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The Twilight Zone is the
name of a television series created (and often written by) its narrator and
host Rod Serling. Each episode was an individual fantasy or science fiction
story, often concluding with an eerie or unexpected twist. A popular success,
it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction ideas while still
managing to attract overwhelmingly positive critical attention. The success
of this original series led to the creation of two revival series, a feature
film, a radio series, and various other spin-offs that would span five
decades.
Writers for The Twilight Zone included leading genre
authorities such as Charles Beaumont, Richard Matheson, Jerry Sohl, George
Clayton Johnson, Earl Hamner Jr., Reginald Rose, and Ray Bradbury. Many
episodes featured adaptations of classic stories by such writers as Ambrose
Bierce, Lewis Padgett, Jerome Bixby, and Damon Knight. Episodes featured some
of Hollywood's biggest celebrities, including Charles Bronson, Carol Burnett,
Robert Duvall, a very young Ronnie Howard, Buster Keaton, Jack Klugman, Lee
Marvin, Burgess Meredith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Agnes Moorehead, Suzy Parker,
Robert Redford, Don Rickles, Mickey Rooney, William Shatner, and Dick York.
Rod Serling himself provided narration as well as on camera introductions to many
episodes.
Original series (1959-1964)
Rod Serling
hosting The Twilight Zone Throughout the 1950s, Rod Serling had
established himself as one of the hottest names in television, equally famous
for his success in writing televised drama as he was for criticizing the
medium's limitations. His most vocal complaints concerned the censorship
frequently practiced by sponsors and networks. "I was not permitted to
have my Senators discuss any current or pressing problem," he said of
his 1957 production "The Arena", intended to be an involving look
into contemporary politics. "To talk of tariff was to align oneself with
the Republicans; to talk of labor was to suggest control by the Democrats. To
say a single thing germane to the current political scene was absolutely
prohibited... In retrospect, I probably would have had a much more adult play
had I made it science fiction, put it in the year 2057, and peopled the
Senate with robots. That would probably have been more reasonable and no less
dramatically incisive." This is precisely the thesis he intended to
prove when, in 1959, he set out to create a weekly television series that,
while featuring stories peopled by robots, aliens, and other fantastical
beings would seek to offer dramatically incisive and involving looks into
contemporary politics. Twilight Zone’s writers frequently used science-fiction as a metaphor
for social comment; networks and sponsors who had infamously censored all
potentially "inflammatory” material from the then predominant live
dramas were ignorant of the methods developed by writers such as Ray Bradbury
for dealing with important issues through seemingly innocuous fantasy. Frequent
themes include nuclear war, mass hysteria, and McCarthyism, subjects that
were strictly verboten on more "serious" prime-time drama.
Episodes such as The Shelter or The Monsters Are Due on Despite his esteem in the writing community,
Serling found The Twilight Zone a hard sell. Few critics felt that
science-fiction could transcend empty escapism and enter the realm of adult
drama. In a Serling himself would later admit that to go "from
writing an occassional drama for Playhouse 90, a distinguished and certainly
important series to creating and writing a weekly, thirty-minute television
film was like Stan Musial leaving St. Louis to coach third base in an
American Legion little league." Ultimately The Twilight Zone
would triumph over such skepticism, its five seasons winning over a
relatively small but devoted audience that included many of the critics who
had scoffed at the show's premise. For four of the seasons, The Twilight Zone
was in a half hour format, but in the 1962-63 season its name was shortened
to Twilight Zone as its time slot was expanded to an hour in length
(the following season, its last, saw the restoration of the half hour
episodes after a brief hiatus). Twice in its initial run (The) Twilight
Zone was cancelled, only to be revived when its replacement failed in the
same time slot. First
Revival (1985-1989)
It was Serling's decision to sell his share of
the series back to the network that eventually allowed for a Twilight Zone
revival. As an in-house production, CBS stood to earn more money producing The
Twilight Zone than it could by purchasing a new series produced by an
outside company. Even so, the network was slow to consider a revival,
shooting down offers from the original production team of Rod Serling and
Buck Houghton and later from American film-maker Francis Ford Coppola. Their
hesitation stemmed from concerns familiar to the original series: Twilight
Zone had never been the break-away hit CBS wanted, why should they expect
it to do better in a second run?
Opening for
the 1985 Twilight Zone. The answers to this question began to surface in
the early 1980s as a new generation of writers and directors emerged from the
very teenagers who formed the core of Twilight Zone's original
audience. First came The Twilight Zone Companion by Marc Scott Zicree,
an in-depth look into the history of the series that won critical accolade, a
1983 nomination for the American Book Award and a place on best-seller lists
across the nation. Also encouraging were the new numbers from Nielsen and the
box office alike. "We were looking at the success of the [original series]
in syndication and the enormous popularity of the Steven Spielberg
films," said CBS program chief Harvey Shepard. "Many of them [such
as E.T. or Poltergeist] deal with elements of the show. Perhaps the public is
ready for it again." Despite lukewarm response to Twilight Zone: The
Movie, Spielberg's theatrical homage to the original series, CBS gave The
New Twilight Zone a greenlight in 1984 under the supervision of Carla
Singer, then Vice President of Drama Development. "Twilight Zone
was a series I always liked as a kid," said Singer, "...and at that
point it sounded like an interesting challenge for me personally." These
sentiments were seconded by a number of young filmmakers eager to make their
mark on a series which had proved influential to their life and work -people
like writers Harlan Ellison, J. Michael Straczynski, George R. R. Martin and
Rockne S. O'Bannon and directors Wes Craven and William Friedkin. Casts
featured such stars as Bruce Willis, Morgan Freeman, Martin Landau, Jonathan
Frakes and Fred Savage. New theme music was composed by Jerry Garcia and
performed by The Grateful Dead. Filling in for Serling as narrator and host was
Charles Aidman, himself the star of two classic Twilight Zone
episodes. The New Twilight Zone ran for two seasons (in an hour
format) on CBS. An additional season of half hour programs was produced in
1988 to "pad" the series' syndication package. Robin Ward replaced
Aidman as the narrator of these Canadian-produced episodes. Rod Serling's Lost Classics (1994)
In the early 1990s, Richard Matheson and Carol
Serling produced an outline for a two-hour made-for-TV movie which would
feature Matheson adaptations of three yet-unfilmed Rod Serling short stories.
Outlines for such a production were rejected by CBS until early 1994, when
the widow Serling discovered a complete shooting script (“Where the Dead
Are”) authored by her late husband while rummaging through their garage.
Serling showed the forgotten script to producers Michael O’Hara and Laurence
Horowitz, who were significantly impressed by it. "I had a pile of
scripts, which I usually procrastinate about reading. But I read this one
right away and, after 30 pages, called my partner and said, 'I love it,'”
recalled O’Hara. “This is pure imagination, a period piece, literate - some
might say wordy. If Rod Serling's name weren't on it, it wouldn't have a
chance at getting made." Eager to capitalize on Serling’s celebrity
status as a writer, CBS packaged “Where the Dead Are” with Matheson’s
adaptation of “The Theatre”, debuting a two-hour feature the night of Critical response was mixed. Gannett News
Service described it as “taut and stylish, a reminder of what can happen when
fine actors are given great words.” USA Today was less impressed, even
suggesting that Carol Serling “should have left these two unproduced
mediocrities in the garage where she found them.” Ultimately ratings proved
insufficient to justify a proposed sequel featuring three Matheson-adapted scripts. Second Revival (2002-2003)
Opening for
the 2002 Twilight Zone. In 2002 a second revival was attempted by UPN,
with narration provided by Forest Whitaker and theme music by Jonathan Davis
(of the rock group KoЯn). Broadcast in an hour format with two
half-hour stories, it was cancelled after one season. Noteworthy episodes featured Jason Alexander as
Death wanting to retire from harvesting souls, Lou Diamond Phillips as a pool
cleaner being shot repeatedly in his dreams, Susanna Thompson as a woman
whose stated wish results in an "upgrading" of her family, Usher as
a policeman being bothered by telephone calls from beyond the grave... and a handful
of remakes and updates of stories presented in the original Twilight Zone
series. Source Wikipedia,
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Season 1 1. Where is Everybody? gs: Earl Holliman
(Mike Ferris) James McCallion () Jim Johnson () John Conwell () James Gregory
(Air Force General) Paul Langton (Air Force Colonel) Jay Overholts (Reporter
Two) Carter Mullaly () Gary Walberg () Mike Ferris, a man in
an Air Force jumpsuit, is all alone in a strange town. He searches all over
town trying to find someone. He finally collapses, pushing the "walk
button" at a stoplight. The "walk" button is actually a panic
button, and Ferris is an astronaut-trainee in an isolation booth. He has been
in the booth for 484 hours, and has been hallucinating the whole town. b: NOTE: According to
Producer William Self, this episode's budget was "around $75,000...in
those days very high for a half-hour pilot." ? This episode was
rehearsed and shot in 9 days. It was dubbed, scored and edited in 3 days. ? This is the only
episode to be filmed at Universal Studios. The rest were filmed at MGM
studios. ? The original pilot
version of this episode ran a total of 35 minutes (without commercials) and
included a "pitch" from Rod Serling aimed at selling the series to
potential advertisers. This version is included on volume 43 of
Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. ? In the original
version of the episode, the opening sequence was different and all narration
was done by Westbrook Van Voorhis. ? The opening
narration in the original pilot version was slightly different than what was
used for the series: "There is a sixth dimension, beyond that which is
known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.
It is the middle ground between light and shadow, and it lies between the pit
of man's fears and the sunlight of his knowledge. This is the dimension of
imagination. It is an area that might be called 'The Twilight Zone'" ? The broadcast
version of this episode is included on Image-Entertainment's Treasures of The
Twilight Zone DVD. 2. One for the Angels gs: Ed Wynn (Lew
Bookman) Murray Hamilton (Mr. Death) Dana Dillaway (Maggie) Merritt Bohn (The
Truck Driver) Jay Overholts (The Doctor) Mickey Maga (Ricky) Lew Bookman, a
sidewalk salesman, is informed by Mr. Death that he is to die at b: NOTE: Included on
volume 14 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 3. Mr. Denton on
Doomsday gs: Dan Duryea (Al
Denton) Martin Landau (Hotaling) Doug McClure (Pete Grant) Malcolm Atterbury
(Henry J. Fate) Jeanne Cooper (Liz) Ken Lynch (Charlie) Arthur Batanides
(Leader) Robert Burton (Doctor) Bill Erwin (Man) Al Denton, once a feared
gunslinger, now the town drunk, is forced to draw against Hotaling, a
sadistic bully. That day, Henry J. Fate arrives in town. Fate's glance gives b: NOTE: Included on
volume 12 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 4. The
Sixteen-Milyellowter Shrine gs: Ida Lupino
(Barbara Jean Trenton) Martin Balsam (Danny Weiss) Ted de Corsia (Marty Sall)
John Clarke (Hearndan in film) Jerome Cowan (Jerry Hearndan) Alice Frost
(Sally) Barbara Jean Trenton,
an aging actress, secludes herself in a private screening room and watches
her old films. Her agent, trying to help, gets her a small role in a film, and
arranges a visit with an old leading man of hers. This only pushes her
further into the past. A maid, bringing a meal, discovers the room empty. She
looks at the screen, and runs out of the room. She calls the agent and he
turns the projector back on. On the screen he sees the living room of the
house, filled with stars as they appeared in old films. Barbara Jean throws a
scarf at the screen. When the film runs out, the agent finds the scarf on the
living room floor. b: NOTE: Included on
volume 12 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 5. Walking Distance gs: Gig Young (Martin
Sloan) Frank Overton (Martin's Father) Michael Montgomery (Martin as a child)
Ron Howard (Wilcox boy) Irene Tedrow (Mrs. Sloan) Byron Foulger (Charlie)
Sheridan Comerate (The Gas Station Attendant) Joseph Corey (The 1959
Counterman) Buzz Martin (The Teenager) Nan Peterson (The Woman in the Park)
Pat O'Malley (Mr. Wilson) Martin Sloan, driving
through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, b: NOTE: Included on
volume 3 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 6. Escape Clause gs: David Wayne
(Walter Bedeker) Thomas Gomez (Mr. Cadwallader) Virginia Christine (Ethel
Bedeker) Allan Lurie (Guard) Raymond Bailey (The Doctor) Wendell Holmes (Mr.
Cooper) Dick Wilson (Jack) Joe Flynn (Steve) Nesden Booth (The Prison Guard)
George Baxter (Judge Cummings) Walter Bedeker makes a
deal with a Mr. Cadwallader: Immortality in exchange for his soul. An escape
clause is provided, however; if Bedeker ever tires of life, he need only summon
Mr. Cadwallader. Bedeker soon realizes nothing can harm him, but nothing
excites him either. He jumps in front of subways, trains and buses, drinks
poisons, all without anything harming him. He decides to jump off his
apartment building. His wife, trying to stop him, falls instead. He seizes
the opportunity to experience the electric chair, and confesses to his wife's
murder. The judge however sentences him to life imprisonment without chance
for parole. Cadwallader appears and releases him from imprisonment, in the
form of a fatal heart attack - his "escape clause". b: 7. The Lonely gs: Jack Warden (James
A. Corry) Jean Marsh (Alicia) John Dehner (Captain Allenby) Ted Knight
(Adams) James Turley (Carstairs) Allenby, the captain
of a supply ship, takes pity on Corry, and leaves him Alicia, a robot that
looks and sounds like a woman. Corry is repelled by the robot, but eventually
falls in love with her. Allenby returns one day and tells Corry he's been pardoned,
and they've come to get him. Corry can only take fifteen pounds of gear, and
Alicia weighs more than that. Corry refuse to leave without her, so Allenby
pulls a gun and shoots Alicia in the face, revealing a mass of wires. Allenby
tells Corry, "All you're leaving behind is loneliness." Stunned,
Corry replies, "I must remember that. I must remember to keep that in
mind." b: 8. Time Enough at Last gs: Burgess Meredith
(Henry Bemis) Lela Bliss (Mrs. Chester) Vaughn Taylor (Mr. Carsville)
Jacqueline DeWit (Helen Bemis) Bank teller Henry
Bemis loves to read. He sneaks into the vault at lunchtime to read and is
knocked unconscious by a shockwave. When he wakes up, he discovers a nuclear
war has destroyed the Earth. He decides to commit suicide until he sees a
library. This is paradise to him, and he begins to organize books to read for
years to come. Just as he settles down to read his glasses slip from his face
and smash, forever trapping him in a blurry world. b: NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "Time Enough at Last" by Lynn Venable.
This story was first published in If (January, 1953). ? Included on volume 2
of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 9. Perchance to Dream gs: Richard Conte
(Edward Hall) John Larch (Dr. Rathmann) Suzanne Lloyd (Maya/Miss Thomas)
Eddie Marr (Girlie Barker) Russell Trent (Rifle Range Barker) Ted Stanhope
(Man on the Street) Edward Hall is a man with
a cardiac condition. He has sought the aid of Dr. Rathmann, a psychiatist. He
tells the doctor of a dream he's been having about a carnival dancer, Maya.
In his dream she leads him into a funhouse and onto a roller coaster, with
the intention of scaring him to death. If he sleeps, he knows he'll return to
this dream and die. If he stays awake, the strain will be too much for his
already weak heart. He doesn't believe the doctor can help him, so he starts
to leave. He realizes that the doctor's receptionist is a dead ringer for
Maya. He returns to the doctor's office and jumps out a window. Dr. Rathmann
calls the receptionist into his office, and on the couch is Edward. The
doctor tells the receptionist that Hall came in, fell asleep on the couch,
and then let out a scream and died. b: 27-Nov-1959 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Robert Florey NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "Perchance to Dream" by Charles Beaumont.
The story was first published in Playboy (November, 1958). 10. Judgement Night gs: Nehemiah Persoff
(Lanser) Ben Wright (Captain Wilbur) Patrick Macnee (First Officer) Deirdre
Owne (Miss Stanley) Leslie Bradley (Major Devereaux) Kendrick Huxham (The
Bartender) Hugh Sanders (Jerry Potter) Richard Peel (First Steward) Donald
Journeaux (Second Steward) Barry Bernard (Mr. McCloud) James Franciscus
(Lieutenant Mueller) Debbie Joyce (Little Girl) Carl Lanser is a
German on board the Glasgow. He has no memory of how he got there, but he has
a strange feeling that he knows the passengers. Lanser is certain that they
are being stalked by an enemy sub. He also feels something is going to happen
at 1:15 a.m. At 1:15 a.m. a U-boat surfaces. Looking through binoculars,
Lanser sees that the captain is himself. The U-boat sinks the boat, and
machine-guns survivors. Later a lieutenant on the U-boat suggests that they
may all face damnation for their actions. Kapitan Lanser dismisses the idea -
not realizing that he is doomed to repeat the sinking of the ship for
eternity. b: 04-Dec-1959 w: Rod
Serling d: John Brahm NOTE: Included on
volume 13 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 11. And When the Sky
Was Opened gs: Rod Taylor (Col.
Clegg Forbes) Charles Aidman (Col. Ed Harrington) James Hutton (Major William
Gart) Maxine Cooper (Amy) Sue Randall (The Nurse) Paul Bryar (Bartender) Joe
Bassett (Medical Officer) Gloria Pall (Girl at the Bar) Elizabeth Fielding
(Blonde Nurse) Three astronauts have
returned from this first space flight. Major Gart is hospitalized with a
broken leg. The other two, Colonels Harrington and Forbes head for a bar.
Harrington gets a strange feeling and calls his parents. They inform him they
have no son. Harrington then disappears, with nobody remembering him but
Forbes. When Forbes tells Gart what happened, Gart says he doesn't remember
Harrington either. Forbes runs out the door screaming, "I don't want
this to happen!" When Gart gets to the door, Forbes has disappeared.
Then Gart and their ship vanishes, wiping the last evidence of their
existence off the face of the Earth. b: 11-Dec-1959 w: Rod
Serling s: Richard Matheson d: Douglas Heyes NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "Disappearing Act" by Richard Matheson.
