List of The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) episodes#ep16

{{Series overview

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| link1 = List of The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) episodes#Season 1 (1985–86)

| episodes1 = 24

| start1 = {{Start date|1985|9|27}}

| end1 = {{End date|1986|4|11}}

| network1 = CBS

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| link2 = List of The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) episodes#Season 2 (1986–87)

| episodes2 = 11

| start2 = {{Start date|1986|9|27}}

| end2 = {{End date|1987|7|17}}

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| link3 = List of The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) episodes#Season 3 (1988–89)

| episodes3 = 30

| start3 = {{Start date|1988|9|24}}

| end3 = {{End date|1989|4|15}}

| network3 = Syndication

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 1

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title_1 = Shatterday

| Title_2 = A Little Peace and Quiet

| DirectedBy = Wes Craven

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=Harlan Ellison|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = James Crocker

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|9|27}}

| ShortSummary = Peter Novins (Bruce Willis) accidentally dials his own phone number, which is answered by his alter ego.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/shatterday/episode/34357/summary.html/ | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Shatterday | access-date=2011-02-13}}{{hr}}Frazzled housewife Penny (Melinda Dillon) discovers a necklace that gives its owner the ability to freeze and unfreeze time. Also stars Judith Barsi.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/a-little-peace-and-quiet/episode/75256/summary.html/ | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: A Little Peace and Quiet | access-date=2011-02-13}}

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 2

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title_1 = Wordplay

| Title_2 = Dreams for Sale

| Title_3 = Chameleon

| DirectedBy_1 = Wes Craven

| DirectedBy_2 = Tommy Lee Wallace

| DirectedBy_3 = Wes Craven

| WrittenBy_1 = Rockne S. O'Bannon

| WrittenBy_2 = Joe Gannon

| WrittenBy_3 = James Crocker

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|10|4}}

| ShortSummary = Overworked businessman Bill Lowery (Robert Klein) gradually enters a parallel universe where people speak garbled English. Also stars Annie Potts with a cameo by Robert Downey Sr.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/wordplay/episode/34358/summary.html/ | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Wordplay | access-date=2011-02-13}}{{hr}}At a picnic, a woman (Meg Foster) sees the same events repeating over and over again.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/dreams-for-sale/episode/75257/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;50 | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Dreams for Sale | access-date=2011-02-13}}{{hr}}A group of NASA technicians encounter a strange alien life form. Stars Terry O'Quinn, John Ashton and Lin Shaye.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/chameleon/episode/75258/summary.html/ | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Chameleon | access-date=2011-02-13}}

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 3

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title_1 = Healer

| Title_2 = Children's Zoo

| Title_3 = Kentucky Rye

| DirectedBy_1 = Sigmund Neufeld

| DirectedBy_2 = Robert Downey

| DirectedBy_3 = John Hancock

| WrittenBy_1 = Alan Brennert{{efn|Credited as Michael Bryant}}

| WrittenBy_2 = Chris Hubbell & Gerrit Graham

| WrittenBy_3 = Richard Krzemien & Chip Duncan

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|10|11}}

| ShortSummary = Cat burglar Jackie Thompson (Eric Bogosian) profits from the healing powers of an Indian artifact he stole. Also stars Vincent Gardenia.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/healer/episode/34359/summary.html/ | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Healer | access-date=2011-02-13}}{{hr}}A girl brings her bickering parents (Lorna Luft, Steven Keats) to a mysterious attraction called the Children's Zoo.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/children%27s-zoo/episode/75259/summary.html/ | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Children's Zoo | access-date=2011-02-14}}{{hr}}Alcoholic Bob Spindler (Jeffrey DeMunn) is offered a once-in-a-lifetime chance to buy a roadside inn called the Kentucky Rye for a very low price. Also stars Arliss Howard.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/kentucky-rye/episode/75260/summary.html?tag=ep_list;ep_title;7 | title=TV.com - Twilight Zone 1985: Kentucky Rye | access-date=2011-02-15}}

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 4

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title_1 = Little Boy Lost

| Title_2 = Wish Bank

| Title_3 = Nightcrawlers

| DirectedBy_1 = Tommy Lee Wallace

| DirectedBy_2 = Rick Friedberg

| DirectedBy_3 = William Friedkin

| WrittenBy_1 = Lynn Barker

| WrittenBy_2 = Michael Cassutt

| WrittenBy_3 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Philip DeGuere|s=Robert R. McCammon|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|10|18}}

| ShortSummary = Photographer Carol Shelton (Season Hubley) spends time with a little boy named Kenny (Scott Grimes) who seems oddly familiar.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/little-boy-lost/episode/34360/summary.html | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Little Boy Lost | access-date=2011-02-15}}{{hr}}Upon finding a genie's lamp at a garage sale, Janice Hamill (Dee Wallace-Stone) tries to cash in three wishes at a most unusual bank.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/wish-bank/episode/75261/recap.html | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Wish Bank | access-date=2011-02-15}}{{hr}}A veteran (Scott Paulin) of the Vietnam War shares his nightmares with the patrons of an all-night diner. Also stars Exene Cervenka (of band "X"), Sandy Martin and James Whitmore Jr.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/nightcrawlers/episode/75300/summary.html | title=TV.com - Twilight Zone 1985: Nightcrawlers | access-date=2011-02-15}}

