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** Another variation in "Street of Shadows". After Steve Cranston and Frederick Perry [[FreakyFridayFlip swap lives and identities]], Steve's image replaces Perry's in a photograph with the film star [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Lana Taylor]] and on his driver's license.
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** In "The Card", Linda Wolfe is the only person outside of the card company who remembers that she had a cat named Boris, a dog named Scooby and three children named Matt, Evan and B.J. after they all [[RetGone disappear in turn]] because of her delinquet account. Her husband Brian worries that she may be having a mental breakdown [[spoiler:until he himself disappears]].
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** In "The Card", Linda Wolfe is the only person outside of the card company who remembers that she had a cat named Boris, a dog named Scooby and three children named Matt, Evan and B.J. after they all [[RetGone disappear in turn]] because of her delinquet delinquent account. Her husband Brian worries that she may be having a mental breakdown [[spoiler:until he himself disappears]].disappears]].
** In "Street of Shadows", after Steve Cranston [[FreakyFridayFlip swaps lives]] with the millionaire Frederick Perry, he is the only person who is able to remember their original identities. Perry himself was in a coma at the time so it is not clear whether he could as well.
** In "Street of Shadows", after Steve Cranston [[FreakyFridayFlip swaps lives]] with the millionaire Frederick Perry, he is the only person who is able to remember their original identities. Perry himself was in a coma at the time so it is not clear whether he could as well.
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* StrugglingSingleMother: In "Stranger in Possum Meadows", Danny Wilkins and his mother live in a delapidated trailer. His [[DisappearedDad father left years ago]], as did her subsequent boyfriend. His mother works almost every night in order to provide a meager living for the two of them.
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* StrugglingSingleMother: In "Stranger in Possum Meadows", Danny Wilkins and his mother live in a delapidated dilapidated trailer. His [[DisappearedDad father left years ago]], as did her subsequent boyfriend. His mother works almost every night in order to provide a meager living for the two of them.
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* {{Subtext}}: "Extra Innings" had a washed-up former baseball star who was good friends with a tween or teen girl. Nothing too creepy, yet. They trade cards a lot, and she gets him this 1910 card of a rookie who looked just like him and had exactly the same stats as him. Then, he discovers that the card allows him to take control of the rookie on the card, which also takes him back to 1910. Then, the next day, he tells the girl about it, and at first she doesn't believe him. When he shows her the stats, she believes him, as they have changed. Then, when he takes her back in time with him, before the card opens the portal, he puts his arm around her. Between her face there and the dialog, which sounds like it came from a VerySpecialEpisode about child molestation, the creepy subtext is amazing.
* SuicideByCop: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson never stayed anywhere too long for fear of activating the recessive gene that turns ordinary humans into vampire-killing monsters. After traveling the world for almost 150 years, he returns to his home town of Mill Valley so that he can die where he was born. Several days after his arrival, many of the townspeople turn into monsters and kill him in a very brutal fashion. Benedictson was [[ICannotSelfTerminate either willing or unable to kill himself]].
* SuicideByCop: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson never stayed anywhere too long for fear of activating the recessive gene that turns ordinary humans into vampire-killing monsters. After traveling the world for almost 150 years, he returns to his home town of Mill Valley so that he can die where he was born. Several days after his arrival, many of the townspeople turn into monsters and kill him in a very brutal fashion. Benedictson was [[ICannotSelfTerminate either willing or unable to kill himself]].
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** "Extra Innings" had a washed-up former baseball star who was good friends with a tween or teen girl. Nothing too creepy, yet. They trade cards a lot, and she gets him this 1910 card of a rookie who looked just like him and had exactly the same stats as him. Then, he discovers that the card allows him to take control of the rookie on the card, which also takes him back to 1910. Then, the next day, he tells the girl about it, and at first she doesn't believe him. When he shows her the stats, she believes him, as they have changed. Then, when he takes her back in time with him, before the card opens the portal, he puts his arm around her. Between her face there and the dialog, which sounds like it came from a VerySpecialEpisode about child molestation, the creepy subtext is amazing.
** In "Stranger in Possum Meadows", it is not stated outright but it is clear that Mrs. Wilkins doesn't want her son Danny spending any time with Scout as she is afraid that he is a pedophile. His odd and creepy demeanor seems to confirm this and she instructs Danny to come home straight after school instead of showing Scout around Possum Meadows as he promised. The next day, Danny disobeys his mother and goes to the meadow, where his conversation with Scout features even more subtext. Scout tells him that he talked to Mrs. Wilkins and that she said that it was okay for Danny to come with him. Danny is reluctant but Scout convinces him to do so by reminding him that they are friends. Scout isn't a pedophile but an alien who has come to Earth to [[TheCollector collect specimens]]. He chooses Danny as the human specimen but eventually lets him go.
* SuicideByCop: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson never stayed anywhere too long for fear of activating the recessive gene that turns ordinary humans into vampire-killing monsters. After traveling the world for almost 150 years, he returns to his home town of Mill Valley so that he can die where he was born. Several days after his arrival, many of the townspeople turn into monsters and kill him in a very brutal fashion. Benedictson was [[ICannotSelfTerminate eitherwilling unwilling or unable to kill himself]].
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** "Extra Innings" had a washed-up former baseball star who was good friends with a tween or teen girl. Nothing too creepy, yet. They trade cards a lot, and she gets him this 1910 card of a rookie who looked just like him and had exactly the same stats as him. Then, he discovers that the card allows him to take control of the rookie on the card, which also takes him back to 1910. Then, the next day, he tells the girl about it, and at first she doesn't believe him. When he shows her the stats, she believes him, as they have changed. Then, when he takes her back in time with him, before the card opens the portal, he puts his arm around her. Between her face there and the dialog, which sounds like it came from a VerySpecialEpisode about child molestation, the creepy subtext is amazing.
** In "Stranger in Possum Meadows", it is not stated outright but it is clear that Mrs. Wilkins doesn't want her son Danny spending any time with Scout as she is afraid that he is a pedophile. His odd and creepy demeanor seems to confirm this and she instructs Danny to come home straight after school instead of showing Scout around Possum Meadows as he promised. The next day, Danny disobeys his mother and goes to the meadow, where his conversation with Scout features even more subtext. Scout tells him that he talked to Mrs. Wilkins and that she said that it was okay for Danny to come with him. Danny is reluctant but Scout convinces him to do so by reminding him that they are friends. Scout isn't a pedophile but an alien who has come to Earth to [[TheCollector collect specimens]]. He chooses Danny as the human specimen but eventually lets him go.
* SuicideByCop: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson never stayed anywhere too long for fear of activating the recessive gene that turns ordinary humans into vampire-killing monsters. After traveling the world for almost 150 years, he returns to his home town of Mill Valley so that he can die where he was born. Several days after his arrival, many of the townspeople turn into monsters and kill him in a very brutal fashion. Benedictson was [[ICannotSelfTerminate either
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* VoluntaryShapeshifting: In "Stranger in Possum Meadows", Scout belongs to a race of shapeshifters. In his report to his home planet, he says that it was easy for him to assume a human form.
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** {{Inverted|Trope}} in "The Cold Equations", which takes place in the late 2050s. The [[Literature/TheColdEquations short story]] by Tom Godwin takes place in 2178.
* ThrownOutTheAirlock: In "The Cold Equations", Marilyn Lee Cross must be jettisoned into space after she stows away on the Emergency Dispatch Ship because her added weight means the ship doesn't have enough fuel to land safely at its destination Woden.
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* VideoPhone: In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin calls [=MedEm=] over a video phone in order to receive medical assistance after being hit by a car. The nurse immediately hangs up when she sees the invisibility implant on Mitchell's forehead.
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** In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin calls [=MedEm=] over a video phone in order to receive medical assistance after being hit by a car. The nurse immediately hangs up when she sees the invisibility implant on Mitchell'sforehead.forehead.
** In "The Cold Equations", Captain Thomas Barton communicates with Commander Delhart and the Ship's Records clerk over a video phone. Marilyn Lee Cross later uses it to talk to her brother Gerry.
** In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin calls [=MedEm=] over a video phone in order to receive medical assistance after being hit by a car. The nurse immediately hangs up when she sees the invisibility implant on Mitchell's
** In "The Cold Equations", Captain Thomas Barton communicates with Commander Delhart and the Ship's Records clerk over a video phone. Marilyn Lee Cross later uses it to talk to her brother Gerry.
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* StalkerWithACrush: In "Appointment on Route 17", Mary Jo initially regards Tom Bennett's interest in her as being extremely creepy as he is clearly only visiting the diner where she works in order to be near her. She angrily tells him that there is nothing for him there. However, Mary Jo eventually realizes that Tom is a nice man who is attracted to her as opposed to a stalker. Tom doesn't reveal to her that his attraction is caused by [[LiteralChangeOfHeart possessing her late boyfriend Jamie Adler's heart]].
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* {{Seers}}: In "A Message from Charity", after she is [[WitchHunt accused of witchcraft]], Charity Payne claims to have second sight and obliquely reveals that she is aware of the bodies of two murdered sailors hidden in Squire Jonas Hacker's root cellar. She had in fact learned of the bodies from a history book that Peter Wood found in 1985. As a result, Hacker finds her innocent of witchcraft, saying that second sight is a gift from {{God}} which his own grandmother possessed.
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** In "A Message from Charity", after she is [[WitchHunt accused of witchcraft]], Charity Payne claims to have second sight and obliquely reveals that she is aware of the bodies of two murdered sailors hidden in Squire Jonas Hacker's root cellar. She had in fact learned of the bodies from a history book that Peter Wood found in 1985. As a result, Hacker finds her innocent of witchcraft, saying that second sight is a gift from {{God}} which his own grandmother possessed.
** In "20/20 Vision", the farmer's bank loan officer Warren Cribbens discovers that he can see the future through the cracked right lens of his glasses. This ability first manifests when he witnesses a teller accidentally dropping a bill into the trash several seconds before it happens. When the bank president Cutler orders him to foreclose on the struggling farmer Vern Slater's property, Warren sees a depressed and destitute Vern through his glasses. He later visits the Slater farm and sees it in a dilapidated state. Warren's conscience then gets the better of him and he loans Vern some of his own money to tide him over, which leads the furious Cutler to fire him. He also able to use his powers to prevent his secretary Sandy from falling off a ladder and breaking her neck.
** In "A Message from Charity", after she is [[WitchHunt accused of witchcraft]], Charity Payne claims to have second sight and obliquely reveals that she is aware of the bodies of two murdered sailors hidden in Squire Jonas Hacker's root cellar. She had in fact learned of the bodies from a history book that Peter Wood found in 1985. As a result, Hacker finds her innocent of witchcraft, saying that second sight is a gift from {{God}} which his own grandmother possessed.
** In "20/20 Vision", the farmer's bank loan officer Warren Cribbens discovers that he can see the future through the cracked right lens of his glasses. This ability first manifests when he witnesses a teller accidentally dropping a bill into the trash several seconds before it happens. When the bank president Cutler orders him to foreclose on the struggling farmer Vern Slater's property, Warren sees a depressed and destitute Vern through his glasses. He later visits the Slater farm and sees it in a dilapidated state. Warren's conscience then gets the better of him and he loans Vern some of his own money to tide him over, which leads the furious Cutler to fire him. He also able to use his powers to prevent his secretary Sandy from falling off a ladder and breaking her neck.
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* SuperPowersForADay: In "Private Channel", Keith Barnes' Walkman is effected by an electrical discharge after lightning strikes the plane. He soon discovers not only that it allows him to read minds but that a passenger is wearing a bomb vest and plans to blow up the plane. It turns out to be Mr. Williams, who is in the seat beside him. Keith tries in vain to convince Williams not to go through his plan. After Williams reveals that he has a bomb, Keith places the Walkman on him so that he can hear the frightened thoughts of the passengers and crew. As Williams is led away by security, he steps on the Walkman and it is crushed.
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** In "Private Channel", Keith Barnes' Walkman is effected by an electrical discharge after lightning strikes the plane. He soon discovers not only that it allows him to read minds but that a passenger is wearing a bomb vest and plans to blow up the plane. It turns out to be Mr. Williams, who is in the seat beside him. Keith tries in vain to convince Williams not to go through his plan. After Williams reveals that he has a bomb, Keith places the Walkman on him so that he can hear the frightened thoughts of the passengers and crew. As Williams is led away by security, he steps on the Walkman and it iscrushed.crushed.
** In "20/20 Vision", Warren Cribbens gains the ability to see into the future when he bumps into Sandy and the right lens of his reading glasses breaks. Later that day, Warren saves Sandy from falling off a ladder and breaking her neck. In the process, the other lens is broken but Warren assures her that he doesn't need them anymore.
** In "Private Channel", Keith Barnes' Walkman is effected by an electrical discharge after lightning strikes the plane. He soon discovers not only that it allows him to read minds but that a passenger is wearing a bomb vest and plans to blow up the plane. It turns out to be Mr. Williams, who is in the seat beside him. Keith tries in vain to convince Williams not to go through his plan. After Williams reveals that he has a bomb, Keith places the Walkman on him so that he can hear the frightened thoughts of the passengers and crew. As Williams is led away by security, he steps on the Walkman and it is
** In "20/20 Vision", Warren Cribbens gains the ability to see into the future when he bumps into Sandy and the right lens of his reading glasses breaks. Later that day, Warren saves Sandy from falling off a ladder and breaking her neck. In the process, the other lens is broken but Warren assures her that he doesn't need them anymore.
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** Jack in "Acts of Terror" beats Louise, cheats on her, and breaks her property. Thanks to a supernatural Doberman responding to her anger, Jack starts suffering for his ways. When Louise is finally pushed over the edge, the Doberman begins mauling Jack (who is begging for mercy). Louise ultimately stops it from killing him, and the dog vanishes. The next morning, rather than express gratitude or change his ways, Jack intends to get payback for his injuries now that the supernatural pooch is seemingly gone. Of course, Louise is no longer scared of him, and the Doberman reappears as backup.
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* TakenForGranite: In "The Call", Norman Blane is turned into a bronze sculpture so that he and Mary Ann Lindeby, [[HauntedFetter whose spirit inhabits her bronze self-portrait]], can spend all eternity together and end their terrible loneliness. As such, this is a rare example of this trope leading to a HappyEnding.
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* TearsFromAStone: In "The Call", the bronze sculpture of Mary Ann Lindeby, [[HauntedFetter whose spirit inhabits it]], sheds a single tear when Norman Blane tells her that he has fallen in love with her.
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* RapidAging: In "Aqua Vita", the 40-year-old Christie Copperfield has the appearance of a woman in her 70s after she neglects to drink her daily glass of Aqua Vita.
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** In "Aqua Vita", the 40-year-old Christie Copperfield has the appearance of a woman in her 70s after she neglects to drink her daily glass of AquaVita.Vita.
** In "Our Selena is Dying", Debra Brockman, who is in her early 30s, has her LifeEnergy [[LifeDrinker drained]] by her aunt Selena. Afterwards, she appears to be in her 70s. The same is true of her cousin Diane, whose youth was drained by her own mother Martha.
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** In "Our Selena is Dying", Debra Brockman, who is in her early 30s, has her LifeEnergy [[LifeDrinker drained]] by her aunt Selena. Afterwards, she appears to be in her 70s. The same is true of her cousin Diane, whose youth was drained by her own mother Martha.
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* YoungerThanTheyLook: In "Our Selena is Dying", Debra Brockman and her cousin Diane are both in their 30s but have the appearance of women in their 70s as they have had their LifeEnergy stolen by Selena and Martha respectively.
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his page covers tropes found in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985''. Tropes beginning with letters A-H can be found at TheTwilightZone1985/TropesAToH and tropes beginning with letters I-P can be found at TheTwilightZone1985/TropesIToP.
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* {{Reincarnation}}: In "Her Pilgrim Soul", [[spoiler:Dr. Kevin Drayton is the reincarnation of Nola Granville's husband Robert Goldstone. Her soul appeared to Kevin in the holographic projector that he created so that they could live out the full life together that they were denied when she [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] in March 1943. Robert carried his grief at losing her over into his next life as Kevin, whose fear of experiencing the same kind of loss once again led him to distance himself from his wife Carol. The closure that Nola provides Kevin allows him to reconcile with Carol.]]
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** In "Her Pilgrim Soul", [[spoiler:Dr. Kevin Drayton is the reincarnation of Nola Granville's husband Robert Goldstone. Her soul appeared to Kevin in the holographic projector that he created so that they could live out the full life together that they were denied when she [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] in March 1943. Robert carried his grief at losing her over into his next life as Kevin, whose fear of experiencing the same kind of loss once again led him to distance himself from his wife Carol. The closure that Nola provides Kevin allows him to reconcile with Carol.]]]]
** In "Memories", reincarnation is a fact of life in the AlternateUniverse as everyone is able to [[PastLifeMemories remember the details of their past lives]] as if it had happened to them personally. Occasionally, souls go out of circulation for a time before being reborn yet again. New souls are created but such people often have a vacant look compared to people with past lives.
** In "Her Pilgrim Soul", [[spoiler:Dr. Kevin Drayton is the reincarnation of Nola Granville's husband Robert Goldstone. Her soul appeared to Kevin in the holographic projector that he created so that they could live out the full life together that they were denied when she [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] in March 1943. Robert carried his grief at losing her over into his next life as Kevin, whose fear of experiencing the same kind of loss once again led him to distance himself from his wife Carol. The closure that Nola provides Kevin allows him to reconcile with Carol.
** In "Memories", reincarnation is a fact of life in the AlternateUniverse as everyone is able to [[PastLifeMemories remember the details of their past lives]] as if it had happened to them personally. Occasionally, souls go out of circulation for a time before being reborn yet again. New souls are created but such people often have a vacant look compared to people with past lives.
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** In "Dream Me a Life", Roger Simpson Leeds burns his right hand on one of the many candles in Laurel Kincaid's room after he [[DreamWalker enters her dream]], causing him to wake up. He immediately realizes that he has a large burn mark.
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* RuleOfThree: In "The Crossing", the apparition of the car in which Father Mark Cassidy's late girlfriend Kelly is a passenger appears to him three times. He figures out that he is supposed to get into it on the third occasion.
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* {{Workaholic}}: In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Dr. Kevin Drayton has been working obsessively to perfect his holographic projector for three years to the detriment of his marriage to Carol. She wants to start a family but their marriage is in the process of failing as she and Kevin barely even see each other anymore. [[spoiler:Kevin later learns from Nola Granville that he is the {{Reincarnation}} of her husband Robert Goldstone and that he inherited Robert's fear of loving someone after Nola [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]]. This fear led him to act coldly towards Carol.]]
