The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 3)
The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series season 3) | |
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Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 37 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | September 15, 1961 – June 1, 1962 |
Season chronology | |
The third season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm (EST) on CBS from September 15, 1961 to June 1, 1962. There are 37 episodes.
Continuing with Marius Constant's theme music, a different set of graphics was used for the opening, consisting of a rotating cone with concentric circles suggesting a spiral, receding into a star field. Rod Serling's narration from the second season was used, with the verse "That's the signpost up ahead" taken out:
"You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop—The Twilight Zone."[1] Some subtle changes in the opening's acoustics were made beginning with "Person or Persons Unknown".
Episodes
No. in series |
No. in season |
Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | Production code |
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66 | 1 | "Two" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | September 15, 1961 | 4802 |
Two soldiers, a man (Charles Bronson) and a woman (Elizabeth Montgomery), are the only survivors of a war – and they are from opposing sides. | ||||||
67 | 2 | "The Arrival" | Boris Sagal | Rod Serling | September 22, 1961 | 4814 |
An FFA inspector (Harold J. Stone) and members of the airport staff (Noah Keen, Fredd Wayne, Robert Karnes, and Bing Russell) investigate a plane that arrives without a single person onboard – and each sees it differently. | ||||||
68 | 3 | "The Shelter" | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | September 29, 1961 | 4803 |
An alert is issued for an imminent nuclear attack, prompting neighbors to unite against the physician (Larry Gates) whose bomb shelter has room enough only for his family. | ||||||
69 | 4 | "The Passersby" | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | October 6, 1961 | 4817 |
At the end of the Civil War, wounded soldiers pass by the house of a woman (Joanne Linville). | ||||||
70 | 5 | "A Game of Pool" | Buzz Kulik | George Clayton Johnson | October 13, 1961 | 4815 |
A legendary pool player (Jonathan Winters) returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark (Jack Klugman) with the shark's life at stake. | ||||||
71 | 6 | "The Mirror" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | October 20, 1961 | 4819 |
In Central America, a mirror allows a dictator (Peter Falk) to see the faces of his enemies. | ||||||
72 | 7 | "The Grave" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | October 27, 1961 | 3656 |
A hired killer (Lee Marvin) is challenged to visit the grave of the outlaw (Dick Geary) who died swearing vengeance against him. | ||||||
73 | 8 | "It's a Good Life" | James Sheldon | Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Jerome Bixby | November 3, 1961 | 4801 |
A six-year-old boy (Bill Mumy) terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #31 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[2] Note: A remake, directed by Joe Dante, was Segment III of Twilight Zone: The Movie. A sequel, "It's Still A Good Life" also starring Mumy, was broadcast on February 19, 2003 as part of the 2002 revival series. | ||||||
74 | 9 | "Deaths-Head Revisited" | Don Medford | Rod Serling | November 10, 1961 | 4804 |
A former SS Captain (Oscar Beregi, Jr.) visits the now-deserted concentration camp he commanded where he is tried for his crimes by the ghosts of his prisoners. | ||||||
75 | 10 | "The Midnight Sun" | Anton Leader | Rod Serling | November 17, 1961 | 4818 |
A landlady (Betty Garde) and her tenant (Lois Nettleton) struggle to survive when the Earth changes its orbit and begins moving toward the sun. | ||||||
76 | 11 | "Still Valley" | James Sheldon | Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Manly Wade Wellman | November 24, 1961 | 4808 |
During the Civil War, a Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place. | ||||||
77 | 12 | "The Jungle" | William Claxton | Charles Beaumont | December 1, 1961 | 4806 |
An engineer (John Dehner) building a dam in Africa is cursed by natives who object to his plans. | ||||||
78 | 13 | "Once Upon a Time" | Norman Z. McLeod | Richard Matheson | December 8, 1961 | 4820 |
A janitor (Buster Keaton) travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet. | ||||||
79 | 14 | "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" | Lamont Johnson | Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Marvin Petal | December 15, 1961 | 4805 |
An Army major (William Windom), a clown (Murray Matheson), a hobo (Paul Wexler), a ballerina (Susan Harrison) and a bagpiper (Clark Allen) find themselves in a cylinder with no memory of how they got there. | ||||||
80 | 15 | "A Quality of Mercy" | Buzz Kulik | Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on an Idea by: Sam Rolfe | December 22, 1961 | 4809 |
During World War II, a U.S. lieutenant (Dean Stockwell) gets a unique opportunity to see the conflict from the Japanese point of view. | ||||||
81 | 16 | "Nothing in the Dark" | Lamont Johnson | George Clayton Johnson | January 5, 1962 | 3662 |
