The Twilight Zone
The Chaser
TV Flash files “The Chaser” as hour 31 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 1, episode 31, aired 1960-05-13, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E31: listed hour 31 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 31 of 36 in season 1. It aired 1960-05-13 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “A Stop at Willoughby” (S01E30). Next is “A Passage for Trumpet” (S01E32).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A young man tries to win the attention of an uninterested young woman. After being pointed in the direction of a mysterious professor, the young man gets a love potion to the woman of his dreams. However, it doesn't take long for him to tire of her nonstop affection, and he soon returns to the professor for help.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Chaser sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S01E31 is listed hour 31 of 156 — hour 31 of 36 in season 1, season 1 episode 31.
When did The Twilight Zone S01E31 air?
The Chaser aired 1960-05-13 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the empty-town opener, then the broken-glasses hour. Isolation first, stolen moral second; those two teach the anthology’s real instrument better than any twist ranking.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Serling used fantasy as a smuggled sermon when sponsors would not let a straight drama talk. Watch for isolation as craft, the twist as a bill coming due, and half-hours built to sit in the blood overnight — not to snack in a dump.
October 1959, CBS: a man walks into an empty town and the country learns a new address. The Twilight Zone did not invent the anthology. It invented the anthology as a national flinch — half-hour moral weather, a host in a dark suit, and a closing turn that was supposed to sting after the sponsor smile. Rod Serling had already fought live-drama censors and lost enough rounds to change weapons. Fantasy was the loophole. Aliens, bargains, small towns that eat themselves: the vocabulary of a writer who wanted to talk…
Filed against
- Rod Serling as Host / Narrator
Rod Serling created and hosted The Twilight Zone — moral fables in a black suit, twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection. Sponsor and censor battles are as legendary as the episodes. On TV Flash he is prestige…