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EPISODE GUIDE ESCAPE CLAUSE JUDGMENT NIGHT Writer: . Director: Mitch Leisen. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling. Director: John Brahm. Cast: Compiled by GARY GERANI, , Virginia Christine, Wendell Holmes, Nehemiah Persoff, Ben Wright, Patrick McNee, Bradley Deirdre Owen, author of Fantastic Thomas Gomez. Hugh Sanders, Leslie . 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, . Writer: Rod Serling. Director: . Cast: show for the series concerns a man who OPENED , Jean Marsh, John Dehner, Ted Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Douglas Heyes. finds himself in a completely deserted city. In Knight, JimTurley. Cast: , 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: , Murray Hamilton, Dana Dillaway, Merritt , Ernest Truex, Reed Morgan, Bohn. 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 , 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 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 , Ken Lynch, Doug McClure. Harry Townes, , 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: . Director: Robert THE SIXTEEN-MILLIMETER Florey. Cast: Richard Conte, , Suzanne Lloyd, Ted Stanhope, Eddie Marr. FROM THE SUN SHRINE Writer: . 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, , 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 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: . Cast: Edward Binns, Dewey Martin. Young's acting and a magnificent score by 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 .

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. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Alvin Ganzer. Cast: THE FEVER 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 , 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 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: , 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: , 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, , A battle. Dearmon. Cast: Roddy killed in Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Don Medford. Cast: Paul Comi, Byron Morrow, Vic Perrin. , 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: , Russell Than Wyenn, George Mitchell, Jon Lormer. the planet. A 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, , 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. taunt .

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, , Charles Lane, William Luther Adler, , Lisa Golm, Joseph Rus- Bare. Cast: William Shatner, . 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. canny predictions about his life. angel (Jones). . NERVOUS MAN IN A FOUR THE AFTER HOURS DOLLAR Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Jack Smight. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling. ROOM Director: Douglas Heyes. Inger Stevens, Writer: Rod Serling. John Hoyt. Cast: Anne Francis, Elizabeth Allen, James Mill- Director: Douglas Heyes. Cast: Joe Mantell, William hollin, John Conwell. D. Gordon. The faultless precision of robot servants in- vented by father A woman (Francis) discovers that the floor of Unusual character study about a petty hood her begins to annoy a young a department store on which she bought an who literally confronts his "conscience" in a woman (Stevens). Originally done on video mirror. tape. item doesn't exist, and that the salesgirl was, in reality, a mannequin. A THING ABOUT MACHINES THE TROUBLE WITH Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Dave McDearmon. TEMPLETON Cast: Richard Haydn, Barbara Stuart, Barney Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Douglas Heyes. Phillips. Writer: E. Jack Neuman. Director: . Cast: Jack Warden, Robert Sorrells, Don O'Kelly, Cast: Brian Aherne, Pippa Scott. Abraham Sofaer. A machine-hating writer is suddenly hunted An aging actor is given a by a small of sobering glimpse at The manager of a losing baseball team adds a army mechanical devices. the past he holds so dear. new man to the fold— a robot named Casey. THE HOWLING MAN A MOST UNUSUAL CAMERA Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Douglas Heyes. Cast: H.M. Wynant, , Robin Writer: Rod Serling. Director: . Cast: Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Ralph Nelson. Hughes, Ezelle Poule. Fred Clark, Jean Carson, Adam Williams. Cast: , Phyllis Kirk, Mary La Roche. Classic episode about a man (Wynant) who Examining their latest haul, two-bit thieves Serio-, as a playwright creates true- takes refuge in a European monastery during discover a camera that can predict the future. to-life characters on his tape machine. They a thunderstorm. He is told by the bearded, are so true that he can make them appear in saintly Brother Jerome (Carradine) the room with him! that THE MEEK prisoner locked in an underground cell is no Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Jack Smight. Cast: ordinary human being — he is the Devil him- , John Fielder, Meg Wyllie, Robert Lieb. self! Atmospheric music (Bernard Herrmann) Sensitive, well-acted about a depart- Second Season: 1960-61 and a terrific transformation sequence add to ment store (Carney) who ends the tale's effectiveness. up being the real thing. Originally done on video tape. THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER KING NINE WILL NOT RETURN Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Douglas Heyes. Cast: William 8. Gordon, Donna Douglas, Jennifer Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Buzz Kulik. Cast: Howard, Joanna Heyes. Bob Cummings, Paul Lambert, Gene Lyons, Sey- mour Green, Richard Lupino, Jenna MacMahon. Another outstanding entry in the series. Plas- After crashing in the desert, a bomber pilot tic surgeons in some unknown society make (Cummings) is haunted by the images of his one final attempt to improve a young dead crew. woman's face so that she can live among "normal people." William Turtle's make-ups are some of the most horrifying ever con- ceived for television.

