The Twilight Zone
The Trouble with Templeton
Season 2 • Episode 9
Season 2 • Episode 9
A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane, and desperately tries to find out what happened to the rest of his crew.
A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes.
Ordered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a smalltime hood nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he could have been--confident, strong...and determined to get out.
A writer feels that the machines in his house are conspiring against him.
A man on a walking trip of post-World War I Europe gets caught in a storm. He comes across a remote monastery with a mysterious prisoner.
A young woman lying in a hospital bed awaits the outcome of an experimental treatment in an attempt to make her look normal.
A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble.
Jana, the daughter of inventor Dr. Loren, struggles with her parents' reliance on lifelike robot servants, urging her father to dismantle them despite his attachment to his creations.
Booth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear.
Chester Diedrich and his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that takes pictures of events five minutes into the future.
A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys.
It's April 14, 1961. Peter Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has moved back to April 14, 1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination.
A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth.
An old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens.
The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read.
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.
A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time.
Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men.
Ed Lindsay hates television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's alone.
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico.
Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars.
A talkative man takes an offer to keep silent for a year for $500,000.
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
A book on the power of thought enables an irritable worker to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. But what he wants and what he gets are two different things!
State Troopers follow the tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people boarded his bus…
In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death.