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** In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Dr. Kevin Drayton has been working obsessively to perfect his holographic projector for three years to the detriment of his marriage to Carol. She wants to start a family but their marriage is in the process of failing as she and Kevin barely even see each other anymore. [[spoiler:Kevin later learns from Nola Granville that he is the {{Reincarnation}} of her husband Robert Goldstone and that he inherited Robert's fear of loving someone after Nola [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]]. This fear led him to act coldly towards Carol.]]]]
** In "The Crossing", Father Mark Cassidy has been working tirelessly in order to secure funding for the new children's wing of the hospital for two years. Both his housekeeper Maggie Dugan and Monsignor Perrault are concerned that he is going to make himself sick if he doesn't take a break. The latter comments that Father Mark has not taken a vacation in the 20 years that they have known each other. When the children's wing is opened, the bishop orders Father Mark to take some time off. The reason that he works so hard is that he feels the need to [[TheAtoner atone]] for the death of his girlfriend Kelly in the car that he was driving more than 20 years earlier.
** In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Dr. Kevin Drayton has been working obsessively to perfect his holographic projector for three years to the detriment of his marriage to Carol. She wants to start a family but their marriage is in the process of failing as she and Kevin barely even see each other anymore. [[spoiler:Kevin later learns from Nola Granville that he is the {{Reincarnation}} of her husband Robert Goldstone and that he inherited Robert's fear of loving someone after Nola [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]]. This fear led him to act coldly towards Carol.
** In "The Crossing", Father Mark Cassidy has been working tirelessly in order to secure funding for the new children's wing of the hospital for two years. Both his housekeeper Maggie Dugan and Monsignor Perrault are concerned that he is going to make himself sick if he doesn't take a break. The latter comments that Father Mark has not taken a vacation in the 20 years that they have known each other. When the children's wing is opened, the bishop orders Father Mark to take some time off. The reason that he works so hard is that he feels the need to [[TheAtoner atone]] for the death of his girlfriend Kelly in the car that he was driving more than 20 years earlier.
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* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", Bluestone tells Nelson Baxley that he will go into television production and win two [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]] in the future.
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** In "Extra Innings", Paula gives Ed Hamner a 1910 baseball card showing a player named Monte Hanks, who bears a remarkable resemblance to Ed and whose stats are identical to Ed's first two years in the Major Leagues. The card allows Ed to travel back in time to 1910 and assume Hanks' identity. While there, he scores a home run. After returning to 1988, he shows Paula the card and it now says that Hanks scored eight home runs in 1910 instead of seven. After Ed goes back to 1910 for the third time, Paula rips the card in half as she knows that he would rather remain in the past. That night, the stats on the card change before her eyes. As Hanks, Ed played in the Major Leagues until the early 1920s. When Paula turns the card around, there is a new photograph of a smiling Ed with the caption "Batting Champion."
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* {{Subtext}}: "Extra Innings" had a washed-up former baseball star who was good friends with a tween or teen girl. Nothing too creepy, yet. They trade cards a lot, and she gets him this 1909 card of a rookie who looked just like him and had exactly the same stats as him. Then, he discovers that the card allows him to take control of the rookie on the card, which also takes him back to 1909. Then, the next day, he tells the girl about it, and at first she doesn't believe him. When he shows her the stats, she believes him, as they have changed. Then, when he takes her back in time with him, before the card opens the portal, he puts his arm around her. Between her face there and the dialog, which sounds like it came from a VerySpecialEpisode about child molestation, the creepy subtext is amazing.
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** In "Extra Innings", an [[CareerEndingInjury injured baseball player]] named Ed Hamner receives a 1910 baseball card from his teenage neighbor Paula depicting a player named Monty Hanks who looks just like him. Possessing the card allows Ed to travel to 1910 and play as Monty free of any injury.
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** In "Extra Innings", an [[CareerEndingInjury injured baseball player]] named Ed Hamner receives a 1910 baseball card from his teenage neighbor Paula depicting a player named Monty Monte Hanks who looks just like him. Possessing the card allows Ed to travel to 1910 and play as Monty Monte free of any injury.
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* RubeGoldbergDevice: In "The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon", the title character has been maintaining a contraption built from odds and ends such as dolls' heads, bicycle spokes, baseball cards, paper clips and broken instruments for eleven years. He regularly rummages through trash cans and dumps to find things that he desperately needs for it. Both his niece Cynthia and his landlady Mrs. Milligan are concerned by his behavior and ask the psychiatrist Dr. Jeremy Sinclair to look in on him. Edgar explains to Dr. Sinclair that a [[HearingVoices strange voice]] told him that the contraption was necessary in order to keep the world from going puff. Sinclair [[CassandraTruth initially does not believe]] Edgar, thinking that he is suffering from a psychosis, but eventually realizes that it is all true when Tatoa, a tiny island in the South Pacific, is destroyed exactly as Edgar said it would be. After Edgar is relieved of his duty, it falls to Sinclair to [[PassingTheTorch keep the world in balance]].
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* StarCrossedLovers: {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Song of the Younger World". Mordecai Hawkline forbids his daughter Amy from ever seeing Tanner Smith again as he is an inmate of the House of Refuge Reformatory for Wayward Boys of which Mordecai is the warden. Amy and Tanner manage to escape Mordecai's grasp by [[AstralProjection transferring their souls]] into the bodies of wolves in a [[AlternateUniverse younger world]], where they can presumably live happily ever after.
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* StarCrossedLovers: {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Song of the Younger World". Mordecai Hawkline forbids his daughter Amy from ever seeing Tanner Smith again as he is an inmate of the House of Refuge Reformatory for Wayward Boys of which Mordecai is the warden.superintendent. Amy and Tanner manage to escape Mordecai's grasp by [[AstralProjection transferring their souls]] into the bodies of wolves in a [[AlternateUniverse younger world]], where they can presumably live happily ever after.
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* StarCrossedLovers: {{Subverted|Trope}} in "Song of the Younger World". Mordecai Hawkline forbids his daughter Amy from ever seeing Tanner Smith again as he is an inmate of the House of Refuge Reformatory for Wayward Boys of which Mordecai is the warden. Amy and Tanner manage to escape Mordecai's grasp by [[AstralProjection transferring their souls]] into the bodies of wolves in a [[AlternateUniverse younger world]], where they can presumably live happily ever after.
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** In "The Girl I Married", Valerie Richman becomes irritated with the hippie version of her husband Ira and says that he is beginning to sound like something out of a rerun of ''Series/TheModSquad''.
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* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", Bluestone tells Nelson Baxley that he will go into television production and win two [[UsefulNotes/EmmyAward Emmys]] in the future.
* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", Bluestone abandons his plan to have sex with Mary Ellen Cosgrove and instead prevents the title character from [[DrivenToSuicide committing suicide]] in October 1948. In the altered history, she becomes a highly successful singer. The Prince of Darkness admits that this was his plan all along as he is a sculptor of possibilities who could not bear the idea of the world losing a talent like Teresa's at 16.
** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", the Prince of Darkness appears to Bluestone as a suave man in his 60s wearing an elegant suit.
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** In "Joy Ride", Greg sarcastically asks Adrienne if she wants to vegetate like her mother and watch ''Series/Dynasty1981''.
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** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", Bluestone is played by Grant Heslov as a 16-year-old in 1948 and by Paul Sand as a 55-year-old in 1987.
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* UrbanRuins: In "Voices in the Earth", Professor Donald Knowles, Jacinda Carlyle, Archer and Bledsoe explore the 1,000-year-old decaying ruins of a city on the [[EarthThatWas dead Earth]].
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** In "Joy Ride", Alonzo, his brother Greg, Deena and Adrienne steal a classic car and go joy riding. They soon discover that they have been sent back to 1957, when the car was manufactured.
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* StockFootage: In "Chameleon", footage of a UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle in orbit, several astronauts on a spacewalk and the shuttle returning to Earth are used to represent the ''Discovery'''s mission.
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** In "Chameleon", footage of a UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle in orbit, several astronauts on a spacewalk and the shuttle returning to Earth are used to represent the ''Discovery'''smission.mission.
** In "Private Channel", all of the exterior shots of the plane are taken from ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''.
** In "Chameleon", footage of a UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle in orbit, several astronauts on a spacewalk and the shuttle returning to Earth are used to represent the ''Discovery'''s
** In "Private Channel", all of the exterior shots of the plane are taken from ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''.
* SuperPowersForADay: In "Private Channel", Keith Barnes' Walkman is effected by an electrical discharge after lightning strikes the plane. He soon discovers not only that it allows him to read minds but that a passenger is wearing a bomb vest and plans to blow up the plane. It turns out to be Mr. Williams, who is in the seat beside him. Keith tries in vain to convince Williams not to go through his plan. After Williams reveals that he has a bomb, Keith places the Walkman on him so that he can hear the frightened thoughts of the passengers and crew. As Williams is led away by security, he steps on the Walkman and it is crushed.
** In "Joy Ride", Greg sarcastically asks Adrienne if she wants to vegetate like her mother and watch ''Series/Dynasty1981''.
* TimePassageBeard: In "Shelter Skelter", Harry Dobbs and Nick Gatlin both have full beards after six weeks in the fallout shelter. Harry eventually shaves his but Nick's becomes longer and more unkempt as the months pass.
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** In "Joy Ride", Alonzo, his brother Greg, Deena and Adrienne steal a classic car and go joy riding. They soon discover that they have been sent back to the 1950s, 1957, when the car was manufactured.
* TitledAfterTheSong: "Shelter Skelter" is a reference to Music/TheBeatles song "Helter Skelter".
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** Near the end of "Shelter Skelter", the camera leaves Harry Dobbs in his shelter and pans over the destruction and rubble among a darkened landscape... [[spoiler:before coming across a curved wall. Moving ''past'' it, we are shown... a bright, sunny day, with people out and about in a park, where we also see that the curved wall was part of a dome]].
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** In "Shelter Skelter", Harry Dobbs and Nick Gatlin see and hear [[EmergencyBroadcast reports]] about an escalating crisis in the Middle East and the US preparing to take any means necessary to defend itself. Harry witnesses an immense explosion and concludes that the nearby Wakefield Air Force Base has been destroyed and World War III has begun. They enter the fallout shelter in Harry's basement to protect themselves from the high levels of radiation. [[spoiler:It turns out that a nuclear cruise missile detonated while a B-1 bomber was preparing to take off from the base, destroying much of the surrounding area. The outbreak of nuclear war was avoided as the destruction of Dunston, Kansas illustrated the folly of war to the entire world.]]
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* RageAgainstTheReflection: In "A Saucer of Loneliness", the extremely depressed Margaret yells "I hate you!" at her reflection several times before breaking down in tears.
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* ShowWithinAShow: In "Cold Reading", Milo Trent is cast as the title character's younger brother Timmy in the UBS radio series ''Dick Noble, African Explorer''.
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* TheRoaringTwenties: In "The Convict's Piano", Ricky Frost plays the song "Someone to Watch Over Me" on the old prison piano so that he will be sent back in time to 1928. He sums up the 1920s by saying "UsefulNotes/CalvinCoolidge, [[TheFlapper flappers]], bathtub gin." Once he arrives in 1928, Ricky finds himself in the middle of a party being thrown by Mickey Shaughnessy where the guests are all drinking illegal alcohol. [[spoiler:He decides to stay in 1928 instead of returning to 1986, where he is [[MiscarriageOfJustice serving a life sentence for a murder that he didn't commit]].]]
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** In "Nightcrawlers", TheVietnamVet Price has a recurring nightmare about his unit, the Nightcrawlers, hunting him as he deserted them while they were under attack by the Viet Cong. Only Price survived. As he has the [[YourMindMakesItReal ability to manifest his thoughts]], the Nightcrawlers appear in the real word and cause havoc whenever he falls asleep.
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** In "The Mind of Simon Foster", the United States is experiencing a major economic depression in 1999.
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** In "The Storyteller", Dorothy Livingston lives in Beaumont, another reference to Charles Beaumont.
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This page covers tropes found in ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985''. Tropes beginning with letters A-H can be found at TheTwilightZone1985/TropesAToH and tropes beginning with letters I-P can be found at TheTwilightZone1985/TropesIToP.
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!!''The Twilight Zone (1985)'' provides examples of:
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* QuestioningTitle: "But Can She Type?" and "What Are Friends For?".
* RaceLift: In "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", the elderly man who lost the respect of his children in white. In the short story by William F. Wu, he is Chinese.
* RapidAging: In "Aqua Vita", the 40-year-old Christie Copperfield has the appearance of a woman in her 70s after she neglects to drink her daily glass of Aqua Vita.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
** In "Monsters!", Emile Francis Bendictson appears to be in his 70s but is actually a 158-year-old vampire.
** In "Welcome to Winfield", Weldon appears to be about 80 but will soon celebrate his 150th birthday. Most of the other residents of Winfield are also over 100 years old but look much younger. According to the closing narration, the median age of the townspeople is 112.
** In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot appears to be in his 60s but has lived for 1,000 years as a result of a spell cast by Myth/{{Merlin}}. Morgan le Fay is much the same age but she only looks to be in her early 30s.
* RealPersonCameo: In "The Once and Future King", Music/ElvisPresley's life long best friend Red West plays his boss Mr. Harris of the Crown Electric Company.
* RecurringDreams:
** In "Nightcrawlers", TheVietnamVet Price has a recurring nightmare about his unit, the Nightcrawlers, hunting him as he deserted them while they were under attack by the Viet Cong. Only Price survived. As he has the [[YourMindMakesItReal ability to manifest his thoughts]], the Nightcrawlers appear in the real word and cause havoc whenever he falls asleep.
** In "Shadow Play", Adam Grant suffers a recurring nightmare in which he is convicted of murder and hanged.
* RedEyesTakeWarning:
** In "I of Newton", the demon reveals his red eyes to Sam when he removes his sunglasses.
** In "Gramma", the title character, an extremely powerful witch, has glowing red eyes. Her grandson Georgie is even more terrified of her than he was before when he sees them. After Gramma [[GrandTheftMe takes over Georgie's body]], he exhibits the same red eyes.
* [[ReferencedBy/WilliamShakespeare Referenced by...: William Shakespeare]]:
** In "The After Hours", Marsha Cole buys a [[BlandNameProduct Cornfield Kid doll]] from a toy shop called Play's the Thing. This is a reference to the line "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' Act 2, Scene 2.
** "The Toys of Caliban" is a reference to the "half fish and half monster" Caliban from ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* {{Reincarnation}}: In "Her Pilgrim Soul", [[spoiler:Dr. Kevin Drayton is the reincarnation of Nola Granville's husband Robert Goldstone. Her soul appeared to Kevin in the holographic projector that he created so that they could live out the full life together that they were denied when she [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] in March 1943. Robert carried his grief at losing her over into his next life as Kevin, whose fear of experiencing the same kind of loss once again led him to distance himself from his wife Carol. The closure that Nola provides Kevin allows him to reconcile with Carol.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In "Shadow Play", two [[DreamPeople characters]] in Adam Grant's [[RecurringDreams recurring nightmare]], Father Grant and Carol Ritchie, are his late father and his sister in the real world. In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay original episode]], the priest was Father Beaman, an actual priest who died when Adam was ten years old, while it is never said whether or not Carol is based on anyone from Adam's real life.
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: In "The Junction", Melissa Parker discovers on September 15, 1986 that her husband John cheated on her with another woman. The next morning, after John has spent the night on the sofa, she tells him that she will pack his things for him and she expects him to move out once his shift in the mine is over. John pleads for forgiveness, asking if he has to apologize for one mistake for the rest of his life, but Melissa is too hurt to listen. Shortly afterwards, John becomes trapped in a cave-in and is transported back in time to September 16, 1912, where he saves the life of another trapped miner named Ray Dobson. Ray [[WriteBackToTheFuture writes a letter to Melissa]] and tells her that John was only thinking of her and how much he hurt her in what he thought would be his last moments. After John is located using the information in Ray's letter, Melissa is delighted to see him. She tearfully accepts his now much more heartfelt apology and takes him home.
* TheRemake: Several episodes from the original series were remade, including "Dead Man's Shoes" ({{Gender Flip}}ped as "Dead Women's Shoes") [[spoiler: and this time it's implied the ghost succeeds]], "Night of the Meek" being played more as a comedy, "Shadow Play" having the implication that [[spoiler:it's ''not'' a reoccuring nightmare, but rather an ''ongoing'' nightmare]], "The After Hours" being played more as horror, and "A Game of Pool" using George Clayton Johnson's original script [[spoiler:and its original ending, where the challenger loses]]... without informing Johnson, which he did ''not'' appreciate.
* ReroutedFromHeaven: In "Dead Run", a truck driver named Johnny Davis takes a job delivering dead souls to {{Hell}}. However, most of the people that he's delivering there don't seem to have done anything that warrants damnation. It turns out the new CelestialBureaucracy that has taken over is using an overly-literal fundamentalist interpretation of Literature/TheBible, mainly due to them being paper-pushing {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s, rather than actual malevolence.
* ResetButton:
** In "Wish Bank", after Janice Hamill [[MundaneWish wishes that she never found the magic lamp]], she is transported back to the rummage sale. She has no memory of picking up the lamp or her visit to the Department of Magical Venues.
** In "The Leprechaun-Artist", the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=] reverses Richie's wish which resulted in him and his friends Buddy and J.P. receiving a car that was "really hot" as in stolen. As a result, the police have no memory of any car theft.
** In "The Library", after Ellie Pendleton admits that she has been altering reality by changing the contents of the books in the library, Gloria returns everything to normal.
* RetGone: In "The Card", Linda Wolfe receives an invitation from a credit card company that specifically caters to people with a bad credit rating who have had their previous cards cancelled. When she misses the first payment, she finds that the family cat Boris has disappeared and [[RippleEffectProofMemory she is the only one to remember that he even existed]]. The following week, Linda misses the second payment and their dog Scooby disappears. Linda vows never to use the card again but she is forced to do so when her car breaks down. When she gets home that night, she discovers that her children Matt, Evan and B.J. have disappeared. The next day, Linda goes to the card company and demands to speak to the office manager Catherine Foley. While there, she sees her children, who fail to recognize her, being led into a room marked "Disbursements." Mrs. Foley explains to her that they may be returned to her if she writes them a check. Linda does so but Brian tells her that the bank called and he cancelled it. Further penalties are then made against her. Brian disappears and household items begin to vanish in front of her. [[spoiler:When she cuts the card in half, it falls to the ground. The final scene shows that Linda herself has ceased to exist and there is an empty lot where her house once stood.]]
