TWILIGHT
ZONE EPISODE GUIDE
All episodes feature Stacy Keach
as narrator
Episodes
from 2004
(Click here for episodes from 2003)
1-3-04
“The Lateness of the Hour” starring
Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman) with special guest,
Judy Markey.
Plot: A young woman lives a life of comfort and ease, thanks
to her father’s robot servants. The problem is, she
may also be a prisoner in her own perfect home.
1-10-04
“Midnight Sun” starring Kim Fields
(Facts of Life / Living Single) with special guest, Milt
Rosenberg.
Plot: The Earth’s Sun has suddenly changed, drawing
ever closer to the Sun and promising eminent destruction
– or has it?
1-17-04
“The Trade Ins” starring * H. M. Wynant
(Twilight Zone / Days of Our Lives) and Peggy Webber (Dragnet)
with special guests Steve King and Johnnie Putman.
Plot: An elderly couple visits The New Life Corporation,
hoping to transplant their personalities into youthful artificial
bodies – problem is, they can only afford one. (*
Factoid: H.M. Wynant starred in the Twilight Zone television
episode “The Howling Man” originally televised
11/4/60)
1-24-04
“The Last Night of a Jockey” starring
Bruno Kirby (Godfather 2 / Good Morning Vietnam / City Slickers)
with special guest Nick Digilio.
Plot: Grady, a former jockey, banned from horse racing and
down on his luck gets one wish, to grow to over eight feet
tall – which, he finds out can be much too big.
1-31-04
“A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” starring
Jim Caviezel (Count of Monte Cristo / Frequency / The Passion
of The Christ) with special guest, Rick Kogan.
Plot: In 1847, a western settler sets out to find medicine
for his dying young son – and stumbles into modern-day
New Mexico. Can he find his way back to the past to save
his son’s life?
2-7-04
“Twenty-Two” starring Andrea Evans
(Passions) with special guest, Rick Kogan.
Plot: Liz Powell is terrified by a recurring nightmare involving
the number 22. Her doctor reassures her that it is just
a bad dream, yet Miss Powell is to learn that bad dreams
can come true.
2-14-04
“The Little People” starring Daniel
J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues).
Plot: Spaceship commander Peter Craig declares himself a
God when his ship lands on a planet populated by people
smaller than ants.
2-21-04
“King Nine Will Not Return” starring
Adam Baldwin (My Bodyguard / Full Metal Jacket / We Are
Soldiers).
Plot: WWII Captain James Embry finds himself next to his
crashed plan in a vast desert. Where is his crew? And why
are futuristic jet planes flying overhead?
2-28-04
“Cavender Is Coming” starring Andrea
Evans (Passions) with special guests Lou Manfredini and
David Kaplan.
Plot: Agnes Grep is a klutzy usherette who is “rescued”
from a life of poverty by a guardian angel and soon learns
that she may not like living in anyone else’s skin.
3-6-04
“The Parallel” starring Lou Diamond
Phillips (LaBamba / Young Guns) with special guests, Mike
Nowak and Andy Masur.
Plot: Astronaut Robert Gaines finds himself back on Earth
in a world very similar to, but not quite his own. Even
his wife and young daughter seem to be strangers to him.
3-13-04
“The Big Tall Wish” starring Blair
Underwood (Full Frontal / Sex and the City) with special
guests, Spike O'Dell & Tom Petersen.
Plot: An over-the-hill prizefighter gets a boost from a
little boy who’s a big fan with a very rare gift in
a disillusioned world – an unswerving belief in the
power of wishing.
3-20-04
“The Long Morrow” starring Kathy Garver
(Family Affair) with special guests, Mary Van De Velde and
Dave Eanet.
Plot: Commander Douglas Stansfield and Sandra Horn fall
in love shortly before Stansfield launches into space to
begin 40 years in suspended animation. As they dream of
someday being together, their fates take an ironic turn.
3-27-04
“Escape Clause” starring Mike Starr
(Goodfellas / Jersey Girl / Ed Wood) with special guest
Nick Digilio.