42 caught in Once Upon A Time. John Carradine is of The Howling Man.

DUST A HUNDRED YEARS OVER Addiss. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Douglas Heyes. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: J. THE RIM Paul Comi, Harp Cast: Thomas Gomez, Vladimir Sokoloff, John John Anderson, , Rennick, Beverly Writer: Rod Sterling. Director: Buzz Kulik. Cast: Alonso, John Larch. McGuire, Wayne Heffley, Nancy Brown. Cliff Robertson, Miranda Jones. is conned On the day of his execution, a man mysteriously enters the A commercial airliner becomes unstuck in A western settler by a vicious traveling salesman (Gomez) who in search of time. The prehistoric sequence, courtesy of 20th century when he goes off sells him "magic " capable of eliminating Jack Harris, was unused footage from the medication for his dying son. hate. movie "Dinosaurus." THE RIP VAN WINKLE CAPER Writer: Rod Sterling. Director: Justus Addiss. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling. Director: David Orrick Mc- MR. DINGLE, THE STRONG Oscar Beregi, Simon Oakland, Lew Gallo, John Dearmon. Cast: Russell Johnson, Paul Hartman. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: John Brahm. Cast: Mitchum. Burgess Meredith, Don Rickles. A man is catapulted backward into time to Four thieves steal gold bullion and place extraterrestrials appear . the moments preceding the assassination of Several weird-looking themselves in suspended animation for a President . The stirring score by Jerry in this episode about a timid little man (Mere- hundred years. Goldsmith was later heard as background dith) who is given superpowers by a double- music for ABC's Wide World Of Entertain- headed Martian experimenter. Don Rickles is ment mysteries. customarily caustic as a character named THE SILENCE Bragg. Writer:Rod Serling. Director: Boris Sagal.'Cast: THE WHOLE TRUTH , Liam Sullivan, Jonathan Harris. One of the very few non-fantasy episodes of Writer: Rod Serling. Director: James Sheldon. STATIC this series. A man (Tone), sick of the inces- Cast: Jack Carson, , Nan Peterson, Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Buzz Kulik. chatter of a fellow club (Sulli- . Cast: Dean Jagger, Carmen Mathews, Robert sant member dollars if he can An unscrupulous used-car salesman (Carson) Emhardt. van), offers him a half million keep silent for a full year. meets his match in a haunted auto with a An old radio provides a valuable link with the mind of its own. past for two elderly lovers. Originally done on video tape; based on a short story by Ocee SHADOW PLAY THE INVADERS Ritch. Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: John Brahm. Cast: , Harry Townes, Wright King. Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Douglas Heyes. Cast: Agnes Moorehead. An hysterical young man (Weaver) tries to persuade the judge, who sentenced him to In this classic episode, an old woman in an Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Richard L. Cast: , Buddy Ebsen. death, that he and the people around him are isolated farm house must battle a horde of Bare. just part of a recurring nightmare. extraterrestrial invaders. In the end, Moore- A telekinetic gentleman (Ebsen) is used to head takes an axe to their starship and de- win some big money for a greedy man molishes, in reality, Forbidden Planet's (Clark) at the gambling casinos. famous space cruiser! No actual dialog until Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Buzz Kulik. Cast: the final sequence. CALL Shelly Berman, Jack Grinnage, Jeanne Wood, LONG DISTANCE ChetStratton. Writer: Charles Beaumont and William Idelson. A book on the power of thought enables a A PENNY FOR YOUR Director: James Sheldon. Cast: Billy Mumy, Phillip Abbott, Patricia Smith, Lili Darvas. meek clerk (Berman) to create a world exac-

tly would want it. THOUGHTS Powerful episode about a little boy with a toy as he Writer: . Director: James telephone by which he mysteriously remains Sheldon. Cast: Dick York, Hayden Rourke, Dan in contact with his dead grandmother. Origin- Tobin, June Dayton. WILL THE REAL MARTIAN ally done on video tape. Unusual tale about a timid bank teller (York) PLEASE STAND UP who suddenly gains the ability to read Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Montgomery Pitt- people's minds after a freak accident. man. Cast: Morgan Jones, John Archer, Bill Ken- dis, John Hoyt, Jean Willes, Jack Bam, Barney TWENTY TWO Phillips. Offbeat entry about a pair of state troopers Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Jack Smight. Cast: who must determine which member of a bus , Jonathan Harris, Fredd Wayne. trip is, in reality, a Martian invader. A woman is haunted by a recurring night- mare that always ends with her being escort- ed to hospital room number 22— the morgue. 43 Two is Elizabeth Montgomery's territory. Dennis Hopper (left) learns that He Lives.

