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- wSerie
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- The Twilight Zone
- Season 1
- Episode 12
Harsh Mistress
The Twilight Zone - S1 - E12
A struggling musician named Cory purchases a rather infamous guitar, which leads to him gaining vast international stardom and wealth, but both come with a surprising price tag.
The Twilight Zone: Season 1 - 43 Episode s
1x1 - Evergreen
September 18, 2002
When rebellious teenager Jenna and her family move into an exclusive gated community that her parents hope will help them better control the troubled teen, Jenna soon discovers the dark truth behind how her new neighbors deal with discipline problems.
1x2 - One Night at Mercy
September 18, 2002
A young doctor meets a suicide who claims to be Death incarnate. When Death insists he wants to stop his killing ways, the doctor is forced to contemplate what life would be like without death.
1x3 - Shades of Guilt
September 25, 2002
Matt McGreevy is driving when a black man runs up to his car and begs for help. Matt drives away as a gang falls on the man and beat him to death. When he arrives home, Matt first bleeds from the cuts the dead man suffers, then his skin changes. By the time he gets back home he has transformed into the dead man, a college professor...
1x4 - Dream Lover
September 25, 2002
To help overcome his writer's block and make his life easier and more relaxed, an artist named Andrew wills his dream woman Sondra to life, but the lines between reality and fantasy quickly begin to blur. Sondra soon starts hitting on the cable guy and gaining a life of her own.
1x5 - Cradle of Darkness
October 2, 2002
Hoping to undo the horrors of WWII, a woman, Andre, sacrifices her own future when she goes back in time to stop Adolf Hitler by killing him when he is a baby.
1x6 - Night Route
October 2, 2002
A young woman's seemingly happy life unravels after a close call with a speeding car. The woman, Melina, begins to forget details of her lfie and how she met her fiance. Worse, she is haunted by strange phenomena: a mysterious bus that follows her and people who know her name that she's never met. Finally her fiance disappears without a trace, leaving her in a desolate life where she knows no one.
1x7 - Time Lapse
October 9, 2002
After an unconscious high-security patient arrives in his ward, Doctor Zack Taylor finds himself suffering from blackouts. On each occasion he wakes up partway along a byzantine assassination plot to kill the President's daughter with a plastic gun. He gets to the target's location, pulls out his gun, and...shoots an assassin behind the girl...
1x8 - Dead Man's Eyes
October 9, 2002
A distraught widow and former rehab patient on the verge of a total mental collapse, heavily invested in finding her husband's killer, discovers that her murdered husband's eyeglasses reveal the last moments of his life and possibly the identity of his killer...
1x9 - The Pool Guy
October 16, 2002
A pool cleaner loses the ability to distinguish dreams from reality.
1x10 - Azoth the Avenger is a Friend of Mine
October 16, 2002
A bullied boy, Craig, deciphers a coded message that allows him to summon his comic book hero, Azoth the Avenger. This long-haired Conan-like barbarian beats up the bullies that plague Craig, but is defenseless against his abusive father. Azoth returns to whence he came but inspires Craig to take a stand against his father - intoning the same spell as before and sending his father...somewhere, leaving him and his mother in peace.
1x11 - The Lineman
October 23, 2002
Tyler inherits the power to hear people's thoughts after a freak lightening storm. Eventually, he begins to abuse his new gift, using it as a means of acquiring vast wealth and personal gain. But then Tyler learns that his new power comes with a price. Believing Shannon wants a rich man, Tyler uses his ability to play the stock market, but is surprised at the consequences, especially when he tries to touch others' minds when they grow distant from him.
1x12 - Harsh Mistress
October 30, 2002
A struggling musician named Cory purchases a rather infamous guitar, which leads to him gaining vast international stardom and wealth, but both come with a surprising price tag.
1x13 - Upgrade
October 30, 2002
Annie fantasizes about her ideal family, a far cry from the dysfunctional group of people she sees everyday. But when her fantasies seemingly become reality, she is horrored to discover she is next on the replacement list.
1x14 - To Protect and Serve
November 6, 2002
A young cop falls madly in love with a prostitute, and he continues to protect her even when they are both killed.
1x15 - Chosen
November 6, 2002
A man is annoyed by two tenacious people he believes to be evangelists and refuses to listen to their claims that the day is Armageddon, but as it transpires the day is Armageddon, and the "evangelists" are Angels in need of help...
1x16 - Sensuous Cindy
November 13, 2002
A man buys a "virtual girlfriend" online simply to satisfy his carnal needs, but ends up becoming somebody else's sex slave.
1x17 - Hunted
November 13, 2002
A cop pursues the last known criminal in Earth's future society. But as it turns out, the criminal is fighting on the same side of the cop, to rid the world of androids.
