| Season 1 30 min. |
| 1. Where is Everybody? |
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Mike Ferris finds himself in a town strangely devoid of people. But despite the emptiness, he has the odd feeling that he's being watched... |
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b: 02-Oct-1959 pc: 173-3601 w:Rod Serling d:Robert Stevens |
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NOTE: According to Producer William Self, this episode's budget was "around $75,000...in those days very high for a half-hour pilot." |
| 2. One for the Angels |
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A street salesman cleverly eludes Death. But if he lives, a little girl must die in his place. |
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b: 09-Oct-1959 pc: 173-3608 w:Rod Serling d:Robert Parrish |
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NOTE: Included on volume 14 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 3. Mr. Denton on Doomsday |
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A has-been, drunk gunslinger finds his fast-draw abilities magically restored. |
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b: 16-Oct-1959 pc: 173-3609 w:Rod Serling d:Allen Reisner |
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NOTE: Included on volume 12 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 4. The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine |
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An aging, former movie star lives and dreams in the past, constantly watching her old movies alone in her room. |
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b: 23-Oct-1959 pc: 173-3610 w:Rod Serling d:Mitchell Leisen |
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NOTE: Included on volume 12 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 5. Walking Distance |
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Martin Sloan, driving through the country, leaves his car and starts to walk toward his hometown, Homewood. He finds things exactly as they were when he was a child. He soon realizes he's gone back in time. |
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b: 30-Oct-1959 pc: 173-3605 w:Rod Serling d:Robert Stevens |
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NOTE: Included on volume 3 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 6. Escape Clause |
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A hypochondriac exchanges his soul for immortality and indestructibility. |
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b: 06-Nov-1959 pc: 173-3603 w:Rod Serling d:Mitchell Leisen |
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NOTE: Included on volume 15 on Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 7. The Lonely |
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Corry, a man stranded on an asteroid after being convicted of a crime, receives a present of a robot who looks and sounds like a real woman. |
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b: 13-Nov-1959 pc: 173-3602 w:Rod Serling d:Jack Smight |
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NOTE: Included on volume 5 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 8. Time Enough at Last |
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A bank teller, obsessed with reading, finds himself alone after a nuclear blast. |
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b: 20-Nov-1959 pc: 173-3614 w:Rod Serling s:Lynn Venable d:John Brahm |
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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). |
| 9. Perchance to Dream |
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A man is terrified of falling asleep for fear he might die. |
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b: 27-Nov-1959 pc: 173-3616 w:Charles Beaumont d:Robert Florey |
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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. Judgment Night |
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In 1942, a German wonders why he's on the deck of a British steamship, with no memory of how he got there, and an overwhelming sense of impending doom. |
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b: 04-Dec-1959 pc: 173-3604 w:Rod Serling d:John Brahm |
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NOTE: Included on volume 13 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 11. And When the Sky Was Opened |
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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. |
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b: 11-Dec-1959 w:Rod Serling s:Richard Matheson d:Douglas Heyes |
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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). |
| 12. What You Need |
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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. |
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b: 25-Dec-1959 pc: 173-3622 w:Rod Serling s:Henry Kuttner &>C.L. Moore d:Alvin Ganzer |
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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). |
| 13. The Four of Us are Dying |
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A man who can change his face to resemble others gets into hot water with gangsters. |
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b: 01-Jan-1960 pc: 173-3618 w:Rod Serling s:George Clayton Johnson d:John Brahm |
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NOTE: Included on volume 4 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 14. Third From the Sun |
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With all-out nuclear war about to ignite, a scientist and his pilot friend plot to escape on an experimental spaceship. |
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b: 08-Jan-1960 pc: 173-3615 w:Rod Serling s:Richard Matheson d:Richard L. Bare |
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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). |
| 15. I Shot an Arrow into the Air |
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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. |
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b: 15-Jan-1960 w:Rod Serling s:Madelon Champion d:Stuart Rosenberg |
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NOTE: Included on volume 18 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 16. The Hitch-Hiker |
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Alone on a cross-country trip, a woman continually sees the same hitch-hiker everywhere she looks. |
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b: 22-Jan-1960 pc: 173-3612 w:Rod Serling s:Lucille Fletcher d:Alvin Ganzer |
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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. |
| 17. The Fever |
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Tight fisted Franklin Gibbs is not pleased when his wife wins a trip for two to Las Vegas. But things change when he falls under the spell of a slot machine that calls his name. |
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b: 29-Jan-1960 pc: 173-3627 w:Rod Serling d:Robert Florey |