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 5

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title_1 = If She Dies

| Title_2 = Ye Gods

| DirectedBy_1 = John Hancock

| DirectedBy_2 = Peter Medak

| WrittenBy_1 = David Bennett Carren

| WrittenBy_2 = Anne Collins

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|10|25}}

| ShortSummary = The ghost of a little girl convinces Paul Marano (Tony Lo Bianco)—whose daughter is in a coma—to buy a bed from an orphanage. Also stars Andrea Barber, Jenny Lewis and Nan Martin.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/if-she-dies/episode/34361/summary.html | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: If She Dies | access-date=2011-02-15}}{{hr}}Loveless yuppie Todd Ettinger (David Dukes) finds himself up against the ancient gods when he is struck by Cupid (Robert Morse)'s arrow.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone-1985/ye-gods/episode/75301/summary.html | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Ye Gods | access-date=2011-02-15}}

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 6

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title_1 = Examination Day

| Title_2 = A Message from Charity

| DirectedBy = Paul Lynch

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Philip DeGuere|s=Henry Slesar|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=William M. Lee|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|11|1}}

| ShortSummary = In a dystopian future, 12-year-old Dickie Jordan (David Mendenhall) is summoned for a mandatory intelligence test after turning of age.{{hr}}Teenager Peter Wood (Robert Duncan McNeill) with a fever finds himself in telepathic contact with a girl named Charity (Kerry Noonan) living in colonial New England. Also stars James Cromwell.{{cite web | url=http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone-1985/examination-day-34362/ | title=TV.com - The Twilight Zone 1985: Examination Day | access-date=January 26, 2012}}

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 7

| EpisodeNumber2 = 7

| Title_1 = Teacher's Aide

| Title_2 = Paladin of the Lost Hour

| DirectedBy_1 = B. W. L. Norton

| DirectedBy_2 = Gilbert Cates{{efn|Credited as Alan Smithee}}

| WrittenBy_1 = Steven Barnes

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Harlan Ellison|s=Harlan Ellison|slabel=Based on the short story "Paladin" by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|11|8}}

| ShortSummary = A teacher (Adrienne Barbeau) at a gang-filled school is possessed by a mysterious gargoyle.{{hr}}Mr. Gaspar (Danny Kaye), the protector of a magical timepiece, spawns a friendship with Billy Kinetta (Glynn Turman)—the man who saved him from being mugged.

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 8

| EpisodeNumber2 = 8

| Title_1 = Act Break

| Title_2 = The Burning Man

| Title_3 = Dealer's Choice

| DirectedBy_1 = Theodore J. Flicker

| DirectedBy_2 = J. D. Feigelson

| DirectedBy_3 = Wes Craven

| WrittenBy_1 = Haskell Barkin

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=J. D. Feigelson|s=Ray Bradbury|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| WrittenBy_3 = Donald Todd

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|11|15}}

| ShortSummary = Struggling playwright Maury Winkler (James Coco) uses an ancient relic to make a single wish. Also stars Bob Dishy.{{hr}}A woman (Piper Laurie) and her nephew (Andre Gower) pick up a crazed hitchhiker (Roberts Blossom) who warns of supernatural evils ahead.{{hr}}A group of friends (Barney Martin, Garrett Morris, M. Emmet Walsh and Morgan Freeman) playing poker suspect that their new guest (Dan Hedaya) is the Devil.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 9

| EpisodeNumber2 = 9

| Title_1 = Dead Woman's Shoes

| Title_2 = Wong's Lost and Found Emporium

| DirectedBy_1 = Peter Medak

| DirectedBy_2 = Paul Lynch

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Lynn Barker|s=Charles Beaumont|slabel=Based on the story and teleplay by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=William F. Wu|slabel=Based on the story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|11|22}}

| ShortSummary = In this version of "Dead Man's Shoes", shy thrift store employee Maddie Duncan (Helen Mirren) tries on a pair of high heels that make her assertive, self-confident—and vengeful. Also stars Jeffrey Tambor and Theresa Saldana.{{hr}}Cynical man David Wong (Brian Tochi) explores a supernatural warehouse called "The Lost and Found Emporium", where everything that is lost in the world ends up—even love and time.

