List of The Twilight Zone writers

This is a list of writers for The Twilight Zone sorted by the amount of episodes written. Collaborations and one-episode writers are marked with dashes. (-) Contributions and episode numbers are noted in parenthesis.

92 Episodes

 * Rod Serling
 * "Where Is Everybody?" (S01E01)
 * "One for the Angels" (S01E02)
 * "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" (S01E03)
 * "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine" (S01E04)
 * "Walking Distance" (S01E05)
 * "Escape Clause" (S01E06)
 * "The Lonely" (S01E07)
 * "Time Enough at Last" (S01E08) (Based on a short story by Lynn Venable)
 * "Judgment Night" (S01E10)
 * "And When the Sky Was Opened" (S01E11) (Based on a short story by Richard Matheson)
 * "What You Need" (S01E12) (Based on a short story by Lewis Padgett)
 * "The Four of Us Are Dying" (S01E13) (Based on a short story by George Clayton Johnson)
 * "Third from the Sun" (S01E14) (Based on a short story by Richard Matheson)
 * "I Shot an Arrow into the Air" (S01E15) (Based on a story by Madelon Champion)
 * "The Hitch-Hiker" (S01E16) (Based on the radio play by Lucille Fletcher)
 * "The Fever" (S01E17)
 * "The Purple Testament" (S01E19)
 * "Mirror Image" (S01E21)
 * "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" (S01E22)
 * "People Are Alike All Over" (S01E25) (Based on a short story by Paul Fairman)
 * "Execution" (S01E26) (Based on a short story by George Clayton Johnson)
 * "The Big Tall Wish" (S01E27)
 * "Nightmare as a Child" (S01E29)
 * "A Stop at Willoughby" (S01E30)
 * "A Passage for Trumpet" (S01E32)
 * "Mr. Bevis" (S01E33)
 * "The After Hours" (S01E34)
 * "The Mighty Casey" (S01E35)
 * "King Nine Will Not Return" (S02E01)
 * "The Man in the Bottle" (S02E02)
 * "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room" (S02E03)
 * "A Thing About Machines" (S02E04)
 * "The Eye of the Beholder" (S02E06)
 * "The Lateness of the Hour" (S02E08)
 * "A Most Unusual Camera" (S02E10)
 * "The Night of the Meek" (S02E11)
 * "Dust" (S02E12)
 * "Back There" (S02E13)
 * "The Whole Truth" (S02E14)
 * "Twenty Two" (S02E17) (Based on an anecdote from Bennett Cerf's Famous Ghost Stories)
 * "The Odyssey of Flight 33" (S02E18)
 * "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" (S02E19)
 * "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" (S02E23)
 * "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" (S02E24)
 * "The Silence" (S02E25)
 * "The Mind and the Matter" (S02E27)
 * "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?" (S02E28)
 * "The Obsolete Man" (S02E29)
 * "The Arrival" (S03E02)
 * "The Shelter" (S03E03)
 * "The Passersby" (S03E04)
 * "The Mirror" (S03E06)
 * "It's a Good Life" (S03E08) (Based on a short story by Jerome Bixby)
 * "Deaths-Head Revisited" (S03E09)
 * "The Midnight Sun" (S03E10)
 * "Still Valley" (S03E11) (Based on a short story by Manly Wade Wellman)
 * "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" (S03E14) (Based on a short story by Marvin Petal)
 * "A Quality of Mercy" (S03E15) (Based on an idea by Sam Rolfe)
 * "One More Pallbearer" (S03E17)
 * "Showdown with Rance McGrew" (S03E20) (Based on an idea by Frederic Louis Fox)
 * "To Serve Man" (S03E24) (Based on a story by Damon Knight)
 * "The Little People" (S03E28)
 * "Four O'Clock" (S03E29) (Based on a short story by Price Day)
 * "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" (S03E30) (Based on a story by Frederic Louis Fox)
 * "The Trade-Ins" (S03E31)
 * "The Gift" (S03E32)
 * "The Dummy" (S03E33) (Based on a story by Lee Polk)
 * "Cavender Is Coming" (S03E36)
 * "The Changing of the Guard" (S03E37)
 * "The Thirty-Fathom Grave" (S04E02)
 * "He's Alive" (S04E04)
 * "No Time Like the Past" (S04E10)
 * "The Parallel" (S04E11)
 * "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" (S04E14) (Based on the short story "Blind Valley" by Malcolm Jameson)
 * "On Thursday We Leave for Home" (S04E16)
 * "The Bard" (S04E18)
 * "In Praise of Pip" (S05E01)
 * "A Kind of a Stopwatch" (S05E04) (Based on a story by Michael D. Rosenthal)
 * "The Last Night of a Jockey" (S05E05)
 * "The Old Man in the Cave" (S05E07) (Based on the short story "The Old Man" by Henry Slesar)
 * "Uncle Simon" (S05E08)
 * "Probe 7, Over and Out" (S05E09)
 * "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms" (S05E10)
 * "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain" (S05E11) (Based on a story by Lou Holz)
 * "The Long Morrow" (S05E15)
 * "The Masks" (S05E25)
 * "I Am the Night – Color Me Black" (S05E26)
 * "Sounds and Silences" (S05E27)
 * "The Jeopardy Room" (S05E29)
 * "Mr. Garrity and the Graves" (S05E32) (Based on a story by Mike Korologos)
 * "The Brain Center at Whipple's" (S05E33)
 * "The Fear" (S05E33)