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NOTE: Included on volume 11 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 18. The Last Flight |
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A World War I flying ace flies through a mysterious cloud - and lands at a modern U.S. air base in the year 1960! |
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b: 05-Feb-1960 pc: 173-3607 w:Richard Matheson d:William Claxton |
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NOTE: Included on volume 10 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 19. The Purple Testament |
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Lt. Fitzgerald has found his own special wartime hell. Looking into the faces of his men prior to battle, he has the disquieting ability to see who is about to die. |
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b: 12-Feb-1960 pc: 173-3619 w:Rod Serling d:Richard L. Bare |
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NOTE: Included on volume 13 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 20. Elegy |
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Three astronauts land on what looks like Earth 200 years before they left--only all of the people seem frozen in time. |
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b: 19-Feb-1960 pc: 173-3625 w:Charles Beaumont d:Douglas Heyes |
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NOTE: This episode is based on the short story "Elegy" by Charles Beaumont. The story was first published in Imagination (February, 1953). |
| 21. Mirror Image |
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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. |
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b: 26-Feb-1960 pc: 173-3623 w:Rod Serling d:John Brahm |
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NOTE: Included on volume 21 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 22. The Monsters are Due on Maple Street |
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Paranoia strikes the residents of Maple Street when they believe human-looking aliens have invaded the neighborhood. |
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b: 04-Mar-1960 pc: 173-3620 w:Rod Serling d:Ron Winston |
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NOTE: Included on volume 2 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 23. A World of Difference |
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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. |
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b: 11-Mar-1960 pc: 173-3624 w:Richard Matheson d:Ted Post |
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NOTE: Included on volume 22 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 24. Long Live Walter Jameson |
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Walter Jameson is an excellent history teacher who talks about the past as if he had lived it. |
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b: 18-Mar-1960 pc: 173-3621 w:Charles Beaumont d:Anton Leader |
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NOTE: Included on volume 23 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 25. People Are Alike All Over |
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When a space exploration crashes on Mars, the surviving passenger is surprised to find that Martians are human-looking, very friendly and apparently just like us... |
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b: 25-Mar-1960 pc: 173-3613 w:Rod Serling s:Paul Fairman d:Mitchell Leisen |
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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), and was also included in August Derleth's anthology Worlds of Tomorrow (Berkley, 1953). |
| 26. Execution |
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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. |
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b: 01-Apr-1960 w:Rod Serling s:George Clayton Johnson d:David Orrick McDearmon |
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NOTE: Included on volume 25 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 27. The Big Tall Wish |
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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. |
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b: 08-Apr-1960 pc: 173-3628 w:Rod Serling d:Ron Winston |
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NOTE: Included on volume 26 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 28. A Nice Place to Visit |
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After being shot to death, Rocky Valentine encounters the amiable white-haired Mr. Pip, who gives Rocky everything he wishes for. |
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b: 15-Apr-1960 pc: 173-3632 w:Charles Beaumont d:John Brahm |
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NOTE: Included on volume 29 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 29. Nightmare as a Child |
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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. |
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b: 29-Apr-1960 pc: 173-3630 w:Rod Serling d:Alvin Ganzer |
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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 |
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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." |
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b: 06-May-1960 pc: 173-3631 w:Rod Serling d:Robert Parrish |
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NOTE: This episode was used as the basis for the 2000 TV movie For All Time. |
| 31. The Chaser |
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A man, desperate to win the affection of a beautiful woman, slips her a love potion. He is overjoyed that the potion works so well...at first. |
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b: 13-May-1960 pc: 173-3636 w:Robert Presnell Jr. s:John Collier d:Douglas Heyes |
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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 |
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A trumpet player who's convinced he'll never amount to anything attempts suicide and finds himself in a world where no one can hear or see him. |
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b: 20-May-1960 pc: 173-3633 w:Rod Serling d:Don Medford |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 03-Jun-1960 pc: 173-3634 w:Rod Serling d:William Asher |
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NOTE: Included on volume 39 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 34. The After Hours |
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A woman discovers that the floor of a department store, on which she bought a gold thimble, doesn't exist - and that her "saleslady" is really a mannequin! |
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b: 10-Jun-1960 pc: 173-3637 w:Rod Serling d:Douglas Heyes |
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NOTE: Included on volume 11 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 35. The Mighty Casey |
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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 |