THE OBSOLETE MAN A GAME OF POOL DEATHS-HEAD REVISITED Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Elliot Silverstein. Writer: George Clayton Johnson. Director: A. E. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Don Medford. Cast: Cast: Burgess Fritz Meredith, Weaver. Houghton. Cast:- Jonathan Winters, Jack Joseph Schildkraut, Oscar Beregi, Chuck Fox, Klugman. Meredith delivers an emotion-packed per- Karen Verne, Robert Boone, Ben Wright.

formance in this symbolic tale about a li- A young pool player finds himself playing A visit to a concentration camp at Dachau brarian judged "obsolete" by a totalitarian against a long-dead master pool shark. The forces a former Nazi to confront the society of the future. stakes— his life. horrifying ghosts of his ghastly wartime crimes. THE MIRROR Third Season: 1961-62 Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Don Medford. Cast: THE MIDNIGHT SUN , Tony Carbone, Richard Karlan, Arthur Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Anton Leader. Cast: Batanides, Rodolfo Hoyos, Will Kuluva, Vladimir Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde, Jason Wingreen, Sokoloff, Val Ruffino. TWO Juney Ellis, , Robert J. Stevenson, John Writer/ Director: . Cast: In the state offices of an overthrown govern- McLiam, Tom Reese, William Keene. Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Branson, Sharon ment, a revolutionary leader uses a mirror The Earth is being drawn slowly into the sun, Lucas. reported to posses strange powers— it can causing draught, devastating heat waves— In this contemporary Adam and Eve story, show the viewer the face of the person who and panic. This episode features an out- the two lone, frightened survivors of a nu- will kill him. standing musical score by Van Cleave. clear must start the world afresh. THE GRAVE THE ARRIVAL Writer/ Director: Montgomery Pittman. Cast: Lee Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Jim Sheldon. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Boris Sagal. Cast: Marvin, , Strother Martin, Ellen Willrad, Gary Merrill, Ben Cooper, , Addison Harold J. Stone, Bing Russell, Robert Karnes, , William Challee, Stafford Repp, Myers, Mark Tapscott, Jack Mann. Noah Keen, Jim Boles, Robert , Fredd Larry Johns, Richard Geary. Wayne. A strange book presents the Confederate Ar- When a gunman scornfully defiles an my with a difficult choice: they can win the The aviation administration is completely baf- outlaw's grave, he sees the man's dying Civil War— but they must make a pact with fled by the appearance of a mysterious air- threats coming true. the Devil. Based on a short story by Manley liner—until an examiner poses the unlikely Wade Wellman. but apparently sound theory the craft is that IT'S LIFE imaginary. A GOOD Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Jim Sheldon. Cast: THE JUNGLE Billy Mumy, John Larch, , Tom THE SHELTER Hatcher, Alice Frost, Don Keefer, Jeanne Bates, Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: William Clax- Lenore Kingston, Casey Adams. ton. Cast: John Dehner, Emily McLaughlin, Walter Writer: Rod Serling. Director: . Brooks, Hugh Sanders, Howard Wright, Donald Cast: Larry Gates, Peggy Stewart, Michael Burne, A rural community is held terrorized by the Foster, Jay Overholts, Jay Adler. , Jo Helton, Joseph Bernard, Moria unearthly powers of a young boy. Based on a Turner, Sandy Kenyon, Mary Gregory, John If a prospector violates certain African land, short story by Jerome Bixby. McLiam. he will have to deal with the fury of a native wizard. When a possible nuclear attack is an- nounced, several suburban friends and neighbors are reduced to selfish, vicious ONCE UPON A TIME animals in a struggle over one family's bomb Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Norman Z. shelter. McLeod. Cast: Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, Gil Lamb, , Michael Ross, Milton Par- sons, George E. Stone, Warren Parker. THE PASSERBY A janitor in the 1800s finds himself in the next Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Elliot Silverstein. century when he innocently fiddles with his Cast: Joanne Linville, James Gregory, Rex inventor-employer's Holman, David Garcia, Warren Kemmerling, Austin contraption. Green.

A company of Civil War soldiers who believe they are marching home from battle soon come to realize that they are actually dead.

