

The Twilight Zone
1959–1964 · CBS · 30 min · 5 seasons
S05E36 · The Bewitchin' Pool
Sat, 20 June, 2:00 am
Two children escape their bickering parents through a portal in the bottom of their swimming pool to a magical land watched over by a kindly old woman the children call Aunt T.
About
A groundbreaking series by Rod Serling, this half-hour anthology featured tales of the strange, the macabre, and the unusual. Some were science fiction, some were supernatural, and some defied easy categorization.This five-season series is best known for its twist endings. Many of the stories were written by Serling himself, others were crafted by Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, Earl Hammer Jr. and Ray Bradbury.
Episodes
- E01
In Praise of Pip
Sat, 28 Sept· 30 minWhen a small time bookie who is down on his luck decides to show a little mercy to a young man who placed a losing bet with him, his life ultimately hangs in the balance with his boss. It is at this time that he learns that his son was wounded while serving in Vietnam. Ultimately realizing he has little time left, he makes a deal with God to let his son live.
- E02
Steel
Sat, 5 Oct· 30 minIn 1974, boxing has been outlawed and is performed by mechanical robots. With his next and possibly last fight approaching and his robot in need of repair, he resorts to one last desperate gamble.
- E03
Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
Sat, 12 Oct· 30 minWhile traveling on a plane, a man who recently was treated for a nervous breakdown is convinced that a monster is outside, intent on destroying the plane. However, his wife and the flight attendants are hesitant to believe him.
- E04
A Kind of a Stopwatch
Sat, 19 Oct· 30 minA man is given a stopwatch that halts time.
- E05
The Last Night of a Jockey
Sat, 26 Oct· 30 minA washed-up jockey gets his wish while waiting for the results of his race fixing hearing.
- E06
Living Doll
Sat, 2 Nov· 30 minWhen a man's stepdaughter gets a new, talking doll, he gets rattled when it lets its negative feelings toward him known to only him.
- E07
The Old Man in the Cave
Sat, 9 Nov· 30 minIn a post-apocalyptic settlement in 1974, the inhabitants' survival is dependent on the advice of an unseen man living in a nearby cave. This dependence is tested when a band of soldiers descends on their town.
- E08
Uncle Simon
Sat, 16 Nov· 30 minThe long-suffering niece of a grumpy inventor finds no peace after his passing.
- E09
Probe 7 - Over and Out
Sat, 30 Nov· 30 minWhen Astronaut Colonel Cook crash lands on another planet, he promptly contacts his commanding officer, looking for a way back home. However, he is promptly told that nuclear war has destroyed earth, and as a result is stranded where he's at. It doesn't take long for him to discover that he's not the only one in the same predicament.
- E10
The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
Sat, 7 Dec· 30 minThree National Guardsmen (Ron Foster, Randy Boone, and Warren Oates) exploring the site of Custer's Last Stand wind up getting involved in the actual battle.
- E11
A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Sat, 14 Dec· 30 minAn aging married man convinces his brother to inject him with a youth serum.
- E12
Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Sat, 21 Dec· 30 minAn old man (Ed Wynn) believes he will die the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.
- E13
Ring-a-Ding Girl
Sat, 28 Dec· 30 minWhen movie star Bunny Blake receives an opal ring from her hometown fan club, she sees it as an omen to go there for the town's annual picnic instead of flying to Rome to shoot a movie. Upon arriving in town, Bunny's older sister is both annoyed and curious as to why Bunny is so adamant about the picnic being called off. However, she soon learns the reason why is due to a plane crash that she has a connection to.
- E14
You Drive
Sat, 4 Jan· 30 minWhile driving home from work one afternoon, an office manager named Oliver Pope accidentally hits a young child on a bike with his car. The following morning, as his wife reads the morning paper, it is reported that the child isn't expected to survive and a business rival of Oliver was arrested for the crime. Oliver then thinks he got away with the hit and run, but his car won't let him have the other man take the blame.
- E15
The Long Morrow
Sat, 11 Jan· 30 minAn astronaut returns from a 40 year mission to confront whether the time has changed his relationship with his girlfriend.
- E16
The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Sat, 18 Jan· 30 minSalvadore Ross has a unique talent where he can trade physical characteristics with other people and will do anything to get the love of Leah Maitland.
- E17
Number Twelve Looks Just Like You
Sat, 25 Jan· 30 minAn unattractive young woman attempts to resist the pressure to transform into a beautiful woman and conform to new societal standards, where in a future society where everyone looks the same and lives for an extended length of time.
- E18
Black Leather Jackets
Sat, 1 Feb· 30 minA trio of aliens, dressed as "hoodlums" in black leather jackets, arrive in a small town, look to eradicate all life on Earth so their kind can expand on a new planet. However, one of the aliens falls in love with a local girl and is hesitant to go along with his friends' plans and ultimately tries to talk her into leaving town with him.
- E19
Night Call
Sat, 8 Feb· 30 minWhen an elderly, disabled woman starts to receive phone calls in the middle of the night, she is shocked at discovering they are from the ghost of a deceased beau.
