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.
A man named Mike Ferris finds himself walking down a deserted road toward an apparently uninhabited town. However, upon his arrival, he soon suspects that he is being watched, but not sure of by who. He then starts going crazy trying to figure out what's going on.
When Mr. Bookman, a sidewalk salesman gets visited by the angel of death, informing him that he will be dying at midnight that night, he convinces the angel that he has one big pitch to make before he dies. The angel agrees to a delay, but instead causes a neighbor's daughter to have an accident and "Mr. Death" comes to take her. Mr. Bookman realizes he has to make the pitch of his life.
The town drunk in the old-west faces his past when Fate lends a hand.
An aging, forgotten movie star from the 1930's longs to go back in time to her heyday, despite the pleas from her manager. However, his attempts to get her to live in the present backfires when he brings an old co-star by for a visit when she is shocked to discover how much he has aged over the years.
An overworked executive begins to wish for the easier times of his childhood. As a result, he manages to go back then and ultimately manages to make some subtle changes in the present.
A hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for several thousand years of immortality.
A prisoner is isolated to a deserted asteroid, and a sympathetic starship captain takes pity on him and delivers an android woman.
Henry Bemis is a bank teller who loves to read books. However, he gets in trouble for reading on his breaks at work and condemned by his wife at home when he attempts to read in his free time. Upon finding himself to be the lone survivor of a nuclear attack, Henry Bemis soon finds he has time enough to read any book he wants, only fate has other plans for him.
After failing to sleep for four days, Edward Hall goes to see a psychiatrist, sharing his fear that if he were to fall asleep, his dreams will ultimately kill him.
A man wakes up on an ocean liner with no memory of how he got there... and a Nazi U-boat soon begins stalking the liner.
Three astronauts return from the first journey into space. However, one by one they disappear... and no one else remembers that they ever existed.
A peddler uses his uncanny ability to tell what a person needs to supply them with the proper item at the proper moment. However, a thug gets wind of his ability and forces the peddler to use it for him or die.
A small-time con-man (Harry Townes) with the ability to change his face assumes the identities of a musician (Ross Martin), a gangster (Phillip Pine), and a boxer (Don Gordon).
With atomic war on the horizon, a scientist (Fritz Weaver) and his co-worker (Joe Maross) plot to board their families on a spaceship and escape to another planet.
Earth's first manned spaceship, Arrow One, disappears on its maiden flight. The three surviving crewmen fight for survival on a barren asteroid with no hope of rescue, and one of them takes any steps necessary to live.
A woman on a cross-country road trip is haunted by a mysterious hitchhiker who she can't avoid no matter how far she travels.
A determined anti-gambler gives in to temptation during a trip to Las Vegas and gambles away his life's savings on a one-armed bandit that seems to bear him a grudge.
A World War I pilot lands at a modern-day Air Force base, and discovers he must try and find his way back to his own time and right a wrong.
A World War II soldier in the Pacific gains the uncanny ability to see a glow in the faces of those who will soon die.
Three lost astronauts find themselves on an asteroid surrounded by lifeless tableaus of people from the early 20th century.
A woman at a bus stop finds herself haunted by a mysterious figure: herself.
Panic breaks out in a suburban neighborhood when the power goes out, and all contact with the outside world is lost. The people begin to suspect each other of being alien invaders out to conquer the planet.
A businessman discovers that he's been transported into a world where he is an actor and his life is a movie set. Now he has to get back before the set is torn down.
A college professor suspects that his colleague, a Civil War expert, is much older than he appears.
Two astronauts crash on Mars, and the survivor meets with the Martians... and discovers that people are alike all over.
A scientist brings a condemned outlaw from the 19th century to his lab via a time travel machine, but soon discovers that he's in over his head.
A young boy wishes that his hero, a washed-up boxer, could win one last fight... and he does.
A punk criminal is gunned down by the police... and a mysterious white-suited Mr. Pip welcomes him to the afterlife and gives him everything that he wants.
A young girl named Markie is sitting outside the apartment of schoolteacher Helen Foley. Upon being invited into Helen's apartment, Markie seems to make Helen feel uncomfortable with how much she knows about her. It is ultimately revealed that Markie is there to help Helen remember the events of her mother's murder before the killer returns to take care of loose ends.
