The Twilight Zone - Third Season Episodes 1961-1962

Two
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
Director: Montgomery Pittman

A man and a woman from different sides of a war are the sole survivors of a nuclear holocaust.
CAST: Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery.


The Arrival
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Boris Segal

An airline official tests his theory that a newly arrived but totally empty plane is imaginary-with startling results.
CAST: Harold J. Stone, Robert Karnes, Jim Soles, Fredd Wayne, Bing Russell, Noah Keen, Robert Brubaker.


The Shelter
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Lamont Johnson

A group of neighbors turns into a hostile mob when they try to invade one family's bomb shelter, believing a nuclear attack is imminent.
CAST: Larry Gates, Peggy Stewart, Michael Burns, Jack Albertson, John McLiam, Jo Helton, Joseph Bernard, Moira Turner, Sandy Kenyon, Mary Gregory.


The Passersby
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Elliot Silverstein

A crippled Civil War soldier comes to realize that he and the people around him are not walking away from battle-they are dead.
CAST: James Gregory, Joanne Linville, Austin Green, Rex Holman, David Garcia, Warren Kernmerling.


A Game of Pool
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: A. E. Houghton

A pool master returns from the dead to play one last game with an eager young hustler.
CAST: Jack Klugman, Jonathan Winters.


The Mirror
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford

A victorious revolutionary is shown a mirror in the presidential office that is reputed to show the watcher his own assassins.
CAST: Peter Falk, Richard Karlan, Tony Carbone, Val Ruffino, Arthur Batanides, Rodolfo Hoyos, Will Kuluva, Vladimir Sokoloff.


The Grave
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
Director: Montgomery Pittman

A hired gunman defies a Western outlaw's warning that if he ever came near his grave he'd reach up and snatch away his life.
CAST: Lee Marvin, Strother Martin, Lee Van Cleef, Stafford Rapp, Richard Geary, James Best, Ellen Willrad, William Challee, Larry Johns.


It's a Good Life
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby
Director: James Sheldon

A six-year-old boy holds a town in terror with his powers to change or destroy anyone or anything at will.
CAST: Billy Mumy, Cloris Leachman, Alice Frost, Jeanne Bates, Casey Adams, John Larch, Tom Botcher, Don Keefer, Lenore Kingston.


Deaths-Head Revisited
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Don Medford

At the Dachau concentration camp, a former Nazi is tried by a phantom jury of his tortured victims.
CAST: Oscar Beregi, Joseph Schildkraut, Ben Wright, Karen Verne, Chuck Fox, Robert Boone.


The Midnight Sun
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Anton Leader

The Earth has fallen out of its orbit and is drawing closer to the Sun, inflicting ever-increasing heat on the planet.
CAST: Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde, Jason Wingreen, Ned Glass, June Ellis, John McLiam, William Keene, Robert J. Stevenson, Tom Reese.


Still Valley
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "The Valley Was Still" by Manly Wade Wellman
Director: James Sheldon

A Confederate scout is given a magical book that could guarantee their victory.
CAST: Gary Merrill, Jack Mann, Addison Myers, Ben Cooper, Vaughn Taylor, Mark Tapscott.


The Jungle
Writer: Charles Beaumont, based on his short story
Director: William Claxton

A prospector, threatened with death by a native conjuror for violating African land, feels himself stalked in the deserted streets of Manhattan by some giant jungle beast.
CAST: John Dehner, Emily McLaughlin, Walter Brooke, Jay Adler, Hugh Sanders, Howard Wright, Donald Foster, Jay Overholts.


Once Upon a Time
Writer: Richard Matheson
Directors: Norman Z. McLeod; one sequence by Les Goodwins (uncredited)

Nineteenth-century janitor Woodrow Mulligan tries on a time helmet invented by his boss and is catapulted 72 years into the future. Featured are two routines by the legendary silent comedian Buster Keaton's: the lock step and putting on a pair of trousers.
CAST: Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, Jesse White, Milton Parsons, Warren Parker, Gil Lamb, James Flavin, Harry Fleer, George E. Stone.


Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story "The Depository" by Marvin Petal
Director: Lamont Johnson

Five people — a ballet dancer, a major, a clown, tramp and a bagpipe player — trapped in a featureless enclosure with no idea how they got there attempt to escape.
CAST: William Windom, Murray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood, Clark Allen, Mona Houghton, Carol Hill.


A Quality of Mercy
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an idea by Sam Rolfe
Director: Buzz Kulik

During a battle, a fanatical and racist World War II soldier mysteriously experiences the situation in the body of a Japanese counterpart. CAST: Dean Stockwell, Albert Salmi, Rayford Barnes, Leonard Nimoy, Michael Pataki, Ralph Votrian, Dale Ishimoto, Jerry Fujikawa.


Nothing in the Dark
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: Lamont Johnson

An aged recluse barricades herself in an abandoned building in order to avoid "Mr. Death."
CAST: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, R.G. Armstrong


One More Pallbearer
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Lamont Johnson

A wealthy man devises an elaborate hoax to force three people to apologize for humiliating him earlier in his life.
CAST: Joseph Wiseman, Gage Clark, Trevor Bardette, Katherine Squire, JosipElic, Ray Galvin, Robert Snyder.


Dead Man's Shoes
Writer: Charles Beaumont & OCee Ritch (credited to Beaumont)
Director: Montgomery Pittman

A down-and-out man steals the fancy shoes from the body of a murdered gangster and finds himself living in the dead man's footsteps.
CAST: Warren Stevens, Ben Wright, Harry Swoger, Joan Marshall, Eugene Borden, Richard Devon, Florence Marly, Ron Hagerthy, Joe Mell.


The Hunt
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: Harold Schuster

A hunter and his faithful dog are drowned while chasing a raccoon, and confront a gatekeeper who implies that he is St. Peter and that Heaven lies inside.
CAST: Arthur Hunnicutt, Titus Moede, Charles Seel, Dexter Dupont, Jeanette Nolan, Orville Sherman, Robert Foulk.


Showdown with Rance McGrew
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an idea by Frederic Louis Fox
Director: Christian Nyby

The ghost of Jesse James takes revenge on an insufferable cowboy star for his shabby film treatment of all the bad guys.
CAST: Larry Blyden, Arch Johnson, Robert Cornthwaite, Robert Kline, William McLean, Troy Melton, Jay Overholts, Robert J. Stevenson, Hal K. Dawson, Jim Turley.


Kick the Can
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: Lamont Johnson

The magic of a children's game enables a group of old people to recapture their youth.
CAST: Ernest Truex, Hank Patterson, Russell Collins, Earle Hodgins, Burt Mustin, Gregory McCabe, Marjorie Bennett, Lenore Shanewise, Anne O'Neal, John Marley, Barry Truex, Eve McVeagh, Marc Stevens.


A Piano in the House
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
Director: David Greene

A strange piano allows the listener's hidden character to be suddenly revealed.
CAST: Barry Morse, Joan Hackett, Muriel Landers, Don Durant, Phil Coolidge, Cyril Delevanti


The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Writer: Montgomery Pittman
Director: Montgomery Pittman

When a young man steps out of his coffin at his own funeral the townsfolk grow to suspect that the devil has assumed the man's body.
CAST: James Best, Ralph Moody, Ezelle Poule, Vickie Barnes, Sherry Jackson, Helen Wallace, Lance Fuller, Bill Fawcett, Edgar Buchanan, Mabel Forrest, Dub Taylor, Jon Lormer, Pat Hector.


To Serve Man
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the story by Damon Knight
Director: Richard L. Bare

Apparently benign alien emissaries show mankind how to end the misery of war, plague and famine.
CAST: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lloyd Bochner, Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead.


The Fugitive
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Richard L. Bare

A magical old man delights the local children with his power to change his appearance.
CAST: J. Pat O'Malley, Nancy Kulp, Susan Gordon, Russ Bender, Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp, Stephen Talbot, Johnny Eiman.


