Original Twilight Zone Episodes

Season One

19. The Purple Testament

Airdate: 12 Feb 1960
Main Cast: William Reynolds, Dick York, Barney Philips
Writer: Rod Serling

In a U.S. Army infantry platoon, Lieutenant Fitzgerald discovers that he has the ability to tell when a person is about to die by seeing a strange light flash across their faces.

20. Elegy

Airdate: 19 Feb 1960
Main Cast: Cecil Kellaway, Jeff Morrow, Kevin Hagen, Don Dubbins
Writer: Charles Beaumont

Out of fuel, three astronauts land on an asteroid. The place is similar to Earth, but no-one moves. Soon, they meet a caretaker, who tells them that the place is an exclusive cemetery for the departed.

21. Mirror Image

Airdate: 26 Feb 1960
Main Cast: Vera Miles, Martin Milner
Writer: Rod Serling

Millicent Barnes is waiting at a bus station for a journey that will take her to her new job at Buffalo, New York. When the bus is late, she speaks to the man at the ticket counter, who tells her that this is the third time she has asked the same question. Subsequent events lead her to believe that she is being tormented by her double.

22. The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street

Airdate: 4 Mar 1960
Main Cast: Claude Akins, Barry Atwater
Writer: Rod Serling

When a meteor flies overhead, Maple street undergoes a power-failure. Science-fiction reader Tommy causes widespread panic when he tells people that aliens are to blame. The paranoia that then infects Maple street threatens to set neighbour upon neighbour.

23. A World Of Difference

Airdate: 7 Mar 1960
Main Cast: Howard Duff, Eileen Ryan
Writer: Richard Matheson

Arthur Curtis, a successful businessman, is living a normal life until he hears someone shout "cut". He finds that he has entered an alternate universe, where he is a drunken movie-star.

24. Long Live walter Jameson

Airdate: 18 Mar 1960
Main Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Edgar Stehli, Estelle Winwood
Writer: Charles Beaumont

Samuel Killridge recognises his future son-in-law, Walter Jameson, in an old Civil war photograph. He later discovers that Kilridge has the gift of eternal youth and is in fact hundreds of years old.

25. People Are Alike All Over

Airdate: 25 Mar 1960
Main Cast: Roddy McDowall
Writer: Paul Fairman/Rod Serling

The Martians build Sam Conrad, the first human on Mars, a house just like the one he has on Earth. It has just one difference.

26. Execution

Airdate: 1 Apr 1960
Main Cast: Albert Salmi, Russell Johnson
Writer: George Clayton/Rod Serling

About to be hanged for murder, Joe Caswell disappears and finds himself in a modern-day laboratory. Professor Manion explains that a time machine that he has built pulled him from the past. How will inveterate criminal caswell fare in the modern world?

27. The Big Tall Wish

Airdate: 8 Apr 1960
Main Cast: Ivan Dixon, Steven Perry
Writer: Rod Serling

When boxer Bolie Jackson breaks his hand prior to his fight, Henry, a small boy and his biggest fan, makes his biggest tallest wish.