An overworked, stressed ad executive named Williams falls asleep on a train ride home from work and dreams of a small 19th century town called Willoughby. A few days later, upon learning that a young protégé jump ships and goes to a competing agency, he snaps and ultimately quits his job. Later, as he travels home, Williams decides to get off the next time the train makes its stop at Willoughby – only to jump off the rear of the train and is ultimately put into the back of a hearse owned by a funeral parlor called Willoughby & Son.
A young man tries to win the attention of an uninterested young woman. After being pointed in the direction of a mysterious professor, the young man gets a love potion to the woman of his dreams. However, it doesn't take long for him to tire of her nonstop affection, and he soon returns to the professor for help.
A down-and-out trumpet player (Jack Klugman) gets another chance at life after attempting suicide.
After having a bad day, Mr. Bevis receives a visit from his guardian angel and is offered the opportunity to relive his day, with a few changes. However, it doesn't take long for Bevis to wish for the way things were.
While shopping at a local department store, a young woman is looking for a thimble to give to her mother as a gift. After being advised to go to a non-existent floor to make her purchase, she has an encounter with a rude clerk and attempts to complain to the store manager, only to be locked in the store as it closes. It is at this time that the young woman comes to the realization that she is one of the store mannequins, who had the opportunity to live life as a real person for a month.
McGarry, the desperate manager of the last place and desperate baseball team called the Hoboken Zephyrs, goes to some drastic measures to ensure his team will start to win some games by bringing in a mysterious and young pitcher that goes by the name of Casey. When it is discovered that Casey is actually a robot, McGarry takes some extreme measures to ensure Casey becomes more human. However, things don't go quite like he expected.
A playwright (Keenan Wynn) has the ability to bring anything to life by describing it to a tape recorder.
The pilot of a World War 2 Bomber called King Nine crashes in an African desert, wondering when and where he is. The Captain soon regains consciousness, he starts searching his surroundings and soon finds the graves of his crew and eventually wakes up in a hospital bed, 17 years after the crash. As the psychiatrist assures the nurse that the Captain is only reliving what happened in his mind, she begins to wonder, especially after finding sand in his shoes.
A poor pawnbroker inadvertently releases a genie from an old bottle, and is granted three wishes. However, the pawnbroker soon discovers that all wishes have a price.
Two soldiers from opposing sides cross paths in a city demolished by a devastating war that occurred years before. While they approach one another with suspicion and some hostility, they soon realize they need one another to survive.
An FAA inspector (Harold J. Stone) and members of the airport staff (Noah Keen, Fredd Wayne, Robert Karnes, and Bing Russell) investigate a plane that arrives without a single person onboard – and each sees it differently.
A scientist (George Grizzard) creates a near-perfect mechanical man endowed with all the qualities he feels he is lacking.
When a US Naval destroyer picks up the signal of US submarine that was sunk 20 years prior, one of the sailors begins to feel like he doesn't belong with the crew on the ship.
While on his way back to the big city, a reporter by the name of Phillip Redfield gets lost on a series of backroads and finds his way into a small town called Paradise Valley, New Mexico. However, during his brief stay there, Redfield observes lots of spectacular events that he soon discovers occur due to advanced technology from another planet. When he informs the town elders that he plans on telling their story in his newspaper when he arrives back home, they decide to hold him prisoner. It soon doesn't take long for the town elders to reverse their decision.
When 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.
In 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.
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A nervous little hustler, Jackie Rhoades, is ordered to make a hit on someone for a mobster. However, when he tries to leave his hotel room, he discovers that he first must conquer his ultimate enemy: the face in the mirror.
A writer (Richard Haydn) believes machines are conspiring against him.
David Ellington comes upon an old monastery occupied by a 'Truth' order that is holding a benign old man prisoner.
In a not too distant future, a young woman hopes that plastic surgery will help her look "normal," after living her life as an unattractive freak.
A couple on their way to New York City for the husband's new job are unexpectedly waylaid... by a fortune-telling machine in a diner.
When the daughter of an inventor tires of the family's household staff being made up of only robots, she soon discovers a shocking secret that her father and mother have kept from her for years.
A Broadway actor (Brian Aherne) yearning for the days when his wife (Pippa Scott) was alive gets his wish.
A thieving couple (Fred Clark, Jean Carson) discover that a camera that they have stolen takes pictures of the future.
A drunk department store Santa wishes that he could give presents to everyone... and gets his wish.
In the Old West, the desperate father (Vladimir Sokoloff) of a condemned man (John A. Alonzo) buys "magic dust" from a peddler (Thomas Gomez) to save his son.
At a meeting in a Washington, D.C. club, several professors hold a discussion on whether it's possible to travel back in time to alter history. One of the men, feeling somewhat faint on his way home, soon finds himself travelled back to the night of Lincoln's assassination. Thinking back to his discussion, he soon decides to try and warn the President, only to be arrested for disturbing the peace. He then realizes that some past events can be changed; others can't.
A used-car dealer (Jack Carson) is forced to tell the truth after buying a car from an old man (George Chandler) who says it is haunted.
After investigating a loud noise outside of her farmhouse, an elderly woman soon gets terrorized by what appears to be aliens that arrived in a small UFO. However, it turns out that the invaders happen to be astronauts that have been stranded on a planet with giant humanoid people.
When a coin lands on its edge, a bank clerk gains the ability to hear other people's thoughts--and soon learns that he can't always believe what he hears.
After being admitted into the hospital for nervous fatigue and being overworked, a dancer by the name of Liz Powell has a hard time resting because of a recurring dream of being led to the hospital morgue. It is only after she gets released and arrives at the airport, about to fly to Miami for a job, does she realize what her dream really meant.
On a transatlantic flight to New York City, a pilot and his crew discover that they broke the sound barrier and as a result, travel back in time. Running low on fuel, they try their best to repeat their feat in order to return to the correct year and land.
A hapless vacuum cleaner salesman is given super-strength by a Martian as a means of testing humanity.
A radio allows an old man (Dean Jagger) to listen to programs from his past.
When a small-time gambler named Ace discovers that his friend has the power of telekinesis following an accident, he decides to exploit those powers so he can become a millionaire in Las Vegas. However, when Jimbo starts experiencing headaches after continually helping his friend win his jackpots, he decides to teach Ace a lesson.
A boy (Bill Mumy) talks with his dead grandmother (Lili Darvas) on the toy telephone she gave him before she died.
A pioneer who's leading a wagon train to California soon finds himself in 1961 after he goes searching for medical help for his ill son. While in the modern day, the pioneer soon discovers that his son's destiny is to become a doctor and help others.
After successfully robbing a gold shipment, the band of thieves and their scientist ringleader decides to hide in a cave in the desert in suspended animation until the law is no longer looking for them. However, after they awaken from their chambers, the thieves soon discover that their rich, bright future is more than a bit tarnished.
One night at a men's club, respected Colonel Archie Taylor grows tired of the constant chatter of fellow member Jamie Tennyson. As a result, Taylor offers Tennyson a wager: stay silent for one year and be paid $500,000 while living in a glass enclosed cell inside the men's club. However, after the wager is accepted, both men go to drastic measures to win.
A man convicted of murder and awaiting execution insists that everything happening is just his nightmare... and he has it every night.
A man uses the power of concentration to remake the world in his image.
When a pair of state troopers receive a call that an alien spaceship crashed in the woods near a roadside diner in the middle of a snowstorm, they have to try and figure out if one of the snowed-in bus travelers at the diner is not who he claims.
In a near-future fascist state, librarian Romney Wordsworth is declared obsolete and allowed to pick the method of his own execution.
When a suburban dinner party is interrupted by an announcement that a nuclear attack on the U.S. is imminent, the party goers scramble home to try and find a way to survive. However, when several families discover that their neighbor, Dr. Stockton has built a bomb shelter for just such an occasion, everyone turns against one another in an attempt to be invited inside the shelter. Will things be able to return to normal if warning turns out to be false?
While traveling down an apparently deserted road, toward the end of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate Soldier stops to take a rest on the steps of a destroyed mansion. While there, he meets a widow of a Confederate Officer. They soon watch as soldiers, from the North and South, travel down the road, and ultimately realize that at the end of the road is the Promised Land.
