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The Twilight Zone - Episode Guide

Season 1

Shatterday

Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1985 (24 min)

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The story follows a man who finds that a double of himself has moved into his apartment and is taking over his life. A pushy fellow named Peter mistakenly dials his own telephone number in a bar and is astonished to find a nice guy named Peter answering at the other end. Peter is ‘both victim and victor of a brief struggle for the custody of a soul.

A Little Peace and Quiet

Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1985 (25 min)

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A woman discovers a pendant which allows her to freeze time. A housewife who finds an amulet that enables her to "freeze" the entire world around her merely by saying ‘'shut up." Eventually this cute ability finds itself confronting the specter of nuclear annihilation. 

Wordplay

Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985 (19 min)

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Life is sure getting complicated for Bill Lawry (Robert Klein). His company is seling a new line of medical equipment and poor Bill has just one week to memorize 67 new products. Biothermic dilator, Electromyograph. Entero-something-or-other. He studies until the wee hours and falls into a fitful sleep. Next morning, as he leaves for work, his neighbor happily informs Bill that his dog Ginger had her litter last night. There were nine puppies, "and that's quite a few for a small dog like an encyclopedia." Huh? A puzzled Bill heads for the office, where a young co-worker asks his advice on a good place to take a pretty girl for dinosaur. Come again? That afternoon, Bill hears people saying things like, "Wine mental eight van cattle renting jupiter." Everybody but Bill has a new vocabulary!

Dreams for Sale

Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985 (9 min)

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A woman finds that a relaxing outdoor picnic with her family is nothing more than an escapist fantasy that is beamed directly into her brain.

Chameleon

Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1985 (21 min)

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A team of scientists contend with a shape-shifting alien.

Healer

Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1985 (22 min)

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A small-time crook acquires a stone that gives him miraculous healing powers.

Children's Zoo

Episode: 1x07 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1985 (9 min)

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Debbie is a four-year-old girl starved for attention because her parents are always fighting. Her mother yells at her and her father is too lazy to give her any quality time. Debbie asks her parents to take her to the Children's Zoo. A friend gave her an invitation which specifies that both parents must accompany the child.

Kentucky Rye

Episode: 1x08 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1985 (18 min)

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A drunk driver emerges from a crash to enter the bar of his dreams.

Little Boy Lost

Episode: 1x09 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985 (19 min)

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The story follows a woman who, while trying to decide between pursuing a globetrotting career and having a family, forms a relationship with a mysterious young boy.

Wish Bank

Episode: 1x10 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985 (9 min)

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Upon finding a genie's lamp at a garage sale, a woman tries to cash in three wishes at the department of magical venues, a satire of the department of motor vehicles.

Nightcrawlers

Episode: 1x11 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1985 (21 min)

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State trooper Dennis Wells takes shelter from a downpour at a roadside diner. He describes to Bob the cook and the server a massacre that he is investigating that occurred at a local motel. After almost getting into a collision outside, a Vietnam veteran named Price enters the diner. Concerned by Price's reckless driving, Wells interrogates him.

If She Dies

Episode: 1x12 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1985 (20 min)

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A widower's daughter falls into a coma with no prospects of recovery, and he is subsequently haunted by the apparition of an orphan who died before he was born.

Ye Gods

Episode: 1x13 | Airdate: Oct 25, 1985 (29 min)

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A man's disinterest in pursuing love draws the wrath of Cupid and forces him into dealings with the gods of ancient mythology.

Examination Day

Episode: 1x14 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1985 (11 min)

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Dickie Jordan is an intelligent and curious youth. He and his family live in a dystopian future. On Dickie's twelfth birthday, he is required by law to undergo an intelligence examination. Dickie's birthday wish is to do well on his exam. His parents appear stressed and avoid his questions. When the time comes, his father brings him to a government testing facility. There he is given a serum to ensure he tells the truth and given a series of intelligence assessment questions.

A Message from Charity

Episode: 1x15 | Airdate: Nov 1, 1985 (38 min)

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A pair of teenagers–one from 1700, and one from 1985–share a mental link across time.