* RetroUniverse: In "The World Next Door", Barney Schlessinger's [[AlternateSelf counterpart]] is from an AlternateUniverse which has an early 20th Century level of technology. For instance, automobiles exist but horse-drawn carriages are still the primary method of transportation for most people. The alternate Barney's "wonder substances" such as Trimbeline 3 have allowed this universe to make significant technological progress in recent years.
* RewritingReality: In "The Library", an aspiring writer named Ellie Pendleton gets a job working at a mysterious private library which is BiggerOnTheInside. It is run by Gloria, who explains to her that each book is an accurate, up-to-date account of the life of a living person. That night, Ellie is annoyed by all of the noise made by her obnoxious neighbor Doug Kelleher and his new live-in girlfriend Carla Hollencamp. At the library the next day, she rewrites Doug's life story so that he is a kind-hearted and extremely dedicated priest. However, she feels guilty because Carla is so miserable at being alone so she uses the opportunity to fix her up with the building's wealthy landlord Edwin [=DeWitt=]. When she returns home, Carla is happy and wearing an expensive fur coat but Edwin is bankrupt from lavishing her with so many presents. Ellie rewrites Edwin's life story so that he is financially stable but she finds that her younger sister Lori is leading a strike against the inflated rent that he charges. The next day, she gives herself and Lori a nice house by the ocean. However, as soon as she arrives at her new home, Ellie learns that Lori drowned after rescuing a little boy from the sea. Devastated, Ellie admits to Gloria what she has been doing and pleads for her help. After chastising her for not realizing that people's lives are interconnected, Gloria shoos her out of the library. She immediately finds Lori alive and well and returned to her original self.
* RippleEffectIndicator:
** A variation in "Little Boy Lost". [[spoiler:Kenny is the son that Carol Shelton would have had in the potential future where she stayed in the US and married her boyfriend Greg instead of going abroad on a photography assignment. When she decides to take the assignment, Kenny disappears from the photos that Carol took at the zoo.]]
** Another variation in "Opening Day". After Joe Farrell kills his love rival Carl Wilkerson in a HuntingAccident, Carl's image in a photograph of him and his wife Sally is replaced by one of Joe as he has become her husband. The next day, Joe himself drowns as he thinks that Carl is trying to kill him. The photo then reverts to its original state.
** In "The Card", after the Wolfes' cat Boris [[RetGone ceases to exist]], his bowl and pillow disappear from their front porch. Linda initially believes that her husband Brian and her older children Matt and Evan are pulling a prank but it later becomes apparent that they don't remember ever having a cat. After the credit card company takes the children away, Matt and Evan's room has turned into a study while the baby B.J.'s nursery is used for storage. Brian's image later disappears from a photograph of him and Linda and the name on her card changes from "Mrs. Linda S. Wolfe" to "Miss Linda S. Wilson." [[spoiler:After Linda herself disappears, the card is entirely blank.]]
* RippleEffectProofMemory:
** In "Profile in Silver", once history is restored, the Secret Service agent Ray Livingston is the only person from 1963 who remembers the AlternateTimeline in which UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was not assassinated in Dallas.
** In "The Library", Ellie Pendleton begins RewritingReality using the books recording the events of people's lives in the library. After that she does so, she is the only person to remember the way things used to be.
** In "The Card", Linda Wolfe is the only person outside of the card company who remembers that she had a cat named Boris, a dog named Scooby and three children named Matt, Evan and B.J. after they all [[RetGone disappear in turn]] because of her delinquet account. Her husband Brian worries that she may be having a mental breakdown [[spoiler:until he himself disappears]].
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: In "The Elevator", Roger and Will learn that their father's super food causes extreme growth when they find several dead giant rats in his factory, each bigger than the one before. They later find a [[MegaNeko giant cat]], [[CanisMajor giant dog]] and a GiantSpider.
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* SadisticChoice: In "Button, Button", Mr. Steward sends a button unit to Arthur and Norma Lewis and tells them that two things will happen if they press the button: they will receive $200,000 tax free and someone whom they don't know will die. The Lewises have several heated discussions on whether or not to press the button. Norma argues that the person killed could be a Chinese peasant or someone with cancer while Arthur counters that it could be a baby. After Arthur goes to bed, Norma presses the button. The next day, Mr. Steward returns for the button unit and [[spoiler:says that it will now be given to someone whom they don't know]].
* SanDimasTime: In "The Convict's Piano", whenever Ricky Frost travels back in time by playing the old piano, he is gone for the equivalent amount of time in 1986.
* SchmuckBait: In "Button, Button", Arthur and Norma Lewis are given a button, which if pressed with give them $200,000 at the cost of killing a complete stranger. [[spoiler:They end up pushing the button, which is then taken away... to be given to a complete stranger.]]
* {{Schoolmarm}}: In "The Storyteller", Dorothy Livingston's first teaching assignment was in the small, isolated town of Powder Creek, West Virginia in 1933, where she taught students of all ages in a one room school.
* SecretShop: Wong's Lost and Found Emporium in the episode of that title is a combination of this and TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday.
-->''You won't find it in the Yellow Pages or advertised in the local papers. Its reputation is spread purely by word-of-mouth, from one satisfied customer to another. But if, like most of us, you've lost something in your time, look for this door. And if you don't find it at first, don't lose hope, because even that can be found again...in the Twilight Zone.''
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", Gaspar offers Billy Kinetta the opportunity to become the new paladin of the lost hour. After he does so, he asks Billy to use the watch to give him one minute with his beloved late wife Minna before he dies. Billy refuses as he believes that it would be wrong. Gaspar then reveals that this was the last test and that he is now completely sure that Billy is the right person to guard the watch. As a reward, Gaspar gives Billy one minute to talk to the Marine who died saving his life during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: In "A Message from Charity", Charity Payne, a Puritan girl living in the [[UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies colonial Massachusetts]] village of Annes Town in 1700, and Peter Wood, a teenage boy living in the Massachusetts town of Anniston in 1985, gain the ability to communicate with each other across time and see through each other's eyes after they both contract cholera. Charity and Peter can also experience sensations from the other's perspective. For instance, Peter introduces Charity to the unimaginable luxuries of his time such as orange juice and chocolate ice cream and she quickly becomes drunk when Peter has a glass of wine.
* {{Seers}}: In "A Message from Charity", after she is [[WitchHunt accused of witchcraft]], Charity Payne claims to have second sight and obliquely reveals that she is aware of the bodies of two murdered sailors hidden in Squire Jonas Hacker's root cellar. She had in fact learned of the bodies from a history book that Peter Wood found in 1985. As a result, Hacker finds her innocent of witchcraft, saying that second sight is a gift from {{God}} which his own grandmother possessed.
* SelflessWish: In "The Leprechaun-Artist", Buddy considers wishes for world peace or a CureForCancer using the wish that he received after he and his friend J.P. and Richie captured the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=]. However, he eventually wishes for XRayVision so that he can see through girls' clothing.
* SettingUpdate:
** In "A Message from Charity", Peter Wood's native time is 1985. In the short story by William M. Lee, it is 1965.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]" takes place on Christmas Eve 1985 and features an unflattering depiction of yuppies in the store owner Mr. Dundee. The original episode takes place on Christmas Eve 1960.
** "Devil's Alphabet" takes place from November 2, 1876 to November 2, 1898. The short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray is an account of the activities of the titular society from 1738 to 1766.
** In "Lost and Found", Jenny Templeton is visited by two 22nd Century time travelers in her dorm room in 1986. In the short story by Phyllis Eisenstein, Jenny's native time is 1979.
* SettleForSibling: In "The Junction", Ray Dobson tells John Parker that he meant to propose to Abby, who had an identical twin sister named Sarah, in 1907. However, Sarah opened the door when he came to visit and, having mistaken her for Abby, he proposed to her by mistake and she accepted. Although it was not his intention, Ray nevertheless married Sarah as she was the one who said yes.
* SharpDressedMan:
** In "The Burning Man", the [[CreepyChild strange boy]] whom Doug and Aunt Neva pick up is wearing a very expensive looking white suit.
** In "Welcome to Winfield", TheGrimReaper Griffin St. George wears a white suit with matching shoes.
** In "Dead Run", the Dispatcher, who has recently taken over the CelestialBureaucracy, wears an extremely expensive looking suit during his meeting with Johnny Davis.
* SilentTreatment: In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin is convicted of the crime of coldness towards others and is sentenced to a year of invisibility. He is forced to wear an implant on his forehead that alerts people that they are to ignore him and pretend not to see him no matter what. If they engage with him in any way, they are violating Citizen's Law 24824 which carries the penalty of at least one year of invisibility. Invisible people who speak to each other have another year added to their sentences.
* SoleSurvivor:
** In "Still Life", the 86-year-old Professor Alex Stottel is the last surviving member of Dr. Levinson's expedition to the Amazon River basin, where they encountered the Curacai, in January 1913. Stottel was a 13-year-old boy at the time.
** In "Devil's Alphabet", Frederick becomes the last surviving member of the Devil's Alphabet Society after Cornelius' suicide on November 2, 1898.
** In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot is the last surviving Knight of the Round Table 1,000 years after the fall of Camelot. He was kept alive for all that time by a spell cast by Myth/{{Merlin}}.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet Shatterday]]", Peter Jay Novins tests his alter ego's claim to be him by asking him what his childhood friend Skip Fisher's father did for a living. He correctly answers that he was a fireman until he quit his job to work at a Studebaker dealership.
* SpaceClothes: In "Lost and Found", the two time travelers from 2139 wear shiny, silver clothes that look as if they are made out of foil.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In "Devil's Alphabet", Frederick is the only member of the Devil's Alphabet Society to be still alive when [[DutyThatTranscendsDeath their agreement to meet every year on November 2 be they alive or dead]] is rescinded. In the short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray, the [[AdaptationNameChange equivalent character]] Charles Bellasis was frightened to death by the ghosts of the other members of the Everlasting Club on November 2, 1766.
* TheSpeechless: In "A Matter of Minutes", the [[TheBlank faceless]] workers who build every minute are unable to speak.
* SpiderSense: In "Teacher's Aide", Miss Peters can sense that Wizard plans to attack her after she is possessed by the spirit of a gargoyle.
* SpoilerTitle: The title of "Dreams for Sale" makes it obvious that the idyllic country picnic experienced by Jenny is not real.
* StableTimeLoop:
** In "Act Break", Maury Winkler uses Harry's amulet to wish for a better writing partner instead of wishing for Harry to [[BackFromTheDead come back to life]]. He is transported to Elizabethan England and immediately meets Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Taking the amulet from Maury, Shakespeare wishes for Maury to work with him. [[spoiler:Maury's mind is then filled with every line from all of Shakespeare's plays. It turns out that Shakespeare's greatest works were written by Maury using his knowledge of the future.]]
** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Gus Rosenthal is sent back in time to the 1940s and acts as a mentor and surrogate father to his younger self, who had a difficult relationship with his father Lou. Eventually, the older Gus realizes that he must return to his own time as [[TemporalSickness his presence in the past is making him sick]]. When the younger Gus finds out that he is leaving, he angrily tells his future self that he will be a "big something" when he is older and will beat "Mr. Rosenthal" up if he ever sees him again. [[spoiler:The older Gus then remembers meeting Mr. Rosenthal as a child and vowing to become successful because he was hurt at him leaving.]]
** {{Implied|Trope}} in "Grace Note". Rosemarie Miletti enters her future self's dressing room on March 22, 1986 after being sent 20 years forward in time. The older Rosemarie and her sister Dorothy [[InvisibleToNormals are unable to see her]] but it is implied that the former knows that the younger Rosemarie is there because she remembers her own experience of traveling through time 20 years earlier.
** In "The Once and Future King", the ElvisImpersonator Gary Pitkin meets Music/ElvisPresley on July 3, 1954, two days before he recorded his debut single "That's All Right". [[spoiler:After he accidentally kills Elvis the next day, Gary [[DeadPersonImpersonation usurps his identity]] and goes on to become the King of RockAndRoll. He later realizes that this was always meant to happen.]]
** In "The Convict's Piano", [[TheOldConvict the elderly convict]] Eddie O'Hara tells his fellow prisoner Ricky Frost that he was [[FrameUp framed]] for murder in 1928 by the gangster Mickey Shaughnessy, who disappeared shortly afterwards. Ricky later discovers that playing a particular song on the old prison piano sends him back in time to the relevant era. When he plays "Someone to Watch Over Me", he arrives at a party being thrown by Shaughnessy in 1928. [[spoiler:When Shaughnessy plays "S' Wonderful" on the piano, he is sent forward to 1986, which accounts for his unexplained disappearance in 1928.]]
** In "The Junction", after becoming trapped in a cave-in on September 16, 1986, the miner John Parker realizes that he is not alone. He finds that another miner named Ray Dobson is trapped with him. After talking to Ray for a few minutes, John realizes that he has been sent back in time to September 16, 1912. While they are waiting to be rescued, John and Ray tell each other about their respective wives Melissa and Sarah. In 1986, Melissa receives a letter from Reverend Bailey that was supposed to have been delivered to her the previous day. After Ray is rescued, he discovers that John has disappeared, having returned to 1986. Ray [[WriteBackToTheFuture writes a letter to Melissa and entrusts it to the church]]. His plan to alter history failed as John being sent back in time was always meant to happen. If it had never happened, Ray would have died. However, the letter contains John's location and the rescue team is able to find him in time.
* StarOfBethlehem: In "The Star", based on a story by Creator/ArthurCClarke, it's discovered by a Jesuit priest and astrophysicist named Father Matthew Costigan that this was actually a supernova in 3120 BCE, which wiped out an entire species of peaceful aliens. The fact troubles him deeply.
* StayWithTheAliens: In "The Little People of Killany Woods", Liam O'Shaughnessy decides to go with the LittleGreenMen after their ship is repaired instead of remaining in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}, where he is the laughing stock of his town. According to the closing narration, he brings shamrocks with him and plants them on the aliens' home planet, which humanity will find when it explores space in the future.
* StealthPun: In "Dealer's Choice", Pete plays a game of one-on-one with Nick, who is in actuality the Devil, [[ChessWithDeath for his immortal soul]]. In the closing narration, it is pointed out that he did not heed the old saying "[[DealWithTheDevil Never deal with the Devil]]."
* StickyFingers: In "Lost and Found", Jenny Templeton notices that the contents of her trash can and the mug that she uses for her pencils have both disappeared. She soon discovers that they were stolen by two time travelers from 2139 who wanted souvenirs as [[YoungFutureFamousPeople she will one day become the first President of Earth]]. The male time traveler returns the mug as they were only supposed to take things that Jenny wouldn't miss.
* StockFootage: In "Chameleon", footage of a UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle in orbit, several astronauts on a spacewalk and the shuttle returning to Earth are used to represent the ''Discovery'''s mission.
* {{Subtext}}: "Extra Innings" had a washed-up former baseball star who was good friends with a tween or teen girl. Nothing too creepy, yet. They trade cards a lot, and she gets him this 1909 card of a rookie who looked just like him and had exactly the same stats as him. Then, he discovers that the card allows him to take control of the rookie on the card, which also takes him back to 1909. Then, the next day, he tells the girl about it, and at first she doesn't believe him. When he shows her the stats, she believes him, as they have changed. Then, when he takes her back in time with him, before the card opens the portal, he puts his arm around her. Between her face there and the dialog, which sounds like it came from a VerySpecialEpisode about child molestation, the creepy subtext is amazing.
* SuicideByCop: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson never stayed anywhere too long for fear of activating the recessive gene that turns ordinary humans into vampire-killing monsters. After traveling the world for almost 150 years, he returns to his home town of Mill Valley so that he can die where he was born. Several days after his arrival, many of the townspeople turn into monsters and kill him in a very brutal fashion. Benedictson was [[ICannotSelfTerminate either willing or unable to kill himself]].
* SummoningRitual: In "Ye Gods", Todd Ettinger uses a spell provided by Bacchus to summon Megaera, one of the Furies, to his apartment in order to convince her to get back together with Cupid.
* SuperStrength:
** In "Teacher's Aide", Miss Peters develops super strength after she is possessed by the spirit of a gargoyle. After a gang member named Trojan tells her that he comes to school to see her legs, she lifts him up by his trousers and throws him against the wall. Later, she catches another student hitting and kicking his locker and shoves him up against it, telling him that he should respect the school as it is older than his grandmother. When another gang member named Wizard turns on his boom box at full volume during class, she tears it apart with her bare hands and physically throws him out of class when he tries to attack her. The rest of the students are much more attentive after that.
** In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson uses his super strength to lift up his car so that he can clean underneath it when he thinks that no one is looking. However, Toby Michaels, who had been spying on him, sees the whole thing.
* SurvivorsGuilt:
** In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", TheVietnamVet Billy Kinetta suffers from severe survivor's guilt as his life was saved by a Marine whom he had never previously met when his rifle was ambushed by the Viet Cong in Da Nang. The Marine was killed in the process. When Gaspar allows him to use one minute from the lost hour to speak with the Marine, Billy learns that the Marine had not even known that he was there. Billy thanks him for saving his life but the Marine tells him that he is the one who is grateful as he now knows that his death had meaning.
** In "The Road Less Traveled", Jeff [=McDowell=] [[DraftDodging dodged the draft]] during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar in 1971 and still feels guilty about his decision 15 years later. He often wonders whether the person who went to war instead of him was killed or badly wounded in his place. His wife Denise, who went with him to UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, assures him that he has nothing to feel guilty about as it was a "dirty little undeclared war" that he helped to stop. Jeff manages to come to terms with his guilt when he makes physical contact with his AlternateUniverse counterpart, who went to war, and sees his memories of fighting.
* SympathyForTheDevil: In "Dealer's Choice", [[MeaningfulName Nick]] is actually a friendly, pleasant fellow who doesn't revel in taking souls--it's [[PunchClockVillain just his job as Satan]]. Similarly, when he loses the enchanted poker game he set up, he accepts defeat gracefully and bows out, leaving the other players the parting gift of a giant pile of snack food and beer.
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* TakeMeInstead: In "Welcome to Winfield", the people of Winfield plead for TheGrimReaper Griffin St. George to take them instead of Matt Winnaker as most of them are over 100 and Matt is only 20. However, Matt will have none of it and asks St. George to take him. Eventually, St. George decides to let them all go.
