Rod Serling — Writer

Episodes 92

The Time Element (Pilot) from Desilu Playhouse

0%
November 24, 195852m
0x1

A man (William Bendix) visits a psychoanalyst, complaining about a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Rod Serling wrote a teleplay intending for it to be the pilot episode of a new series called The Twilight Zone. Although it ended up airing on a different show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse S01E06, it is still considered the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone.

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The Mike Wallace Interview

0%
September 22, 195922m
0x6

A special Rod Serling interview with Mike Wallace.

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Where Is Everybody?

76%
October 2, 195926m
1x1

Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...

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One for the Angels

73%
October 9, 195926m
1x2

A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.

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Mr. Denton on Doomsday

69%
October 16, 195926m
1x3

A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.

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The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

67%
October 23, 195926m
1x4

An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

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Walking Distance

76%
October 30, 195926m
1x5

A stressed advertising executive, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child.

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Escape Clause

72%
November 6, 195926m
1x6

A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

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The Lonely

76%
November 13, 195926m
1x7

In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.

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Time Enough at Last

81%
November 20, 195926m
1x8

A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.

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Judgment Night

70%
December 4, 195926m
1x10

In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.

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And When the Sky Was Opened

77%
December 11, 195926m
1x11

Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.

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What You Need

76%
December 25, 195926m
1x12

A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.

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The Four of Us are Dying

68%
January 1, 196026m
1x13

In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

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Third from the Sun

75%
January 8, 196026m
1x14

With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

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I Shot an Arrow into the Air

73%
January 15, 196026m
1x15

Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.

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The Hitch-Hiker

75%
January 22, 196026m
1x16

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.

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The Fever

63%
January 29, 196026m
1x17

Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name.

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The Purple Testament

70%
February 12, 196026m
1x19

Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on the faces of his men before battle.

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Mirror Image

75%
February 26, 196026m
1x21

In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.

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The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

80%
March 4, 196026m
1x22

Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

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People are Alike All Over

77%
March 25, 196026m
1x25

After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.

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Execution

66%
April 1, 196026m
1x26

Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.

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The Big Tall Wish

62%
April 8, 196026m
1x27

Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent during a comeback fight, turning the tide in his favor.

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Nightmare as a Child

70%
April 29, 196026m
1x29

Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory about a man she saw earlier that day.

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A Stop at Willoughby

78%
May 6, 196026m
1x30

Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called Willoughby.

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A Passage for Trumpet

68%
May 20, 196026m
1x32

A down-and-out trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.

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Mr. Bevis

66%
June 3, 196026m
1x33

After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.

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The After Hours

77%
June 10, 196026m
1x34

Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist.

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The Mighty Casey

57%
June 17, 196026m
1x35

A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.

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King Nine Will Not Return

60%
September 30, 196026m
2x1

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.

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The Man in the Bottle

68%
October 7, 196026m
2x2

A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.

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Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room

65%
October 14, 196026m
2x3

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.

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A Thing About Machines

60%
October 28, 196026m
2x4

A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.

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Eye of the Beholder

85%
November 11, 196026m
2x6

A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.

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The Lateness of the Hour

65%
December 2, 196026m
2x8

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.

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A Most Unusual Camera

73%
December 16, 196026m
2x10

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.

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The Night of the Meek

74%
December 23, 196026m
2x11

A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.

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Dust

65%
January 6, 196126m
2x12

After selling the rope for a hanging, a greedy peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's father a bag of "magic dust."

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Back There

71%
January 13, 196126m
2x13

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.

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The Whole Truth

57%
January 20, 196126m
2x14

A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.

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Twenty Two

74%
February 10, 196126m
2x17

Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.

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The Odyssey of Flight 33

70%
February 24, 196126m
2x18

A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.

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Mr. Dingle, the Strong

64%
March 3, 196126m
2x19

Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.

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A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

72%
April 7, 196126m
2x23

In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.

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The Rip Van Winkle Caper

70%
April 21, 196126m
2x24

Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.

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The Silence

80%
April 28, 196126m
2x25

A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.

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The Mind and the Matter

63%
May 12, 196126m
2x27

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!

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Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?

80%
May 26, 196126m
2x28

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…

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The Obsolete Man

76%
Season Finale
June 2, 196126m
2x29

In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.

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The Arrival

71%
September 22, 196126m
3x2

A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!

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The Shelter

84%
September 29, 196126m
3x3

When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

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The Passersby

68%
October 6, 196126m
3x4

On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.

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The Mirror

63%
October 20, 196126m
3x6

After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.

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It's a Good Life

81%
November 3, 196126m
3x8

Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.

