All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Shatterday

    • September 27, 1985
    • CBS

    A man accidentally phones his own home and winds up talking to his alter ego

  • S01E01 A Little Peace and Quiet

    • September 27, 1985
    • CBS

    In a modern remake of the classic episode, "A Kind of a Stopwatch", a woman discovers a necklace that gives its owner the ability to freeze time

  • S01E02 Wordplay

    • October 4, 1985
    • CBS

    An overworked businessman suddenly finds himself left out while the rest of his world speaks in mangled slang.

  • S01E02 Dreams for Sale

    • October 4, 1985
    • CBS

    A woman in the future traps herself in an idyllic, computer-generated fantasy in her mind.

  • S01E02 Chameleon

    • October 4, 1985
    • CBS

    A space shuttle returns from a mission and NASA discovers that something unusual has been picked up.

  • S01E03 Kentucky Rye

    • October 11, 1985
    • CBS

    Bob Spindler, a drunk driver, arrives at the "Kentucky Rye" bar where the customers are all victims of drunk drivers.

  • S01E03 Healer

    • October 11, 1985
    • CBS

    A thief steals a stone from a museum that gives him the power to heal and tries to pass himself as a faith healer.

  • S01E03 Children's Zoo

    • October 11, 1985
    • CBS

    A little girl's parents are always fighting and screaming at each other. She takes them to the Children's Zoo with a special invitation and she gets something very special, something her parents could not even imagine.

  • S01E04 Little Boy Lost

    • October 18, 1985
    • CBS

    A photographer torn between taking a plum overseas assignment and getting married, meets a strangely familiar little boy.

  • S01E04 Wish Bank

    • October 18, 1985
    • CBS

    Janice finds a magic lamp at a garage sale. Restrictions and lots of paperwork apply for her three wishes.

  • S01E04 Nightcrawlers

    • October 18, 1985
    • CBS

    A deputy trooper stops by a diner during a rainstorm where a Vietnam veteran's nightmares come to life.

  • S01E05 If She Dies

    • October 25, 1985
    • CBS

    A year after his wife died a man is involved in a car accident that leaves his young daughter in a coma. On his way home the man has a vision.

  • S01E05 Ye Gods

    • October 25, 1985
    • CBS

    Cupid arrives in the modern world. A love spell for his target does not work as well as he hopes.

  • S01E06 Examination Day

    • November 1, 1985
    • CBS

    In the far future, twelve-year-old Dickie must pass the mandatory government intelligence test.

  • S01E06 A Message from Charity

    • November 1, 1985
    • CBS

    A teenage boy with a fever finds himself in telepathic contact with a girl living in colonial New England.

  • S01E07 Teacher's Aide

    • November 8, 1985
    • CBS

    A teacher on a violent and gang infested high school has trouble controlling her students. The building is warded by some mysterious gargoyles, which give some special powers to the teacher.

  • S01E07 Paladin of the Lost Hour

    • November 8, 1985
    • CBS

    A Vietnam Vet named Billy saves an old man named Gasper from a mugging at a cemetery. He discovers that this old man holds the future of time in his watch.

  • S01E08 Dealer's Choice

    • November 15, 1985
    • CBS

    A group of friends playing cards suspect that their guest is the Devil.

  • S01E08 Act Break

    • November 15, 1985
    • CBS

    A landlord hounds a playwright named Maury for his rent. When the playwright's partner dies of a heart attack, he wishes he could become the greatest playwright ever.

  • S01E08 The Burning Man

    • November 15, 1985
    • CBS

    During a heat wave in the 1930's a mother and her son enjoy a drive in the country. They encounter a strange man who wants a ride.

  • S01E09 Dead Woman's Shoes

    • November 22, 1985
    • CBS

    Shy Maddie finds a pair of shoes and after trying them on, is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a rich murdered woman.

  • S01E09 Wong's Lost and Found Emporium

    • November 22, 1985
    • CBS

    David Wong searches for something he lost. He seeks the Lost and Found Emporium where he finds others looking for their lost items.