* TakeThat:
** In "Ye Gods", the yuppie Todd Ettinger comes to realize that his life that he leads is hollow, empty and calculated as it is all about acquiring money and possessions and he doesn't have a meaningful relationship with a woman. Cupid also twice refers to him as a "yuckie."
** In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", Gaspar tells Billy Kinetta that he does not want to see a film with Creator/KarenBlack, Sandy Dennis or Creator/MerylStreep as they are always crying and their noses are always red. [[SubvertedTrope However]], he later says that he is willing to make an exception for Streep.
** In "The Once and Future King", the ElvisImpersonator Gary Pitkin does not want to take his act to UsefulNotes/LasVegas as he thinks that it killed Music/ElvisPresley and it is nothing but "showgirls, sluts and sleaze." Gary then tells his manager Sandra that Vegas is good enough for Wayne Newton but not for him.
* TalkingToThemself: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet Shatterday]]", Peter Jay Novins talks with a mysterious {{Doppelganger}}.
* TanksForTheMemories: The protagonist of "The Mind of Simon Foster" sells chunks of his memories to pay his living expenses.
* {{Technophobia}}: In "Quarantine", the survivors of WorldWarIII in 2043 came to distrust and despise technology because nuclear weapons had wiped out 80% of the world's population. They abandoned machines in favor of improving humanity through [[BioAugmentation genetic engineering]] and achieving harmony with the natural world.
* TemporalSickness: In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Gus Rosenthal begins feeling weak soon after he is transported back in time to the 1940s. After several days, he realizes that he has to return to his own time or he will die.
* ThatWasNotADream: In "The Once and Future King", Gary Pitkin initially believes that he is having a dream about meeting his idol Music/ElvisPresley before he was famous in Memphis, Tennessee in 1954. He later realizes that he has been sent back in time.
* ThereAreNoAdults: In "The Shadow Man", there are no adults except for brief appearances by the school librarian and Danny Hayes' mother.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: In "The Toys of Caliban", Miss Kemp suggests that Ernest Ross allows his son Toby to be examined by experts after discovering that he can [[YourMindMakesItReal manifest anything after seeing its picture]]. Ernest angrily tells her that Toby would be subjected to countless tests and experiments to determine how his power works and then would most likely be killed.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight:
** In "The Shadow Man", the murderous titular entity takes up residence under Danny Hayes' bed and offers him immunity to his/its attacks. Only it turns out [[spoiler:there's more than one of them...]] ''[[spoiler:[[AmbiguousEnding Maybe...]]]]''
** In "The Road Less Traveled", Megan [=McDowell=] tells her parents Jeff and Denise that there was a strange man in her room. When Jeff goes to investigate, he tells her that she just saw a pile of clothes on a chair and there is nothing to worry about. It turns out that Megan saw a version of Jeff from an AlternateUniverse whose life was ruined after fighting in UsefulNotes/{{Vietnam}} and wanted to see the daughter that he never had.
* ThirdEye: In "A Message from Charity", Master Croft's ewe has a lamb with three eyes. This is used as evidence when Charity Payne is [[WitchHunt accused of witchcraft]]. After Squire Jonas Hacker finds her innocent, he holds that the deformed lamb was as a result of a noxious plant growing on Croft's farm.
* ThisBearWasFramed: In "Red Snow", the Communist Party secretary Vladimir Borisov was killed by the vampires living in the [[TheGulag Siberian gulag]] in order to protect the townspeople from his brutal excesses. Mayor Titov tells KGB Colonel Ilyanov that Borisov was torn apart by wolves but he later learns the truth.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: In "The Once and Future King", Music/ElvisPresley mistakes Gary Pitkin, an ElvisImpersonator from 1986 who [[CelebrityResemblance looks just like him]], for his stillborn identical twin brother Jesse who has come BackFromTheDead. Gary allows him to believe this and tries to use the opportunity to convince Elvis that he has a very bright future ahead of him. [[{{Understatement}} It doesn't go according to plan]].
* ThreeWishes:
** In "Wish Bank", Janice Hamill finds a magic lamp at a rummage sale. When she rubs it, she is transported to the Department of Magical Venues and is told by the broker Mr. Brent that she has three wishes. She wishes for $10,000,000, to look ten years younger and for her ex-husband Craig to suffer from moderate sexual dysfunction for a year and a half. Mr. Brent warns Janice that the first wish will turn out fine but that the second will not turn out as expected and she will almost certainly have to use the third wish to undo the first two. Eventually, Janice is so frustrated at the Department of Magical Venues being a VastBureaucracy that [[ResetButton she wishes that she never found the lamp in the first place]].
** {{Discussed|Trope}} in "Act Break". After Harry has a heart attack, he gives the amulet that he received from monks in Burma to his partner Maury Winkler and tells him that everyone gets one wish. He asks Murray to use his wish to bring him back to life. Maury laments that he doesn't get three wishes, which is the standard deal. Instead of saving Harry's life, he wishes to work with the greatest playwright in the world and is transported back in time to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's house in Elizabethan England.
** In "The Leprechaun-Artist", the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=] grants Buddy, J.P. and Richie three wishes - one a piece - after they capture him. However, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor none of them turn out according to plan]]. Buddy wishes for XRayVision so that he can see girls' underwear but he can't control his new power and sees internal organs and skulls. [=McGool=] reverses the wish after he determines that Buddy has learned his lesson. J.P. wishes for all of their parents to do exactly what they tell them. The boys soon learn that [=McGool=] has once again tricked them by granting their wish too literally. When J.P. orders his mother to make pizza for the three of them, he has to tell her to perform every step in the preparation from taking the pizza out of the box. [=McGool=] likewise reverses this wish. Richie wishes for a "really hot" car with a driver with a mind of his own. While they are enjoying their new stretch limo, they are chased by the police. The driver, given that he has a mind of his own, refuses their instructions to stop and gets into a car chase. When the police catch up with them, the three boys are arrested as the limo was hot as in stolen. [=McGool=] again reverses the wish and the police have no memory of the car theft.
* TimeDilation: In "Quarantine", although 304 years have passed on Earth, Joshua estimates that it has only been five or ten years for the 1,000 people aboard the American spacecraft launched during the [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]] in 2043.
* TimeFreezeTrollingSpree: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]", Penny just about resists the temptation to pull down a passerby's shorts when time is frozen. Later, she is annoyed by two anti-nuclear activists who call at her house. After she freezes time again, she drags them over to her lawn and lies them down. When time is resumed, they are too frightened to try talking to her again.
* TimeShiftedActor:
** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", there are two examples:
*** Gus Rosenthal is played by Peter Riegert as an adult and Chris Hebert as a child.
*** Jack Wheeldon is played by Biff Yeager as an adult and Gary Karp as a child.
** In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Nola Granville is played by Anne Twomey as an adult, Betsy Lion as a five-year-old and Creator/DanicaMcKellar as a ten-year-old.
** In "Grace Note", Dorothy Miletti is played by Gina Marie Vinaccia as a teenager in 1966 and by Catherine Paolone as an adult in 1986.
* TimeStandsStill: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]", a stressed housewife named Penny finds a gold pendant shaped like a sundial. After wearing it for about a day, she discovers that it freezes time when she says "shut up" and resumes the normal flow of time when she says "start talking." However, it only works when she is wearing the pendant. She abuses this privilege for several days until [[spoiler:a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union breaks out.[[labelnote:*]]It's never explicitly stated, but it's at this point that Penny realizes the true purpose of her amulet: Freezing time to get the government officials together and forcing them to "start talking" about nuclear disarmament.[[/labelnote]]Penny is able to freeze time just seconds before her hometown is destroyed by a nuclear missile.]]
* TimeTravelEscape: In "Profile in Silver", Professor Joseph Fitzgerald sends UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy forward in time to 2172 instead of letting him be assassinated. With the assistance of the Secret Service agent Ray Livingston, Fitzgerald makes arrangements to [[HeroicSacrifice take Kennedy's place]]. JFK becomes a history lecturer at Harvard in 2172.
* TimeTravelEpisode:
** In "Act Break", Maury Winkler is sent back in time to the Elizabethan era and becomes the uncredited writing partner of Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", an unhappy and bitter writer named Gus Rosenthal becomes a mentor to his younger self in the 1940s and hopes to be able to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong change his life for the better]].
** In "Profile in Silver", the 22nd Century historian Professor Joseph Fitzgerald creates an AlternateTimeline when he prevents his FamousAncestor UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy from being assassinated on November 22, 1963.
** In "Grace Note", Rosemarie Miletti, an aspiring opera singer, is sent 20 years forward in time to March 22, 1986 and learns that she is destined to become a world famous star.
** In "The Once and Future King", Gary Pitkin, an ElvisImpersonator from 1986, meets the real Music/ElvisPresley on July 3, 1954.
** In "Lost and Found", a college student named Jenny Templeton finds a pair of time travelers from 2139 in her dorm room closet.
** In "The Convict's Piano", the [[MiscarriageOfJustice wrongfully convicted]] prisoner Ricky Frost finds an old piano that transports him to different eras depending on the songs that he plays.
** In "The Junction", the miner John Parker becomes trapped after a cave-in on September 16, 1986. He soon meets another trapped miner named Ray Dobson, who tells him that it is September 16, 1912.
** In "Joy Ride", Alonzo, his brother Greg, Deena and Adrienne steal a classic car and go joy riding. They soon discover that they have been sent back to the 1950s, when the car was manufactured.
** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", [[{{Satan}} the Prince of Darkness]] offers the composer Bluestone one wish after he dies. He wishes to make it with his high school crush Mary Ellen Cosgrove at a party in October 1948 so that he can live out his teenage dream. Once he arrives in the past, however, he decides to help a depressed girl named Teresa Golowitz instead.
** In "Extra Innings", an [[CareerEndingInjury injured baseball player]] named Ed Hamner receives a 1910 baseball card from his teenage neighbor Paula depicting a player named Monty Hanks who looks just like him. Possessing the card allows Ed to travel to 1910 and play as Monty free of any injury.
* TitleDrop:
** In "If She Dies", Paul Marano's young daughter Cathy is in a coma. He twice laments "if she dies" to Dr. Brice, meaning that he can't face life without her.
** In "Ye Gods", Todd Ettinger says "Ye gods!" after he [[SummoningRitual summons]] the Fury Megaera to his apartment.
** In "What Are Friends For?", Alex and Jeff Mattingly's NotSoImaginaryFriend Mike rhetorically asks Alex the titular question before he disappears.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The TwistEnding of two episodes.
** [[spoiler:"The After Hours", like the original, the protagonist learns/remembers she's actually a mannequin.]]
** [[spoiler:"A Day in Beaumont" shows an astronomer and his girlfriend witnessing a UFO landing, apparently the start of an alien invasion. At the end, they discover that they themselves are aliens, and everything that happened is part of a training exercise to help the aliens infiltrate Earth society.]]
* TomeOfEldritchLore: In "Gramma", Georgie finds the Necronomicon from which his grandmother, a powerful witch, gets her power. It contains several references to [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth]].
* ToothFairy: In "Tooth and Consequences", the Tooth Fairy appears in Dr. Myron Mandel's office after his failed suicide attempt and offers to give him anything that he wants. Myron wishes to be liked and respected by his patients and for Lydia Bixby to fall madly in love with him. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor The constant adulation soon proves to be too much for Myron]] and he hops a freight train. He meets five homeless men who turn out to be former dentists who had their own run-ins with the Tooth Fairy. Myron learns that he was just a pawn in the Tooth Fairy's scheme to get dentists out of the way so that he will have more business.
* TotallyNotAWerewolf: In "The Little People of Killany Woods", Liam O'Shaughnessy claims that he has seen {{Leprechaun}}s in Killany Woods. Mike Mulvaney later learns that they are [[LittleGreenMen three foot tall green aliens]] from a distant galaxy who enlisted Liam's help to repair their ship, which is shaped like a toadstool.
* ToughRoom: In "Take My Life...Please!", the stand-up comedian Billy Diamond performs his usual act for a crowd as soon as he arrives in the afterlife but none of them even crack a smile. It soon becomes clear to him that he is in {{Hell}} and [[IronicHell that the only way to make the audience laugh to tell them all of the horrible things that he has done in his life]]. His new agent Max tells him that he has been booked to perform this act for the next two eons, possibly more.
* TownWithADarkSecret: In "The Beacon", Dr. Dennis Barrows stumbles into a small town called Mellweather which is protected by an enigmatic lighthouse [[spoiler:that demands a HumanSacrifice for its services]].
* TrackingDevice: In "Profile in Silver", time travelers such as Professor Joseph Fitzgerald and Dr. Kate Wang are issued with homing devices in the form of a ring. When the homing device is separated from the temporal wrist controls worn by the time traveler, the wearer of the ring is automatically returned to their point of departure. Fitzgerald uses this to send UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy [[TimeTravelEscape forward in time to 2172 so that he doesn't have to be assassinated]].
* TrumanShowPlot: In "Special Service", John Selig learns that the last five years of his life have been scripted as a television show. This example stands out because it was made nine years ''before'' ''Film/TheTrumanShow''.
* TruthSerums: In "Examination Day", Dickie Jordan is given a truth serum to ensure that he answers all of the questions on the government intelligence test as truthfully as possible.
* {{Tuckerization}}:
** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Jack Wheeldon is named after a boy who [[TheBully bullied]] Creator/HarlanEllison while he was growing up.
** In "Cold Reading", there is a sign for Crocker Bank. James Crocker was the series' supervising producer and wrote five episodes.
** In "A Day in Beaumont", there are numerous references to actors, writers and directors who worked on science fiction projects:
*** Dr. Kevin Carlson and Faith are named after Richard Carlson and Faith Domergue, who each starred in several 1950s sci-fi films.
*** The town of Beaumont is named after Charles Beaumont, who wrote many episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
*** Sheriff Haskin is named after Byron Haskin, who directed ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
*** H.G. Orson is named after Creator/HGWells, who wrote the first AlienInvasion story ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', and Creator/OrsonWelles, who produced the [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds (in)famous 1938 radio adaptation]].
*** Major Whitmore is named after James Whitmore, who played Sgt. Ben Peterson in ''Film/{{Them}}''. He also played Captain William Benteen in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E118OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]".
*** The InsectoidAliens fire Bradbury rays at Kevin and Faith as they escape. The seminal writer Creator/RayBradbury wrote for both the 1959 and 1985 versions of ''The Twilight Zone''.
*** In the final scene, a young man reports that he saw a FlyingSaucer crash in Matheson, a reference to the profilic author and ''Twilight Zone'' writer Creator/RichardMatheson.
** In "The Junction", the Cassutt Coal Company is named after the writer Michael Cassutt.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture:
** In "Quarantine", Matthew Foreman entered [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] on June 18, 2023 in the hope that his cancer could be cured in the future. After being revived in 2347, he learns that 80% of Earth's population were wiped out in a [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]] in 2043.
** In "The Mind of Simon Foster", the United States is experiencing a major economic depression in 1999.
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* UnfinishedBusiness:
** In "If She Dies", Paul Marano speculates that the soul of Sarah, who died of tuberculois decades earlier, has not moved onto {{Heaven}} yet as {{God}} wants her to save the life of his comatose daughter Cathy.
** In "Nightsong", [[spoiler:the ghost of Simon Locke appears to his ex-girlfriend Andrea Fields when she plays his single "Nightsong" on her KGRR radio show. He initially does not tell Andrea that he was killed in a motorcycle accident five years earlier but eventually shows her his skeleton. Simon explains to Andrea that he has returned because she has never been able to move on from their bumpy relationship and the memory of it is keeping her from living her life. He then disappears, having seemingly moved on to the afterlife. In the final scene, Andrea again plays "Nightsong" and dedicates it to Simon with love. Although she will always love Simon, she is ready to move on with her life.]]
* UngratefulBastard:
** In "Healer", Jackie Thompson revives Harry Faulk using the healing stone after he has a heart attack. However, Harry refuses to heal him after his gunshot wound reappears as he doesn't want the share that the money that they made from their TV ministry.
** Jack in "Acts of Terror" beats Louise, cheats on her, and breaks her property. Thanks to a supernatural Doberman responding to her anger, Jack starts suffering for his ways. When Louise is finally pushed over the edge, the Doberman begins mauling Jack (who is begging for mercy). Louise ultimately stops it from killing him, and the dog vanishes. The next morning, rather than express gratitude or change his ways, Jack intends to get payback for his injuries now that the supernatural pooch is seemingly gone. Of course, Louise is no longer scared of him, and the Doberman reappears as backup.
* UnnamedParent:
** In "The Uncle Devil Show", Joey's parents are not named.
** In "The Leprechaun-Artist", Buddy, J.P. and Richie's parents aren't named.
** In "A Saucer of Loneliness", Margaret's mother is not named.
* VampireVannabe: In "Red Snow", the Communist Party secretary Ivan Povin agreed to become a vampire shortly after arriving in the [[TheGulag Siberian gulag]] because he knew that it would be difficult to survive the harsh conditions otherwise. Although he is initially disgusted by the vampires and fears that they intend to feed on him, KGB Colonel Ilyanov later agrees to be made a vampire himself. Valentina Orlova convinces him that the best way to defeat the Soviet Union is to create further vampires and [[InternalReformist take it down from the inside]].
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: In "Red Snow", Titov, the mayor of the small Siberian town which has become a [[TheGulag gulag]], stores the vampires' coffins in the town's disused, boarded up church. They are empty during the winter months when there is no sunlight from October to April but Titov and others protect the vampires during the summer months when the coffins are occupied during the day. In exchange, the vampires protect the townspeople from dangerous criminals and animals.
* VanityLicensePlate: In "The Leprechaun-Artist", the "really hot" car that the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=] conjures up for Buddy, J.P. and Richie for their [[ThreeWishes third and final wish]] has the license plate "Third Wish."
* VastBureaucracy: In "Wish Bank", Janice Hamill is transported to the Department of Magical Venues after finding a magic lamp. Her broker Mr. Brent hands her a stack of papers and tells her that she needs to bring them to the validation window before her ThreeWishes can be granted. He also says that she has to pay tax on the $10,000,000 that she wished for. After queuing at the window for hours, the clerk tells her that she is missing a 604 form and that she needs to get one from her broker. Janice seeks help from Mr. Willoughby, the head of the office, but it is quitting time so he says that she will have to come back tomorrow. She is so frustrated that [[MundaneWish wishes that she never found the lamp]].