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 10

| EpisodeNumber2 = 10

| Title_1 = The Shadow Man

| Title_2 = The Uncle Devil Show

| Title_3 = Opening Day

| DirectedBy_1 = Joe Dante

| DirectedBy_2 = David Steinberg

| DirectedBy_3 = John Milius

| WrittenBy_1 = Rockne S. O'Bannon

| WrittenBy_2 = Donald Todd

| WrittenBy_3 = Gerrit Graham & Chris Hubbell

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|11|29}}

| ShortSummary = The Shadow Man (Jeff Calhoun), a mysterious entity made of darkness, defends young highschooler Danny Hayes (Jonathan Ward) in exchange for being allowed to stay under his bed. Cameo by Amy O'Neill.{{hr}}A boy learns strange magic tricks from a bizarre kids' show, unbeknownst to his oblivious parents.{{hr}}Carl Wilkerson (Jeffrey Jones) is targeted for murder on the opening day of duck hunting season by his wife's lover—who is also his best friend. Also stars Martin Kove.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 11

| EpisodeNumber2 = 11

| Title_1 = The Beacon

| Title_2 = One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty

| DirectedBy_1 = Gerd Oswald

| DirectedBy_2 = Don Carlos Dunaway

| WrittenBy_1 = Martin Pasko & Rebecca Parr

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=Harlan Ellison|slabel=From a short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|12|6}}

| ShortSummary = Young doctor Dennis Barrows (Charles Martin Smith) stumbles into a strange town where the citizens fear and worship a lighthouse. Also stars Martin Landau and Giovanni Ribisi.{{hr}}Gus Rosenthal (Peter Riegert) returns to his childhood home, and finds himself transported to his past. Also stars Jack Kehoe.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 12

| EpisodeNumber2 = 12

| Title_1 = Her Pilgrim Soul

| Title_2 = I of Newton

| DirectedBy_1 = Wes Craven

| DirectedBy_2 = Kenneth Gilbert

| WrittenBy_1 = Alan Brennert

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=Joe Haldeman|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|12|13}}

| ShortSummary = Two scientists (Kristoffer Tabori, Gary Cole) create a holographic projector, which shows something completely unexpected—the reincarnated soul of a young girl (Anne Twomey).{{hr}}A professor (Sherman Hemsley) attempting to solve a difficult math problem idly comments that he would "sell his soul" to get it right. A demon (Ron Glass) shows up to collect, resulting in a battle of wits.

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 13

| EpisodeNumber2 = 13

| Title_1 = Night of the Meek

| Title_2 = But Can She Type?

| Title_3 = The Star

| DirectedBy_1 = Martha Coolidge

| DirectedBy_2 = Shelley Levinson

| DirectedBy_3 = Gerd Oswald

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rockne S. O'Bannon|s=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on the story and teleplay by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = Martin Pasko & Rebecca Parr

| WrittenBy_3 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=Arthur C. Clarke|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1985|12|20}}

| ShortSummary = In this remake of "The Night of the Meek", drunk, out-of-work department store Santa Henry Corwin (Richard Mulligan) finds a magic gift-giving bag and becomes a real-life Santa Claus. Also stars William Atherton.{{hr}}Overworked, underappreciated secretary Karen Billings (Pam Dawber) is sent by a malfunctioning Xerox machine into a parallel reality where secretaries are honored and revered. Cameo by Jonathan Frakes.{{hr}}In an adaptation of the 1956 short story, while on an interstellar journey, an astrophysicist (Donald Moffat) and a priest (Fritz Weaver) learn they have discovered a long-dead world that has been emitting a signal for eons—and how its demise affected human history.

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 14

| EpisodeNumber2 = 14

| Title_1 = Still Life

| Title_2 = The Little People of Killany Woods

| Title_3 = The Misfortune Cookie

| DirectedBy_1 = Peter Medak

| DirectedBy_2 = J. D. Feigelson

| DirectedBy_3 = Allan Arkush

| WrittenBy_1 = Gerrit Graham & Chris Hubbell

| WrittenBy_2 = J. D. Feigelson

| WrittenBy_3 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rockne S. O'Bannon{{efn|Credited as Steven Rae}}|s=Charles E. Fritch|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|3}}

| ShortSummary = Professional photographer Dan Arnold (Robert Carradine) discovers an old camera containing mysterious photos of a long-ago expedition. But developing the photos brings its subjects into the world. Also stars John Carradine.{{hr}}A story-telling town moocher (Hamilton Camp) has an encounter with "little people".{{hr}}Snobby food critic Harry Folger (Elliott Gould) receives fortune cookie messages that come true.

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 15

| EpisodeNumber2 = 15

| Title_1 = Monsters!

| Title_2 = A Small Talent for War

| Title_3 = A Matter of Minutes

| DirectedBy_1 = B. W. L. Norton

| DirectedBy_2 = Claudia Weill

| DirectedBy_3 = Sheldon Larry

| WrittenBy_1 = Robert Crais

| WrittenBy_2 = Carter Scholz & Alan Brennert

| WrittenBy_3 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rockne S. O'Bannon|s=Theodore Sturgeon|slabel=Suggested by the short story "Yesterday Was Monday" by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|24}}

| ShortSummary = Young horror movie enthusiast Toby (Oliver Robins) finds that his new neighbor (Ralph Bellamy) is a vampire, who in turn shows him that everything he knows about vampires is wrong.{{hr}}An alien race that claims to have created mankind returns to judge them. Starring John Glover and Peter Michael Goetz.{{hr}}A married couple, the Wrights (Adam Arkin, Karen Austin), awakens behind the scenes of how time works. Also stars Adolph Caesar.