  • S01E10 The Shadow Man

    • November 29, 1985
    • CBS

    The Shadow Man, a mysterious entity made of darkness, defends a boy in exchange for being allowed to stay under his bed.

  • S01E10 The Uncle Devil Show

    • November 29, 1985
    • CBS

    Parents don't realize that the video their child watches demonstrates magic tricks like turning parents into lizards and giving dogs four eyes.

  • S01E10 Opening Day

    • November 29, 1985
    • CBS

    A beautiful woman and her boyfriend plan to kill her husband on the first day of duck hunting season.

  • S01E11 One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

    • December 6, 1985
    • CBS

    A man who returns to his childhood home is transported to his past.

  • S01E11 The Beacon

    • December 6, 1985
    • CBS

    A young doctor stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse.

  • S01E12 Her Pilgrim Soul

    • December 13, 1985
    • CBS

    Two scientists create a holographic projector that has a woman appear in the display.

  • S01E12 I of Newton

    • December 13, 1985
    • CBS

    A professor attempting to solve a difficult math problem finds himself matching wits with a demon.

  • S01E13 Night of the Meek

    • December 20, 1985
    • CBS

    A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who go gift less and starving during Christmas. He is fired from his job at a department store when he shows up late, and subsequently finds a bag that he can pull any present anyone wants from it.

  • S01E13 But Can She Type?

    • December 20, 1985
    • CBS

    An overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated secretary uses a Xerox machine and wakes up in a parallel reality where no one has heard of her.

  • S01E13 The Star

    • December 20, 1985
    • CBS

    Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a planet long dead and a transmitter emitting a signal for eons.

  • S01E14 Still Life

    • January 3, 1986
    • CBS

    A professional photographer discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition.

  • S01E14 The Little People of Killany Woods

    • January 3, 1986
    • CBS

    An old Irishman has often been called a fool for his stories about Leprechauns.

  • S01E14 The Misfortune Cookie

    • January 3, 1986
    • CBS

    A food critic receives fortune cookie messages that get fulfilled.

  • S01E15 Monsters!

    • January 24, 1986
    • CBS

    A boy who loves monster movies has a strange neighbor move in.

  • S01E15 A Small Talent for War

    • January 24, 1986
    • CBS

    An alien race that claimed to have invented mankind returns to judge them.

  • S01E15 A Matter of Minutes

    • January 24, 1986
    • CBS

    A young married couple discovers that their home is being remodeled by blue-clad workers who are workers of time that build and move objects from one time period to another.

  • S01E16 The Elevator

    • January 31, 1986
    • CBS

    Two brothers searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.

  • S01E16 To See the Invisible Man

    • January 31, 1986
    • CBS

    An uncaring man is sentenced to a year of social isolation.

  • S01E16 Tooth and Consequences

    • January 31, 1986
    • CBS

    The Tooth Fairy gives a dentist what he wishes for.

  • S01E17 Welcome to Winfield

    • February 7, 1986
    • CBS

    The grim reaper arrives at a hospital to take possession of a dying man. The man's wife rescues him and takes him to the western town of Winfield where residents have been living for hundreds of years. Apparently, the reaper has failed to collect those living there.

  • S01E17 Quarantine

    • February 7, 1986
    • CBS

    An ill weapons designer is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later..

  • S01E18 Cold Reading

    • February 14, 1986
    • CBS

    An actor arrives at a radio station to perform a radio play. An old voodoo stick is accidentally activated and the play becomes more real that anything anyone expected.

  • S01E18 Gramma

    • February 14, 1986
    • CBS

    A young boy is convinced his ailing grandmother is really a monster.

  • S01E18 Personal Demons

    • February 14, 1986
    • CBS

    A scriptwriter suffering from writers block is tormented by a group of small creatures.

  • S01E19 The Leprechaun Artist

    • February 21, 1986
    • CBS

    Vacationing in the United States, an Irish leprechaun is caught by three boys. To be freed, he must grant them three wishes.

