Previews and Reviews that are Z's Views
Twilight Zone: “Printer’s Devil” [Season 4, Episode 9]
Original Air Date: February 28, 1963
Director: Ralph Senensky
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: Robert Sterling, Pat Crowley and Burgess Meredith
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Douglas Winter sells his soul to the devil in order to save his dying business only to find that he may have lost much more than his soul…
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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: “In His Image” [Season 4, Episode 1]
Original Air Date: January 1, 1963
Director: Perry Lafferty
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Starring: George Grizzard, Gail Kobe and Katherine Squire.
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Jessica is in love with a man with a mysterious past that gets uncontrollable urges to kill.
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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: “Cavender is Coming” [Season 3, Episode 36]
Original Air Date: May 25, 1962
Director: Chris Nyby
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: Jesse White, Carol Burnett, Howard Smith and Donna Douglas.
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Harmon Cavender [White] is an angel who has yet to earn his wings. He’s given one last chance by improving the life of woman [Burnett].
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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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Twilight Zone: “The Dummy” [Season 3, Episode 33]
Original Air Date: May 4, 1962
Director: Abner Biberman
Writer: Rod Serling based on a story by Lee Polk
Starring: Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton and George Murdock.
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Jerry Etherson is a very good ventriloquist. The only thing holding him back from the big time is his dummy… who is very evil and very alive.
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Twilight Zone: “The Gift” [Season 3, Episode 32]
Original Air Date: April 27, 1962
Director: Allen H. Minor
Writer: Rod Serling
Starring: Geoffrey Horne, Nico Minardos and Cliff Osmond.
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Word reaches a small Mexican village that a space craft crashed nearby and the alien encounter with the police left one of the officers dead and the alien wounded. Shortly after a stranger shows up in town.
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