Twilight Zone -- First Season, 1959-1960
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| Script number | Episode title | Air date | Author | Draft date | Notes | Leaves |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | Where is everybody? | 10-2-1959 | Serling, Rod | n.d. | Script one. Mss. revisions. | 32 l. |
| 001 | Where is everybody? | 10-2-1959 | Serling, Rod | 12-1-1958 | Script one. Dated 11-20-1958, contains later revisions. | 39 l. |
| 002 | One for the angels. | 10-9-1959 | Serling, Rod | 7-7-1959 | Script eight. Complete. Dated 5-18-1959 with revisions dated 6-29, 7-3, 7-6 and 7-7-1959. | 34 l. |
| 003 | Mr. Denton on doomsday. | 10-16-1959 | Serling, Rod | 7-3-1959 | Script nine. Revised. Dated 6-1-1959 with revisions dated 6-25, 6-29 and 7-3-1959. | 34 l. |
| 004 | The sixteen millimeter shrine. | 10-23-1959 | Serling, Rod | 8-24-1959 | Script ten. Complete. Dated 6-10-1959 with revisions dated 8-21 and 8-24-1959. | 35 l. |
| 005 | Walking distance. | 10-30-1959 | Serling, Rod | 4-13-1959 | 37 l. | |
| 006 | Escape clause. | 11-6-1959 | Serling, Rod | 6-17-1959 | Script three. Includes revisions dated 6-12-1959. | 39 l. |
| 007 | The lonely. | 11-13-1959 | Serling, Rod | 6-10-1959 | Script two. Dated 3-27-1959 with revisions dated 6-10-1959. | 43 l. |
| 008 | Time enough at last. | 11-20-1959 | Serling, Rod | 7-31-1959 | Story by Lynn Venable. Complete. Dated 7-14-1959 with revisions dated 7-29 and 7-31-1959. Script fourteen. | 28 l. |
| 009 | Perchance to dream. | 11-27-1959 | Beaumont, Charles | 8-17-1959 | Script sixteen. Dated 7-29-1959 with revisions dated 8-14 and 8-17-1959. | 31 l. |
| 010 | Judgement night. | 12-4-1959 | Serling, Rod | 7-10-1959 | Script four. | 42 l. |
| 011 | And when the sky was opened. | 12-11-1959 | Serling, Rod | 7-1-1959 | Script eleven. Formerly titled “Disappearing act.” Story by Richard Matheson. | 32 l. |
| 012 | What you need. | 12-25-1959 | Serling, Rod | 10-1-1959 | Script twenty-two. Complete. Story by Lewis Padgett. Dated 9-14-1959 with later revisions. | 29 l. |
| 013 | The four of us are dying. | 1-1-1960 | Serling, Rod | 8-27-1959 | Script eighteen. Complete. Based on a story “Rubber Face” by George Johnson. Dated 8-14-1959 with later revisions. | 32 l. |
| 014 | Third from the sun. | 1-8-1960 | Serling, Rod | 8-6-1959 | Complete. Story by Richard Matheson. Dated 7-16-1959 and includes revisions dated 8-4 and 8-6-1959. | 32 l. |
| 015 | I shot an arrow into the air. | 1-15-1960 | Serling, Rod | n.d. | Script one. | 73 l. |
| 015 | I shot an arrow into the air. | 1-15-1960 | Serling, Rod | 2-18-1958 | Script one. Dated 2-6-1958 with revisions dated 2-18-1958. | 67 l. |
| 015 | I shot an arrow into the air. | 1-15-1960 | Serling, Rod | 11-2-1959 | Script twenty-six. Formerly “the Conquerors.” Based on a story by Madeline Champion. Dated 10-20-1959 with revisions 10-29 and 11-2-1959. | 28 l. |
