The Twilight Zone (1985 - 1989)

Country of Origin: USA / UK / Canada
Date(s) of Broadcast: 27 September 1985 - 15 April 1989
Number of Seasons: 3
Total Number of Episodes: 110
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Ratio: 1.33:1
Sound: stereo

PLOT SUMMARY

An anthology of short horror, fantasy and science fiction stories.

EPISODES

SEASON ONE
Shatterday / A Little Peace and Quiet (27 September 1985)
Wordplay / Dreams for Sale / Chameleon (4 October 1985)
Healer / Children's Zoo / Kentucky Rye (11 October 1985)
Little Boy Lost / Wish Bank / Nightcrawlers (18 October 1985)
If She Dies / Ye Gods (25 October 1985)
Examination Day / A Message from Charity (1 November 1985)
Teacher's Aide / Paladin of the Lost Hour (8 November 1985)
Act Break / The Burning Man / Dealer's Choice (15 November 1985)
Dead Woman's Shoes / Wong's Lost and Found Emporium (22 November 1985)
The Shadow Man / The Uncle Devil Show / Opening Day (29 November 1985)
The Beacon / One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty (6 December 1985)
Her Pilgrim Soul / I of Newton (13 December 1985)
Night of the Meek / But Can She Type? / The Star (20 December 1985)
Still Life / The Little People of Killany Woods / The Misfortune Cookie (3 January 1986)
Monsters! / A Small Talent of War / A Matter of Minutes (24 January 1986)
The Elevator / To See the Invisible Man / Tooth and Consequences (31 January 1986)
Welcome to Winfield / Quarantine (7 February 1986)
Gramma / Personal Demons / Cold Reading (14 February 1986)
The Leprechaun Artist / Dead Run (21 February 1986)
Profile in Silver / Button, Button (7 March 1986)
Need to Know / Red Snow (21 March 1986)
Take My Life... Please! / Devil's Alphabet / The Library (28 March 1986)
Shadow Play / Grace Note (4 April 1986)
A Day in Beaumont / The Last Defender of Camelot (11 April 1986)

SEASON TWO
The Once and Future King / A Saucer of Loneliness (27 September 1986)
What Are Friends For? / Aqua Vita (4 October 1986)
The Storyteller / Nightsong (11 October 1986)
The After Hours / Lost and Found / The World Next Door (18 October 1986)
The Toys of Caliban (4 December 1986)
The Convict's Piano (11 December 1986)
The Road Less Traveled (18 December 1986)
The Card / The Junction (21 February 1987)
Joy Ride / Shelter Skelter / Private Channel (21 May 1987)
Time and Teresa Golowitz / Voices in the Earth (10 July 1987)
Song of the Younger World / The Girl I Married (17 July 1987)

SEASON THREE
The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon (24 September 1988)
Extra Innings (1 October 1988)
The Crossing ( 8 October 1988)
The Hunters (15 October 1988)
Dream Me a Life (22 October 1988)
Memories (29 October 1988)
The Hellgramite Method (5 November 1988)
Our Sylena is Dying (12 November 1988)
The Call (19 November 1988)
The Trance (26 November 1988)
Acts of Terror (3 December 1988)
20/20 Vision (10 December 1988)
There Was an Old Woman (17 December 1988)
The Trunk (24 December 1988)
Appointment on Route 17 (31 December 1988)
The Cold Equations (7 January 1989)
Strangers in Possum Meadows (14 January 1989)
Street of Shadows (21 January 1989)
Something in the Walls (28 January 1989)
A Game of Pool (31 December 1989)
The Wall (25 February 1989)
Room 2426 (11 February 1989)
The Mind of Simon Foster (18 February 1989)
Cat and Mouse (4 March 1989)
Many, Many Monkeys (18 March 1989)
Rendezvous in a Dark Place (12 March 1989)
Special Service (8 April 1989)
Love is Blind (25 March 1989)
Crazy as a Soup Sandwich (1 April 1989)
Father and Son Game (15 April 1989)

USA
Television Distributors: CBS Television; TNT; MGM

Ai confini della realtà – Italian title
La cinquième dimension – French title
Unbekannte Dimensionen - West German title
Zona crepusculara – Romanian title

1986
Young Artist Awards, USA
Best Young Actress - Guest in a Television Series (Jaclyn Bernstein) – winner (for Children's Zoo)
Best Young Actress - Guest in a Television Series (Jenny Lewis) - nominated

1987
Writers Guild of America, USA
WGA Award (TV) Anthology Episode/Single Program (Harlan Ellison) – winner (for Paladin of the Lost Hour)

Young Artist Awards, USA
Exceptional Performance by a Young Actor, Guest Starring in a Television, Comedy or Drama Series (Chris Hebert) - nominated

1988
Young Artist Awards, USA
Best Young Actress - Guest Starring in a Television Drama (Heather Haase) – nominated (for Time and Teresa Golowitz)

1990
Writers Guild of America, USA
WGA Award (TV) Anthology Episode/Single Program (Jeremy Bertrand Finch, Paul Chitlik) – nominated (for Father And Son Game)

SEQUEL TO
The Twilight Zone (1959 – 1965)
Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)

SEQUEL
The Twilight Zone (2002 - )

KEYWORDS

anthologies

Last Updated: 1 January, 2009