Direction: Rod Serling

Direction Rod Serling · John Brahm · Douglas Heyes · Buzz Kulik

Cast Rod Serling · Burgess Meredith · Vaughn Taylor · Jack Klugman

Synopsis TV series (1959-1964). 5 Seasons. 156 Episodes. Rod Serling's seminal anthology series focused on ordinary folks who suddenly found themselves in extraordinary, usually supernatural, situations. The stories would typically end with an ironic twist that would see the guilty punished.

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc · Jeff Corey · Gene R. Kearney

Cast Rod Serling · John Astin · Geraldine Page · Vincent Price

Synopsis Serling appeared in an art gallery setting and introduced the macabre tales that made up each episode by unveiling paintings (by artist Tom Wright) that depicted the stories. Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such...

Direction Rod Serling · Paul Lynch · Peter Medak · Ryszard Bugajski

Cast William Atherton · Jenny Agutter · Martin Balsam · Jeffrey Tambor

Synopsis A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but often have a wicked sense of humor and an unexpected twist.

Direction Rod Serling · John T. Kretchmer · Brad Turner · Allan Kroeker

Cast Forest Whitaker · Jeremy Piven · Zeljko Ivanek · Jeffrey Combs

Synopsis What began in 1959 with the great Rod Serling continues into the 21st century with a new host, Forest Whitaker, with completely new stories. Although there are minor similarities to older episodes of The Twilight Zone, these are still new...

Direction Rod Serling · John Badham · Jeff Corey · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Marty Allen · Ross Martin · Barbara Rush · Rene Auberjonois

Synopsis A Gothic love story about a woman and a man who lives in a refrigerated apartment. / Miserly banker Sharsted finds himself trapped after viewing his client's strange optical device. / Edgar Allan Poe can't get the first line down...

Direction Rod Serling · Douglas Heyes · John Meredyth Lucas

Cast Carl Betz · Jeff Corey · Louise Sorel · Michael Blodgett

Synopsis Dr. Redford's patient John Fearing can mimic any disease's symptoms, and is having an affair with Mrs. Redford. / Cedric Acton, a student of the black arts, plans to replace his cruel wife Carlotta's soul with that of a kind...

Direction Rod Serling · Walter Doniger · Steven Spielberg

Cast Godfrey Cambridge · Tom Bosley · Jackie Vernon · Raymond Massey

Synopsis A fading comic asks a miracle worker's help in making people laugh. / Big game hunter Colonel Archie Dittman pressures his meek son to take up the sport or be disinherited.

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Bill Bixby · Steve Forrest · Carol Lynley · Albert Salmi

Synopsis Gunslinger Sam Dichter rests in a saloon with outlaws who await their punishment. / Attorney Bruce Tarraday is tormented by the statue of a Druid sorcerer which his wife impulsively bought, claiming that it resembles him.

Direction Rod Serling · Timothy Galfas

Cast Will Geer · Slim Pickens · Rod Serling

Synopsis Sheriff Ned Harlow thinks that the skyrocketing death rate in town is tied in to funeral director Walt Peckinpah's January clearance sale.

Direction Rod Serling · Jerrold Freedman · William Hale · Jack Laird

Cast Patty Duke · Virginia Mayo · David Wayne · Cesar Romero

Synopsis A strange diary shows gossip columnist her sad future. / Dracula visits a blood bank with an odd request. / Hawkins the hermit promises a surprise to three boys if they dig for it. / Professor Peabody publicly ridicules Lovecraftian...

Direction Rod Serling · Jeff Corey · Jack Laird

Cast Bradford Dillman · Louise Sorel · Steve Lawrence · Maureen Arthur

Synopsis Lovelorn Mavis Goldsmith ignores her reclusive art teacher Pickman's warning not to follow him home. / A fake fortune-telling racket is disrupted by adultery. / When a woman enters an elevator, a ghoul is asked to remove his hat.

Direction Rod Serling · John Badham · Jack Laird

Cast Ozzie Nelson · Harriet Hilliard · Roger Davis · Michael Lerner

Synopsis Bumbling inventor Henry Millikan wants to improve his reputation among his colleagues by bringing his loving wife Helena back from the dead - but she hasn't died yet. / A photographer meets a vampire.

Direction Rod Serling · Jack Laird

Cast Lee J. Lambert · James Metropole · Rod Serling

Synopsis In an office building, a man in a crowded elevator asks one of the aliens that are riding with him to leave and wait for the next one, since the elevator can hold only 10 people. The alien has another...

Direction Rod Serling · John Badham · Gene R. Kearney · John Meredyth Lucas

Cast Clint Howard · Michael Constantine · Sue Lyon · Joseph Campanella

Synopsis A boy's gift for prophecy pressures him when he forecasts disaster. / A babysitter fears that the baby is a monster. / Peter Lacland asks a doctor to amputate his possessed hand. / A comic twist on "Phantom of the...

Direction Rod Serling · Jerrold Freedman · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Vincent Price · E.G. Marshall · Imogene Coca · Desi Arnaz Jr.

Synopsis Fleeing thief Doran hides in the funeral home of odd Mr Soames. / A wife uses bricks and mortar to help her ill husband. / A college professor administers a chilling oral exam with a dystopian twist. / Witches prepare...

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Gary Lockwood · Joan Van Ark · Chuck Connors · Ralph Manza

Synopsis Newly crowned boxing champ Jim Figg is taken to a mysterious elite hotel, where he's to fight an old boxing champ that no one has ever beaten.

Direction Rod Serling · John Badham · John Meredyth Lucas · David Rawlins

Cast Joe Flynn · Cameron Mitchell · Pernell Roberts · Werner Klemperer

Synopsis Nasty land developer Mike Saunders is ready to destroy a widow with a green thumb to get her land. / Morton Silkline arranges a late funeral for an unusual client, Ludwig Asper. / A jukebox in a diner repeatedly plays...

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Vincent Price · Tisha Sterling · Bill Bixby · Rod Serling

Synopsis Sorcerer John Carnby recruits young Noel Evans to translate an incomplete Arabic source book, whose most fiendish passages involve being flayed over burning coals and slowly dismembered.

Direction Rod Serling · Jeannot Szwarc

Cast Sandra Dee · Dane Clark · Christopher Connelly · Russell Thorson

Synopsis After her sister Marian hangs herself, Millicent returns home, only to hear Marian - a dancer - tapping across the floor upstairs in the room where she died.

Direction Rod Serling · Edward M. Abroms

Cast Rod Serling · Geraldine Page · Leif Erickson · Paul Jenkins

Synopsis Spurned wife Molly Wheatland uses spirits (bottled and otherwise) to get back at her ex-husband Charlie despite the lethargic spirit's objection.