A legendary pool player (Jonathan Winters) returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark (Jack Klugman) with the shark's life at stake.
In Central America, a mirror allows a dictator (Peter Falk) to see the faces of his enemies.
When the outlaw Pinto Sykes is gunned downed after being ambushed by the men in his hometown, Pinto vows revenge on the gun-for-hire that the men sent after him. When Conny Miller, the man hired to bring Sykes to justice arrives in town following the ambush, he is told of Sykes deathbed vow: if Miller ever comes near his grave, he'll reach up and have his revenge. Thinking that Miller was scared of Sykes, the men of town bet him to go to his grave, and soon discover that vengeance, even from beyond the grave, is a powerful thing.
A six-year-old boy terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality.
A former Nazi SS Captain arrives in a small Bavarian town, looking to visit Dachau, an old Concentration camp, wanting to remember what it was like during the war. However, the ghosts of the men he put to death soon arrive, looking to put him on trial for the part he played in their deaths and other crimes against humanity.
The earth gets thrown off its orbit, and as a result, is getting pulled closer to the sun. Unable to leave their apartment building to find a cooler place to live, two women attempt to acclimate to their new living conditions. However, it soon appears to be nothing but a bad dream of one of the women, as they live on a freezing earth that is being pulled away from the sun.
During the Civil War, a Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place.
An engineer in Africa returns to the States... and a tribesman's curse follows him.
A janitor (Buster Keaton) travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet.
Five individuals--a major, a clown, a ballerina, a hobo, and a piper--find themselves trapped in a metal cylinder with no memory of how they came there or their past lives... and no apparent hope of a future.
During World War II, a gung-ho young American lieutenant is forced to see the enemy's side of the battlefield... whether he wants to or not.
An elderly woman living in a condemned building is scared of leaving her home and finding a new place to live, because she fears that "Mr. Death" is out to kill her. When she finds a wounded young police officer outside her door, she is uncertain if she should help him, fearing that if she does, it would lead to her death.
A wealthy man sets out to get revenge on three people that he thinks have wronged him... by convincing them that he's the only one who can protect them from a coming nuclear war.
A homeless man (Warren Stevens) literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse.
An old man and his hound dog drown while out raccoon and soon begin trying to find out where they belong in the afterlife. When the first place they come to along the road appears too good to be true, old Hyder Simpson is ready to walk through the gate. However, when he discovers that his dog won't be allowed to join him, he soon has second thoughts and eventually continues on down the road to the Promised Land.
The egotistic star (Larry Blyden) of a western TV series comes face to face with the real Jesse James (Arch Johnson).
The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game.Note: Steven Spielberg remade this as Segment II of Twilight Zone: The Movie, showing the nursing-home residents being offered a second chance at youth by their new arrival, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers).
Sadistic and hated theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it.
As family and friends sit through the funeral of Jeff Myrtlebank, they are in for a rude awakening when he sits up from his coffin, demanding to know what's going on. They then begin to fear Jeff came back to life, possessed by a demon and soon bow to his will for fear of what might happen to their crops and loved ones.
An alien race, the Kanamits, come to Earth providing technology and guidance to turn the planet into a utopia. But one man questions their benevolence.
A fugitive (J. Pat O'Malley) from another world befriends a handicapped girl (Susan Gordon).
When parents Chris and Ruth Miller wake up in the middle of the night to the cries of their daughter Tina, they are shocked to discover that she somehow fell through the wall of her bedroom into another dimension. They then call Chris' physicist friend Bill for help in rescuing Tina before the portal she fell through closes for good.
David Allen Gurney wakes up on morning and discovers that no one knows who he is and that he doesn't exist in the new world that he finds himself in.
When two astronauts (Claude Akins, Joe Maross) land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people.
A fanatical one-man moral crusader (Theodore Bikel) decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock.
A rural gas station attendant given to telling tall tales about himself is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's leading intellects.
An elderly couple look to trade-in their aging bodies for younger models. However, they only have enough money for one to go through the process, and the husband decides to go through it and then earn the money for his wife. However, upon going through with it, he realizes he made a mistake.
