The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
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.
The Twilight Zone | |
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Season 3 | |
No. of episodes | 37 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | September 15, 1961 June 1, 1962 | –
Season chronology | |
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 "Little Girl Lost".
Episodes
editNo. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Music by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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66 | 1 | "Two" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | Van Cleave | September 15, 1961 | 4802 |
Two soldiers, a man (Charles Bronson) and a woman (Elizabeth Montgomery), are the only inhabitants of a deserted city, and both are soldiers from opposing sides. | |||||||
67 | 2 | "The Arrival" | Boris Sagal | Rod Serling | N/A | September 22, 1961 | 4814 |
An FAA 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 | N/A | 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 | Fred Steiner | October 6, 1961 | 4817 |
At the end of the American Civil War, wounded soldiers pass by the house of a woman (Joanne Linville). | |||||||
70 | 5 | "A Game of Pool" | Buzz Kulik | George Clayton Johnson | N/A | 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 | N/A | October 20, 1961 | 4819 |
72 | 7 | "The Grave" | Montgomery Pittman | Montgomery Pittman | N/A | 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 | Based on a short story by : Jerome Bixby Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | 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 | N/A | 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 | Van Cleave | 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 | Based on a short story by : Manly Wade Wellman Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Wilbur Hatch | November 24, 1961 | 4808 |
During the American Civil War, a Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place. | |||||||
77 | 12 | "The Jungle" | William F. Claxton | Charles Beaumont | N/A | December 1, 1961 | 4806 |
78 | 13 | "Once Upon a Time" | Norman Z. McLeod | Richard Matheson | William Lava Ray Turner | December 15, 1961 | 4820 |
A janitor (Buster Keaton) travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet built by a scientist (Milton Parsons). | |||||||
79 | 14 | "Five Characters in Search of an Exit" | Lamont Johnson | Based on a short story by : Marvin Petal Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | December 22, 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 | Based on an idea by : Sam Rolfe Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | December 29, 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 | N/A | January 5, 1962 | 3652 |
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 | N/A | 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 | N/A | 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, Jr. | Robert Drasnin | 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 | Based on an idea by : Frederic Louis Fox Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | 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 | N/A | 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, Jr. | N/A | 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 | Tommy Morgan | 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 | Based on a short story by : Damon Knight Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | 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.[2] | |||||||
90 | 25 | "The Fugitive" | Richard L. Bare | Charles Beaumont | N/A | 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 | Bernard Herrmann | 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 | N/A | 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 F. Claxton | Rod Serling | N/A | 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 | Based on a short story by : Price Day Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | 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 | Based on a story by : Frederic Louis Fox Teleplay by : Rod Serling | Tommy Morgan | 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 | N/A | 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 | Laurindo Almeida | 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 | Based on a story by : Lee Polk Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | 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 | Nathan Scott | May 11, 1962 | 4813 |
A newlywed husband (Alex Nicol) refuses to give up his childhood home. | |||||||
100 | 35 | "I Sing the Body Electric" | William F. Claxton and James Sheldon | Ray Bradbury | Van Cleave | 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 | N/A | May 25, 1962 | 4827 |
102 | 37 | "The Changing of the Guard" | Robert Ellis Miller | Rod Serling | N/A | June 1, 1962 | 4835 |
A professor (Donald Pleasence) left despondent after being forced into retirement is visited by the ghosts of his former students. |
References
edit- ^ TV.com episode list
- ^ a b "Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time". TV Guide (June 28-July 4). 1997.