* VideoPhone: In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin calls [=MedEm=] over a video phone in order to receive medical assistance after being hit by a car. The nurse immediately hangs up when she sees the invisibility implant on Mitchell's forehead.
* TheVietnamVet:
** In "Nightcrawlers", Price is a traumatized Vietnam veteran who has the ability to [[YourMindMakesItReal manifest any person or object that he can imagine]].
** In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", Billy Kinetta is a Vietnam vet who is haunted by the fact that a Marine whom he didn't even know died saving his life while he was hiding from the Viet Cong during an ambush in Da Nang.
** In "The Road Less Traveled", the AlternateUniverse Jeff [=McDowell=] went to fight in Vietnam in 1971 instead of [[DraftDodging dodging the draft]] and [[AnArmAndALeg lost his legs when he stepped on a landmine]]. He has spent most of his life since then in a VA hospital wondering what his life would have been like if he had crossed the border to UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}.
* TheVoiceless: In "Children's Zoo", Debbie Cunningham never speaks but all indications are that she can.
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* WarIsHell:
** In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot was a mercenery-for-hire who traveled the world fighting for UsefulNotes/{{India}} and UsefulNotes/{{China}} (which he still calls Cathay) and in UsefulNotes/TheCrusades. He did so for centuries after Camelot fell but eventually grew weary of all the death and destruction and refused to fight any more. When Myth/{{Merlin}} awakens, Lancelot asks him if even Camelot was worth all of the "blood and widows' tears" that it cost to built.
** In "The Road Less Traveled", the AlternateUniverse version of Jeff [=McDowell=] was traumatized by his experiences during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, especially [[AnArmAndALeg losing his legs]]. He tells his counterpart that he regularly has terrible nightmares about the things that he saw there.
* WeatherManipulation: In "Welcome to Winfield", TheGrimReaper Griffin St. George has the power to create thunder and lightning. He first uses this ability to try and coerce the people of Winfield into telling him where Matt Winnaker is and later to get their attention when they plead with him to [[TakeMeInstead take them instead]].
* WeirdnessSearchAndRescue: In "A Matter of Minutes", the foreman of a group of people takes time to explain to a couple who end up 'outside time' how time really works, even showing them an animated computer graphic prepared for such an event.
* WellDoneSonGuy: "A Small Talent for War" features a race who sowed humanity on Earth in the distant past. Humanity's desperate attempt to impress our "fathers" [[spoiler:ends badly]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Myth/{{Merlin}} seeks to place a king on the throne who will rule the world according to the principles of honor, integrity, morality and chivalry that he and Myth/KingArthur created in Camelot. However, he is willing to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] Tom in order to restore his powers fully. Lancelot warns him that war has changed in the 1,000 years that he slept and there are weapons capable of destroying the entire world. Merlin ignores him, intending to do whatever is necessary to fulfil his grand design. After he kills Morgan le Fay, Lancelot tells Tom not to hate him as he was "just an old man who slept too long and dreamt too hard."
* WhamShot:
** Near the end of "Shelter Skelter", the camera leaves Harry in his shelter and pans over the destruction and rubble among a darkened landscape... [[spoiler:before coming across a curved wall. Moving ''past'' it, we are shown... a bright, sunny day, with people out and about in a park, where we also see that the curved wall was part of a dome]].
** At the end of "The Toys of Caliban", over the sounds of [[spoiler:approaching police sirens]], Ernest Ross shows Toby one last image, so that he can summon it. That image in question (which is reflected in Toby's eyes)? [[spoiler:[[KillItWithFire A fire.]]]]
** By the end of "Many, Many Monkeys", Claire Hendricks becomes blind, much like most of everyone else in the episode[[note]]as shown with their eyes turning white and blank[[/note]]. Only problem? [[spoiler:The episode ends by zooming in on her face... and her eyes are ''normal''. She's blind in a ''psychosomatic'' sense.]]
* WholePlotReference:
** "Her Pilgrim Soul" is one to ''Film/PortraitOfJennie''. Dr. Kevin Drayton falls in love with the spirit of the long dead Nola Granville, who grows older every time that he sees her.
** "Personal Demons" is one to "Literature/TheElvesAndTheCobbler". The hooded creatures appear to Rockne O'Bannon so that he can cure his WritersBlock by writing a story about them.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot has grown weary of immortality after 1,000 years and tells Morgan le Fay that he would welcome die to put an end to his pain and guilt over betraying Myth/KingArthur through his affair with Guinevere.
%%* {{Wishplosion}}: "The Wish Bank", "I of Newton"
* WishUponAShootingStar: In "Grace Note", the [[LittlestCancerPatient teenage leukemia patient]] Mary Miletti sees a shooting star and wishes that her elder sister Rosemarie can see that she will one day achieve her dream of being a famous opera star. The next day, after Mary is taken to hospital, Rosemarie is transported 20 years forward in time to March 22, 1986 and sees [[MyFutureSelfAndMe her future self]] performing ''La Traviata'' to a sold out audience in the Lincoln Center.
* WitchHunt: In "A Message from Charity", Charity Payne is accused of being a witch after she tells her best friend Ursula Miller of the wonders of 1985 that she has seen through Peter Wood's eyes or that he has told her about such as cars, television, airplanes, men walking on UsefulNotes/TheMoon and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. The "evidence" against her is her family's well being the only one in Annes Town whose water is not tainted and Master Croft's ewe giving birth to a lamb with a ThirdEye. While searching for references to Charity's trial in books on [[UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies colonial Massachusetts]], Peter finds a reference to Squire Jonas Hacker being posthumously convicted of the murder of two sailors in 1704. During her trial, Charity claims to possess [[{{Seers}} second sight]] and describes the root cellar in which the bodies are hidden. Squire Hacker holds that her second sight is a gift from {{God}} and proclaims her innocent of witchcraft. However, Charity reluctantly breaks off contact with Peter to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.
* WithFriendsLikeThese:
** In "A Message from Charity", Charity Payne tells her best friend Ursula Miller what she has learned of the future through her telepathic contact with Peter Wood. Ursula then brings Charity's claims to the attention of Squire Jonas Hacker and Charity is accused of being a witch.
** "Cat and Mouse" has one such friend.
** In "Dead Run", it's implied that Johnny's company of truck drivers are like this.
** In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot considers Myth/{{Merlin}} to be his friend from their days at Camelot together 1,000 years earlier. However, Merlin proves himself to be untrustworthy almost as soon as he awakens from his long sleep as he plans to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] Tom and shape the world to his vision.
* {{Workaholic}}: In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Dr. Kevin Drayton has been working obsessively to perfect his holographic projector for three years to the detriment of his marriage to Carol. She wants to start a family but their marriage is in the process of failing as she and Kevin barely even see each other anymore. [[spoiler:Kevin later learns from Nola Granville that he is the {{Reincarnation}} of her husband Robert Goldstone and that he inherited Robert's fear of loving someone after Nola [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]]. This fear led him to act coldly towards Carol.]]
* WorldWarIII:
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]", a nuclear war breaks out between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1985.
** {{Discussed|Trope}} in "Paladin of the Lost Hour". Gaspar tells Billy Kinetta that he knows for certain that the feared nuclear holocaust will never come.
** In "Quarantine", 80% of the world's population was wiped out in a nuclear war in 2043. The authorities of the time considered it a limited engagement as only six missiles were fired by each side.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E20 Profile in Silver]]", UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's [[WhoShotJFK assassination]] is averted by Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, a time traveling historian from 2172 and [[FamousAncestor one of Kennedy's descendants]]. This creates an AlternateTimeline in which Soviet troops invade West Berlin, resulting in World War III. In order to restore the proper timeline, Fitzgerald takes Kennedy's place and allows himself to be killed. Kennedy is [[TimeTravelEscape transported forward in time to 2172]].
* WouldHitAGirl: In "What Are Friends For?", Jeff Mattingly pushes the much younger Cindy Conrad to the ground as he thinks that she is ruining the game of Tag that he is playing with her older brothers Tim and Larry. He later apologizes for his behavior and becomes friends with all three Conrad children.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** In "Examination Day", [[spoiler:the totalitarian government gives tests that identify [[ChildProdigy child prodigies]]--who are then killed before they can grow up to question or threaten the power structure.]]
** In "The Shadow Man", the titular entity attacks several of Danny Hayes' classmates at Willow Creek Junior High School, including Mark, Wendy and Chip Murphy. [[spoiler:In the final scene, Danny is himself attacked by a Shadow Man who lives under someone else's bed.]]
* WriteBackToTheFuture: In "The Junction", Ray Dobson is extremely grateful to John Parker, another miner from 1986, for saving his life while they were trapped by a cave-in on September 16, 1912. In order to return the favor, he writes a letter to John's wife Melissa and leaves it with the church with instructions that it be delivered on September 15, 1986, the day before John became trapped. Although Reverend Bailey had every intention of delivering it on the day in question, he was called away and forgot to do so. By the time that he gets it to Melissa, John is already trapped in the mine. However, Ray's letter includes the location where he and John were trapped in 1912 and John is rescued in time.
* WritersBlock: In "Personal Demons", the veteran television writer Rockne O'Bannon is suffering from severe writer's block. He admits to his friend and neighbor Herman Gold that he has not had an original idea in 20 years. Shortly afterwards, he begins seeing strange, hooded creatures everywhere he goes [[InvisibleToNormals that no one else can see]]. When he finally confronts them, they tell Rockne to write about them and he will never see them again. As soon as he starts typing, they begin to disappear.
* WritersSuck: In "Act Break", Maury Winkler and Harry are a pair of middle-aged writers who have written 17 unsuccessful plays in 22 years. Each one took six months to a year to write but most of them closed after only one night and none of them got anywhere near Broadway. They are two months behind on the rent for their filthy, cramped office and the landlord is threatening to throw them out.
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* XRayVision: In "The Leprechaun-Artist", after he and his friends J.P. and Richie capture a {{Leprechaun}} named Shawn [=McGool=], Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision so that he can see through girls' clothes. His power starts working the next morning and he is initially able to see under his female classmates' clothes to their underwear. However, after a few seconds of concentrating on one girl, he sees her internal organs and faints in shock. When J.P. and Richie come to his aid, he can see their skulls. [=McGool=], who brands Buddy a "little deviant," eventually removes the wish when it becomes clear to him that Buddy has learned his lesson.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** In "Children's Zoo", Sheila Cunningham suspects, with good reason, that her husband Martin is cheating on her but he continually denies it. In his car, she finds proof: cigarette butts with lipstick on them. When they arrive at the Children's Zoo with their daughter Debbie, Martin starts hitting on the attendant Melody.
** In "Ye Gods", Cupid cheated on Megaera with a mortal woman named Drusilla. As a result, Megaera broke up with him and [[{{Animorphism}} turned Drusilla into a tree frog]].
** In "Nightsong", Simon Locke frequently cheated on his girlfriend Andrea Fields, including with a groupie in Fresno. Andrea was aware of Simon's behavior but she did not care as she was so in love with him.
** In "Lost and Found", the female time traveler tells her male companion that she is returning to 2139 and that he shouldn't bother coming home if he stops by to see UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII first. When he leaves 1986, he sets his time travel device for 32 B.C.E., suggesting that he does intend to visit Cleopatra.
* YourMindMakesItReal:
** In "Nightcrawlers", Price is a [[TheVietnamVet Vietnam vet]] who suffers from severe PTSD as a result of deserting his unit, the Nightcrawlers, while they were under attack from the Viet Cong in order to save himself. He has the ability to manifest anything that he can imagine. The first indication of this is when he briefly turns his cup of coffee into a Budweiser. Price later demonstrates his ability to the other people in Big Bob's diner when he makes a T-bone steak appear on the counter. He says that he has met four other vets with the same ability and that one of them speculated that their powers are as a result of being sprayed with a strange Soviet chemical by the Viet Cong. While he is awake, Price's creations last only a few seconds but they last far longer when he is asleep. When he fell asleep at a motel, he had his [[RecurringDreams recurring nightmare]] about his unit hunting him out of revenge and four people were killed. Trooper Dennis Wells knocks him unconscious with a ketchup bottle after he tries to escape. As a result, the Nightcrawlers unit again manifests from Price's thoughts and attacks the diner, killing Wells and Price in the process. With Price dead, the Nightcrawlers disappear.
** In "The Toys of Caliban", an intellectually impaired boy named Toby Ross has the ability to manifest any item after he sees a picture of it by saying "Bring!" As a reward, his parents Ernest and Mary show him a picture of a donut every night after dinner. Ernest is worried when Toby is able to create two donuts for himself without looking at the picture, something which has never happened before. That night, Toby is suffering from a severe stomach ache after manifesting dozens of donuts. His parents reluctantly take him to an emergency room where he has to get his stomach pumped. As a result of Ernest and Mary's odd, evasive behavior, a social worker named Miss Kemp calls on them before they leave the hospital the next morning. She becomes extremely concerned about Toby's welfare when Ernest angrily prevents her from giving Toby a magazine. Although Toby only got a glimpse of the magazine, he is nevertheless able to bring it later. He sees a diagram of a heart and accidentally kills Mary when he [[AttackOnTheHeart removes her heart from her chest]]. Sometime later, Miss Kemp visits the Ross household, convinced that Toby is being horribly mistreated. Ernest is forced to demonstrate Toby's ability for her. As Miss Kemp leaves, Toby sees an old photograph of his mother. Mary's decomposing corpse then appears in her armchair, traumatizing Toby. After burying Mary's body in the backyard, Ernest believes that he has run out of options. [[spoiler:He shows Toby a picture of fire. When Miss Kemp returns with the police, they find the house in flames.]]
* YourVampiresSuck: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson criticizes the depiction of vampires in the monster movies enjoyed by Toby Michaels because almost everything in them is inaccurate.
* YouWillBeBeethoven:
** In "Profile in Silver", Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, a time traveler from 2172, switches places with his FamousAncestor UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy so that he can be assassinated in JFK's place on November 22, 1963.
** In "The Once and Future King", the ElvisImpersonator Gary Pitkin is sent back in time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954 and meets the real Music/ElvisPresley, two days before he is due to perform "That's All Right" for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. The next day, Gary learns that Elvis intends to play "I Love You Because" instead and tries to convince him that he will ruin his chances of a record deal if he does so. However, Elvis begins to suspect that Gary has been sent to tempt him with devil's music and attacks him. In the ensuing fight, Elvis is [[InertialImpalement impaled on the neck of his guitar and dies]]. Gary then [[DeadPersonImpersonation assumes his identity]] and performs "That's All Right" for Phillips as history records Elvis did. It turns out that it was Gary posing as Elvis rather than the real Elvis who was destined to become the King of RockAndRoll. However, Gary wonders if Elvis would have made a better King if he had lived.
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* QuestioningTitle: "But Can She Type?" and "What Are Friends For?".
* RaceLift: In "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", the elderly man who lost the respect of his children in white. In the short story by William F. Wu, he is Chinese.
* RapidAging: In "Aqua Vita", the 40-year-old Christie Copperfield has the appearance of a woman in her 70s after she neglects to drink her daily glass of Aqua Vita.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
** In "Monsters!", Emile Francis Bendictson appears to be in his 70s but is actually a 158-year-old vampire.
** In "Welcome to Winfield", Weldon appears to be about 80 but will soon celebrate his 150th birthday. Most of the other residents of Winfield are also over 100 years old but look much younger. According to the closing narration, the median age of the townspeople is 112.
** In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot appears to be in his 60s but has lived for 1,000 years as a result of a spell cast by Myth/{{Merlin}}. Morgan le Fay is much the same age but she only looks to be in her early 30s.
* RealPersonCameo: In "The Once and Future King", Music/ElvisPresley's life long best friend Red West plays his boss Mr. Harris of the Crown Electric Company.
* RecurringDreams:
** In "Nightcrawlers", TheVietnamVet Price has a recurring nightmare about his unit, the Nightcrawlers, hunting him as he deserted them while they were under attack by the Viet Cong. Only Price survived. As he has the [[YourMindMakesItReal ability to manifest his thoughts]], the Nightcrawlers appear in the real word and cause havoc whenever he falls asleep.
** In "Shadow Play", Adam Grant suffers a recurring nightmare in which he is convicted of murder and hanged.
* RedEyesTakeWarning:
** In "I of Newton", the demon reveals his red eyes to Sam when he removes his sunglasses.
** In "Gramma", the title character, an extremely powerful witch, has glowing red eyes. Her grandson Georgie is even more terrified of her than he was before when he sees them. After Gramma [[GrandTheftMe takes over Georgie's body]], he exhibits the same red eyes.
* [[ReferencedBy/WilliamShakespeare Referenced by...: William Shakespeare]]:
** In "The After Hours", Marsha Cole buys a [[BlandNameProduct Cornfield Kid doll]] from a toy shop called Play's the Thing. This is a reference to the line "The play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king" from ''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' Act 2, Scene 2.
** "The Toys of Caliban" is a reference to the "half fish and half monster" Caliban from ''Theatre/TheTempest''.
* {{Reincarnation}}: In "Her Pilgrim Soul", [[spoiler:Dr. Kevin Drayton is the reincarnation of Nola Granville's husband Robert Goldstone. Her soul appeared to Kevin in the holographic projector that he created so that they could live out the full life together that they were denied when she [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]] in March 1943. Robert carried his grief at losing her over into his next life as Kevin, whose fear of experiencing the same kind of loss once again led him to distance himself from his wife Carol. The closure that Nola provides Kevin allows him to reconcile with Carol.]]
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: In "Shadow Play", two [[DreamPeople characters]] in Adam Grant's [[RecurringDreams recurring nightmare]], Father Grant and Carol Ritchie, are his late father and his sister in the real world. In the [[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E62ShadowPlay original episode]], the priest was Father Beaman, an actual priest who died when Adam was ten years old, while it is never said whether or not Carol is based on anyone from Adam's real life.
* RelationshipSalvagingDisaster: In "The Junction", Melissa Parker discovers on September 15, 1986 that her husband John cheated on her with another woman. The next morning, after John has spent the night on the sofa, she tells him that she will pack his things for him and she expects him to move out once his shift in the mine is over. John pleads for forgiveness, asking if he has to apologize for one mistake for the rest of his life, but Melissa is too hurt to listen. Shortly afterwards, John becomes trapped in a cave-in and is transported back in time to September 16, 1912, where he saves the life of another trapped miner named Ray Dobson. Ray [[WriteBackToTheFuture writes a letter to Melissa]] and tells her that John was only thinking of her and how much he hurt her in what he thought would be his last moments. After John is located using the information in Ray's letter, Melissa is delighted to see him. She tearfully accepts his now much more heartfelt apology and takes him home.
