Pilot episode containing the first three stories. After murdering his uncle, a man is haunted by a family painting which keeps changing. A blind woman undergoes an operation that gives her 12 hours of eyesight. A fugitive Nazi faces the consequences of his past actions.

An experiment in hypnosis leads to a terrifying conclusion when a physician attempts to revive his subject from death. A dabbler in black magic schemes to switch his rich wife's cold persona for a warm, loving soul.

An invalid husband plots revenge against his faithless wife with the unwitting aid of his nurse. Miraculous healing, and abrupt tragedy, result when a 21st century medical bag falls into the hands of a discredited 20th century doctor. Mission control scientists watch helplessly when members of a lunar expedition are mysteriously attacked.

A former sanitarium patient discovers a house she has known all her life, but never dared enter, in a recurring dream. An ailing woman dies under the care of her sinister brother, but her accusing shadow remains indelibly cast on the parlor wall.

A desperate comic makes a deal with an inept miracle worker in a ploy to boost his sagging career. A fanatical big-game hunter forces his son to shoot a deer, inviting the vengeance of terrible gods.

A harried husband murders his magpie wife only to find the arrangement less permanent than he'd hoped. A passing ship rescues an unconscious man in a lifeboat labeled "Titanic", three years after the liner sank. A hideous doll becomes an agent of revenge against an officer in Queen Victoria's colonial forces.

A has-been salesman is haunted by phantoms from a happier past. Astral projection is the key to a crippled athlete's bid for revenge.

A phenomenally successful young seer suddenly refuses to make further predictions. A vignette about a babysitter and her latest client. A desperate man seeks a surgeon's help when he discovers a presence that controls his right hand. The Phantom of the Opera gets the shock of his life when he menaces a beautiful young singer.

An undertaker slashes funeral prices at a January clearance sale. A creature teaches an elevator operator some manners. A group of witches goes through a menu. A scientific genius is troubled by the death of his daughter.

Taking refuge in a funeral home, a wounded killer encounters a gentle undertaker with a strange secret. Bricks and mortar figure in a wife's plan to end her husband's suffering. A graduating class of the future takes a particularly revealing final exam. A brief incantation in verse while a coven hungrily awaits an overdue member.

A college professor suspects that his visiting aunt is an ancient witch--with designs on inhabiting his wife's body. Dr. Jekyll tries out a new potion. A callous disc jockey is offered up as a hellish sacrifice at a deserted radio station.

An arachnophobic gourmet columnist seeks help from a woman he spurned when he discovers a hairy, and obstinate, little guest crawling in his kitchen sink. A mother and father learn the hardships of parenting. A careless braggart foolishly exaggerates his meager talents to a crackpot surgeon. A widower investigates an unusually strict military academy for his delinquent son.

A psychiatrist finds himself falling for a mysterious woman whose last visitor was killed, so police conclude, by wild animals. A boy's fascination with snow begins to draw him into a beautiful fantasy world.

An intrepid mercenary accepts a $15,000 bet to stay overnight in a haunted house. A Nazi general hunting for resistance fighters gets a strangely warm welcome at a Balkan castle.

A motorist and a marine hitchhiker experience an uncanny sensation that they've shared previous experiences. A love story about a friendless teenager and the strange creature she traps in an abandoned quarry.

A vicious gossip columnist receives a gift diary that appears to write its own fearful entries--before the events occur. Count Dracula visits a blood bank. An eccentric farmer promises a "big surprise" to a group of boys if they dig for it. While debunking ancient cults, an academic unwisely scoffs at the wrong god.

A philandering husband schemes to murder his wife with the aid of a ghost. A thirsty vampire visits a young woman, with disappointing results for him. An unscrupulous medicine man in the Old West promises to heal a poor farmer's dying daughter. A recent initiate is surprised to find that Hell is a little tame for his liking.

A schoolteacher in a frontier town tries to reach a timid, hauntingly strange fourth grader. A distraught musician asks the police to help him find an elusive woman.