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b: 17-Jun-1960 w:Rod Serling d:Robert Parrish &>Alvin Ganzer |
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NOTE: Included on volume 41 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 36. A World of His Own |
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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. |
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b: 01-Jul-1960 w:Richard Matheson d:Ralph Nelson |
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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. |
| Season 2 |
| 37. King Nine Will Not Return |
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A WWII captain finds himself in the desert, next to his crashed plane. Where is his crew? And why are futuristic jet planes flying overhead? |
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b: 30-Sep-1960 pc: 173-3639 w:Rod Serling d:Buzz Kulik |
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NOTE: Included on volume 7 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 38. The Man in the Bottle |
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A discontented curio shop owner thinks he's finally found happiness when a genie he discovers in an old bottle grants him four wishes. |
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b: 07-Oct-1960 pc: 173-3638 w:Rod Serling d:Don Medford |
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NOTE: Included on volume 14 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 39. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room |
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Ordered to commit a murder he doesn't want to perform, a smalltime hood nervously looks in the mirror and sees the man he could have been--confident, strong...and determined to get out. |
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b: 14-Oct-1960 pc: 173-3641 w:Rod Serling d:Douglas Heyes |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 28-Oct-1960 w:Rod Serling d:David Orrick McDearmon |
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NOTE: Included on volume 43 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 41. The Howling Man |
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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. |
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b: 04-Nov-1960 pc: 173-3642 w:Charles Beaumont d:Douglas Heyes |
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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). |
| 42. The Eye of the Beholder |
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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." |
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b: 11-Nov-1960 pc: 173-3640 w:Rod Serling d:Douglas Heyes |
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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. |
| 43. Nick of Time |
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A superstitious newlywed becomes obsessed by a penny fortune-telling machine when he and his new wife are stranded with car trouble. |
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b: 18-Nov-1960 pc: 173-3643 w:Richard Matheson d:Richard L. Bare |
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NOTE: Included on volume 9 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 44. The Lateness of the Hour |
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Dr. Loren enjoys the faultless robot servants he has invented. His daughter, however, feels imprisoned by them--and soon learns how right she is. |
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b: 02-Dec-1960 pc: n/a w:Rod Serling d:Jack Smight |
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NOTE: This is one of six episodes originally shot on videotape, then transferred to sixteen-millimeter film for broadcast. This was done as a cost-cutting measure |
| 45. The Trouble with Templeton |
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Booth Templeton is an aging actor who longs for the old days when his wife was alive. Miraculously, he is given a sobering glimpse of the past he holds so dear. |
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b: 09-Dec-1960 pc: 173-3649 w:E. Jack Neuman d:Buzz Kulik |
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NOTE: Included on volume 10 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 46. A Most Unusual Camera |
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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. |
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b: 16-Dec-1960 pc: 173-3606 w:Rod Serling d:John Rich |
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NOTE: Included on volume 19 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 47. Night of the Meek |
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A down-on-his-luck department store Santa Claus discovers a bottomless sack of toys. |
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b: 23-Dec-1960 pc: n/a w:Rod Serling d:Jack Smight |
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NOTE: Included on volume 1 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 48. Dust |
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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. |
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b: 06-Jan-1961 pc: 173-3653 w:Rod Serling d:Douglas Heyes |
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NOTE: Included on volume 21 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 49. Back There |
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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. |
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b: 13-Jan-1961 pc: 173-3648 w:Rod Serling d:David Orrick McDearmon |
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NOTE: Included on volume 22 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 50. The Whole Truth |
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A peculiar Model A automobile compels a used car dealer to tell only the truth. |
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b: 20-Jan-1961 pc: n/a w:Rod Serling d:James Sheldon |
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| 51. The Invaders |
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Am old woman in an isolated farmhouse encounters tiny, hostile aliens. |
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b: 27-Jan-1961 pc: 173-3646 w:Richard Matheson d:Douglas Heyes |
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NOTE: This episode is done entirely without dialogue, except for the recorded radio transmission at the end of the episode and Serling's narration. |
| 52. A Penny For Your Thoughts |
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The lucky flip of a coin seems to give a mild-mannered bank clerk the power to read minds. But he soon learns that you can't believe everything you read. |
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b: 03-Feb-1961 pc: 173-3650 w:George Clayton Johnson d:James Sheldon |
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| 53. Twenty-Two |
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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. |