Little Girl Lost
Writer: Richard Matheson, based on his short story
Director: Paul Stewart

A couple is awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of their six-year-old daughter who has fallen through a mysterious door into another dimension.
CAST: Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson, Tracy Stratford, Charles Aidman.


Person or Persons Unknown
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: John Brahm

A man awakens one morning to find that no one recognizes him, not even his mother.
CAST: Richard Long, Frank Silvera, Shirley Ballard, Julie Van Zandt, Betty Harford, Ed Glover, Michael Kelp, Joe Higgins, John Newton.


The Little People
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: William Claxton

A space traveler terrorizes the tiny inhabitants of a space station into accepting him as their God, but when another space ship arrives the tyrannical man discovers everything is relative.
CAST: Joe Maross, Claude Akins, Michael Ford, Robert Eaton.


Four O'Clock
Writer: Rod Serling, based on the short story by Price Day
Director: Lamont Johnson

To combat all that he considers evil, a cranky man decides to make every evil person two feet tall at exactly 4 p.m.
CAST: Theodore Bikel, Moyna MacGill, Phyllis Love, Linden Chiles.


Hocus Pocus and Frisby
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an unpublished story by Frederic Louis Fox
Director: Lamont Johnson

A celebrated yam-spinner finds no one will believe his latest tale — that he was kidnapped by aliens.
CAST: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Larry Breitman, Howard McNear, Dabbs Greer, Clem Bevans, Peter Brocco.


The Trade-Ins
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Elliot Silverstein

Unable to afford a personality transplant for both himself and his wife, a pain-wracked old man has his mind placed in a new youthful body at his wife's insistence.
CAST: Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt, Noah Keen, Theodore Marcuse, Edson Stroll, Terence de Marney, Billy Vincent, Mary McMahon, David Armstrong.


The Gift
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Allen H. Miner

A crashed space traveler is hounded to death by mistrustful villagers.
CAST: Geoffrey Horne, Nico Minardos, Cliff Osmond, Edmund Vargas, Carmen D'Antonio, Paul Mazursky, Vladimir Sokoloff, Vito Scotti, Henry Corden.


The Dummy
Writer: Rod Serling, based on an unpublished story by Lee Polk
Director: Abner Biberman

A ventriloquist becomes convinced that his dummy has a will and a life of its own.
CAST: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, Bethelynn Grey, John Harmon, Sandra Warner, Rudy Dolan, Ralph Manza.


Young Man's Fancy
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: John Brehm

A man's intense longing for the happy days of his boyhood succeeds in actually making the past reappear — to the chagrin of his new bride. Cast: Alex Nicol, Phyllis Thaxter, Wallace Rooney, Rickey Kalman, Helen Brown.


I Sing the Body Electric
Writer: Ray Bradbury, based on his short story
Directors: James Sheldon and William Claxton

A widowed father buys his three young children an electronic grandmother to the delight of all but one of them.
CAST: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, June Vincent, Vaughn Taylor, Judy Morton, Dana Dillaway, Paul Nesbitt, Charles Herbert, Veronica Cartwright, Susan Crane.


Cavender Is Coming
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Christian Nyby (credited as Chris Nyby)

A hapless apprentice angel is given one last chance to win his wings, by helping awkward, inept Agnes Grep. The pilot for an unmade series, it is the only Twilight Zone episode with a laugh track.
CAST: Carol Burnett, Jesse White, Howard Smith, William O'Connell, Pitt Herbert, John Fiedler, G. Stanley Jones, Frank Behrens, Albert Carrier, Roy Sickner, Norma Shattuc, Rory O'Brien, Sandra Gould, Adrienne Marden, Jack Younger, Danny Kulick, Donna Douglas, Maurice Dallimore, Barbara Morrison.


The Changing of the Guard
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Ellis Miller

A well-loved teacher feels his useful life is over when he is asked to retire.
CAST: Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan, Philippa Bevans, Bob Biheller, Kevin O'Neal, Jimmy Baird, Kevin Jones, Tom Lowell, Russell Horton, Buddy Hart, Darryl Richard, James Browning, Pat Close, Dennis Kerlee.

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