History Heartwarming / TheTwilightZone1959

* "The Fugitive" is a surprisingly heart-warming story about a deep friendship between a girl and an alien. [[spoiler: In the end, the alien turns out to be a handsome young alien prince. And according to Rod Serling, [[EarnYourHappyEnding the little girl grows up to be "an honest to goodness Queen".]]

* "The World of Horace Ford" has the titular Horace realize the [[NostalgiaFilter treasured]] childhood he's reminisced the entire episode [[TearJerker wasn't as happy or care-free as he remembered]]. It's his wife who tenderly comforts that [[{Reconstruction} it's human to see the past through a]] NostalgiaFilter.

* "The Fugitive" is a surprisingly heart-warming story about a deep friendship.
* The ending of "Miniature".
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* "A Piano in the House" reveals the aloof bachelor and playwright Greg

** Doubly heartwarming if you look at it as Death [[DontFearTheReaper simply not trying very hard to get away]] from Mr. Bookman's sales pitch. It's possible that Death was playing along.

* In the first season episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E2OneForTheAngels One for the Angels]]", an elderly pitchman named Lou Bookman is confronted by the Angel of Death who tells Bookman to put his affairs in order as he is scheduled to pass away in his sleep at midnight. Bookman tries to trick Death by convincing him to wait until he makes his greatest ever sales pitch, "one for the angels", but when Death agrees to the deal, Bookman immediately makes plans to [[LoopholeAbuse quit his job and never make another pitch]], and thus live forever. Then Bookman learns that ''someone'' [[BalancingDeathsBooks has to die at midnight]], and since Death is honoring their deal, he's going take a little girl who lives in Bookman's building instead. Bookman distracts Death with the greatest sales pitch he has ever done, making Death miss his midnight appointment and fulfilling their original agreement.

** Lou taking his merchandize to "up there," noting that someone "up there" might need those. Death also affirms, yes, you did make it "up there."

'''Bookman:''' Oh, excuse me, I forgot something. I'll be back in a minute. [gathers up his box full of merchandise] You never know who might need something, up there... Up there?\\
'''Death:''' Up there, Mr. Bookman. You made it.

* The ''Twilight Zone'' story called "Changing of the Guard". An old professor at a New England boy's school (played by Creator/DonaldPleasence, even though he was only in his early forties at the time), well past retirement but too beloved to be let go, is informed that yes, despite being a favorite teacher, he is in fact being let go, if with a generous pension. He takes this rather badly, and contemplates suicide. On his way to kill himself, he passes a statue and reads the quotation on the base, "Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.". The professor then reflects that he has not won any victory for humanity, and is quite ashamed to die. He cocks his pistol, puts it to his head, and...hears the sound of bells, chiming at an odd hour, followed by seeing lights in classrooms that should be dark. He goes to investigate, and is greeted by the ghosts of some of his old students. They explain to him in turns that yes, they died, and died to save others, at Chateau-Thierry, and at Pearl Harbor, and on Papua New Guinea, and they all died remembering some lesson he had taught them. One learnt patriotism, another learned humility, and a third courage. At the end of it, he thanks them all, and walks back to his room. As he passes the statue, he reads the quotation again, and comments that he has won no great victory, but he has helped others, and that may be enough.

* Though the ending is a bit of a TearJerker, "Kick The Can" is one of the most timeless and haunting of the ''[[Series/TheTwilightZone Twilight Zone]]'' episodes. The part that is heartwarming is that the old man's belief that magic is real turned out to be true.

* The ending to "Five Characters in Search of an Exit". [[spoiler: Rod Serling's narration implies that although the toys' situation is bad now, soon they'll be played with and cared for by children. Essentially, it's like the ''[[WesternAnimation/ToyStory Toy Story]]'' film series, with all the characters being like Buzz in how they are unaware of their true nature, and also in how they will learn and embrace it once they feel a child's love for them.]]

* The ending to "Five Characters in Search of an Exit". [[spoiler: Rod Serling's narration implies that although the toys' situation is bad now, soon they'll be played with and cared for by children.]]