The story was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
(March, 1953). ? Included on volume
16 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 12. What You Need gs: Steve Cochran
(Fred Renard) Ernest Truex (Pedott) Arline Sax (Girl in bar) Read Morgan
(Lefty) William Edmonson (Bartender) Judy Ellis (Woman on the Street) Fred
Kruger (Man on the Street) Norman Sturgis (Hotel Clerk) Frank Allocca
(Waiter) Mark Sunday (Photographer) Pedott is a sidewalk
salesman. He has the ability to give someone just what they need. To Renard he
gives a pair of scissors. They saves Renard's life when his tie gets caught
in an elevator. But Renard wants more, and sensing that Renard will
eventually kill him, Pedott gies him a pair of shoes. Suddenly, a truck comes
speeding around a corner. Renard tries to run, but the new soles are too
slippery and he can't get any traction on the wet pavement. He is killed, and
Pedott knows he is now safe. b: 25-Dec-1959 w: Rod
Serling s: Henry Kuttner & C.L. Moore d: Alvin Ganzer NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "What You Need" by Henry Kuttner and C.L.
Moore. This story was first published in Astounding Science Fiction (October,
1945). ? Included on volume
17 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 13. The Four of Us are
Dying gs: Harry Townes (Arch
Hammer) Ross Martin (Hammer as Foster) Phillip Pine (Hammer as Sterig) Don
Gordon (Hammer as Marshak) Beverly Garland (Maggie) Peter Brocco (Pop
Marshak) Bernard Fein (Penell) Milton Frome (Detective) Harry Jackson
(Trumpet Player) Bob Hopkins (Man in Bar) Pat Comiskey (Man Two) Sam Rawlins
(Ramon) Relying on newspaper
photos, Hammer impersonates Johnny Foster in order to get Foster's girlfriend
to run away with him. He then impersonates Virgil Sterig, a murdered
gangster, to squeeze money out of Mr. Penell, the thug who had Sterig killed.
Penell sees through his ruse, and sends some thugs after Hammer. To elude
them, Hammer assumes the face of a boxer, Andy Marshak, from a fight poster.
He then runs into Marshak's father, who is looking for the son that broke his
mother's heart, and did wrong by a girl. Hammer pushes the old man aside and
returns to his hotel room. Later, trying to elude the police, he again
assumes Marshak's face. He runs into Marshak's father again, who this time
has a gun. Before he can change back and prove who he is, the old man fires.
As he lies dying, his face switches from one face to another, before finally
stopping at his real face. b: 01-Jan-1960 w: Rod
Serling s: George Clayton Johnson d: John Brahm NOTE: Included on volume
11 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 14. Third From the Sun gs: Fritz Weaver
(William Sturka) Joe Maross (Jerry Riden) Edward Andrews (Carling) Lori March
(Eve) Denise Alexander (Jody) Jeanne Evans (Ann) Will J. White (Guard) S.
John Launer (Loudspeaker Voice) Scientist William
Sturka, and test pilot Jerry Riden, certain that an all-out nuclear war is
imminent, plot to steal an experimantal spaceship and escape with their
families to another planet. They overpower a government man, Carling, and
escape. In space they wonder what their new home will be like. From radio
braodcasts they know it is inhabited by people like themselves, and it is
called Earth. b: 08-Jan-1960 w: Rod
Serling s: Richard Matheson d: Richard L. Bare NOTE: This episode is based
on the short story "Third From the Sun" by Richard Matheson. This
story was first published in Galaxy (October, 1950). ? The miniature
spaceship prop was the same one used in the classic 1956 film Forbidden
Planet. Footage from the film was also used to depict the ship in space. ? Included on volume 8
of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 15. I Shot an Arrow
into the Air gs: Dewey Martin
(Corey) Edward Binns (Col. Donlin) Ted Otis (Pierson) Leslie Barrett (Brandt)
Harry Bartell (Langford) The Arrow One
disappears from the radar screen and crashes. Three of the eight astronauts
survive. They believe they have crashed on an asteroid. They only have five
gallons of water between them. Corey intends to kill Pierson and Donlin for
their water. Before Pierson dies he climbs to the top of a mountain, looks
over it, and draws a symbol in the sand. Corey pays no attention to the
drawing and kills Donlin. He then climbs the mountain and sees what the
symbols meant: telephone poles. They had been on Earth the whole time, in the
Nevada Desert. b: 15-Jan-1960 w: Rod
Serling s: Madelon Champion d: Stuart Rosenberg NOTE: Included on
volume 18 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 16. The Hitch-Hiker gs: Inger Stevens (Nan
Adams) Leonard Strong (Hitch-Hiker) Adam Williams (Sailor) Lew Gallo (Gas
Pump Boy) Russ Bender (Counterman) George Mitchell (Gas Station Attendant)
Dwight Townsend (Highway Flagman) Eleanor Audley (Mrs. Whitney) After a blowout, Nan
Adams repeatedly sees the same hitch-hiker. She tries to run over him, only
to be told by a sailor to whom she's given a lift that there was no one on
the road. She calls home and learns her mother suffered a nervous breakdown
after the death of her daughter in a car wreck. Nan returns to her car, where
the hitch-hiker - his purpose and identity known - awaits. b: 22-Jan-1960 w: Rod
Serling s: Lucille Fletcher d: Alvin Ganzer NOTE: This episode is
based on "The Hitch-Hiker" by Lucille Fletcher. "The
Hitch-Hiker" originally was preformed for radio on The Mercury Theatre
on the Air on November 17, 1941. ? Included on volume 7
of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 17. The Fever gs: Everett Sloane
(Franklin Gibbs) Vivi Janiss (Flora Gibbs) Art Lewis (Drunk) Lee Millar
(Photographer) Bill Kendis (Mr. Henson) Lee Sands (Floor Manager) Marc Towers
(Cashier) Arthur Peterson (Sheriff) Carole Kent (Jackpot Winner) Jeffrey
Sayre (Croupier) Franklin Gibbs is not
happy about his wife winning a trip to Las Vegas. A drunk gives him a silver
dollar and forces him to play a slot machine. His attitude changes when the
machine pays off. He starts to hear the machine calling to him, and develops
a mania to play it. He plays till his last dollar, which jams when he
attempts to play. Believing the machine purposefully jammed he pushes it
over. Later, back in his room, believing he sees the machine coming for him,
he falls out of his window. The machine rolls up to him on the pavement and
spits out his dollar. b: 29-Jan-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Robert Florey NOTE: Included on
volume 11 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 18. The Last Flight gs: Kenneth Haigh
(Flight Lt. Decker) Simon Scott (Major Wilson) Alexander Scourby (General
Harper) Robert Warwick (Air Vice Marshal Alexander Mackaye) Harry Raybould
(Corporal) Jerry Catron (Guard) Jack Perkins (Mechanic) Paul Baxley (Jeep
Driver) During a World War I
mission, Decker deserts his best friend, who is surrounded by enemy planes.
He flies through a strange white cloud, and lands at a modern-day American
air base in France. Decker discovers that the man he left behind went on to
become a hero in World War II, and is due to inspect the base that very day.
Decker, realizing he's been given a second chance, overpowers the major,
returns to his plane, and takes off. Later, when Decker's friend arrives to
inspect the base, he says Decker did return to save him - at the cost of his
own life. b: 05-Feb-1960 w:
Richard Matheson d: William Claxton NOTE: Included on
volume 10 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 19. The Purple
Testament gs: William Reynolds
(Lt. Fitzgerald) Dick York (Captain Riker) Barney Phillips (Captain Gunther)
Ron Masak (Harmonica Man) William Phipps (Sergeant) S. John Launer (Colonel)
Michael Vandever (Smitty) Paul Mazursky (Orderly) Marc Cavell (Freeman)
Warren Oates (Jeep Driver) Lieutenant Fitzgerald
can see a light in the faces of the men that are going to die. His friend
Captain Riker doesn't believe this, even after Lt. Fitzgerald sees the light
on his face. He goes into combat and is killed. Fitzgerald is relieved when
he receives news that he is being sent back to division HQ. As he's leaving
he glances at a mirror and sees the light on his face. Soon after leaving
there is the sound of a distant explosion. b: 12-Feb-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Richard L. Bare NOTE: Included on
volume 13 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 20. Elegy gs: Cecil Kellaway
(Jeremy Wickwire) Kevin Hagen (Captain James Webber) Jeff Morrow (Kurt
Meyers) Don Dubbins (Peter Kirby) Almost out of fuel,
three astronauts set down on an asteroid. The place looks like Earth, except
no one moves. They see a number of ordinary events: a marching band, a card
game and a homely woman winning a beauty contest. They do find someone that
moves - Jeremy Wickwire, a caretaker. He explains that the asteroid is an
exclusive cemetery, that lets the departed realize their greatest wish. He
asks them what their greatest wish is, while serving them wine. They say to
be on their ship, returning home. Too late, they realize Wickwire, an android,
has poisoned their drinks. Having ensured the continuing tranquility of Happy
Glades, Wickwire places the embalmed figures of the three men back in their
spaceship. b: 19-Feb-1960 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Douglas Heyes NOTE: This episode is based
on the short story "Elegy" by Charles Beaumont. The story was first
published in Imagination (February, 1953). ? Included on volume
20 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 21. Mirror Image gs: Vera Miles
(Millicent Barnes) Martin Milner (Paul Grinstead) Joe Hamilton (Ticket Agent)
Naomi Stevens (Bathroom Attendant) Terese Lyon (Old Woman) Ferris Taylor (Old
Man) Edwin Rand (Bus Driver) Millicent Barnes is
confused by the actions of various employees at the bus station. The ticket
taker tells her that she has repeatedly asked when the bus is going to
arrive, and that her suitcase has already been checked. The washroom
attendant claims she was there a few seconds earlier. Yet she hasn't done any
of these things. While in the washroom, she sees herself sitting on a bench
out in the bus station. She runs out, but the room is empty. Paul Grinstead,
a businessman, becomes concerned for Millicent. They go to board the bus, but
Millicent runs back in after seeing the other her already on the bus. Paul stays
to comfort Millicent, who now says she knows what is happenning: a mirror
image of herself from another world has entered this world, and must take her
place to survive. Paul, certain she's mentally ill, calls the police. After
the police take Millicent away, Paul chases a man who he believes has stolen
his case. As the man turns around, Paul realizes that the man is a duplicate
of himself. b: 26-Feb-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: John Brahm NOTE: Included on
volume 21 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 22. The Monsters are
Due on gs: Claude Akins
(Steve Brand) Jack Weston (Charlie) Amzie Strickland (Woman) Barry Atwater
(Mr. Goodman) Anne Barton (Mrs. Brand) Jan Handzlik (Tommy) Burt Metcalfe
(Don) Mary Gregory (Sally) Jason Johnson (Old Man) Lea Waggner (Mrs. Goodman)
Joan Sudlow (Old Woman) Ben Erway (Pete Van Horn) Lyn Guild (Charlie's Wife)
Sheldon Allman (First Alien) William Walsh (Second Alien) After what is believed
to be a meteor flies overhead, Maple Street experiences a total power
failure. Pete Van Horn leaves to find what is going on. Tommy, a reader of
sci-fi, says human- looking aliens have infiltrated Maple Street. No one
takes this seriously until Mr. Goodman's car cranks for a few seconds.
Suspicion falls on him, made stronger by a neighbor's memory of seeing him
looking up at the stars at night. Everyone begins to panic as the evening
approaches. When a mysterious figure walks towards them in the dark, Charlie
Farnsworth takes a neighbor's rifle and fires. The mysterious figure turns
out to be the returning Pete Van Horn. Charlie is then accused of being the
alien, then Tommy, then total madness breaks out. As various house lights
flash on and off, rioting breaks out. Two nearby aliens watch these events.
One tells the other that by manipulating electricity, it is easy to turn
neighbor against neighbor. Maple Street is only the beginning. b: 04-Mar-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Ron Winston NOTE: Included on
volume 2 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 23. A World of
Difference gs: David White
(Brinkley) Howard Duff (Arthur Curtis) Frank Maxwell (Marty) Eileen Ryan
(Nora) Gail Kobe (Sally) Peter Walker (Sam) Susan Dorn (Marian Curtis) Bill
Idelson (Stagehand) Businessman Arthur
Curtis finds his phone dead. He is then surprised to hear a voice yell,
"Cut!" and see that his office is just a set on a soundstage.
Everyone tells him that he is Jerry Raigan, a drunken movie star on the
decline, and "Arthur Curtis" is a character Raigan is playing.
Curtis drives to where his home should be, but finds no evidence of his life.
Raigan's agent, thinking his client is having a nervous breakdown, tells
Curtis not to worry about returning to the set, the picture has been
cancelled and the sets are being dismantled. Curtis, realizing the last link
to his world is about to be destroyed, rushes to the set. Just in time, he
arrives on the set and pleads not to be left in this uncaring place. Curtis
finds himself back in his office, while the agent arrives on the set and
finds Raigan has vanished. b: 11-Mar-1960 w:
Richard Matheson d: Ted Post NOTE: Included on
volume 22 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 24. Long Live Walter
Jameson gs: Kevin McCarthy
(Prof. Walter Jameson) Edgar Stehli (Prof. Samuel Kittridge) Estelle Winwood (Laurette
Bowen) Dody Heath (Susanna Kittridge) In class, Jameson,
Kittridge's colleague for twelve years and future son-in-law, reads from a
Civil War journal of officer Hugh Skelton. Later, at his house, Kittridge
tells Jameson he looked Skelton's photo up and found him to be a dead ringer
for Jameson, down to a mole and ring. Jameson admits he is Skelton. More than
two thousand years before, he paid an alchemist for the gift of immortality.
Kittridge forbids Jameson to marry his daughter. Jameson convinces her to
elope with him that night. He goes home to pack, and discovers a very old
woman in his study. She is a wife he long since abandoned. She grabs a
revolver off of his desk and shoots him. Kittridge hears the shot and rushes
in, just in time to see Jameson turn to dust. b: 18-Mar-1960 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Anton Leader 25. People Are Alike
All Over gs: Roddy McDowall
(Sam Conrad) Paul Comi (Warren Marcusson) Susan Oliver (Teenya) Marcusson, the
optimist that believes people are alike all over, is killed when their ship
crashes on Mars. Conrad is terrified when he hears someone banging on the
outside of the ship. He is relieved when he sees that the martians are human
looking, but telepathic. The next day, the Martians give Conrad a home of his
own. Left alone, he quickly realizes there are no windows and all the doors
are locked. Suddenly, a wall slides up, revealing bars through which a crowd
of Martians stand. Conrad then realizes he is in a zoo. He cries out,
"Marcusson, you were right - people are alike everywhere." b: 25-Mar-1960 w: Rod
Serling s: Paul Fairman d: Mitchell Leisen NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "Brothers Beyond the Void" by Paul
Fairman. The story was first published in Fantastic Adventures (March, 1952). 26. Execution gs: Albert Salmi (Joe
Caswell) Russell Johnson (George Manion) Than Wyenn (Johnson) As Joe Caswell is
being hanged for shooting a man in the back, he suddenly disappears. He
reappears in the modern laboratory of Professor Manion, who invented the time
machine that saved his life. Seeing the rope burns, Manion tries to send
Caswell back, and is knocked unconscious in the ensuing struggle. Caswell
leaves the laboratory, but soon returns after being confused by the lights
and noise. He finds that he has killed the scientist. Paul Johnson, a petty
thief, enters the lab. Johnson strangles Caswell and accidentally activates
the time machine. He is sent back to 1880, and into the noose meant for
Caswell. b: 01-Apr-1960 w: Rod
Serling s: George Clayton Johnson d: David Orrick McDearmon 27. The Big Tall Wish gs: Ivan Dixon (Bolie
Jackson) Steven Perry (Henry) Kim Hamilton (Frances) Even though Jackson
breaks his hand prior to the fight, he wins because Henry - a boy who adores the
fighter and believes in magic - made the "big, tall wish." After
the fight the boxer refuses to believe in magic. Henry tells him if he
doesn't believe, it won't be true. Jackson just can't believe. Suddenly,
Jackson is back in the ring, and counted out. b: 08-Apr-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Ron Winston 28. A Nice Place to
Visit gs: Larry Blyden
(Rocky Valentine) Sebastian Cabot (Mr. Pip) John Close (Policeman) Wayne
Tucker (The Croupier) Sandra Warner (The Brunette Woman) Barbara English (The
Dancing Blonde) Nels Nelson (The Midget Policeman) Bill Mullikin (The Parking
Attendant) After being shot to
death by a policeman, Rocky revives to find himself unhurt. He is in the
company of a seemingly good-natured man named Pip, who says he is Rocky's
guide and has been instructed to give him anything he wants. At first this is
great, Rocky assumes he must be in Heaven, with Pip being his guardian angel.
But he soon grows tired of always winning, always getting any girl he wants.
He begs Pip to send him to "the Other Place." Pip replies,
"This is the Other Place!" b: 15-Apr-1960 w:
Charles Beaumont d: John Brahm NOTE: Included on
volume 29 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 29. Nightmare as a
Child gs: Janice Rule (Helen
Foley) Terry Burnham (Markie) Shepperd Strudwick (Peter Selden) Schoolteacher Helen
Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her
apartment. The little girl seems to know her, and tries to jog her memory
about a man she saw earlier that day. The man arrives at Helen's door and
Markie runs out the back way. The man is Peter Selden, who worked for Helen's
mother when Helen was a child, and claimed to be the first to find her mother
after she was murdered. Helen witnessed the murder but has blocked it out.
She mentions Markie, and Selden tells her that was her nickname as a child,
and shows her an old photo of herself. She then realizes that she and Markie
are one and the same. Selden leaves, and Markie reappears. She tells Helen
she is Helen, and that she is there to force her to remember her mother's
murder. Selden returns and confesses to the murder, and say he has tracked
down the only witness to his crime. She manages to run into the hallway and
push Selden down the stairs to his death. Markie was a part of Helen that did
remember the murder, and was trying to remind her conscious self of it. b: 29-Apr-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Alvin Ganzer NOTE: Part of the
story eventually became true. On Beyond Belief's segment "The
Doll", A schoolteacher sees a younger girl who was her friend, who died
in a car accident that she blocked out. 30. A Stop at
Willoughby gs: James Daly (Gart
Williams) Patricia Donahue (Jane Williams) Howard Smith (Mr. Misrell) Jason Wingreen
(Train Conductor) Mavis Neal Palmer (Helen) James Maloney (1888 Train
Conductor) Billy Booth (First Boy) Butch Hengen (Second Boy) Ryan Hayes
(Engineer) Max Slaten (Man on the Wagon) Gart Williams is a
very unhappy man. He has a terrible boss and a shrewish wife. Riding home on
the train one day he falls asleep, and dreams it is 1880, and he is entering
a small town called Willoughby. The conductor tells him Willoughby is a town
where "a man can slow down to a walk and live his life full measure."