  • S01E19 Dead Run

    • February 21, 1986
    • CBS

    An out-of-work trucker takes on a bizarre job upon the recommendation of a friend: deliveryman of souls to Hell.

  • S01E20 Profile in Silver

    • March 7, 1986
    • CBS

    A researcher from the future, a descendent of President John F. Kennedy goes back in time to witness his ancestor's death.

  • S01E20 Button, Button

    • March 7, 1986
    • CBS

    A mysterious man offers a couple a bizarre deal: if they will push a button on a box that will kill one person they don't know, they will get a million dollars.

  • S01E21 Red Snow

    • March 21, 1986
    • CBS

    A KGB investigator is sent to Siberia to investigate the deaths of communist party officials.

  • S01E21 Need to Know

    • March 21, 1986
    • CBS

    A government scientist/agent sent to a small town to help investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity which is spreading through the town.

  • S01E22 Take My Life...Please!

    • March 28, 1986
    • CBS

    A successful comedianwho steals a routine from another comedian ends up paying a high price.

  • S01E22 Devil's Alphabet

    • March 28, 1986
    • CBS

    A group of friends in Victorian England find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men.

  • S01E22 The Library

    • March 28, 1986
    • CBS

    Landing a new job at a private library a girl is warned never to look at the books. Taking a peek she learns that there's a book for everyone alive. When a neighbor pesters her, she rewrites his biography.

  • S01E23 Shadow Play

    • April 4, 1986
    • CBS

    A man is convinced that reality as we perceive it is dependent on his staying alive.

  • S01E23 Grace Note

    • April 4, 1986
    • CBS

    An opera singer is having a hard time. Her sister is at the hospital dying. Her sick sister leaves a gift: a glimpse into the future when the singer is a world-famous star.

  • S01E24 A Day in Beaumont

    • April 11, 1986
    • CBS

    In the 1950s a flying saucer crashes on Earth. The crash is seen by a couple. They run into town, but no one believes them.

  • S01E24 The Last Defender of Camelot

    • April 11, 1986
    • CBS

    In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights teams with Morgan le Fay to stop the return of Merlin.

Season 2

  • S02E01 A Saucer of Loneliness

    • September 27, 1986
    • CBS

    A quiet waitress sees a glowing UFO, which gives her a message that everyone wants to know. She refuses to reveal exactly what the message is.

  • S02E01 The Once and Future King

    • September 27, 1986
    • CBS

    An Elvis impersonator is transported to the 1950s where he meets the real Elvis who thinks that the impersonator is his long dead brother.

  • S02E02 What Are Friends For?

    • October 4, 1986
    • CBS

    A lonely boy finds a strange friendship in the woods around his home.

  • S02E02 Aqua Vita

    • October 4, 1986
    • CBS

    A woman finds a method for eternal youth at a steep price.

  • S02E03 The Storyteller

    • October 11, 1986
    • CBS

    A young woman finds that the secret to immortality resides in storie

  • S02E03 Nightsong

    • October 11, 1986
    • CBS

    A young DJ working the graveyard shift at a radio station rediscovers a record album by her boyfriend who disappeared five years ago. When he suddenly appears again, she is surprised and upset.

  • S02E04 The After Hours

    • October 18, 1986
    • CBS

    A Woman goes to a mall for a doll, but encounters strange things after the closing hours...

  • S02E04 Lost and Found

    • October 18, 1986
    • CBS

    A young college student has been losing personal items for some time. The mystery is resolved when she finds two time-travelers in her closet.

  • S02E05 The World Next Door

    • October 18, 1986
    • CBS

    Would-be inventor Barney Schlessinger is bored with his life until he meets another inventor in a parallel world who is far more successful than he is.

  • S02E06 The Toys of Caliban

    • December 4, 1986
    • CBS

    A mentally challenged child has strange powers.

  • S02E07 The Convict's Piano

    • December 11, 1986
    • CBS

    A man in prison who insists that he is innocent of a crime discovers a piano that transports him to the old days of gangsters.