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 16

| EpisodeNumber2 = 16

| Title_1 = The Elevator

| Title_2 = To See the Invisible Man

| Title_3 = Tooth and Consequences

| DirectedBy_1 = R. L. Thomas

| DirectedBy_2 = Noel Black

| DirectedBy_3 = Robert Downey

| WrittenBy_1 = Ray Bradbury

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Steven Barnes|s=Robert Silverberg|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| WrittenBy_3 = Haskell Barkin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|1|31}}

| ShortSummary = Two brothers (Stephen Geoffreys, Robert Prescott) searching for their father discover a factory full of giant animal bodies.{{hr}}In a future society, uncaring man Mitchell Chaplin (Cotter Smith) is sentenced to a year of social isolation.{{hr}}The Tooth Fairy (Kenneth Mars) gives dentist Myron Mandel (David Birney) what he wishes for.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 17

| EpisodeNumber2 = 17

| Title_1 = Welcome to Winfield

| Title_2 = Quarantine

| DirectedBy_1 = Bruce Bilson

| DirectedBy_2 = Martha Coolidge

| WrittenBy_1 = Les Enloe

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=Philip DeGuere and Steven Bochco}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|7}}

| ShortSummary = Two people fleeing an agent of Death (Gerrit Graham) end up in an old west town that has avoided death for decades. Also stars Henry Gibson.{{hr}}Weapons designer Matthew Forman (Scott Wilson) is cryogenically frozen and awakened three centuries later, where he finds a post-war human race that has grown telepathic powers and rejected technology. Also stars Tess Harper.

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 18

| EpisodeNumber2 = 18

| Title_1 = Gramma

| Title_2 = Personal Demons

| Title_3 = Cold Reading

| DirectedBy_1 = Bradford May

| DirectedBy_2 = Peter Medak

| DirectedBy_3 = Gus Trikonis

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Harlan Ellison|s=Stephen King|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = Rockne S. O'Bannon

| WrittenBy_3 = Martin Pasko & Rebecca Parr

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|14}}

| ShortSummary = Young Georgie (Barret Oliver) is afraid of his ailing grandmother. His mother leaves him alone to take care of her.{{hr}}Veteran television screenwriter Rockne S. O'Bannon (Martin Balsam) suffers from diminutive creatures that plague his daily life. Also stars Clive Revill.{{hr}}1940s voice actor Milo Trent (Larry Poindexter) gets a job on a popular radio show. The show's creator, Nelson Westbrook (Dick Shawn), involuntarily causes every sound described on that week's episode to become real inside the studio.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 19

| EpisodeNumber2 = 19

| Title_1 = The Leprechaun-Artist

| Title_2 = Dead Run

| DirectedBy_1 = Tommy Lee Wallace

| DirectedBy_2 = Paul Tucker

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Tommy Lee Wallace|s=James Crocker}}

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=Greg Bear|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|2|21}}

| ShortSummary = A vacationing leprechaun (Cork Hubbert) is forced to grant wishes, which come with unintended consequences, to the three boys who captured him.{{hr}}Truck driver Johnny Davis (Steve Railsback) accepts the job of delivering souls to Hell, and finds Hell is not what he expected. Also stars Barry Corbin and John de Lancie.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 20

| EpisodeNumber2 = 20

| Title_1 = Profile in Silver

| Title_2 = Button, Button

| DirectedBy_1 = John Hancock

| DirectedBy_2 = Peter Medak

| WrittenBy_1 = J. Neil Schulman

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Richard Matheson{{efn|Credited as Logan Swanson}}|s=Richard Matheson|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|3|7}}

| ShortSummary = History professor Dr. Joseph Fitzgerald (Lane Smith) is sent back in time to observe the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, but he botches the job in the worst possible way. Also stars Barbara Baxley.{{hr}}A mysterious stranger (Basil Hoffman) gives down-and-out couple Norma and Arthur Lewis (Mare Winningham, Brad Davis) a box with a button on it. He states that if they press the button, they will receive $200,000 and someone they do not know will die.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 21

| EpisodeNumber2 = 21

| Title_1 = Need to Know

| Title_2 = Red Snow

| DirectedBy_1 = Paul Lynch

| DirectedBy_2 = Jeannot Szwarc

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Mary Sheldon|s=Sidney Sheldon|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = Michael Cassutt

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|3|21}}

| ShortSummary = Government scientist Edward Sayers (William Petersen) is sent to a small town to investigate a bizarre outbreak of insanity. Also stars Frances McDormand.{{hr}}KGB Colonel Ilyanov (George Dzundza) is sent to a Siberian town to investigate the deaths of the local Communist Party officials. Also stars Victoria Tennant.

