Season One
1. Where is Everybody?
Airdate: 2 Oct 1959Main Cast: Earl Holliman, James Gregory
Writer: Rod Serling
A man with no memory of who he is finds himself stranded in a deserted town. He comes to the conclusion that he may be the last man alive on earth; a view that he changes when he feels himself being watched.
2. One For The Angels
Airdate: 9 Oct 1959Main Cast: Murray Hamilton, Ed Wynn, Dana Dillaway
Writer: Rod Serling
A pavement salesman, Lew Brookman, is visited by Mr. Death, who tells him that he has to die by midnight. Lew convinces Mr. Death to allow him to live until he has made one last big pitch.
3. Mr Denton On Doomsday
Airdate: 16 Oct 1959Main Cast: Martin Landau, Doug Mclure, Malcolm Atterbury, Dan Duryea
Writer: Rod Serling
When a clapped out retired gun-slinger, Al Denton, acquires a magic potion from a mysterious man going by the name of Henry J. Fate, it makes him the fastest gunslinger in the west for a short time. From the events he then experiences, he soon learns some lessons about life.
4. The Sixteen Millimetre Shrine
Airdate: 23 Oct 1959Main Cast: Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Ted de Corsia, John Clarke
Writer: Rod Serling
Barbara Jean Trenton, an ageing actress, stays in her private screening room watching her old films, and trying to relive her past. Her agent, Danny Weiss, tries to arrange a new acting part for her in a movie, but this only serves to drive her into further introspection.
5. Walking Distance
Airdate: 30 Oct 1959
Main Cast: Murray Hamilton, Ed Wynn, Dana Dillaway
Writer: Rod Serling
When Martin Sloan is driving through the country, he makes a stop at Homewood, his hometown when he was a child. Strangely, he finds that things are still the same as they were in the past. Magically, he seems to have been transported back in time.
6. Escape Clause
Airdate: 6 Nov 1959
Main Cast: Murray Hamilton, Ed Wynn, Dana Dillaway
Writer: Rod Serling
Walter Bedecker makes a pact with a Mr. Cadwallader; immortality for his soul. An escape clause is provided if he ever tires of his life. Bedecker soon finds that immortality is not as easy as he thought, and an escape clause may be just what he needs.
7. The Lonely
Airdate: 13 Nov 1959
Main Cast: David Wayne, Thomas Gomez, virginia Christine
Writer: Rod Serling
James A. Corry, a convicted criminal, is confined to solitary confinement on an asteroid nine million miles from Earth. Allenby, a supply ship captain, takes pity on him and leaves him a robot that looks like a woman. Eventually Corry falls in love with the robot.
8. Time Enough At Last
Airdate: 20 Nov 1959
Main Cast: Burgess Meredith, Vaughn Taylor, Jacqueline deWitt, Lela Bliss
Writer: Rod Serling
Henry Bemis, a bankteller, has one passion in life - reading. When he skives off to the vault to read, the world is hit by a blastwave. Waking up, he finds that the Earth has been destroyed by nuclear war. Initially contemplating suicide, he sees a library and believes he has finally enough time to do all the reading he wants.
9. Perchance To Dream
Airdate: 27 Nov 1959
Main Cast: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd
Writer: Charles Beaumont
A highly fatigued man, Edward Hall, visits a psychiatrist and explains to him that if he falls to sleep it will trigger a nightmare and cause a fatal heart attack. He explains to the psychiatrist that in his nightmare, a carnival dancer, Maya, is beckoning him onto a roller coaster in an attempt to frighten him to death.