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Twilight Zone on CBS

1959, TV Show

Episode Detail: A Thing About Machines - Twilight Zone

An irascible writer (Richard Haydn) hates his mechanical devices---and the feeling is mutual. TV Repairman: Barney Phillips. Edith: Barbara Stuart. Policeman: Henry Beckman. Intern: Jay Overholts. Telephone Repairman: Lew Brown. Written by Rod Serling.

Episodes: A Thing About Machines - Twilight Zone - 163 total Episodes

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6/19/1964: The Bewitchin' Pool
5/29/1964: The Fear
5/22/1964: Come Wander with Me
5/15/1964: The Brain Center at Whipple's
5/8/1964: Mr. Garrity and the Graves
4/24/1964: Stopover in a Quiet Town
4/17/1964: The Jeopardy Room
4/10/1964: Caesar and Me
4/3/1964: Sounds and Silences
3/27/1964: I Am the Night---Color Me Black
3/20/1964: The Masks
3/13/1964: What's in the Box
3/6/1964: Queen of the Nile
2/28/1964: An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
2/21/1964: Spur of the Moment
2/14/1964: From Agnes with Love
2/7/1964: Night Call
1/31/1964: Black Leather Jackets
1/24/1964: Number Twelve Looks Just like You
1/17/1964: The Self-improvement of Salvadore Ross
1/10/1964: The Long Morrow
1/3/1964: You Drive
12/27/1963: Ring-a-Ding Girl
12/20/1963: Ninety Years Without Slumbering
12/13/1963: A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
12/6/1963: The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
11/29/1963: Probe 7---Over and Out
11/15/1963: Uncle Simon
11/8/1963: The Old Man in the Cave
11/1/1963: Living Doll
10/25/1963: The Last Night of a Jockey
10/18/1963: A Kind of Stopwatch
10/11/1963: Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
10/4/1963: Steel
9/27/1963: In Praise of Pip
5/23/1963: The Bard
5/9/1963: Passage on the Lady Anne
5/2/1963: On Thursday We Leave for Home
4/18/1963: The Incredible World of Horace Ford
4/11/1963: Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
4/4/1963: The New Exhibit
3/21/1963: I Dream of Genie
3/14/1963: The Parallel
3/7/1963: No Time like the Past
2/28/1963: Printer's Devil
2/21/1963: Miniature
2/14/1963: Jess-Belle
2/7/1963: Death Ship
1/31/1963: Mute
1/24/1963: He's Alive
1/17/1963: Valley of the Shadow
1/10/1963: The 30-Fathom Grave
1/3/1963: In His Image
6/1/1962: The Changing of the Guard
5/25/1962: Cavender Is Coming
5/18/1962: I Sing the Body Electric
5/11/1962: Young Man's Fancy
5/4/1962: The Dummy
4/27/1962: The Gift
4/20/1962: The Trade-ins
4/13/1962: Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
4/6/1962: Four O'Clock
3/30/1962: The Little People
3/23/1962: Person or Persons Unknown
3/16/1962: Little Girl Lost
3/9/1962: The Fugitive
3/2/1962: To Serve Man
2/23/1962: The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
2/16/1962: Piano in the House
2/9/1962: Kick the Can
2/2/1962: Showdown with Rance McGrew
1/26/1962: The Hunt
1/19/1962: Dead Man's Shoes
1/12/1962: One More Pallbearer
1/5/1962: Nothing in the Dark
12/29/1961: Quality of Mercy
12/22/1961: Five Characters in Search of an Exit
12/15/1961: Once upon a Time
12/1/1961: The Jungle
11/24/1961: Still Valley
11/17/1961: The Midnight Sun
11/10/1961: Deaths-Head Revisited
11/3/1961: It's a Good Life
10/27/1961: The Grave
10/20/1961: The Mirror
10/13/1961: A Game of Pool
10/6/1961: The Passersby
9/29/1961: The Shelter
9/22/1961: The Arrival
9/15/1961: Two
6/2/1961: The Obsolete Man
5/26/1961: Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
5/12/1961: The Mind and the Matter
5/5/1961: Shadow Play
4/28/1961: The Silence
4/21/1961: The Rip Van Winkle Caper
4/7/1961: A Hundred Years over the Rim
3/24/1961: The Prime Mover
3/10/1961: Static
3/3/1961: Long-Distance Call
3/3/1961: Mr. Dingle, the Strong
2/24/1961: The Odyssey of Flight 33
2/10/1961: Twenty-two
2/3/1961: A Penny for Your Thoughts
1/27/1961: The Invaders
1/20/1961: The Whole Truth
1/13/1961: Back There
1/6/1961: Dust
12/23/1960: Night of the Meek
12/16/1960: A Most Unusual Camera
12/9/1960: The Trouble with Templeton
12/2/1960: The Lateness of the Hour
11/18/1960: Nick of Time
11/11/1960: Eye of the Beholder
11/4/1960: The Howling Man
10/28/1960: A Thing About Machines
10/14/1960: Nervous Man in a $4 Room
10/7/1960: The Man in the Bottle
9/30/1960: King Nine Will Not Return
7/1/1960: A World of His Own
6/17/1960: The Mighty Casey
6/10/1960: The After Hours
6/3/1960: Mr. Bevis
5/20/1960: A Passage for Trumpet
5/13/1960: The Chaser
5/6/1960: A Stop at Willoughby
4/29/1960: Nightmare as a Child
4/15/1960: A Nice Place to Visit
4/8/1960: The Big Tall Wish
4/1/1960: Execution
3/25/1960: People Are Alike All Over
3/18/1960: Long Live Walter Jameson
3/11/1960: A World of Difference
3/4/1960: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
2/26/1960: Mirror Image
2/19/1960: Elegy
2/12/1960: The Purple Testament
2/5/1960: The Last Flight
1/29/1960: The Fever
1/22/1960: The Hitchhiker
1/15/1960: I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
1/8/1960: Third from the Sun
1/1/1960: The Four of Us Are Dying
12/25/1959: What You Need
12/11/1959: And When the Sky Was Opened
12/4/1959: Judgment Night
11/27/1959: Perchance to Dream
11/20/1959: Time Enough at Last
11/13/1959: The Lonely
11/6/1959: Escape Clause
10/30/1959: Walking Distance
10/23/1959: 16-mm Shrine
10/16/1959: Mr. Denton on Doomsday
10/9/1959: One for the Angels
10/2/1959: Where Is Everybody?
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Premiered: 1959, on CBS

Rating: TV-PG

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Premise: A classic anthology of sci-fi, suspense and goose-bump-inducing tales that explore 'a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man.' Filled with invention and irony, the stories are tightly constructed, ingenious flights of imagination with often cautionary themes---and frequently a terrific twist at the end. Host and prolific writer Rod Serling penned most of the episodes himself. Influential and often (poorly) imitated, the series was resurrected twice, in 1985 on CBS and in 2002 on UPN.

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