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b: 10-Feb-1961 w:Rod Serling d:Jack Smight |
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NOTE: This episode is based on an anecdote appearing in Bennett Cerf's Famous Ghost Stories (1944). |
| 54. The Odyssey of Flight 33 |
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A commercial aircraft mysteriously travels back through time. |
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b: 24-Feb-1961 pc: 173-3651 w:Rod Serling d:Justin Addiss |
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NOTE: Included on volume 2 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 55. Mr. Dingle, the Strong |
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Martians give Luther Dingle the strength of 300 men. |
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b: 03-Mar-1961 pc: 173-3644 w:Rod Serling d:Buck Houghton |
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NOTE: Included on volume 4 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 56. Static |
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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. |
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b: 10-Mar-1961 w:Charles Beaumont s:OCee Ritch d:Buzz Kulik |
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| 57. The Prime Mover |
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Ace Larsen discovers his business partner has the ability to control objects with his mind. The pair head to Vegas to win big. |
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b: 24-Mar-1961 pc: 173-3647 w:Charles Beaumont d:Richard L. Bare |
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NOTE: Included on volume 9 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 58. Long Distance Call |
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A young boy find he can communicate with his dead grandmother through a toy phone. |
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b: 31-Mar-1961 pc: n/a w:Charles Beaumont &>Bill Idelson d:James Sheldon |
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| 59. A Hundred Yards over the Rim |
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In 1847 a western settler sets out to find medicine for his dying son - and stumbles into modern-day New Mexico. |
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b: 07-Apr-1961 pc: 3654 w:Rod Serling d:Buzz Kulik |
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NOTE: Included on volume 10 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 60. The Rip Van Winkle Caper |
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Thieves put themselves into suspended animation for 100 years after hiding a million dollars worth of gold bars. |
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b: 21-Apr-1961 pc: 3655 w:Rod Serling d:Justus Addiss |
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NOTE: Included on volume 36 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 61. The Silence |
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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!" |
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b: 28-Apr-1961 w:Rod Serling d:Boris Sagal |
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NOTE: This episode lacks any supernatural, fantastical, or science fiction elements. |
| 62. Shadow Play |
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Trapped in a recurring nightmare, a man tries to persuade those who are sentencing him to death that the whole scenario is not real. |
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b: 05-May-1961 pc: 3657 w:Charles Beaumont d:John Brahm |
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NOTE: Included on volume 7 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 63. The Mind and the Matter |
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A book on the power of thought enables an irritable man to re-create the world exactly as he wants it. |
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b: 12-May-1961 pc: 3659 w:Rod Serling d:Buzz Kulik |
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NOTE: Included on volume 9 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 64. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up |
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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. |
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b: 26-May-1961 w:Rod Serling d:Montgomery Pittman |
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NOTE: The bus is labeled "Cayuga Bus Co.," the name of Twilight Zone's production company. |
| 65. The Obsolete Man |
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In a future state where religion and books have been banned, a librarian is judged obsolete and sentenced to death. |
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b: 02-Jun-1961 pc: 3661 w:Rod Serling d:Elliot Silverstein |
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NOTE: Included on volume 13 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| Season 3 |
| 66. Two |
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A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town. |
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b: 15-Sep-1961 pc: 4802 w:Montgomery Pittman d:Montgomery Pittman |
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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 |
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A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing! |
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b: 22-Sep-1961 pc: 4814 w:Rod Serling d:Boris Sagal |
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NOTE: This episode was similar to 'King Nine Will Not Return'. Still enjoyable to watch though. |
| 68. The Shelter |
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When a UFO invasion appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbours fight over control of a single bomb shelter. |
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b: 29-Sep-1961 pc: 4803 w:Rod Serling d:Lamont Johnson |
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NOTE: Included on volume 8 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 69. The Passersby |
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On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow. |
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b: 06-Oct-1961 pc: 4817 w:Rod Serling d:Elliot Silverstein |
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NOTE: Included on volume 6 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 70. A Game of Pool |
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Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game. |
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b: 13-Oct-1961 pc: 4815 w:George Clayton Johnson d:Buzz Kulik |
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NOTE: Included on volume 3 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 71. The Mirror |
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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!" |
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b: 20-Oct-1961 w:Rod Serling d:Don Medford |
| 72. The Grave |