* In "The Trouble With Templeton", actor Booth Templeton is going through a HeroicBSOD - behaving meekly while longing for the good old days of thirty years earlier, such as his dead first wife, Laura. After a rough first meeting for his newest play, Booth is suddenly transported to those good old days and encounters his loved ones. However, his reunions aren't quite what he expected - to the point of no one taking him seriously and Laura finally demanding "go back where [you] came from." Booth returns to the present and is quite distraught... until he realizes he has a script he earlier took from Laura: ''What To Do When Booth Comes Back''. Learning that it was all an act to get him to live life to the fullest, a smiling Booth shakes his HeroicBSOD and regains his confidence.

* "I Sing the Body Electric".

* In the first season episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E2OneForTheAngels One for the Angels]]", an elderly pitchman named Lou Bookman is confronted by the Angel of Death who tells Bookman to put his affairs in order as he is scheduled to pass away in his sleep at midnight. Bookman tries to trick Death by convincing him to wait until he makes his greatest ever sales pitch, "one for the angels", but when Death agrees to the deal, Bookman immediately makes plans to quit his job and never make another pitch, and thus live forever. Then Bookman learns that ''someone'' [[BalancingDeathsBooks has to die at midnight]], and since Death is honoring their deal, he's going take a little girl who lives in Bookman's building instead. Bookman distracts Death with the greatest sales pitch he has ever done, making Death miss his midnight appointment and fulfilling their original agreement.

** Triple heartwarming [[AlternateCharacterInterpretation if you consider the whole thing Death's]] BatmanGambit [[FaceDeathWithDignity to make Bookman come on his own terms.]]

* The ending to "Six Characters In Search Of An Exit". [[spoiler: Rod Serling's narration implies that although the toys' situation is bad now, soon they'll be played with and cared for by children.]]

* "The After Hours"' ending is strangely heartwarming. [[spoiler: The main character is one of the department store's mannequins. While sad, the ending shows that the mannequins care for each other, and that she will get to be human again someday soon.]]

* "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank", which starts with the title character suddenly [[BackFromTheDead rising from a wooden coffin]] during his funeral in the American midwest. During the episode, many of the locals feel threatened by Jeff, who is an unholy presence. Even his girlfriend, named Comfort, contemplates breaking up with him after receiving a dying flower that Jeff had freshly picked from his folks' rose bush. [[spoiler:Not only does Jeff persuade the locals from lynching him, Comfort ultimately decides to marry Jeff.]]

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** Doubly heartwarming if you look at it as Death [[DontFearTheReaper simply not trying very hard to get away]] from Mr. Bookman's sales pitch.

* "Night of the Meek" features an alcoholic MallSanta (whose rant explaining ''why'' he's an alcoholic is featured on the [[YMMV/TheTwilightZone YMMV page]]). He gets a hold of the ''real'' Santa's sack, and proceeds to hand out gifts to all of the poor children (and adults!) in the neighborhood. The end of the episode shows him sitting on a stoop, [[BagOfHolding magic bag empty]], and [[http://youtu.be/56ky9wHS9ow#t=5m00s reminiscing over the amount of smiles he'd been able to give that night.]] Someone comments he's taken nothing for himself, and he only muses the only thing he'd like [[spoiler:would be the gift of doing the same every year. He enters an alley, [[EarnYourHappyEnding where he meets one of Santa's elves, who approaches him and tells him that they'd been waiting for him, and they need to get a start on next year.]] ]]

* In the first season episode "One for the Angels", an elderly pitchman named Lou Bookman is confronted by the Angel of Death who tells Bookman to put his affairs in order as he is scheduled to pass away in his sleep at midnight. Bookman tries to trick Death by convincing him to wait until he makes his greatest ever sales pitch, "one for the angels", but when Death agrees to the deal, Bookman immediately makes plans to quit his job and never make another pitch, and thus live forever. Then Bookman learns that ''someone'' [[BalancingDeathsBooks has to die at midnight]], and since Death is honoring their deal, he's going take a little girl who lives in Bookman's building instead. Bookman distracts Death with the greatest sales pitch he has ever done, making Death miss his midnight appointment and fulfilling their original agreement.

** In one online version of the episode, just before he and Bookman walk off towards the afterlife, Death takes a quick look at his watch. [[spoiler: It's eleven fifty-nine.]]