Williams realizes this is the place for him, but he receives only ridicule
from his wife. The pressure of his job being too great, he finally cracks. He
calls his wife to tell her he is quitting, but she hangs up on him. On the
train home, he suddenly finds himself back in Willoughby. The townsfolk all
greet him by name. He's there for good this time. Meanwhile, the train has
stopped. A Mr. Williams has jumped from the train yelling something about
"Willoughby." The body is loaded in a hearse that bears the name
"Willoughby Funeral Home." b: 06-May-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Robert Parrish NOTE: This episode was
used as the basis for the 2000 TV movie For All Time. ? Included on volume
34 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 31. The Chaser gs: George Grizzard
(Roger Shackleforth) John McIntire (Prof. Daemon) Patricia Barry (Leila) Roger buys a love
potion from a Prof. A. Daemon to win Leila's affections. Soon he realizes it
worked too well; he is sick of her never-ending adoration towards him. Roger
returns to the Professor, and buys a second potion, a "glove
cleaner." He slips some in her champagne, but drops the glass when she
tells him she is pregnant. On the patio, Prof. Daemon, smoking a cigar, blows
a heart-shaped smoke ring and disappears. b: 13-May-1960 w:
Robert Presnell Jr. s: John Collier d: Douglas Heyes NOTE: This episode is
based on "Duet for Two Actors" by John Collier. "Duet for Two
Actors" originally appeared on television on The Billy Rose Show in
February 1951. 32. A Passage for
Trumpet gs: Jack Klugman (Joey
Crown) John Anderson (Gabe) Mary Webster (Nan) Frank Wolff (Baron) James
Flavin (Truck Driver) Ned Glass (Pawnshop Owner) Diane Honodel (Woman
Pedestrian) Joey, convinced he'll
never amount to anything, throws himself in front of a truck. He wakes up to
find himself all alone on the street at night. Visiting several of his
regular haunts, he cannot find anyone he knows. And the people that are there
can't see or hear him. Failing to see his own reflection in a mirror, Joey
believes he must be a ghost. Looking back on his life, Joey realizes it
wasn't as bad as he thought. He meets a tall man in a white tuxedo, who
explains that it is the other people that are dead, he is simply in limbo
between life and death, and which way to go is his choice. Joey chooses life,
and is suddenly back on the pavement, just after being hit by the truck,
alive and well. That night while playing his trumpet on a rooftop, he meets
Nan, a new girl in town, who asks if Joey would show her the sights. He accepts
the offer. b: 20-May-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Don Medford NOTE: As
"Gabe" leaves at the end, note the lamp framed above his head at an
angle so as to give him a halo. 33. Mr. Bevis gs: Orson Bean (James
B.W. Bevis) Henry Jones (J. Hardy Hempstead) Charles Lane (Mr. Peckinpaugh) Mr. Bevis loses his
job, wrecks his car and gets evicted from his apartment, all in one day.
Bevis then meets his guardian angel J. Hardy Hempstead, who assists him.
Bevis starts the day over, except now he is a success at work, his rent is
paid, and his car is now a sportscar, instead of a jalopy. However, in order
to have his new life, Bevis must make some changes: No loud clothes, no
zither music, no longer can he be the well-liked neighborhood goofball.
Realizing all these things is what makes him happy, Bevis asks that things be
returned to the way they were. Hempstead changes things back, but arranges
for Bevis to get his old jalopy back. He is still his guardian angel. b: 03-Jun-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: William Asher 34. The After Hours gs: Anne Francis
(Marsha White) Elizabeth Allen (Saleswoman) James Millhollin (Armbruster) Marsha buys a gold
thimble from a rude saleslady on the ninth floor. When she goes to complain,
she is informed there is no ninth floor. She points out the saleslady, but is
shocked to find it is just a store mannequin. She is helped to a store office
where she falls asleep. When she wakes up, she finds she is locked in the
closed store. She hears voices coming from the mannequins as she wanders
through the empty store. She backs into the elevator which takes her to the
ninth floor. There the mannequins all come to life one by one, including the
saleslady and elevator operator. They explain that she too is a mannequin,
and that each of them is allowed a one month journey among humans. She forgot
her true identity and didn't return on time. She apologizes, then turns back
into a mannequin. b: 10-Jun-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Douglas Heyes 35. The Mighty Casey gs: Jack Warden (Mouth
McGarry) Robert Sorrells (Casey) Abraham Sofaer (Dr. Stillman) Dr. Stillman arranges
to have his human-looking robot signed up as the star pitcher of the Hoboken
Zephyrs. The team zooms to fourth place thanks to Casey. After he's beaned by
a ball, a doctor discovers Casey has no heart. The rules say nine men make up
a team, and without a heart Casey is not a man. Dr. Stillman gives Casey a
heart, but he becomes too compassionate to strike out other players. The
Zephyrs lose the pennant, and Casey is washed up in baseball. Dr. Stillman
gives the coach, Mouth McGarry, Casey's blueprints as a momento. Looking at
them, Mcgarry gets a sudden inspiration, and chases after the doctor b: 17-Jun-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Robert Parrish & Alvin Ganzer 36. A World of His Own gs: Keenan Wynn
(Gregory West) Phyllis Kirk (Victoria West) Mary La Roche (Mary) Victoria West sees her
husband and a blonde through a window, sharing drinks. But when she barges into
his office, he is alone. Gregory tells her that by describing something into
his dictation machine, he can bring anything into being. To make it disappear
all he needs to do is throw the tape in the fireplace. He demonstrates by
describing an elephant in the hall. Victoria ignores the evidence and informs
Gregory she is going to have him committed. Gregory removes an envelope from
a wall safe, and tells her it contains the tape that describes her. Victoria
grabs the envelope and throws it into the fireplace, and promptly disappears.
Gregory quickly begins to redescribe Victoria, then reconsiders and begins to
describe Mrs. Mary West. A loving Mary appears mixing her husband a drink. b: 01-Jul-1960 w:
Richard Matheson d: Ralph Nelson NOTE: In the final
humorous scene, as Serling comments on the fantastical elements of the
episode, author West hears him, says he shouldn't have done that, and burns
an envelope of his creation labeled "Rod Serling", who promptly
disappears! Fortunately, Serling is back in time to do the final voiceover
narration. ? The episode in
syndication, at least on the SciFi Channel as of 2001, cuts the sequence
where West dictate-creates an elephant to stop his wife from leaving. The cut
is very abrupt and quite noticeable. A pity, since according to The Twilight
Zone Companion they went to great lengths to get an elephant on the set for
that one brief scene. ? This episode marks
the series' first on-camera appearance of Rod Serling. ? Included on volume
43 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. Season 2 37. King Nine Will Not
Return gs: Bob Cummings
(Captain James Embry) Paul Lambert (Doctor) Gene Lyons (Psychiatrist) Captain James Embry
wakes up next to the wreckage of King Nine. He remembers crashing with the
rest of the crew, but nothing else. He sets off to find the other crew
members. He finds the grave of one, mirages of all of them, and a jet
aircraft flying over. He collapses and awakens in a hospital room. Seventeen
years earlier, Embry had missed the flight of King Nine, and ever since has
felt guilty. He saw a newspaper headline about the wreckage of King Nine
being found in the desert. He had went into a state of shock and hallucinated
being in the desert, but later someone finds sand in his shoes. b: 30-Sep-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Buzz Kulik 38. The Man in the
Bottle gs: Luther Adler
(Arthur Castle) Vivi Janiss (Edna Castle) Joe Ruskin (Genie) After buying a bottle
from an old lady, Arthur Castle is surprised to see a genie appear in modern
dress. The genie informs him he has four wishes. Not believing, Arthur wishes
for a cracked glass display case to be repaired. Instantly it is fixed. His
next wish is somewhat larger - a million dollars. But after giving money to
the needy in his neighborhood, the IRS takes all but five dollars. He thinks
his third wish is foolproof - to be the ruler of a foreign country in the
twentieth century, one that can't be voted out of office. His wish comes
true, but not as he expected; he is in Germany, at the end of WW II, and he
is Adolf Hitler. He uses his fourth wish to make everything like it was. He's
back where he started, but somewhat happier with things. b: 07-Oct-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Don Medford 39. Nervous Man in a
Four Dollar Room gs: Joe Mantell (Jackie
Rhoades) William D. Gordon (George) Jackie is ordered by
George, a gangster, to kill the owner of a bar, at two a.m. Jackie doesn't
have the backbone to refuse George, but if he kills the bar owner he'll
definitely get caught. Looking for a match, he sees his reflection in the
mirror is already smoking a lit cigarette. The reflection is a different
Jackie, intelligent, self-assured and strong. It's the man Jackie could have
been. And it wants out, to take over before it's too late. Jackie runs out the
door, but is confronted by the image in all the mirrors. Later, George
arrives to take care of Jackie, who didn't do the job. But Jackie tells him
he's resigning and beats him up. The old Jackie is in the mirror, and Mr.
John Rhoades is checking out. b: 14-Oct-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Douglas Heyes NOTE: Rod Serling
makes his entrance apparently standing on a wall parallel to the floor! This
effect is achieved by shooting Serling against a back-screen of an overhead
shot of the room. 40. A Thing About Machines gs: Richard Haydn
(Bartlett Finchley) Barney Phillips (TV Repairman) Barbara Stuart (Edith) Jay
Overholts (Intern) Margarita Cordova (Girl on TV) Henry Beckman (Policeman)
Lew Brown (Telephone Repairman) Bartlett Finchley
hates machines. He doesn't realize that the feeling is mutual. For several
months, strange things have been happening. His TV, radio and clock have all
awakened him in the middle of the night. When his secretary quits, her
typewriter types, "GET OUT OF HERE, FINCHLEY." The TV shows the
same message, as does the phone. His electric razor slithers down the stairs
after him. Finchley runs from the house and is pursued by his car. He falls
into his swimming pool and drowns. b: 28-Oct-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: David Orrick McDearmon NOTE: Included on
volume 43 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 41. The Howling Man gs: H.M. Wynant (David
Ellington) John Carradine (Brother Jerome) Robin Hughes (The Howling Man)
Frederic Ledebur (Brother Christophorus) Ezelle Poule (Housekeeper) David Ellington is on
a walking trip of Europe following WWI when he gets caught in a storm. He
finds a remote hermitage, but is turned away. After he passes out, the monks
are forced to take him in. After reviving, he hears a howling that the
brothers say they do not hear. Following the sound, he comes upon a cell with
an old man locked inside. The old man says he is being held captive by
Brother Jerome, who is insane. After confronting Brother Jerome, he confesses
that he is holding the old man prisoner, but the old man is actually the
Devil! Ellington promises to keep this secret, but as soon as he gets a
chance, he returns to the cell and releases the old man - who proceeds to
transform into the devil and disappears. Shortly after, WWII breaks out.
Ellington devotes his life to recapturing the Devil. He finally does
recapture the Devil. As he prepares to leave to make arrangements to ship him
back to the hermitage, he tells his housekeeper to pay no mind to the
howling. But, as soon as he leaves, she lifts the bar on the door, and the
door swings open. b: 04-Nov-1960 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Douglas Heyes NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "The Howling Man" by Charles Beaumont. The
story was first published in Beaumont's collection Night Ride and Other
Journeys (1960). ? Included on CBS
Video's "More Teasures of The Twilight Zone" DVD. 42. The Eye of the
Beholder gs: Edson Stroll
(Walter Smith) Maxine Stuart (Janet Tyler (under bandages)) Donna Douglas
(Janet Tyler (revealed)) William D. Gordon (Doctor) Jennifer Howard (Janet's
Nurse) George Keymas (Leader) Joanna Heyes (Reception Nurse) Janet Tyler anxiously
awaits the outcome of her latest surgery. Janet, who's abnormal face has made
her an outcast, has had her eleventh hospital visit - the maximum allowed by
the State. If it didn't succeed, she will be sent to live in a village where
others of her kind are segregated. As her bandages are removed, she is
revealed to be very beautiful. The doctor draws back in horror. As the lights
come on we see the others, their faces are misshapen and deformed. As Janet
runs from her room crying, she runs into another of her kind, a handsome man
named Walter Smith. He is in charge of an outcast village, and he assures her
that she will eventually feel she belongs. He tells her to remember the old
saying: "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." b: 11-Nov-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Douglas Heyes NOTE: Rod Serling's
original title for this episode was The Private World of Darkness and it has
been shown in syndication with this title. The version on volume 43 of
Image-Entertainment's DVD collection also bears this title. ? The original
broadcast version of this episode is included on Image-Entertainment's
"More Treasures of The Twilight Zone DVD." 43. Nick of Time gs: William Shatner
(Don Carter) Patricia Breslin (Pat Carter) Guy Wilkerson (Counter Man) While waiting for
their car to be repaired, Don and Pat grab a quick meal at a local diner. A
table top fortune-telling machine catches Don's eye. Although the answers are
extremely general, Don soon believes the machine has accurately predicted two
events - his promotion, and a near-accident he and Pat have while crossing
the street. Don panics and begins feeding pennies into the machine. Pat
convinces him that they must make their own future, without the machine. Don
comes to his senses, and the couple leaves. Soon after they leave, another
couple hurry into the diner and begin putting pennies in the machine. They
ask when they might be allowed to leave town. b: 18-Nov-1960 w:
Richard Matheson d: Richard L. Bare 44. The Lateness of
the Hour gs: Inger Stevens
(Jana) John Hoyt (Dr. Loren) Irene Tedrow (Mrs. Loren) Mary Gregory (Nelda) Dr. Loren lives in a
house staffed by human-looking robot servants. His daughter Jana believes
that her parents' reliance on the robots is turning them into vegetables. She
gives her father an ultimatum: dismantle the robots or she leaves. He
complies with her wishes. When she tells her parents that she will soon meet
a young man and have children of her own, their expressions frighten her. She
looks through old photo albums for a picture of herself as a child. She
realizes that she is a robot and collapses. Dr. Loren knows things will never
be the same, so he reprograms her - as a maid. b: 02-Dec-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Jack Smight NOTE: Another of the
episodes shot on videotape rather than film. 45. The Trouble with
Templeton gs: Brian Aherne (Booth
Templeton) Pippa Scott (Laura Templeton) Charles S. Carlson (Barney Flueger) Templeton longs for
the years when his beloved wife Laura was still alive. After a young director
dresses him down for being late, Templeton rushes from the theater and finds
himself back in 1927. He locates Laura in a speakeasy. She is not the Laura
he remembered - she is vulgar, self-centered and flirtatious. His memories
shattered, he returns to the theater. He looks at several sheets of paper
Laura was fanning herself with, and that he accidentally brought back with
him. They are pages to a script entitled "What To Do When Booth Comes
Back." Booth realizes the whole thing was staged so he would stop living
in the past, he returns to the stage, filled with a new self-confidence and
ready to start living in the present. b: 09-Dec-1960 w: E.
Jack Neuman d: Buzz Kulik 46. A Most Unusual
Camera gs: Fred Clark
(Chester Diedrich) Jean Carson (Paula Diedrich) Adam Williams (Woodward) Chester Diedrich and
his wife Paula, after burglarizing a curio shop, end up with a camera that
takes pictures of events five minutes into the future. Paula's brother
Woodward arrives, as predicted by the camera. He and Chester decide to go to
the race track with the camera. They make a killing, but back at the hotel a
waiter tells them that an inscription on the camera says, "ten to an
owner." Chester and Woodward fight over how to use the remaining
pictures, and they both fall out the window. Paula takes a picture of them,
and gathers her stuff to leave. Suddenly, the waiter comes back. He has
figured out they are crooks and he wants the money. He looks at the picture
and notices there are more than two bodies, Paula rushes to look out the
window, trips and falls to her death. Then the waiter notices there are four
bodies instead of three. With a shout, he falls from the window, too. b: 16-Dec-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: John Rich 47. Night of the Meek gs: Art Carney (Henry
Corwin) Robert P. Lieb (Officer Flaherty) John Fiedler (Mr. Dundee) Meg Wyllie
(Sister) Burt Mustin (Burt) Corwin is fired on
Christmas Eve by Dundee, the store manager, after arriving drunk for work. He
walks around, still in his Santa suit, until he finds a bag. It gives out any
item that's asked of it. Corwin proceeds to pass gifts out to everyone.
Officer Flaherty suspects the merchandise is stolen, and takes him to the
police station. Mr. Dundee is there, and tries to find the "stolen
merchandise" in the bag, but all he finds is a stray cat and some
garbage. Corwin passes out gifts the rest of the night, until the bag is
empty. Burt, a friendly bum, points out that Corwin has taken no gift for
himself. Corwin replies that his only wish is to do this every year. His wish
is granted: In an alley he finds an elf, sleigh and reindeer wiating to take
him to the North Pole. b: 23-Dec-1960 w: Rod
Serling d: Jack Smight 48. Dust gs: Thomas Gomez
(Sykes) John Larch (Sheriff Koch) Vladimir Sokoloff (Gallegos) Douglas Heyes
Jr. (Farmer Boy) After selling rope to the
hangman, Sykes, a conscienceless peddler, tries to sell the condemned man's
father a bag of "magic dust" that can turn hate into love. It is
nothing but dirt, but the condemned man's father pays 100 pesos for it. He
sprinkles the "dust" around the gallows, and on the crowd, but it
has no effect. When the gallows trap door is opened, the rope breaks. Luis
Gallegos, the condemned man, is pardoned, and leaves with his father. Sykes,
moved by what he has seen, gives the hundred pesos to Luis's young siblings. b: 06-Jan-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Douglas Heyes 49. Back There gs: Russell Johnson
(Peter Corrigan) Bartlett Robinson (William) Paul Hartman (Police Sergeant)
John Lasell (John Wilkes Booth) Nora Marlowe (Chambermaid) James Lydon
(Patrolman) Raymond Bailey (Balding Card Player) Raymond Greenleaf
(Bespectacled Card Player) John Eldredge (Fourth Card Player) James Gavin
(Policeman) Jean Inness (Mrs. Landers) Lew Brown (Officer) Carol Rossen
(Officer's Wife) Pat O'Malley (Attendant) It's April 14, 1961. Peter
Corrigan and friends are discussing time travel at their men's club. Corrigan
suddenly becomes dizzy. When his head clears, he has moved back to April 14,
1865 - the date of Lincoln's assassination. He tries to warn everyone at
Ford's Theater, but ends up being arrested. Mr. Wellington asks that Corrigan
be remanded to his custody. Wellington is actually John Wilkes Booth, and he
wants no interference. He drugs Corrigan, and when he wakes up it's too late.