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| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 22

| EpisodeNumber2 = 22

| Title_1 = Take My Life...Please!

| Title_2 = Devil's Alphabet

| Title_3 = The Library

| DirectedBy_1 = Gus Trikonis

| DirectedBy_2 = Ben Bolt

| DirectedBy_3 = John Hancock

| WrittenBy_1 = Gordon Mitchell

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Robert Hunter|s=Arthur Gray|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| WrittenBy_3 = Anne Collins

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|3|28}}

| ShortSummary = Comedian Billy Diamond (Tim Thomerson) must perform an act that will decide his fate in the afterlife. Also stars Ray Buktenica.{{hr}}The members of a poetry society find themselves haunted by an oath they took as young men. Features an ensemble cast.{{hr}}Writer Ellen Pendleton (Frances Conroy) is hired to work in a private library and where the books document the lives of everyone alive, updated instantly. Also stars Uta Hagen and Lori Petty.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 23

| EpisodeNumber2 = 23

| Title_1 = Shadow Play

| Title_2 = Grace Note

| DirectedBy_1 = Paul Lynch

| DirectedBy_2 = Peter Medak

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=James Crocker|s=Charles Beaumont|slabel=Based on the story and teleplay by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = Patrice Messina

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|4}}

| ShortSummary = A remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode. Sentenced to death, Adam Grant (Peter Coyote) desperately tries to convince his prosecutor that their reality is actually a recurring nightmare of his—and everyone will cease to exist once he is executed at midnight.{{hr}}Opera singer Rosemary Miletti (Julia Migenes) gains a glimpse of her future with a wish from her dying sister.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 24

| EpisodeNumber2 = 24

| Title_1 = A Day in Beaumont

| Title_2 = The Last Defender of Camelot

| DirectedBy_1 = Philip DeGuere

| DirectedBy_2 = Jeannot Szwarc

| WrittenBy_1 = David Gerrold

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=George R. R. Martin|s=Roger Zelazny|slabel=Based on a story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|4|11}}

| ShortSummary = After witnessing the landing of a flying saucer, a young couple (Victor Garber, Stacey Nelkin) find themselves in the midst of an alien invasion.{{hr}}In modern-day England, the last of King Arthur's knights (Richard Kiley) teams with Morgan le Fay (Jenny Agutter) to stop the return of Merlin (Norman Lloyd). Also stars John Cameron Mitchell.

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 25

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title_1 = The Once and Future King

| Title_2 = A Saucer of Loneliness

| DirectedBy_1 = Jim McBride

| DirectedBy_2 = John Hancock

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=George R. R. Martin|s=Bryce Maritano}}

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=David Gerrold|s=Theodore Sturgeon|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|9|27}}

| ShortSummary = Elvis impersonator Gary Pitkin (Jeff Yagher) travels back in time and meets the real Elvis Presley.{{hr}}Lonely waitress Margaret (Shelley Duvall) encounters a mysterious saucer with a message only for her. Also stars Nan Martin.

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| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 26

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title_1 = What Are Friends For?

| Title_2 = Aqua Vita

| DirectedBy_1 = Gus Trikonis

| DirectedBy_2 = Paul Tucker

| WrittenBy_1 = J. Michael Straczynski

| WrittenBy_2 = Jeremy Bertrand Finch & Paul Chitlik

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|4}}

| ShortSummary = A child's (Fred Savage) imaginary friend (Lukas Haas) turns out to be his father's imaginary friend as well. Also stars Tom Skerritt.{{hr}}Christine (Mimi Kennedy), an aging news anchor, finds a method for youth at a steep price. Also stars Christopher McDonald.

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| EpisodeNumber = 27

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title_1 = The Storyteller

| Title_2 = Nightsong

| DirectedBy_1 = Paul Lynch

| DirectedBy_2 = Bradford May

| WrittenBy_1 = Rockne S. O'Bannon

| WrittenBy_2 = Michael Reaves

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|11}}

| ShortSummary = Young teacher Dorothy Livingston (Glynnis O'Connor) finds that the secret to immortality resides in stories. Also stars David Faustino.{{hr}}DJ Andrea Fields (Lisa Eilbacher) must cope with the return of her lover after a five-year disappearance.

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 28

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title_1 = The After Hours

| Title_2 = Lost and Found

| Title_3 = The World Next Door

| DirectedBy_1 = Bruce Malmuth

| DirectedBy_2 = Gus Trikonis

| DirectedBy_3 = Paul Lynch

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rockne S. O'Bannon|s=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on the story and teleplay by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=George R. R. Martin|s=Phyllis Eisenstein|slabel=Based on the short story by}}

| WrittenBy_3 = Lan O'Kun

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|18}}

| ShortSummary = In this remake of the 1960 Twilight Zone episode, a woman (Terry Farrell) is trapped in a mall after hours with living mannequins. Also stars Ann Wedgeworth.{{hr}}A student's (Akosua Busia) possessions mysteriously vanish.{{hr}}A door in the basement leads to a parallel world, and both of a man's counterparts find the grass greener on the other side. Stars George Wendt, Bernadette Birkett and Jeffrey Tambor.{{hr}}Note: CBS Home Video split this installment into two half-hour shows, the first two stories in the first half and the last story in the second. As a result, "Lost and Found" is cut from eight minutes to just five. Starting with the next episode, CBS reduced the show to 30 minutes.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 29