44 Jonathan Winters and Jack Klugman in A Game Of Pool. Forbidden Planet footage appeared in Death Ship.

FIVE CHARACTERS IN DEAD MAN'S SHOES SEARCH OF AIM EXIT Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Montgomery Writer: George Clayton Johnson. Director: Lamont Pittman. Cast: Warren Stevens, Harry Swoger, Johnson. Cast: Ernest Truex, Russell Collins, Hank Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Lamont Johnson. Ben Wright, Joan Marshall, Eugene Borden, Patterson, Earle Hodgins, Burt Mustin, Gregory Cast: Bill Windom, Murray Matheson, Susan Richard Devon, Florence Marly, Ron Hagerthy, Joe McCabe, Marjorie Bennett, Lenore Shanewise, Harrison, Kelton Garwood, Clark Allen, Mona Mell. Anne O'Neal, , Barry Truex, Eve Mc- Houghton, Carol Hill. Veagh, Marc Stevens. When a derelict dons the shoes of a dead Five people trying to escape an enormous gangster, he finds himself following the A children's game somehow offers prison eventually realize that their "prison" is course of the dead man's life. rejuvenative powers to an old man. a box— and they are dolls. Based on a story by Marvin Petal. WITH RANCE Writer: Earl Hamner. Director: . Cast: McGREW Barry Morse, Joan Jackett, Don Durant, Phil Coolidge, Cyril Delevanti, Muriel Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Buzz Kulik. Cast: Writer: Rod Serling D ,.;ctor: C. Nyby. Cast: Larry Landers. T , Albert . :~: Salmi, Rayford Barnes, Blyden, William M> , roy Melton, Jay Over- The right tune played on a mysterious player Ralph Votrian, , Dale Ishimoto, holts, Robert J. Stt Prison, Robert Cornwaithe, piano will reveal the listener's true nature. Jerry Fujikawa, Michael Pataki. Arch Johnson, Robe • Kline, Hal K. Dawson. A soldier gets a fresh, frightening perspective An obnoxious cowboy star gets his on his militaristic ways when he suddenly ex- comeupance when he suddenly confronts TO SERVE MAN periences a war situation from the enemy's the outlaws who've been poorly presented in Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Richard Bare. Cast: Richard Kiel, Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, point of view. his pictures. Lomax Study, Theodore Marcuse, Susan Cummings, Nelson Olmstead, Lloyd Bochner. When enormous aliens come to Earth bearing promises of a Utopian existence, a scientist's i is what it ?, ies: the shadowy area suspicions and skepticism soon prove more the almost-but-not-quiii, the unbelievable than justified. The alien "Canamit" (Kiel) was of executed by make-up artist William Tuttle. told in terms that can be believed ..." This episode borrowed stock footage from The Day The Earth Stood Still. Based on a Rod Serling short story by Damon Knight.

THE LAST RITES OF JEFF MYR- TLEBANK THE HUNT Writer/ Director: Montgomery Pittman. Cast: Writer: George Clayton Johnson. Director: Lamont Writer: Earl Hamner. Director: Harold Schuster. James Best, Ralph Moody, Ezelle Pouley, Vickie Johnson. Cast: Gladys Cooper, , Cast: Arthur Hgnnicutt, Jeanette Nolan, Titus Barnes, , Helen Wallace, Lance R.G! Armstrong. Moede, Orville Sherman, Charles Seel, , Bill Fawcett, Edgar Buchanan, Mabel Foulk, Dexter DuPont. Forrest, Dub Taylor, Jon Lormer, Pat Hector. A frightened old woman who has sealed her- killed while Because a young man has awakened from self off from the world to avoid confronting When a hunter and his dog are the dead, the townspeople assume he is death, admits a wounded policeman and stalking their prey, they go to the gates of possessed by the Devil. soon learns that she had nothing to worry Heaven, where they must deal with St. Peter. about. ONE MORE PALLBEARER Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Richard L. Bare. Cast: J. Pat O'Malley, Susan Gordon, Nancy Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Lamont Johnson. Kulp, Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp, Stephen Talbot, Cast: Joseph Wiseman, Trevor Bardette, Gage Johnny Eiman, Russ Bender. Clark, Katherine Squire, Josip Elic, Robert Snyder, Ray Galvin. A magical old gentleman uses his powers to help a sick little girl, thus risking being re- A rich old man schemes to wreak revenge on turned to his home planet. three people who humiliated him at various

points in his life.

45 The Last Rites Of Jeff Myrtlebank. Roddy McDowall and Susan Oliver in People Are Alike All Over.

LITTLE GIRL LOST CAVENDER IS COMING Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Paul Stewart. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Abner Bibberman. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Chris Nyby. Cast: Cast: Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson, Charles Cast: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Mur- , Jesse White, Howard Smith, Aidman, Tracy Stratford. dock, John Harmon, Sandra Warner, Ralph Man- William O'Connell, Pitt Herbert, John Fiedler, za, Rudy Dolan, Bethelynn Grey. Stanley Jones, Frank Behrens, Albert Carrier, Roy A couple can hear their daughter's desperate Sickner, Norma Shattuc, Rory O'Brien, Sandra cut-rate ventriloquist starts believing that cries, yet she's nowhere to be found — she's A Gould, Adrienne Marden, Jack Younger, Danny lost in the fourth dimension. his dummy actually has a mind— and a Kulick, Donna Douglas, Maurice Dallimore, Bar- will— of its own. Based on a story by Leon bara Morrison. PERSON OR PERSONS Polk. In this pilot for a never-launched series, a klutzy guardian angel's attempts to make a UNKNOWN THE CHANGING OF bumbling woman happy don't work out quite Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: John Brahm. as expected. Cast: , Frank Silvers, Shirley Ballard, THE GUARD Julie Van Zandt, Betty Harford, Ed Glover, Michael Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Robert Ellis Miller. Kelp, Joe Higgins, John Newton. Cast: Donald Pleasance, Liam Sullivan, Phillippa A man's day gets off to a bizarre start when Bevans, Kevin O'Neal, Jimmy Baird, Kevin Jones, Fourth Season: Jan. -May Tom Lowell, Russ Horton, Buddy Hart, Darryl he awakens to discover that no one knows Richard, James Browning, Pat Close, Dennis 1963 (one hour) who he is. Kerlee, Bob Biheller.

