twilight zone- descriptions and ratings of the episodes (in order they were aired)

Submitted by winalotta on Thu, 03/16/2006 - 12:23
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  1. Where is everybody? A+. Greeted by empty streets, a man searches for someone in a small town.
  2. One for the Angels. A- .Informed that this is his last day on earth, a sales man talks Mr. Death into making one more big pitch before he dies.
  3. Mr. Denton on Doomsday. B. An old gunfighter finds a magic potion that brings back his shooting skills.
  4. The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine. B. A forgotten star of the 30's uses films of her old movies to re-create the spirit of her glory days.
  5. Walking Distance. B+. A man's need to escape the pressure of his work is so great that he slips into his own childhood.
  6. Escape Clause. A. A man makes a pact with the devil for immortality.
  7. The Lonely. A-. A man sent to a deserted astroid for 40 years is given the company of a robot woman.
  8. Time Enough At Last. A+. A man who never has enough time to read finds he is the only survivor af a nuclear attack.
  9. Perchance to Dream. B-. A man goes to a psychiatrist's office abd is afraid that he will be murdered in his sleep.
  10. Judgment Night. C. A passenger on a ship has a premonition that the boat will be sunk.
  11. And When the Sky Was Opened. B-. Three astronaunts return home andd cannot remember the events of their trip.
  12. What You Need. B. A man tries to turn another man's ability into a money making scheme.
  13. The Four of Us Are Dying. A-, A man can make himself look exactly like other people.
  14. Third From the Sun. C+. Two families flee to another world because their world is destroyed.
  15. I Shot An Arrow. A+ Astronaunts crash on a deserted asteroid.
  16. The Hitch-Hiker. B. Driving cross country, a woman keeps seeing the same hitch-hiker.
  17. The Fever. C. A man who is against gambling fights a 1-armed bandit.
  18. The Last Flight. B. A 1917 plane lands in 1959.
  19. The Purple Testament. A. A soldier can tell who is going to die in battle.
  20. Elegy. C. Travelers visit a strange planet.
  21. Mirror Image. B. A woman is haunted by a strange double who keeps appearing at bus stops.
  22. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. A+. A power failure causes paranoia in residents of Maple Street.
