Episode
The Twilight Zone: The Placebo Effect
Overview
A hypochondriac with the power to manifest his beliefs into reality poses a danger to the entire world.
Details
- Series
- The Twilight Zone
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 34
- Air date
- 2003-04-02
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
The Placebo Effect is Episode 34 in Season 1 of The Twilight Zone. It aired on 2003-04-02. The runtime is 22 min.
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A woman's son is kidnapped and she becomes involved in a licensed reality TV show broadcasting her attempts to recover him.
Episode 35: Cold Fusion
When the base staff at an Alaskan research base lose contact with the outside world, the military send a team in to investigate the disappearance.
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Episode 32: Memphis
A dying man is transported back to the South in 1968 on the day of Martin Luther King's assassination and tries to stop the killing.
Episode 36: The Pharaoh's Curse
A young magician becomes the protégé of an elderly conjurer to learn the secret of an impossible escape - The Pharaoh's Curse.
Episode 31: The Monsters Are on Maple Street
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Episode 37: The Collection
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Episode 30: It's Still a Good Life
In this sequel to the original TZs "It's a Good Life", an adult Anthony Fremont continues to terrorize the town of Peaksville.
Episode 38: Eye of the Beholder
Meet Mrs. Janet Tyler. She was born abnormally ugly and has undergone many plastic surgeries to change her appearance. None of them worked. Now after one last attempt the bandages are coming off. But will the latest surgery succeed where the others failed?
Episode 29: Into the Light
A teacher on her last few days of teaching high school suddenly starts seeing lights on peoples faces just before they die. When she starts seeing it on most of her students faces, she decides to find out what will happen.
Episode 39: Developing
A widow finds photos of their dream house improving with each picture she takes.
Episode 28: Tagged
Marcus Fisher, a talented artist and street tagger, shoots a man painting over his spot at the insistence of his gang and the wall painting starts portraying the crime and filling in that he is the one who did the shooting.
Episode 40: The Executions of Grady Finch
A prisoner, Grady Finch, who insists on his innocence discovers that he can't be killed. He survives multiple execution attempts and his attorney eventually manages to get him released. Finch is elated, but as he emerges he confesses to his attorney that he was really guilty...and then he is finally killed as a statue of Nemesis, the Goddess of Vengeance, falls on top of him.