TWILIGHT
ZONE EPISODE GUIDE
All episodes feature Stacy Keach
as narrator
(Click here for earlier episodes)
1-7-06
“Death’s Head Revisited” starring * H. M. Wynant
(Twilight Zone / Batman) and Stacy Keach as narrator.
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.
* H.M. Wynant starred in the Twilight Zone episode “The
Howling Man” originally televised 11/4/60.
1-14-06
“Dead Man’s Shoes” starring Bill Smitrovich (The
Practice) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster’s expensive
shoes and is taken over by the man’s spirit, who vows to
seek revenge against his killer.
1-21-06
“The Purple Testament” starring Michael Rooker
(Henry Portrait of a Serial Killer / JFK / Sea of Love)
with Stacy Keach as narrator.
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.
1-28-06
“Elegy” starring Blair Underwood (Sex and the City
/ Full Frontal) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Three astronauts land on a remote asteroid where everyone
is frozen in place in the midst of their activities. The
only one that moves reveals himself as the caretaker who
explains that they are in an exclusive cemetery where the
deceased’s greatest wishes can come true.
2-4-06
“Mirror Image” starring Morgan Brittany (Dallas)
and Frank John Hughes (Catch Me If You Can / Band of Brothers)
with Stacy Keach as narrator.
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.
2-11-06
“Gentlemen, Be Seated” starring Stan Freberg (Satirist)
with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: In the future, humor is outlawed so James Kinkaid
joins a secret underground organization, The Society for
the Preservation of Laughter, which exists to keep comedy
and satire alive.
2-18-06
“Of Late I Think of Cliffordville” starring H.M.
Wynant (Twilight Zone, Batman, Days of Our Lives) with special
guest star Kathy O'Malley and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: William Feathersmith, a bored, evil, wealthy businessman,
gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with
all the knowledge he’s acquired – an arsenal that’s now
as powerful as he might think.
2-25-06
“In His Image” starring John Heard (Home Alone
/ Prison Break) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Alan Talbot doesn’t understand why his hometown seems
so unfamiliar; why is he driven to kill and what are those
strange noises in his head? He’s about to get some answers
when he comes face to face with his double.
3-4-06
“Queen of the Nile” starring Kate Jackson (The
Rookies / Charlie’s Angels) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
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.
3-11-06
“The Passersby” starring *Morgan Brittany (Dallas
/ Melrose Place) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A company of Civil War soldiers who believe they are
marching home from battle soon realize that they may not
be.
* Morgan Brittany starred in three episodes of The Twilight
Zone: “Caesar and Me,” “Valley of the Shadow,” and “Nightmare
as a Child” as the child actress Suzanne Capito.
3-18-06
“Twenty-Two” starring Andrea Evans (Passions) with
Stacy Keach as narrator.
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 soon learns differently.
3-25-06
“A Quality of Mercy” starring Robert Knepper (Prison
Break / Carnival) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A kill-happy young soldier gets a new perspective
on war when he is forced to experience life from the enemy’s
point of view.
4-1-06
“The Hitch-Hiker” starring Kate Jackson (The Rookies
/ Charlie’s Angels) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: While driving alone on a cross-country trip, Nan Adams
keeps seeing the same hitchhiker all along the way even
though there is no way that he could have gotten ahead of
her.
4-8-06
“In Praise of Pip” starring Fred Willard (A Mighty
Wind / Everybody Loves Raymond) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: An alcoholic bookie regrets that he wasn’t a better
father to his son, Pip, who was critically wounded in South
Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a
second chance.
4-15-06
“The Last Night of a Jockey” starring Bruno Kirby
(Good Morning Viet Nam / City Slickers 1 & 2) with Stacy
Keach as narrator.
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.
4-22-06
“A Nice Place To Visit” starring Hal Sparks (Queer
As Folk / Spiderman 2) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: After being shot to death by a policeman, thief Rocky
Valentine encounters Pip, an amiable white-haired guide,
who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.
4-29-06
“The Dummy” starring Bruno Kirby (City Slickers
1 & 2 / When Harry Met Sally) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
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.
