Classic American Anthology series created by Rod Serling, featuring standalone stories of science fiction, fantasy, and horror, each with a twist ending or moral lesson.
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1Where Is Everybody?Mike Ferris finds himself alone in the small Oakwood town and without recollection about his name, where he is or who he is. Mike wanders through the town trying to find a living soul.
4The Sixteen-Millimeter ShrineBarbara Jean Trenton is a faded film star who lives in the past by constantly re-watching her old movies instead of moving on with her life, so her associates try to lure her out of her self-imposed isolation.
7The LonelyAfter being convicted of murder, a man is sentenced to serve 50 years on an asteroid with no other inhabitants millions of miles from Earth.
9Perchance to DreamAn overly-fatigued man struggles to stay awake as he explains to a psychiatrist that if he falls asleep it will trigger a recurring nightmare that will cause his heart to fail.
10Judgment NightIt's 1942, a man finds himself on a ship in the Atlantic, not knowing who he is, nor how he got there. He does know the ship will soon be attacked by a German U-boat.
12What You NeedA small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.
13The Four of Us Are DyingA man who can magically change his face to look like any other man uses this ability to improve his life, regardless of the effect he has on others.
14Third from the SunTwo families of Government employees plan to steal a spaceship and travel to another planet just prior to a nuclear war. They must also deal with a stooge who wants to stop them.
15I Shot an Arrow into the AirOrder breaks down between three surviving crewmen whose rocket ship crashes on an unknown world with limited water and supplies.
16The Hitch-HikerA young woman driving across the country from East to West becomes frantic when she keeps passing the same man on the side of the road. No matter how fast she drives, the man is always up ahead trying to hitch a ride.
17The FeverAfter his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas, a financially conservative man in his fifties catches gambling fever from a slot machine that he imagines is calling his name.
19The Purple TestamentA U.S. Army lieutenant serving in the Philippines during WWII develops a harrowing ability to see in the faces of the men of his platoon, the men who will be the next ones to die.
20ElegyThree astronauts touch down on an Earth-like asteroid where they discover a world of people who appear to be frozen in time. Confused, they try to theorize why everyone is motionless until a resident springs to life and explains.
22The Monsters Are Due on Maple StreetOn a peaceful suburban street, strange occurrences stoke the residents' paranoia to a disastrous intensity which, it turns out, serves the purposes of the genuine malefactors.
23A World of DifferenceA businessman sitting in his office inexplicably finds that he is on a production set and in a world where he is an actor. He fights to get back to his home and family.
25People Are Alike All OverFearing the worst, the lone survivor of a crash-landing on Mars finds the native inhabitants, to his relief, very hospitable indeed, but there's a catch.
26ExecutionWhen a 20th-century scientist tests out his time machine he accidentally retrieves a murderer from 1880, saving him from the hangman's noose. Unaware of the man's history, the scientist attempts to acclimatize him to his new surroundings.
27The Big Tall WishAn aging boxer finds himself the winner of a match he thought he had lost, the result a six-year-old's frantic wish. But can a world-weary, embittered man still believe in miracles, or will he turn his back on them?
28A Nice Place to VisitWhen bad guy Henry Francis Valentine dies in a shootout with police, he wakes up in the next world where his every wish is granted forever, and ever.
30A Stop at WilloughbyTired of his miserable job and wife, a businessman starts dreaming on the train each night, about an old, idyllic town called Willoughby. Soon he has to know whether the town is real and fancies the thought of seeking refuge there.
31The ChaserA young man obsessed with winning over an uninterested beauty gets more than he bargained for when he buys a love potion to gain her affection.
32A Passage for TrumpetA suicidally despondent trumpet player finds himself in a bizarre world where he seems to be invisible to everyone, except for one helpful other musician.
33Mr. BevisAfter losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.