A popular teacher faces the prospect of a life THE GIFT without purpose when he is asked to retire Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Allan Parker. Cast: from his post. Geoffrey Home, Nico Minardos, Cliff Osmond, Ed- Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Perry Lafferty. mund Vargas, Carmen D'Antonio, Paul Mazursky, Cast: George Grizzard, Gail Kobe, Katherine Vladimir Sokoloff, Vito Scotti, Henry Corden. YOUNG MAN'S FANCY Squire, Wallace Rooney, Sherry Granato, James A group of Mexican villagers are convinced Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: John Brahm. Seay, , Jamie Forster. Cast: Phyllis Thaxter, Alex Nicol, Wallace Rooney, that a downed flyer is, in fact, an ex- The first hour installment of Twilight Zone Ricky Kelman, Helen Brown. traterrestrial. concerns a disturbed young man who mur- A young man yearns so desperately for the ders a woman for no apparent reason. In the days of his youth that the past does, in fact, end, we learn he is a malfunctioning android. THE LITTLE PEOPLE reappear. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Bill Claxton. Cast: Joe Maross, Claude Akins, Michael Ford. THE THIRTY-FATHOM GRAVE I SING THE BODY ELECTRIC Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Perry Lafferty. Cast: Everything is relative, as a space traveler Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, David Sheiner, John Writer: . Director: James Sheldon. soon learns when he proceeds to lord his size Considine, Bill Bixby, Tony Call, Derrick Lewis, Cast: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, June Conlan Carter, Charles Kuenstle. over the tiny folk who inhabit a planetoid. Vincent, Vaughn Taylor, Charles Herbert, Dana Dillaway, Veronica Cartwright, Paul Nesbitt, Susan The crew of a Navy destroyer hear strange FOUR O'CLOCK Crane, Judy Morton. tapping noises coming from a submarine that A girl comes to understand that a grand- sank 20 years before. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Elliot Silverstein. mother can be a tender, thoughtful, caring, Cast: Joseph Schildkraut, Noah Keen, Alma Piatt, Ted Marcuse, Edson Stroll, Terrene De Marney, loving woman. Even if she is a robot. THE Billy Vincent, Mary McMahon, David Armstrong. Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Stuart Rosen- berg. Cast: Frank Overton, Barbara Baxley, Ann Youth isn't all it's cracked up to be, as an old Jilliann, Irene Dailey, Hal Riddle, Percy Helton, man learns when a mind and personality tran- Oscar Beregi, Eva Soreny. splant gives him a lonely new life in a young A little girl raised on telepathic communi- new body. cation must adjust to the spoken word after her parents are killed in a fire. HOCUS POCUS AND FRISBY Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Lamont Johnson. Cast: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Howard Mc- Near, , Clem Bevans, Larry Breitman, Peter Brocco.

The town windbag so impresses a visiting group of aliens with his fish stories that they take him to their planet for study as a prime Earth specimen. Based on a short story by Frederic Louis Fox. 46 Jack Weston encourages The Bard. Cliff Robertson and The Dummy.

