History Heartwarming / TheTwilightZone1985

* The episode "Aqua Vita" has a journalist with a loving photographer boyfriend celebrating her 40th birthday with apprehension, fearing that she will be let go from her position and he boyfriend will leave her due to her age. One of her beautiful, younger co-workers gives her a free sample of a special type of water that helps her retain her looks. However, it comes at a high cost: the water, which the journalist buys for herself, ages your looks down a few years only to the ''accelerate'' them more, and drinking the water will eventually kill you. Also, the "young" co-worker is even older that her and has been drinking the water so long, it completely ravaged her looks to any degree beyond a regular elderly woman. Realizing what she has become and looking much older than her 40 years, she urges her boyfriend to leave her, saying how much of a joke it would be for him to stay with her while he's still looking young. His solution? [[ActOfTrueLove He drinks the water, too.]] The last scene is of the two of them sitting on a park bench, both elderly-looking and happy with each other and their decision.

* "Devil's Alphabet" has Cornelius defend his dead brethren when the rest of his fraternity brothers (least of all Grant) [[SpeakIllOfTheDead makes jokes about it]].
** Later, Cornelius visits them one last time, promising that he will visit them every year for the rest of his life and even after that. Bear in mind, he didn't know this would be the last time (thanks in part to the escape clause). He was promising this before-hand in case it didn't work, so they would have the slight comfort he would be there for them.

** The premise [[spoiler: turns out to be a man's Alternate self deciding to take charge and make amends for the past mistakes. While the main Peter J. Novans thinks the other Peter is trying to subsume him, it turns out his alter ego is benevolent and trying to [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong avoid an unhappy existence]] where he [[DyingAlone dies alone from pneumonia]]. In the end, Peter accepts his fate graciously while other Peter pays his respects before leaving.]]
** The way [[spoiler: other Peter apologized to a previous lover that Peter had abandoned, especially when he talked about their future together. In the same vein, other Peter invites Peter's mother to stay with him and promises to make the most of the time they have left together as mother and son.]]
* "Wordplay": [[spoiler: Donnie makes it to the hospital just in time for his pneumonia to be stabilized and treated. Bill is relieved and thanks God for Donnie's life. At supper, even though [[BittersweetEnding things haven't returned to normal]], Bill tells Kathy he likes the dinner. Despite the language barrier, they both understand each other. Later, he humbly enters Donnie's room and uses the boy's picture book to teach himself to speak the new language.]]
* The ending to "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" has a surprising amount of this. [[spoiler: Not only have Wong and Melinda found what they each lost (respectively, his compassion and her sense of humor), but they decide to help the elderly artist and the old father regain their chances to find their lost things.]]
* "Red Snow" gives us Valentina, a local who tells a little girl not to wander off. It gives this feel of the Siberian town being a closely-knit community. [[spoiler: The reveal that Valentina is a vampire shows that her being nice to the girl was her EstablishingCharacterMoment as a [[DarkIsNotEvil genuinely decent person]]. It's later cemented when she spares Ilyanov, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark even after]] [[MoralityChain her morality chain Titov]] [[WhatYouAreInTheDark is attacked and eaten by wolves]].]]

** Later, [[spoiler: Cornelius visits them one last time, promising that he will visit them every year for the rest of his life and even after that. Bear in mind, he didn't know this would be the last time (thanks in part to the escape clause). He was promising this before-hand in case it didn't work, so they would have the slight comfort he would be there for them.]]

* "A Saucer of Loneliness" just goes to show [[spoiler: that somewhere out there, you can find someone meant for you, maybe even someone who shares your loneliness.]]
* The ending to "Song of a Younger World": [[spoiler: "They're [[EarnYourHappyEnding together]] now, running free, in a place where you [...] ''no one'' can hurt them."]]
* "Dream Me a Life" has [[spoiler: Roger befriending Loraine the next morning after freeing her husband's spirit. And subsequently, she emerges from her coma and apologizes for 'burning' him. The two happily begin a relationship together.]]

