Video: 'Five Characters in Search of an Exit' (part 2)

(Friday, December 22, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone.

Video: 'The Jungle' (promo clip)

(Friday, December 1, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe’s ancestral land on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading ‘The Jungle’ episode airs on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour (1961) →

Video: 'The Midnight Sun' (with commentary, extended clip)

(Friday, November 17, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — The Earth’s orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone.

Video: 'Deaths-Head Revisited' (clip)

(Friday, November 10, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone.

Video: 'It's a Good Life' (highlights)

(Friday, November 3, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading ‘It’s a Good Life’ debuts on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour (1961) →

(Thursday, November 2, 1961, 9:30 p.m. ET) — George and Dorothy’s nightly television viewing has been getting interrupted by Hazel who’s excuse is that her television set in her room is broken on tonight’s episode of the NBC-TV sitcom Hazel. It was the show’s first episode to be filmed in color.

Video: ‘The Passersby’

(Friday, October 6, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — A woman (Joanne Linville) waits for her husband on the porch of her war-damaged house, while a stream of soldiers pass by during the Civil War on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone.

Video: 'Mr. Ed' theme

(Sunday, October 1, 1961, 6:30 p.m. EDT) — Mister Ed, a situation comedy TV series starring Alan Young as an eccentric and enormously klutzy yet friendly architect named Wilbur Post whose horse Mister Ed (“played” by gelding Bamboo Harvester and voiced by Allan Lane) could talk, debuted tonight on network television (on CBS; it had run in syndication from January 5 to July 2, 1961).

Video: 'The Shelter' (part 1)

(Friday, September 29, 1961, 10 p.m. ET) — When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter on tonight’s episode of The Twilight Zone. Continue reading ‘The Shelter’ debuts on ‘The Twilight Zone’ 50 years ago this hour →