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a Ed Wynn in One For The Angels EPISODE GUIDE ESCAPE CLAUSE JUDGMENT NIGHT Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Mitch Leisen. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling. Director: John Brahm. Cast: Compiled by GARY GERANI, David Wayne, Virginia Christine, Wendell Holmes, Nehemiah Persoff, Ben Wright, Patrick McNee, Bradley Deirdre Owen, author of Fantastic Television Thomas Gomez. Hugh Sanders, Leslie James Franciscus. A hypochondriac makes a pact with the Devil Murky tale about a passenger aboard a war- for immortality. He then kills someone for First Season: 1959-60 time freighter who is certain the ship will be kicks, but instead of getting the electric chair, sunk at 1:15A.M. he is sentenced to life imprisonment! WHERE IS EVERYBODY? Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Robert Stevens. AND WHEN THE SKY WAS Cast: Earl Holliman, James Gregory. THE LONELY Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Jack Smight. Cast: Pilot show for the series concerns a man who OPENED Jack Warden, Jean Marsh, John Dehner, Ted Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Douglas Heyes. finds himself in a completely deserted city. In Knight, JimTurley. Cast: Rod Taylor, Charles Aidman, James Hutton, the end, we learn that it was all a test to ob- This classic episode concerns one James Maxine Cooper. serve how human beings will respond to ex- Corry (Warden), a man convicted of murder After three astronauts return from man's first treme loneliness during space flights. This and sentenced to spend forty years on a dis- space flight, each of them mysteriously dis- was the only episode shot at Universal tant asteroid. He has only one companion— appears. Based on a short story by Richard Studio, (all others were filmed at MGM). robot made in the form of a woman. Ted Matheson. Knight, later Ted Baxter on The Mary Tyler ONE FOR THE ANGELS Moore Show, has a minor role as a nasty WHAT YOU NEED Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Robert Parish. Cast: space crewman. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: John Brahm. Cast: Ed Wynn, Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway, Merritt Steve Cochran, Ernest Truex, Reed Morgan, Bohn. TIME ENOUGH AT LAST William Edmonson, Arline Sax. Wynn delivers a bravura performance as a Writer: Rod Serling. Director: John Brahm. Cast: Swindler Fred Renard (Steve Cochran) tries sidewalk salesman who makes the greatest Burgess Meredith, Jacqueline DeWit, Vaughn to profit from an amiable fellow's talent for pitch of his life to save a little girl from "Mr. Taylor, Lela Bliss. seeing into the future. Based on a short story Death" (Hamilton). In his first of several Twilight Zone episodes, by Lewis Padgett. Burgess Meredith plays a nearsighted bank MR. DENTON ON DOOMSDAY teller who becomes the only survivor of an H- THE FOUR OF US ARE DYING Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Allen Reisner. Cast: bomb attack. He is now able to pursue his Writer: Rod Serling. Director: John Brahm. Cast: Dan Duryea, Malcolm Atterbury, Martin Landau, only real interest in life — reading. Unfor- Philip Pine, Ross Jeanne Cooper, Ken Lynch, Doug McClure. Harry Townes, Beverly Garland, tunately, he breaks his glasses shortly after Martin, Don Gordon. A has-been gunslinger finds his fast draw he has made his way to a library. Arch Hammer (Townes) can alter his face to abilities have been restored after he drinks a make it look like anyone else's. Based on a magic potion. PERCHANCE TO DREAM short story by George Johnson. Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Robert THE SIXTEEN-MILLIMETER Florey. Cast: Richard Conte, John Larch, Suzanne Lloyd, Ted Stanhope, Eddie Marr. THIRD FROM THE SUN SHRINE Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Richard Bare. The first non-Serling script of the series con- Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Mitch Leisen. Cast: Cast: Fritz Weaver, Joe Maros, Edward Andrews, cerns a (Conte) who is terrified of falling Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Alice Frost, Jerome man Denise Alexander, Lori March. asleep. He fears that the mysterious woman Cowan. Weird camera angles and special props left meets in his dreams will soon murder him. A former movie queen tries to recreate the he over from MGM's "Forbidden Planet" bolster spirit of her heyday by screening her old this story about two families planning to movies . .. and living them. leave a war-threatened world via spaceship. WALKING DISTANCE I SHOT AN ARROW INTO THE Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Robert Stevens. Cast: Gig Young, Frank Overton, Michael Mont- AIR gomery, Irene Tedrow. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Edward Binns, Dewey Martin. Young's acting and a magnificent score by Bernard Herrmann highlight this episode. After supposedly landing on another planet, Harried advertising agent Martin Sloane visits an astronaut kills his comrades to prolong his Madeline his home town and slips thirty years into his own life. Based on a short story by childhood. Champion. 40 Anne Francis times two in The After Hours. Nick Of Time starred William Shatner. NICE PLACE TO VISIT THE HITCH-HIKER THE MONSTERS ARE DUE ON A Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: John Brahm. Alvin Ganzer. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling. Director: MAPLE STREET Cast: Larry Blyden, Sebastian Cabot, Sandra War- Inger Stevens, Leonard Strong, Adam Williams, Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Ron Winston. Cast: ner. LewGallo, DwightTownsend. Ben Erway, Lyn Claude Atkins, Jack Waggner, While committing a crime, a cheap hood Driving cross-country, a woman becomes Guild. (Blyden) gets killed and finds an afterlife in the same panicky when she continually sees Hysteria grips a small community as residents which all wishes are granted. ahead. ominous hitch-hiker on the road suspect a power failure has been caused by by Lucille Fletcher. Based on a radio play invaders from space disguised as Earthmen. NIGHTMARE AS A CHILD Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Alvin Ganzer. Cast: THE FEVER A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE Janice Rule, Terry Burnham, Shepperd Strudwick. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Alvin Ganzer. Cast: Director: Ted Post. Writer: Richard Matheson. Helen Foley (Rule) is haunted William Kendis, Lee Schoolteacher Everett Sloane, Bibi Janiss, Cast: Howard Duff, Eileen Ryan, Gail Kobe, Frank recurring image of herself as a child. Miller. Maxwell, Peter Walker. by the A gambling-hating man named Franklin Gib- A businessman's normal working world inex- slot machine bs (Sloane) battles a Las Vegas plicably becomes the set for a film in which A STOP AT WILLOUGHBY with a malevolent mind of its own. he has become a character. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Robert Parrish. Cast: James Daly, Howard Smith, Patricia Donahue, James Maloney. LAST FLIGHT THE LONG LIVE WALTER Harried by his high-pressure job, an executive Richard Matheson. Director: William Clax- Writer: asleep on a train and wakes at a myster- Kenneth Haigh, Alexander Scourby, JAMESON falls . ton. Cast: Willoughby. Simon Scott, Robert Warwick. Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Tony Leader. ious stop called modern Cast: Kevin McCarthy, Edgar Stehli, Estelle Win- British World War I flyer lands at a A wood, Dody Heath. air base in 1959. THE CHASER An effective horror story in the tradition of Writer: Robert Presnell, Jr. Director: Douglas in Half Moon Street." History pro- "The Man Heyes. Cast: George Grizzard, John Mclntyre, THE PURPLE TESTAMENT fessor Walter Jameson (McCarthy), an ex- Patricia Barry. Richard Bare. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling. Director: the Civil War, is actually immortal and pert on A loser in the game of love purchases a spe- William Reynolds, Dick York, Barney Phillips, well over 200 years old. weird doctor. Based on a William Phipps, Warren Oates, Marc Cavell, Ron cial potion from a Masak, Paul Mazursky. short story by John Collier. Powerful tale about a lieutenant with the abil- PEOPLE ARE ALIKE ALL OVER outfit will be Mc- ity to predict which men in his Writer: Rod Serling. Director: David Orrick PASSAGE FOR TRUMPET McDowall, Susan Oliver, A battle. Dearmon. Cast: Roddy killed in Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Don Medford. Cast: Paul Comi, Byron Morrow, Vic Perrin. Jack Klugman, Mary Webster, John Anderson, An astronaut (McDowall) is pleased to find Frank Wolff. ELEGY act just like people at that people on Mars unsuccessful trumpet player is given a Director: Douglas An Writer: Charles Beaumont. short story by Paul W. home. Based on a life -after he is struck and Heyes. Cast: Cecil Kellaway, Jeff Morrow, Kevin second crack at Fairman. Hagen, Don Dubbins. killed by a truck. Three astronauts land on a world where everyone is in a trance-like state. They then EXECUTION encounter an eccentric old gent named Mr. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: David Orrick Mc- Johnson, Wickwire (Kellaway), who apparently runs Dearmon. Cast: Albert Salmi, Russell Than Wyenn, George Mitchell, Jon Lormer. the planet. A western outlaw (Salmi) is snatched from MIRROR IMAGE the hangman's noose by a modern day scien- tist (Johnson) and his time machine. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: John Brahm. Cast: Vera Miles, Martin Miller, Joe Hamilton. TALL WISH In a bus depot, a woman finds herself haun- THE BIG, Director: Ron Winston. Cast: ted by her double. Writer: Rod Serling. Ivan Dixon, Steve Perry, Kim Hamilton. A child's faith in miracles helps a down-and- out boxer win an important match. 41 Serling is in Heaven in Cavenderls Coming. The Invaders taunt Agnes Moorehead. MR. BEVIS THE MAN IN THE BOTTLE NICK OF TIME Writer: Rod Seriing. Director: Robert Parrish. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling: Director: Don Medford. Cast: Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Richard L. Orson Bean, Henry Jones, Charles Lane, William Luther Adler, Vivi Janiss, Lisa Golm, Joseph Rus- Bare. Cast: William Shatner, Patricia Breslin. Schallert. kin, Olan Soule, Peter Coe, Albert Szabo. A newlywed husband (Shatner) is fascinated A kindly fellow's life is turned topsy-turvy A pawnbroker (Adler) is granted four wishes by a fortune-telling machine that makes un- when he receives "help" from his guardian by a sinister genie.