What Are Friends For?

October 4, 1986

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The Twilight Zone - S2 - E3

"What Are Friends For?" is the first segment of the twenty-sixth episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.

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The Twilight Zone: Season 2 - 21 Episode s

2x1 - The Once and Future King
September 27, 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.
2x2 - A Saucer of Loneliness
September 27, 1986
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.
2x3 - What Are Friends For?
October 4, 1986
"What Are Friends For?" is the first segment of the twenty-sixth episode of the television series The New Twilight Zone.
2x4 - Aqua Vita
October 4, 1986
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 . 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.
2x5 - The Storyteller
October 11, 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!
2x6 - Nightsong
October 11, 1986
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.
2x7 - The After Hours
October 18, 1986
A Woman goes to a mall for a doll, but encounters strange things after the closing hours...
2x8 - Lost and Found
October 18, 1986
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.
2x9 - The World Next Door
October 18, 1986
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.
2x10 - The Toys of Caliban
December 4, 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.
2x11 - The Convict's Piano
December 11, 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.
2x12 - The Road Less Traveled
December 18, 1986
A man who dodges the Vietnam draft is haunted by visions of his other life as a soldier during the war.
2x13 - The Card
February 21, 1987
A compulsive spender accepts "The Card" to keep up her habit. Unfortunately stringent penalties kick in for late payments.
2x14 - The Junction
February 21, 1987
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.
2x15 - Joy Ride
May 21, 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.
2x16 - Shelter Skelter
May 21, 1987
A survivalist traps himself in his bomb shelter when a nuclear blast finally comes.
2x17 - Private Channel
May 21, 1987
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.
2x18 - Time and Teresa Golowitz
July 10, 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.
2x19 - Voices in the Earth
July 10, 1987
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.
2x20 - Song of the Younger World
July 17, 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.
2x21 - The Girl I Married
July 17, 1987
An attorney and his wife have successful careers. They feel something is lacking in their marriage. Soon, they encounter younger versions of their mates.

What Are Friends For?

The Twilight Zone - S2 - E3

The Twilight Zone: Season 2 - 21 Episode s

2x1 - The Once and Future King

2x2 - A Saucer of Loneliness

2x3 - What Are Friends For?

2x4 - Aqua Vita

2x5 - The Storyteller

2x6 - Nightsong

2x7 - The After Hours

2x8 - Lost and Found

2x9 - The World Next Door

2x10 - The Toys of Caliban

2x11 - The Convict's Piano

2x12 - The Road Less Traveled

2x13 - The Card

2x14 - The Junction

2x15 - Joy Ride

2x16 - Shelter Skelter

2x17 - Private Channel

2x18 - Time and Teresa Golowitz

2x19 - Voices in the Earth

2x20 - Song of the Younger World

2x21 - The Girl I Married

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S3: Season 3