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Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse. |
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b: 27-Oct-1961 pc: 3656 w:Montgomery Pittman d:Montgomery Pittman |
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NOTE: Included on volume 6 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 73. It's a Good Life |
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Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing. |
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b: 03-Nov-1961 pc: 4801 w:Rod Serling s:Jerome Bixby d:James Sheldon |
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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). |
| 74. Deaths-Head Revisited |
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A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims. |
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b: 10-Nov-1961 pc: 4804 w:Rod Serling d:Don Medford |
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NOTE: Included on volume 6 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 75. The Midnight Sun |
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The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction. |
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b: 17-Nov-1961 pc: 4818 w:Rod Serling d:Anton Leader |
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NOTE: Included on volume 15 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 76. Still Valley |
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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. |
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b: 24-Nov-1961 pc: 4808 w:Rod Serling s:Manly Wade Wellman d:James Sheldon |
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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). |
| 77. The Jungle |
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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. |
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b: 01-Dec-1961 pc: 4806 w:Charles Beaumont s:Charles Beaumont d:William Claxton |
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| 78. Once Upon a Time |
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Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down! |
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b: 15-Dec-1961 pc: 4820 w:Richard Matheson d:Norman Z. McLeod &>Les Goodwins |
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NOTE: Included on volume 10 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 79. Five Characters in Search of an Exit |
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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. |
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b: 22-Dec-1961 pc: 4805 w:Rod Serling s:Marvin Petal d:Lamont Johnson |
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NOTE: Mona Houghton is the daughter of producer Buck Houghton, who worked on this episode. |
| 80. A Quality of Mercy |
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A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view. |
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b: 29-Dec-1961 pc: 4809 w:Rod Serling s:Sam Rolfe d:Buzz Kulik |
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NOTE: Included on volume 13 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 81. Nothing in the Dark |
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A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death." |
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b: 05-Jan-1962 pc: 3662 w:George Clayton Johnson d:Lamont Johnson |
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NOTE: Included on volume 1 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 82. One More Pallbearer |
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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. |
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b: 12-Jan-1962 pc: 4823 w:Rod Serling d:Lamont Johnson |
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NOTE: Included on volume 22 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 83. Dead Man's Shoes |
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A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer. |
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b: 19-Jan-1962 pc: 4824 w:Charles Beaumont &>OCee Ritch d:Montgomery Pittman |
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NOTE: Included on volume 23 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 84. The Hunt |
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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. |
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b: 26-Jan-1962 w:Earl Hamner Jr. d:Harold Schuster |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 02-Feb-1962 w:Rod Serling s:Frederick Louis Fox d:Christian Nyby |
| 86. Kick the Can |
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The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called "kick-the-can." |
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b: 09-Feb-1962 pc: 4821 w:George Clayton Johnson d:Lamont Johnson |
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NOTE: This episode was remade as a segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie in 1982. |
| 87. A Piano in the House |
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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. |
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b: 16-Feb-1962 w:Earl Hamner Jr. d:David Greene |
| 88. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank |
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Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely... |
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b: 23-Feb-1962 pc: 4811 w:Montgomery Pittman d:Montgomery Pittman |
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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 |
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The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrives on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man. |
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b: 02-Mar-1962 pc: 4807 w:Rod Serling s:Damon Knight d:Richard L. Bare |
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NOTE: In the movie "The Naked Gun 2-1 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. |
| 90. The Fugitive |
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Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl. |
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b: 09-Mar-1962 pc: 4816 w:Charles Beaumont d:Richard L. Bare |
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NOTE: Included on volume 8 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 91. Little Girl Lost |
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A six-year-old girl roles under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever. |
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b: 16-Mar-1962 pc: 4828 w:Richard Matheson d:Paul Stewart |
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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). |
| 92. Person or Persons Unknown |
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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. |