He returns to the present, ready to tell his friends that the past really
can't be changed. But he is shocked to find that William, formerly the
attendant, is now rich. His great-grandfather was the only person to believe
Corrigan, and made a name for himself trying to stop the assassination. b: 13-Jan-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: David Orrick McDearmon NOTE: Included on
volume 22 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 50. The Whole Truth gs: Jack Carson
(Harvey Hunnicut) Loring Smith (Honest Luther Grimbley) Arte Johnson (Irv)
Nan Peterson (Young Woman) After buying a Model A
car, Hunnicut, a used-car salesman, finds that he is forced to tell the
truth. After failing to sell it to a local alderman, the alderman names some
of his colleagues he would like to hear tell the truth. Hunnicut manages to
unload the car on someone he thinks would be much embarrassed by the truth -
Nikita Krushchev. b: 20-Jan-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: James Sheldon 51. The Invaders gs: Agnes Moorehead
(Woman) Douglas Heyes (Voice of the Astronaut) The woman goes up to
her roof to investigate a noise, and finds a flying saucer with two tiny,
robot-like creatures emerging from it. The creatures torment the woman, until
finally she grabs and batters one of the creatures into lifelessness. With an
ax she destroys the saucer. Before the final creature is killed he sends a
message to his home planet not to send any more ships to this planet. The
lettering on the side of the saucer reads "U.S. Air Force." b: 27-Jan-1961 w:
Richard Matheson d: Douglas Heyes NOTE: This episode is
done entirely without dialogue, except for the recorded radio transmission at
the end of the episode and Serling's narration. ? The miniature
spaceship prop was the same one used in the classic 1956 film Forbidden
Planet. 52. A Penny For Your
Thoughts gs: Dick York (Hector
B. Poole) June Dayton (Miss Turner) Dan Tobin (Mr. Bagby) Cyril Delevanti
(L.J. Smithers) Hayden Rorke (Mr. Sykes) James Nolan (Mr. Brand) Frank London
(The Driver) Anthony Ray (The Paperboy) Patrick Waltz (The Security Guard) Hector pays for a
morning paper with a coin that stands on edge. He then finds he has
telepathic powers. He informs his boss, Mr. Bagby, that Sykes, a businessman
trying to get a large loan is actually going to bet it at the racetrack to
try and repay embezzled funds. Sykes leaves in a rage, and Bagby is greatly
displeased. Smithers, an old, trusted employee, is thinking of stealing some
money, and escaping to Bermuda. A search of his briefcase reveals that
Smithers was just daydreaming, and Poole is fired. Later, Mr. Bagby informs
him that he was right about Sykes, and offers him his job back. Using
information he has about Bagby's weekend plans with his mistress, he is made
an office manager. Leaving from work he buys a paper, and knocks the coin he
stood on end earlier down, and his psychic abilities disappear. b: 03-Feb-1961 w:
George Clayton Johnson d: James Sheldon NOTE: This episode was
the basis for the 2001 movie, "What Women Want" ? Included on volume
29 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 53. Twenty-Two gs: Barbara Nichols
(Liz Powell) Jonathan Harris (Doctor) Arline Sax (Nurse/Stewardess) Fredd
Wayne (Barney) Norma Connolly (Night Duty Nurse) Mary Adams (Day Duty Nurse)
Wesley Lau (Ticket Clerk) Joe Sargent (Ticket Clerk #2) Jay Overholts (P.A.
Voice) Carole Conn (Nurse Jameson) Miss Powell has a
recurring nightmare about room 22 - a morgue, where a nurse opens the door
and says, "Room for one more, honey." Her agent and doctor believe
it's just a bad dream, and show her that the morgue nurse is not the same
woman in her dreams. After being discharged she arrives at the airport, and
finds that her flight number is 22. When she starts to board, a stewardess,
the same woman in her dreams, says, "Room for one more, honey." She
runs from the plane, back into the airport. The planes leaves, and explodes
on take-off. b: 10-Feb-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Jack Smight NOTE: This episode is
based on an anecdote appearing in Bennett Cerf's Famous Ghost Stories (1944). ? This was one of 6 episodes
shot on videotape, rather than film. ? Included on volume
34 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 54. The Odyssey of
Flight 33 gs: Jay Overholts
(Passenger) John Anderson (Captain Farver) Betty Garde (Passenger) Paul Comi
(1st Officer Craig) Harp McGuire (Flight Engineer Purcell) After accelerating
past three thousand knots, the crew are unable to raise anyone on the radio.
Descending below the clouds they see dinosaurs; somehow they have went back
in time. They try to catch the tail wind again to return to the present. They
succeed, but are confused when the control tower claims to have never heard
of radar or jet aircraft. In the distance the crew sees the 1939 World's
Fair. They did not come far enough back. Running low on fuel, they attempt to
find the tail wind for one last attempt at returning to their time. b: 24-Feb-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Justin Addiss 55. Mr. Dingle, the
Strong gs: Burgess Meredith
(Luther Dingle) Don Rickles (Bettor) James Westerfield (O'Toole) Edward Ryder
(Callahan) Douglas Spencer (1st Martian) Michael Fox (2nd Martian) James
Millhollin (Abernathy) Jay Hector (Boy) Donald Losby (1st Venusian) Greg
Irvin (2nd Venusian) Phil Arnold (1st Man) Douglas Evans (2nd Man) Frank
Richards (3rd Man) Jo Ann Dixon (Nurse) Bob Duggan (Photographer) Martians (two heads -
one body) give Dingle the strength of three hundred men. Dingle is able to
lift statues, tear boulders in half and other acts of strength. He attracts
newspapers and TV cameras. As he prepares to lift the bar, the Martians,
tired of his foolish behavior, remove his strength. Unable to prove his
claims, Dingle is made a laughing stock. As the Martians leave they encounter
two Venusians searching for an Earthling to perform an intelligence
experiment. The Martians recommend Dingle. The Venusians boost his
intelligence three-hundred fold. b: 03-Mar-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Buck Houghton 56. Static gs: Dean Jagger (Ed
Lindsay) Jay Overholts (Man #2) Carmen Mathews (Vinnie Broun) Bob Crane (Disc
Jockey) Ed Lindsay hates
television, so he gets his old radio out of the basement of the boardinghouse
where he lives. He soon finds he can receive programs from the past when he's
alone. Vinnie Broun, an old maid he was once engaged to, believes he is
imagining the whole thing. Vinnie gives the radio away to a junk dealer.
Lindsay retrieves it, hoping it will still work. It does, and when he calls
Vinnie into the room, it is a younger Vinnie that appears. It is 1940, and
Lindsay, young again, has been given a second chance. b: 10-Mar-1961 w:
Charles Beaumont s: OCee Ritch d: Buzz Kulik NOTE: This episode was
the basis for the 2000 movie Frequency. 57. The Prime Mover gs: Buddy Ebsen (Jimbo
Cobb) Dane Clark (Ace Larsen) Christine White (Kitty Cavanaugh) Jimbo Cobb is forced to
reveal his psychokinetic abilities to save survivors of a car wreck. His
partner Ace decides they could make some quick money in Vegas with Jimbo's
powers. Jimbo, Ace and his girlfriend take off for Las Vegas. They win
$200,000, but Ace wants more. His girlfriend, Kitty, gets mad and goes home.
Ace takes up with Sheila, a cigarette girl. Ace and Jimbo get into a
high-stakes craps game in a gangster's hotel room. They win at first, with
the help of Jimbo's powers. But as soon as Sheila arrives, Ace bets it all -
and loses. Jimbo says he must have blown a fuse. Ace comes to his senses, and
returns home and proposes to Kitty, who accepts. Surprised by this, Jimbo
drops his broom. Making sure no one is looking, he uses his powers, which he
never lost, to pick up the broom. b: 24-Mar-1961 w:
Charles Beaumont s: George Clayton Johnson d: Richard L. Bare 58. Long Distance Call gs: Bill Mumy (Billy
Bayles) Lili Darvas (Grandma Bayles) Philip Abbott (Chris Bayles) Patricia
Smith (Sylvia Bayles) Jenny Maxwell (Shirley) Henry Hunter (Dr. Unger) Reid
Hammond (Mr. Peterson) Lew Brown (Attendant) Bob McCord (1st Fireman) Jim
Turley (2nd Fireman) Jutta Parr (Nurse) Grandma Bayles gives
her five year-old grandson a toy phone for his birthday. Soon after she dies,
and Billy is very upset. He quickly seems better while spending all his time
talking into the toy phone. He tells his parents that Grandma is on the
phone, and that she is lonely and wants him to come visit. His parent's
dismiss this as a child's imagination, until he throws himself in front of a
car. Billy tells his parent's that "someone" told him to do it.
Late one night, his mother, hearing him talking on the toy phone, rushes in
and grabs the phone - and hears breathing on the other end. Billy runs out of
the house and tries to drown himself in the fish pond. A fire rescue team has
no luck at reviving him. His father goes into his room and picks up the
phone, and begins to plead with his mother to let Billy live. He tells her
that if she really loves Billy she would allow him to grow up. Suddenly,
Billy begins to respond. b: 31-Mar-1961 w:
Charles Beaumont & William Idleson d: James Sheldon NOTE: One of several
episodes shot on videotape. ? The film
"Poltergeist II: The Other Side" references this episode as Carol
Ann recieves a call from her late grandmother (and later on the diabolical
Taylor) on her toy telephone 59. A Hundred Yards
over the Rim gs: Cliff Robertson
(Christian Horn) Edward Platt (Doctor) John Crawford (Joe) Miranda Jones
(Martha Horn) John Astin (Charlie) Evans Evans (Mary Lou) Ed Platt (Doctor)
Robert McCord (I) (Sheriff) Scouting over a rim,
Christian sees a paved road lined with telephone poles. A huge truck rushes
by and scares him. He falls to the ground and his rifle fires into his arm.
He makes it to a diner, where Mary Lou, a former nurse's aide, treats his
wound and gives him a bottle of penicillin. Christian sees a calendar, and
realizes it's 1961. A doctor is summoned, and he finds Christian's story
credible, considering his clothes, gun, and old-fashioned fillings in his
teeth. The doctor realizing this is above him, calls the sheriff. Christian
emerges from the back room. He has read an encyclopedia and learned that his
son grew up to be a famous physician. As the sheriff arrives, Christian bolts
from the diner. The sheriff and doctor give chase, but Christian tops the rim
and is back in 1847, carrying the penicillin for his son. His rifle is all
that is left in 1961, looking like it has been rotting in the desert for a
hundred years. b: 07-Apr-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Buzz Kulik 60. The Rip Van Winkle
Caper gs: Oscar Beregi Jr
(Farwell) Simon Oakland (DeCruz) Lew Gallo (Brooks) John Mitchum (Erbie) Four thieves rob a
bullion train headed to California. They head back to a cave, and use a gas
invented by their leader Farwell, and go into suspended animation. One of
them is killed by a rock while they're asleep. The rest awake one hundred
years later, safe from any police pursuit. DeCruz uses the truck to run over
Brooks, but loses control and wrecks it. Farwell and DeCruz must walk through
the desert to the nearest town, carrying as much gold as they can. Farwell,
the older of the two, quickly tires. He loses his canteen and has to pay
DeCruz one gold bar for each sip of water. Then Decruz raises the price to
two gold bars, and Farwell kills him with one of the gold bars. Weak and
tired, Farwell heads down a highway while carrying the gold he refuses to
abandon. Just as he finally collapses, a futuristic car pulls up. He offers
his gold in exchange for a ride into town, but it's too late, and he dies -
never learning that a way to make gold had been found, making his bullion
worthless. b: 21-Apr-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Justus Addiss 61. The Silence gs: Franchot Tone
(Col. Archie Taylor) Liam Sullivan (Jamie Tennyson) Jonathan Harris (George
Alfred) Cyril Delevanti (Franklin) Archie Taylor, who
wants his men's club quiet, offers Jamie Tennyson half a million dollars to
remain silent for one year. To insure his unbroken silence, he will live in
the club's basement. In debt, and with a wife that has expensive tastes,
Tennyson agrees. During the year, Taylor tries every trick in the book to get
Tennyson to talk, however he reamins silent. Finally, the year is up and
Tennyson emerges from the basement to collect his money. Taylor then reveals
that he lost his fortune ten years before, and never intended to pay off the
bet. Tennyson remains silent, but writes a note to Taylor. It says: "I
knew I would not be able to keep my part of the bargain, so one year ago I
had the nerves to my vocal chords severed!" b: 28-Apr-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Boris Sagal NOTE: This episode
lacks any supernatural, fantastical, or science fiction elements. ? Franchot Tone filmed
the club sequences in the early part of production. Then he went out and got
in an accident that left the left side of his face temporarily puffed up.
Rather then reshoot with a different actor, the director filmed the remainder
of Tone's scenes, in the glass-room chamber, with the actor in profile so
that you never see the left side of his face. This means that Tone's
character is taunting Tennyson without ever actually facing him, giving the
character an even more sinister aspect. 62. Shadow Play gs: Dennis Weaver
(Adam Grant) Harry Townes (Henry Ritchie) Wright King (Paul Carson) William
Edmondson (Jiggs) Anne Barton (Carol) A prisoner convicted
of murder, Grant claims his life is a dream, a recurring nightmare that finds
him unable to wake up. Every time he is executed, the whole dream begins
again. D.A. Ritchie thinks it's a preposterous idea, but his friend Paul
Carson, a newspaper editor, isn't so sure. He's worried that when Grant is
electrocuted they will all cease to exist. Carson gets Ritchie to visit Grant
in his cell. Ritchie still does not believe Grant, even when Grant lip-synchs
every word from memory that he knows Ritchie will say. As midnight
approaches, Carson convinces Ritchie that Carson is a mental incompetent. As
Ritchie picks up the phone to call the governor, the switch is pulled, and
Ritchie and Carson disappear. All is blackness, then Grant is back in the
courtroom being sentenced. Some of the people are playign different roles,
but the scenario is the same - and the nightmare is starting over. b: 05-May-1961 w:
Charles Beaumont d: John Brahm 63. The Mind and the
Matter gs: Shelley Berman
(Archibald Beechcroft) Jack Grinnage (Henry) Chet Stratton (Rogers) Jeane
Wood (Landlady) Archibald Beechcroft
hates people. An office boy, after spilling coffee on him, offers him a book
on mind power. After reading it, Beechcroft is convinced that he can will
anything to happen. He proves it by making his landlady disappear. The next
day he finds his office empty. He decides to repopulate the world with
duplicates of himself. He soon finds that they are all unhappy complainers.
He finally admits, "A lot of me is just as bad as a lot of them." A
little more tolerant of others, he returns the world to that way it was. b: 12-May-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Buzz Kulik 64. Will the Real
Martian Please Stand Up gs: Jean Willes (Ethel
McConnell) John Hoyt (Ross) Barney Phillips (Haley) Jack Elam (Avery) Bill
Kendis (Olmstead) John Archer (Trooper Bill Padgett) Morgan Jones (Trooper
Dan Perry) Troopers follow the
tracks from a frozen pond, into a diner. Inside they find a soda jerk, a bus
driver and his seven passengers. The bus driver is certain only six people
boarded his bus. There's two married couples, a businessman, a dancer and an
eccentric old man. The troopers give up the investigation when a call comes
through that the bridge is safe now, and the bus may continue on. Later, the
businessman returns to the diner. The bridge really wasn't safe, the call was
an illusion. He is the Martian, advance scout for an invasion force. He
proceeds to drink a cup of coffee and smoke a cigarette, using all three of
his arms. The soda jerk tells him that he's a Venusian, and that his invasion
force has intercepted the Martian fleet. Grinning, he removes his cap,
revealing a third eye. b: 26-May-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Montgomery Pittman 65. The Obsolete Man gs: Burgess Meredith
(Romney Wordsworth) Fritz Weaver (Chancellor) Josip Elic (Subaltern) Harry
Fleer (Guard) In a future society, all
books and religion have been banned. Romney Wordsworth is a God-fearing
librarian who has been judged obsolete by a chancellor of the State. He is
granted three requests: only his assassin will know his method of death, that
he die at midnight the next day, and that he have an audience. Forty-five
minutes before his scheduled death, he invites the Chancellor to his room. He
then informs the Chancellor that he has chosen to be killed by a bomb set to
explode at midnight, he then locks the Chancellor in his room. A TV camera is
broadcasting all that happens - and Wordsworth will prove who's will is
stronger, his or the State's. The Chancellor is calm at first, but as the
minutes tick by he begins to panic. He finally cries out, "In the name
of God, let me out!" Wordsworth hands him the key, and the Chancellor
runs from the room just as it explodes. When the Chancellor returns to his
court, he finds he has been judged obsolete and replaced. Loyal members of
the State surround him and tear him to pieces. b: 02-Jun-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Elliot Silverstein Season 3 66. Two gs: Charles Bronson
(Man) Elizabeth Montgomery (Woman) Sharon Lucas (Stunt Double) A woman wearing a
uniform encounters a man dressed in the enemy's uniform. She is very distrustful
of him. A while later she admires a dress in a shop window. The man removes
it and gives it to her. She changes in an old recruiting office. Seeing the
posters reminds her of the war, and she rushes out and fires several rounds
at the man. The next day he returns in civilian clothes and she is wearing
the dress. She joins him and they walk off together. b: 15-Sep-1961 w:
Montgomery Pittman d: Montgomery Pittman NOTE: Elizabeth
Montgomery's appearance in this episode is the 4th by someone to go on to
become an original cast member on BEWITCHED, which would debut 3 years later.
Dick York appearing in "A Penny For Your Thoughts" and "The
Purple Testament", Agnes Moorehead appearing in "The
Invaders", and David White appearing in "A World of Difference"
and later in "I Sing the Body Electric". 67. The Arrival gs: Harold J. Stone
(Grant Sheckly) Fredd Wayne (Paul Malloy) Noah Keen (Bengston) Flight 107 out of
Buffalo lands with no passengers, crew, or luggage. Sheckly, an FAA
investigator with a record of no unsolved cases investigates. He is
accompanied by Malloy and Bengston, executives with the airline. Each of the
men see the seats as a different color, and its serial number differently.
Sheckly believes the plane is an illusion, and he sticks his hand in the
spinning propeller to prove it. The plane disappears, as well as the two men.
He finds the men in the operations room, neither has any memory of the
mystery. Flight 107 arrived on schedule. One of the men remembers that there
was a Flight 107 that did disappear, seventeen years earlier. It was the one
case that Sheckly never solved. b: 22-Sep-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Boris Sagal 68. The Shelter gs: Larry Gates (Dr.
Stockton) Jack Albertson (Jerry Harlowe) Joseph Bernard (Marty Weiss) Sandy Kenyon
(Henderson) During a party for Dr.
Stockton, the radio announces that UFOs are headed southeast and that
everyone should head for their shelters. The Doc, his wife and son barricade
themselves in their shelter, but their neighbors are unprepared and beg to be
let in. Doc refuses saying there is only food and air for three. The
neighbors find a pipe and beat the door down. Just then, the radio announces
that the UFOs were really just satellites. The neighbors apologize but Doc
knows that the experience has destroyed them all. b: 29-Sep-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Lamont Johnson 69. The Passerby gs: Joanne Linville
(Lavinia) James Gregory (The Sergeant) Austin Green (Abraham Lincoln) Rex
Holman (Charlie) Lavinia Godwin is
certain her husband Jud, a Confederate officer, is dead. Her loss has spawned
a hatred within her. When a blind Union soldier stops for a drink, she shoots
him - to no effect. A confederate sergeant who stopped to rest, begins to
believe that everyone on the road, including Lavinia and himself, are dead.
Jud arrives and confirms that they are dead. Lavinia refuses to believe. She
decides to stay as Jud heads off down the road, promising to meet her at the
end of the road. As he leaves, the last man on the road approaches. It's
Abraham Lincoln. He convinces Lavinia of the truth, and she runs down the
road to catch up with Jud. b: 06-Oct-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Elliot Silverstein 70. A Game of Pool gs: Jack Klugman
(Jesse Cardiff) Jonathan Winters (Fats Brown) Alone in a pool hall, Jesse
Cardiff wishes he could play the late Fats Brown and prove that he, not Fats,
is the greatest pool player. Fats appears and challenges him, with Jesse's
life at stake. It's a close game, and just as Jesse is about to sink the
winning ball, Fats warns him that winning has its own hazards. Jesse ignores
him and wins. After he dies he understands Fats warning, he now has to rise
to every challenge from ambitious players on Earth. b: 13-Oct-1961 w:
George Clayton Johnson d: Buzz Kulik 71. The Mirror gs: Peter Falk (Ramos
Clemente) Vladimir Sokoloff (Priest) Tony Carbone (Cristo) Clemente is told by
General DeCruz, the deposed tyrant, that the mirror in his office will reveal
the faces of one's assassins. Clemente sees his compatriots coming at him
with guns, knives and poisons. He kills them all, but he still feels
threatened. He tells a priest of this, and the priest replies that tyrants
have only one enemy, one they never recognize. Looking in the mirror after
the priest leaves, Clemente sees his own reflection. He shatters the mirror,
then shoots himself. The priest rushes in. "The last assassin," he
says. "And they never learn. They never seem to learn!" b: 20-Oct-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Don Medford 72. The Grave gs: Lee Marvin (Conny
Miller) Strother Martin (Mothershed) James Best (Johnny Rob) Lee Van Cleef
(Steinhart) Sykes is gunned down
by a group of townsfolk. Conny Miller, a hired-gun who never caught up with
Sykes, learns that before Sykes died, he vowed to reach up and grab Miller if
he ever got close to his grave. After accepting a bet that he won't go near
the grave, Miller goes to the grave and sticks his knife into the ground,
proving he was there. As he stands something grabs him and pulls him down.
The next morning a group of people find Miller dead next to Sykes grave. It
appears that the wind had blown Miller's coat over the grave, and he had
stuck his knife through it. Sykes's sister mentions that the wind was blowing
away from the grave the night before. b: 27-Oct-1961 w:
Montgomery Pittman d: Montgomery Pittman 73. It's a Good Life gs: Bill Mumy (Anthony
Fremont) John Larch (Mr. Fremont) Cloris Leachman (Mrs. Fremont) A young boy with the
power to read minds and alter reality terrorizes a small town, after making
it disappear from the world (or making the rest of the world disappear). He
hates singing, and anyone who thinks bad thoughts. At his birthday party, Dan
Hollis receives a Perry Como record. Unable to play it in front of Anthony,
he begins to drink heavily. Suddenly he bursts into song. Hollis pleads with
the other adults to kill Anthony while he's distracted. Afraid, none of them
move to help, and Anthony turns Dan into a giant jack-in-the-box, and sends
him to the cornfield. Anthony then makes it snow outside, which will kill off
half of their crops. His father, half-hysterically, tells him it's good that
he made it snow. b: 03-Nov-1961 w: Rod
Serling s: Jerome Bixby d: James Sheldon NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "It's a Good Life" by Jerome Bixby. The
story was first published in the Frederik Pohl edited anthology Star Science
Fiction Stories #2 (1953). ? This episode is
referenced in "The Simpsons" episode "Tree House of Horror II:
A Simpsons Halloween" The story is called "Bart's Nightmare" 74. Death's Head
Revisited gs: Joseph Schildkraut
(Becker) Oscar Beregi Jr (Captain Lutz) Karen Verne (Innkeeper) Walking in the old
concentration camp, Lutze meets Becker, whom he mistakes for a caretaker.
Becker is actually a ghost, and he and the other ghostly inhabitants of the
camp have returned to put Lutze on trial. After a trial, Lutze is made to
suffer like his victims from years ago. The torture drives him insane. A
doctor later wonders what drove Lutze crazy. He then looks around the camp and
says, "Dachau, why do we keep it standing?" b: 10-Nov-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Don Medford 75. The Midnight Sun gs: Lois Nettleton
(Norma) Betty Garde (Mrs. Bronson) Tom Reese (Intruder) Norma and Mrs. Bronson
remain in their apartments, even after most people have left town. A man
breaks into Norma's apartment and drinks the last of her water. He then
apologizes and leaves. Later, as the temperature increases, Mrs. Bronson
dies. The paintings melt and a thermometer bursts. Norma screams and
collapses. When she awakens it's dark and snowing. She was just dreaming -
The Earth is actually heading away from the sun. b: 17-Nov-1961 w: Rod
Serling d: Anton Leader 76. gs: Gary Merrill (Sergeant
Joseph Paradine) Vaughn Taylor (The Old Man) Mark Tapscott (The Lieutenant)
Jack Mann (Mallory) Addison Myers (The Sentry) Ben Cooper (Mr. Dauger) Paradine wanders into
a town full of Union soldiers. They are all frozen in time by a old man with
a black book. Knowing he will die soon, the old man gives the book to
Paradine, telling him to use it to win the war. He takes the book back to
camp and convinces his commanding officer to allow him to try to freeze the
entire Union army. When he starts to read the book aloud he realizes he will
have to call on the Devil, and renounce God to cast the spell. He throws the
book on the fire and decides to allow the war to end in its own way. b: 24-Nov-1961 w: Rod
Serling s: Manly Wade Wellman d: James Sheldon NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "The Valley Was Still" by Manly Wade
Wellman. This story was first published in Weird Tales (August, 1939). ? Included on volume
18 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 77. The Jungle gs: Jay Overholts
(Taxi Driver) John Dehner (Alan Richards) Emily McLaughlin (Doris Richards)
Walter Brooke (Chad Cooper) Alan Richards plans to
build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor
puts a lion curse on him. He doesn't believe in that sort of thing, but he is
shocked when he finds a dead goat on his doorstep. Leaving a bar late at
night he begins to hear jungle sounds. He hops in a taxi, but then at a
stoplight finds the driver dead. He gets out and runs home. When he gets
there however, he discovers his wife dead - killed by a lion who sees Alan
and pounces. b: 01-Dec-1961 w: Rod
Serling s: Charles Beaumont d: William Claxton NOTE: The sequence
where Richards takes a cab, but his cab driver silently drops dead at a red
light, is cut from the episode in syndication. ? This episode is
based on the short story "The Jungle" by Charles Beaumont. The
story was first published in If (December, 1954). 78. Once Upon a Time gs: Buster Keaton
(Woodrow Mulligan) Stanley Adams (Rollo) Jesse White (Repair Man) Disillusioned by 1890,
Woodrow Mulligan. a janitor, uses a time helmet invented by his boss to
travel ahead to 1962. After deciding 1962 is no better than 1890, he attempts
to return but realizes the helmet has been damaged. Rollo, an electronic
scientist, offers to help by taking the helmet to a repair shop. After it's
fixed, Woodrow realizes that Rollo wants to use the helmet himself. They both
grab the helmet and appear in 1890. Rollo doesn't like 1890, so Woodrow puts
the helmet on him and sends him back to 1962. b: 15-Dec-1961 w:
Richard Matheson d: Norman Z. McLeod & Les Goodwins 79. Five Characters in
Search of an Exit gs: William Windom
(The Major) Murray Matheson (The Clown) Susan Harrison (The Ballerina) Kelton
Garwood (The Tramp) Clark Allen (The Bagpipe Player) Mona Houghton (Little
Girl) The five characters
are trapped in a cylinder with no memory of how they arrived there. The Major
hits on the idea of forming a human ladder to reach the top. After reaching the
rim, the Major loses his balance and falls into the snow below. The mystery
is solved - they are dolls in a Christmas toy donation barrel. A child picks
the Major up and returns him to the barrel. b: 22-Dec-1961 w: Rod
Serling s: Marvin Petal d: Lamont Johnson NOTE: Mona Houghton is
the daughter of producer Buck Houghton, who worked on this episode. ? This episode is
based on the short story "The Depository" by Marvin Petal. 80. A Quality of Mercy gs: Dean Stockwell
(Lt. Katell/Lt. Yamuri) Albert Salmi (Sgt. Causarano) Jerry Fujikawa
(Japanese Captain) Leonard Nimoy (Hansen) Lieutenant Katell
orders his men to make a near-suicidal attack on a group of Japanese soldiers
in a cave. Sgt. Causarano tries to dissuade him from attacking the cave, but
to no avail. Suddenly, Katell is Lt. Yamuri, a Japanese officer on Corregidor
on May 4, 1942. His captain is about to order an attack on a group of wounded
American soldiers in a cave. He pleads with his captain to not attack, but
it's in vain. Suddenly, he is back in the Phillipines. The U.S. has dropped
an A-bomb on Japan, and his platoon has been ordered to fall back and not
attack the cave. Having seen both sides, Katell is relieved. b: 29-Dec-1961 w: Rod
Serling s: Sam Rolfe d: Buzz Kulik 81. Nothing in the
Dark gs: Gladys Cooper
(Wanda Dunn) Robert Redford (Harold Beldon) R.G. Armstrong (Man) Wanda Dunn is so
scared that "Mr. Death" will kill her with his touch, she has
barricaded herself in her apartment for years. When a policeman is shot
outside her door, she overcomes her fear and drags him inside. A man breaks
into her apartment, and Wanda thinking it's Mr. Death, faints. When she comes
to, he explains he is a building contractor and that he is to demolish the
building the next day. After he leaves Wanda realizes that he couldn't see
the policeman - he is Mr. Death. But rather than being a monster, she sees
him as a gentle deliverer. She takes his hand and he leads her outside into
the sunlight. b: 05-Jan-1962 w:
George Clayton Johnson d: Lamont Johnson 82. One More
Pallbearer gs: Joseph Wiseman
(Paul Radin) Gage Clark (Mr. Hughes) Katherine Squire (Mrs. Langford) Trevor
Bardette (Colonel Hawthorne) Ray Galvin (Policeman) Joseph Elic (First
Electrician) Robert Snyder (Second Electrician) Paul Radin has invited
three people to view his bomb shelter: Mrs. Langford, a teacher who flunked
him; Colonel Hawthorne, who court-martialed him; and Reverend Hughes, who
made public a scandal involving a girl who commited suicide over him. Using
fake sound and news reports, he convinces them that nuclear war is minutes
away. He offers them a deal: If they apologize to him, they may remain in the
shelter. They all three refuse and leave. Suddenly, Paul hears a tremendous
explosion, and returns to the surface to find everything destroyed - nuclear
war did happen. In reality, everything is fine; Paul has lost his mind. b: 12-Jan-1962 w: Rod
Serling d: Lamont Johnson NOTE: Included on
volume 22 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 83. Dead Man's Shoes gs: Warren Stevens
(Nate Bledsoe) Ben Wright (Chips) Joan Marshall (Wilma) Bledsoe puts on a pair
of expensive shoes he took off of a dead gangster and is suddenly possessed
by the ghost of the gangster. The ghost is seeking revenge and soon locates
his killer. He attempts to gun the man down, but is instead gunned down
himself. Before Bledsoe dies, the spirit vows to keep returning until he
succeeds in killing his murderer. A tramp comes along, and thinking Bledsoe
is asleep, takes his shoes. b: 19-Jan-1962 w:
Charles Beaumont & OCee Ritch d: Montgomery Pittman 84. The Hunt gs: Arthur Hunnicutt
(Hyder Simpson) Jeanette Nolan (Rachel Simpson) Titus Moede (Wesley Miller) Hyder Simpson and his
dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. Only the raccoon emerges. He and
Rip awaken the next morning next to the lake. When he gets home he finds that
no one can see or hear him, not even his wife - they all think he's dead. He
finds a fence beside the graveyard and follows it to a gate. The man at the
gate tells him it is the gate to Heaven, but dogs aren't allowed. Hyder takes
Rip and leaves. Further down the road he meets an angel. The angel explains
that the gate was actually the gate to Hell, and Rip wasn't allowed in
because he could have smelled the brimstone. b: 26-Jan-1962 w: Earl
Hamner Jr. d: Harold Schuster NOTE: Earl Hammer Jr.
wrote this episode. He also created The Waltons. When watching this episode,
think Grandma and Grandpa Walton. It ads just one more dimension. Also when
watching The Waltons keep in mind that John Boy grew up to write for The
Twilight Zone. 85. Showdown with
Rance McGrew gs: Jay Overholts
(Cowboy #2) Larry Blyden (Rance McGrew) Robert Klein (Jesse James) Arch Johnson
(Jesse James) Robert Cornthwaite (Director) Richard Kline (TV Jesse James) Rance McGrew is
shooting a scene where "Jesse James" shoots him in the back. He is
suddenly transported to a real Old West saloon, and the real Jesse James
enters. He tells Rance that he and the other desperadoes of old are tired of
the way they are being portrayed. He challenges Rance to a gun fight. Rance,
having never shot a gun, falls to his knees and says he'll do anything to
spare his life. Jesse agrees, and Rance is suddenly back on the studio lot.
Then Rance's agent, Jesse James, arrives. He plans on staying and insuring
that the outlaws always win. He begins with the TV Jesse James throwing Rance
through a window. b: 02-Feb-1962 w: Rod
Serling s: Frederic Louis Fox d: Christian Nyby 86. Kick the Can gs: Ernest Truex
(Charles Whitley) Russell Collins (Ben Conroy) John Marley (Mr. Cox) Charles Whitley, a
resident of Sunnyvale, decides that the secret to youth is acting young. His
friend Ben Conroy thinks he is crazy. One night Charles tries to wake
everyone up to play a game of kick-the-can. Everyone agrees except Ben, who
goes to tell the home's superintendent, Mr. Cox. When Ben and Mr. Cox go
outside all they find are a group of children playing kick-the-can - they are
all young again. Ben begs his old friend for a second chance, but Charles,
now a boy, tells him it's too late. The children all run off into the bushes,
leaving Ben behind. b: 09-Feb-1962 w:
George Clayton Johnson d: Lamont Johnson NOTE: this was in
twilight zone the movie 87. A Piano in the
House gs: Barry Morse
(Fitzgerald Fortune) Joan Hackett (Esther Fortune) Muriel Landers (Marge
Moore) Barry Morse () Fortune discovers that
a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the
music it plays makes people reveal their true essence. At the party, Fortune
uses the piano to humiliate the guests - an overweight woman reveals
fantasies of being thin and a playwright admits to being in love with
Fortune's wife. Fortune hands his wife another roll to put in the piano, but
his wife substitutes a different roll - one that enchants Fortune. He reveals
himself to be nothing more than a sadistic, mean-spirited child. The guests
all leave along with Fortune's wife. b: 16-Feb-1962 w: Earl
Hamner Jr. d: David Greene 88. The Last Rites of
Jeff Myrtlebank gs: James Best (Jeff
Myrtlebank) Sherry Jackson (Comfort Gatewood) Lance Fuller (Orgram Gatewood) After Jeff Myrtlebank revives
at his funeral, he assures everyone he is the same person as before. However,
he has several new traits, such as being a hard worker, and a skilled
fighter. When the townspeople try to run him out of town, he tells them if he
is Jeff Myrtlebank, they have nothing to fear, but if he is a supernatural
being, then they had better be nice to him. After the townspeople leave, Jeff
tells his fiance? that he really is the same person, but then he lights a
match without striking it. b: 23-Feb-1962 w:
Montgomery Pittman d: Montgomery Pittman NOTE: In one scene, a
row of mailboxes is shown. One of them has the name "M. Pittman" on
the side of it, a reference to the writer/director of this episode. 89. To Serve Man gs: Lloyd Bochner
(Chambers) Richard Kiel (Kanamit) Susan Cummings (Pat) The Kanamits arrive on
Earth, and immediately start helping man. They appear totally trustworthy and
full of goodwill. This idea is backed up when they leave a book titled
"To Serve Man" at the U.N. Michael Chambers, a decoding expert,
along with thousands of other people book passage to the Kanamit's home
panet. Meanwhile, Michael's assistant Pat is trying to decode the book left
by the Kanamits. As Michael is boarding the Kanamit spacecraft, Pat runs up
and tells Michael she has finished translating the book - it's a cookbook!
Michael tries to escape, but is forced back inside by a Kanamit, and the
craft leaves. b: 02-Mar-1962 w: Rod
Serling s: Damon Knight d: Richard L. Bare NOTE: In the movie
"The Naked Gun 2-1/2" Lloyd Bochner has a small role as a villain,
and can be seen yelling the punchline of this episode during a panic/crowd
scene: an in-joke reference to his appearance here. It should be noted that
Bochner himself doesn't utter the famous "It's a cookbook!" line in
this episode, however. ? This episode is
based on the short story "To Serve Man" by Damon Knight. The story
was first published in Galaxy (November, 1950). ? This episode is
referenced in "The Simpsons" episode "Hungry Are The
Damned" from their Halloween "Treehouse of Horror" special 90. The Fugitive gs: J. Pat O'Malley
(Old Ben) Johnny Eimen () Susan Gordon (Jenny) Nancy Kulp (Mrs. Gann) Two men are looking
for Ben, an old man with the ability to change his form. Ben tells Jenny, a
friend of his with a leg brace, that he is a fugitive from outer space.
