Stansfield, an astronaut, is sent to a planetary system 141 light-years from Earth. The trip will take 20 years each way. To save him the ordeal of forty years of loneliness, he is to be placed in (newly-developed) suspended animation. Before leaving, he meets and becomes enchanted by his colleague Sandra Horn in just one evening, but by the time he returned, Horn would be 40 years older and Stansfield would still be young because of the suspended animation.

The Twilight Zone (1959) Season 5 Episodes...

• s05e01 - In Praise of Pip
• s05e02 - Steel
• s05e03 - Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
• s05e04 - A Kind of Stopwatch
• s05e05 - The Last Night of a Jockey
• s05e06 - Living Doll
• s05e07 - The Old Man in the Cave
• s05e08 - Uncle Simon
• s05e09 - Probe 7: Over & Out
• s05e10 - The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms
• s05e11 - A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
• s05e12 - Ninety Years Without Slumbering
• s05e13 - Ring-A-Ding Girl
• s05e14 - You Drive
• s05e15 - The Long Morrow
• s05e16 - The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
• s05e17 - Number 12 Looks Just Like You
• s05e18 - Black Leather Jackets
• s05e19 - Night Call
• s05e20 - From Agnes - With Love
• s05e21 - Spur of the Moment
• s05e22 - An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
• s05e23 - Queen of the Nile
• s05e24 - What's in the Box
• s05e25 - The Masks
• s05e26 - I Am the Night - Color Me Black
• s05e27 - Sounds and Silences
• s05e28 - Caesar and Me
• s05e29 - The Jeopardy Room
• s05e30 - Stopover in a Quiet Town
• s05e31 - The Encounter
• s05e32 - Mr. Garrity and the Graves
• s05e33 - The Brain Center at Whipple's
• s05e34 - Come Wander with Me
• s05e35 - The Fear
• s05e36 - The Bewitchin' Pool

The Twilight Zone (1959) Show Summary

The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination".