
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.
Twenty Two (Episodio 17) 7.4
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-02-10
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
The Odyssey of Flight 33 (Episodio 18) 7.0
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-02-24
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
Mr. Dingle, the Strong (Episodio 19) 6.4
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-03-03
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
Static (Episodio 20) 6.7
Guionista: Charles Beaumont
Fecha de emisión: 1961-03-10
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.
The Prime Mover (Episodio 21) 6.8
Guionista: George Clayton Johnson
Fecha de emisión: 1961-03-24
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
Long Distance Call (Episodio 22) 6.8
Guionista: Charles Beaumont
Fecha de emisión: 1961-03-31
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
A Hundred Yards Over the Rim (Episodio 23) 7.2
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-04-07
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
The Rip Van Winkle Caper (Episodio 24) 7.0
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-04-21
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
The Silence (Episodio 25) 8.0
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-04-28
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
Shadow Play (Episodio 26) 7.6
Guionista: Charles Beaumont
Fecha de emisión: 1961-05-05
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
The Mind and the Matter (Episodio 27) 6.3
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-05-12
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: A book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are two different things!
Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? (Episodio 28) 8.0
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-05-26
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: State Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people boarded his bus…
The Obsolete Man (Episodio 29) 7.6
Guionista: Rod Serling
Fecha de emisión: 1961-06-02
Duración: 26 min
Sinopsis: In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.