Before he leaves, he uses a device to fix Jenny's leg. When the men pursuing
Ben arrive, they use a similar device to make Jenny ill. The trap works, and
Ben returns and cures Jenny. It turns out Ben is not a criminal, but a ruler
of a planet, and the men were sent to convince him to return. He agrees, but
they refuse to let him take Jenny. Jenny has a plan; they ask for a moment
alone to say goodbye. When the men return they find two Jennys. Unable to tell
which one is real, they take both. b: 09-Mar-1962 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Richard L. Bare 91. Little Girl Lost gs: Charles Aidman
(Bill) Robert Sampson (Chris Miller) Sarah Marshall (Ruth Miller) Tracy
Stratford (Tina) Rhoda Williams (Tina's Voice) Tina Miller rolls
under her bed and disappears. Her father calls a friend, Bill, a physicist.
The family dog runs under the bed and disappears also. Bill believes Tina
fell through a hole into another dimension. Chris Miller puts his arm through
the wall trying to grab hold of Tina. He falls forward and halfway through
the hole. He sees a twisted, distorted world. He calls the dog, who then
leads Tina to him. He grabs them both and Bill pulls all three back through
the hole, which then closes. Bill says, "Another few seconds and half of
you would have been here, and the other half...." b: 16-Mar-1962 w:
Richard Matheson d: Paul Stewart NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "Little Girl Lost" by Richard Matheson.
The story was first published in Amazing Stories (November 1953). ? Included on Volume
29 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. ? This episode was
likely the inspiration for the 1982 film "Poltergeist." ? This episode also
inspired the TV show "The Simpsons" for their "Treehouse of
Horror VI: The Simpson's Halloween Special VI" the story is called
"Homer 3" 92. Person or Persons
Unknown gs: Richard Long
(David Gurney) Frank Silvera (Dr. Koslenko) Shirley Ballard (Wilma #1) Julie
Van Zandt (Wilma #2) David Gurney wakes up
to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his
own mother knows him. He is put in an asylum, but escapes and finds a picture
of himself and his wife, proving who he is. When the police arrive, the
picture has changed and only shows David by himself. He falls to the floor
and wakes up in his bed. It was just a dream. His wife gets up and goes to
the bathroom to remove some cream from her face. When she returns David is
shocked to see that although she talks the same as always, she looks nothing
like the wife he knows. b: 23-Mar-1962 w:
Charles Beaumont d: John Brahm 93. The Little People gs: Joe Maross (Peter
Craig) Claude Akins (William Fletcher) Michael Ford (Spaceman #1) Robert
Eaton (Spaceman #2) Fletcher and Craig set
down in the canyon to repair their ship. While scouting around, Craig finds a
city populated by tiny people - no bigger than ants. He begins terrorizing
the population by crushing their buildings, and he proclaims himself a god.
Fletcher comes to inform him the repairs are done, but Craig pulls a gun on
him, and orders him to leave alone; there's no room for two gods. Fletcher
leaves, and immediately another ship lands. Two spacemen, big as mountains,
emerge. One of them picks Craig up and accidentally crushes him. b: 30-Mar-1962 w: Rod
Serling d: William Claxton NOTE: Both "The
Simpsons" and "South Park" pay homage to this episode.
"The Simpsons" story is called "The Genesis Tub" from
their "Treehouse of Horror" Halloween series. 94. gs: Theodore Bikel (Oliver
Crangle) Moyna MacGill (Mrs. Williams) Phyllis Love (Mrs. Lucas) Oliver Crangle is a
bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil
person in the world at four o'clock. When four o'clock comes around, it is he
who shrinks. b: 06-Apr-1962 w: Rod
Serling s: Price Day d: Lamont Johnson NOTE: This episoded is
based on the short story "Four O'Clock" by Price Day. This story
was first published in Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 14 of My Favorites in
Suspense (1959). 95. Hocus-Pocus and
Frisby gs: Andy Devine
(Frisby) Milton Selzer (Alien #1) Larry Breitman (Alien #2) Aliens overhearing
Frisby's tall tales, decide to take him back with them. He relaxes by playing
his harmonica, and finds that this knocks the aliens out. He runs off and the
aliens leave. Going back to his store, he finds a surprise birthday party
waiting for him. He tries to tell everyone of his adventure, but no one will
believe him. b: 13-Apr-1962 w: Rod
Serling s: Frederic Louis Fox d: Lamont Johnson 96. The Trade-Ins gs: Joseph Schildkraut
(John Holt) Alma Platt (Marie Holt) Noah Keen (Mr. Vance) John and Marie Holt
visit a company that promises new bodies to the aging. They find they only
have enough money for one body. John tries to turn their five thousand into
ten in a local poker game, but only succeeds in losing it all. The man
running the game feels sorry for him and gives his money back. In constant
pain, John agrees to have the operation. He emerges young and fit, but
realizes that Marie is still old. He returns to his old body knowing that
they will spend what time they have left together. b: 20-Apr-1962 w: Rod
Serling d: Elliot Silverstein NOTE: Much like the
"Aqua Vita" episode from the 1980s era "Twilight Zone" 97. The Gift gs: Geoffrey Horne
(Williams) Nico Minardos (Doctor) Edmund Vargas (Pedro) A human-looking alien
crash lands outside a village, and accidentally kills a police officer, and
is wounded by another one. He staggers to a local bar and collapses. A local
doctor removes the bullets from him, and he befriends a young boy sweeping up
the floor. He gives the boy, Pedro, a gift. He says he will explain it later.
The alien is cornered trying to escape and he tells Pedro to show them the
gift, but they grab it from him and burn it. The soldiers shoot and kill the
alien. The doctor reads whats left of the gift. It says, "Greetings to
the people of Earth. We come... in peace. We bring you this gift. The
following chemical formula is... a vaccine against all forms of cancer..." b: 27-Apr-1962 w: Rod
Serling d: Allen H. Miner 98. The Dummy gs: Cliff Robertson
(Jerry Etherson) Frank Sutton (Frank) George Murdock (Willy) Jerry is convinced his
dummy, Willy, is alive. When his act with a new dummy named Goofy Goggles
goes over well, he locks Willy in a trunk, and leaves the club. But he keeps
hearing Willy's voice. He rushes back to the club and takes Willy out and
smashes him to bits. However, when he's finished he notices he has destroyed
Goofy Goggles, not Willy. Later, Jerry and Willy perform on stage. Willy has
become the ventriloquist, and Jerry is the dummy. b: 04-May-1962 w: Rod
Serling s: Lee Polk d: Abner Biberman 99. Young Man's Fancy gs: Phyllis Thaxter
(Virginia) Alex Nicol (Alex) Rickey Kelman (Alex (age 10)) Alex is overcome with
memories from the past after arriving at the house. Virginia believes the
spirit of his mother is to blame. Alex decides not to sell the house, then
his mother appears on the stairs and confronts Virginia. She then learns it
is not his mother's, but his wish to return to the past. Alex then becomes a
little boy again, and tells Virginia to get out. b: 11-May-1962 w:
Richard Matheson d: John Brahm 100. I Sing the Body
Electric gs: Josephine
Hutchinson (Grandma) Veronica Cartwright (Anne (age 11)) David White (Father)
Charles Herbert (Tom (age 12)) Dana Dillaway (Karen (age 10)) Vaughn Taylor
(Salesman) Doris Packer (Nedra) Susan Crane (Anne (age 19)) Paul Nesbitt (Tom
(age 20)) Judy Morton (Karen (age 18)) A widower buys a robot
grandmother for his three children. Two of the children take to her
immediately, but one, Anne, doesn't. The robot reminds her too much of her
mother. A woman she hates for leaving her. when Anne accidentally walks in
front of an oncoming van, the grandmother throws herself in front of it.
Anne, seeing the grandmother is unhurt, realizes she can never leave her like
her mother, and she finally accepts her. Years later, the children are all
grown up and leaving for college. The grandmother tells them she is going
back to Facsimile, Limited. She knows her job here is finished. b: 18-May-1962 w: Ray
Bradbury d: James Sheldon & William Claxton 101. Cavender is
Coming gs: Carol Burnett
(Agnes Grep) Jesse White (Cavender) Donna Douglas (Woman #3) Cavender, an angel
trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just
been fired. He sets her up in a mansion, with a fortune. However, none of her
friends from her old neighborhood remember her. She decides she would rather
have friends than money. She asks to be returned to her old life. Cavender's
boss is furious, until he notices that Agnes is extremely happy. He decides
maybe other people could use Cavender's help. b: 25-May-1962 w: Rod
Serling d: Chris Nyby 102. The Changing of
the Guard gs: Donald Pleasance
(Prof. Ellis Fowler) Laird Stuart (Schoolboy) Liam Sullivan (Headmaster)
Philippa Bevans (Mrs. Landers) After fifty-one years
of teaching, Professor Ellis Fowler is informed he is to be forcibly retired.
He decides his teaching has never made a difference, he takes a pistol to the
school and plans to shoot himself. Inside the school he hears a bell, and
enters a classroom. There he sees ghosts of some of his now-deceased
students. They convince him that he did make a difference in their lives. He
returns home knowing that he did make a difference, and ready to accept
retirement. b: 01-Jun-1962 w: Rod
Serling d: Robert Ellis Miller Season 4 103. In His Image gs: George Grizzard
(Alan Talbolt / Walter Ryder, Jr.) Gail Kobe (Jessica Connelly) Wallace
Rooney (Man) Katherine Squire (The Old Woman) George Petrie (Driver) James
Seay (Sheriff) James Forster (Hotel Clerk) Sherry Granato (Girl) A man, Alan Talbot,
keeps hearing electronic noises in his head. He kills a lady at the subway
station, and then goes to pick up his fiance? Jessica. They are going to
visit his aunt, but when they arrive, nothing is as he remembers it;
buildings he doesn't recall, the university he works at is just an empty
field, and his key doesn't fit the lock at his aunt's house. His parent's
grave markers are replaced with a Walter Ryder and his wife. He looks up
Walter Ryder, Jr. in the phone book, and pays him a visit. His key fits this
door, and he meets his exact duplicate - Walter Ryder, Jr. Walter explains
that Alaan is a robot created by himself, and that he attacked Walter and ran
off several days before. The two men begin to struggle. Later, Alan appears
at Jessica's door and assures her everthing will be fine. It is not Alan, but
Walter. Alan has been de-activated. b: 03-Jan-1963 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Perry Lafferty NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. ? This episode is
based on the short story "In His Image" by Charles Beaumont. The
story was first published in Imagination (February, 1957). 104. The Thirty-Fathom
Grave gs: Mike Kellin (Chief
Bell) Simon Oakland (Captain Beecham) Bill Bixby (O.O.D.) Captain Bell and his
crew are investigating a sunken submarine, when they pick up a tapping sound
coming from inside it. Captain Bell sees the ghosts of young seamen in the
corridor, and he confesses to the ship's doctor that he was on the sub, and
it was his fault it sank. He thens jumps overboard and drowns. Later, a diver
reports that a section of periscope was loose and that was the source of the
tapping. However, one of the dead crewmen did have a hammer in his hand. b: 10-Jan-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Perry Lafferty NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 105. Valley of the
Shadow gs: Ed Nelson (Philip
Redfield) Natalie Trundy (Ellen Marshall) James Doohan (Father) A man, Philip
Redfield, stops for gas in a small town. He learns that the inhabitants are
in possession of several "devices" that can move matter, and revers
time, among other things. He tries to escape, but runs into a force field
protecting the city. Back in town a device is aimed at him, and suddenly he
is back in his car with no memory of the town. b: 17-Jan-1963 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Perry Lafferty NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 106. He's Alive gs: Dennis Hopper
(Peter Vollmer) Ludwig Donath (Ernst Ganz) Curt Conway (Adolf Hitler) Paul
Mazursky (Frank) Howard Caine (Nick) Barnaby Hale (Stanley) Jay Adler
(Gibbons) Wolfe Brazell (Proprietor) Bernard Fein (Heckler) After receiving
guidance from a mystery man, Peter Vollmer becomes a popular neo-nazi
speaker. A life-long friend, Ernst Ganz, interrupts one of his speeches and
slaps Peter viciously. The crowd then sees Peter as he really is - a pathetic
little man. His mystery man reveals himself to be Adolf Hitler, and orders
Peter to kill Ernst. He obeys, and is later shot by police. Peter can't
believe he's been shot. "There's something wrong here... Don't you
understand that I'm made out of steel," he says after being shot. b: 24-Jan-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Stuart Rosenberg NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 107. Mute gs: Ann Jillian (Ilse
Nielson) Frank Overton (Harry Wheeler) Barbara Baxley (Cora Wheeler) After her parents are
killed in a fire, Ilse is taken in by the town Sheriff and his wife. She was
an experiment to her parents, and she is able to communicate only
telepathically, she is believed to be mute. A teacher discovers that she is
telepathic, and has the whole class think her name. She finally yells out,
"My name is Ilse!" Her telepathic abilities destroyed, she stays
with the only family who has ever loved her. b: 30-Jan-1963 w:
Richard Matheson d: Stuart Rosenberg NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. ? This episode is
based on the short story "Mute" by Richard Matheson. The story was
first published in the Charles Beaumont edited anthology The Fiend in You
(1962). 108. Death Ship gs: Jack Klugman
(Captain Paul Ross) Ross Martin (Lt. Ted Mason) Fredrick Beir (Lt. Mike
Carter) Mary Webster (Ruth) Tammy Marihugh (Jeannie) Ross Elliott (Kramer)
Sara Taft (Mrs. Nolan) A three-man spacecraft
lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to
their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they are dead, but the captain
refuses to see the truth. They end up back at the beginning of the story
right before discovering the wreckage. b: 07-Feb-1963 w:
Richard Matheson d: Don Medford NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. ? This episode is
based on the short story "Death Ship" by Richard Matheson. The
story was first published in Fantastic Story Magazine (March, 1953). It was
later included in Matheson's Shock! collection (Dell, 1961). ? Included on volume
18 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. ? The miniature
spaceship prop was the same one used in the classic 1956 film Forbidden
Planet. ? Some of the music in
this episode was "borrowed" from Jerry Goldsmith's score to Episode
49, Back There. 109. Jess-Belle gs: Anne Francis
(Jess-Belle) James Best (Billy-Ben Turner) Laura Devon (Ellwyn Glover) Jess-Belle is
determined that Billy-Ben Turner and Ellwyn Glover not marry. She enlists the
aid of a local witch who casts a spell that makes Billy-Ben completely forget
Ellwyn, and fall madly in love with Jess-Belle. Jess-Belle learns what the
price for the spell was when midnight comes and she transforms into a leopard
until dawn. A hunting party finds the leopard and shoots it, and it
disappears in a cloud of smoke. A year later when Billy-Ben is preparing to
marry Ellwyn, Jess-Belle reappears. Billy-Ben learns from the local witch to
kill Jess-Belle he must stab one of her dresses with silver. He returns home
to find Ellwyn possesses by Jess-Belle. He grabs one of her dresses and stabs
it. Jess-Belle appears in the dress then disappears for good. b: 14-Feb-1963 w: Earl
Hamner Jr. d: Buzz Kulik NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 110. Miniature gs: Robert Duvall
(Charley Parkes) Pert Kelton (Mrs. Parkes) Barbara Barrie (Myrna) Len Weinrib
(Buddie) William Windom (Dr. Wallman) John Mcliam (Museum Guard) Claire
Griswold (The Doll) Nina Roman (The Maid) Richard Angarola (The Suitor)
Barney Phillips (Diemel) Joan Chambers (Harriet) Chet Stratton (The Guide) Charley goes to the
museum and finds the cafeteria closed. He ends up in a tour group and finds
himself in a different part of the museum. There he sees a dollhouse behind a
glass case. Inside a miniature, mechanical woman is playing the piano. He
asks a guard about it and is informed that the doll is carved from wood and
is totally inanimate. After smashing the glass case trying to save the doll
from a drunken suitor, Charley is committed to an asylum. After convincing
the doctor he is better, he is released and returns to the museum. When the
doctor and family start a search for Charley, a guard notices there are now
two dolls in the dollhouse, the woman and Charley! b: 21-Feb-1963 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Walter E. Grauman NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. ? This episode was not
shown in syndication for many years because of its involvement in a law suit;
it was claimed that the idea for "Miniature" was stolen from an
earlier script submitted to Cayuga Productions. When the suit was eventually
thrown out of court, the episode could be shown again. ? After remaining
unseen for many years, this episode was shown as part of a prime-time 25th
Anniversary Special in 1984. For this broadcast, the dollhouse sequences were
colorized by computer. ? Included on volume
31 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 111. Printer's Devil gs: Burgess Meredith
(Mr. Smith) Robert Sterling (Douglas Winter) Pat Crowley (Jackie Benson) Douglas Winter's
paper, The Courier, is in financial trouble. Mr. Smith appears and offers to
pay off the debts, and run the linotype machine. Douglas agrees, but soon
regrets when he realizes Mr. Smith is the devil. Mr. Smith offers him a
contract guaranteeing The Courier's success in exchange for Doug's soul.
Afraid of losing Mr. Smith, he agrees. Mr. Smith proceeds to cause all kinds
of disasters. Doug asks him to stop, and Mr. Smith makes him another offer:
He'll stop if Doug will kill himself. He agrees, but gets an idea. He sets in
type a story that says he and the devil's contract is void, and that Mr.
Smith is banished from Earth. He decides to run the paper fair and square;
the first thing is to destroy that linotype machine. b: 28-Feb-1963 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Ralph Senensky NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. ? This episode is based
on the short story "The Devil, You Say?" by Charles Beaumont. The
story was first published in Amazing Stories (January, 1951). 112. No Time Like the
Past gs: Dana Andrews (Paul
Driscoll) Patricia Breslin (Abigail Sloan) Robert F. Simon (Harvey) Paul Driscoll uses a
time machine to try and change three past events: the bombing of Hiroshima,
Hitler's rise to power and the sinking of the Lusitania. He fails miserably
at all of them, and decides to escape to the past. He picks Homeville,
Indiana. After learning from a history book he's brought along that a fire,
started by runaway horses, will burn down a school and injure several
children. He sees the wagon with the horses, and in trying to convince the
owner to unhitch them, he frightens the horses and they start the fire.
Driscoll returns to the present, content to leave the past alone. b: 07-Mar-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Justus Addiss NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 113. The Parallel gs: Steve Forrest
(Robert Gaines) Jacqueline Scott (Helen Gaines) Frank Aletter (Col.
