The BEST episodes written by Charles Beaumont
#1 - Shadow Play
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 56
A man is convinced that reality as we perceive it is dependent on his staying alive.
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#2 - Printer's Devil
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 - Episode 9
The owner of a failing paper is given help by the Devil.
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#3 - Brainwave
One Step Beyond - Season 2 - Episode 3
During WWII, a drunken pharmacist's mate must operate on the injured captain of his ship. The chief medical officer on a near-by ship assists the terrified young man perform the operation by providing instructions over the ship's radio. But at a crucial moment in the operation, the young man needs much more than this . . . and he receives it from an unearthly source . . .
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#4 - Living Doll
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 6
Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him!
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#5 - In His Image
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 - Episode 1
A scientist creates an android that has the qualities which he feels he's lacking.
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Have Gun, Will Travel - Season 3 - Episode 23
Paladin is accused of stealing a painting in the small town of Bonanza.
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#7 - The Long Silence
The Alfred Hitchcock Hour - Season 1 - Episode 25
In an elaborate con, Ralph Mason marries a rich woman named Nora Cory for her money. Unfortunately his schemes goes awry when he murders one of her sons from a former marriage. As he attempts to make the death look like a suicide, he is caught by Nora as he is writing a fake suicide note. Nora collapses and falls into a paralyzed, yet conscious, state. She is bedridden and worried that her husband will try to kill her. She is also unable to speak and cannot tell anyone about her dangerous husband. When her nurse Jean Dekker allows her husband to adminster her medicine, she grows fearful that he will try to poison her. Fortunately, the nurse figures out a way to communicate with Nora. Nora squeezes her hand in response to yes or no questions. Jean discovers the truth about Ralph, but when Ralph finds out he tries to kill both Nora and Jean . Fortunately, Nora comes out of her paralysis in time to scream. She alerts her second son who manages to subdue Ralph before he can kill again.
#8 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 17
In a future where everyone must undergo an operation at the age of 19 to make them identical to everyone else, one woman desperately tries to hang onto her own identity.
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#9 - Valley of the Shadow
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 - Episode 3
A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.
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#10 - Elegy
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 20
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.
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#11 - Queen of the Nile
The Twilight Zone - Season 5 - Episode 23
Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn't aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret.
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#12 - The Howling Man
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 5
A man, on a walking trip of Europe, gets caught in a storm. He finds remote monastery that contains a prisoner.
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#13 - Person or Persons Unknown
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 27
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
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#14 - Dead Woman's Shoes
The Twilight Zone (1985) - Season 1 - Episode 21
Shy Maddie finds a pair of shoes and after trying them on, is possessed by the vengeful spirit of a rich murdered woman.
#15 - Long Live Walter Jameson
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 24
Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it.
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#16 - The Guests
The Outer Limits - Season 1 - Episode 26
Trapped in a mansion run by a mysterious alien being, a pair of young lovers discovers that eternal life comes at a great cost.
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#17 - Shadow Play
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 26
Trapped in a recurring nightmare, Adam Grant tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real.
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#18 - A Nice Place to Visit
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 28
After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.
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#19 - Angels of Vengeance
Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 1 - Episode 33
Josh kills a young man in self-defense, the victim's father, the head of a religious cult, then orders Josh's death.
#20 - The Prime Mover
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 21
Ace Larsen discovers his business partner (Buddy Ebsen) has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big.
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#21 - Miniature
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 - Episode 8
A lonely man falls in love with a mini museum doll, which he believes is alive.
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#22 - Perchance to Dream
The Twilight Zone - Season 1 - Episode 9
A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.
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#23 - Long Distance Call
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 22
A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone.
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#24 - Dead Man's Shoes
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 18
A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.
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#25 - The Fugitive
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 25
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
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#26 - Static
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 - Episode 20
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.
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#27 - Passage on the Lady Anne
The Twilight Zone - Season 4 - Episode 17
To save their marriage, a couple book a cruise on a ship whose other passengers are elderly.
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#28 - Backward, Turn Backward
Alfred Hitchcock Presents - Season 5 - Episode 18
A middle aged plumber is suspected of bludgeoning to death the father of his 19-year-old love interest, but the Sheriff can't figure out how the man could have done the crime and been caring for his baby grandson at the same time.
#29 - The Captain's Guests
One Step Beyond - Season 1 - Episode 19
A sadistic sea captain from the 19th century haunts a New England home and poisons the lives of a married couple after taking possession of the husband's mind.
#30 - The Jungle
The Twilight Zone - Season 3 - Episode 12
Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
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