22 Episodes

 * Charles Beaumont
 * "Perchance to Dream" (S01E09)
 * "Elegy" (S01E20)
 * "Long Live Walter Jameson" (S01E24)
 * "A Nice Place to Visit" (S01E28)
 * "The Howling Man" (S02E05)
 * "Static" (S02E20) (Based on a story by OCee Rich)
 * "The Prime Mover" (S02E21)
 * "Long Distance Call" (S02E22) - with William Idelson
 * "Shadow Play" (S02E26)
 * "The Jungle" (S03E12)
 * "Dead Man's Shoes" (S03E18)
 * "The Fugitive" (S03E25)
 * "Person or Persons Unknown" (S03E27)
 * "In His Image" (S04E01)
 * "Valley of the Shadow" (S04E03)
 * "Miniature" (S04E08)
 * "Printer's Devil" (S04E09)
 * "The New Exhibit" (S04E13)
 * "Passage on the Lady Anne" (S04E17)
 * "Living Doll" (S05E06)
 * "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" (S05E17) - with John Tomerlin
 * "Queen of the Nile" (S05E23)

14 Episodes

 * Richard Matheson
 * "The Last Flight" (S01E18)
 * "A World of Difference" (S01E23)
 * "A World of His Own" (S01E36)
 * "Nick of Time" (S02E07)
 * "The Invaders" (S02E15)
 * "Once Upon a Time" (S03E13)
 * "Little Girl Lost" (S03E26)
 * "Young Man's Fancy" (S03E34)
 * "Mute" (S04E05)
 * "Death Ship" (S04E06)
 * "Steel" (S05E02)
 * "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" (S05E03)
 * "Night Call" (S05E19)
 * "Spur of the Moment" (S05E21)

8 Episodes

 * Earl Hamner, Jr.
 * "The Hunt" (S03E19)
 * "A Piano in the House" (S03E22)
 * "Jess-Belle" (S04E07)
 * "Ring-a-Ding Girl" (S05E13)
 * "You Drive" (S05E14)
 * "Black Leather Jackets" (S05E18)
 * "Stopover in a Quiet Town" (S05E30)
 * "The Bewitchin' Pool" (S05E36)

5 Episodes

 * George Clayton Johnson
 * "A Penny for Your Thoughts" (S02E16)
 * "A Game of Pool" (S03E05)
 * "Nothing in the Dark" (S03E16)
 * "Kick the Can" (S03E21)
 * "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" (S05E12) (Story, as Johnson Smith)

3 Episodes

 * Montgomery Pittman
 * "Two" (S03E01)
 * "The Grave" (S03E07)
 * "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" (S03E23)

2 Episodes

 * Martin M. Goldsmith
 * "What's in the Box" (S05E24)
 * "The Encounter" (S05E31)

1 Episode

 * Robert Presnell, Jr. - "The Chaser" (S01E31) (Based on a short story by John Collier)
 * E. Jack Neuman - "The Trouble with Templeton" (S02E09)
 * William Idelson - "Long Distance Call" (S02E22) - with Charles Beaumont
 * Ray Bradbury - "I Sing the Body Electric" (S03E35)
 * John Furia, Jr. - "I Dream of Genie" (S04E12)
 * Reginald Rose - "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" (S04E15)
 * Richard De Roy - "Ninety Years Without Slumbering" (S05E12) (Teleplay)
 * Jerry McNeely - "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross" (S05E16) (Teleplay)
 * John Tomerlin - "Number 12 Looks Just Like You" (S05E17) - with Charles Beaumont
 * Bernard C. Schoenfeld - "From Agnes – With Love" (S05E20)
 * Robert Enrico - "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" (S05E22) (From a story by Ambrose Bierce)
 * Adele T. Strassfield - "Caesar and Me" (S05E28)
 * Anthony Wilson - "Come Wander with Me" (S05E34)