Plot: A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality
and indestructibility. When life soon becomes to boring,
his unsuccessful attempts to find new thrills bring unexpected
results.
4-3-04
“Of Late I Think of Cliffordville”
starring * H.M. Wynant (Twilight Zone / Days of Our Lives).
Plot: William Feathersmith is a bored, wealthy businessman
who gets the chance to go back in time to start over, armed
with the knowledge he’s acquired – an arsenal
that’s not as powerful has he may think. (* Factoid:
H.M. Wynant starring in the Twilight Zone episode “The
Howling Man” originally televised 11/4/60)
4-10-04
“Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up” starring
Richard Kind (Spin City / Mad About You) with special guest
John Williams.
Plot: Two state troopers follow the tracks of an unidentified
flying object to a diner where they try to determine which
of the seven bus passengers stranded inside is really a
Martian.
4-17-04
“A Stop At Willoughby’s” starring
Chelcie Ross (A Simple Plan / Above the Law) with special
guest Steve Cochran.
Plot: An advertising executive cracks under the pressures
of his job and dreams about going back in time to live in
a peaceful town called Willoughby.
4-24-04
“A Passage For Trumpet” starring
Mike Starr (Dumb & Dumber / Ed Wood / Jersey Girl) with
special guests Lyle Dean and Dave Eanet.
Plot: After committing suicide, an unsuccessful trumpet
player is given a second chance at life, but he must first
learn what it means to be dead in a world full of life.
5-1-04
“Walking Distance” starring Chelcie
Ross (Major League / Madison / A Simple Plan) with special
guest Milt Rosenberg.
Plot: Martin Sloan is a frazzled ad executive who decides
to visit his hometown where he finds things exactly as they
were when he was a child.
5-8-04
“Living Doll” starring Tim Kazurinsky
(Police Academy / Saturday Night Live )with special guest
Johnnie Putman.
Plot: A man is displeased when his wife buys “Talky-Tina”
an expensive doll for his stepdaughter and becomes even
more displeased when the doll sets out to do him in.
5-15-04
“The Obsolete Man” starring Jason Alexander
(Seinfeld / Shallow Hal) with special guest Steve King.
Plot: In a future state where religion and books have been
banned, a librarian is judged obsolete by the Chancellor
and sentenced to death.
5-22-04
“I Am the Night, Color Me Black” starring
John Ratzenberger (Cheers / Monsters Inc.) with special
guest Max Armstrong.
Plot: On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed
for killing a racist bully, the town’s Sheriff and
other townsfolk are shocked to see that the sky turns pitch
black even during daytime.
5-29-04
“A Thing About Machines” starring Mike
Starr (Goodfellas / Ed Wood / Jersey Girl) with special
guest Spike O'Dell.
Plot: Mr. Bartlett Finchley despises any sort of machine,
and he’ll experience a new kind of terror when he
learns the feeling is VERY mutual.
6-6-04
“Death’s Head Revisited” starring
* H. M. Wynant (Twilight Zone / Batman).
Plot: A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of the
concentration camp he ran to re-live the good old days –
until his long-dead victims appear to greet him. (* Factoid:
H.M. Wynant starred in the Twilight Zone episode “The
Howling Man” originally televised 11/4/60)
6-12-04
“Sounds and Silences” starring Richard
Kind (Mad About You / Spin City).
Plot: A boisterous man who loves noise soon loses his wife
and maybe his mind when his hearing goes haywire.
6-19-04
“The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street”
starring Frank John Hughes (Catch Me If You Can / Band of
Brothers) with special guest Ron Santo.
Plot: Inexplicable events cause the residents of a quiet
town to erupt into rioting. The residents suspect that an
alien invasion has occurred and that one of their own is
a monster living among them.
6-26-04
“Uncle Simon” starring Beverly Garland
(Twilight Zone / Airport) and * Peter Mark Richman (Twilight
Zone / Beverly Hills 90210).
Plot: Barbara Polk has taken care of her detested Uncle
Simon for 25 years, waiting impatiently to inherit his wealth.
But his will stipulates that she must take care of his latest
invention, a robot that has an unnervingly familiar personality.
