The Twilight Zone
Season: 2
Episode: 1
The Once and Future King / A Saucer of Loneliness
Air Date:27/09/1986
An Elvis impersonator is transported to the 1950s where he meets the real Elvis who thinks that the impersonator is his long dead brother. A quiet waitress sees a glowing UFO, which gives her a message that everyone wants to know. She refuses to reveal exactly what the message is.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: Jeff Yagher
Character: (segment "The Once and Future King")
Department: Acting
Name: Shelley Duvall
Character: Margaret (segment "A Saucer of Loneliness")
Department: Acting
Name: Lisa Jane Persky
Character: (segment "The Once and Future King")
Department: Acting
Name: Nan Martin
Character: (segment "A Saucer of Loneliness")
Department: Acting
Name: Paul Eiding
Character: (segment "The Once and Future King")
Department: Acting
Name: Richard Libertini
Character: (segment "A Saucer of Loneliness")
Department: Acting
Name: Mari Gorman
Character: (segment "A Saucer of Loneliness")
Department: Acting
Name: Shannon Lee Avnsoe
Character: (segment "A Saucer of Loneliness")
Department: Acting
Episode: 2
What Are Friends For? / Aqua Vita
Air Date:04/10/1986
Alex Mattingly wonders whether his son Jeff's new friend Mike is real or imaginary. This episode is a cruel "fountain of youth" spin-off. A fortyish reporter is at risk of losing her anchor position on a network evening news broadcast to a younger reporter. She hears about a special type of bottled water from a friend of hers. She orders some at a relatively low cost. It works. Yet she finds she must drink it every day in order to retain her youth. When she orders another 5-gallon container. The price jumps up to $200. She talks to the water deliveryman. He refers he to her as "girlie". She remarks "girlie" is an old term and asks for his actual age. He says something along the lines of "I don't think you'd want to know". She is halfway done with the second bottle and is tearing apart her place looking for items to pawn when her husband shows up. They have no kids. She explains what has happened and decides to end her dilemma by balancing their situations.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: Christopher McDonald
Character: (segment "Aqua Vita")
Department: Acting
Name: Fred Savage
Character: (segment "What Are Friends For?")
Department: Acting
Name: Mimi Kennedy
Character: (segment "Aqua Vita")
Department: Acting
Name: Tom Skerritt
Character: (segment "What Are Friends For?")
Department: Acting
Name: John D. LeMay
Character: (segment "Aqua Vita")
Department: Acting
Name: Lukas Haas
Character: (segment "What Are Friends For?")
Department: Acting
Name: Martin Doyle
Character: (segment "Aqua Vita")
Department: Acting
Name: Mark-Paul Gosselaar
Character: Tim Conrad (segment "What Are Friends For?")
Department: Acting
Name: Joseph Hacker
Character: (segment "Aqua Vita")
Department: Acting
Name: Johnny Green
Character: Larry Conrad (segment "What Are Friends For?")
Department: Acting
Episode: 3
The Storyteller / Nightsong
Air Date:11/10/1986
In the early 20th century a young woman takes a job as a teacher in a one-room schoolhouse. One of her students, Mica, secretly takes extra books home to read. When the teacher confronts him, she finds that the boy is reading the books to his ailing grandfather - who claims to be more than a hundred and forty years old! A young DJ working the graveyard shift at a radio station rediscovers a record album by her boyfriend who disappeared five years ago. When he suddenly appears again, she is surprised and upset.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: Antony Hamilton
Character: Simon Locke (segment "Nightsong")
Department: Acting
Name: David Faustino
Character: Micah Frost (segment "The Storyteller")
Department: Acting
Name: Lisa Eilbacher
Character: (segment "Nightsong")
Department: Acting
Name: Parley Baer
Character: (segment "The Storyteller")
Department: Acting
Name: Glynnis O'Connor
Character: (segment "The Storyteller")
Department: Acting
Name: Ellen Albertini Dow
Character: (segment "The Storyteller")
Department: Acting
Episode: 4
The After Hours / Lost and Found / The World Next Door
Air Date:18/10/1986
A Woman goes to a mall for a doll, but encounters strange things after the closing hours... A young college student has been losing personal items for some time. The mystery is resolved when she finds two time-travelers in her closet. A hen-pecked man with a boring life and a secret yearn to build inventions finds a secret door in his basement that leads to a parallel world. In that world, his counterpart is a rich famous inventor in a Victorian-style setting who is equally bored with his life. The two switch lives and are happy ever after.
