TWILIGHT
ZONE EPISODE GUIDE
All episodes feature Stacy Keach
as narrator
(Click here for earlier episodes)
1-1-05
“Five Characters In Search of an Exit”
starring Jason Alexander (Seinfeld / Shallow Hall).
Plot: A clown, a hobo, a ballet dancer, a bagpipe player
and an army major are trapped in a cylinder room. They don’t
know who they are or how they got there and their only hope
is to escape to find the truth.
1-8-05
“The Lonely” starring Mike
Starr (Goodfellas / Ed Wood / Jersey Girl)
Plot: A convicted murder incarcerated on a distant asteroid
is dying of loneliness. Then a supply ship captain leaves
him a female robot for companionship but he must later face
an agonizing decision.
1-15-05
“The Mind and the Matter” starring
Hal Sparks (Queer As Folk / Spiderman) with special guest
David Stewart
Plot: A book on the power of thoughts enables an irritable
worker to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But
what he wants and what he gets are entirely two different
things.
1-22-05
“One More Pallbearer” starring Chelcie
Ross (A Simple Plan / Above the Law) with special guest
Steve Cochran
Plot: Just before a nuclear holocaust, an eccentric millionaire
offers the use of his bomb shelter to three people who wronged
him in the past. But his price for survival is an apology
- which just may be too high.
1-29-05
“What’s In the Box” starring
Mike Starr (Goodfellas / Ed Wood / Jersey Girl) with special
guest Spike O'Dell
Plot: A man can “watch” his future and its horrible
consequences on his just-repaired TV set and frantically
tries to alter his fate.
2-5-05
“Odyssey of Flight 33” starring Daniel
J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues) with special guest Steve
King
Plot: Flight 33 picks up a peculiar tailwind and is blown
off course. After apparently correcting the problem, the
flight arrives at its destination – a billion years
ahead of schedule!
2-12-05
“Caesar and Me” starring Jason Alexander
(Seinfeld / Shallow Hall) with special guest Lou Manfredini
Plot: Broke and jobless, ventriloquist Jonathan West is
no match for his evil dummy, Little Caesar, who grabs the
chance to set him up for a big fall.
2-19-05
“The Long Morrow” starring Kathy Garver
(Family Affair) with special guest Johnnie Putman
Plot: NASA 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.
2-26-05
“People Are Alike All Over” starring
Blair Underwood (Sex in the City / Full Frontal) with special
guest John Williams
Plot: When a space expedition crashes on Mars, passenger
Sam Conrad is terrified when he encounters the Martians.
To his initial relief, they are human, extremely friendly
and apparently just like us … or are they?
3-5-05
“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.
3-12-05
“I Dream of Genie” starring Hal Sparks
(Queer As Folk / Spiderman) with special guest Tom Petersen
Plot: George P. Hanley never had much success in life. But
when he rubs a magic Arabian lamp, a genie emerges and grants
him one wish, which sets him to imagining all kinds of possibilities.
3-19-05
“The Last Night of a Jockey” starring
Bruno Kirby (Donnie Brasco / City Slickers)
Plot: Grady is a former jockey, banned from horse racing
and down on his luck. When he gets one wish, he wishes to
be a giant among men – it’s a wish he soon has
to live or die with.
3-26-05
“Ninety Years Without Slumbering” starring
* Bill Irwin (Somewhere In Time / Twilight Zone) with special
guest Kathy O'Malley
* Bill Irwin appeared in three original Twilight Zone television
series, “Mr. Denton on Doomsday,” “The
Monsters Are Due On Maple Street,” and “Will
the Real Martian Please Stand Up.”
Plot: An elderly man believes he will die if his grandfather
clock stops ticking and when the clock is given away; he
will stop at nothing to keep it wound.
4-2-05
“Hocus Pocus and Frisby” starring *
Shelley Berman (Twilight Zone / Curb Your Enthusiasm) with
special guest David Kaplan. * Shelley Berman starred in
the Twilight Zone episode “The Mind and the Matter”
originally televised 5/12/61.
Plot: Frisby is a loud-mouthed braggart whose boasts attract
the attention of aliens. Perhaps he should have read the
story of the boy who cried wolf before embarking on his
greatest adventure.
4-9-04
“A Passage For Trumpet” starring Mike
Starr (Dumb & Dumber / Ed Wood / Jersey Girl) with special
guest Steve Cochran
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.
4-16-05
“Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?”
starring Richard Kind (Spin City / Mad About You) with special
guest Orion Samuelson
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.