(* Factoid: Peter Mark Richman starred in the Twilight Zone
episode “The Fear” originally televised 5/29/64)
7-3-04
“Mr. Denton on Doomsday” starring Adam
Baldwin (We Are Soldiers / Full Metal Jacket) with special
guest Pat Hughes.
Plot: A has-been, drunk of a gunslinger finds that drinking
a magic potion can actually restore his fast-draw abilities!
7-10-04
“The Fever” starring Stacy Keach (Mike
Hammer / Up in Smoke / American History X) and Kathy Garver
(Family Affair) with special guest Nick Digilio.
Plot: 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
out his name.
7-17-04
“The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms” starring
Richard Grieco (21 Jump Street) with special guest Lyle
Dean.
Plot: National Gardsmen conducting war exercises near Little
Big Horn in 1964 encounter evidence that another battle
is going on – one that occurred in 1876.
7-24-04
“The Bard” starring John Ratzenberger
(Cheers / Monsters Inc.) and Stacy Keach (American History
X / Mike Hammer) with special guest Steve Cochran.
Plot: Jack Weston is an untalented would-be TV writer whose
career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespeare writes
his scripts for him. Shakespeare is appalled by the sponsor’s
changes, including the casting of a “Marlon Brando”
type actor to play the lead.
7-31-04
“The Brain Center At Whipples” starring
Stan Freberg (Satirist) with special guest Rick Kogan.
Plot: Callous factor owner Wallace Whipple automates his
plant, putting thousands of men out of work. He has no regrets
… at first.
8-7-04
“Mirror Image” starring Morgan Brittany
(Dallas) and Frank John Hughes (Catch Me If You Can / Band
of Brothers) with special guest Dean Richards.
Plot: When Millicent Barnes discovers her double at a train
station, she becomes convinced that her double is trying
to take her place. A fellow traveler thinks she’s
crazy … at first.
8-14-04
“One For the Angels” starring Ed Begley,
Jr. (Best in Show / Six Feet Under) with special guest Max
Armstrong.
Plot: A salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives,
a little girl must die in his place. Only the salesman’s
greatest pitch can save her.
8-21-04
“The Fear” starring Jane Seymour (Dr.
Quinn Medicine Woman) and James Keach (Vacation)
Plot: An unknown creature hidden in the shadows –
apparently monstrously large and immensely powerful –
terrorizes a hysterical young woman and a state trooper
who’s arrived to help her. But is this gargantuan
invader really what it seems to be?
8-28-04
“The Old Man in the Cave” starring
Adam Baldwin (Full Metal Jacket / Radio Flyer / My Bodyguard
/ We Are Soldiers) with special guest Lou Manfredini.
Plot: After an Atomic Holocaust, a tiny community has managed
to survive for ten years by following the instructions of
the mysterious “Old Man in the Cave” as relayed
to them by Mr. Goldsmith, their leader. But when the “Old
Man” is revealed to be a computer the community destroys
the machine and suffers the consequences.
9-4-04
“I Shot An Arrow Into the Air” starring
Chelcie Ross (A Simple Plan / Madison) with special guest
David Kaplan.
Plot: The world’s first manned space mission goes
awry, stranding the crew on an apparent asteroid that is
desolate and waterless. One man ruthlessly grasps for survival
before a peculiar symbol reveals the group’s true
location.
9-11-04
“The Grave” starring Michael Rooker (JFK / Sea
of Love) with special guest Spike O'Dell.
Plot: Before he died, notorious badman Pinto Sykes put a
curse on hired gun Conny Miller that if Miller ever sets
foot on his grave, he will kill him – a threat Sykes plans
on carrying out and any cost.
9-18-04
“The Obsolete Man” starring
Jason Alexander (Seinfield / Shallow Hal) with special guest,
John Williams.
Plot: In a future state where religion and books have been
banned, a librarian is judged obsolete by the Chancellor
and sentenced to the death of his choosing.
9-25-04
“Queen of the Nile” starring
Kate Jackson (The Rookies / Charlie’s Angels) with
special guest, Andy Masur.