1x18 - Mr. Motivation
November 20, 2002
A sinister toy doll encourages a timid man to stand up to his boss and take control of his life.
1x19 - Sanctuary
November 20, 2002
Stranded in a modern day Garden of Eden, a man and woman cannot resist the temptation of technology.
1x20 - Future Trade
November 27, 2002
A man with a dead-end job and a dysfunctional family is lured into trading his future for that of a seemingly privileged man with his trophy wife.
1x21 - Found and Lost
November 27, 2002
A successful businessman is given a second chance - to go back and be with his first love
1x22 - Gabe's Story
December 11, 2002
A man suffering from consistent bad luck is given a surprising chance to change his destiny.
1x23 - Last Lap
December 11, 2002
A terminally ill young man and his best friend take a final ride in their souped-up racer that results in unexpected consequences for both.
1x24 - The Path
January 8, 2003
Ally, a young writer for a tabloid, meets a man who claims he sees others the path they are destined to follow. His predictions for her prove uncannily accurate and she soon becomes dependent on his predictions to guide her life. When he gets hit by a car and killed she finds herself without hope.
1x25 - Fair Warning
January 8, 2003
Tina, a flower shop clerk, finds herself threatened by a seemingly-deranged man named George who mysteriously disappears after asking him to stop from killing her. When she finds him he has a perfect alibi and claims he doesn't know her. George keeps visiting her and no one ever sees him except Tina. Tina begins to question her sanity.
1x26 - Another Life
February 5, 2003
Marvin Gardens, a rich and famous upcoming rap singer, begins to have visions of himself being interrogated by policemen in a shadowy room, and the visions begin to drive him crazy.
1x27 - Rewind
February 5, 2003
Jonah, a gambler, never can beat "the house" no matter how hard he tries. But then he gets an interesting device that enables him to go back in time up to 5 minutes, and that means he has big chances for his gambling.
1x28 - Tagged
February 12, 2003
Marcus Fisher, a talented artist and street tagger, shoots a man painting over his spot at the insistence of his gang and the wall painting starts portraying the crime and filling in that he is the one who did the shooting.
1x29 - Into the Light
February 12, 2003
A teacher on her last few days of teaching high school suddenly starts seeing lights on peoples faces just before they die. When she starts seeing it on most of her students faces, she decides to find out what will happen.
1x30 - It's Still a Good Life
February 19, 2003
In this sequel to the original TZs "It's a Good Life", an adult Anthony Fremont continues to terrorize the town of Peaksville.
1x31 - The Monsters Are on Maple Street
February 19, 2003
In this remake of the original TZ's "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street", a neighborhood is terrorized by mysterious power outages and begin to turn on each other.
1x32 - Memphis
February 26, 2003
A dying man is transported back to the South in 1968 on the day of Martin Luther King's assassination and tries to stop the killing.
1x33 - How Much Do You Love Your Kid?
February 26, 2003
A woman's son is kidnapped and she becomes involved in a licensed reality TV show broadcasting her attempts to recover him.
1x34 - The Placebo Effect
April 2, 2003
A hypochondriac with the power to manifest his beliefs into reality poses a danger to the entire world.
1x35 - Cold Fusion
April 2, 2003
When the base staff at an Alaskan research base lose contact with the outside world, the military send a team in to investigate the disappearance.
1x36 - The Pharaoh's Curse
April 23, 2003
A young magician becomes the protégé of an elderly conjurer to learn the secret of an impossible escape - The Pharaoh's Curse.
1x37 - The Collection
April 23, 2003
A babysitter must deal with a girl who has a collection of dolls that come to life.
1x38 - Eye of the Beholder
April 30, 2003
Meet Mrs. Janet Tyler. She was born abnormally ugly and has undergone many plastic surgeries to change her appearance. None of them worked. Now after one last attempt the bandages are coming off. But will the latest surgery succeed where the others failed?
1x39 - Developing
April 30, 2003
A widow finds photos of their dream house improving with each picture she takes.
1x40 - The Executions of Grady Finch
May 7, 2003
A prisoner, Grady Finch, who insists on his innocence discovers that he can't be killed. He survives multiple execution attempts and his attorney eventually manages to get him released. Finch is elated, but as he emerges he confesses to his attorney that he was really guilty...and then he is finally killed as a statue of Nemesis, the Goddess of Vengeance, falls on top of him.
1x41 - Homecoming
May 7, 2003
A teenager has a brief reunion with his father, returned from the war.
1x42 - Sunrise
May 21, 2003
Several college students are thrust into a virtual nightmare when they discover an Aztec artifact that causes the sun to vanish and the only solution is a human sacrifice.
1x43 - Burned
May 21, 2003
A crooked real estate mogul pays the price for having a building burned down to collect the insurance money.