Teacher's Aide

Episode: 1x16 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1985 (16 min)

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A high school teacher begins picking fights with disruptive students after she is exposed to a mystic gargoyle.

Paladin of the Lost Hour

Episode: 1x17 | Airdate: Nov 8, 1985 (33 min)

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The story follows the friendship between a Vietnam veteran and an old man entrusted with forestalling the end of the universe. The television episode starred Danny Kaye in one of his final screen appearances.

Act Break

Episode: 1x18 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1985 (15 min)

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A playwright dying from a heart attack gives his partner a magical relic which grants the bearer one wish.

The Burning Man

Episode: 1x19 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1985 (12 min)

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A boy and his aunt who, while driving on an isolated country road, encounter a crazed hitchhiker who claims to be an evil creature with a life cycle similar to a periodical cicada.

Dealer's Choice

Episode: 1x20 | Airdate: Nov 15, 1985 (22 min)

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Featuring an ensemble cast composed largely of veteran character actors, it follows the events of a poker night in which one of the players is secretly the Devil.

Dead Woman's Shoes

Episode: 1x21 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1985 (25 min)

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It is a remake of "Dead Man's Shoes", an episode of the original Twilight Zone. It stars Helen Mirren as a timid woman who, upon trying on a recently murdered woman's shoes, is possessed by her vengeful spirit.

Wong's Lost and Found Emporium

Episode: 1x22 | Airdate: Nov 22, 1985 (24 min)

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Based on the short story "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", by William F. Wu, first published in Amazing Stories in May 1983. It takes place in a mystical shop where ephemeral things such as lost integrity and lost time can be recovered.

The Shadow Man

Episode: 1x23 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1985 (20 min)

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A boy discovers that a murderous shadow person resides under his bed.

The Uncle Devil Show

Episode: 1x24 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1985 (7 min)

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A boy learns strange magic tricks from a bizarre kids' show, unbeknownst to his oblivious parents.

Opening Day

Episode: 1x25 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1985 (23 min)

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Carl Wilkerson is targeted for murder on the opening day of duck hunting season by his wife's lover- who is also his best friend.

The Beacon

Episode: 1x26 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1985 (20 min)

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Young doctor Dennis Barrows stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.

Her Pilgrim Soul

Episode: 1x28 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1985 (40 min)

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Two scientists create a holographic projector, which shows something completely unexpected- the reincarnated soul of a young girl.

I of Newton

Episode: 1x29 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1985 (9 min)

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A professor attempting to solve a difficult math problem idly comments that he would "sell his soul" to get it right. A demon shows up to collect, resulting in a battle of wits.

Night of the Meek

Episode: 1x30 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1985 (22 min)

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In this remake of "The Night of the Meek", drunk, out-of-work department store Santa Henry Corwin finds a magic gift-giving bag and becomes a real-life Santa Claus.

But Can She Type?

Episode: 1x31 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1985 (14 min)

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Overworked, underappreciated secretary Karen Billings is sent by a malfunctioning Xerox machine into a parallel reality where secretaries are honored and revered.

The Star

Episode: 1x32 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1985 (12 min)

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On an interstellar journey, an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a long-dead world that has been emitting a signal for eons.

Still Life

Episode: 1x33 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1986 (18 min)

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Professional photographer Dan Arnold discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition. But developing the photos brings its subjects into the world.

The Misfortune Cookie

Episode: 1x35 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1986 (15 min)

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Snobby food critic Harry Folger receives fortune cookie messages that come true.

Monsters!

Episode: 1x36 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1986 (24 min)

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Young horror movie enthusiast Toby finds that his new neighbor is a vampire, who in turn shows him that everything he knows about vampires is wrong.

A Small Talent for War

Episode: 1x37 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1986 (8 min)

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An alien race that claims to have created mankind returns to judge them.

A Matter of Minutes

Episode: 1x38 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1986 (17 min)

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A married couple, the Wrights, awakens behind-the-scenes of how time works.

The Elevator

Episode: 1x39 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1986 (11 min)

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Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.

To See the Invisible Man

Episode: 1x40 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1986 (23 min)

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In a future society, uncaring man Mitchell Chaplin is sentenced to a year of social isolation.

Tooth and Consequences

Episode: 1x41 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1986 (14 min)

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The Tooth Fairy gives dentist Myron Mandel what he wishes for.

Welcome to Winfield

Episode: 1x42 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1986 (26 min)

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Two people fleeing an agent of Death end up in an old west town that has avoided death for decades.

Quarantine

Episode: 1x43 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1986 (22 min)

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Weapons designer Matthew Forman is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later, where he finds a post-war human race that has grown telepathic powers and rejected technology.

Gramma

Episode: 1x44 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986 (21 min)

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Young Georgie is afraid of his ailing grandmother. His mother leaves him alone to take care of her.

Personal Demons

Episode: 1x45 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986 (12 min)

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Veteran television screenwriter Rockne S. O'Bannon suffers from diminutive creatures that plague his daily life.

Cold Reading

Episode: 1x46 | Airdate: Feb 14, 1986 (16 min)

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1940s voice actor Milo Trent gets a job on a popular radio show. The show's creator, Nelson Westbrook, involuntarily causes every sound described on that week's episode to become real inside the studio.

The Leprechaun-Artist

Episode: 1x47 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1986 (21 min)

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A vacationing leprechaun is forced to grant wishes, which come with unintended consequences, to the three boys who captured him.

Dead Run

Episode: 1x48 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1986 (28 min)

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Truck driver Johnny Davis accepts the job of delivering souls to Hell, and finds Hell is not what he expected.

Profile in Silver

Episode: 1x49 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1986 (28 min)

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History professor Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald is sent back in time to observe the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but he botches the job in the worst possible way.

Button, Button

Episode: 1x50 | Airdate: Mar 7, 1986 (21 min)

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A mysterious stranger gives down-and-out couple Norma and Arthur Lewis a box with a button on it. He states that if they press the button, they will receive $200,000 and someone they don't know will die.

Need to Know

Episode: 1x51 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1986 (19 min)

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Government scientist Edward Sayers is sent to a small town to investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity.

Red Snow

Episode: 1x52 | Airdate: Mar 21, 1986 (30 min)

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KGB Colonel Ilyanov is sent to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of the local Communist Party officials.

Take My Life... Please!

Episode: 1x53 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1986 (14 min)

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Comedian Billy Diamond must perform an act that will decide his fate in the afterlife.

Devil's Alphabet

Episode: 1x54 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1986 (17 min)

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The members of a poetry society find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.

The Library

Episode: 1x55 | Airdate: Mar 28, 1986 (18 min)

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Writer Ellen Pendleton is hired to work in a private library and where the books document the lives of everyone alive, updated instantly.

Shadow Play

Episode: 1x56 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1986 (29 min)

Shadow Play
A remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode. Sentenced to death, Adam Grant desperately tries to convince his prosecutor that their reality is actually a recurring nightmare of his- and everyone will cease to exist once he's executed at midnight.

Grace Note

Episode: 1x57 | Airdate: Apr 4, 1986 (20 min)

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Opera singer Rosemary Miletti gains a glimpse of her future with a wish from her dying sister.

A Day in Beaumont

Episode: 1x58 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1986 (19 min)

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After witnessing the landing of a flying saucer, a young couple find themselves in the midst of an alien invasion.

The Last Defender of Camelot

Episode: 1x59 | Airdate: Apr 11, 1986 (30 min)

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In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights teams with Morgan le Fay to stop the return of Merlin.

Season 2

The Once and Future King

Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1986 (28 min)

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Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin travels back in time and meets the real Elvis Presley.

A Saucer of Loneliness

Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Sep 27, 1986 (20 min)

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Lonely waitress Margaret encounters a mysterious saucer with a message only for her.

What Are Friends For?

Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1986 (23 min)

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A child's imaginary friend turns out to be his father's imaginary friend as well.

Aqua Vita

Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Oct 4, 1986 (25 min)

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Christine, an aging news anchor, finds a method for youth at a steep price.