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b: 23-Mar-1962 pc: 4829 w:Charles Beaumont d:John Brahm |
| 93. The Little People |
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An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants. |
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b: 30-Mar-1962 pc: 4822 w:Rod Serling d:William Claxton |
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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. Four O'Clock |
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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. |
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b: 06-Apr-1962 w:Rod Serling s:Price Day d:Lamont Johnson |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 13-Apr-1962 w:Rod Serling s:Frederick Louis Fox d:Lamont Johnson |
| 96. The Trade-Ins |
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An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies. |
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b: 20-Apr-1962 pc: 4831 w:Rod Serling d:Elliot Silverstein |
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NOTE: Much like the "Aqua Vita" episode from the 1980s era "Twilight Zone" |
| 97. The Gift |
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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..." |
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b: 27-Apr-1962 w:Rod Serling d:Allen H. Miner |
| 98. The Dummy |
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A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support! |
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b: 04-May-1962 pc: 4834 w:Rod Serling s:Lee Polk d:Abner Biberman |
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NOTE: Included on volume 11 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 99. Young Man's Fancy |
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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. |
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b: 11-May-1962 w:Richard Matheson d:John Brahm |
| 100. I Sing the Body Electric |
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A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children. |
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b: 18-May-1962 pc: 4826 w:Ray Bradbury d:James Sheldon &>William Claxton |
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NOTE: Included on volume 5 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 101. Cavender is Coming |
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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. |
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b: 25-May-1962 w:Rod Serling d:Chris Nyby |
| 102. The Changing of the Guard |
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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. |
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b: 01-Jun-1962 w:Rod Serling d:Robert Ellis Miller |
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NOTE: Donald Pleasence later became known as Dr. Sam Loomis the psychiatrist who spends his life trying to hunt down an escaped killer named Michael Myers in the Halloween series of films (1, 2, 4 and 6). |
| Season 4 60 min. |
| 103. In His Image |
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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 fianceé 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 Alan 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. |
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b: 03-Jan-1963 w:Charles Beaumont d:Perry Lafferty |
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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. |
| 104. The Thirty-Fathom Grave |
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A US naval destroyer investigates a mysterious tapping sound coming from a sunken submarine. |
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b: 10-Jan-1963 pc: 4857 w:Rod Serling d:Perry Lafferty |
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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 |
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A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things. |
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b: 17-Jan-1963 pc: 4861 w:Charles Beaumont d:Perry Lafferty |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 24-Jan-1963 w:Rod Serling d:Stuart Rosenberg |
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| 107. Mute |
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A 12-year-old girl who lost her parents in a fire doesn't speak because she has grown up in a secret telepathic community. The couple who take her in, and her teacher, are determined to help her adapt to their society, no matter the cost. |
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b: 31-Jan-1963 pc: 4858 w:Richard Matheson d:Stuart Rosenberg |
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| 108. Death Ship |
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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. |
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b: 07-Feb-1963 pc: 4850 w:Richard Matheson d:Don Medford |
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| 109. Jess-Belle |
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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. |
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b: 14-Feb-1963 pc: 4855 w:Earl Hamner Jr. d:Buzz Kulik |
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| 110. Miniature |
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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! |
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b: 21-Feb-1963 w:Charles Beaumont d:Walter Grauman |
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| 111. Printer's Devil |
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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. |
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b: 28-Feb-1963 w:Charles Beaumont d:Ralph Senensky |
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| 112. No Time Like the Past |
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A man travels back in time to try to prevent some of history's catastrophes. |
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b: 07-Mar-1963 pc: 4853 w:Rod Serling d:Justus Addiss |
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| 113. The Parallel |
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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. |
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b: 14-Mar-1963 w:Rod Serling d:Alan Crosland |
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| 114. I Dream of Genie |
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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! |
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b: 21-Mar-1963 w:John Furia Jr. d:Robert Gist |
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| 115. The New Exhibit |
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The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins... |
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b: 04-Apr-1963 pc: 4866 w:Jerry Sohl d:John Brahm |