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = The Toys of Caliban

| DirectedBy = Thomas J. Wright

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s=Terry Matz|t=George R. R. Martin}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|12|4}}

| ShortSummary = A mentally handicapped child (David Greenlee) has immense, dangerous powers which his parents struggle to prevent his misusing. Also stars Richard Mulligan and Anne Haney.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 30

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = The Convict's Piano

| DirectedBy = Thomas J. Wright

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Patrice Messina|s=James Crocker}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|12|11}}

| ShortSummary = A wrongfully convicted prisoner (Joe Penny) discovers an old piano in his prison with special powers. Also stars Norman Fell.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 31

| EpisodeNumber2 = 7

| Title = The Road Less Traveled

| DirectedBy = Wes Craven

| WrittenBy = George R. R. Martin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|12|18}}

| ShortSummary = A draft-dodger (Cliff DeYoung) is haunted by the specter of a familiar-looking man in a wheelchair.{{hr}}Note: CBS broadcasts two half-hour shows back-to-back as an hour for the rest of the season.

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 32/33

| EpisodeNumber2 = 8/9

| Title_1 = The Card

| Title_2 = The Junction

| DirectedBy_1 = Bradford May

| DirectedBy_2 = Bill Duke

| WrittenBy_1 = Michael Cassutt

| WrittenBy_2 = Virginia Aldridge

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|2|21}}

| ShortSummary = A woman (Susan Blakely) with out-of-control spending habits finds her new credit card comes with unexpected penalties. Also stars William Atherton.{{hr}}A miner (William Allen Young) who has been cheating on his wife is trapped by a cave-in with a miner from 1912 (Chris Mulkey).

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 3

| EpisodeNumber = 34/35

| EpisodeNumber2 = 10/11

| Title_1 = Joy Ride

| Title_3 = Shelter Skelter

| Title_2 = Private Channel

| DirectedBy_1 = Gil Bettman

| DirectedBy_3 = Martha Coolidge

| DirectedBy_2 = Peter Medak

| WrittenBy_1 = Cal Willingham

| WrittenBy_3 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Ron Cobb and Robin Love|s=Ron Cobb}}

| WrittenBy_2 = Edward Redlich

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|5|21}}

| ShortSummary = Four teens (Rob Knepper, Brooke McCarter, Heidi Kozak and Tamara Mark) take a recently deceased man's classic car for a joyride. The driver (Knepper) acts increasingly irrationally during the ride.{{hr}}After accidentally dropping his portable stereo in an airplane lavatory, a young man (Scott Coffey) discovers that it allows him to hear other people's thoughts.{{hr}}A survivalist (Joe Mantegna) and his friend (Jon Gries) live in his shelter after a nuclear bomb detonation. Also stars Joan Allen and Danica McKellar.

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 36/37

| EpisodeNumber2 = 12/13

| Title_1 = Time and Teresa Golowitz

| Title_2 = Voices in the Earth

| DirectedBy_1 = Shelley Levinson

| DirectedBy_2 = Curtis Harrington

| WrittenBy_1 = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=Parke Godwin|slabel=Based on a short story by}}

| WrittenBy_2 = Alan Brennert

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|7|10}}

| ShortSummary = A Broadway composer (Paul Sand) accepts an offer from the devil (Gene Barry) and returns to his high school years to see his crush again. While there he sees an opportunity to prevent a classmate's suicide. Also stars Grant Heslov and Wallace Langham.{{hr}}People return to a barren Earth to find that not everything had left when they thought it did. Stars Martin Balsam and Jenny Agutter.

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{{Episode list

| NumParts = 2

| EpisodeNumber = 38/39

| EpisodeNumber2 = 14/15

| Title_1 = Song of the Younger World

| Title_2 = The Girl I Married

| DirectedBy_1 = Noel Black

| DirectedBy_2 = Philip DeGuere

| WrittenBy_1 = Anthony & Nancy Lawrence

| WrittenBy_2 = J. M. DeMatteis

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|7|17}}

| ShortSummary = In 1916, a girl (Jennifer Rubin) and a young man (Peter Kowanko) from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her disapproving father, the superintendent (Roberts Blossom). Also stars Paul Benedict.{{hr}}An attorney (James Whitmore Jr.) pines after the way his wife (Linda Kelsey) was in their younger years, only to encounter that younger woman in the present.