Crew
Name: Rockne S. O'Bannon
Role: Writer
Department: Writing
Name: Paul Lynch
Role: Director
Department: Directing
Name: Rod Serling
Role: Writer
Department: Writing
Name: Bruce Malmuth
Role: Director
Department: Directing
Name: Gus Trikonis
Role: Director
Department: Directing
Name: George R. R. Martin
Role: Writer
Department: Writing
Guest Stars
Name: George Wendt
Character: (segment "The World Next Door")
Department: Acting
Name: Raye Birk
Character: (segment "Lost and Found")
Department: Acting
Name: Ann Wedgeworth
Character: (segment "The After Hours")
Department: Acting
Name: Leslie Ackerman
Character: (segment "Lost and Found")
Department: Acting
Name: Terry Farrell
Character: (segment "The After Hours")
Department: Acting
Name: Akosua Busia
Character: (segment "Lost and Found")
Department: Acting
Name: Dinah Lenney
Character: (segment "The World Next Door")
Department: Acting
Name: Ned Bellamy
Character: (segment "The After Hours")
Department: Acting
Name: Victoria Bass
Character: Lucille (segment "The World Next Door")
Department: Acting
Name: Albie Selznick
Character: (segment "The After Hours")
Department: Acting
Name: Edan Gross
Character: Boy (segment "The After Hours")
Department: Acting
Name: Jeffrey Tambor
Character: (segment "The World Next Door")
Department: Acting
Episode: 5
The Toys of Caliban
Air Date:04/12/1986
An elderly husband and wife live in terror of their son, a boy who has the power to summon anything he can conceive. They are forced to limit what he sees and reads, since anything he summons has to come from...somewhere. When he becomes sick from eating too much summoned food, they take him to a hospital and attract the attention of a social worker, who doesn't know of the boy's power and is shocked at the parents' harsh treatment. The boy inadvertently kills his mother when he sees a picture of a heart in a magazine, and "summons" it out of her chest. Later, as the social worker comes calling, the boy demonstrates his power by summoning his missing mother...who has been two weeks in the grave. As the worker summons the police, the boy's father has him summon an explosion, killing them both rather than have his son fall into the hands of the government.
Crew
Episode: 6
The Convict's Piano
Air Date:11/12/1986
A man in prison who insists that he is innocent of a crime discovers a piano that transports him to the old days of gangsters.
Crew
Episode: 7
The Road Less Traveled
Air Date:18/12/1986
A man who dodges the Vietnam draft is haunted by visions of his other life as a soldier during the war.
Crew
Episode: 8
The Card / The Junction
Air Date:21/02/1987
A compulsive spender accepts "The Card" to keep up her habit. Unfortunately stringent penalties kick in for late payments. A modern-day miner has an argument with his wife and then goes off to work in the local mine. A collapse traps him, but he finds another survivor - a miner who claims to be from 1912. The two men figure out that somehow they have become connected through time. The modern-day man helps the 1912 miner to survive, and the latter is rescued. The modern-day miner appears trapped...but the rescuers look in an unexpected spot and find him. It turns out the 1912 miner wrote a letter marked for delivery 74 years later directing them where to search.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: William Frankfather
Character: Rev. Bailey (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: Susan Blakely
Character: Linda Wolfe (segment "The Card")
Department: Acting
Name: Ann Doran
Character: Mrs. Clark (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: William Allen Young
Character: John Parker (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: Chris Mulkey
Character: Ray Dobson (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: Tanya Boyd
Character: Melissa Parker (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: Michael Alldredge
Character: Schmidt (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: Bobby Hosea
Character: Stretcher Bearer (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: Joe Unger
Character: 1st Rescuer (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: Virginia Kiser
Character: Catherine Foley (segment "The Card")
Department: Acting
Name: Christopher Kriesa
Character: 2nd Rescuer (segment "The Junction")
Department: Acting
Name: William Atherton
Character: (segment "The Card")
Department: Acting
Episode: 9
Joy Ride / Shelter Skelter / Private Channel
Air Date:21/05/1987
Two teenage boys and their girlfriends steal a recently deceased man's classic car. While they are on a joyride, they accidentally kill a policeman. A survivalist traps himself in his bomb shelter when a nuclear blast finally comes. On board an airplane, a lightning storm transforms a boy's walkman into a telepathic tuning device that informs him that the man sitting next to him is carrying a bomb.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: Joe Mantegna