A visitor from outer space (Geoffrey Horne) tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion.
A ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act.
Upon a newlywed's arrival to his boyhood home with his bride, he starts to have reservations selling the place following his mother's death. However, it doesn't take long for the home to have a magical effect on the couple: time has turned back to when the overbearing mother is back alive and the bridegroom is back living as a little boy, who promptly tells his bride to go away.
A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.
Inept guardian angel Harmon Cavender is given a chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.
An elderly boys school teacher faces mandatory retirement and questions whether he's done anything with his life.
A power-hungry American Nazi (Dennis Hopper) receives advice from a mysterious benefactor. With Paul Mazursky.
Following the death of her parents in a fire that also destroyed her home, a young girl struggles to interact with those that expect her to verbally speak, due to the fact that her parents were part of a secret society where people communicated through telekinetic powers and never taught her how to talk.
Three astronauts (Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, and Fred Beir) discover exact duplicates of their spaceship and themselves that crashed on a distant planet.
A mountain girl (Anne Francis) enlists a witch (Jeanette Nolan) to help her win back her lover (James Best).
A timid misfit finds love and happiness at a museum when he discovers a miniature doll comes to life to only him. As a result, he tries to find a way to spend all his time with her.
A newspaper owner on the brink of suicide gets a second chance from a mysterious man named Smith... who gives him a printer that foretells the news.
A scientist (Dana Andrews) goes back in time to try and change history.
An astronaut (Steve Forrest) returns from a space flight to find things much changed during his absence.
An office worker (Howard Morris) acquires a lamp with a genie (Jack Albertson) who offers him a wish.
After learning that the wax museum that he works in will be closing down effective immediately, employee Martin Lombard Senescu frantically convinces his boss to let him store the wax figures in his "Murderers Row" exhibit until a buyer is found. However, it doesn't take long for Martin to become convinced that they're capable of killing again, and when a buyer is found, a new wax figure is added to the mix.
Aging, wealthy tycoon William Feathersmith is getting bored with his life. After meeting with his old business partner Mr. Deidrich, Feathersmith decides to find a way to relive his life again. As a result, he makes an arrangement with a devilish travel agency to go back in time. However, it doesn't take long that making a deal with the devil doesn't always go as planned.
A middle-aged toy designer (Pat Hingle) goes back to his childhood when he visits his old neighborhood.
The first human space colony is about to be rescued from the forsaken planet they've been on for three decades. But their leader's having a hard time accepting that change will happen when they get back to Earth.
A woman hopes a trans-Atlantic cruise and holiday in London will help save her marriage, unaware that the ship is on a final voyage into the afterlife.
A bumbling screenwriter, Julius K. Moomer, is becoming desperate for a sale after 23 years working on unproduced scripts. When his agent mentions that he is submitting another writer's pitch for a television series about black magic, Julius pleads to be allowed to be given first crack at the series. Knowing nothing about the subject, he attempts some research but turns up only an actual book of black magic. While experimenting with the book he accidentally conjures William Shakespeare, who says he is at the service of the conjurer. Deciding not to waste Shakespeare's talent on a television pilot, Julius directs him to write a film.
While 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.
A man is given a stopwatch that halts time.
A washed-up jockey gets his wish while waiting for the results of his race fixing hearing.
When a man's stepdaughter gets a new, talking doll, he gets rattled when it lets its negative feelings toward him known to only him.
In 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.
The long-suffering niece of a grumpy inventor finds no peace after his passing.
When 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.
Three 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.
An aging married man convinces his brother to inject him with a youth serum.
An old man (Ed Wynn) believes he will die the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.
When 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.
While 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.
An astronaut returns from a 40 year mission to confront whether the time has changed his relationship with his girlfriend.
Salvadore 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.
An 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.
A 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.
When 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.
Computer 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.
An 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.
An 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.
Planning 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.
A 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.
A 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.
On 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.
A 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.
A struggling ventriloquist (Jackie Cooper) has a dummy who talks him into a life of crime.
When 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.
When 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.
When 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.
A 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.
When 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.
When 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.
Upon 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.
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.