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| 116. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville |
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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. |
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b: 11-Apr-1963 w:Rod Serling s:Malcolm Jameson d:David Lowell Rich |
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| 117. The Incredible World of Horace Ford |
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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. |
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b: 18-Apr-1963 w:Reginald Rose d:Abner Biberman |
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| 118. On Thursday We Leave For Home |
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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. |
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b: 02-May-1963 w:Rod Serling d:Buzz Kulik |
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NOTE: Included on volume 39 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 119. Passage on the Lady Anne |
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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. |
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b: 09-May-1963 w:Charles Beaumont d:Lamont Johnson |
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| 120. The Bard |
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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. |
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b: 23-May-1963 w:Rod Serling d:David Butler |
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| Season 5 30 min. |
| 121. In Praise of Pip |
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An alcoholic bookie regrets that he wasn't a better father to his soon, Pip, critically wounded in South Vietnam. A visit to an amusement park gives them both a second chance. |
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b: 27-Sep-1963 pc: 2607 w:Rod Serling d:Joseph M. Newman |
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NOTE: Included on volume 14 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 122. Steel |
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Boxing robot "Battling Maxo" breaks down before the scheduled bout, forcing his manager to take its place. |
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b: 04-Oct-1963 pc: 2602 w:Richard Matheson d:Don Weis |
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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 |
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Mr. Wilson believes he sees a gremlin on the wing of his commercial aircraft. |
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b: 11-Oct-1963 pc: 2605 w:Richard Matheson d:Richard Donner |
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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). |
| 124. A Kind of a Stopwatch |
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The world's biggest bore and most avid talker gets a magical stopwatch that can stop everything except him. |
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b: 18-Oct-1963 pc: 2609 w:Rod Serling s:Michael D. Rosenthal d:John Rich |
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| 125. The Last Night of a Jockey |
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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. |
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b: 25-Oct-1963 w:Rod Serling d:Joseph M. Newman |
| 126. Living Doll |
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Erich is displeased when his wife buys an expensive doll for his step-daughter. He becomes even more displeased when the doll tells him it doesn't like him! |
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b: 01-Nov-1963 pc: 2621 w:Jerry Sohl s:Jerry Sohl &>Charles Beaumont d:Richard C. Sarafian |
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| 127. The Old Man in the Cave |
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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. |
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b: 08-Nov-1963 w:Rod Serling s:Henry Slesar |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 15-Nov-1963 pc: 2604 w:Rod Serling d:Don Siegel |
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NOTE: Included on volume 19 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 129. Probe 7 - Over and Out |
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The lone survivors of two annihilated worlds are stranded on a distant planet. |
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b: 29-Nov-1963 pc: 2622 w:Rod Serling d:Ted Post |
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NOTE: Included on volume 5 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 130. The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms |
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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. |
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b: 06-Dec-1963 pc: 2606 w:Rod Serling d:Alan Crosland Jr. |
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| 131. A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain |
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Trying to keep up with his younger wife, Harmon convinces his brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum. |
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b: 13-Dec-1963 pc: 2614 w:Rod Serling s:Lou Holz d:Bernard Girard |
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| 132. Ninety Years Without Slumbering |
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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. |
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b: 20-Dec-1963 pc: 2615 w:Richard DeRoy s:George Clayton Johnson d:Roger Kay |
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| 133. Ring-A-Ding Girl |
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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. |
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b: 27-Dec-1963 pc: 2623 w:Earl Hamner Jr. d:Alan Crosland Jr. |
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| 134. You Drive |
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Driving home one rainy evening, Oliver Pope accidentally hits a boy on a bicycle. Pope flees the scene, determined to hide his guilt, but his car has other ideas. |
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b: 03-Jan-1964 pc: 2625 w:Earl Hamner Jr. d:John Brahm |
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| 135. The Long Morrow |
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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. |
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b: 10-Jan-1964 pc: 2624 w:Rod Serling d:Robert Florey |
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NOTE: Included on volume 23 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 136. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross |
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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. |