| 016 | The hitch-hiker. | 1-22-1960 | Serling, Rod | 7-27-1959 | Script twelve. Complete. Story by Lucille Fletcher. Dated 7-7-1959. | 30 l. |
| 017 | The fever. | 1-29-1960 | Serling, Rod | 10-15-1959 | Dated 10-12-1959 with later revisions. | 27 l. |
| 018 | The last flight. | 2-5-1960 | Matheson, Richard | 7-16-1959 | Script 18. Formerly titled “Flight.” Dated 5-18-1959 with revisions dated 7-16-1959. | 33 l. |
| 019 | The purple testament. | 2-12-1960 | Serling, Rod | 8-18-1959 | Script nineteen. Mss. notes. | 32 l. |
| 020 | Elegy. | 2-19-1960 | Beaumont, Charles | 10-23-1959 | Revised. |
29 l. |
| 021 | Mirror image. | 2-26-1960 | Serling, Rod | 9-30-1959 | Script twenty-three. | 27 l. |
| 022 | The monsters are due on Maple Street. | 3-4-1960 | Serling, Rod | No MSS. available | ||
| 023 | A world of difference. | 3-11-1960 | Matheson, Richard | 10-09-1959 | Script twenty-four. Dated 10-2-1959. Revised 10-9-1959. | 30 l. |
| 024 | Long live Walter Jameson. | 3-18-1960 | Beaumont, Charles | 10-1-1959 | Formerly titled “Forever and a day.” Revisions dated 10-1-1959. | 29 l. |
| 025 | People are alike all over. | 3-25-1960 | Serling, Rod | 8-4-1959 | Script thirteen. Complete. Based on a story by Paul W. Fairman. Dated 7-10-1959 with later revisions. | 36 l. |
| 026 | The execution. | 4-1-1960 | Serling, Rod | 2-10-1960 | Script thirty. Comp. Based on a short story by George Clayton Johnson. Dated 12-28-1959 with later revisions. | 33l. |
| 027 | The big tall wish. | 4-8-1960 | Serling, Rod | 2-22-1960 | Script twenty-eight. Dated 12-21-1959 with revisions dated 1-12, 2-12 and 2-22-1960. | 38 l. |
| 028 | A nice place to visit. | 4-15-1960 | Beaumont, Charles | 2-24-1960 | Script thirty-two. Formerly titled “The Other Place.” Dated 2-2-1960 with revisions 2-15 and 2-24-1960. | 42 l. |
| 029 | Nightmare as a child. | 4-29-1960 | Serling, Rod | n.d. | 34 l. | |
| 030 | A stop at Willoughby. | 5-6-1960 | Serling, Rod | No MSS. available. | ||
| 031 | The chaser. | 5-13-1960 | Presnall, Robert Jr. | 2-17-1960 | Script thirty-six. Adapted from a short story by John Collier. | 36 l. |
| 032 | A passage for trumpet. | 5-20-1960 | Serling, Rod | 1-29-1960 | Script thirty-three. Mss. revisions. | 30 l. |
| 033 | Mr. Bevis. | 6-3-1960 | Serling, Rod | 3-25-1960 | Script thirty-one. Dated 1-11-1960 with 3-24 and 3-25-1960 revisions. Duplicate pages. | 66 l. |
| 034 | The after hours. | 6-10-1960 | Serling, Rod | 2-15-1960 | Script thirty-seven. | 28 l. |
| 035 | The mighty Casey. | 6-17-1960 | Serling, Rod | 8-24-1959 | Script seventeen. Dated 8-12-1959 with revisions dated 8-24-1959 and mss. changes. | 32 l. |
| 035 | The mighty Casey. | 6-17-1960 | Serling, Rod | 4-10-1960 | Script seventeen. Dated 4-8-1960 with revisions dated 4-10-1960. Complete. | 32 |
| 036 | A world of his own. | 7-1-1960 | Matheson, Richard | 3-26-1960 | Script thirty-four. Dated 2-25-1960 with revisions dated 3-26-1960.. | 49 l. |