A young woman of Victorian Boston finds herself drawn to a reclusive artist obsessed with ghouls. Bad luck follows a phony spiritualist and his assistant's unfaithful wife after an auto accident. A vignette about elevator manners.

A haunting love story of a young woman and her late father's colleague, a man clinging desperately to life in a refrigerated apartment. A heartless moneylender gets his just desserts with the help of a client's unusual telescopic device. Edgar Allan Poe receives some unwanted coaching during a bout with writer's block.

Desperate to stay alive for the sake of his nine-year-old grandson, an elderly, near-penniless Jew on the brink of death pins his hopes for salvation on the coming of the Messiah. A mirror reflecting an alien landscape figures into an antique dealer's scheme to rid himself of a hateful business partner.

In a rigidly conformist future society, an anguished father agrees to send his deformed son to a distant planet. A chance encounter with a strange couple convinces a young woman that she has had a glimpse of the future. Searching for a lost explorer in Africa, British authorities accuse a powerful witch doctor of his murder.

An unscrupulous tycoon takes drastic steps to force an old widow off her land. A vampire plans his belated, lavish -and noisy-final obsequy. A couple stopping at a roadside diner encounter a jukebox that plays only one song, a tune connected with a tragic romance.

A captured mermaid awakens emotions in a coldhearted sea captain, who desperately seeks a way to keep her alive. A businesslike widow goes shopping for the cheapest funeral she can buy for her husband. A repulsive suitor evens the score with a calculating beauty by presenting her with an unusual gift: a brooch that seems almost alive.

An insurance swindler stages a miraculous recovery from his fake paralysis at a Mexican shrine. An American drifter protects a Scottish widow from the specter of her late husband.

A gunfighter's final reckoning awaits him in a frontier saloon. When a woman buys a statue bearing an uncanny resemblance to her husband, he soon feels the influence of its model: an ancient druid sorcerer.

A ghastly shocker about a surgery instructor unconcerned about the source of his cadavers. Convinced that her husband is trying to worry her to death, a distraught housewife files a complaint with the police. A gangster on the lam engages the services of a compliant exporter.

The wife of a loathsomely ill farmer decides to force nature's hand with the help of an old crone skilled in the black arts. A sorcery student invokes an ancient spirit to rid himself of a bothersome uncle.

A devastating famine forces a young man to play the part of a sin-eater at a dead man's wake. An abusive couple find that their latest robot maid is developing survival instincts.

A bored colonial on a Malaysian plantation employs an exotic accomplice, an earwig, in his gruesome plot to assassinate a romantic rival. Military strategists unwittingly plant the seeds of the apocalypse when they humor a scientific genius unbalanced by his daughter's death.

An undertaker holds a clearance sale to get rid of excess stock, but is surprised when the local sheriff points out that there has been a subsequent rise in the number of "accidental" deaths.

A creature teaches an elevator operator some manners.

An employment agency official has difficulty trying to fill a position for an extremely particular customer.

Interviews with some of the people who worked on the show. They discuss Rod Serling, producer/director/writer Jack Laird, and what it was like working for them.

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interview with Tom Wright, the artist who did all of the paintings used for the show. He talks about the process of getting the paintings done for each story and who he used as models.

Noel Evans viene assunto come traduttore da John Carnby, uno stregone, il cui fratello è morto misteriosamente. Al suo arrivo Evans incomincia a notare una serie di strani fenomeni (nebbia nei corridoi della casa di Carnby, strani rumori nei muri, ecc.), e con suo orrore scopre che il libro su cui deve lavorare è il famigerato Necronomicon. Evans decide comunque di rimanere, attirato dalla sensuale Fern, ma incomincia ad avere sospetti sulla morte del fratello di Carnby.

Il fotografo David Faulkner assume i servizi di una bellissima modella, i cui occhi seducenti nascondono qualcosa di malefico. Nel passato della ragazza vi è infatti una lunga scia di morti misteriose.