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b: 17-Jan-1964 w:Jerry McNeely s:Henry Slesar d:Don Siegel |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 24-Jan-1964 w:John Tomerlin &>Charles Beaumont d:Abner Biberman |
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| 138. Black Leather Jackets |
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Three tough-looking men on motorcycles disrupt a peaceful suburb when they move in. Yet the neighbors could never imagine just how dangerous these men really are. |
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b: 31-Jan-1964 pc: 2628 w:Earl Hamner Jr. d:Joseph M. Newman |
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NOTE: Included on volume 24 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 139. Night Call |
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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-fiancée 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. |
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b: 07-Feb-1964 w:Richard Matheson d:Jacques Tourneur |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 14-Feb-1964 w:Bernard C. Schoenfeld d:Richard Donner |
| 141. Spur of the Moment |
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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. |
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b: 21-Feb-1964 w:Richard Matheson d:Elliot Silverstein |
| 142. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge |
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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. |
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b: 28-Feb-1964 pc: n/a w:Robert Enrico s:Ambrose Bierce d:Robert Enrico |
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| 143. Queen of the Nile |
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Columnist Jordan Herrick is startled to learn that a famous movie actress hasn't aged in years. Intrigued, he investigates... and soon learns a terrifying secret. |
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b: 06-Mar-1964 pc: 2626 w:Jerry Sohl s:Charles Beaumont &>Jerry Sohl d:John Brahm |
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| 144. What's in the Box |
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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. |
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b: 13-Mar-1964 w:Martin M. Goldsmith d:Richard L. Bare |
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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 |
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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. |
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b: 20-Mar-1964 pc: 2601 w:Rod Serling d:Ida Lupino |
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NOTE: Included on Image-Entertainment's "More Teasures of The Twilight Zone" DVD. |
| 146. I Am the Night - Color Me Black |
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On the day an unpopular idealist is to be executed for the killing of a racist bully, the townsfolk are shocked to see the skies have turned pitch black. |
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b: 27-Mar-1964 pc: 2630 w:Rod Serling d:Abner Biberman |
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| 147. Sounds and Silences |
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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. |
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b: 03-Apr-1964 pc: 2631 w:Rod Serling d:Richard Donner |
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| 148. Caesar and Me |
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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. |
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b: 10-Apr-1964 pc: 2636 w:A. T. Strassfield d:Robert Butler |
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NOTE: Included on volume 30 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. |
| 149. The Jeopardy Room |
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Trying to defect, Major Ivan Kuchenko is trapped inside a hotel room with Commissar Vassiloff, a hitman, and Boris, his assistant, in the room across the street. Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and Ivan must find it within three hours or be blown to bits. |
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b: 17-Apr-1964 w:Rod Serling d:Richard Donner |
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| 150. Stopover in a Quiet Town |
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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. |
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b: 24-Apr-1964 w:Earl Hamner Jr. d:Ron Winston |
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| 151. The Encounter |
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A World War II veteran and a Japanese-American gardener battle each other over a war that ended more than 20 years ago. |
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b: 01-May-1964 pc: 2640 w:Martin M. Goldsmith d:Robert Butler |
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| 152. Mr. Garrity and the Graves |
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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. |
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b: 08-May-1964 w:Rod Serling s:Mike Korologos d:Ted Post |
| 153. The Brain Center at Whipple's |
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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. |
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b: 15-May-1964 w:Rod Serling d:Richard Donner |
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| 154. Come Wander with Me |
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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. |
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b: 22-May-1964 w:Anthony Wilson d:Richard Donner |
| 155. The Fear |
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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. |
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b: 29-May-1964 w:Rod Serling d:Ted Post |
| 156. The Bewitchin' Pool |
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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. |
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b: 19-Jun-1964 w:Earl Hamner Jr. d:Joseph M. Newman |
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NOTE: Mary Badham, best known as 'Scout' from the film "To Kill a Mockingbird", makes one of her few other acting appearances. |
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| Twilight Zone: The Movie |
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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. |
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b: 24-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 |
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NOTE: Carol Serling is the real-life wife of the late Rod Serling. |
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| Twilight Zone: Rod Serling's Lost Classics |
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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... |
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b: 19-May-1994 w:Rod Serling ,>Richard Matheson d:Robert Markowitz |