  23. A World of Difference. B-. A business man finds that his office has become a movie set.
  24. Long Live Walter Jameson. C. A college professor learns his co-worker has the gift of eternal life.
  25. Are Alike All Over. A. The first man to visit Mars.
  26. Execution. C+. An outlaw from the 1800's is brought back to the future by a time machine.
  27. The Big Tall Wish. A. A boy makes a wish for a boxer to make a comeback.
  28. A Nice Place to Visit. A. A hoodlum gets killed and finds himself in his afterlife.
  29. Nightmare As A Child. A. A teacher encounters herself as a child and unlocks memories.
  30. A Stop At Willoughby. B. An executive excapes to a peaceful town.
  31. The Chaser. A-. A man who is in love with a woman buys a love potion to help get her.
  32. A Passage for Trumpet. B. A trumpet plater is given a 2nd chance at life.
  33. Mr. Bevis. B-. A man, who is having a bad day, meets his guardian angel and can start the day over.
  34. The After Hours. B+. A woman buys a thimble at a department store.
  35. The Mighty Casey. C. The manager of a bad baseball team plays a robot pitcher.
  36. A World of His Own. B-. A man lives in his own world he has created.
  37. King 9 Will Not Return. C. A downed pilot has found when he woke up, the crew is missing.
  38. The Man in the Bottle. A. A man is granted 3 wishes.
  39. Nervous Man in a 4$ Room. A. A man who is hired to kill another man faces his demons.
  40. A Thing About Machines. C. A man feels that the machines in his home are trying to kill him.
  41. The Howling Man. D. A man hears someone howling and is told that it was the Devil being held prisoner.
  42. The Eye of the Beholder. A+. A woman is having plastic surgery to correct her deformed face.
  43. Nick of Time. A. A couple finds a penny fortune-telling machine that is accurate.
  44. The Lateness of the Hour. C-. A Young woman who is bored with her life, gets her father to dismantle their robot.
  45. The Trouble with Templeton. B. An actor reflects on happier times.
  46. A Most Unusual Camera. A-. Some theives find the camera that they stole can predit the future.
  47. Night of the Meek. B. A department store Santa finds that he has a bag that will produce whatever one asks for.
  48. Dust. B. A saleman sells a man condemned to death some dust that will save him from death.
  49. Back There. A+. A man tries to prevent the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
  50. The Whole Truth. A. A ised car saleman finds that he can no longer lie to customers.
  51. The Invaders. B. A woman battles spacemen who landed at her farmhouse.
  52. A Penny for Your Thoughts. A. A coin that lands on its side gives a man the power to read other people's thoughts.
  53. Twenty-two. B. A woman keeps having dreams where she ends up in room 22.
  54. The Odyssey of Flight 33. C. A commercial plan ends up in prehistoric times.
  55. Mr. Dingle, the Strong, A-. A timid little man is given superhuman strength.
  56. Static. B. An old radio picks up signals from the past.
  57. The Prime Mover. B. Two men try to make their fortune in Vegas.
  58. Long Distance Call. A. A young boy talks to his grandma on the phone.
  59. A Hundred Years Over the Rim. C. A man searches for water for his sick son ends up in the next century.
  60. The Rip Van Winkle Caper. A. Four theives plot to hideout with their loot for a 100 years in a state of sleep with their gold.
  61. The Silence. A. A man bets another man that he can not be silent for a year.
  62. Shadow Play. B. A condemned man tries to convince everyone that everything around his is not real.
  63. The Mind and the Matter. C. A book gives a clerk the power to accomplish anything just by wishing for it.
  64. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? A. On the night of a UFO sighting, 7 people at a dinner claim to be from Earth.
  65. Obsolete Man. A+. A librarian is told that he is obsolete.
  66. Two. B. A man and a woman from different sides of a war are the only survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
  67. The Arrival. C+. A plane with on one arrives at an airport.
  68. The Shelter. B+. Neighbors turn hostile when they believe a nuclear attack is coming.
  69. The Passerby. B. A crippled Civil War soldier and others are waling on a path.
  70. A Game of Pool. A+. A man plays the legend in a game of pool.
  71. The Mirror. B+. A ruler is shown his own future in a mirror.
  72. The Grave. B. A man goes to another man's grave.
  73. Death-Heads Revisited. A+. An old Nazi visits Dachau, where he use to work.
  74. Midnight Sun. C. The Earth has fallen out of orbit and keeps getting closer and closer to the sun.
  75. Still Valley. B. A Confederate soldier is given a book that could garantee their victory.
  76. The Jungle. C-. A man feels threatened with death by a native.
  77. Once Upon a Time. B. A man puts on a helmet that takes him 72 years in the future.
  78. Five Characters in Search of an Exit. A. Five people are trapped in a empty room and don't know how they got there.
  79. A Quality of Mercy. A. A racist WW Ii soldier finds himself in tge body of a Japanese soldier,
  80. Nothing in the Dark. B. An aged woman locks herself up to avoid Mr. Death.
  81. One More Pallbearer. A. A wealthy man tries to force 3 people to apologize for humiliating him earlier in life.
  82. Dead Man's Shoes. B+. A man steals fancy shoes from the body of a dead gangster.
  83. The Hunt. A+. A hunter and his dog drown on a hunt and find themselves at Heaven's Gate.
  84. Showdown with Rance McGrew. C. The ghost of Jesse James takes revenge on a cowboy film star.
  85. Kick the Can. A+. Old people become young.
  86. A Piano in the House. B. A strange piano gives the listener's insight.
  87. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank. B. A man steps out of his coffin at his funeral.
