List of The Twilight Zone Episodes - Pre-series Pilot

Pre-series Pilot

Rod Serling wrote a teleplay intending for it to be the pilot episode of a new series called The Twilight Zone. Although it ended up airing on a different show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse, it is still considered the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone and has even been adapted as one of The Twilight Zone radio-show episodes.

Title Director Writer(s) Original air date
"The Time Element" Allen Reisner Rod Serling November 24, 1958 (1958-11-24)
A man (William Bendix) visits a psychoanalyst, complaining about a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, which takes a major psychological toll.

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