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| EpisodeNumber = 40

| EpisodeNumber2 = 1

| Title = The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

| DirectedBy = René Bonnière

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Haskell Barkin|s=Haskell Barkin and J. Michael Straczynski}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|9|24}}

| ShortSummary = Edgar Witherspoon (Harry Morgan) is ordered by a mysterious voice to collect junk in his apartment to keep the world in balance. Also stars Cedric Smith.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 41

| EpisodeNumber2 = 2

| Title = Extra Innings

| DirectedBy = Doug Jackson

| WrittenBy = Tom Palmer

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|10|1}}

| ShortSummary = Ex-baseball player Ed Hamner (Marc Singer), lame from an injury and forced to retire early, is given a baseball card from the early 1900s that transports Hamner into the life of that player.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 42

| EpisodeNumber2 = 3

| Title = The Crossing

| DirectedBy = Paul Lynch

| WrittenBy = Ralph Phillips

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|10|8}}

| ShortSummary = A stressed-out priest (Ted Shackelford) is haunted by the sight of a station wagon with a woman inside that keeps crashing.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 43

| EpisodeNumber2 = 4

| Title = The Hunters

| DirectedBy = Paul Lynch

| WrittenBy = Paul Chitlik & Jeremy Bertrand Finch

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|10|15}}

| ShortSummary = An archeologist (Louise Fletcher) studies prehistoric paintings in a newly discovered cave. The project takes a dark turn after the carcasses of livestock from nearby farms begin turning up near the cave. Also stars Michael Hogan.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 44

| EpisodeNumber2 = 5

| Title = Dream Me a Life

| DirectedBy = Allan King

| WrittenBy = J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|10|22}}

| ShortSummary = A man (Eddie Albert) in a retirement home is trapped in the dreams of a catatonic widow. Also stars Frances Hyland.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 45

| EpisodeNumber2 = 6

| Title = Memories

| DirectedBy = Richard Bugajski

| WrittenBy = Bob Underwood

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|10|29}}

| ShortSummary = A specialist in past life regression (Barbara Stock) enters an alternate reality where everyone already remembers all their past lives.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 46

| EpisodeNumber2 = 7

| Title = The Hellgramite Method

| DirectedBy = Gilbert Shilton

| WrittenBy = William Selby

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|11|5}}

| ShortSummary = An alcoholic (Timothy Bottoms) goes through an extremely painful and potentially deadly cure for his drinking problem. Also stars Julie Khaner.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 47

| EpisodeNumber2 = 8

| Title = Our Selena Is Dying

| DirectedBy = Bruce Pittman

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|s=Rod Serling|t=J. Michael Straczynski}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|11|12}}

| ShortSummary = A young woman (Terri Garber) has her youth sucked out of her by her dying aunt.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 48

| EpisodeNumber2 = 9

| Title = The Call

| DirectedBy = Gilbert Shilton

| WrittenBy = J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|11|19}}

| ShortSummary = A lonely man (William Sanderson) dials a wrong number and develops a close relationship with the woman on the other end. When she refuses to meet him, he investigates and discovers she is a statue.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 49

| EpisodeNumber2 = 10

| Title = The Trance

| DirectedBy = Randy Bradshaw

| WrittenBy = Jeff Stuart and J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|11|26}}

| ShortSummary = A scam artist (Peter Scolari) purports to channel the spirit of Delos, an inhabitant of Atlantis. He begins involuntarily channeling a real spirit, one with a habit of insulting people.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 50

| EpisodeNumber2 = 11

| Title = Acts of Terror

| DirectedBy = Brad Turner

| WrittenBy = J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|12|3}}

| ShortSummary = A battered wife (Melanie Mayron) finds the strength to fight her abusive husband by looking at a statuette of a Doberman Pinscher. Also stars Kenneth Welsh.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 51

| EpisodeNumber2 = 12

| Title = 20/20 Vision

| DirectedBy = Jim Purdy

| WrittenBy = Robert Walden

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|12|10}}

| ShortSummary = Bank loan officer Warren Cribbens (Michael Moriarty) cracks his eyeglasses and discovers he can see the future through them, showing that his efforts to help a farmer avoid foreclosure are doomed to fail.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 52

| EpisodeNumber2 = 13

| Title = There Was an Old Woman

| DirectedBy = Otta Hanus

| WrittenBy = Tom J. Astle

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|12|17}}

| ShortSummary = A writer of children's books (Colleen Dewhurst) autographs a book for a sick young fan. Later, she starts hearing the sound of children in her house.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 53

| EpisodeNumber2 = 14

| Title = The Trunk

| DirectedBy = Steve DiMarco

| WrittenBy = Paul Chitlik & Jeremy Bertrand Finch

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|12|24}}

| ShortSummary = A motel proprietor (Bud Cort) discovers an empty trunk that grants wishes. He uses it for popularity, but at a party he discovers who his true friends are: no one.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 54

| EpisodeNumber2 = 15

| Title = Appointment on Route 17

| DirectedBy = René Bonnière

| WrittenBy = Haskell Barkin

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|12|31}}

| ShortSummary = After receiving a heart transplant, a man (Paul Le Mat) finds his personality has changed, incorporating a strange attraction to a waitress at a road diner.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 55

| EpisodeNumber2 = 16

| Title = The Cold Equations

| DirectedBy = Martin Lavut

| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Alan Brennert|s=Tom Godwin|slabel=Based on a story by}}

