This is the first episode but with an introduction by Rod Serling pitching the show to network execs and potential advertisers.

Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched...

A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.

A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.

An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

Martin Sloan, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child. He soon realizes he's gone back in time.

A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

Corry, a man stranded on an asteroid after being convicted of a crime, receives a present of a robot who looks and sounds like a real woman.

A bank teller, obsessed with reading, finds himself alone after a nuclear blast.

A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.

In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom.

Three astronauts have returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar. Harrington gets a strange feeling.

A two-bit thug thinks he's found the key to a better life in an old sidewalk salesman who has the uncanny ability to tell people what they need the most.

A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

Three astronauts believe they have crashed on an asteroid.

Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks.

Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name.

A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has the disquieting ability to see who is about to die.

Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

Millicent Barnes sees her double at a bus terminal.

Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

Businessman Arthur Curtis finds his phone dead. He is then surprised to hear a voice yell, ""Cut!"" and see that his office is just a set on a soundstage. Everyone tells him that he is Jerry Raigan, a drunken movie star on the decline, and ""Arthur Curtis"" is a character Raigan is playing. Curtis drives to where his home should be, but finds no evidence of his life. Raigan's agent, thinking his client is having a nervous breakdown, tells Curtis not to worry about returning to the set, the picture has been cancelled and the sets are being dismantled. Curtis, realizing the last link to his world is about to be destroyed, rushes to the set. Just in time, he arrives on the set and pleads not to be left in this uncaring place. Curtis finds himself back in his office, while the agent arrives on the set and finds Raigan has vanished.

Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it.

When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently just like us...

Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, a man in 1880 is transported into the future.

Even though Jackson breaks his hand prior to the fight, he wins because Henry - a boy who adores the fighter and believes in magic - made the ""big, tall wish."" After the fight the boxer refuses to believe in magic. Henry tells him if he doesn't believe, it won't be true. Jackson just can't believe. Suddenly, Jackson is back in the ring, and counted out.

After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for.

Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment. The little girl seems to know her, and tries to jog her memory about a man she saw earlier that day. The man arrives at Helen's door.

Riding home on the train one day, a man falls asleep and dreams it is 1880, and he is entering a small town called Willoughby.

A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, slips her a love potion. He is overjoyed that the potion works so well...at first.

A trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him.

A man (Bevis) meets his guardian angel.

A woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist - and that her ""saleslady"" is really a mannequin!

Dr. Stillman arranges to have his human-looking robot signed up as the star pitcher of the Hoboken Zephyrs. The team zooms to fourth place thanks to Casey. After he's beaned by a ball, a doctor discovers Casey has no heart. The rules say nine men make up a team, and without a heart Casey is not a man. Dr. Stillman gives Casey a heart, but he becomes too compassionate to strike out other players. The Zephyrs lose the pennant, and Casey is washed up in baseball. Dr. Stillman gives the coach, Mouth McGarry, Casey's blueprints as a momento. Looking at them, Mcgarry gets a sudden inspiration, and chases after the doctor

A playwright makes characters come to life.