Connacher) Philip Abbott (General Eaton) Gaines arrives back on
Earth with his capsule in perfect condition, even though it had no landing gear.
He notices several differences in this world, and decides he is in parallel
world. He runs for his capsule, and is suddenly back in his capsule ready for
splash-down. He tells General Eaton and Colonel Connacher the story, and that
he was a colonel in the other world. They don't believe him, but then an
officer comes in and says they picked up an unidentified spacecraft on radar
for a few seconds, and the radio message was from a Colonel Robert Gaines. b: 14-Mar-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Alan Crosland NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 114. I Dream of Genie gs: Howard Morris
(George P. Hanley) Patricia Barry (Ann) Jack Albertson (Genie) Mark Miller
(Roger) Loring Smith (Watson) Joyce Jameson (Starlet) James Millhollin
(Masters) Robert Ball (Clerk) Bob Hastings (Sam) George P. Hanley buys
a lamp for a secretary's birthday at work. After another co-worker gives her
a present of lingerie, George decides to keep the lamp. Later at home, he
tries to shine it, and out comes a genie. He says George can have one wish.
George fantasizes several situations involving various wishes, and they all
end in disaster. He finally decides what he wants his wish to be. Later, a bum
finds the lamp and rubs it. A genie appears, and it's George! b: 21-Mar-1963 w: John
Furia Jr. d: Robert Gist NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. ? Included on volume
34 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 115. The New Exhibit After being told that
Ferguson's Wax Museum is closing, Martin convinces the owner to allow him to
take five wax figures that have special meaning for him. They are five mass
murderers. After they come to life and kill his wife, her brother and Mr.
Ferguson, Martin tells them he is going to destroy them. They come alive and
tell him that it is he, not them, that killed these people. Later, at a
museum, a guide is explaining the details of the murders these men commited
when he comes to a new exhibit. It depicts a man who killed his wife,
brother-in-law and employer - it's Martin Lombard Senescu! b: 04-Apr-1963 w:
Jerry Sohl s: Charles Beaumont & Jerry Sohl d: John Brahm NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 116. Of Late I Think
of Cliffordville gs: Albert Salmi (Bill
Feathersmith) Christine Burke (I) (Joanna Gibbons) Guy Raymond (Mr. Gibbons)
John Harmon (Clark) Wright King (Hecate) Julie Newmar (Miss Devlin) John
Anderson (Diedrich) After talking to Mr.
Hecate, the building janitor, about how bored he is, Feathersmith makes a
deal with the devil to return, with his memory intact, to the past, so he can
start over. His fortune, all but fourteen hundred dollars is the price. He
buys oil deeds without realizing the oil is inaccessible to the drills of
those days. He wants to return to the present, and the devil agrees - for
forty dollars. Mr. Hecate comes walking by, and Feathersmith sells him the
oil deeds for forty dollars. He returns to the present, but things have
changed - He is the janitor and Hecate is the wealthy businessman. b: 11-Apr-1963 w: Rod
Serling s: Malcolm Jameson d: David Lowell Rich NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. ? This episode is
based on the short story "Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson. The
story was first published in Unknown Worlds (June, 1943). 117. The Incredible
World of Horace Ford gs: Pat Hingle (Horace
Ford) Nan Martin (Laura Ford) Ruth White (Mrs. Ford) Horace visits his old
neighborhood and sees children from his past. He follows them and hears them talking
about a kid who slighted them by not inviting them to his birthday party. He
returns the next night and learns it is he that offended them years ago.
Suddenly, he's a child again and the other kids jump on him and beat him. His
memories of a perfect childhood shattered he returns home, ready to start
living in the present. b: 18-Apr-1963 w:
Reginald Rose d: Abner Biberman NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 118. On Thursday We
Leave For Home gs: James Whitmore
(William Benteen) Tim O'Conner (Col. Sloane) James Broderick (Al) Lew Gallo
(Lt. Engle) Benteen has kept the
colony alive with tales of the greatness of Earth. When the rescue ship
comes, he realizes his power over everyone is going to be gone when they
leave the planet. He tells them Earth is really hell, an awful place, and
that they'll die if they go there. No one believes him, and he says he's
staying. As the spaceship is preparing to leave, he returns to the caves and
pretends everyone is still there. While talking about Earth, he suddenly
remembers what he has been saying for so long. He runs out but the ship is
gone. He is left there all alone. b: 02-May-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Buzz Kulik NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. 119. Passage on the
Lady Anne gs: Lee Philips (Allan
Ransome) Joyce Van Patten (Eileen Ransome) Wilfrid Hyde-White (McKenzie) Instead of the cruise
bringing them closer together, the Ransome's agree to get a divorce when they
return home. Eileen disappears, and when Allan finds her she is wearing a
nightgown that a passenger wore on her honeymoon. Seeing her, Allan realizes
how much he still loves her. The passengers force them into a lifeboat, with
plenty of provisions, and set them adrift. The Lady Anne sails off. b: 09-May-1963 w:
Charles Beaumont d: Lamont Johnson NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. ? This episode is
based on the short story "Song For a Lady" by Charles Beaumont. The
story was first published in Beaumont's collection Night Ride and Other
Journeys (1960). 120. The Bard gs: Jack Weston
(Julius Moomer) Judy Strangis (Cora) John Williams (II) (William Shakespeare)
Burt Reynolds (Rocky Rhodes) Julius Moomer uses a
black magic book to summon Shakespeare, who then writes a brilliant teleplay
for TV. Moomer becomes a celebrity which angers Shakespeare. He watches a
rehearsal of his script and is shocked by the changes made and leaves. Moomer
is enlisted to write a two-and-half-hour television show on history. He
thinks he's lost, until he remembers the black magic book, and enlists the
aid of several characters from the past. b: 23-May-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: David Butler NOTE: This episode, as
with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season
1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes. Season 5 121. In Praise of Pip gs: Jack Klugman (Max
Phillips) Bill Mumy (Pip) Bob Diamond (Private Pip) Max Phillips learns
his only son has been wounded in Vietnam. Feeling he could have been a better
father, he returns three hundred dollars to an unlucky bettor and is shot by
his boss's hitman. He makes it to an amusement park. There he finds his son,
a child again, and they relive past pleasures. Pip runs away, and when Max
catches him, he tells his father that he is dying and disappears. Max makes
an offer to God - his life for Pip's. He dies and his son iss allowed to
live. b: 27-Sep-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Joseph M. Newman 122. Steel gs: Lee Marvin (Steel
Kelly) Tipp McClure (Battling Maxo) Chuck Hicks (Maynard Flash) Joe Mantell
(Pole) Merritt Bohn (Nolan) Frank London (Maxwell) Larry Barton (Man's Voice) Battling Maxo breaks
down before the scheduled bout. His manager, "Steel" Kelly, a
retired heavyweight boxer, desperate for the money to repair him, disguises
himself as a robot and fights Maynard Flash, a new robot. He gets beat up,
but the money he receives is enough to repair Battling Maxo. b: 04-Oct-1963 w:
Richard Matheson d: Don Weis NOTE: Based on the
short story "Steel" by Richard Matheson, originally published in
the May, 1956, issue of "The Magazine Of Fantasy And Science
Fiction" and collected in "The Shores Of Space." 123. Nightmare at
20,000 Feet gs: William Shatner
(Bob Wilson) Christine White (Ruth Wilson) Nick Cravat (Gremlin) Mr. Wilson sees a
creature on the wing of his airplane, but no one believes him. Seeing that
the creature is about to destroy the engine, he takes a sleeping policeman's
gun, opens a hatch, and empties the gun into the creature. It is hit and gets
swept off the wing. Mr. Wilson is taken off the plane in a straitjacket,
convinced that he saved the plane. Serling's ending hints that the proof of
the creature was later found. b: 11-Oct-1963 w:
Richard Matheson d: Richard Donner NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" by Richard
Matheson. The story was first published in the Michael Congdon and Don
Congdon edited anthology Alone by Night (1961). ? Some of the music in
this episode was "borrowed" from Jerry Goldsmith's score to Episode
49, Back There. ? The TV show
"The Simpsons" borrows of this episode in their "Treehouse of
Horror IV: The Simpson's Halloween Special IV" the story is called
"Terror at 5 1/2 Feet" 124. A Kind of a
Stopwatch gs: Richard Erdman
(McNulty) Leon Belasco (Potts) Roy Roberts (Mr. Cooper) McNulty meets a man
named Potts in a bar. Potts gives him a stopwatch that can stop time. When he
tries to show his friends, they are unaware of anything happening. McNulty
decides to freeze time and rob a bank. As he is wheeling out his cash, he
drops the watch and is stuck forever in a timeless world. b: 18-Oct-1963 w: Rod
Serling s: Michael D. Rosenthal d: John Rich 125. The Last Night of
a Jockey gs: Mickey Rooney
(Grady) Grady's innermost wish
is to be tall. After being banned from the track, he awakes to find he is
taller, over eight feet. After getting a call telling him he's been given
another chance at racing, he realizes he is too tall to ever jockey again. b: 25-Oct-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Joseph M. Newman 126. Living Doll gs: Telly Savalas
(Erich Streator) Mary LaRoche (Annabelle) Tracy Stratford (Christie) June
Foray (voice of Talky Tina) Erich Streator doesn't
like the new doll his wife has bought for his step-daughter. His dislike
grows when the doll tells him she doesn't like him. After trying to get rid
of the doll, he agrees to let his step-daughter keep it. Investigating a
noise one night, he trips over the doll on the stairs and falls to his death. b: 01-Nov-1963 w:
Jerry Sohl s: Jerry Sohl & Charles Beaumont d: Richard C. Sarafian NOTE: "The
Simpsons" TV Series pays homage to this (and many other) Twilight Zone
episodes in their Halloween "Treehouse of Horror" series. The story
is in "Tree House of Horror III: The Simpson's Halloween Special
III" in the story called "Clown Without Pity" ? This episode is also
a reference to the 1988 horror thriller Child's Play starring the evil doll
Chucky. 127. The Old Man in
the Cave gs: John Anderson (Mr.
Goldsmith) James Coburn (Major French) John Marley (Jason) The "Old Man in
the Cave" has protected a group of people for ten years. When armed
soldiers arrive and take over, Mr. Goldsmith pleads with them to listen to
the old man and not eat food that is contaminated. He is ignored and the
townspeople storm the cave and discover the old man is just a computer.
Enraged, they destroy the computer. Later they pay for this: the food was
contaminated, and all but Goldsmith die. b: 08-Nov-1963 w: Rod
Serling s: Henry Slesar NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "The Old Man" by Henry Slesar. The story
was first published in The Diners Club Magazine (1962). 128. Uncle Simon gs: Cedric Hardwicke
(Uncle Simon Polk) Constance Ford (Barbara Polk) Ian Wolfe (Schwimmer) Uncle Simon tries to
strike Barbara with his cane. She grabs it and he falls down the stairs to
his death. His will stipulates that she must care for his latest invention -
a robot. The robot begins to take on Uncle Simon's traits. Barbara finally
pushes it down the stairs, but that only gives it a limp identical to Uncle
Simon's. She finally realizes that she will never be rid of Uncle Simon. b: 15-Nov-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Don Siegel 129. Probe 7 - Over
and Out gs: Richard Basehart
(Col. Adam Cook) Antoinette Bower (Eve Norda) Barton Heyman (Lt. Blane) Harold
Gould (Gen. Larrabee) Cook learns that his
home planet has been destroyed. He discovers a footprint and eventually a
woman. Her name is Norda, a space traveller in the same predicament as Cook.
They learn each others first name, his is Adam, her's is Eve. Eve names the
new planet - Earth. b: 29-Nov-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Ted Post 130. The 7th is Made
Up of Phantoms gs: Ron Foster (Sgt.
Conners) Randy Boone (Pfc. McCluskey) Warren Oates (Cpl. Langsford) Three National
Guardsmen on maneuvers near Little Big Horn begin to hear mysterious noises
and find as-new artifacts from a hundred years ago. They soon believe they
are about to meet the past and the massacre that occured at Little Big Horn.
Ignoring the orders of their superior to return, and forced to leave their
tank behind, they charge over a ridge and into history to the sound of
battle. Later, their superiors find no sign of them, until they check the
names of the dead listed at the Custer Battlefield National Memorial. b: 06-Dec-1963 w: Rod
Serling d: Alan Crosland Jr. NOTE: This is probably
one of the best episodes ever done. It invokes a possiblity of trying to go
back in time and change history. 131. A Short Drink
from a Certain Fountain gs: Patrick O'Neal
(Harmon Gordon) Ruta Lee (Flora Gordon) Walter Brooke (Dr. Raymond Gordon) Trying to keep up with
his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an
experimental youth serum. At first it's effects are amazing, but they
continue to work until Harmon is an infant again. His brother gives his wife
a choice: walk out with the clothes on her back, or stay and care for Harmon
until he is an adult. b: 13-Dec-1963 w: Rod
Serling s: Lou Holz d: Bernard Girard 132. Ninety Years
Without Slumbering gs: Ed Wynn (Sam
Forstmann) Carolyn Kearney (Marnie Kirk) James Callahan (Doug Kirk) Sam believes that when
a grandfather clock he has owned all his life stops, he will die. To make his
granddaughter happy, he sells the clock to a neighbor. While the neighbor is away
on vacation, the clock begins to wind down. When it stops, Sam's spirit
begins to leave his body, but Sam realizes the spirit is just his imagination
and it disappears. b: 20-Dec-1963 w:
Richard DeRoy s: George Clayton Johnson d: Roger Kay 133. Ring-A-Ding Girl gs: Maggie McNamara
(Bunny Blake) Mary Munday (Hildy Powell) David Macklin (Bud Powell) Bing
Russell (Ben Braden) Hank Patterson (Mr. Gentry) Vic Perrin (State Trooper)
George Mitchell (Dr. Floyd) Lou Gerson (Cici) Bill Hickman (Pilot) Bunny receives a ring
from her fan club in her home town. In the ring she sees the faces of people
from her hometown telling her she's needed there. She arrives in Howardville
on the day of the annual Founder's Day picnic. She tries to get the chairman
of the picnic to postpone it a day, but he refuses. She then plans a
one-woman show at the auditorium. Before the show, Bunny disappears. Later, a
jet airliner crashes onto the picnic grounds. Thanks to Bunny, almost
everyone is at the auditorium instead of the picnic grounds. They later find
that Bunny was a passenger on the plane. b: 27-Dec-1963 w: Earl
Hamner Jr. d: Alan Crosland Jr. NOTE: Included on
volume 22 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 134. You Drive gs: Edward Andrews
(Oliver Pope) Hellena Westcott (Lillian Pope) Kevin Hagen (Pete Radcliff) Oliver tries to forget
the accident, but his car won't let him. The car horn starts honking at
night, and the lights flash on and off. While trying to walk to work, his car
almost runs him down. He gets in it and allows it to drive him to the police
station. b: 03-Jan-1964 w: Earl
Hamner Jr. d: John Brahm NOTE: This episode was
the basis for the Steven King novel and movie "Christine". 135. The Long Morrow gs: Robert Lansing
(Commander Douglas Stansfield) Mariette Hartley (Sandra Horn) George Macready
(Dr. Bixler) Before leaving on his
mission, Douglas meets a woman, Sandra Horn. They fall in love, but realize
it can't work: when he returns from he trip he'll still be young, while she will
be an old woman. When Douglas leaves, Sandra has herself put in suspended
animation. When Douglas returns she is revived, but the doctor has some bad
news: six months into the mission, Douglas came out of suspended animation
for her. Now he is an old man, and she is still young. b: 10-Jan-1964 w: Rod
Serling d: Robert Florey 136. The
Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross gs: Don Gordon
(Salvadore Ross) Gail Kobe (Leah Maitland) Vaughn Taylor (Mr. Maitland) In the hospital, Ross
trades his broken hand, for a cold from his roomate. Using his new-found
talent, he trades forty-six years of his life to a millionaire for a million
dollars and a nice apartment. He then buys back the years from a variety of
young men, a few years at a time. Realizing the girl of his dreams wants a
man with compassion, he convinces her father to sell him his. When he goes to
ask for her father's blessing, the old man, compassionless now, shoots
Salvadore and kills him. b: 17-Jan-1964 w:
Jerry McNeely s: Henry Slesar d: Don Siegel NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"
by Henry Slesar. This story was first published in The Magazine of Fantasy
and Science Fiction (May, 1961). 137. Number Twelve
Looks Just Like You gs: Collin Wilcox
(Marilyn Cuberle) Suzy Parker (Lana Cuberle/Simmons/Doe/Grace/Jane/Patient
#12) Richard Long (Uncle Rick/Dr. Rex/Sigmund/Friend/Dr. Tom/Attendant) Pam
Austin (Valerie) Marilyn Cuberle
doesn't want to submit to the Transformation, a supposedly voluntary operation
that makes them identical to everyone else. Her family and friends try and
convince her to go ahead with the Transformation. She tries to escape from a
hospital, and ends up in a room with a doctor and nurse. She emerges from the
hospital looking and thinking just like everyone else. b: 24-Jan-1964 w: John
Tomerlin & Charles Beaumont d: Abner Biberman NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "The Beautiful People" by Charles
Beaumont. The story was first published in If (September, 1952). 138. Black Leather
Jackets gs: Lee Kinsolving
(Scott) Shelley Fabares (Ellen Tillman) Michael Forest (Steve) Tom Gilleran
(Fred) Denver Pyle (Stu Tillman) Michael Forrest () Steve, Scott and Fred
are part of an invasion force from space. Scott falls for a local girl, and
when he overhears plans to poison the water supply, he tries to warn her. She
is convinced he is crazy, and when he returns the sheriff, with several men
in white coats, is waiting for him. The sheriff and attendants are part of
the invasion, and they take Scott away where he won't interfere with their
plans. b: 31-Jan-1964 w: Earl
Hamner Jr. d: Joseph M. Newman 139. Night Call gs: Gladys Cooper
(Elva Keene) Nora Marlowe (Margaret Phillips) Martine Bartlett (Miss Finch) Elva Keene begins
receiving strange phone calls. She finally tells whoever is at the other end
to leave her alone. She then finds that the calls were coming from a
telephone line lying on the grave of her ex-fianc?e Brian, who always did
what she wanted. She gets home and picks up the phone to talk to him, but he
says he always does what she says, and she told him to leave her alone. And
then the line goes dead. b: 07-Feb-1964 w:
Richard Matheson d: Jacques Tourneur NOTE: This episode is
based on the short story "Sorry, Right Number" by Richard Matheson.