** Fridge-Heartwarming: [[spoiler: The narration made a point of Norman's personal worry that if he were to die alone, he would die unnoticed and un-mourned. His becoming a bronze statue alongside Mary Ann makes it so that he made a difference in someone's life, that being the life of someone he's deeply and truly in love with.]]

** Just the nature of the mysterious spirit that keeps possessing Leonard. On top of exposing Leonard's scam in order to save many innocent people the trouble, the spirit is wise, benevolent, and morally sound. [[spoiler: In the end, it reveals that whether or not Leonard was "worthy", [[SincerityMode it decided to mentor him in the wisdom of the Universe]].]]

** Around the climax, [[spoiler: Louise tames the Doberman, who acts gentle and sweet around her. Later, it acts as a faithful bodyguard for Louise in order to deter Jack from ever coming back and making trouble for her again.]]
* "20/20 Vision" has [[spoiler: Warren give a loan to a poor farmer, in spite that the bank is targeting to foreclose his farm. He's making sure [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong the farmer won't lose his farm to the bank's greed.]]]]

** The ending. [[spoiler: Jamie vicariously keeps his promises by living on in Bennett: (A) that he wouldn't marry Mary Jo until he got a decent job and (B) that he would always be with Mary Jo.]]
** The context of why [[spoiler: Bennett didn't tell Mary Jo he was the recipient of Jamie's heart: he wanted her to love him on her own terms.]]
* "Cat and Mouse" has a small one where [[spoiler: Andrea accepts Carl's date, showing that she's matured as a confident woman who wants to date a ''real'' person.]]
** Even more so? [[spoiler: Carl had been asking out Andrea even before Guillaume came into her life, back when she looked (for lack of better words) mousy. This speaks volumes that, even if he's not as romantic and charismatic as Guillaume, Carl's affection towards Andrea is more unconditional.]]

* The end of "To See the Invisible Man". The episode takes place in a [[BadFuture dystopia]] where being cold and nasty to people results in the punishment of "invisibility"--the criminal is marked with a brand on the forehead, which means that everyone is forbidden, on pain of arrest, from interacting with him or her. A man receives the treatment, and while at first he has fun by stealing things and spying on beautiful women, he quickly [[GoMadFromTheIsolation goes mad from the isolation]] and begs someone, ''anyone'', to acknowledge him. At one point, he sees a pretty red-headed woman who also has an invisibility brand on her forehead, walking by, and chases after her, screaming for help and pleading for her to speak to him; she walks away without a word. After the year is up, the man has reformed, and is a better person for it...until the day when he sees the red-headed woman, still marked with the invisibility brand, on the street. She pursues him, reminding him that he knows what it's like, but he ignores her...[[spoiler:only to stop, embrace her, and say "I can see you! You are not invisible!" The episode ends with robots surrounding the man to take him into custody; the narrator comments that the program [[GoneHorriblyRight worked too well]] for the main character, and that he faced the punishment with pride the second time around.]]

* The episode "Aqua Vita" has a journalist with a loving photographer boyfriend celebrating her 40th birthday with apprehension, fearing that she will be let go from her position and he boyfriend will leave her due to her age. One of her beautiful, younger co-workers gives her a free sample of a special type of water that helps her retain her looks. However, it comes at a high cost: [[spoiler: the water, which the journalist buys for herself, ages your looks down a few years only to the ''accelerate'' them more, and drinking the water will eventually kill you. Also, the "young" co-worker is even older that her and has been drinking the water so long, it completely ravaged her looks to any degree beyond a regular elderly woman. Realizing what she has become and looking much older than her 40 years, she urges her boyfriend to leave her, saying how much of a joke it would be for him to stay with her while he's still looking young. His solution? [[ActOfTrueLove He drinks the water, too.]] The last scene is of the two of them sitting on a park bench, both elderly-looking and happy with each other and their decision.]]
* "The Road Less Traveled". Jeff, a man living a happy life with his family, feels guilty over dodging the draft for Vietnam. He begins having visions about the war as if he'd been there himself. He also begins finding marks along the floor and his wife and daughter describe seeing a man in a wheelchair roaming around the house. [[spoiler: The man turns about to be a version of him from an AlternateTimeline where he did go to the war and ended up losing the use of his legs. Alt!Jeff isn't there for revenge or to take Jeff's life away, but just to see what his life could have been like if he hadn't gone. The two Jeffs then share their memories so they can both fully appreciate what the other went through, finally letting go of their mutual guilt]].