Character: (segment "Shelter Skelter")
Department: Acting
Name: Scott Coffey
Character: (segment "Private Channel")
Department: Acting
Name: Tamara Taylor
Character: (segment "Shelter Skelter")
Department: Acting
Name: Robert Knepper
Character: (segment "Joy Ride")
Department: Acting
Name: Jon Gries
Character: (segment "Shelter Skelter")
Department: Acting
Name: Joan Allen
Character: (segment "Shelter Skelter")
Department: Acting
Name: Heidi Kozak
Character: (segment "Joy Ride")
Department: Acting
Name: Danica McKellar
Character: Deidre Dobbs (segment "Shelter Skelter")
Department: Acting
Name: Andrew Robinson
Character: (segment "Private Channel")
Department: Acting
Name: Robert Knepper
Character: (segment "Private Channel")
Department: Acting
Name: Heidi Kozak
Character: (segment "Private Channel")
Department: Acting
Episode: 10
Time and Teresa Golowitz / Voices in the Earth
Air Date:10/07/1987
A Broadway composer, Bluestone, who has just died of a heart attack is visited by "Prince", who gives him one wish because of his contributions to entertainment. Bluestone wants to relive a youthful encounter with the girl of his dreams, Mary Ellen Kasgrove. When he returns to the high school party, nothing is as he remembers it but one girl, Teresa Golowitz, sits by herself. Prince, in a girl's body, reminds him that Teresa committed suicide that night. Bluestone gets her to sing and convinces her to meet him the next day. When he returns to the present, Bluestone finds out that Teresa went on to become a famous singer and that because of his interference he won't be going to the "higher place". He and "Prince" head off to lower fields to prepare some entertainment. In the far future an expedition returns to a desolate barren Earth where a scientist begins to see the ghosts of those who died years ago.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: Grant Heslov
Character: Binky Blaustein (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Paul Sand
Character: Bluestone (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Jenny Agutter
Character: Jacinda Carlyle (segment "Voices in the Earth")
Department: Acting
Name: J.D. Roth
Character: Boy at Party (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Production
Name: Dennis Haskins
Character: Bledsoe (segment "Voices in the Earth")
Department: Acting
Name: Gene Barry
Character: Prince of Darkness (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Robert Krimmer
Character: Leader (segment "Voices in the Earth")
Department: Acting
Name: Wallace Langham
Character: Nelson Baxley (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Gina Gershon
Character: Laura (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Kristi Lynes
Character: Teresa Golowitz (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Heather Haase
Character: Mary Ellen Cosgrove (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Beau Dremann
Character: Bob (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Laurel Green
Character: Girl at Party (segment "Time and Teresa Golowitz")
Department: Acting
Name: Martin Balsam
Character: Prof. Donald Knowles (segment "Voices in the Earth")
Department: Acting
Name: Tim Russ
Character: Archer (segment "Voices in the Earth")
Department: Acting
Episode: 11
Song of the Younger World / The Girl I Married
Air Date:17/07/1987
In 1916 a girl and a young man from a reformatory for wayward boys fall in love and try to get away from her father, the superintendent. He finds out and doesn't approve of their love, locking away his daughter and punishing the boy. With the help of a wandering vagrant the girl finds a way to use a book to transfer both her and the boy into a primordial world where they become wolves and can live free and together. An attorney and his wife have successful careers. They feel something is lacking in their marriage. Soon, they encounter younger versions of their mates.
Crew
Guest Stars
Name: Jennifer Rubin
Character: Amy Hawkline (segment "Song of the Younger World")
Department: Acting
Name: Linda Kelsey
Character: (segment "The Girl I Married")
Department: Acting
Name: Paul Benedict
Character: Hoakie (segment "Song of the Younger World")
Department: Acting
Name: Dennis Patrick
Character: (segment "The Girl I Married")
Department: Acting
Name: Peter Kowanko
Character: Tanner Smith (segment "Song of the Younger World")
Department: Acting
Name: Roberts Blossom
Character: Mordecai Hawkline (segment "Song of the Younger World")
Department: Acting
Name: James Whitmore Jr.
Character: (segment "The Girl I Married")
Department: Directing