  88. To Serve Man. A+. Friendly alens help Earthlings.
  89. The Fugitive. C. An old man delights kids by changing his appearance.
  90. Little Girl Lost. C. A girl is heard but not seen in her room.
  91. Person or Persons Unknown. B. A man awakes to find no one recognizes him.
  92. The Little People. A. A man terrorizes inhabitants of another planet.
  93. Four O'Clock. A. A man says that everyone that is evil will become 2 feet tall at 4 o'clock.
  94. Hocus Pocus and Frisby. C. A man tells tall tales.
  95. The Trade-Ins. B. An old man gets a new youthful body at his wife's insistence.
  96. The Gift. A+. A crashed space traveler is mistreated by villagers.
  97. The Dummy. A. A ventriquist becomes convinced that the dummy has a mind of its own.
  98. Young Man's Fancy. B. A man longs for his happier days during his childhood.
  99. I Sing the Body Electric. C-. A father buys his 3 young children an electric grandmother.
  100. Cavender is Coming. C. An angel is given one last chance to earn his wings.
  101. The Changing of the Guard. A+. An old teacher is told that he needs to retire.
  102. In His Image. C. A man creates the perfect mechanical man.
  103. The 30 Fathom Grave. A. A man hears sounds from a submarine that was sunk 20 years ago.
  104. Valley of the Shadow. C. A reporter finds a village that knows how to create and destroy matter.
  105. He's Alive. B. The ghost of Hitler inspires a young American hatemonger.
  106. Mute. D. A parent raises their child free of verbal communication.
  107. Jess-Belle. C. A girl makes a bargain with a witch to ensure she wins the love of a boy.
  108. Miniature. C. A man falls in love with a doll.
  109. Printer's Devil. A. A man who is facing bankrupcy hires a new man to help out.
  110. No Time Like the Past. A+. A time traveler tries to alter history.
  111. The Parallel. B. An astronaunt passes into a parallel world.
  112. I Dream of Genie. C. A man finds a Genie's lamp.
  113. The New Exhibit. C. A wax museum's custodian takes care of the wax statues.
  114. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville. B. A man makes a deal with the devil to go back to life as he remembers it as a young man.
  115. The Incredible World of Horace Ford. B. A toy manufacturer becomes a boy again.
  116. On Thursday We Leave for Home. B. The leader of an expection is going to return home.
  117. Passage of the Lady Anne. B. A married couple goes on a cruise to try to fix problems in their marriage.
  118. The Bard. C-. Shakespeare helps a TV writer.
  119. In Praise of Pip. B+. A man pleads with God to take him instead of his son.
  120. Steel. B. A promoter takes the place of his boxer.
  121. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet. A+. A man sees gremlins on the wing of the airplane.
  122. A Kind of Stopwatch. B+. A man can stop time with his stopwatch.
  123. Living Doll. A. A man is terrorized by his step-daughter's doll.
  124. The Last Night of a Jockey. D. A jockey wants to be a big man.
  125. The Old Man in the Cave. B. An old man in a cave helps a community.
  126. Uncle Simon. B+. A woman is going to inherit tge estate of her mean Uncle Simon.
  127. Probe 7-Over and Out. C. The lone survivors of 2 planets meet on a new world.
  128. The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms. A. Three national guardsmen find themselves back to the Battle of Little Big Horn.
  129. A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain. B. An old man takes a youth serum.
  130. Ninety Years Without Slumbering. B+. A man thinks that he will die if his grandfather clock stops.
  131. Ring-A-Ding Girl. A-. A movie star gets gift that gives her powers to see the future.
  132. You Drive. A. A motorist car won't let him forget his guilt over killing a cyclist.
  133. The Long Morrow. C. An astronaut is surrounded by devices that will keep him young.
  134. The Self-Improvement of Salvador Ross. C. A man finds that he can trade character traits with other people.
  135. Number 12 Looks Just Like You. A. A young woman is said that she is to be transformed into a flawless beauty.
  136. Black Leather Jackers. B. Some guys in leather jackets move to a quiet suburb.
  137. Night Call. A. An old woman gets calls late at night from her husband.
  138. From Agnes-With Love. B. A computer has fallen in love witgh the computer programer.
  139. Spur of the Moment. A. A woman is tormented by a woman on a horse.
  140. An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge. A. A Confederate spy is sentence to hang, but miraculously escapes.
  141. Queen of the Nile. C. A writer discovers the secret of an ageless movie star.
  142. What's in the Box. B. A man sees how his wife dies on the television.
  143. The Masks. A+. A weathy old man makes his family wear masks.
  144. I Am the Night-Color Me Black. A. The sun fails to rise on the morning that a town's "idealist" is due to be killed for killing his bigoted neighbors.
  145. Sounds and Silence. C. A man finds that small noises suddenly annoy him.
  146. Ceasar and Me. C. A ventriloquist listens to his dummy.
  147. The Jeopardy Room. B+. A KGB agent sent to kill a defector plants a bomb in his hotel room.
  148. Stopover in a Quiet Town. B-. A couple wakes in a strange home.
  149. The Encounte. C-. A gardner finds a samurai sword.
  150. Mr. Garrity and the Grave. C. A man convinces a town that he can raise the dead.
  151. The Brain Center at Whipple's. B. A man fires all the workers and replaces them with machines.
  152. Come Wander with Me. A+. A popular folk singer persuades a girl to sing a song into his tape recorder.
  153. The Fear. C. A police officer and a woman think they found traces of aliens.
  154. The Bewitching Pool. A+. Two kids go to another demension through their pool.
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I own every episode on DVD of the Twilight Zone. These are my ratings on all of the episodes. I gave a description without giving away what happens in each episode.