The story was first published in Beyond (November, 1953). 140. From Agnes with
Love gs: Wally Cox (James
Elwood) Sue Randall (Millie) Ralph Taegar (Walter Holmes) James Elwood replaces
a computer programmer who has gone mad working on Agnes. After Agnes gives
him bad advice about his love life, the computer tells him it's in love with
him. He goes crazy, and as the next programmer comes in, he tells him he
doesn't stand a chance against Agnes. b: 14-Feb-1964 w:
Bernard C. Schoenfeld d: Richard Donner 141. Spur of the
Moment gs: Diana Hyland (Anne
Henderson) Roger Davis (David Mitchell) Robert Hogan (Robert Blake) Roger
Davis (David Mitchell) Anne has to make a
decision between David, the man she loves, and Robert, the man her father
wishes her to marry. Twenty-five years later, Anne is now an alcoholic, and
her husband has gone through her family's money. It is she who chases her
younger self trying to warn her not to marry the wrong man. But the wrong man
ends up being David, not Robert. b: 21-Feb-1964 w:
Richard Matheson d: Elliot Silverstein 142. An Occurrence at gs: Roger Jacquet
(Confederate Spy) Anne Cornaly () Anker Larsen () Stephane Fey ()
Jean-Francois Zeller () Pierre Danny () Louis Adelin () As a Confederate spy
is about to be hanged, the rope breaks and he falls to the water below. He
dodges bullets and heads off for home. He finally reaches it, but as his wife
hugs him he stiffens. Suddenly he is back at the bridge, hanging from a rope. b: 28-Feb-1964 w:
Robert Enrico s: Ambrose Bierce d: Robert Enrico NOTE: This show,
although perhaps the best of all the Twilight Zones, is not shown in
syndication. ? This episode is
actually a French short film, with several minutes cut out and Serling's
narration appended to the beginning and end. ? This episode is
based on the short story "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" by
Ambrose Bierce. The story was first published in Bierce's story collection
Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (1891). ? The original French
film version of this episode won the Academy Award in 1963 for Best Short
Film. ? Included on CBS
Video's Treasures of The Twilight Zone DVD. 143. Queen of the gs: Lee Phillips
(Jordan Herrick) Ann Blyth (Pamela Morris) Celia Lovsky (Viola Draper) Suspecting that Pamela
Morris and Constance Taylor, an actress from many years ago, is the same
person, he confronts Pamela. She drugs his coffee, then admits she really was
a queen of the Nile. She uses a scarab and drains Herrick's life and uses it
on herself. b: 06-Mar-1964 w:
Jerry Sohl s: Charles Beaumont & Jerry Sohl d: John Braham 144. What's in the Box gs: William Demarest
(Joe Britt) Joan Blondell (Phyllis Britt) Sterling Holloway (TV Repairman) Joe Britt insults the
TV repairman. The repairman later tells Joe that he has fixed it for free.
Suddenly, the TV picks up a channel Joe's never been able to get. On it he
sees himself and his mistress. Then it shows a scene of Joe and his wife
arguing, and Joe punching her through a window. Afraid, Joe confesses his
misdeed to his wife, they argue, and he ends up punching her through a window
to her death. b: 13-Mar-1964 w:
Martin M. Goldsmith d: Richard L. Bare NOTE: Each one of these
3 cast members in this episode were in 3 different Elvis Presley movies.
William Demarest in "Viva Las Vegas"(1964) as
Rusty(Ann-Margret)Martin's father, Joan Blondell in "Stay Away,
Joe" (1968) as Glenda Callahan, and Sterling Holloway in "Live a Little,
Love a Little" (1968) as the Milkman who identified Michelle Carey's
character as Betty. 145. The Masks gs: Robert Keith
(Jason Foster) Virginia Gregg (Emily Harper) Alan Sues (Wilfred Jr.) Milton
Selzer (Wilfred Harper) Brooke Hayward (Paula Harper) Willis Bouchey (Dr.
Samuel Thorne) Bill Walker (Butler) Jason Foster, knowing
he is dying, summons his heirs to a Mardi Gras party. He gives each a
grotesque mask that reflects their true nature. Fearing they'll be
disinherited, they put on the masks. At midnight Jason dies, his family, glad
he is gone, removes their masks. To their horror, they discover their faces
are permanently disfigured; each matches the masks they were wearing. b: 20-Mar-1964 w: Rod
Serling d: Ida Lupino NOTE: Included on CBS
Video's "More Teasures of The Twilight Zone" DVD. ? Directed by Ida
Lupino, the only woman to direct a Twilight Zone episode. 146. I am the Night -
Color Me Black gs: Michael
Constantine (Sheriff Charlie Koch) Paul Fix (Colbey) George Lindsey (Deputy
Pierce) Terry Becker (Jagger) Ivan Dixon (Rev. Anderson) Eve McVeagh (Ella
Koch) Douglas Bank (Man #1) Ward Wood (Man #2) Elizabeth Harrower (Woman) Jagger is to be hanged
for killing a psychopath. During the trial several people lied on the stand
and evidence was covered up. Jagger is hanged and the darkness closes in. The
darkness was hate. b: 27-Mar-1964 w: Rod
Serling d: Abner Biberman NOTE: Included on
Volume 29 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 147. Sounds and
Silences gs: John McGiver
(Roswell G. Flemington) Penny Singleton (Mrs. Flemington) William Benedict
(Conklin) Roswell is a very loud
person. He listens to records of naval battles. One night everything begins
to sound very loud to him. After visiting a psychiatrist, he uses his willpower
to reduce a noise to a squeak, then realizes that everything sounds like
that. b: 03-Apr-1964 w: Rod
Serling d: Richard Donner 148. Caesar and Me gs: Jackie Cooper
(Jonathan West) Morgan Brittany (Susan) Sarah Selby (Mrs. Cudahy) Jonathan West, on the
advice of his dummy, commits several burglaries. West's landlady's niece,
Susan, overhears him talking about the burglaries and calls the police.
Caesar tells Susan they should team up, but first she must get rid of her
aunt. b: 10-Apr-1964 w: Adele
T. Strassfield d: Robert Butler 149. The Jeopardy Room gs: Martin Landau
(Major Ivan Kuchenko) John van Dreelen (Commisar Vassiloff) Robert Kelljan
(Boris) Major Kuchenko is a
defector who is drugged by the bored, sadistic Commissar Vassiloff sent to
bring him back. Vassiloff leaves Kuchenko in his room with a hidden bomb.
Kuchenko has three hours to find and disarm it. The bomb is in the phone and
if he picks up the receiver to answer it, it will detonate. The phone rings
and he starts to pick it up, then runs from the room. Later, his assassins
are in the room, wondering how he guessed to location of the bomb, when the
phone rings. Vassiloff's henchman picks it up without thinking, and both men
are blown to bits. The caller was Major Kachenko calling from the airport. b: 17-Apr-1964 w: Rod
Serling d: Richard Donner NOTE: This episode
lacks any supernatural, fantastical, or science fiction elements. ? Included on volume
31 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 150. Stopover in a gs: Barry Nelson (Bob
Frazier) Nancy Malone (Millie Frazier) Karen Norris (Mother) Denise Lynn
(Little Girl) Bob and Millie wake up
to find they are in a strange town. Everything appears to be props - trees,
animals even cars. They try to catch a train and are picked up by a giant
hand. They have been abducted by a giant alien, and are now the toys of his
daughter. b: 24-Apr-1964 w: Earl
Hamner Jr. d: Ron Winston NOTE: Included on
volume 31 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. 151. The Encounter gs: Neville Brand
(Fenton) George Takei (Taro) Fenton, a WW II
veteran and Taro a Japanese-American are trapped in Fenton's attic. Taro
notices a samurai sword that Fenton says he took off a dead soldier. Taro
claims his father was a hero at Pearl Harbor. Actually, Taro's father was a
traitor who signalled the enemy where to bomb. Taro realizes that Fenton
killed a surrendering soldier and stole the sword off of him. Fenton admits
his guilt and tells Taro he wants him to kill him. They wrestle and Fenton falls
on the sword, Taro yells "Banzai" and jumps out the attic window. b: 01-May-1964 w:
Martin M. Goldsmith d: Robert Butler NOTE: This episode is
included on Image-Entertainment's Treasures of The Twilight Zone DVD. ? This is one of the
original episodes that was not shown in syndication, apparently due to
protests from viewers after its initial broadcast. 152. Mr. Garrity and
the gs: John Dehner (Jared
Garrity) J. Pat O'Malley (Gooberman) John Mitchum (Ace) Mr. Garrity promises
the townspeople that at midnight, all the inhabitants of the town cemetery
will get up and return to life. As the time grows nearer, people start to
have second thoughts and convince Mr. Garrity, for a price, to cancel his
services. As he leaves town he fails to notice the cemetery and all its
inghabitants rising and returning to town. b: 08-May-1964 w: Rod
Serling s: Mike Korologos d: Ted Post 153. The Brain Center
at Whipple's gs: Richard Deacon
(Wallace V. Whipple) Paul Newlan (Hanley) Ted de Corsia (Dickerson) By automating his
plant, Wallace puts thousands out of work. After a former employee,
Dickerson, tries to destroy the computers, Whipple has him arrested. Later
Whipple is fired and replaced by a robot. b: 15-May-1964 w: Rod
Serling d: Richard Donner NOTE: Uses Robby the
Robot, the classic robot from the movie "Forbidden Planet". 154. Come Wander with
Me gs: Gary Crosby (Floyd
Burney) Bonnie Beecher (Mary Racheal) John Bolt (Billy Rayford) While searching for a
folk song, Floyd hears a girl humming a tune outside a store. He finds Mary
Rachel who's engaged to Billy Rayford. Suddenly, Billy appears and threatens
Floyd. Floyd hits him with his guitar and kills him. The tape recording of
Mary Rachael starts to play, and now there's a lyric about Floyd killing
Billy. Mary Rachael tells him not to run because Billy will catch him again,
like he always does. Confused, Floyd goes back to the store, and kills the
old man after he refuses to help him. But by then, Billy is back at the
store. b: 22-May-1964 w: Anthony
Wilson d: Richard Donner 155. The Fear gs: Peter Mark Richman
(Trooper Robert Franklin) Hazel Court (Charlotte Scott) Trooper Franklin
investigates lights in the sky reported by Charlotte Scott. While there his
car is flipped over. Later he finds his car has been righted and there are
huge fingerprints on the side. Next morning they see a huge, one-eyed space
man. Franklin shoots it and it collapses - it was just a baloon. They find
the real aliens, tiny creatures that flee at the sight of the huge humans. b: 29-May-1964 w: Rod
Serling d: Ted Post 156. The Bewitchin'
Pool gs: Mary Badham
(Sport) Tim Stafford (Jeb) Georgia Simmons (Aunt T) Jeb and Sport follow a
boy into their swimming pool. They emerge in a paradise of happy children,
presided over by Aunt T, a loving old lady. She explains this is a haven for
children who's parents don't love them. Sport objects, saying their parents
love them. Believing there arrival was a mistake, she sends them back home.
When they arrive, their parents tell them they are getting a divorce, and
they must choose which parent to live with. Rather than choose, they dive
back into the pool and return to Aunt T forever. b: 19-Jun-1964 w: Earl
Hamner Jr. d: Joseph M. Newman NOTE: Mary Badham, best
known as 'Scout' from the film "To Kill a Mockingbird", makes one
of her few other acting appearances. Feature Movie Twilight Zone: The
Movie gs: Dan Aykroyd
(Passenger/Ambulance Driver (Prologue & Segment 4)) Albert Brooks (Car
Driver (Prologue)) Vic Morrow (Bill Conner (Segment 1)) Doug McGrath (Larry
(Segment 1)) Charles Hallahan (Ray (Segment 1)) Remus Peets (German Officer
(Segment 1)) Kai Wulff (German Officer (Segment 1)) Sue Dugan (Waitress #1
(Segment 1)) Debby Porter (Waitress #2 (Segment 1)) Joseph Hieu (Vietnamese
(Segment 1)) Al Leong (Vietnamese (Segment 1)) Stephen Bishop (G.I. (Segment
1)) Thomas Byrd (G.I. (Segment 1)) Vincent J. Isaac (G.I. (Segment 1))
William B. Taylor (G.I. (Segment 1)) Domingo Ambriz (G.I. (Segment 1))
Norbert Weisser (Soldier (Segment 1)) Scatman Crothers (Mr. Bloom (Segment
2)) Bill Quinn (Mr. Conroy (Segment 2)) Martin Garner (Mr. Weinstein (Segment
2)) Selma Diamond (Mrs. Weinstein (Segment 2)) Helen Shaw (Mrs. Dempsey
(Segment 2)) Murray Matheson (Mr. Agee (Segment 2)) Peter Brocco (Mr. Mute
(Segment 2)) Priscilla Pointer (Miss Cox (Segment 2)) Scott Nemes (Young Mr.
Weinstein (Segment 2)) Tanya Fenmore (Young Mrs. Weinstein (Segment 2)) Evan
Richards (Young Mr. Agee (Segment 2)) Laura Mooney (Young Mrs. Dempsey
(Segment 2)) Christopher Eisenmann (Young Mr. Mute (Segment 2)) Richard
Swingler (Mr. Gray Panther (Segment 2)) Alan Haufrect (Mr. Conroy's Son
(Segment 2)) Cheryl Socher (Mr. Conroy's Daughter-in-Law (Segment 2)) Elsa
Raven (Nurse (Segment 2)) Kathleen Quinlan (Helen Foley (Segment 3)) Jeremy
Licht (Anthony (Segment 3)) Kevin McCarthy (Uncle Walt (Segment 3)) Patricia
Barry (Mother (Segment 3)) William Schallert (Father (Segment 3)) Nancy
Cartwright (Ethel (Segment 3)) Dick Miller (Walter Paisley (Segment 3))
Cherie Currie (Sara (Segment 3)) Bill Mumy (Tim (Segment 3)) Jeffrey
Bannister (Charlie (Segment 3)) John Lithgow (John Valentine (Segment 4))
Abbe Lane (Sr. Stewardess (Segment 4)) Donna Dixon (Jr. Stewardess (Segment
4)) John Dennis Johnston (Co-Pilot (Segment 4)) Larry Cedar (Creature
(Segment 4)) Charles Knapp (Sky Marshal (Segment 4)) Christina Nigra (Little
Girl (Segment 4)) Byron McFarland (Pilot Announcement (Segment 4)) Lana
Schwab (Mother (Segment 4)) Margaret Wheeler (Old Woman (Segment 4)) Eduard
Franz (Old Man (Segment 4)) Margaret Fitzgerald (Young Girl (Segment 4))
Jeffrey Weissman (Young Boy (Segment 4)) Jeffrey Lampert (Mechanic #1
(Segment 4)) Frank Toth (Mechanic #2 (Segment 4)) Carol Serling (Passenger
(Segment 4) Burgess Meredith (Narrator) Four segments in the
spirit of the original TV series 'The Twilight Zone': a Redneck who lost his
promotion to a Jewish colleague makes some racist remarks, only to find
himself in the shoes of those he condemned; old people at a geriatric institute
re-live their childhood games, and more...; a young teacher on the road
befriends a boy whose home is every child's dream... or nightmare? And a
nerve-wracked passenger aboard a plane in a storm thinks he knows the cause
of the plane's engine problems. b: 01-Jun-1983 w: John
Landis , George Clayton Johnson, Richard Matheson, Melissa Mathison and
Jerome Bixby d: Joe Dante , John Landis, Steven Spielberg and George Miller NOTE: Carol Serling is
the real-life wife of the late Rod Serling. ? Helen Foley was the
name of Serling's favorite teacher as a child and was also used in a Twilight
Zone episode called "Nightmare as a Child". ? Shortly before the
film's release Donna Dixon and Dan Aykroyd married. ? Bill Mumy played the
young boy who "wished people out into the cornfield" in the TZ
episode "It's a Good Life," and has a brief cameo as a diner patron
in the third segment, based on that episode. In the third segment, when
Kathleen Quinlan asks for directions and Dick Miller answers her, they refer
to various towns that were referred to in the original series, such as
Willougby and Shelbeyville. ? One of the German
soldiers in the first segment says (in German) "See you next
Wednesday." John Landis was the director of that segment, and this
phrase appears in almost every movie he directs. ? The first segment
was to feature the sequence with Vic Morrow and two juvenile Asian actors
with a helicopter. The helicopter crashed and all three were killed. An
involuntary manslaughter was brought against John Landis (the director) and
four other crew involved, and they were found not guilty of the charges in
1993. ? In the first segment
directed by John Landis, during the Vietnam sequence, soldiers slogging
through the swamp talk about fragging Sgt. Neidermeyer. This is a reference
to National Lampoon's Animal House, which Landis also directed, and the fact
that at the end the movie's character, Sgt. Neidermeyer, is said to be killed
by his own troops in Vietnam. TV Movie Twilight Zone: Rod
Serling's Lost Classics gs: James Earl Jones
(Host) Amy Irving (James' Fiancee ("The Theater")) Gary Cole (James
("The Theater")) Patrick Bergin (Dr. Benjamin Ramsey ("Where
the Dead Are")) Julia Campbell (Maureen ("Where the Dead
Are")) Jack Palance (Dr. Jeremy Wheaton ("Where the Dead
Are")) Joanne Pankow (Ticket Lady ("The Theater")
[uncredited]) This television movie
featured two stories by Rod Serling and Richard Matheson. "The
Theater" A young girl goes to
the cinema to see "His Girl Friday" starring Cary Grant. Suddenly
she sees scenes from her own life instead of the comedy. The scenes actually
took place earlier that day. She is very confused because the other people
didn't see those scenes. As she goes to see the movie again, scene from here
future appear on the screen. And that future is very frightening... "Where the Dead
Are" Dr. Benjamin Ramsey is
professor at the university in Boston in 1868. In front of his students he
performs an appendix operation. As the patient dies after the operation, Dr.
Ramsey discovers that he suffered from a serious scull fracture twelve years
ago. Since no one could have survived such an injury, he travels to the
mysterious island where the patient came from. There he visits Dr. Jeremy
Wheaton who earlier had experimented with tissue regeneration... b: 19-May-1994 w: Rod
Serling , Richard Matheson d: Robert Markowitz ________________________________________________________________________ A Science Fiction and Fantasy Page, thebucklist.com copyright 2007 by Captain Bill |