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Deaths-Head Revisited

70%
November 10, 196126m
3x9

A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.

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The Midnight Sun

78%
November 17, 196126m
3x10

The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.

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Still Valley

60%
November 24, 196126m
3x11

Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.

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Five Characters in Search of an Exit

80%
December 22, 196126m
3x14

A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

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A Quality of Mercy

72%
December 29, 196126m
3x15

A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.

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One More Pallbearer

70%
January 12, 196226m
3x17

Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.

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Showdown with Rance McGrew

67%
February 2, 196226m
3x20

The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.

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To Serve Man

85%
March 2, 196226m
3x24

The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.

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The Little People

75%
March 30, 196226m
3x28

An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.

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Four O'Clock

58%
April 6, 196226m
3x29

Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.

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Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

69%
April 13, 196226m
3x30

A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.

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The Trade-Ins

74%
April 20, 196226m
3x31

An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.

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The Gift

63%
April 27, 196226m
3x32

An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.

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The Dummy

69%
May 4, 196226m
3x33

A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!

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Cavender is Coming

60%
May 25, 196225m
3x36

Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.

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The Changing of the Guard

71%
Season Finale
June 1, 196225m
3x37

An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.

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The Thirty-Fathom Grave

64%
January 10, 196353m
4x2

A US naval destroyer investigates a mysterious tapping sound coming from a sunken submarine.

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He's Alive

78%
January 24, 196353m
4x4

Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer's following grows, as does his ego...

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No Time Like the Past

65%
March 7, 196353m
4x10

A man travels back in time to try to prevent some of history's catastrophes.

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The Parallel

68%
March 14, 196353m
4x11

An astronaut blacks out while orbiting the earth and ends up in a parallel universe.

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Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

70%
April 11, 196353m
4x14

A bored, wealthy businessman gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with all the knowledge he's acquired...an arsenal that's not as powerful as he thinks.

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On Thursday We Leave for Home

75%
May 2, 196353m
4x16

The leader of an expedition on an asteroid tries to convince the others that Earth is not worth returning to.

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The Bard

58%
Season Finale
May 23, 196352m
4x18

An untalented would-be writer's career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespeare writes his script.

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In Praise of Pip

62%
September 27, 196326m
5x1

Max Phillips is an alcoholic bookie that regrets that he wasn't a better father to his son, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance.

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A Kind of a Stopwatch

73%
October 18, 196326m
5x4

The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him.

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The Last Night of a Jockey

64%
October 25, 196326m
5x5

Barred from the track for life, crooked jockey Grady boozily expresses the wish to escape his sordid surroundings and become a truly "big man." His wish is granted by his lookalike alter ego, but there's a heavy price to be paid at fadeout time.

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The Old Man in the Cave

77%
November 8, 196326m
5x7

A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth.

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Uncle Simon

71%
November 15, 196326m
5x8

To inherit her insufferable Uncle's estate, a woman learns she must serve his latest invention, which is endowed with his own persona.

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Probe 7, Over and Out

71%
November 29, 196326m
5x9

The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet.

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The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms

64%
December 6, 196326m
5x10

A modern day National Guard unit find themselves in the middle of Custer's Last Stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn.

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A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain

62%
December 13, 196326m
5x11

Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum.

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The Long Morrow

77%
January 10, 196426m
5x15

Before leaving on a decades long mission, astronaut Douglas Stansfield meets a woman and falls in love.

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The Masks

84%
March 20, 196426m
5x25

A wealthy dying man invites his family to a Mardi Gras party and insists that they wear masks specially made for them, threatening to cut off their inheritance if they refuse.

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I Am the Night - Color Me Black

71%
March 27, 196426m
5x26

On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black.

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Sounds and Silences

55%
April 3, 196426m
5x27

A man's wish to listen to loud noise backfires.

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The Jeopardy Room

72%
April 17, 196426m
5x29

A KGB agent plays games with a defector, whose life he's been ordered to take, by giving him three hours to find and defuse a bomb he has hidden in his room.

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Mr. Garrity and the Graves

74%
May 8, 196426m
5x32

Jared Garrity arrives in the Old West town of Happiness, Arizona, proclaiming he can revive the dead.

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The Brain Center at Whipple's

64%
May 15, 196426m
5x33

A factory CEO replaces human workers with machines.

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The Fear

69%
May 29, 196426m
5x35

Two people in a remote cabin find signs of an extraterrestrial.

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Rod Serling: Beyond The Twilight Zone

0%
January 25, 200044m
0x5

An E! True Hollywood Story.

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