* "A Message from Charity". All the interactions between Peter, a boy from modern times, and Charity, a Puritan girl from the 1600s. Unlikely friends turned StarCrossedLovers. Especially the final scene, [[spoiler: where Peter discovers a rock with "P.W. + C.P." engraved on it.]]

* "Time and Teresa Golowitz". Bluestone originally went back in time to a high school party, to hook up with a girl he had a crush on. Upon arriving, [[spoiler: he decides not to because it would be wrong. The Prince reminds him how one girl, Teresa, wound up -- she committed suicide, after returning home from the party. Bluestone has a conversation with her, performs with her (they are applauded by the party), and they agree to meet the next day to begin working together. Upon returning to the present, he finds out that he and Teresa have (in the new timeline) been the best of friends since that night and have had a long and successful professional relationship.]]
** [[spoiler: Not only did he not try to have sex with the other girl, but he helped her convince her boyfriend not to pressure her into moving faster in their relationship than she was comfortable with.]]
** It is revealed that [[spoiler: the outcome of the trip was the Prince's plan all along -- he knew, and planned, that Bluestone would abandon his original goal in order to save a talented singer from taking her own life at sixteen years old.]]
* The ending of "Shelter Skelter". [[spoiler: After all the survivalist's rants, it turns out that the outside world is not only alive, it's further away from war than ever. The nuclear explosion had been a 'Broken Arrow' incident which levelled the town, shocking the world back from the brink of war, and the giant dome built over to contain the remains had became the most famous anti-war monument in the world. Harry's wife Sally and their children, who were out of town when the explosion happened, are still alive, and with Sally deciding to keep her husband's fallout shelter secret as she 'promised', they can now live free from his toxic misanthropy and obsessive survivalism]]

* "The Trunk" features a lonely, kind-hearted hotel proprietor who uses the titular magic shipping trunk to wish for possessions in a bid to be liked by others, only to find himself surrounded by false friends who are just using him. [[spoiler:Although he comes to be magically trapped inside the trunk, the episode ends happily as the trunk grants a recently-dumped young woman's wish for a decent guy to share her life with: when she opens the lid, out comes [[SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan the protagonist]].]]

* The ending of "Shelter Skelter". [[spoiler: After all the survivalist's misanthropic rants, it turns out that the outside world is not only alive, it's further away from war than ever.]]

* "But Can She Type?" centers on Karen Billings, a talented young woman who works as a secretary and is treated like dirt by her BadBoss. After using an old copy machine, Karen finds herself in an alternate reality where things are almost entirely identical, to the point where she at first doesn't catch on that anything has changed. But when Karen attends a party and casually mentions that she's a secretary, the entire room stops and stares--it turns out that in this universe, secretaries are the biggest and most-loved celebrities in the world (to the point where the hostess gushes about how about a ''secretary'' came to ''her'' party!). Karen is understandably confused and eventually ends up back in her own reality. But when her boss yet again demeans her, she [[TakeThisJobAndShoveIt decides to quit once and for all]] and rushes to the copy room, where she's able to use the machine [[JustInTime just before it's taken away.]] After a moment, she safely reaches the alternate universe again. The episode ends with Karen being personally escorted to a limousine that will take her to the airport so she can start a new job in Paris, complete with a brand-new wardrobe--and, more importantly, the respect she's always been denied, in an unambiguously happy ending.

