SeriesTV-PGSupernatural Sci-Fi Horror Psychological

The Twilight Zone1959

Name: The Twilight Zone
Genre: Supernatural, Sci-Fi Horror, Psychological, Folk Horror
Released: 1959-10-02
Rating: 9

“You are about to enter another dimension.”

Created by Rod Serling

9.0

Crypt Score

Blended from 2 sources

IMDb 9.0TMDB 8.5

✍ Review

On the charts

#2·Top Horror Series of All Time

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Year

1959

Seasons

Network

CBS

Status

Ended

Box Office

🏆 Won 3 Primetime Emmys. 12 wins & 14 nominations total

The premise

An anthology series containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

Horror Vault's take

Rod Serling's landmark anthology series invites viewers into a dimension beyond ordinary reality — where each self-contained episode blends fantasy, science fiction, and horror to illuminate the darkest corners of the human condition. Guided by Serling's iconic narration, every story builds toward a moment of reckoning, whether cosmic, psychological, or deeply personal. Few shows have matched its ability to use the strange and the supernatural as a mirror held up to society itself.

Content: Mild Violence, Psychological Horror, Themes Of Death And Mortality

Episode Guide

🏆 Best Episode Overall

S3.E24 · To Serve Man

8.6

⭐ Highest Rated This Season

S1.E8 · Time Enough at Last

8.2

★ 7.3 avg· 15h 36m total· Oct 1959 → Jul 1960

S1.E1 · Where Is Everybody?Premiere
7.6
Oct 2, 1959 · 26 min · Dir: Robert Stevens
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...
S1.E2 · One for the Angels
7.4
Oct 9, 1959 · 26 min · Dir: Robert Parrish
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.
S1.E3 · Mr. Denton on Doomsday
7.0
Oct 16, 1959 · 26 min · Dir: Allen Reisner
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.
S1.E4 · The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
6.8
Oct 23, 1959 · 26 min · Dir: Mitchell Leisen
An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.
S1.E5 · Walking Distance
7.8
Oct 30, 1959 · 26 min · Dir: Robert Stevens
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.