* TheRemake: Several episodes from the original series were remade, including "Dead Man's Shoes" ({{Gender Flip}}ped as "Dead Women's Shoes") [[spoiler: and this time it's implied the ghost succeeds]], "Night of the Meek" being played more as a comedy, "Shadow Play" having the implication that [[spoiler:it's ''not'' a reoccuring nightmare, but rather an ''ongoing'' nightmare]], "The After Hours" being played more as horror, and "A Game of Pool" using George Clayton Johnson's original script [[spoiler:and its original ending, where the challenger loses]]... without informing Johnson, which he did ''not'' appreciate.
* ReroutedFromHeaven: In "Dead Run", a truck driver named Johnny Davis takes a job delivering dead souls to {{Hell}}. However, most of the people that he's delivering there don't seem to have done anything that warrants damnation. It turns out the new CelestialBureaucracy that has taken over is using an overly-literal fundamentalist interpretation of Literature/TheBible, mainly due to them being paper-pushing {{Obstructive Bureaucrat}}s, rather than actual malevolence.
* ResetButton:
** In "Wish Bank", after Janice Hamill [[MundaneWish wishes that she never found the magic lamp]], she is transported back to the rummage sale. She has no memory of picking up the lamp or her visit to the Department of Magical Venues.
** In "The Leprechaun-Artist", the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=] reverses Richie's wish which resulted in him and his friends Buddy and J.P. receiving a car that was "really hot" as in stolen. As a result, the police have no memory of any car theft.
** In "The Library", after Ellie Pendleton admits that she has been altering reality by changing the contents of the books in the library, Gloria returns everything to normal.
* RetGone: In "The Card", Linda Wolfe receives an invitation from a credit card company that specifically caters to people with a bad credit rating who have had their previous cards cancelled. When she misses the first payment, she finds that the family cat Boris has disappeared and [[RippleEffectProofMemory she is the only one to remember that he even existed]]. The following week, Linda misses the second payment and their dog Scooby disappears. Linda vows never to use the card again but she is forced to do so when her car breaks down. When she gets home that night, she discovers that her children Matt, Evan and B.J. have disappeared. The next day, Linda goes to the card company and demands to speak to the office manager Catherine Foley. While there, she sees her children, who fail to recognize her, being led into a room marked "Disbursements." Mrs. Foley explains to her that they may be returned to her if she writes them a check. Linda does so but Brian tells her that the bank called and he cancelled it. Further penalties are then made against her. Brian disappears and household items begin to vanish in front of her. [[spoiler:When she cuts the card in half, it falls to the ground. The final scene shows that Linda herself has ceased to exist and there is an empty lot where her house once stood.]]
* RetroUniverse: In "The World Next Door", Barney Schlessinger's [[AlternateSelf counterpart]] is from an AlternateUniverse which has an early 20th Century level of technology. For instance, automobiles exist but horse-drawn carriages are still the primary method of transportation for most people. The alternate Barney's "wonder substances" such as Trimbeline 3 have allowed this universe to make significant technological progress in recent years.
* RewritingReality: In "The Library", an aspiring writer named Ellie Pendleton gets a job working at a mysterious private library which is BiggerOnTheInside. It is run by Gloria, who explains to her that each book is an accurate, up-to-date account of the life of a living person. That night, Ellie is annoyed by all of the noise made by her obnoxious neighbor Doug Kelleher and his new live-in girlfriend Carla Hollencamp. At the library the next day, she rewrites Doug's life story so that he is a kind-hearted and extremely dedicated priest. However, she feels guilty because Carla is so miserable at being alone so she uses the opportunity to fix her up with the building's wealthy landlord Edwin [=DeWitt=]. When she returns home, Carla is happy and wearing an expensive fur coat but Edwin is bankrupt from lavishing her with so many presents. Ellie rewrites Edwin's life story so that he is financially stable but she finds that her younger sister Lori is leading a strike against the inflated rent that he charges. The next day, she gives herself and Lori a nice house by the ocean. However, as soon as she arrives at her new home, Ellie learns that Lori drowned after rescuing a little boy from the sea. Devastated, Ellie admits to Gloria what she has been doing and pleads for her help. After chastising her for not realizing that people's lives are interconnected, Gloria shoos her out of the library. She immediately finds Lori alive and well and returned to her original self.
* RippleEffectIndicator:
** A variation in "Little Boy Lost". [[spoiler:Kenny is the son that Carol Shelton would have had in the potential future where she stayed in the US and married her boyfriend Greg instead of going abroad on a photography assignment. When she decides to take the assignment, Kenny disappears from the photos that Carol took at the zoo.]]
** Another variation in "Opening Day". After Joe Farrell kills his love rival Carl Wilkerson in a HuntingAccident, Carl's image in a photograph of him and his wife Sally is replaced by one of Joe as he has become her husband. The next day, Joe himself drowns as he thinks that Carl is trying to kill him. The photo then reverts to its original state.
** In "The Card", after the Wolfes' cat Boris [[RetGone ceases to exist]], his bowl and pillow disappear from their front porch. Linda initially believes that her husband Brian and her older children Matt and Evan are pulling a prank but it later becomes apparent that they don't remember ever having a cat. After the credit card company takes the children away, Matt and Evan's room has turned into a study while the baby B.J.'s nursery is used for storage. Brian's image later disappears from a photograph of him and Linda and the name on her card changes from "Mrs. Linda S. Wolfe" to "Miss Linda S. Wilson." [[spoiler:After Linda herself disappears, the card is entirely blank.]]
* RippleEffectProofMemory:
** In "Profile in Silver", once history is restored, the Secret Service agent Ray Livingston is the only person from 1963 who remembers the AlternateTimeline in which UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was not assassinated in Dallas.
** In "The Library", Ellie Pendleton begins RewritingReality using the books recording the events of people's lives in the library. After that she does so, she is the only person to remember the way things used to be.
** In "The Card", Linda Wolfe is the only person outside of the card company who remembers that she had a cat named Boris, a dog named Scooby and three children named Matt, Evan and B.J. after they all [[RetGone disappear in turn]] because of her delinquet account. Her husband Brian worries that she may be having a mental breakdown [[spoiler:until he himself disappears]].
* RodentsOfUnusualSize: In "The Elevator", Roger and Will learn that their father's super food causes extreme growth when they find several dead giant rats in his factory, each bigger than the one before. They later find a [[MegaNeko giant cat]], [[CanisMajor giant dog]] and a GiantSpider.
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* SadisticChoice: In "Button, Button", Mr. Steward sends a button unit to Arthur and Norma Lewis and tells them that two things will happen if they press the button: they will receive $200,000 tax free and someone whom they don't know will die. The Lewises have several heated discussions on whether or not to press the button. Norma argues that the person killed could be a Chinese peasant or someone with cancer while Arthur counters that it could be a baby. After Arthur goes to bed, Norma presses the button. The next day, Mr. Steward returns for the button unit and [[spoiler:says that it will now be given to someone whom they don't know]].
* SanDimasTime: In "The Convict's Piano", whenever Ricky Frost travels back in time by playing the old piano, he is gone for the equivalent amount of time in 1986.
* SchmuckBait: In "Button, Button", Arthur and Norma Lewis are given a button, which if pressed with give them $200,000 at the cost of killing a complete stranger. [[spoiler:They end up pushing the button, which is then taken away... to be given to a complete stranger.]]
* {{Schoolmarm}}: In "The Storyteller", Dorothy Livingston's first teaching assignment was in the small, isolated town of Powder Creek, West Virginia in 1933, where she taught students of all ages in a one room school.
* SecretShop: Wong's Lost and Found Emporium in the episode of that title is a combination of this and TheLittleShopThatWasntThereYesterday.
-->''You won't find it in the Yellow Pages or advertised in the local papers. Its reputation is spread purely by word-of-mouth, from one satisfied customer to another. But if, like most of us, you've lost something in your time, look for this door. And if you don't find it at first, don't lose hope, because even that can be found again...in the Twilight Zone.''
* SecretTestOfCharacter: In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", Gaspar offers Billy Kinetta the opportunity to become the new paladin of the lost hour. After he does so, he asks Billy to use the watch to give him one minute with his beloved late wife Minna before he dies. Billy refuses as he believes that it would be wrong. Gaspar then reveals that this was the last test and that he is now completely sure that Billy is the right person to guard the watch. As a reward, Gaspar gives Billy one minute to talk to the Marine who died saving his life during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: In "A Message from Charity", Charity Payne, a Puritan girl living in the [[UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies colonial Massachusetts]] village of Annes Town in 1700, and Peter Wood, a teenage boy living in the Massachusetts town of Anniston in 1985, gain the ability to communicate with each other across time and see through each other's eyes after they both contract cholera. Charity and Peter can also experience sensations from the other's perspective. For instance, Peter introduces Charity to the unimaginable luxuries of his time such as orange juice and chocolate ice cream and she quickly becomes drunk when Peter has a glass of wine.
* {{Seers}}: In "A Message from Charity", after she is [[WitchHunt accused of witchcraft]], Charity Payne claims to have second sight and obliquely reveals that she is aware of the bodies of two murdered sailors hidden in Squire Jonas Hacker's root cellar. She had in fact learned of the bodies from a history book that Peter Wood found in 1985. As a result, Hacker finds her innocent of witchcraft, saying that second sight is a gift from {{God}} which his own grandmother possessed.
* SelflessWish: In "The Leprechaun-Artist", Buddy considers wishes for world peace or a CureForCancer using the wish that he received after he and his friend J.P. and Richie captured the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=]. However, he eventually wishes for XRayVision so that he can see through girls' clothing.
* SettingUpdate:
** In "A Message from Charity", Peter Wood's native time is 1985. In the short story by William M. Lee, it is 1965.
** "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E47TheNightOfTheMeek Night of the Meek]]" takes place on Christmas Eve 1985 and features an unflattering depiction of yuppies in the store owner Mr. Dundee. The original episode takes place on Christmas Eve 1960.
** "Devil's Alphabet" takes place from November 2, 1876 to November 2, 1898. The short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray is an account of the activities of the titular society from 1738 to 1766.
** In "Lost and Found", Jenny Templeton is visited by two 22nd Century time travelers in her dorm room in 1986. In the short story by Phyllis Eisenstein, Jenny's native time is 1979.
* SettleForSibling: In "The Junction", Ray Dobson tells John Parker that he meant to propose to Abby, who had an identical twin sister named Sarah, in 1907. However, Sarah opened the door when he came to visit and, having mistaken her for Abby, he proposed to her by mistake and she accepted. Although it was not his intention, Ray nevertheless married Sarah as she was the one who said yes.
* SharpDressedMan:
** In "The Burning Man", the [[CreepyChild strange boy]] whom Doug and Aunt Neva pick up is wearing a very expensive looking white suit.
** In "Welcome to Winfield", TheGrimReaper Griffin St. George wears a white suit with matching shoes.
** In "Dead Run", the Dispatcher, who has recently taken over the CelestialBureaucracy, wears an extremely expensive looking suit during his meeting with Johnny Davis.
* SilentTreatment: In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin is convicted of the crime of coldness towards others and is sentenced to a year of invisibility. He is forced to wear an implant on his forehead that alerts people that they are to ignore him and pretend not to see him no matter what. If they engage with him in any way, they are violating Citizen's Law 24824 which carries the penalty of at least one year of invisibility. Invisible people who speak to each other have another year added to their sentences.
* SoleSurvivor:
** In "Still Life", the 86-year-old Professor Alex Stottel is the last surviving member of Dr. Levinson's expedition to the Amazon River basin, where they encountered the Curacai, in January 1913. Stottel was a 13-year-old boy at the time.
** In "Devil's Alphabet", Frederick becomes the last surviving member of the Devil's Alphabet Society after Cornelius' suicide on November 2, 1898.
** In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot is the last surviving Knight of the Round Table 1,000 years after the fall of Camelot. He was kept alive for all that time by a spell cast by Myth/{{Merlin}}.
* SomethingOnlyTheyWouldSay: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet Shatterday]]", Peter Jay Novins tests his alter ego's claim to be him by asking him what his childhood friend Skip Fisher's father did for a living. He correctly answers that he was a fireman until he quit his job to work at a Studebaker dealership.
* SpaceClothes: In "Lost and Found", the two time travelers from 2139 wear shiny, silver clothes that look as if they are made out of foil.
* SparedByTheAdaptation: In "Devil's Alphabet", Frederick is the only member of the Devil's Alphabet Society to be still alive when [[DutyThatTranscendsDeath their agreement to meet every year on November 2 be they alive or dead]] is rescinded. In the short story "The Everlasting Club" by Arthur Gray, the [[AdaptationNameChange equivalent character]] Charles Bellasis was frightened to death by the ghosts of the other members of the Everlasting Club on November 2, 1766.
* TheSpeechless: In "A Matter of Minutes", the [[TheBlank faceless]] workers who build every minute are unable to speak.
* SpiderSense: In "Teacher's Aide", Miss Peters can sense that Wizard plans to attack her after she is possessed by the spirit of a gargoyle.
* SpoilerTitle: The title of "Dreams for Sale" makes it obvious that the idyllic country picnic experienced by Jenny is not real.
* StableTimeLoop:
** In "Act Break", Maury Winkler uses Harry's amulet to wish for a better writing partner instead of wishing for Harry to [[BackFromTheDead come back to life]]. He is transported to Elizabethan England and immediately meets Creator/WilliamShakespeare. Taking the amulet from Maury, Shakespeare wishes for Maury to work with him. [[spoiler:Maury's mind is then filled with every line from all of Shakespeare's plays. It turns out that Shakespeare's greatest works were written by Maury using his knowledge of the future.]]
** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Gus Rosenthal is sent back in time to the 1940s and acts as a mentor and surrogate father to his younger self, who had a difficult relationship with his father Lou. Eventually, the older Gus realizes that he must return to his own time as [[TemporalSickness his presence in the past is making him sick]]. When the younger Gus finds out that he is leaving, he angrily tells his future self that he will be a "big something" when he is older and will beat "Mr. Rosenthal" up if he ever sees him again. [[spoiler:The older Gus then remembers meeting Mr. Rosenthal as a child and vowing to become successful because he was hurt at him leaving.]]
** {{Implied|Trope}} in "Grace Note". Rosemarie Miletti enters her future self's dressing room on March 22, 1986 after being sent 20 years forward in time. The older Rosemarie and her sister Dorothy [[InvisibleToNormals are unable to see her]] but it is implied that the former knows that the younger Rosemarie is there because she remembers her own experience of traveling through time 20 years earlier.
** In "The Once and Future King", the ElvisImpersonator Gary Pitkin meets Music/ElvisPresley on July 3, 1954, two days before he recorded his debut single "That's All Right". [[spoiler:After he accidentally kills Elvis the next day, Gary [[DeadPersonImpersonation usurps his identity]] and goes on to become the King of RockAndRoll. He later realizes that this was always meant to happen.]]
** In "The Convict's Piano", [[TheOldConvict the elderly convict]] Eddie O'Hara tells his fellow prisoner Ricky Frost that he was [[FrameUp framed]] for murder in 1928 by the gangster Mickey Shaughnessy, who disappeared shortly afterwards. Ricky later discovers that playing a particular song on the old prison piano sends him back in time to the relevant era. When he plays "Someone to Watch Over Me", he arrives at a party being thrown by Shaughnessy in 1928. [[spoiler:When Shaughnessy plays "S' Wonderful" on the piano, he is sent forward to 1986, which accounts for his unexplained disappearance in 1928.]]
** In "The Junction", after becoming trapped in a cave-in on September 16, 1986, the miner John Parker realizes that he is not alone. He finds that another miner named Ray Dobson is trapped with him. After talking to Ray for a few minutes, John realizes that he has been sent back in time to September 16, 1912. While they are waiting to be rescued, John and Ray tell each other about their respective wives Melissa and Sarah. In 1986, Melissa receives a letter from Reverend Bailey that was supposed to have been delivered to her the previous day. After Ray is rescued, he discovers that John has disappeared, having returned to 1986. Ray [[WriteBackToTheFuture writes a letter to Melissa and entrusts it to the church]]. His plan to alter history failed as John being sent back in time was always meant to happen. If it had never happened, Ray would have died. However, the letter contains John's location and the rescue team is able to find him in time.
* StarOfBethlehem: In "The Star", based on a story by Creator/ArthurCClarke, it's discovered by a Jesuit priest and astrophysicist named Father Matthew Costigan that this was actually a supernova in 3120 BCE, which wiped out an entire species of peaceful aliens. The fact troubles him deeply.
* StayWithTheAliens: In "The Little People of Killany Woods", Liam O'Shaughnessy decides to go with the LittleGreenMen after their ship is repaired instead of remaining in UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}, where he is the laughing stock of his town. According to the closing narration, he brings shamrocks with him and plants them on the aliens' home planet, which humanity will find when it explores space in the future.
* StealthPun: In "Dealer's Choice", Pete plays a game of one-on-one with Nick, who is in actuality the Devil, [[ChessWithDeath for his immortal soul]]. In the closing narration, it is pointed out that he did not heed the old saying "[[DealWithTheDevil Never deal with the Devil]]."
* StickyFingers: In "Lost and Found", Jenny Templeton notices that the contents of her trash can and the mug that she uses for her pencils have both disappeared. She soon discovers that they were stolen by two time travelers from 2139 who wanted souvenirs as [[YoungFutureFamousPeople she will one day become the first President of Earth]]. The male time traveler returns the mug as they were only supposed to take things that Jenny wouldn't miss.
* StockFootage: In "Chameleon", footage of a UsefulNotes/{{NASA}} space shuttle in orbit, several astronauts on a spacewalk and the shuttle returning to Earth are used to represent the ''Discovery'''s mission.
* {{Subtext}}: "Extra Innings" had a washed-up former baseball star who was good friends with a tween or teen girl. Nothing too creepy, yet. They trade cards a lot, and she gets him this 1909 card of a rookie who looked just like him and had exactly the same stats as him. Then, he discovers that the card allows him to take control of the rookie on the card, which also takes him back to 1909. Then, the next day, he tells the girl about it, and at first she doesn't believe him. When he shows her the stats, she believes him, as they have changed. Then, when he takes her back in time with him, before the card opens the portal, he puts his arm around her. Between her face there and the dialog, which sounds like it came from a VerySpecialEpisode about child molestation, the creepy subtext is amazing.