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|1|7}}

| ShortSummary = A cargo pilot (Terence Knox) on the frontiers of space finds an innocent stowaway on his ship, who the ship's fuel supply cannot support.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 56

| EpisodeNumber2 = 17

| Title = Stranger in Possum Meadows

| DirectedBy = Sturla Gunnarsson

| WrittenBy = Paul Chitlik & Jeremy Bertrand Finch

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|1|14}}

| ShortSummary = A young boy playing in a field meets a man (Steve Kanaly) who is really an alien collecting specimens to bring back to his planet.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 57

| EpisodeNumber2 = 18

| Title = Street of Shadows

| DirectedBy = Richard Bugajski

| WrittenBy = Michael Reaves

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|1|21}}

| ShortSummary = While breaking into a house, an unemployed homeless man (Charles Haid) switches bodies with the house's owner. Also stars Lisa Jakub.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 58

| EpisodeNumber2 = 19

| Title = Something in the Walls

| DirectedBy = Allan Kroeker

| WrittenBy = J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|1|28}}

| ShortSummary = A doctor (Damir Andrei) at a sanitarium has a patient (Deborah Raffin) who is terribly frightened of patterns on clothing and furniture.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 59

| EpisodeNumber2 = 20

| Title = A Game of Pool

| DirectedBy = Randy Bradshaw

| WrittenBy = George Clayton Johnson

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|2|4}}

| ShortSummary = In this remake of the 1961 Twilight Zone episode, a pool player (Esai Morales) challenges the long-dead legend, Fats Brown (Maury Chaykin), who returns from the afterlife to give him a high-stakes game.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 60

| EpisodeNumber2 = 21

| Title = Room 2426

| DirectedBy = Ryszard Bugajski

| WrittenBy = Jeremy Bertrand Finch & Paul Chitlik

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|2|11}}

| ShortSummary = Scientist Martin Decker (Dean Stockwell) is confined and interrogated by government agents for the location of his notes. Escape for Martin comes from the mind.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 61

| EpisodeNumber2 = 22

| Title = The Mind of Simon Foster

| DirectedBy = Doug Jackson

| WrittenBy = J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|2|18}}

| ShortSummary = To make ends meet, Simon Foster (Bruce Weitz) sells his memories to a pawn shop broker.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 62

| EpisodeNumber2 = 23

| Title = The Wall

| DirectedBy = Atom Egoyan

| WrittenBy = J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|2|25}}

| ShortSummary = A U.S. military experiment opens a portal to an unknown place. The Army calls upon a career soldier (John Beck) to investigate. He finds an idyllic world, and seemingly no way to get back.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 63

| EpisodeNumber2 = 24

| Title = Cat and Mouse

| DirectedBy = Eric Till

| WrittenBy = Christy Marx

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|3|4}}

| ShortSummary = A shy woman (Pamela Bellwood) becomes the lover of a cursed Casanova (Page Fletcher) who turns into a cat during the daytime.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 64

| EpisodeNumber2 = 25

| Title = Rendezvous in a Dark Place

| DirectedBy = René Bonnière

| WrittenBy = J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|3|11}}

| ShortSummary = An old woman (Janet Leigh) with an obsession with death finds an injured thief in her home. When Death (Stephen McHattie) arrives to collect him, she tries to persuade him to take her instead.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 65

| EpisodeNumber2 = 26

| Title = Many, Many Monkeys

| DirectedBy = Richard Bugajski

| WrittenBy = William Froug

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|3|18}}

| ShortSummary = An epidemic causes blindness. A nurse begins to believe that the disease is divine retribution. Stars Karen Valentine, Jackie Burroughs and Ken Pogue.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 66

| EpisodeNumber2 = 27

| Title = Love Is Blind

| DirectedBy = Gilbert Shilton

| WrittenBy = Cal Willingham

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|3|25}}

| ShortSummary = A man (Ben Murphy) plotting to murder his wife's lover meets a blind singer who knows all about his plan.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 67

| EpisodeNumber2 = 28

| Title = Crazy as a Soup Sandwich

| DirectedBy = Paul Lynch

| WrittenBy = Harlan Ellison

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|4|1}}

| ShortSummary = A man (Wayne Robson) sells his soul to a demon for some racing tips. After being terrified by the demon he goes for help from the criminal boss (Tony Franciosa) he borrowed the track money from.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 68

| EpisodeNumber2 = 29

| Title = Special Service

| DirectedBy = Randy Bradshaw

| WrittenBy = J. Michael Straczynski

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|4|8}}

| ShortSummary = A man (David Naughton) finds that his life has been on TV for the past five years.

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{{Episode list

| EpisodeNumber = 69

| EpisodeNumber2 = 30

| Title = Father and Son Game

| DirectedBy = Randy Bradshaw

| WrittenBy = Jeremy Bertrand Finch & Paul Chitlik

| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|4|15}}

| ShortSummary = Upon brain death, a 79-year-old man (Ed Marinaro) has his brain data transplanted into an experimental robot brain. His son (Eugene Robert Glazer) considers this an abomination and tries to have his father declared legally dead.

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