The Twilight Zone · S1 · E17
The Fever
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.
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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.
Season 1

1Where Is Everybody?
26 minOct 2, 1959★ 7.6
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...

2One for the Angels
26 minOct 9, 1959★ 7.5
A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place.

3Mr. Denton on Doomsday
26 minOct 16, 1959★ 7.0
A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored.

4The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
26 minOct 23, 1959★ 6.8
An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room.

5Walking Distance
26 minOct 30, 1959★ 7.8
A stressed advertising executive, 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.

6Escape Clause
26 minNov 6, 1959★ 7.2
A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility.

7The Lonely
26 minNov 13, 1959★ 7.6
In 2046, imprisoned for murder on a distant asteroid, Corry receives an unexpected present that brings a semblance of companionship during his isolation.

8Time Enough at Last
26 minNov 20, 1959★ 8.2
A bank teller, obsessed with reading, faces conflicts at work and home because of his passion for literature.

9Perchance to Dream
26 minNov 27, 1959★ 7.1
A man with a heart condition explains to his psychiatrist that he feels extremely tired, because he is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die.

10Judgment Night
26 minDec 4, 1959★ 7.0
In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there.

11And When the Sky Was Opened
26 minDec 11, 1959★ 7.8
Recovering in the hospital after a space mission, Major William Gart is visited by his co-pilot Lieutenant Colonel Clegg Forbes, who insists on the existence of a third astronaut.

12What You Need
26 minDec 25, 1959★ 7.7
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.

13The Four of Us are Dying
26 minJan 1, 1960★ 6.9
In this noirish tale, a man with the ability to change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters.

14Third from the Sun
26 minJan 8, 1960★ 7.5
With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship.

15I Shot an Arrow into the Air
26 minJan 15, 1960★ 7.4
Three astronauts crash-land on an unknown planet and must confront survival challenges, unraveling their unity in the face of desperation.

16The Hitch-Hiker
26 minJan 22, 1960★ 7.6
Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually encounters the same mysterious hitch-hiker who inexplicably reappears at various points in her journey.

17The Fever
26 minJan 29, 1960★ 6.4Now viewing
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.

18The Last Flight
26 minFeb 5, 1960★ 7.5
A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1959!

19The Purple Testament
26 minFeb 12, 1960★ 6.9
Lieutenant Fitzgerald, serving in World War II, possesses the disquieting ability to foresee impending death by observing a strange glow on the faces of his men before battle.

20Elegy
26 minFeb 19, 1960★ 7.5
Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time.

21Mirror Image
26 minFeb 26, 1960★ 7.5
In a bus depot, Millicent Barnes experiences odd events, leading to concerns about her sanity.

22The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
26 minMar 4, 1960★ 7.9
Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood.

23A World of Difference
26 minMar 11, 1960★ 7.4
Arthur Curtis, a successful businessman sitting in his office discovers that he is on a film set and everyone refers to him as Gerry Reagan, a movie star struggling with alcoholism and a declining career.

24Long Live Walter Jameson
26 minMar 18, 1960★ 7.4
Walter Jameson, a popular history professor, is suspected by his fiancée's father, another professor at the college, to be an immortal.

25People are Alike All Over
26 minMar 25, 1960★ 7.7
After a space exploration crash-lands on Mars, the lone surviving astronaut is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking and friendly.

26Execution
26 minApr 1, 1960★ 6.6
Just before being hanged for shooting a man in the back, an outlaw cowboy in 1880 is transported into the future.

27The Big Tall Wish
26 minApr 8, 1960★ 6.3
Washed-up boxer Bolie Jackson, with the help of a special wish from his young friend Henry, miraculously switches places with his opponent during a comeback fight, turning the tide in his favor.

28A Nice Place to Visit
26 minApr 15, 1960★ 7.3
After being shot to death, the criminal Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip in the afterlife, who gives him everything he wishes for.

29Nightmare as a Child
26 minApr 29, 1960★ 7.2
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory about a man she saw earlier that day.

30A Stop at Willoughby
26 minMay 6, 1960★ 7.9
Riding home on the train one day, a stressed businessman falls asleep and dreams it is 1888, and he is entering a small, idyllic town called Willoughby.

31The Chaser
26 minMay 13, 1960★ 6.7
A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, seeks the help of an old professor, who provides him with a love potion.

32A Passage for Trumpet
26 minMay 20, 1960★ 6.8
A down-and-out 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.

33Mr. Bevis
26 minJun 3, 1960★ 6.5
After losing his job, his car and his apartment on the same day, an eccentric loser gets a new lease on life from his guardian angel, but there is a price for keeping it.

34The After Hours
26 minJun 10, 1960★ 7.5
Puzzled and unsettled by the odd behavior of the salespeople, a woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist.

35The Mighty Casey
26 minJun 17, 1960★ 5.8
A baseball manager takes his team to the championships thanks to a robot pitcher.

36A World of His Own
26 minJul 1, 1960★ 7.6
Coming home, Victoria catches her husband Gregory flirting with a beautiful woman in his study. His explanation that characters come to life before his eyes when he speaks into his dictation machine, leads Victoria to question his sanity.
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