4-23-05
“The Silence” starring Chris McDonald
(Quiz Show / Happy Gilmore)
Plot: Archie Taylor offers incessant talker Jamie Tennyson
a fortune if he can keep quiet for a year. It’s a
bet that Tennyson can’t resist and insists on winning
– at any cost!
4-30-05
“Big Tall Wish” starring Blair Underwood
(Full Frontal / Sex in the City)
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 magic
and making wishes.
5-7-05
“What You Need” starring Bruno Kirby
(Godfather Pt. 2 / City Slickers)
Plot: 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.
5-14-05
“Showdown with Rance McGrew” starring
Chris McDonald (Quiz Show / The 18th Angel)
Plot: TV cowboy star Rance McGrew finds himself in a real
Old West story where Jesse James challenges him to a showdown
over television’s negative depiction of outlaws.
5-21-05
“A Kind of Stopwatch” starring Lou
Diamond Phillips (LaBamba / Young Guns)
Plot: The world’s most talkative bore gets a magical
stopwatch that can stop everything except him. But when
he misuses it, a wonderful conversation piece becomes a
real party killer.
5-28-05
“The Arrival” starring Blair Underwood
(Sex in the City / Full Frontal) with special guest Mike
Nowak
Plot: A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot
and crew are missing. When a veteran FAA investigator is
called upon to solve the mystery, his own past provides
the answer.
6-4-05
“King 9 Will Not Return” starring Adam
Baldwin (Full Metal Jacket / My Bodyguard)
Plot: WWII aviator Captain James Embry finds himself next
to a crashed plane in a cast desert. Where is his crew?
And why are futuristic jet planes flying overhead?
6-11-05
“Back There” starring Jim Caviezel
(Passion of the Christ / Madison / Count of Monte Cristo)
with special guest Dean Richards
Plot: Peter Corrigan is a man who travels back in time to
the date of President Lincoln’s assassination. Will
his presence have any impact at all – can he actually
save the President and change the course of history?
6-18-05
“Mr. Bevis” starring Bruno Kirby (City
Slickers, The Godfather II) with special guest Kathy O'Malley
Plot: James B. Bevis is a good-natured, accident-prone eccentric
whose guardian angel gives him a chance for success. But
there’s a catch: all the goofiness in his personality
must go.
6-25-05
“After Hours” starring Kim Fields (Facts
of Life, Living Single) with special guest Steve Cochran
Plot: A young woman discovers that the floor of a department
store, on which she bought a gold thimble, does not exist
and that everyone around her seems oddly familiar.
7-2-05
“The Masks” starring Stan Freberg (Satirist)
Plot: Knowing he is about to die, a rich old man summons
his greedy heirs to his mansion and gives them each the
inheritance they so richly deserve.
7-9-05
“Mr. Dingle, the Strong” starring Tim
Kazurinsky (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Police Academy, Saturday
Night Live) with special guest Johnnie Putman
Plot: Martians give a timid vacuum cleaner salesman super
strength in an experiment that goes haywire.
7-16-05
“The Time Element” starring Bobby Slayton
(Rat Pack, Mind of the Married Man) with special guest Judy
Markey
Plot: A wisecracking New Yorker finds himself in Honolulu
on December 6th, 1941 – the day before the Japanese
attacked Pearl Harbor. He knows of the invasion but can’t
get anyone to believe him.
7-23-05
“The Passersby” starring Morgan Brittany*
(Twilight Zone, Dallas) with special guest Dave Eanet
Plot: On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate
soldier stops at a house. He and the owner, a recent widow,
soon realize all who pass may not what they appear to be.
* Morgan Brittany appeared on three episodes of The Twilight
Zone as a child actress.
7-30-05
“The Howling Man” starring Fred Willard
(Anchorman, Everybody Loves Raymond, Best in Show)
Plot: During a walking trip of Central Europe following
WWII, a man loses his way and winds up in a monastery where
the monks believe they have captured the Devil himself!
8-6-05
“Four O’Clock” starring Stan
Freberg (Satirist) with special guest Max Armstrong
Plot: Political fanatic Oliver Crangle has determined that
at exactly 4 p.m. he’s going to eliminate all his
enemies by shrinking them to 2 feet tall.
8-13-05
“From Agnes With Love” starring Ed
Begley, Jr. (Six Feet Under, St. Elsewhere) with special
guest Steve Bertrand
Plot: James Elwood, a computer technician, must deal with
the queen of all femme fatales: a computer named Agnes who
wreaks havoc on his love life.