* SuicideByCop: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson never stayed anywhere too long for fear of activating the recessive gene that turns ordinary humans into vampire-killing monsters. After traveling the world for almost 150 years, he returns to his home town of Mill Valley so that he can die where he was born. Several days after his arrival, many of the townspeople turn into monsters and kill him in a very brutal fashion. Benedictson was [[ICannotSelfTerminate either willing or unable to kill himself]].
* SummoningRitual: In "Ye Gods", Todd Ettinger uses a spell provided by Bacchus to summon Megaera, one of the Furies, to his apartment in order to convince her to get back together with Cupid.
* SuperStrength:
** In "Teacher's Aide", Miss Peters develops super strength after she is possessed by the spirit of a gargoyle. After a gang member named Trojan tells her that he comes to school to see her legs, she lifts him up by his trousers and throws him against the wall. Later, she catches another student hitting and kicking his locker and shoves him up against it, telling him that he should respect the school as it is older than his grandmother. When another gang member named Wizard turns on his boom box at full volume during class, she tears it apart with her bare hands and physically throws him out of class when he tries to attack her. The rest of the students are much more attentive after that.
** In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson uses his super strength to lift up his car so that he can clean underneath it when he thinks that no one is looking. However, Toby Michaels, who had been spying on him, sees the whole thing.
* SurvivorsGuilt:
** In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", TheVietnamVet Billy Kinetta suffers from severe survivor's guilt as his life was saved by a Marine whom he had never previously met when his rifle was ambushed by the Viet Cong in Da Nang. The Marine was killed in the process. When Gaspar allows him to use one minute from the lost hour to speak with the Marine, Billy learns that the Marine had not even known that he was there. Billy thanks him for saving his life but the Marine tells him that he is the one who is grateful as he now knows that his death had meaning.
** In "The Road Less Traveled", Jeff [=McDowell=] [[DraftDodging dodged the draft]] during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar in 1971 and still feels guilty about his decision 15 years later. He often wonders whether the person who went to war instead of him was killed or badly wounded in his place. His wife Denise, who went with him to UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}, assures him that he has nothing to feel guilty about as it was a "dirty little undeclared war" that he helped to stop. Jeff manages to come to terms with his guilt when he makes physical contact with his AlternateUniverse counterpart, who went to war, and sees his memories of fighting.
* SympathyForTheDevil: In "Dealer's Choice", [[MeaningfulName Nick]] is actually a friendly, pleasant fellow who doesn't revel in taking souls--it's [[PunchClockVillain just his job as Satan]]. Similarly, when he loses the enchanted poker game he set up, he accepts defeat gracefully and bows out, leaving the other players the parting gift of a giant pile of snack food and beer.
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* TakeMeInstead: In "Welcome to Winfield", the people of Winfield plead for TheGrimReaper Griffin St. George to take them instead of Matt Winnaker as most of them are over 100 and Matt is only 20. However, Matt will have none of it and asks St. George to take him. Eventually, St. George decides to let them all go.
* TakeThat:
** In "Ye Gods", the yuppie Todd Ettinger comes to realize that his life that he leads is hollow, empty and calculated as it is all about acquiring money and possessions and he doesn't have a meaningful relationship with a woman. Cupid also twice refers to him as a "yuckie."
** In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", Gaspar tells Billy Kinetta that he does not want to see a film with Creator/KarenBlack, Sandy Dennis or Creator/MerylStreep as they are always crying and their noses are always red. [[SubvertedTrope However]], he later says that he is willing to make an exception for Streep.
** In "The Once and Future King", the ElvisImpersonator Gary Pitkin does not want to take his act to UsefulNotes/LasVegas as he thinks that it killed Music/ElvisPresley and it is nothing but "showgirls, sluts and sleaze." Gary then tells his manager Sandra that Vegas is good enough for Wayne Newton but not for him.
* TalkingToThemself: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet Shatterday]]", Peter Jay Novins talks with a mysterious {{Doppelganger}}.
* TanksForTheMemories: The protagonist of "The Mind of Simon Foster" sells chunks of his memories to pay his living expenses.
* {{Technophobia}}: In "Quarantine", the survivors of WorldWarIII in 2043 came to distrust and despise technology because nuclear weapons had wiped out 80% of the world's population. They abandoned machines in favor of improving humanity through [[BioAugmentation genetic engineering]] and achieving harmony with the natural world.
* TemporalSickness: In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Gus Rosenthal begins feeling weak soon after he is transported back in time to the 1940s. After several days, he realizes that he has to return to his own time or he will die.
* ThatWasNotADream: In "The Once and Future King", Gary Pitkin initially believes that he is having a dream about meeting his idol Music/ElvisPresley before he was famous in Memphis, Tennessee in 1954. He later realizes that he has been sent back in time.
* ThereAreNoAdults: In "The Shadow Man", there are no adults except for brief appearances by the school librarian and Danny Hayes' mother.
* TheyWouldCutYouUp: In "The Toys of Caliban", Miss Kemp suggests that Ernest Ross allows his son Toby to be examined by experts after discovering that he can [[YourMindMakesItReal manifest anything after seeing its picture]]. Ernest angrily tells her that Toby would be subjected to countless tests and experiments to determine how his power works and then would most likely be killed.
* ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight:
** In "The Shadow Man", the murderous titular entity takes up residence under Danny Hayes' bed and offers him immunity to his/its attacks. Only it turns out [[spoiler:there's more than one of them...]] ''[[spoiler:[[AmbiguousEnding Maybe...]]]]''
** In "The Road Less Traveled", Megan [=McDowell=] tells her parents Jeff and Denise that there was a strange man in her room. When Jeff goes to investigate, he tells her that she just saw a pile of clothes on a chair and there is nothing to worry about. It turns out that Megan saw a version of Jeff from an AlternateUniverse whose life was ruined after fighting in UsefulNotes/{{Vietnam}} and wanted to see the daughter that he never had.
* ThirdEye: In "A Message from Charity", Master Croft's ewe has a lamb with three eyes. This is used as evidence when Charity Payne is [[WitchHunt accused of witchcraft]]. After Squire Jonas Hacker finds her innocent, he holds that the deformed lamb was as a result of a noxious plant growing on Croft's farm.
* ThisBearWasFramed: In "Red Snow", the Communist Party secretary Vladimir Borisov was killed by the vampires living in the [[TheGulag Siberian gulag]] in order to protect the townspeople from his brutal excesses. Mayor Titov tells KGB Colonel Ilyanov that Borisov was torn apart by wolves but he later learns the truth.
* ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity: In "The Once and Future King", Music/ElvisPresley mistakes Gary Pitkin, an ElvisImpersonator from 1986 who [[CelebrityResemblance looks just like him]], for his stillborn identical twin brother Jesse who has come BackFromTheDead. Gary allows him to believe this and tries to use the opportunity to convince Elvis that he has a very bright future ahead of him. [[{{Understatement}} It doesn't go according to plan]].
* ThreeWishes:
** In "Wish Bank", Janice Hamill finds a magic lamp at a rummage sale. When she rubs it, she is transported to the Department of Magical Venues and is told by the broker Mr. Brent that she has three wishes. She wishes for $10,000,000, to look ten years younger and for her ex-husband Craig to suffer from moderate sexual dysfunction for a year and a half. Mr. Brent warns Janice that the first wish will turn out fine but that the second will not turn out as expected and she will almost certainly have to use the third wish to undo the first two. Eventually, Janice is so frustrated at the Department of Magical Venues being a VastBureaucracy that [[ResetButton she wishes that she never found the lamp in the first place]].
** {{Discussed|Trope}} in "Act Break". After Harry has a heart attack, he gives the amulet that he received from monks in Burma to his partner Maury Winkler and tells him that everyone gets one wish. He asks Murray to use his wish to bring him back to life. Maury laments that he doesn't get three wishes, which is the standard deal. Instead of saving Harry's life, he wishes to work with the greatest playwright in the world and is transported back in time to Creator/WilliamShakespeare's house in Elizabethan England.
** In "The Leprechaun-Artist", the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=] grants Buddy, J.P. and Richie three wishes - one a piece - after they capture him. However, [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor none of them turn out according to plan]]. Buddy wishes for XRayVision so that he can see girls' underwear but he can't control his new power and sees internal organs and skulls. [=McGool=] reverses the wish after he determines that Buddy has learned his lesson. J.P. wishes for all of their parents to do exactly what they tell them. The boys soon learn that [=McGool=] has once again tricked them by granting their wish too literally. When J.P. orders his mother to make pizza for the three of them, he has to tell her to perform every step in the preparation from taking the pizza out of the box. [=McGool=] likewise reverses this wish. Richie wishes for a "really hot" car with a driver with a mind of his own. While they are enjoying their new stretch limo, they are chased by the police. The driver, given that he has a mind of his own, refuses their instructions to stop and gets into a car chase. When the police catch up with them, the three boys are arrested as the limo was hot as in stolen. [=McGool=] again reverses the wish and the police have no memory of the car theft.
* TimeDilation: In "Quarantine", although 304 years have passed on Earth, Joshua estimates that it has only been five or ten years for the 1,000 people aboard the American spacecraft launched during the [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]] in 2043.
* TimeFreezeTrollingSpree: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]", Penny just about resists the temptation to pull down a passerby's shorts when time is frozen. Later, she is annoyed by two anti-nuclear activists who call at her house. After she freezes time again, she drags them over to her lawn and lies them down. When time is resumed, they are too frightened to try talking to her again.
* TimeShiftedActor:
** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", there are two examples:
*** Gus Rosenthal is played by Peter Riegert as an adult and Chris Hebert as a child.
*** Jack Wheeldon is played by Biff Yeager as an adult and Gary Karp as a child.
** In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Nola Granville is played by Anne Twomey as an adult, Betsy Lion as a five-year-old and Creator/DanicaMcKellar as a ten-year-old.
** In "Grace Note", Dorothy Miletti is played by Gina Marie Vinaccia as a teenager in 1966 and by Catherine Paolone as an adult in 1986.
* TimeStandsStill: In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]", a stressed housewife named Penny finds a gold pendant shaped like a sundial. After wearing it for about a day, she discovers that it freezes time when she says "shut up" and resumes the normal flow of time when she says "start talking." However, it only works when she is wearing the pendant. She abuses this privilege for several days until [[spoiler:a nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union breaks out.[[labelnote:*]]It's never explicitly stated, but it's at this point that Penny realizes the true purpose of her amulet: Freezing time to get the government officials together and forcing them to "start talking" about nuclear disarmament.[[/labelnote]]Penny is able to freeze time just seconds before her hometown is destroyed by a nuclear missile.]]
* TimeTravelEscape: In "Profile in Silver", Professor Joseph Fitzgerald sends UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy forward in time to 2172 instead of letting him be assassinated. With the assistance of the Secret Service agent Ray Livingston, Fitzgerald makes arrangements to [[HeroicSacrifice take Kennedy's place]]. JFK becomes a history lecturer at Harvard in 2172.
* TimeTravelEpisode:
** In "Act Break", Maury Winkler is sent back in time to the Elizabethan era and becomes the uncredited writing partner of Creator/WilliamShakespeare.
** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", an unhappy and bitter writer named Gus Rosenthal becomes a mentor to his younger self in the 1940s and hopes to be able to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong change his life for the better]].
** In "Profile in Silver", the 22nd Century historian Professor Joseph Fitzgerald creates an AlternateTimeline when he prevents his FamousAncestor UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy from being assassinated on November 22, 1963.
** In "Grace Note", Rosemarie Miletti, an aspiring opera singer, is sent 20 years forward in time to March 22, 1986 and learns that she is destined to become a world famous star.
** In "The Once and Future King", Gary Pitkin, an ElvisImpersonator from 1986, meets the real Music/ElvisPresley on July 3, 1954.
** In "Lost and Found", a college student named Jenny Templeton finds a pair of time travelers from 2139 in her dorm room closet.
** In "The Convict's Piano", the [[MiscarriageOfJustice wrongfully convicted]] prisoner Ricky Frost finds an old piano that transports him to different eras depending on the songs that he plays.
** In "The Junction", the miner John Parker becomes trapped after a cave-in on September 16, 1986. He soon meets another trapped miner named Ray Dobson, who tells him that it is September 16, 1912.
** In "Joy Ride", Alonzo, his brother Greg, Deena and Adrienne steal a classic car and go joy riding. They soon discover that they have been sent back to the 1950s, when the car was manufactured.
** In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", [[{{Satan}} the Prince of Darkness]] offers the composer Bluestone one wish after he dies. He wishes to make it with his high school crush Mary Ellen Cosgrove at a party in October 1948 so that he can live out his teenage dream. Once he arrives in the past, however, he decides to help a depressed girl named Teresa Golowitz instead.
** In "Extra Innings", an [[CareerEndingInjury injured baseball player]] named Ed Hamner receives a 1910 baseball card from his teenage neighbor Paula depicting a player named Monty Hanks who looks just like him. Possessing the card allows Ed to travel to 1910 and play as Monty free of any injury.
* TitleDrop:
** In "If She Dies", Paul Marano's young daughter Cathy is in a coma. He twice laments "if she dies" to Dr. Brice, meaning that he can't face life without her.
** In "Ye Gods", Todd Ettinger says "Ye gods!" after he [[SummoningRitual summons]] the Fury Megaera to his apartment.
** In "What Are Friends For?", Alex and Jeff Mattingly's NotSoImaginaryFriend Mike rhetorically asks Alex the titular question before he disappears.
* TomatoInTheMirror: The TwistEnding of two episodes.
** [[spoiler:"The After Hours", like the original, the protagonist learns/remembers she's actually a mannequin.]]
** [[spoiler:"A Day in Beaumont" shows an astronomer and his girlfriend witnessing a UFO landing, apparently the start of an alien invasion. At the end, they discover that they themselves are aliens, and everything that happened is part of a training exercise to help the aliens infiltrate Earth society.]]
* TomeOfEldritchLore: In "Gramma", Georgie finds the Necronomicon from which his grandmother, a powerful witch, gets her power. It contains several references to [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu and Yog-Sothoth]].
* ToothFairy: In "Tooth and Consequences", the Tooth Fairy appears in Dr. Myron Mandel's office after his failed suicide attempt and offers to give him anything that he wants. Myron wishes to be liked and respected by his patients and for Lydia Bixby to fall madly in love with him. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor The constant adulation soon proves to be too much for Myron]] and he hops a freight train. He meets five homeless men who turn out to be former dentists who had their own run-ins with the Tooth Fairy. Myron learns that he was just a pawn in the Tooth Fairy's scheme to get dentists out of the way so that he will have more business.
* TotallyNotAWerewolf: In "The Little People of Killany Woods", Liam O'Shaughnessy claims that he has seen {{Leprechaun}}s in Killany Woods. Mike Mulvaney later learns that they are [[LittleGreenMen three foot tall green aliens]] from a distant galaxy who enlisted Liam's help to repair their ship, which is shaped like a toadstool.
* ToughRoom: In "Take My Life...Please!", the stand-up comedian Billy Diamond performs his usual act for a crowd as soon as he arrives in the afterlife but none of them even crack a smile. It soon becomes clear to him that he is in {{Hell}} and [[IronicHell that the only way to make the audience laugh to tell them all of the horrible things that he has done in his life]]. His new agent Max tells him that he has been booked to perform this act for the next two eons, possibly more.
* TownWithADarkSecret: In "The Beacon", Dr. Dennis Barrows stumbles into a small town called Mellweather which is protected by an enigmatic lighthouse [[spoiler:that demands a HumanSacrifice for its services]].
* TrackingDevice: In "Profile in Silver", time travelers such as Professor Joseph Fitzgerald and Dr. Kate Wang are issued with homing devices in the form of a ring. When the homing device is separated from the temporal wrist controls worn by the time traveler, the wearer of the ring is automatically returned to their point of departure. Fitzgerald uses this to send UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy [[TimeTravelEscape forward in time to 2172 so that he doesn't have to be assassinated]].
* TrumanShowPlot: In "Special Service", John Selig learns that the last five years of his life have been scripted as a television show. This example stands out because it was made nine years ''before'' ''Film/TheTrumanShow''.
* TruthSerums: In "Examination Day", Dickie Jordan is given a truth serum to ensure that he answers all of the questions on the government intelligence test as truthfully as possible.
* {{Tuckerization}}:
** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Jack Wheeldon is named after a boy who [[TheBully bullied]] Creator/HarlanEllison while he was growing up.
** In "Cold Reading", there is a sign for Crocker Bank. James Crocker was the series' supervising producer and wrote five episodes.
** In "A Day in Beaumont", there are numerous references to actors, writers and directors who worked on science fiction projects:
*** Dr. Kevin Carlson and Faith are named after Richard Carlson and Faith Domergue, who each starred in several 1950s sci-fi films.
*** The town of Beaumont is named after Charles Beaumont, who wrote many episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''.
*** Sheriff Haskin is named after Byron Haskin, who directed ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''.
*** H.G. Orson is named after Creator/HGWells, who wrote the first AlienInvasion story ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', and Creator/OrsonWelles, who produced the [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds (in)famous 1938 radio adaptation]].
*** Major Whitmore is named after James Whitmore, who played Sgt. Ben Peterson in ''Film/{{Them}}''. He also played Captain William Benteen in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS4E118OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]".
*** The InsectoidAliens fire Bradbury rays at Kevin and Faith as they escape. The seminal writer Creator/RayBradbury wrote for both the 1959 and 1985 versions of ''The Twilight Zone''.
*** In the final scene, a young man reports that he saw a FlyingSaucer crash in Matheson, a reference to the profilic author and ''Twilight Zone'' writer Creator/RichardMatheson.
** In "The Junction", the Cassutt Coal Company is named after the writer Michael Cassutt.
* TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture:
** In "Quarantine", Matthew Foreman entered [[HumanPopsicle suspended animation]] on June 18, 2023 in the hope that his cancer could be cured in the future. After being revived in 2347, he learns that 80% of Earth's population were wiped out in a [[WorldWarIII nuclear war]] in 2043.
** In "The Mind of Simon Foster", the United States is experiencing a major economic depression in 1999.
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* UnfinishedBusiness:
** In "If She Dies", Paul Marano speculates that the soul of Sarah, who died of tuberculois decades earlier, has not moved onto {{Heaven}} yet as {{God}} wants her to save the life of his comatose daughter Cathy.