  • S02E08 The Road Less Traveled

    • December 18, 1986
    • CBS

    A man who dodges the Vietnam draft is haunted by visions of his other life as a soldier during the war.

  • S02E09 The Card

    • February 21, 1987
    • CBS

    A woman with out-of-control spending habits finds her new credit card comes with unexpected penalties.

  • S02E09 The Junction

    • February 21, 1987
    • CBS

    A modern-day miner has an argument with his wife and then goes off to work in the local mine. A collapse traps him, but he finds another survivor - a miner who claims to be from 1912. The two men figure out that somehow they have become connected through time.

  • S02E10 Joy Ride

    • May 21, 1987
    • CBS

    Two teenage boys and their girlfriends steal a recently deceased man's classic car. While they are on a joyride, they accidentally kill a policeman.

  • S02E10 Private Channel

    • May 21, 1987
    • CBS

    On board an airplane, a lightning storm transforms a boy's walkman into a telepathic tuning device that informs him that the man sitting next to him is carrying a bomb.

  • S02E11 Shelter Skelter

    • May 21, 1987
    • CBS

    A survivalist traps himself in his bomb shelter when a nuclear blast finally comes.

  • S02E12 Time and Teresa Golowitz

    • July 10, 1987
    • CBS

    A Broadway composer accepts an offer from the Prince of Darkness and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. It's not as pleasant as he expected and soon, he sees a classmate who met a tragic end that night..

  • S02E13 Voices in the Earth

    • July 10, 1987
    • CBS

    In the far future. an expedition returns to a desolate barren Earth where a scientist begins to see the ghosts of those who died years ago.

  • S02E14 Song of the Younger World

    • July 17, 1987
    • CBS

    In 1916 a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her father, the superintendent. He finds out and does not approve of their love, locking away his daughter and punishing the boy. Luckily, the girl has a secret plan to escape so she can be forever with the love of her life.

  • S02E15 The Girl I Married

    • July 17, 1987
    • CBS

    An attorney and his wife have successful careers. They feel something is lacking in their marriage. Soon, they encounter younger versions of their mates.

Season 3

  • S03E01 Extra Innings

    • October 1, 1988
    • CBS

    Ex-baseball player Ed Hamler, lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports Hamler to the past to be the player he used to be.

  • S03E02 The Crossing

    • October 8, 1988
    • CBS

    A stressed-out priest repeatedly encounters a station wagon containing a young girl. The car keeps crashing and bursting into flames.

  • S03E03 The Trunk

    • December 24, 1988
    • CBS

    A young man at a motel discovers an empty trunk that grants any wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are.

  • S03E04 The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

    • September 24, 1988
    • CBS

    An old man known as Uncle Edgar is ordered by a mysterious voice to collect junk in his apartment to keep the world in balance.

  • S03E05 Dream Me a Life

    • October 22, 1988
    • CBS

    A man in a retirement home is trapped in the dreams of a catatonic widow.

  • S03E06 The Hellgramite Method

    • November 5, 1988
    • CBS

    An alcoholic goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem. He has to choose which is more important - the bottle or his life.

  • S03E07 The Hunters

    • October 15, 1988
    • CBS

    A young boy falls into an undiscovered cave near a housing project. An archeologist studies strange paintings on its walls and then bizarre things begin to happen. Cave items move around and animals are killed and brought into the cave.

  • S03E08 Memories

    • October 29, 1988
    • CBS

    A hypnotist who specializes in helping people relive their past lives tries to find her own history - and finds that everyone she ever helped hates their past lives..

  • S03E09 The Call

    • November 19, 1988
    • CBS

    A lonely man accidentally phones the wrong number and finds an intriguing female to whom he grows attached. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and finds the phone in a museum next to the statue of a woman.

  • S03E10 Our Selena is Dying

    • November 12, 1988
    • CBS

    A young woman and her dying mother switch bodies during a visit.

  • S03E11 20/20 Vision

    • December 10, 1988
    • CBS

    Newly promoted bank loan officer Warren Cribbens cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them. Faced with seeing the future of the farmers whose farms he must foreclose on, Warren can't bring himself to foreclose. Right away he's torn between doing his job and standing up for the people he helps.

