Is The Twilight Zone Scary? The Verdict and the Whole Plot

A bank teller finally gets time to read

Rod Serling hosts every episode. The pilot, "The Time Element", has a man telling his psychoanalyst about a recurring dream in which he wakes up in Honolulu just before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Season one then starts with "Where Is Everybody?", in which a man with no memory finds himself in an empty town. In "Time Enough at Last", a bank teller who wants more time to read is the only person left alive after a nuclear holocaust. In "The Hitch-Hiker", a woman driving across the country keeps seeing the same hitchhiker everywhere. In "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", a power failure makes a suburban street suspect that its own residents are monsters from outer space. In "A Stop at Willoughby", a stressed advertising executive dreams of a quiet town in the 1880s that looks better than his real life.

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A monastery has one prisoner and he will not stop howling

Season two includes "The Howling Man", where a man lost in a storm reaches a monastery and is told by the monks that their howling prisoner is the Devil. In "Eye of the Beholder", a woman wrapped in bandages after facial surgery hopes she will no longer be considered ugly. In "The Invaders", a woman alone in a country house is hunted by tiny beings from another planet. In "Twenty Two", a hospitalized dancer keeps dreaming that a sinister nurse leads her to Room 22, the morgue. In "Long Distance Call", a boy talks to his dead grandmother on the toy telephone she gave him. In "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?", state troopers try to work out which of seven bus passengers in a diner is a Martian. In "The Obsolete Man", a librarian in a totalitarian society gets declared obsolete and makes unusual requests about his own execution.

A six-year-old is in charge of Peaksville, Ohio

Season three has the episode to brace for, "It's a Good Life", which is episode eight. A six-year-old boy has powers that control reality, and he uses them to terrorize everyone in the town of Peaksville, Ohio. This is also the episode where a dog dies: the boy kills a neighbor's collie. The camera stays on the boy. Other season three episodes include "The Grave", in which a hired killer is dared to visit the grave of an outlaw who swore revenge on him, and "Nothing in the Dark", in which an elderly recluse refuses to let anyone into her apartment because any visitor might be Death. In "To Serve Man", very tall aliens arrive on Earth offering cures for every ill, and in "The Dummy", a ventriloquist becomes convinced his dummy is alive and starting to take over.

A curator keeps five wax murderers in his basement

Season four opens with "In His Image", about a man troubled by a murderous impulse and lost memories. In "The Thirty Fathom Grave", a ship is pulled toward the wreck of a World War II submarine by a tapping noise. In "Mute", a telepathic girl who cannot speak is left alone after her parents die in a fire. In "Death Ship", three astronauts find an exact copy of their spacecraft, and of themselves, on a distant planet. In "Miniature", a timid clerk watches the figurines in a museum's dollhouse come to life. In "The New Exhibit", a wax museum curator takes five wax figures of famous killers home to his basement after the museum throws them out. After he is fired, his enemies start turning up murdered.

A man on a plane sees something on the wing and nobody believes him

Season five includes "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet", in which a salesman recovering from a nervous breakdown sees something on the wing of his airplane while no one believes him. In "Living Doll", a talking doll torments its owner's stepfather. In "You Drive", a hit-and-run driver is haunted by his own car. In "Night Call", an old woman keeps getting frightening phone calls. In "What's in the Box", an unhappy couple's TV set shows them hurting each other after a strange repairman fixes it. In "Stopover in a Quiet Town", a couple who drank too much at a party wakes up in a town with no life in it, apart from the distant laughter of a child.