* "But Can She Type?" centers on Karen Billings, a talented young woman who works as a secretary and is treated like dirt by her BadBoss. After using an old copy machine, Karen finds herself in an alternate reality where things are almost entirely identical, to the point where she at first doesn't catch on that anything has changed. But when Karen attends a party and casually mentions that she's a secretary, the entire room stops and stares--it turns out that in this universe, secretaries are the biggest and most-loved celebrities in the world (to the point where the hostess gushes about how about a ''secretary'' came to ''her'' party!). Karen is understandably confused and eventually ends up back in her own reality. But when her boss yet again demeans her, she decides to [[GrewASpine finally tell him off]] and rushes to the copy room, where she's able to use the machine [[JustInTime just before it's taken away.]] After a moment, she safely reaches the alternate universe again. The episode ends with Karen being personally escorted to a limousine that will take her to the airport so she can start a new job in Paris, complete with a brand-new wardrobe--and, more importantly, the respect she's always been denied, in an unambiguously happy ending.

* "But Can She Type?" revolves around a put-upon, smart secretary being sent to a dimension where secretaries are treated like superstars.

* In "The Trance", the mysterious spirit possesses Leonard during a psychiatrist appointment and [[LampShading points out]] how the psychiatrist is one of the few decent people he's encountered. What's more, [[TheOmniscient simply by knowing]], the wise spirit points out to the psychiatrist that although it's okay to feel grief for his [[TheLostLenore late wife]], she also prefers he didn't speed up the reunion by destroying himself with his smoking habit. Naturally, [[RealityEnsues the psychiatrist furiously kicks Leonard out of his office thinking he's conning him]]. Still, there's implications that his advice does influence the psychiatrist to stop smoking.

* In "The Star", a priest grieves over an alien civilization that was destroyed by a supernova (which the light would have reached Earth, and be seen as the "StarOfBethlehem"). He [[RageAgainstTheHeavens cries out to God]], questioning why the aliens had to die when there were other stars with lifeless planets to chose from. [[DownerEnding This is the note the original short story ended on.]] [[AdaptationDeviation The episode, however, keeps going:]] the priest's friendly rival, an astrophysicist, found a poem in the aliens' archive, which says they have lived a very long, peaceful life and saw the [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome beauty of the universe]]. They knew they were going to die, but [[FaceDeathWithDignity they were okay with it and accepted their fate]]. "Whatever destiny was theirs, they fulfilled it. Their time had come, and in their passing, they [[PassingTheTorch passed their light]] on to another world. A balance was struck, and perhaps one day, whenever we've fulfilled whatever destiny is ours to fulfil, maybe we too will light the way for another world." This comforts the priest and renews his faith.

* In "The Star", a priest grieves over an alien civilization that was destroyed by a supernova (which the light would have reached Earth, and be seen as the "StarOfBethlehem"). He [[RageAgainstTheHeavens cries out to God]], questioning why the aliens had to die when there were other stars with lifeless planets to chose from. [[DownerEnding This is the note the original short story ended on.]] [[AdaptationDeviation The episode, however, keeps going:]] the priest's friendly rival, an astrophysicist, found a poem in the aliens' archive, which says they have lived a very long, peaceful life and saw the [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome beauty of the universe]]. They knew they were going to die, but [[FaceDeathWithDignity they were okay with it and accepted their fate]]. "Whatever destiny was theirs, they fulfilled it. Their time had come, and in their passing, they [[PassingTheTorch passed their light]] on to another world. A balance was struck, and perhaps one day, whenever we've fulfilled whatever destiny we have, maybe we too will light the way for another world." This comforts the priest and renews his faith.

* "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" has a surprising amount of this.
* "Red Snow" gives us Valentina, a local who tells a little girl not to wander off. It gives this feel of the Siberian town being a closely-knit community. [[spoiler: The reveal that Valentina is a vampire shows that her being nice to the girl was her EstablishingCharacterMoment as a [[DarkIsNotEvil genuinely decent person]]. It's later cemented when she spares Ilyanov, [[WhatYouAreInTheDark even after Titov is attacked and eaten by wolves]].]]

