Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Twilight Zone: “Living Doll” [Season 5, Episode 6]
Original Air Date: November 1, 1963
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: Telly Savalas, Mary LaRoche and Tracy Stratford.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Erich Streator [Savalas] becomes concerned when his stepdaughter’s new talking doll repeatedly tells him she plans to kill him.
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Twilight Zone: “The Last Night of a Jockey” [Season 5, Episode 5]
Original Air Date: October 25, 1963
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: Mickey Rooney.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
A jockey [Rooney] recently banned from racing for fixing races and drugging horses gets his wish answered.
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Twilight Zone: “A Kind of Stopwatch” [Season 5, Episode 4]
Original Air Date: October 18, 1963
Director: John Rich
Writer: Rod Serling from a story by Michael D. Rosenthal
Starring: Richard Erdman, Herbie Faye and Leon Belasco.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
A man gets a stopwatch that freezes time and everyone and everything in the world around him. He decides to rob a bank by stopping time and just walking away with the money. What could go wrong?
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Twilight Zone: “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet” [Season 5, Episode 3]
Original Air Date: October 11, 1963
Director: Richard Donner
Writer: Richard Matheson
Starring: William Shatner, Christine White, and Ed Kemmer.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Bob Wilson [Shatner] and his wife are flying home. Wilson has just recovered from a nervous breakdown and a storm is making the flight less than comfortable. Wilson becomes alarmed when he sees a creature on the wing of the plane tearing at wires. His wife and others think Bob is suffering a relapse but he’s not…
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Twilight Zone: “Steel” [Season 5, Episode 2]
Original Air Date: October 4, 1963
Director: Don Weis
Writer: Richard Matheson
Starring: Lee Marvin, Joe Mantell, Chuck Hicks.
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Boxing between humans has been outlawed. Now boxing takes place between robots. Former boxer Steel Kelly [Marvin] takes his beat-up outdated robot on the boxing circuit. When Kelly’s robot stops working right before a match, Kelly decides to take the robot’s place in order to get paid.
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Twilight Zone: “In Praise of Pip” [Season 5, Episode 1]
Original Air Date: September 27, 1963
Director: Joseph M. Newman
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: Jack Klugman, Connie Gilchrist, Bobby Diamond and Bill Mumy.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
A bookie [Klugman] is stabbed protecting a young man. As the bookie bleeds to death, his only wish is to see his son (who is serving in Viet Nam) one last time.
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Twilight Zone: “The Bard” [Season 4, Episode 18]
Original Air Date: May 23, 1963
Director: David Butler
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: Jack Weston, John McGiver, Doro Merande and Burt Reynolds.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
An untalented television writer [Weston] finds a way to transport William Shakespeare from the past. Soon the writer is successful thanks to Shakespear ghosting his scripts. Things go south when Shakespeare shows up on the set.
[Burt Reynolds’ take on Marlon Brando is worth the price of admission.]
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Twilight Zone: “Passage on the Lady Anne” [Season 4, Episode 17]
Original Air Date: May 9, 1963
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: Gladys Cooper, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Cecil Kellaway and Alan Napier.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
A young married couple decide a cruise will do them good and book passage on an old ship. Upon boarding they notice that all the passengers are old. Stranger still, the passengers keep insisting that the couple get off the ship immediately. The couple fails to listen and the ship sets sail… for The Twilight Zone.
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Twilight Zone: “On Thursday We Leave for Home” [Season 4, Episode 16]
Original Air Date: May 2, 1963
Director: Buzz Kulik
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: James Whitmore, Tim O’Connor and James Broderick .
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A group of colonists stranded on a barren planet have struggled to survive for the past 30 years. The colonists have come to depend on Captain Benteen [Whitmore] in every area of their lives. When a rescue ship finally arrives and can transport them all back to Earth problems arise.
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Twilight Zone: “The Incredible World of Horace Ford” [Season 4, Episode 15]
Original Air Date: April 18, 1963
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Reginald Rose
Starring: Pat Hingle, Nan Martin, and Ruth White.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Horace Ford [Hingle] is obsessed with his childhood days when the world was a better place. His obsession is starting to take a toll on his life and when Ford gets the chance to return to his childhood he finds things are not all as he remembered.
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Twilight Zone: “Of Late I Think of Cliffordville” [Season 4, Episode 14]
Original Air Date: April 11, 1963
Director: David Lowell Rich
Writer: Malcolm Jameson
Starring: Albert Salmi, John Anderson, Wright King and Julie Newmar.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
William Feathersmith [Salmi] is very old and very rich. Feathersmith made his money at the expense of others. It isn’t the wealth that made Feathersmith happy it was getting it at the expense of others.
When offered a deal with the devil for the opportunity to go back in time and do it all over again, Feathersmith accepts. With the knowledge he has of things that will happen, he knows that he came create an even bigger empire but of course Feathersmith’s deal was with the devil and this is the Twilight Zone.
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Twilight Zone: “The New Exhibit” [Season 4, Episode 13]
Original Air Date: April 4, 1963
Director: John Brahm
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: Martin Balsam, Will Kuluva and Margaret Field.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
When a wax museum closes down, Martin [Balsam] the meek tour guide, convinces the museum owner to let Martin keep the five wax figures from “Murder’s Row.” Martin places them in his basement and becomes obsessed with them. He takes such good care of them does it comes as any surprise that people who come between Martin and his “friends” end up dead… and not at the hands of Martin!
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Twilight Zone: “I Dream of Jeannie” [Season 4, Episode 12]
Original Air Date: March 21, 1963
Director: Robert Gist
Writer: John Furia Jr.
Starring: Howard Morris, Patricia Barry, Loring Smith and Jack Albertson.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
Nothing ever works out for mild-mannered George P. Hanley [Morris]. Hanley is so used to things going wrong that even when he ends up with a magic lamp and the genie offers him just ONE wish, Hanley imagines all the things that will go wrong with different wishes he could make… then he realizes the perfect wish.
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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.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
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.
The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…
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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