- E20
From Agnes - With Love
Sat, 15 Feb· 30 minComputer programmer James Elwood is called in to fix the world's most powerful computer – codenamed Agnes – and soon turns to Agnes for help in wooing a coworker named Millie. However, Agnes soon becomes jealous of James's feeling toward Millie and promptly begins sabotaging their relationship.
- E21
Spur of the Moment
Sat, 22 Feb· 30 minAn engaged heiress is scared by an older woman wearing all black, on horseback. Her fiance jokes that it was an attempt to get her to call off her upcoming wedding. However, it appears that an old beau may be more successful in getting the young woman to call off the wedding than the woman on the black horse.
- E22
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
Sat, 29 Feb· 30 minAn adaptation of Ambrose Bierce's tale, Union Soldiers set out to hang Confederate prisoner Peyton Farquhar, but things don't go as planned when the rope breaks as Farquhar falls and apparently escapes in the river below.
- E23
Queen of the Nile
Sat, 7 Mar· 30 minPlanning on writing an article about a famous actress, a cynical journalist is intrigued as to how she is able to stay so young. As their interview progresses, he soon discovers her secret includes an ancient Egyptian scarab and the help of not so willing strangers.
- E24
What's in the Box
Sat, 14 Mar· 30 minA cab driver who is constantly fighting with his wife gets his tv set repaired and see's something happen that starts to drive him out of his mind.
- E25
The Masks
Sat, 21 Mar· 30 minA dying man, not liked by his daughter, son-in-law, and grandchildren, invites them for a visit while hosting a Mardi Gras party. Realizing how greedy they are, he makes a proposition to them: wear ugly masks during his party, and he'll leave them his fortune - no questions asked. However, after they meet his conditions, the heirs soon discover they are unable to remove their grotesque masks.
- E26
I Am the Night - Color Me Black
Sat, 28 Mar· 30 minOn the morning when a man is set to be hung for killing a bigoted neighbor, the sun fails to rise. The local newspaperman in town take this as an omen, proving that an innocent man is about to pay for a crime he committed in self-defense, due to possible laziness on the part of the sheriff while investigating the murder, and the deputy perjuring himself at the trial.
- E27
Sounds and Silences
Sat, 4 Apr· 30 minA boorish man with an obsession of loud noises drives his wife to leave him, and as a result, gets institutionalized when the smallest, most innocent sounds start sounding so magnified that cause him to go insane.
- E28
Caesar and Me
Sat, 11 Apr· 30 minA struggling ventriloquist (Jackie Cooper) has a dummy who talks him into a life of crime.
- E29
The Jeopardy Room
Sat, 18 Apr· 30 minWhen a KGB Major is trying to defect, an assassin plots a unique death unless he finds a way disarm the bomb that is hidden in his hotel room in a three hour time frame. If he fails, a sniper will shoot him from a nearby hotel room.
- E30
Stopover in a Quiet Town
Sat, 25 Apr· 30 minWhen Bob and Millie Frazier wake up in an unfamiliar bed, in an unfamiliar town after drinking too much at a party the previous night, they try to remember what happened between when they left the party to when they woke up. Things then get complicated when they hear a mysterious child laughing in the distance and ultimately discover that they are unable to leave.
- E31
The Encounter
Sat, 2 May· 30 minWhen a World War II veteran is cleaning out his attic, a Japanese American gardener comes by to inquire about having his lawn cut. The pair soon gets locked in the attic and have to come to terms with past prejudices that was brought to the forefront during that fateful time in history.
- E32
Mr. Garrity and the Graves
Sat, 9 May· 30 minA peddler arrives in an Old West town and claims that he has the ability to raise the dead... and he won't use it, for a price.
- E33
The Brain Center at Whipple's
Sat, 16 May· 30 minWhen a heartless manufacturing CEO decides to completely automate his factory, he decides to ignore the pleas of those around him to not follow through with his plans. As a result, his board of directors decide to force Mr. Whipple to take an early retirement and replace him with a robot. As a result, he goes down to a nearby bar to lament his reversal of fortune, only to find the foreman he laid off drinking away the same sorrows.
- E34
Come Wander with Me
Sat, 23 May· 30 minWhen singer Floyd Burney travels to a small, backwoods community looking for an authentic folk song to become his next hit song, he gets more than he bargained for when he meets a beautiful girl who was destined to share a song with him.
- E35
The Fear
Sat, 30 May· 30 minUpon Trooper Franklin's arrival at a remote cabin to check on the occupant, a big city fashion editor looking to relax from the hustle and bustle of big city life, the pair seem to be stalked by giant aliens.
- E36
The Bewitchin' Pool
Sat, 20 June· 30 minTwo children escape their bickering parents through a portal in the bottom of their swimming pool to a magical land watched over by a kindly old woman the children call Aunt T.
Cast

Rod Serling
Narrator



