5-6-06
“The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank” starring Robert
Knepper (Prison Break / Carnival) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Ever since he came back to life at his own funeral,
Jeff hasn’t been the same. The townspeople want him out
of town, but Jeff says they have no reason to fear him.
Or do they?
5-13-06
“I Dream of Genie” starring Hal Sparks (Queer As
Folk / Spiderman 2) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
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.
5-20-06
“He’s Alive” starring Marshall Allman (Prison Break)
Peter Mark Richman (90210 Twilight Zone) with Stacy Keach
as narrator.
Plot: Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, years
for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer’s
followers grow, as does his ego .
5-27-06
“One For the Angels” starring Ed Begley, Jr. (Best
in Show / Six Feet Under / A Mighty Wind) with Stacy Keach
as narrator.
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.
6-3-06
“Long Distance Call” starring Hal Sparks (Queer
As Folk / Spiderman 2) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Before Grandma died, she gave Billy a toy telephone.
When he uses it to talk to her, his parents dismiss it as
an overactive imagination – until Billy decides to join
his Grandma!
6-10-06
“The Parallel” starring Lou Diamond Phillips (LaBamba)
with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Astronaut Robert Gaines finds himself back on Earth,
after a crash landing, in a world very similar to, but not
quite his own.
6-17-06
“The Mighty Casey” starring Paul Dooley (Desperate
Housewives / Runaway Bride / Madison) with Stacy Keach as
narrator.
Plot: A broken-down baseball team soars when a new player,
a human-looking robot, pitches shut-out after shut-out.
After it is discovered that he’s a robot the only way he
will be allowed to continue to play is if he is altered
to become more human.
6-24-06
“The Howling Man” starring Fred Willard (Anchorman
/ Everybody Loves Raymond / Best in Show) with Stacy Keach
as narrator.
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!
7-1-06
“Miniature” starring Lou Diamond Phillips (LaBamba
/ Triangle) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A shy bachelor discovers a miniature doll apparently
alive inside a 19th century dollhouse. Fascinated, he whiles
away the hours peering into this little world and wishing
he were part of it.
7-8-06
“Mr. Bevis” starring Bruno Kirby (Godfather Pt.
2 / City Slickers 1 & 2) with special guest Judy Markey
and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A kindly fellow’s life is turned upside down when
he receives “help” from his guardian angel.
7-15-06
“Ring-A-Ding Girl” starring Sarah Wayne Callies
(Prison Break / Tarzan) with special guest Nick Digilio
and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Movie star Bunny Blake makes an unexpected visit to
her hometown after receiving a strange ring that predicts
the future.
7-22-06
“The Lonely” starring Mike Starr (Ice Harvest /
Jersey Girl) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man convicted of murder is sentenced to spend 40
years on a distant asteroid in complete solitude, that is
until a sympathetic ship captain brings him a robot companion.
7-29-06
“Black Leather Jackets” starring Marshall
Allman (Prison Break / Hostage) with special guest Steve
Cochran and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: An advance party of an alien invasion force arrive
in a quiet residential neighborhood disguised as leather-jacketed
motorcycle youths.
8-5-06
“The Little People” starring Daniel
J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues / Prison Break) with Stacy
Keach as narrator.
Plot: A space traveler terrorizes the tiny inhabitants of
a space station into accepting him as their God, but when
another space ship arrives the tyrannical man discovers
everything is relative...
8-12-06
“Mute” starring Wade Williams (Prison
Break / Buffy the Vampire) with special guest Kathy O'Malley
and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: Experimenting with the powers of telepathy, a mother
and father try to raise their daughter in a world free of
verbal communication.
8-19-06
“Hocus-Pocus and Frisby” starring *
Shelley Berman (Curb Your Enthusiasm / Twilight Zone) with
special guest Spike O'Dell and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A celebrated yam-spinner finds no one will believe
his latest tale- that he was kidnapped by aliens.
* Shelley Berman starred in The Twilight Zone TV episode
“The Mind and the Matter” as originally broadcast
May 12th, 1961.
8-26-06
“Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” starring
John Schneider (Smallville / Dukes of Hazard) with special
guest Mike Nowak and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A newly released mental patient is the only one able
to see a gremlin ripping up the wing of his airliner.