* "Memories" gives us Marie [=McNeal=], a generally [[NiceGuy kind woman]] who embodies human compassion, especially in her profession as a past-life therapist. At one point in the episode, she meets a miserable woman who is [[DrivenToSuicide deliberately trying to die]], since in this alternate universe, reincarnation exists. Marie [[InterruptedSuicide protests to this]], telling her that it's in the present one should be happy. She convinces her that maybe, they can support each other.

** Just the nature of the mysterious spirit that keeps possessing Leonard. Aside from sabotaging the latter's stint as a televangelist, the spirit is wise, benevolent, and morally sound. [[spoiler: In the end, it reveals that whether or not Leonard was "worthy", [[SincerityMode it decided to mentor him in the wisdom of the Universe]].]]

** Around the climax, [[spoiler: Louise tames the Doberman, who acts gentle and sweet around her.]]

* "Cat and Mouse" has a small one where [[spoiler: Andrea accepts Carl's date, showing that she's matured as a confident woman who wants to date a real person.]]

* "Children's Zoo". A little girl with angry, vile parents who ignore her and think only of themselves, gets a free pass to the Children's Zoo. After her parents are taken to a special waiting room the little girl gets to see the exhibits: other parents. It is quickly revealed that children with bad parents can come to the zoo and find a new family. What makes it even better is that these aren't magically created parents... the exhibits are parents left behind by their own children and, after a time, some of them learn their lesson. The last couple the little girl meets reveal their son left them years ago and they've learned their lesson and have changed for the better. Not only does the little girl get a second chance... but the parents who squandered their first chance at being parents get a second try too. This means that even the little girl's vile parents could also change and get a happy ending.

* "But Can She Type?" revolves around a put-upon, smart secretary being sent to a dimension where secretaries are superstars.

* "The Trunk" features a lonely, kind-hearted hotel proprietor who uses the titular magic shipping trunk to wish for possessions in a bid to be liked by others, only to find himself surrounded by false friends who are just using him. [[spoiler:Although he comes to be magically trapped inside the trunk, the episode ends happily as the trunk grants a recently-dumped young woman's wish for a decent guy to share her life with: when she opens the lid, out comes the protagonist.]]

* "The Trunk" features a lonely, kind-hearted hotel proprietor who uses the titular magic shipping trunk to wish for possessions in a bid to be liked by others, only to find himself surrounded by false friends who are just using him. [[spoiler:A series of misadventures results in him being magically trapped inside the trunk. The episode ends happily as the trunk grants a recently-dumped young woman's wish for a decent guy to share her life with: when she opens the lid of the trunk, out comes the protagonist.]]

* "The Trunk" features a lonely, kind-hearted hotel proprietor who uses the titular magic shipping trunk to wish for possessions in a bid to be liked by others, only to find himself surrounded by false friends who are just using him; a series of misadventures results in him being magically trapped inside the trunk. The episode ends happily as the trunk grants a recently-dumped young woman's wish for a decent guy to share her life with: when she opens the lid of the trunk, out comes the protagonist.

* "But Can She Type?" revolves around a put-upon, smartsecretary being sent to a dimension where secretaries are superstars.

* In "The Star", a priest grieves over an alien civilization that was destroyed by a supernova (which the light would have reached Earth, and be seen as the "StarOfBethlehem"). He [[RageAgainstTheHeavens cries out to God]], questioning why the aliens had to die when there were other stars with lifeless planets to chose from. However, his friendly rival, an astrophysicist, found a poem in the aliens' archive, which says they have lived a very long, peaceful life and saw the [[TheWorldIsJustAwesome beauty of the universe]]. They knew they were going to die, but [[FaceDeathWithDignity they were okay with it and accepted their fate]]. "Whatever destiny was theirs, they fulfilled it. Their time had come, and in their passing, they [[PassingTheTorch passed their light]] on to another world. A balance was struck, and perhaps one day, whenever we've fulfilled whatever destiny we have, maybe we too will light the way for another world." This comforts the priest and renews his faith. It's even more heartwarming if you've read the original story, which was a full DownerEnding. (It stopped at the end of the second sentence in the above description.)