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List of The Twilight Zone writers

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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[]

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)
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