JESS-BELLE THE INCREDIBLE WORLD OF Writer: Earl Hamner. Director: Buzz Kulik.Cast: An- Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Justus Addiss. Cast: HORACE FORD Francis, Best, Laura Jeanette Dana Andrews, Patricia Breslin, Robert F. ne James Devon, Simon, Writer: Reginald Rose. Director: Abner Biberman. Nolan, Virginia Gregg, George Mitchell, Helen Violet Rensing, James Yagi, Tudor Owen, Lindsay Cast: Pat Hingle, Nan Martin, Phillip Pine, Ruth Reta Kleeb, Jim Boles, Jon Lormer. Workman, Shaw. White, Vaughn Taylor, Mary Carver, George Thrilleresque occult yarn about a woman A moody scientist (Andrews) travels into the Spicer, Bella Bruck. (Francis) who sells her soul to the Devil to past to prevent the major catastrophes of Toy manufacturer (Hingle) literally becomes a recapture the love of a former suitor (Best). history. child again when he visits his old neigh- Rural witchery from the creator of The borhood. Waltons. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Alan Crosland. Cast: ON THURSDAY WE LEAVE DEATH SHIP , Jacqueline Scott, Frank Aletter, FOR HOME Shari Lee Bernath, Phillip Abbott, Pete Madsen, Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Dan Medford. Robert Johnson, Morgan Hones. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Buzz Kulik. Cast: Cast: Jack Klugman, , Fredrick Beir, , Tim O'Conner, James Broderick, Following a routine seven-day' space flight, Sara Taft, Ross Elliot, Mary Webster. Russ Bender, Paul Langton, Jo Helton, Mercedes Sets, props, costumes and stock footage an astronaut is catapulted into a strange Shirley, John Ward, Daniel Kulik. from Forbidden Planet enhance this tale parallel universe. Space settlers on a barren world finally get about three marooned space travelers haun- the chance to return to Earth, but the group's ted by bizarre premonitions. leader (Whitmore) protests. Episode Writer: John Furia. Director: . Cast: plusses: strong performances and Forbidden Howard Morris, Patricia Barry, Loring Smith, Mark Planet hardware. Miller, Robert Ball, Jack Albertson, Joyce Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Perry Lafferty. Jameson, Bon Hastings. Cast: Ed Nelson, Natalie Trundy, David Opatoshu, PASSAGE ON THE LADY ANN A genie pops out of an old brass lamp and of- , Suzanne Capito, Dabbs Greer. Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Lamont John- fers one magic wish to his unwitting liberator. A reporter (Nelson) wanders into a back- son. Cast: Joyce Van Patten, Lee Phillips, Wilfred Hyde-White, Gladys Cooper, Cecil Kellaway, Alan woods town and discovers an incredible Napier. secret that might cause the end of the world. Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: John Brahm. Disillusioned young couple (Patten, Phillips) Cast: Martin Balsam, Will Kuluva, Maggie book passage on the final voyage of an HE'S ALIVE Mahoney, William Mims, Billy Beck, Robert L. Mc- ancient cruise ship inhabited by elderly folks. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Cord, Bob Mitchell. Cast: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Curt Con- Another episode reminiscent of TV's Thriller. THE BARD way, Howard Caine, Barnaby Hale, Paul Mazursky, Much to the bewilderment of a museum Writer: Rod Serling. Director: . Cast: Bernard Pein, Jay Adler. custodian (Balsam), wax figures of five Jack Weston, Henry Lascoe, , Marge The "he" of the title refers to . A Redmond, Doro Merande, Clegg Hoyt, Judy notorious murderers come to life and begin a young reactionary (Hopper) is guided by a Strangis, Claude Stroud. series of killings. shadowy figure on methods to control and On-target satire. Hack writer Julius Moomer mesmerize the populace. (Weston) conjures up OF LATE I THINK OF CLIFFORDVILLE (Williams) to help him write a television MINIATURE script, but network and sponsor repre- Writer: Rod Serling. Director: David Rich. Cast: Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Ralph Senen- sentatives suggest a few changes. Albert Salmi, , John Anderson, Mary sky. Cast: Robert Duvall, , Barbara Jackson, Wright King, Jamie Forster, Guy Ray- Barrie, Len Weinrib, William Windom, Claire mond. Griswold, Nina Roman, John McLiam. Fifth and Final Season: A heartless, rich man (Salmi) is seduced by a An unhinged man (Duvall) escapes into a fan- 1963-64 female demon (Newmar). tasy world by visiting a museum's miniature replica of life in the 1890s. IN PRAISE OF PIP PRINTER'S DEVIL Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Joseph M. Newman. Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Ralph Senen- Cast: Jack Klugman, Connie Gilchrist, Billy Mumy, sky. Cast: Burgess Meredith, , Bob Diamond, John Launer, Ross Elliot, Gerald Patricia Crowley, Charles Thompson, Ray Teal, Gordon, Stuart Nesbet. Ryan Hayes, Doris Kemper. Jack Klugman is outstanding as a soul- A dying newspaper is rescued from oblivion searching bookie who tries to make up for the by a mysterious fellow (Meredith) whose way he raised his son when he learns that the printing machine predicts tomorrow's news. boy has been seriously wounded in Vietnam. Both Billy Mumy and Bob Diamond play the kid.

47 in . Richard Deacon and Robby the Robot in The Brain Center At Whipples.