August Kolodney, gangster condannato a morte, ingaggia un uomo per offrirgli la protezione che gli serve, ma ad un costo molto alto...

Dopo il suicidio della sorella Marian, talentuosa ballerina, Millicent Hardy fa ritorno alla casa di famiglia. Durante la sua permanenza, Millicent incomincerà a sentire un rumore strano, che in seguito si rivelerà essere lo spettro della sorella intento a ballare...

Dopo l'ennesimo disastro di fronte alla comunità scientifica, l'inventore fallito Henry Millikan vede la propria reputazione crollare definitivamente. La lunga serie di fallimenti, anno dopo anno, ha motivato Henry a dare il meglio di sé, preparandosi a testare un siero per riportare in vita i morti. La cavia per questo esperimento è la sua defunta moglie, la quale però non è ancora morta.

Bradley Meredith, omicida, viene invitato a cena in una fattoria dal nonno di una delle sue vittime, il quale sta pianificando una violenta vendetta con l'aiuto dei suoi cani.

La coppia Ogilvy riceve in eredità una vecchia fattoria, la quale è ancora in possesso del suo defunto proprietario.

Charlie Finnegan, condannato all'ergastolo, desidera disperatamente fuggire la propria prigionia. L'amico Pete Tuttle, esperto d'ipnosi, gli offrirà la sola via di fuga possibile: vincere la materia con la mente.

Henry Auden, festoso vedevo, riceve come compagno di giochi un gatto rosso, regalo di Barbara Morgan, una delle amiche della moglie. L'animale è stranamente aggressivo e nasconde qualcosa di minaccioso.

Il pugile Jim Figg, appena incoronato campione del mondo dei pesi massimi, uscendo dalla doccia si ritrova all'interno di una strana villa senza alcuna spiegazione logica. La villa è situata sulla cima di una scogliera in mezzo all'oceano; i domestici non sono disposti a spiegare la situazione e i telefoni sono isolati. L'unica persona ragionevole sembra essere la signora Blanco, impressionata dalla vittoria di Jim, ma come gli altri, vaga nel dare spiegazioni. Finalmente l'incontro con il signor Blanco chiarisce la situazione: Jim dovrà dimostrare d'essere il campione a tutti gli effetti, sconfiggendo l'imbattuto Roderick Blanco in un match privato. La posta in gioco per l'incontro sarà tutto o niente; ma cosa s'intende esattamente per tutto ?

A lonely alcoholic plots revenge against her ex-husband by calling on a reluctant ghost she finds in her attic.

Un ragazzo di nome Ron s'innamora della bella Hyacinth, una donna confinata su di una chiatta ancorata in un canale. Nonostante la reciproca passione, Hyacinth si rifiuta di lasciare la chiatta, volendo invece che sia Ron ad attraversare il canale...

Il matrimonio di Charlie ed Irene Evens è perseguitato da un incubo senza fine: Irene sente delle voci dall'aldilà. Il tutto era iniziato come un gioco, durante il quale gli spiriti dei morti parlavano tramite Irene, ma la loro insistenza divenne un peso per Charlie, che abbandonò tutto per seguire la moglie. Recentemente le voci hanno incominciano a dominare quasi completamente la vita degli Evens; Charlie ha il timore che la mente di sua moglie possa cadere sotto il loro controllo per sempre.

Quando il matrimonio di Alec Brandon, proprietario di una piantagione nelle Indie occidentali britanniche, viene rovinato da un pretendente di nome Raphael, egli si prepara a vendicarsi grazie ad una bambola voodoo.

Gli antropologi Grant e Ruth Wilson cercano di calmare l'istintivo odio di un gorilla trovato durante una spedizione nel Kenya. L'animale reagisce come se fosse stato vittima di qualche cattiveria da parte di Grant, ma i due non si erano mai visti prima. Forse la fonte di quest'odio è vecchia di migliaia di anni.

A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.

A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.

A featurette by film historian Craig Beam discussing the troubles of adapting the hour-long show for syndication.