** In "Nightsong", [[spoiler:the ghost of Simon Locke appears to his ex-girlfriend Andrea Fields when she plays his single "Nightsong" on her KGRR radio show. He initially does not tell Andrea that he was killed in a motorcycle accident five years earlier but eventually shows her his skeleton. Simon explains to Andrea that he has returned because she has never been able to move on from their bumpy relationship and the memory of it is keeping her from living her life. He then disappears, having seemingly moved on to the afterlife. In the final scene, Andrea again plays "Nightsong" and dedicates it to Simon with love. Although she will always love Simon, she is ready to move on with her life.]]
* UngratefulBastard:
** In "Healer", Jackie Thompson revives Harry Faulk using the healing stone after he has a heart attack. However, Harry refuses to heal him after his gunshot wound reappears as he doesn't want the share that the money that they made from their TV ministry.
** Jack in "Acts of Terror" beats Louise, cheats on her, and breaks her property. Thanks to a supernatural Doberman responding to her anger, Jack starts suffering for his ways. When Louise is finally pushed over the edge, the Doberman begins mauling Jack (who is begging for mercy). Louise ultimately stops it from killing him, and the dog vanishes. The next morning, rather than express gratitude or change his ways, Jack intends to get payback for his injuries now that the supernatural pooch is seemingly gone. Of course, Louise is no longer scared of him, and the Doberman reappears as backup.
* UnnamedParent:
** In "The Uncle Devil Show", Joey's parents are not named.
** In "The Leprechaun-Artist", Buddy, J.P. and Richie's parents aren't named.
** In "A Saucer of Loneliness", Margaret's mother is not named.
* VampireVannabe: In "Red Snow", the Communist Party secretary Ivan Povin agreed to become a vampire shortly after arriving in the [[TheGulag Siberian gulag]] because he knew that it would be difficult to survive the harsh conditions otherwise. Although he is initially disgusted by the vampires and fears that they intend to feed on him, KGB Colonel Ilyanov later agrees to be made a vampire himself. Valentina Orlova convinces him that the best way to defeat the Soviet Union is to create further vampires and [[InternalReformist take it down from the inside]].
* VampiresSleepInCoffins: In "Red Snow", Titov, the mayor of the small Siberian town which has become a [[TheGulag gulag]], stores the vampires' coffins in the town's disused, boarded up church. They are empty during the winter months when there is no sunlight from October to April but Titov and others protect the vampires during the summer months when the coffins are occupied during the day. In exchange, the vampires protect the townspeople from dangerous criminals and animals.
* VanityLicensePlate: In "The Leprechaun-Artist", the "really hot" car that the {{Leprechaun}} Shawn [=McGool=] conjures up for Buddy, J.P. and Richie for their [[ThreeWishes third and final wish]] has the license plate "Third Wish."
* VastBureaucracy: In "Wish Bank", Janice Hamill is transported to the Department of Magical Venues after finding a magic lamp. Her broker Mr. Brent hands her a stack of papers and tells her that she needs to bring them to the validation window before her ThreeWishes can be granted. He also says that she has to pay tax on the $10,000,000 that she wished for. After queuing at the window for hours, the clerk tells her that she is missing a 604 form and that she needs to get one from her broker. Janice seeks help from Mr. Willoughby, the head of the office, but it is quitting time so he says that she will have to come back tomorrow. She is so frustrated that [[MundaneWish wishes that she never found the lamp]].
* VideoPhone: In "To See the Invisible Man", Mitchell Chaplin calls [=MedEm=] over a video phone in order to receive medical assistance after being hit by a car. The nurse immediately hangs up when she sees the invisibility implant on Mitchell's forehead.
* TheVietnamVet:
** In "Nightcrawlers", Price is a traumatized Vietnam veteran who has the ability to [[YourMindMakesItReal manifest any person or object that he can imagine]].
** In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", Billy Kinetta is a Vietnam vet who is haunted by the fact that a Marine whom he didn't even know died saving his life while he was hiding from the Viet Cong during an ambush in Da Nang.
** In "The Road Less Traveled", the AlternateUniverse Jeff [=McDowell=] went to fight in Vietnam in 1971 instead of [[DraftDodging dodging the draft]] and [[AnArmAndALeg lost his legs when he stepped on a landmine]]. He has spent most of his life since then in a VA hospital wondering what his life would have been like if he had crossed the border to UsefulNotes/{{Canada}}.
* TheVoiceless: In "Children's Zoo", Debbie Cunningham never speaks but all indications are that she can.
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* WarIsHell:
** In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot was a mercenery-for-hire who traveled the world fighting for UsefulNotes/{{India}} and UsefulNotes/{{China}} (which he still calls Cathay) and in UsefulNotes/TheCrusades. He did so for centuries after Camelot fell but eventually grew weary of all the death and destruction and refused to fight any more. When Myth/{{Merlin}} awakens, Lancelot asks him if even Camelot was worth all of the "blood and widows' tears" that it cost to built.
** In "The Road Less Traveled", the AlternateUniverse version of Jeff [=McDowell=] was traumatized by his experiences during UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar, especially [[AnArmAndALeg losing his legs]]. He tells his counterpart that he regularly has terrible nightmares about the things that he saw there.
* WeatherManipulation: In "Welcome to Winfield", TheGrimReaper Griffin St. George has the power to create thunder and lightning. He first uses this ability to try and coerce the people of Winfield into telling him where Matt Winnaker is and later to get their attention when they plead with him to [[TakeMeInstead take them instead]].
* WeirdnessSearchAndRescue: In "A Matter of Minutes", the foreman of a group of people takes time to explain to a couple who end up 'outside time' how time really works, even showing them an animated computer graphic prepared for such an event.
* WellDoneSonGuy: "A Small Talent for War" features a race who sowed humanity on Earth in the distant past. Humanity's desperate attempt to impress our "fathers" [[spoiler:ends badly]].
* WellIntentionedExtremist: In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Myth/{{Merlin}} seeks to place a king on the throne who will rule the world according to the principles of honor, integrity, morality and chivalry that he and Myth/KingArthur created in Camelot. However, he is willing to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] Tom in order to restore his powers fully. Lancelot warns him that war has changed in the 1,000 years that he slept and there are weapons capable of destroying the entire world. Merlin ignores him, intending to do whatever is necessary to fulfil his grand design. After he kills Morgan le Fay, Lancelot tells Tom not to hate him as he was "just an old man who slept too long and dreamt too hard."
* WhamShot:
** Near the end of "Shelter Skelter", the camera leaves Harry in his shelter and pans over the destruction and rubble among a darkened landscape... [[spoiler:before coming across a curved wall. Moving ''past'' it, we are shown... a bright, sunny day, with people out and about in a park, where we also see that the curved wall was part of a dome]].
** At the end of "The Toys of Caliban", over the sounds of [[spoiler:approaching police sirens]], Ernest Ross shows Toby one last image, so that he can summon it. That image in question (which is reflected in Toby's eyes)? [[spoiler:[[KillItWithFire A fire.]]]]
** By the end of "Many, Many Monkeys", Claire Hendricks becomes blind, much like most of everyone else in the episode[[note]]as shown with their eyes turning white and blank[[/note]]. Only problem? [[spoiler:The episode ends by zooming in on her face... and her eyes are ''normal''. She's blind in a ''psychosomatic'' sense.]]
* WholePlotReference:
** "Her Pilgrim Soul" is one to ''Film/PortraitOfJennie''. Dr. Kevin Drayton falls in love with the spirit of the long dead Nola Granville, who grows older every time that he sees her.
** "Personal Demons" is one to "Literature/TheElvesAndTheCobbler". The hooded creatures appear to Rockne O'Bannon so that he can cure his WritersBlock by writing a story about them.
* WhoWantsToLiveForever: In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot has grown weary of immortality after 1,000 years and tells Morgan le Fay that he would welcome die to put an end to his pain and guilt over betraying Myth/KingArthur through his affair with Guinevere.
%%* {{Wishplosion}}: "The Wish Bank", "I of Newton"
* WishUponAShootingStar: In "Grace Note", the [[LittlestCancerPatient teenage leukemia patient]] Mary Miletti sees a shooting star and wishes that her elder sister Rosemarie can see that she will one day achieve her dream of being a famous opera star. The next day, after Mary is taken to hospital, Rosemarie is transported 20 years forward in time to March 22, 1986 and sees [[MyFutureSelfAndMe her future self]] performing ''La Traviata'' to a sold out audience in the Lincoln Center.
* WitchHunt: In "A Message from Charity", Charity Payne is accused of being a witch after she tells her best friend Ursula Miller of the wonders of 1985 that she has seen through Peter Wood's eyes or that he has told her about such as cars, television, airplanes, men walking on UsefulNotes/TheMoon and UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. The "evidence" against her is her family's well being the only one in Annes Town whose water is not tainted and Master Croft's ewe giving birth to a lamb with a ThirdEye. While searching for references to Charity's trial in books on [[UsefulNotes/TheThirteenAmericanColonies colonial Massachusetts]], Peter finds a reference to Squire Jonas Hacker being posthumously convicted of the murder of two sailors in 1704. During her trial, Charity claims to possess [[{{Seers}} second sight]] and describes the root cellar in which the bodies are hidden. Squire Hacker holds that her second sight is a gift from {{God}} and proclaims her innocent of witchcraft. However, Charity reluctantly breaks off contact with Peter to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.
* WithFriendsLikeThese:
** In "A Message from Charity", Charity Payne tells her best friend Ursula Miller what she has learned of the future through her telepathic contact with Peter Wood. Ursula then brings Charity's claims to the attention of Squire Jonas Hacker and Charity is accused of being a witch.
** "Cat and Mouse" has one such friend.
** In "Dead Run", it's implied that Johnny's company of truck drivers are like this.
** In "The Last Defender of Camelot", Lancelot considers Myth/{{Merlin}} to be his friend from their days at Camelot together 1,000 years earlier. However, Merlin proves himself to be untrustworthy almost as soon as he awakens from his long sleep as he plans to [[HumanSacrifice sacrifice]] Tom and shape the world to his vision.
* {{Workaholic}}: In "Her Pilgrim Soul", Dr. Kevin Drayton has been working obsessively to perfect his holographic projector for three years to the detriment of his marriage to Carol. She wants to start a family but their marriage is in the process of failing as she and Kevin barely even see each other anymore. [[spoiler:Kevin later learns from Nola Granville that he is the {{Reincarnation}} of her husband Robert Goldstone and that he inherited Robert's fear of loving someone after Nola [[DeathByChildbirth died in childbirth]]. This fear led him to act coldly towards Carol.]]
* WorldWarIII:
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E1ShatterdayALittlePeaceAndQuiet A Little Peace and Quiet]]", a nuclear war breaks out between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1985.
** {{Discussed|Trope}} in "Paladin of the Lost Hour". Gaspar tells Billy Kinetta that he knows for certain that the feared nuclear holocaust will never come.
** In "Quarantine", 80% of the world's population was wiped out in a nuclear war in 2043. The authorities of the time considered it a limited engagement as only six missiles were fired by each side.
** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1985S1E20 Profile in Silver]]", UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy's [[WhoShotJFK assassination]] is averted by Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, a time traveling historian from 2172 and [[FamousAncestor one of Kennedy's descendants]]. This creates an AlternateTimeline in which Soviet troops invade West Berlin, resulting in World War III. In order to restore the proper timeline, Fitzgerald takes Kennedy's place and allows himself to be killed. Kennedy is [[TimeTravelEscape transported forward in time to 2172]].
* WouldHitAGirl: In "What Are Friends For?", Jeff Mattingly pushes the much younger Cindy Conrad to the ground as he thinks that she is ruining the game of Tag that he is playing with her older brothers Tim and Larry. He later apologizes for his behavior and becomes friends with all three Conrad children.
* WouldHurtAChild:
** In "Examination Day", [[spoiler:the totalitarian government gives tests that identify [[ChildProdigy child prodigies]]--who are then killed before they can grow up to question or threaten the power structure.]]
** In "The Shadow Man", the titular entity attacks several of Danny Hayes' classmates at Willow Creek Junior High School, including Mark, Wendy and Chip Murphy. [[spoiler:In the final scene, Danny is himself attacked by a Shadow Man who lives under someone else's bed.]]
* WriteBackToTheFuture: In "The Junction", Ray Dobson is extremely grateful to John Parker, another miner from 1986, for saving his life while they were trapped by a cave-in on September 16, 1912. In order to return the favor, he writes a letter to John's wife Melissa and leaves it with the church with instructions that it be delivered on September 15, 1986, the day before John became trapped. Although Reverend Bailey had every intention of delivering it on the day in question, he was called away and forgot to do so. By the time that he gets it to Melissa, John is already trapped in the mine. However, Ray's letter includes the location where he and John were trapped in 1912 and John is rescued in time.
* WritersBlock: In "Personal Demons", the veteran television writer Rockne O'Bannon is suffering from severe writer's block. He admits to his friend and neighbor Herman Gold that he has not had an original idea in 20 years. Shortly afterwards, he begins seeing strange, hooded creatures everywhere he goes [[InvisibleToNormals that no one else can see]]. When he finally confronts them, they tell Rockne to write about them and he will never see them again. As soon as he starts typing, they begin to disappear.
* WritersSuck: In "Act Break", Maury Winkler and Harry are a pair of middle-aged writers who have written 17 unsuccessful plays in 22 years. Each one took six months to a year to write but most of them closed after only one night and none of them got anywhere near Broadway. They are two months behind on the rent for their filthy, cramped office and the landlord is threatening to throw them out.
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* XRayVision: In "The Leprechaun-Artist", after he and his friends J.P. and Richie capture a {{Leprechaun}} named Shawn [=McGool=], Buddy wishes for X-Ray vision so that he can see through girls' clothes. His power starts working the next morning and he is initially able to see under his female classmates' clothes to their underwear. However, after a few seconds of concentrating on one girl, he sees her internal organs and faints in shock. When J.P. and Richie come to his aid, he can see their skulls. [=McGool=], who brands Buddy a "little deviant," eventually removes the wish when it becomes clear to him that Buddy has learned his lesson.
* YourCheatingHeart:
** In "Children's Zoo", Sheila Cunningham suspects, with good reason, that her husband Martin is cheating on her but he continually denies it. In his car, she finds proof: cigarette butts with lipstick on them. When they arrive at the Children's Zoo with their daughter Debbie, Martin starts hitting on the attendant Melody.
** In "Ye Gods", Cupid cheated on Megaera with a mortal woman named Drusilla. As a result, Megaera broke up with him and [[{{Animorphism}} turned Drusilla into a tree frog]].
** In "Nightsong", Simon Locke frequently cheated on his girlfriend Andrea Fields, including with a groupie in Fresno. Andrea was aware of Simon's behavior but she did not care as she was so in love with him.
** In "Lost and Found", the female time traveler tells her male companion that she is returning to 2139 and that he shouldn't bother coming home if he stops by to see UsefulNotes/CleopatraVII first. When he leaves 1986, he sets his time travel device for 32 B.C.E., suggesting that he does intend to visit Cleopatra.
* YourMindMakesItReal:
** In "Nightcrawlers", Price is a [[TheVietnamVet Vietnam vet]] who suffers from severe PTSD as a result of deserting his unit, the Nightcrawlers, while they were under attack from the Viet Cong in order to save himself. He has the ability to manifest anything that he can imagine. The first indication of this is when he briefly turns his cup of coffee into a Budweiser. Price later demonstrates his ability to the other people in Big Bob's diner when he makes a T-bone steak appear on the counter. He says that he has met four other vets with the same ability and that one of them speculated that their powers are as a result of being sprayed with a strange Soviet chemical by the Viet Cong. While he is awake, Price's creations last only a few seconds but they last far longer when he is asleep. When he fell asleep at a motel, he had his [[RecurringDreams recurring nightmare]] about his unit hunting him out of revenge and four people were killed. Trooper Dennis Wells knocks him unconscious with a ketchup bottle after he tries to escape. As a result, the Nightcrawlers unit again manifests from Price's thoughts and attacks the diner, killing Wells and Price in the process. With Price dead, the Nightcrawlers disappear.
** In "The Toys of Caliban", an intellectually impaired boy named Toby Ross has the ability to manifest any item after he sees a picture of it by saying "Bring!" As a reward, his parents Ernest and Mary show him a picture of a donut every night after dinner. Ernest is worried when Toby is able to create two donuts for himself without looking at the picture, something which has never happened before. That night, Toby is suffering from a severe stomach ache after manifesting dozens of donuts. His parents reluctantly take him to an emergency room where he has to get his stomach pumped. As a result of Ernest and Mary's odd, evasive behavior, a social worker named Miss Kemp calls on them before they leave the hospital the next morning. She becomes extremely concerned about Toby's welfare when Ernest angrily prevents her from giving Toby a magazine. Although Toby only got a glimpse of the magazine, he is nevertheless able to bring it later. He sees a diagram of a heart and accidentally kills Mary when he [[AttackOnTheHeart removes her heart from her chest]]. Sometime later, Miss Kemp visits the Ross household, convinced that Toby is being horribly mistreated. Ernest is forced to demonstrate Toby's ability for her. As Miss Kemp leaves, Toby sees an old photograph of his mother. Mary's decomposing corpse then appears in her armchair, traumatizing Toby. After burying Mary's body in the backyard, Ernest believes that he has run out of options. [[spoiler:He shows Toby a picture of fire. When Miss Kemp returns with the police, they find the house in flames.]]
* YourVampiresSuck: In "Monsters!", the vampire Emile Francis Bendictson criticizes the depiction of vampires in the monster movies enjoyed by Toby Michaels because almost everything in them is inaccurate.
* YouWillBeBeethoven:
** In "Profile in Silver", Professor Joseph Fitzgerald, a time traveler from 2172, switches places with his FamousAncestor UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy so that he can be assassinated in JFK's place on November 22, 1963.
** In "The Once and Future King", the ElvisImpersonator Gary Pitkin is sent back in time to Memphis, Tennessee on July 3, 1954 and meets the real Music/ElvisPresley, two days before he is due to perform "That's All Right" for Sam Phillips at Sun Records. The next day, Gary learns that Elvis intends to play "I Love You Because" instead and tries to convince him that he will ruin his chances of a record deal if he does so. However, Elvis begins to suspect that Gary has been sent to tempt him with devil's music and attacks him. In the ensuing fight, Elvis is [[InertialImpalement impaled on the neck of his guitar and dies]]. Gary then [[DeadPersonImpersonation assumes his identity]] and performs "That's All Right" for Phillips as history records Elvis did. It turns out that it was Gary posing as Elvis rather than the real Elvis who was destined to become the King of RockAndRoll. However, Gary wonders if Elvis would have made a better King if he had lived.
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