STEEL LIVING DOLL NINETY YEARS WITHOUT Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Don Weiss. Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Richard SLUMBERING Cast: , Joe Mantell, Merritt Bohn, Frank Sarafian. Cast: Telly Savalas, Tracy Stratford, Writer: George C. Johnson. Director: Roger Kay. , Tipp McClure. Mary LaRoche. Cast: Ed Wynn, Carolyn Kearney, , In the early 1970 s boxing was ruled too A child's new doll has a most unusual Carol Byron, John Pickard, Dick Wilson, William Sargent. violent a sport for human beings, so vocabulary. It says things like "Momma," An old codger (Wynn) is convinced that his sophisticated androids took their place in the "Papa" and "I'm going to kill you!" life will end the moment his grandfather's ring. A small-time promoter (Lee Marvin) is clock breaks down. forced to enter the bout when his robot- protege gets damaged. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Alan Crosland Jr. Cast: , John Anderson, Josie Lloyd, RING-A-DING GIRL NIGHTMARE AT 20,000 FEET John Craven, Natalie Masters, John Marley, Frank Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr. Director: Alan Crosland Jr. Watkins. » Cast: Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday, David Matheson. Director: Dick Donner. Writer: Richard A small group of people are saved from a Macklin, George Mitchell, Bing Russell, Betty Lou Cast: William Shatner, Christine White, Edward mysterious"Old Gerson, Hank Patterson, Bill Hickman, Vic Perrin. Kemmer, Asa Maynor, Nick Cravat. nuclear holocaust by the Man Movie star Bunny Blake (McNamara) saves This compiler's candidate for the most In The Cave" — who turns out to be a com- from tragedy by heeding a puter. a short story her home town frightening Twilight Zone episode of all. A Based on by Henry weird ring of hers that predicts the future. newly-recovered mental patient (Shatner) on Slesar. an airplane flying home peers out the window and sees a bestial creature on the wing, tam- Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr. Director: John Brahm. Naturally, Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Don Siegel. Cast: Sir pering with one of the engines. Cast: Edward Andrews, Hellena Westcott, Kevin Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Ford, Ian Wolfe, believes his story. Tale is enhanced Hagen, Totty Ames, John Hanek. nobody John McLiam. by the marvelous William Tuttle monster A hit-and-run driver (Andrews) is harassed by Robby the Robot is featured in this episode. make-up, especially in one shocking close- his own automobile. The spirit of an old inventor avenges himself up. on his greedy niece when he dies at her NUMBER 12 LOOKS JUST LIKE A KIND OF STOP WATCH hands. YOU Writer: Rod Serling. Director: John Rich. Cast: Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: Abner Biber- Richard Erdman, Herbie Faye, Leon Belasco, Doris man. Cast: Suzy Parker, Richard Long, Pamela Singleton, Roy Roberts. Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Jacques Tour- Austin, Collin Wilcox. neau. Cast: Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe, Martine A talkative and rather unpopular fellow (Erd- The actors play multiple roles in this futuristic Barlett. man) stumbles upon a watch that can stop all drama about the loss of individuality. A The ladies are smashing in this tale about a action in the world. young woman (Wilcox) rejects treatments lonely spinster (Cooper) who suddenly starts that will make her physically flawless like the receiving mysterious phone calls from a long- NIGHT OF rest of the people in the drab society she lives THE LAST A dead lover. JOCKEY in. Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Joseph Newman. PROBE 7-OVER AND OUT Cast: . Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Ted Post. Cast: is the sole star of this predictable Rooney , Antoinette Bower, Frank yarn about a jockey who thinks that being tall Cooper, Barton Heyman. will solve all of his personal problems. The lone survivors (Basehart, Bower) of two annihilated planets must begin new lives

together on a world known as ... Earth.

THE 7th IS MADE UP OF PHANTOMS Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Alan Crosland Jr. Cast: Ron Foster, Warren Oates, Randy Boone, Robert Bray, Wayne Mallory. Greg Morris, Jeffrey Morris, Lew Brown. Modern-day soldiers on the site of Custer's Last Stand encounter the warring spirits of the 7th Cavalry and the Sioux nation.

48 Probe 7-Over And Out starred Richard Basehart Lee Marvin's robot boxer in Steel. A tortured William Shatner in Nightmare At 20,000 Feet. and Antoinette Bower.

