Category: TV

Twilight Zone: “The Parallel” [Season 4, Episode 11]
Original Air Date: March 7, 1963

Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Steve Forrest, Jacqueline Scott and Frank Aletter.

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When astronaut Robert Gaines [Forrest] returns from space he begins to notice little things have changed — his rank, the fence at his house, how he takes his coffee.  Could something have happened when mission control lost all contact with him during his space mission.  This is the Twilight Zone and you can bet on it!

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Twilight Zone: “No Time Like the Past” [Season 4, Episode 10]
Original Air Date: March 7, 1963

Director: Justus Addiss
Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Dana Andrews, Patricia Breslin and Malcolm Atterbury.

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Paul Driscoll [Andrews] repeatedly travels back in time with this hope of saving lives, but each time he finds that history can’t be changed.  Driscoll then decides to simply go back and live in a simpler time… but by him doing that won’t it change history?

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Twilight Zone: “Miniature” [Season 4, Episode 8]
Original Air Date: February 21, 1963

Director: Walter E. Grauman

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring: Robert Duvall, Pert Kelton, Barbara Barrie, William Windom and Barney Phillips..

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Charlie Parkes [Duvall] lives with his over-protective mom and finds himself having increasing difficulty fitting into the “real world.”  The one place that he finds peace is at the museum staring at a miniature house from the turn of the century.

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Twilight Zone: “Jess-Belle” [Season 4, Episode 7]
Original Air Date: February 14, 1963

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Starring: Anne Francis, James Best and Laura Devon.

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When backwoods beauty Jess-Belle’s man decides to marry another, Jess-Belle goes to a woman rumored to be a witch for help.

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Twilight Zone: “Death Ship” [Season 4, Episode 6]
Original Air Date: February 7, 1963

Director: Don Medford

Writer: Richard Matheson

Starring: Jack Klugman, Ross Martin and Fred Beir.

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An three man space craft lands on a planet and find a crashed ship that is an exact duplicate of their ship… and crew.

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Twilight Zone: “Mute” [Season 4, Episode 5]
Original Air Date: January 31, 1963

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writer: Richard Matheson

Starring: Barbara Baxley, Frank Overton, and Irene Dailey.

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A little girl raised by recluse parents to communicate only telepathically has trouble adjusting to civilization when she becomes an orphan.

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Twilight Zone: “He’s Alive” [Season 4, Episode 4]
Original Air Date: January 24, 1963

Director: Stuart Rosenberg

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Dennis Hopper, Ludwig Donath, Paul Mazursky.

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Peter Vollmer [Hopper] is a white supremacist trying to get a Neo-Nazi movement started.  The only crowds he draws come to insult or beat him up until a mysterious man begins to give Vollmer advice.  Soon Vollmer is more charismatic and his following begins to grow as does his paranoia.

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Twilight Zone: “Valley of the Shadow” [Season 4, Episode 3]
Original Air Date: January 10, 1963

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring: David Opatoshu, Ed Nelson and Natalie Trundy.

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Driving the back roads, Phillip Redfield [Nelson] ends up in the small town of Peaceful Valley.  Redfield sees something that puts his life at risk and is captured.  As townsfolk argue Redfield looks for a way out.

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Twilight Zone: “The Thirty Fathom Grave” [Season 4, Episode 2]
Original Air Date: January 10, 1963

Director: Perry Lafferty

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Mike Kellin, Simon Oakland, David Sheiner and Bill Bixby.

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The crew of a navy warship hears tapping from inside a submarine sunk 20 years earlier… and one of the ships crew members is starting to behave strangely.

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Twilight Zone: “The Changing of the Guard” [Season 3, Episode 37]
Original Air Date: June 1, 1962

Director: Robert Ellis Miller

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan and Philippa Bevans.

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Professor Ellis Fowler upon being forced to retire feels that he hasn’t had the impact he hoped his career would bring.  Fowler decides to commit suicide but before he goes through with it, he is visited by people from his past.

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Twilight Zone: “I Sing the Body Electric” [Season 3, Episode 35]
Original Air Date: May 18, 1962

Director: William Claxton and James Sheldon

Writer: Ray Bradbury

Starring: Josephine Hutchinson, David White, Vaughn Taylor and Veronica Cartwright.

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George is a widower raising three children on his own.  When George decides to purchase a robot that in all aspects looks like a grandma to assist with the children.  Two of the three children accept the robot but the third child rejects her with terrible results.

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Twilight Zone: “Young Man’s Fancy” [Season 3, Episode 34]
Original Air Date: May 11, 1962

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Richard Matheson

Starring: Phyllis Thaxter, Alex Nicol and Wallace Rooney.

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Alex Walker and his new bride arrive at the home in which Alex grew up with his clinging mother.  Alex’s mom recently died and they are there to sign papers to sell the home.  Alex begins to have second thoughts much to the despair of his new wife.

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