Category: Z-View

Twilight Zone: “The Bewitchin’ Pool” [Season 5, Episode 36]
Original Air Date: June 19, 1964

Director: Joseph M. Newman

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Starring: Mary Badham, Dee Hartford and Tod Andrews.

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Two young children of self-centered divorcing parents who are always fighting find a portal at the bottom of their swimming pool that takes them to a better place.

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Twilight Zone: “The Fear” [Season 5, Episode 35]
Original Air Date: May 29, 1964

Director: Ted Post

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Peter Mark Richman and Hazel Court.

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A woman in a remote cabin.  A state trooper sent out to check on her.  Strange sounds and the trooper’s patrol car turned over as night sets in and you have the right set-up for The Twilight Zone.

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Twilight Zone: “Come Wander with Me” [Season 5, Episode 34]
Original Air Date: May 22, 1964

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Anthony Wilson

Starring: Gary Crosby, Bonnie Beecher and Jonathan Bolt.

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Floyd Burney [Crosby], the “Rock-a-Billy-Kid”, drives way off the beaten path in hopes of finding a real country song that he can turn into a hit.  He finds the song and his destiny in the deep woods.

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Twilight Zone: “The Brain Center at Whipples” [Season 5, Episode 33]
Original Air Date: May 15, 1964

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Richard Deacon, Paul Newlan and Ted de Corsia.

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Wallace Whipple [Deacon] looks to automate his company in every way possible to save money.  Firing long-time dedicated employees is a small price to pay to increase profits.  His goal is to automate every position possible… but of course he’s in the Twilight Zone so he should be careful what he wishes for.

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Twilight Zone: “Mr. Garrity and the Graves” [Season 5, Episode 32]
Original Air Date: May 8, 1964

Director: Ted Post

Writer: Rod Serling from a story by Mike Korologos

Starring: John Dehner, Stanley Adams, J. Pat O’Malley.

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Mr. Garrity [Dehner] arrives in the western town of Happiness promising to raise beloved dead family and friends from their local graveyard.  Folks think Garrity is  con man until he revives a dead dog.

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Twilight Zone: “The Encounter” [Season 5, Episode 31]
Original Air Date: May 1, 1964

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Martin Goldsmith

Starring: Neville Brand and George Takei.

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A veteran [Brand] of the war in the Pacific and a Japanese-American [Takei] find themselves at odds when they are locked together in an attic.

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Twilight Zone: “Stopover in a Quiet Town” [Season 5, Episode 30]
Original Air Date: April 24, 1964

Director: Ron Winston

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Starring: Barry Nelson, Nancy Malone and Denise Lynn.

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After a night of too much to drink, Bob [Nelson] and Millie Frazier [Malone] wake up in a strange bed, in a strange house in a deserted town.

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Twilight Zone: “The Jeopardy Room” [Season 5, Episode 29]
Original Air Date: April 17, 1964

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Martin Landau, John Van Dreelen and Bob Kelljan.

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Major Ivan Kuchenko [Landau] recently escaped from a Communist prison and plans to defect to the United States.  All he has to do is catch a flight and he will be free.

Unfortunately, Comissar Vassiloff and his assassin assistant have caught up to Kuchenko in his flop house room.  The sadistic Vassiloff has planted a bomb in the room and his assassin has the exits covered with a high-powered rifle.  As the clock ticks down, Kuchenko must figure out his escape.

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Twilight Zone: “Caesar and Me” [Season 5, Episode 28]
Original Air Date: April 10, 1964

Director: Robert Butler

Writer: Adele T. Strassfield

Starring: Jackie Cooper, Morgan Brittany and Sarah Selby.

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Jonathon West [Cooper] is an out-of-work ventriloquist with bills coming due.  When his dummy suggests they start robbing places, things start to fall in place.  Of course when the brains of the outfit is a dummy…

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Twilight Zone: “Sounds and Silences” [Season 5, Episode 27]
Original Air Date: April 3, 1964

Director: Richard Donner

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: John McGiver, Michael Fox and Renee Aubry.

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Rosswell G. Flemington [McGiver] loves loud noises.  He yells at his employees rather than speak.  He blasts rather than play his records [of jet engines and war sounds]!  Of course this is The Twilight Zone so it doesn’t end well for Mr. Flemington.

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Twilight Zone: “I am the Night, Color Me Black” [Season 5, Episode 26]
Original Air Date: March 27, 1964

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Michael Constantine, Paul Fix, George Lindsey and Ivan Dixon.

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A man is scheduled for execution at sunrise.  As minutes pass by it becomes clear that the town’s deputy perjured himself on the case, the sheriff was too worried about reelection to dig into the case and the local reporter is just now getting a conscious.

And isn’t sunrise a little late in coming?

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Twilight Zone: “Masks” [Season 5, Episode 25]
Original Air Date: March 20, 1964

Director: Ida Lupino

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Robert Keith, Milton Selzer, Virginia Gregg and Alan Sues.

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Jason Foster, a rich old man on his death-bed, summons his family to him.  He cares nothing for them and they only care about their coming inheritance.  Foster tells them they must wear masks until midnight or he will cut them out of his will.

Sure, it’s a crazy request, but what harm could come from wearing a mask?

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Twilight Zone: “What’s in the Box” [Season 5, Episode 24]
Original Air Date: March 13, 1964

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Martin Goldsmith

Starring: Joan Blondell, William Demarest and Sterling Holloway.

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A cranky old man [Demarest] comes home to argue with his bitter wife [Blondell] and complain that to the tv repairman [Holloway] that he’s taking to long to fix the set because he wants to amp up the bill.  Later when the old man is watching tv he sees himself cheating with his girlfriend… and killing his wife.

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Twilight Zone: “Queen of the Nile” [Season 5, Episode 22]
Original Air Date: March 6, 1964

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring: Ann Blyth, Lee Philips and Celia Lovsky.

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A reporter gets an interview with a Hollywood star who may be lying about her age by A LOT.  If she is lying, then how does she stay so young?

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Twilight Zone: “An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge” [Season 5, Episode 21]
Original Air Date: February 28, 1964

Director: Robert Enrico

Writer: Robert Enrico based on the story by Ambrose Pierce

Starring: Roger Jacquet, Anne Cornaly and Anker Larsen.

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A French adaptation of the classic Ambrose Pierce tale of a Civil War soldier sentenced to hang at Owl Creek Bridge.

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