The Storyteller

Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1986 (26 min)

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Young teacher Dorothy Livingston finds that the secret to immortality resides in stories.

Nightsong

Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Oct 11, 1986 (23 min)

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DJ Andrea Fields must cope with the return of her lover after a 5-year disappearance.

The After Hours

Episode: 2x07 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1986 (18 min)

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In this remake of the 1960 Twilight Zone episode, a woman is trapped in a mall after hours with living mannequins.

Lost and Found

Episode: 2x08 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1986 (6 min)

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A student's possessions mysteriously vanish.

The World Next Door

Episode: 2x09 | Airdate: Oct 18, 1986 (22 min)

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A door in the basement leads to a parallel world, and both of a man's counterparts find the grass greener on the other side.

The Toys of Caliban

Episode: 2x10 | Airdate: Dec 4, 1986 (24 min)

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A mentally challenged child has immense, dangerous powers which his parents struggle to prevent his misusing.

The Convict's Piano

Episode: 2x11 | Airdate: Dec 11, 1986 (24 min)

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A wrongfully convicted prisoner discovers an old piano in his prison with special powers.

The Road Less Traveled

Episode: 2x12 | Airdate: Dec 18, 1986 (24 min)

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A draft-dodger is haunted by the specter of a familiar-looking man in a wheelchair.

The Card

Episode: 2x13 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1987 (23 min)

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A woman with out-of-control spending habits finds her new credit card comes with unexpected penalties.

The Junction

Episode: 2x14 | Airdate: Feb 21, 1987 (23 min)

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A miner who has been cheating on his wife is trapped by a cave-in with a miner from 1912.

Joy Ride

Episode: 2x15 | Airdate: May 21, 1987 (12 min)

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Four teens take a recently deceased man's classic car for a joyride. The driver acts increasingly irrationally during the ride.

Shelter Skelter

Episode: 2x16 | Airdate: May 21, 1987 (24 min)

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A survivalist and his friend live in his shelter after a nuclear bomb detonation.

Private Channel

Episode: 2x17 | Airdate: May 21, 1987 (13 min)

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After accidentally dropping his portable stereo in an airplane lavatory, a young man discovers that it allows him to hear other people's thoughts.

Time and Teresa Golowitz

Episode: 2x18 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1987 (25 min)

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A Broadway composer accepts an offer from the devil and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. While there he sees an opportunity to prevent a classmate's suicide.

Voices in the Earth

Episode: 2x19 | Airdate: Jul 10, 1987 (24 min)

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People return to a barren Earth to find that not everything had left when they thought it did.

Song of the Younger World

Episode: 2x20 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1987 (24 min)

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In 1916, a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her disapproving father, the superintendent.

The Girl I Married

Episode: 2x21 | Airdate: Jul 17, 1987 (23 min)

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An attorney pines after the way his wife was in their younger years, only to encounter that younger woman in the present.

Season 3

The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Sep 24, 1988 (22 min)

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Edgar Witherspoon is ordered by a mysterious voice to collect junk in his apartment to keep the world in balance.

Extra Innings

Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Oct 1, 1988 (22 min)

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Ex-baseball player Ed Hamner, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports Hamner into the life of that player.

The Crossing

Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Oct 8, 1988 (22 min)

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A stressed-out priest is haunted by the sight of a station wagon with a woman inside that keeps crashing.

The Hunters

Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Oct 15, 1988 (22 min)

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An archeologist studies prehistoric paintings in a newly discovered cave. The project takes a dark turn after the carcasses of livestock from nearby farms begin turning up near the cave.

Dream Me a Life

Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Oct 22, 1988 (22 min)

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A man in a retirement home is trapped in the dreams of a catatonic widow.

Memories

Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Oct 29, 1988 (22 min)

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A specialist in past life regression enters an alternate reality where everyone already remembers all their past lives.

The Hellgramite Method

Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Nov 5, 1988 (22 min)

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An alcoholic goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem.

Our Sylena is Dying

Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Nov 12, 1988 (22 min)

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A young woman has her youth sucked out of her by her dying aunt.

