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- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsBurgess MeredithFritz WeaverJosip ElicIn a future totalitarian society, a librarian is declared obsolete and sentenced to death.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsLarry BlydenSebastian CabotJohn CloseWhen bad guy Henry Francis Valentine dies in a shootout with police, he wakes up in the next world where his every wish is granted forever, and ever.
- DirectorRobert ParrishStarsRod SerlingEd WynnMurray HamiltonA pitchman is visited by Mr. Death and is forced to get his priorities in order.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsLuther AdlerVivi JanissJoseph RuskinA luckless couple stumbles upon fortune when a genie materializes from a bottle in their antique shop. The genie grants them four wishes but warns them, prophetically, to be careful what you wish for.
- DirectorMitchell LeisenStarsRod SerlingDavid WayneThomas GomezA hypochondriac man sells his soul to the devil, exchanging it for several thousand years of immortality.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonJames SheldonStarsJosephine HutchinsonDavid WhiteVaughn TaylorRecent widower George Rogers, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of his children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.
- DirectorWilliam F. ClaxtonStarsJohn DehnerWalter BrookeJay AdlerEngineer Alan Richards who has recently come home to New York City from his company's controversial hydroelectric project in Africa is plagued by both superstitions and the dire warnings of a native witch doctor.
- DirectorJohn BrahmStarsPhyllis ThaxterAlex NicolWallace RooneyNewlywed Alex Walker finds himself being pulled back to his childhood and back to his widowed mother in the house where he grew up.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsLloyd BochnerSusan CummingsRichard KielAn alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. Linguists Michael Chambers, Patricia Brody, and their team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."
- DirectorJames SheldonStarsJohn LarchCloris LeachmanDon KeeferOn an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
- DirectorAnton LeaderStarsLois NettletonBetty GardeTom ReeseWhen Earth deviates from its normal orbit and moves closer to the sun, painter Norma and her landlady Mrs. Bronson try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned New York City.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.5 (3.9K)TV EpisodeDirectorLamont JohnsonStarsSusan HarrisonWilliam WindomMurray MathesonAn Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.
- DirectorBoris SagalStarsFranchot ToneLiam SullivanCyril DelevantiAnnoyed by fellow country club member Jamie Tennyson's constant chatter, Colonel Archie Taylor bets half a million dollars that Jamie cannot be completely silent for one year while living in a glass enclosure in the club's basement.
- DirectorRichard L. BareStarsWilliam ShatnerPatricia BreslinGuy WilkersonA pair of newlyweds stopping in a small town are trapped by their own superstition when playing a fortune-telling machine in a local diner.
- DirectorRobert StevensStarsRod SerlingGig YoungFrank OvertonA man, fed up with where he's at in life, finds himself not only in his old hometown, but back to the time when he was a boy.
- 1959–196425mTV-PG8.1 (3.2K)TV EpisodeDirectorBuzz KulikStarsCliff RobertsonJohn CrawfordEvans EvansIn 1847, settler Christian Horn from a wagon train sets out to locate medicine to help his gravely ill son and somehow stumbles into a greasy spoon cafe in 1961 New Mexico.
- DirectorHarold D. SchusterStarsArthur HunnicuttJeanette NolanRobert FoulkUpon returning from a coon hunt, Hyder Simpson discovers that no one can see or hear him because he has passed on.
- DirectorAbner BibermanStarsCliff RobertsonFrank SuttonGeorge MurdockVentriloquist Jerry Etherson is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He locks Willie in a trunk and makes plans for a new act with a new dummy. Too bad he didn't clear those plans with Willie first.
- DirectorJohn RichStarsFred ClarkJean CarsonAdam WilliamsWhen unintelligent crook Chester Dietrich, his wife Paula, and her brother Woodward get a hold of a camera that takes pictures of the immediate future, they head to the racetrack to make a quick fortune with their new toy.
- DirectorDouglas HeyesStarsCecil KellawayJeff MorrowDon DubbinsThree astronauts touch down on an asteroid, where they discover a world of people that appear to be frozen in time. Confused, they theorize as to why everyone is motionless, until a man springs to life and explains.
- DirectorElliot SilversteinStarsJames GregoryJoanne LinvilleRex HolmanWhile headed home at the Civil War's end, a Confederate Sergeant meets anguished Lavinia Godwin, who is convinced that her husband Jud is now deceased.
- DirectorRon WinstonStarsRod SerlingIvan DixonSteven PerryAn aging boxer finds himself the winner of a match he thought he had lost, the result a six-year-old's frantic wish. But can a world-weary, embittered man still believe in miracles, or will he turn his back on them?
- DirectorBuzz KulikStarsShelley BermanJack GrinnageChet StrattonUsing the power of mind over matter, Archibald Beechcroft remakes the world to his own specifications.
- DirectorChristian NybyStarsJesse WhiteCarol BurnettHoward SmithInept apprentice guardian angel Harmon Cavender is chastised by his superior and given a final chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.