Category: Z-View

Twilight Zone: “The Trade-Ins” [Season 3, Episode 31]
Original Air Date: April 20, 1962

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Joseph Schildkraut, Noah Keen and Alma Platt.

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John and Marie Holt have had a long and loving marriage.  The take their life savings to the New Life Corporation with the idea of having their consciousness transplanted into new, young and healthy bodies.  Sadly, they only have enough for one of them to get the transformation.

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Twilight Zone: “Four O’Clock” [Season 3, Episode 29]
Original Air Date: April 6, 1962

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling based on a short story by Price Day

Starring: Theodore Bikel, Phyllis Love and Linden Chiles.

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Oliver Crangle [Bikel] has made it his life’s work to ruin the lives of those he sees as communists, perverts, and undesirables.  Crangle contacts an FBI agent to say that he’s arranged that a four o’clock the evil people will transform.

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Twilight Zone: “The Little People” [Season 3, Episode 28]
Original Air Date: March 30, 1962

Director: William Claxton

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Joe Maross, Claude Akins and Michael Ford.

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Three astronauts make an emergency landing on an unknown planet and discover a society of beings the size of ants.  When the ship is repaired one of the astronauts elects to stay behind since the society view him as a god.

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Twilight Zone: “Person or Persons Unknown” [Season 3, Episode 27]
Original Air Date: March 23, 1962

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring: Richard Long, Frank Silvera and Shirley Ballard.

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After a night of drinking, David Gurney wakes up late for work and immediately starts getting ready.  When he can’t find his razor he goes out to wake his wife and ask if she moved it.  When his wife awakes she begins screaming at him as if he is a stranger.  Gurney soon discovers that no one recognizes him…

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Twilight Zone: “Little Girl Lost” [Season 3, Episode 26]
Original Air Date: March 16, 1962

Director: Paul Stewart

Writer: Richard Matheson

Starring: Sarah Marshall, Robert Sampson and Charles Aidman .

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Chris and Ruth Miller are awakened in the middle of the night by their little girl’s cries.  When they check her bed and her room she is nowhere to be found… and her cries seem to be coming from inside the wall.

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Twilight Zone: “The Fugitive” [Season 3, Episode 25]
Original Air Date: March 9, 1962

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring: Susan Gordon, J. Pat O’Malley and Nancy Kulp.

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Jenny is a young girl whose best friend is Old Ben.  Although elderly, Ben is young at heart, plays with Jenny and the kids and is always fun and kind.

Things change when two men show up claiming that Ben is an escaped fugitive from another planet and they are there to bring him back.

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Twilight Zone: “A Piano in the House” [Season 3, Episode 22]
Original Air Date: February 16, 1962

Director: David Greene

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Starring: Barry Morse, Joan Hackett and Don Durant.

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Fitzgerald Fortune [Morse] buys an old player piano that has the power to make people reveal their inner-most secrets.  Fortune arranges a party to take advantage of his guests, but as often happens in the Twilight Zone, things don’t go as planned.

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Twilight Zone: “Kick the Can” [Season 3, Episode 21]
Original Air Date: February 9, 1962

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

Starring: Ernest Truex, Russell Collins and John Marley.

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Charles Whitley [Truex] lives with other elderly residents of an old folks home.  They think he is going crazy, but he believes he has found the secret to return to childhood.

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Twilight Zone: “The Hunt” [Season 3, Episode 19]
Original Air Date: January 26, 1962

Director: Harold D. Schuster

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Starring: Arthur Hunnicutt, Jeanette Nolan and Robert Foulk.

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An elderly man takes his old dog hunting one evening.  When they return the following day, no one can see them and his wife is in mourning.  Although the old man and the dog have died they are about to go on a journey that will take them through the Twilight Zone.

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Twilight Zone: “Dead Man’s Shoes” [Season 3, Episode 18]
Original Air Date: January 19, 1962

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring: Warren Stevens, Richard Devon and Joan Marshall.

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A homeless man witnesses a gangland killing and before the police arrives steals the dead man’s shoes.  Once he has the shoes on, he gains the dead man’s memories and decides on revenge.

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Twilight Zone: “One More Pallbearer” [Season 3, Episode 17]
Original Air Date: January 5, 1962

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Joseph Wiseman, Katherine Squire and Trevor Bardette.

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Paul Radin [Wiseman] is a very wealthy but very petty man.  He lures three people from his past to his private bunker hoping to get an apology from them for perceived wrongs.  Radin has set up an elaborate prank – that there is about to be a nuclear war – and their apologies will allow them to stay safe with him in his bunker.

As expected in the Twilight Zone – things often don’t work out as planned.

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