The Call

Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Nov 19, 1988 (22 min)

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A lonely man dials a wrong number and develops a close relationship with the woman on the other end. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and discovers she is a statue.

The Trance

Episode: 3x10 | Airdate: Nov 26, 1988 (22 min)

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A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, an inhabitant of Atlantis. He begins involuntarily channeling a real spirit, one with a habit of insulting people.

Acts of Terror

Episode: 3x11 | Airdate: Dec 3, 1988 (22 min)

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A battered wife finds the strength to fight her abusive husband by looking at a statuette of a Doberman Pinscher.

20/20 Vision

Episode: 3x12 | Airdate: Dec 10, 1988 (22 min)

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Bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them, showing that his efforts to help a farmer avoid foreclosure are doomed to fail.

There Was an Old Woman

Episode: 3x13 | Airdate: Dec 17, 1988 (22 min)

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A writer of children's books autographs a book for a sick young fan. Later, she starts hearing the sound of children in her house.

The Trunk

Episode: 3x14 | Airdate: Dec 24, 1988 (22 min)

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A motel proprietor discovers an empty trunk that grants wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are: no one.

Appointment on Route 17

Episode: 3x15 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1988 (22 min)

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After receiving a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed, incorporating a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.

The Cold Equations

Episode: 3x16 | Airdate: Jan 7, 1989 (22 min)

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A cargo pilot on the frontiers of space finds an innocent stowaway on his ship, who the ship's fuel supply cannot support.

Stranger in Possum Meadows

Episode: 3x17 | Airdate: Jan 14, 1989 (22 min)

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A young boy playing in a field meets a man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.

Street of Shadows

Episode: 3x18 | Airdate: Jan 21, 1989 (22 min)

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While breaking into a house, an unemployed homeless man switches bodies with the house's owner.

Something in the Walls

Episode: 3x19 | Airdate: Jan 28, 1989 (22 min)

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A doctor at a sanitarium has a patient who is terribly frightened of patterns on clothing and furniture.

A Game of Pool

Episode: 3x20 | Airdate: Dec 31, 1989 (22 min)

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n this remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode, a pool player challenges the long-dead legend, Fats Brown, who returns from the afterlife to give him a high-stakes game.

The Wall

Episode: 3x21 | Airdate: Feb 25, 1989 (22 min)

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A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. The Army calls upon a career soldier to investigate. He finds an idyllic world, and seemingly no way to get back.

Room 2426

Episode: 3x22 | Airdate: Feb 11, 1989 (22 min)

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Scientist Martin Decker is confined and interrogated by government agents for the location of his notes. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.

The Mind of Simon Foster

Episode: 3x23 | Airdate: Feb 18, 1989 (22 min)

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To make ends meet, Simon Foster sells his memories to a pawn shop broker.

Cat and Mouse

Episode: 3x24 | Airdate: Mar 4, 1989 (22 min)

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A shy woman becomes the lover of a cursed Casanova who turns into a cat during the daytime.

Rendezvous in a Dark Place

Episode: 3x25 | Airdate: Mar 12, 1989 (22 min)

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An old woman with an obsession with death finds an injured thief in her home. When Death arrives to collect him, she tries to persuade him to take her instead.

Many, Many Monkeys

Episode: 3x26 | Airdate: Mar 18, 1989 (22 min)

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An epidemic causes blindness. A nurse begins to believe that the disease is divine retribution.

Love is Blind

Episode: 3x27 | Airdate: Mar 25, 1989 (22 min)

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A man plotting to murder his wife's lover meets a blind singer who knows all about his plan.

Crazy as a Soup Sandwich

Episode: 3x28 | Airdate: Apr 1, 1989 (22 min)

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A man sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss he borrowed the track money from.

Special Service

Episode: 3x29 | Airdate: Apr 8, 1989 (22 min)

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A man finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.

Father & Son Game

Episode: 3x30 | Airdate: Apr 15, 1989 (22 min)

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Upon brain death, a 79-year-old man has his brain data transplanted into an experimental robot brain. His son considers this an abomination and tries to have his father declared legally dead.
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