An elderly recluse (Gladys Cooper) facing imminent eviction refuses to allow anyone into her apartment, fearing that any visitor might be Death incarnate; her resolve is tested when a young police officer (Robert Redford) is seriously wounded outside her door. | ||||||
82 | 17 | "One More Pallbearer" | Lamont Johnson | Rod Serling | January 12, 1962 | 4823 |
Staging a fake nuclear war, a millionaire (Joseph Wiseman) offers shelter to three people (Katherine Squire, Trevor Bardette, Gage Clark) he believes wronged him in the past if they will only beg his forgiveness. | ||||||
83 | 18 | "Dead Man's Shoes" | Montgomery Pittman | Charles Beaumont | January 19, 1962 | 4824 |
A homeless man (Warren Stevens) literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse. | ||||||
84 | 19 | "The Hunt" | Harold Schuster | Earl Hamner | January 26, 1962 | 4810 |
A mountain man (Arthur Hunnicutt) goes hunting for raccoons with his dog. When he returns, he comes to realize that something is much changed. | ||||||
85 | 20 | "Showdown with Rance McGrew" | Christian Nyby | Rod Serling Based on an Idea by: Frederic L. Fox | February 2, 1962 | 4812 |
The egotistic star (Larry Blyden) of a western TV series comes face to face with the real Jesse James (Arch Johnson). | ||||||
86 | 21 | "Kick the Can" | Lamont Johnson | George Clayton Johnson | February 9, 1962 | 4821 |
The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game. Note: Steven Spielberg remade this as Segment II of Twilight Zone: The Movie, showing the nursing-home residents being offered a second chance at youth by their new arrival, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers). | ||||||
87 | 22 | "A Piano in the House" | David Greene | Earl Hamner | February 16, 1962 | 4825 |
A cynical theater critic (Barry Morse) takes advantage of a player piano that reveals people's hidden selves. | ||||||
88 | 23 | "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | February 23, 1962 | 4811 |
When a "dead" man (James Best) sits up in the coffin at his funeral during the mid-1920s, the townsfolk become suspicious whether it's really him, especially when he doesn't behave the way he used to. | ||||||
89 | 24 | "To Serve Man" | Richard L. Bare | Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Damon Knight | March 2, 1962 | 4807 |
Representatives of a 9 ft. tall alien race (Richard Kiel) come to Earth and offer mankind cures for all earthly ills. In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #11 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.[3] | ||||||
90 | 25 | "The Fugitive" | Richard L. Bare | Charles Beaumont | March 9, 1962 | 4816 |
A fugitive (J. Pat O'Malley) from another world befriends a handicapped girl (Susan Gordon). | ||||||
91 | 26 | "Little Girl Lost" | Paul Stewart | Richard Matheson | March 16, 1962 | 4828 |
When a little girl (Tracy Stratford) disappears from her bedroom without a trace, her parents (Robert Sampson, Sarah Marshall) call their physicist friend (Charles Aidman) to help investigate her disappearance. | ||||||
92 | 27 | "Person or Persons Unknown" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | March 23, 1962 | 4829 |
A man (Richard Long) discovers that all traces of his identity have been erased when no one, including his own wife, recognizes him. | ||||||
93 | 28 | "The Little People" | William Claxton | Rod Serling | March 30, 1962 | 4822 |
When two astronauts (Claude Akins, Joe Maross) land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people. | ||||||
94 | 29 | "Four O'Clock" | Lamont Johnson | Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Short Story by: Price Day | April 6, 1962 | 4832 |
A fanatical one-man moral crusader (Theodore Bikel) decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock. | ||||||
95 | 30 | "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby" | Lamont Johnson | Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Frederic Louis Fox | April 13, 1962 | 4833 |
A teller of tall tales (Andy Devine) attracts unwanted attention from aliens. | ||||||
96 | 31 | "The Trade-Ins" | Elliot Silverstein | Rod Serling | April 20, 1962 | 4831 |
An elderly couple (Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt) want new young bodies for the two of them, but can pay for only one. | ||||||
97 | 32 | "The Gift" | Allen H. Miner | Rod Serling | April 27, 1962 | 4830 |
A visitor from outer space (Geoffrey Horne) tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion. | ||||||
98 | 33 | "The Dummy" | Abner Biberman | Teleplay by: Rod Serling Based on a Story by: Lee Polk | May 4, 1962 | 4834 |
A ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act. | ||||||
99 | 34 | "Young Man's Fancy" | John Brahm | Richard Matheson | May 11, 1962 | 4813 |
A newlywed husband (Alex Nicol) refuses to give up his childhood home. | ||||||
100 | 35 | "I Sing the Body Electric" | William Claxton and James Sheldon | Ray Bradbury | May 18, 1962 | 4826 |
A widower (David White) buys a robot grandmother (Josephine Hutchinson) to care for his children. | ||||||
101 | 36 | "Cavender Is Coming" | Christian Nyby | Rod Serling | May 25, 1962 | 4827 |
A clumsy theater worker (Carol Burnett) meets her equally bumbling guardian angel (Jesse White). | ||||||
102 | 37 | "The Changing of the Guard" | Robert Ellis Miller | Rod Serling | June 1, 1962 | 4835 |
A professor (Donald Pleasence) who is forced into retirement contemplates suicide, but changes his mind when the ghosts of his former students that were killed in the war persuade him of his worth. |