9-2-06
“King Nine Will Not Return” starring
Adam Baldwin (Firefly / Serenity) with special guest Andrea
Darlas and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A downed bomber pilot crash-lands in the desert. When
he regains consciousness he cannot find any of his crew
members.
9-9-06
“Spur of the Moment” starring Sarah
Wayne Callies (Prison Break / Tarzan) with Stacy Keach as
narrator.
Plot: A young woman out riding fails to understand the significance
of an encounter with her future self-until it is too late.
9-16-06
“The Lateness of the Hour” starring
Jane Seymour (Smallville / Dr. Quinn) and James Keach (Walk
the Line) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A young woman, bored with the precise, faultless routine
of her family’s life, persuades her father to dismantle
their robot servants.
9-23-06
“Nick of Time” starring Marshall Allman
(Prison Break / Hostage) and Jamie Brown (The Shield / The
Notebook) with special guest Steve King and Stacy Keach
as narrator.
Plot: A superstitious newlywed husband finds a penny fortune-telling
machine that makes uncannily accurate predictions about
his life.
9-30-06
“A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” starring
Jim Caviezel (Passion of the Christ / Madison / The Count
of Monte Cristo) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A 19th-century western settler, desperately searching
for water for his sick son, takes a walk that inexplicably
leads him into the next century.
10-7-06
“Where Is Everybody?” starring John
Schneider (Smallville / Dukes of Hazard) with Stacy Keach
as narrator.
Plot: Greeted by empty seats, a man searches a small town
to find that he is completely and inexplicably alone.
10-14-06
“Escape Clause” starring Mike Starr
(Ice Harvest / The Black Dahlia) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man makes a pact with the devil for immortality,
then finds he doesn’t get a kick out of living anymore.
10-21-06
“You Drive” starring John Heard (Home
Alone / The Sopranos) with special guest Kathy O'Malley
and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A motorist’s car won’t let him forget
his guilt over killing a young cyclist and fleeing from
the scene.
10-28-06
“The Obsolete Man” starring Jason Alexander (Seinfeld
/ Curb Your Enthusiasm) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A librarian in a future society is declared obsolete
and is sentenced to die in a manner of his own choosing.
11-4-06
“Person Or Persons Unknown” starring John Schneider
(Smallville / Dukes of Hazzard) with special guest stars
Mary Van De Velde & Steve Bertrand and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man awakens one morning to find that no one recognizes
him, not even his wife of many years.
11-11-06
“Four O’Clock” starring Stan Freberg (Stuart Little
/ Rosanne) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: To combat all that he considers evil, a cranky man
decides to make every evil person two feet tall at exactly
4 p.m.
11-18-06
“Valley of the Shadow” starring Chelcie Ross (Madison
/ A Simple Plan) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A reporter comes upon a peaceful village that guards
the secret of creating and obliterating matter. Once he
learns the secret, it takes another miracle to release him
from the responsibility of the knowledge.
11-25-06
“Living Doll” starring Tim Kazurinsky (Curb Your
Enthusiasm / Police Academy) with special guest star Judy
Markey and Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A man is threatened with revenge by his stepdaughter’s
evil talking doll when he plans to dispose of it.
12-2-06
“Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room” starring Adam
Baldwin (My Bodyguard / Firefly) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: A small time hood in a four-dollar a day room is ordered
to kill a man. In a mirror he sees the reflection of the
man he could have been and still could become if he makes
the right decision.
12-9-06
“Printer’s Devil” starring Bobby Slayton (Dickie
Roberts / The Mind of the Married Man) with Stacy Keach
as narrator.
Plot: A newspaper editor who is facing bankruptcy hires
a man with the uncanny ability to turn his business into
a goldmine … at a steep price.
12-16-06
“Stopover in a Quiet Town” starring Stephnie Weir
(MadTV / Fun With Dick and Jane) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
Plot: The day after a drunken party, a married couple awakens
in an unfamiliar house with no idea how they got there.
12-23-06
No Episode - Pre-empted by An American Christmas
12-30-06
“The Masks” starring Stan Freberg (Stuart Little
/ Rosanne) with Stacy Keach as narrator.
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.