Plot: A young, handsome columnist is startled to learn that
famous movie star Pamela Morris is just as lovely and young
looking today as when she starred in the film “Queen
of the Nile” made decades ago. Intrigued, he investigates
– and so learns a terrifying secret.
10-2-04
“Still Valley” starring Adam
West (Batman) with special guest, John Williams.
Plot: A Confederate soldier has the chance to win the Civil
War for the South, but to do that, he must call on the Devil
as his ally.
10-9-04
“The Trade Ins” starring *
H. M. Wynant (Twilight Zone / Days of Our Lives) and Peggy
Webber (Dragnet) with speical guest, Orion Samuleson. *H.M.
Wynant starred in the Twilight Zone episode “The Howling
Man” originally televised 11/4/60.
Plot: An elderly couple visits The New Life Corporation,
hoping to transplant their personalities into youthful artificial
bodies – problem is, they can only afford one.
10-16-04
“Time Enough At Last” starring
Tim Kazurinski (Police Academy / Saturday Night Live) with
special guest, David Stewart.
Plot: A bookworm’s sole want in life is more free
time to read. When a nuclear holocaust leaves him alone
in a world, his wish may have been answered – or has
it?
10-23-04
“The Purple Testament” starring
Michael Rooker (Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer / JFK
/ Sea of Love) with special guest, Rick Kogan.
Plot: Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime nightmare.
Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has
the disquieting ability to see who is about to die.
10-30-04
“A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain”
starring Adam West (Batman) with special guest, Dean Richards.
Plot: An aging man desperate to keep his much younger wife
from leaving him, tries a highly experimental youth serum.
To his wife’s delight, his youth is restored …
but does it work too well?!
11-6-04
“The Incredible World of Horace Ford”
starring Mike Starr (Goodfellas / Mad Dog and Glory / Ed
Wood) with special guest, Judy Markey.
Plot: Toy designer Horace Ford spends most of his time reminiscing
about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets the chance
to go back to those years, he gets a bad taste of reality.
11-13-04
“Mr. Garrity and the Graves”
starring Chris McDonald (Quiz Show / Happy Gilmore) with
special guest, Max Armstrong.
Plot: Jared Garrity makes a living as a resurrecter of the
dead in the Old West. He doesn’t make money from those
who want people brought back to life – but from those
who want the dead to stay just where they are … six
feet under.
11-20-04
“The Hitch-Hiker” starring
Kate Jackson (The Rookies / Charlie’s Angels) with
special guest, Nick Digilio.
Plot: While driving alone on a cross-country trip, Nan Adams
keeps seeing the same hitch-hiker all along the way even
though there is no way that he could have gotten ahead of
her.
11-27-04
NO EPISODE Pre-empted by Northwestern Football
12-4-04
“The Dummy” starring Bruno
Kirby (City Slickers / When Harry Met Sally) with special
guest, Steve King.
Plot: A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy is alive
and quite evil. Terror ensues when he decides to get rid
of the dummy and start a new act.
12-11-04
“It’s a Good Life” starring
Mike Starr (Jersey Girl / Goodfellas / Mad Dog and Glory)
with special guest Johnnie Putman.
Plot: Anthony is a 6-year old boy from a little town who
knows your every thought. He can feel your every emotion.
He can eliminate all you hold dear. Don’t be bad or
he’ll wish you away into the cornfields.
12-18-04
“The Changing of the Guard”
starring * Orson Bean (Twilight Zone / Dr. Quinn Medicine
Woman). * Orson Bean starred in the Twilight Zone episode
“Mr. Bevis” originally televised 6/3/60.
Plot:
Professor Ellis Fowler is forced to retire after 51 years
of teaching. Feeling his life was worthless he decides to
end his life until he is visited by the ghostly appearances
of former students.
12-25-04
“Night of the Meek” starring
Chris McDonald (Quiz Show / Happy Gilmore) with special
guest, Milt Rosenberg.
Plot: A forlorn department store Santa who takes to drinking,
finds himself experiencing the best Christmas ever when
miraculously he is able to give those he encounters their
heart’s desire.