THE LONG MORROW STOPOVER IN A QUIET TOWN CAESAR AND ME Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Robert Fleury. Cast: Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr. Director: Ron Winston. Writer: A.T. Strassfield. Director: . Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley, George Cast: Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone, Denise Lynn, Cast: Jackie Cooper, Suzanne Cupito, Stafford MacReady, Edward Binns. Karen Norris. Repp, Sarah Selby, Don Gazzaniga, Sidney Marion, Ken Konopka. A scientist hopes that by refusing to use a A married couple (Nelson, Malone) wake up Continuing a gimmick started suspended animation apparatus on a thirty- one morning in a strange town where in "", a ventriloquist's year space probe he will remain in the same everything is artificial, and the air is filled with dummy comes to life and offers his age ratio as the woman he loves. a child's laughter. master some pretty unusual ad- vice. This was one of the first television THE SELF-IMPROVEMENT OF QUEEN OF THE NILE scripts to be written by a woman. SALVATORE ROSS Writer: Charles Beaumont. Director: John Brahm. Cast: Blyth, Lee Phillips, Celia Lovsky, Rujh THE Writers: Henry Selsar and Jerry McNelley. Direc- Ann JEOPARDY ROOM Phillips, . tor: Don Siegel. Cast: Don Gordon, Gail Kobe, Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Dick Donner. Cast: Vaughn Taylor, Douglass Dumbrille, Doug Lam- An inquisitive reporter (Phillips) tries to find Martin Landau, John VanDreelen, Robert Kelljan. bert, J. PatO'Malley. the key to the apparent immortality of a A defector is captured by a hired assassin and A man (Gordon) tries to parlay his strange glamorous movie star (Blyth), who is current- given three hours to earn his freedom. ability to trade traits with other people into a ly playing the "Queen of the Nile,". Prepare perfect life. yourself for an unusually gruesome finale! MR. GARRITY AND THE GRAVES WHAT'S IN THE BOX Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Ted Post. Cast: John Dehner, Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr. Director: Joseph Writer: Martin Goldsmith. Director: Dick Baer. Stanley Adams, J. Pat O'Malley, Norman Leavitt. Newman. Cast: Lee Kinsolving, Shelly Fabares, Cast: William Demerest, Sterling Holloway, Herbert Michael Forest, Tom Gilleran, Pyle, Irene Lytton, Howard Wright. A traveling salesman (Dehner) tells the back- , . Cab driver (Demarest) sees himself killing his ward members of a small community that he The three motorcycle bums who* ride into a wife on the television set. Later remade as can raise the dead. Later remade (sort of) as sleepy community are actually invaders from the premier episode of William Castle's Ghost an episode of Rod Serling's space who intend to contaminate the Earth's Story. called "Dr. Stringfellow's Rejuvenator". water supply. THE THE BRAIN CENTER FROM AGNES-WITH LOVE MASKS AT Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Abner Biberman. WHIPPLE'S Writer: Barney Scofield. Director: Dick Donner. Cast: Robert Keith, Milton Selzer, Virginia Gregg, Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Dick Donner. Cast: Cast: Waliy Cox, Ralph Taeger, Sue Randall, Brooke Hayward, Alan Sues. Richard Deacon, Paul Newlan, Ted DeCorsia, Burt Raymond Biley, Don Keefer. Another grisly horror tale that benefits from Conroy. Serio-comedy, as an advanced computer William Tuttle's make-up. A dying millionaire Robby the Robot makes another Twilight falls in love with its technician (Cox). tricks his evil, greedy family into wearing Zone appearance in this story about a callous SPUR OF THE MOMENT grotesque masks that match their inner executive (Deacon) who hopes to improve selves. Alan Sues, a few years before his his corporation by replacing all the employees Writer: Richard Matheson. Director: Elliot Silver- Laugh-In success, has a minor role as the with computers. stein. Cast: Diana Hyland, Marsha Hunt, Roger Davis, Robert Hogan, Phillip Ober. man's sadistic nephew. Odd melodrama about a woman (Hyland) who confronts the frightening vision of her I AM THE NIGHT-COLOR future self. ME BLACK Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Abner Biberman. Cast: Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, George Lin- dsey, Terry Becker, Ivan Dixon. Symbolic, talky message piece. On the day an idealistic young man is about to be executed for the willful murder of a bigot, the sun fails to shine on a small western town.

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D j 0l ...... Just Like You. Rod Serling and friend between takes. Writer: Tony Wilson. Director: Dick Donner. Cast: Gary Crosby, Bonnie Beacher, Hank Patterson, John Bolt. Haunting tale about the doom awaiting a fraudulent folk singer who persuades a back- woods girl to sing him an authentic folk ballad. THE FEAR Writer: Rod Serling. Director: Ted Post. Cast: Hazel Court, Mark Richman. Everything is relative in this story about an unhinged woman and a state trooper who sights a giant alien in a park. THE BEWITCHIN' POOL Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr. Director: Joseph Newman. Cast: Mary Badham, Tim Stafford, Kim Hector, Tod Andrews, Dee Hartford.

The last show of the series is about two neglected children who escape their con- stantly bickering parents by diving into their swimming pool and emerging in a mysterious, but loving, world.

The following episodes were originally broad- cast on the network but have been pulled out of syndication. Unfortunately, no cast or credits are available. SOUNDS AND SILENCE A SHORT DRINK FROM A CER- TAIN FOUNTAIN THE ENCOUNTER OCCURRENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE (This was an award-winning French short subject picked up by Serling for one network play on The Twilight Zone. Based on a classic

tale by Ambrose Bierce, it is set during the Civil War and concerns a man about to be hanged. Suddenly the rope mysteriously

breaks and the protagonist is free. After making his way through unfamiliar yet strangely pleasant territory, the man is about to embrace his loved ones when a sudden shock occurs: his neck is broken by the hang- man's noose. The entire escape-fantasy oc- curred for just a few fleeting moments in the man's mind.) if