The Twilight Zone

Season 1 Episode 26: The Beacon

3 Seasons Dec 06, 1985 TV-PG 20m 7.7

When Dr. Dennis Barrows's car breaks down, he goes to an unusual town where visitors are disliked and townspeople are terrified of lighthouse and where it might shine. The house where Barrows stays the night is shined upon by the lighthouse. It holds a sick child, one which he helps with his medicine. The child recovers, but when Barrows goes to the lighthouse, the townfolk confront him with the truth: the lighthouse keeper is long dead, but in return for ensuring the town's prosper...

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Season 1 Episodes:

Episode 5 If She Dies/Ye Gods

5. If She Dies/Ye Gods

Aired: Oct 4, 1985

"If She Dies": After an accident leaves his daughter in a coma, a man sees an...

Episode 25 Opening Day

25. Opening Day

Aired: Nov 28, 1985

A beautiful woman and her boyfriend plan to kill her husband on the first day...

Episode 26 The Beacon

26. The Beacon

Aired: Dec 5, 1985

When Dr. Dennis Barrows's car breaks down, he goes to an unusual town where v...

Episode 28 Her Pilgrim Soul

28. Her Pilgrim Soul

Aired: Dec 12, 1985

Two scientists named Kevin and Daniel are experimenting with a holographic de...

Episode 29 I of Newton

29. I of Newton

Aired: Dec 12, 1985

A frazzled mathematics professor accidentally summons a demon who will let hi...

Episode 30 Night of the Meek

30. Night of the Meek

Aired: Dec 19, 1985

A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who g...

Episode 31 But Can She Type?

31. But Can She Type?

Aired: Dec 19, 1985

An overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated secretary uses a Xerox machin...

Episode 32 The Star

32. The Star

Aired: Dec 19, 1985

Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered...

Episode 33 Still Life

33. Still Life

Aired: Jan 2, 1986

Finding an old trunk, a couple realizes that it has a false bottom containing...

Episode 36 Monsters!

36. Monsters!

Aired: Jan 23, 1986

A young boy becomes fascinated with the new neighbor next door. The neighbor,...

Episode 38 A Matter of Minutes

38. A Matter of Minutes

Aired: Jan 23, 1986

A young married couple discovers that their home is being remodeled by blue-c...

Episode 39 The Elevator

39. The Elevator

Aired: Jan 30, 1986

Two twenty-something brothers go to their father's laboratory to steal his fa...

Episode 42 Welcome to Winfield

42. Welcome to Winfield

Aired: Feb 6, 1986

The grim reaper arrives at a hospital to take possession of a dying man. The ...

Episode 43 Quarantine

43. Quarantine

Aired: Feb 6, 1986

A man is awakened after several hundred years of cryogenic sleep. He finds a ...

Episode 44 Gramma

44. Gramma

Aired: Feb 13, 1986

A young boy is left to care for his old, scary grandmother. He finally confro...

Episode 45 Personal Demons

45. Personal Demons

Aired: Feb 13, 1986

A screenwriter is having writer's block when strange impish creatures start h...

Episode 46 Cold Reading

46. Cold Reading

Aired: Feb 13, 1986

An actor arrives at a radio station to perform a radio play. An old voodoo st...

Episode 48 Dead Run

48. Dead Run

Aired: Feb 20, 1986

An out-of-work trucker takes on a bizarre job upon the recommendation of a fr...

Episode 49 Profile in Silver

49. Profile in Silver

Aired: Mar 6, 1986

A researcher from the future, a descendent of President John F. Kennedy goes ...

Episode 50 Button, Button

50. Button, Button

Aired: Mar 6, 1986

A mysterious man offers a couple a bizarre deal: if they will push a button o...

Episode 51 Need to Know

51. Need to Know

Aired: Mar 20, 1986

On a little town people started going crazy. Edward Sayers is sent by the sen...

Episode 52 Red Snow

52. Red Snow

Aired: Mar 20, 1986

A KGB investigator is sent to Siberia to investigate the deaths of communist ...

Episode 54 Devil's Alphabet

54. Devil's Alphabet

Aired: Mar 27, 1986

A college group holds their "Devil's Alphabet" meeting every year. When one o...

Episode 55 The Library

55. The Library

Aired: Mar 27, 1986

Landing a new job at a private library a girl is warned never to look at the ...

Episode 56 Shadow Play

56. Shadow Play

Aired: Apr 3, 1986

A condemned man, Adam Grant, insists that everything and everyone around him ...

Episode 57 Grace Note

57. Grace Note

Aired: Apr 3, 1986

An opera singer is having a hard time. Her sister is at the hospital dying. H...

Episode 58 A Day in Beaumont

58. A Day in Beaumont

Aired: Apr 10, 1986

In the 1950s a flying saucer crashes on Earth. The crash is seen by a couple....


Info about The Twilight Zone

Current Status: Ended

Network: CBS

Production Countries: United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Genres: Drama, Thriller, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Fantasy