The Twilight Zone Season 3

Synopsis

The third season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from September 15, 1961 to June 1, 1962. There are 37 episodes. Continuing with Marius Constant's theme music, a different set of graphics was used for the opening, consisting of a rotating cone with concentric circles suggesting a spiral, receding into a star field. Rod Serling's narration from the second season was used, with the verse "That's the signpost up ahead" taken out: "You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop—The Twilight Zone." Some subtle changes in the opening's acoustics were made beginning with Person or Persons Unknown.

Main Cast

Rod Serling

Self - Host

Age : 50 | Popularity : 5%

Episodes

Episode 1

15 September 1961 - Two

A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.

Episode 2

22 September 1961 - The Arrival

A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!

Episode 3

29 September 1961 - The Shelter

When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

Episode 4

06 October 1961 - The Passersby

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.

Episode 5

13 October 1961 - A Game of Pool

Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.

Episode 6

20 October 1961 - The Mirror

After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.

Episode 7

27 October 1961 - The Grave

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.

Episode 8

03 November 1961 - It's a Good Life

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.

Episode 9

10 November 1961 - Deaths-Head Revisited

A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.

Episode 10

17 November 1961 - The Midnight Sun

The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.

Episode 11

24 November 1961 - Still Valley

Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.

Episode 12

01 December 1961 - The Jungle

Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.

Episode 13

15 December 1961 - Once Upon a Time

Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!

Episode 14

22 December 1961 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit

A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

Episode 15

29 December 1961 - A Quality of Mercy

A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.

Episode 16

05 January 1962 - Nothing in the Dark

A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."

Episode 17

12 January 1962 - One More Pallbearer

Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.

Episode 18

19 January 1962 - Dead Man's Shoes

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.

Episode 19

26 January 1962 - The Hunt

On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.

Episode 20

02 February 1962 - Showdown with Rance McGrew

Actor Rance McGrew makes TV Westerns for a living, but he's a lousy actor and a worse cowboy. Despite that, each week he "wins" against the bad guys. Finally the bad guys have enough and send Jesse James to Earth to teach McGrew a lesson.

Episode 21

09 February 1962 - Kick the Can

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."

Episode 22

16 February 1962 - A Piano in the House

Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.

Episode 23

23 February 1962 - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...

Episode 24

02 March 1962 - To Serve Man

The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.

Episode 25

09 March 1962 - The Fugitive

Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

Episode 26

16 March 1962 - Little Girl Lost

A six-year-old girl rolls 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.

Episode 27

23 March 1962 - Person or Persons Unknown

David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

Episode 28

30 March 1962 - The Little People

An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.

Episode 29

06 April 1962 - Four O'Clock

Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.

Episode 30

13 April 1962 - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.

Episode 31

20 April 1962 - The Trade-Ins

An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.

Episode 32

27 April 1962 - The Gift

An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.

Episode 33

04 May 1962 - The Dummy

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!

Episode 34

11 May 1962 - Young Man's Fancy

When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.

Episode 35

18 May 1962 - I Sing the Body Electric

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

Episode 36

25 May 1962 - Cavender is Coming

Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.

Episode 37

01 June 1962 - The Changing of the Guard

An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Herbert Hirschman William Froug
	Executive Producer	Rod Serling
Department	Role	Name

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