8-20-05
“The Rip Van Winkle Caper” starring
Tim Kazurinsky (Police Academy, Curb Your Enthusiasm) with
special guest David Stewart
Plot: Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for
100 years after hiding a fortune in gold bars. But even
in the future, wealth is still beyond their reach.
8-27-05
“A World of Difference” starring Luke
Perry (90210) with special guest Kathy O'Malley
Plot: Arthur Curtis thinks he’s an average businessman
living a normal life. The only problem is, everyone he meets
believes he’s an actor playing a businessman in an
office that’s really a movie set!
9-3-05
“A Most Unusual Camera” starring Mike
Starr (Dumb and Dumber, Ed Wood, Jersey Girl) with special
guest Jim Memolo
Plot: Two thieves discover that a camera they’ve stolen
takes pictures of the future. A gold mine in greedy hands.
But not ever photo develops as they might expect.
9-10-05
“The Jeopardy Room”
Plot: In a deadly game of cat and mouse, a Soviet defector
has three hours to escape from his enemy, complete with
a ticking bomb and a gun pointed at his head.
9-17-05
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9-24-05
“The Fugitive” starring Stan Freberg
(Satirist)
Plot: Old Ben is a fugitive from outer space with a heart
of gold. He risks it all to help a crippled little girl
– without fear that alien pursuers from his home planet
will find him.
10-1-05
“Living Doll” starring Tim Kazurinsky
(Police Academy, Curb Your Enthusiasm) with special guest
Judy Markey
Plot: A man is displeased when his wife buys an expensive
talking doll for their daughter. His displeasure turns to
horror when the doll plots to kill him.
10-8-05
“The Self Improvement of Salvadore Ross”
starring Luke Perry (90210)
Plot: Salvadore Ross will stop at nothing to gain Leah Maitland’s
love. He trades his youth for money to court her in style.
But when he uses the money to buy “compassion”
he gets more than he bargained for.
10-15-05
“Sounds and Silences” starring Richard
Kind (Mad About You, Spin City)
Plot: A boisterous man who loves noise of any kind soon
loses his wife and maybe his mind when his hearing goes
haywire.
10-22-05
“The Jungle” starring Ed Begley, Jr.
(Six Feet Under, St. Elsewhere)
Plot: Returned from a business trip to Africa, Alan Richards
scoffs at the voodoo lion curse that was placed on him.
Yet soon he will sense that something is chasing him through
the streets of New York, a beast complete with sounds of
the jungle.
10-29-05
“Mr. Denton on Doomsday” starring Adam
Baldwin (We Are Soldiers, Full Metal Jacket)
Plot: A has-been, drunk of a gunslinger finds that drinking
a magic potion can actually restore his fast-draw abilities!
11-5-05
“Printer’s Devil” starring Bobby
Slayton (The Rat Pack, Mind of the Married Man) with special
guest Judy Pielach
Plot: When a newspaper editor is at the brink of suicide
as his paper is being driven out of business, the devious
Mr. Smith presents an unusual deal guaranteed to boost circulation.
11-12-05
“The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms” starring
Richard Grieco (21 Jump Street) with special guest David
Stewart
Plot: National Guardsmen conducting war exercises near Little
Big Horn in the present day encounter evidence that another
battle is going on – one that occurred in 1876.
11-19-05
“Perchance To Dream” starring Fred
Willard (Anchorman, Best in Show, The Mighty Wind) with
special guest Lou Manfredini
Plot: A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might
die of a heart attack. His pursuer? A mysterious vixen he
meets in his dreams that is trying to scare him to death.
11-26-05
“The Fever” starring Stacy Keach (Mike
Hammer, Up in Smoke, American History X) and Kathy Garver
(Family Affair) with special guest Milt Rosenberg
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.
12-3-05
“Dust” starring Bill Smitrovich (The
Practice, The Game of Their Lives)
Plot: On the day that Luis Gallegos is to be hanged for
drunkenly running over and killing a little girl with his
wagon, a conscienceless peddler sells the condemned man’s
father a small bag of “magic dust” that can
save his son from execution.
12-10-05
“The Brain Center At Whipple’s”
starring Stan Freberg (Satirist)
Plot: Callous factor owner Wallace Whipple automates his
plant, putting thousands of men out of work. He has no regrets
… at first.
12-17-05
“A Stop At Willoughby” Starring Chelcie Ross (A
Simple Plan / Madison)
Plot:
While commuting on a train, an ad executive dreams away
his job pressures and finds himself back in time to the
peaceful old-fashioned town of Willoughby.
NOTE:
No episodes will air on Christmas or New Year's