  • S03E12 The Cold Equations

    • January 7, 1989
    • CBS

    A shuttle pilot on the outer fringes of space finds a stowaway on board his ship. Because of the extra weight, he does not have enough fuel for his journey and faces a dilemma forcing him to consider jettisoning her into space.

  • S03E13 The Trance

    • November 26, 1988
    • CBS

    A scam artist purports to channel the spirit of Delos, a former inhabitant of Atlantis. Together with a partner, he makes a living off of it. The day of his big break, he channels another spirit, one who could cause him to lose everything.

  • S03E14 There Was an Old Woman

    • December 17, 1988
    • CBS

    A famous children's book writer visits a sick boy and reads him one of her stories. Later, at home, she is disturbed by children's voices throughout her house and learns from his parents that the boy has died.

  • S03E15 Acts of Terror

    • December 3, 1988
    • CBS

    A battered wife living with her abusive husband finds the strength to leave him in the form of a Doberman pinscher statue.

  • S03E16 Stranger in Possum Meadows

    • January 14, 1989
    • CBS

    A young boy playing in a field meets an old man who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.

  • S03E17 Appointment on Route 17

    • December 31, 1988
    • CBS

    After finishing a heart transplant, a man finds his personality has changed. He also discovers that he has a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.

  • S03E18 A Game of Pool

    • December 31, 1989
    • CBS

    A pool champion has defeated everyone at his local pool hall, except for the long dead legend, Fats Brown, who returns from the afterlife to challenge him to a high-stakes game.

  • S03E19 Street of Shadows

    • January 21, 1989
    • CBS

    Walking taking a walk in a wealthy neighborhood an unemployed man living in a shelter experiences an unusual transformation.

  • S03E20 The Wall

    • February 25, 1989
    • CBS

    A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. After sending through one team, the Army calls upon a career soldier to investigate, where he finds an idyllic planet. He has to decide whether to stay or go back to his old life.

  • S03E21 Father & Son Game

    • April 15, 1989
    • CBS

    A 79-year-old man wants to keep on living so he transplants his brain into a younger body. His son, however, resents his father's continued life and tries to wrestle power from him.

  • S03E22 Room 2426

    • February 11, 1989
    • CBS

    Martin Decker is confined to a special room for acts and thoughts against the state. They want the formula for a weapon he does not want to reveal. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.

  • S03E23 The Mind of Simon Foster

    • February 18, 1989
    • CBS

    In an impoverished future, Simon Foster goes to a pawnshop to sell some personal items to raise money for rent. The shop owner offers to buy some of his memories. In Simon Foster's life, what could be possibly be valuable?

  • S03E24 Something in the Walls

    • January 28, 1989
    • CBS

    A doctor arrives at his new job in a sanitarium. He discovers the case of a woman who is terribly frightened of things that appear on her walls.

  • S03E25 Rendezvous in a Dark Place

    • March 12, 1989
    • CBS

    An old woman with an obsession with death attends funerals for entertainment. One night when an injured thief breaks into her home, she lets him die and waits for Death to come and collect him.

  • S03E26 Cat and Mouse

    • March 4, 1989
    • CBS

    A shy woman finds that a cat is actually a cursed "Casanova". She falls for the man but finds that her Prince Charming is actually a scoundrel.

  • S03E27 Many, Many Monkeys

    • March 18, 1989
    • CBS

    An epidemic breaks out and many people are struck blind. Something more happens, however: People have become cold and heartless toward each other.

  • S03E28 Love is Blind

    • March 25, 1989
    • CBS

    In a bar, a very mysterious blind man plays the piano, and gives some very special advice to a jealous boyfriend.

  • S03E29 Special Service

    • April 8, 1989
    • CBS

    A man finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.

  • S03E30 Crazy as a Soup Sandwich

    • April 1, 1989
    • CBS

    A man sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss he borrowed the track money from.