Category: Z-View

Twilight Zone: “Ring-A-Ding Girl” [Season 5, Episode 13]
Original Air Date: December 27, 1963

Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Starring: Maggie McNamara, Mary Munday and David Macklin.

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Big time movie star, Barbara Blake returns to her small home town the same day as the town’s annual picnic.  The people of her small town paid her way to Hollywood before she made it big and are excited that Barbara will be at the town picnic… but Barbara has plans of her own.

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Twilight Zone: “Ninety Years Without Slumbering” [Season 5, Episode 12]
Original Air Date: December 20, 1963

Director: Roger Kay
Writer: Richard De Roy from a story by George Clayton Johnson writing as Johnson Smith

Starring: Ed Wynn, Carolyn Kearney and James T. Callahan.

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Sam Forstman [Wynn] is a 90 year old man who believes that if his 90 year old grandfather clock ever stops running, he will die.

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Twilight Zone: “A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain” [Season 5, Episode 11]
Original Air Date: December 13, 1963

Director: Brian Girard
Writer: Rod Serling from a story by Lou Holz

Starring: Patrick O’Neal, Ruta Lee and Walter Brooke.

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Harmon Gordon [O’Neal] is an elderly man married to a gold-digger half his age.  In an effort to not lose her Gordon forces his brother to give him an experimental youth serum.  The serum works but things don’t turn out as planned.

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Twilight Zone: “The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms” [Season 5, Episode 10]
Original Air Date: December 6, 1963

Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Ron Foster, Warren Oates, Randy Boone, and Greg Morris.

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Three modern-day soldiers on National Guard training near the location of the Battle of the Little Big Horn see increasing signs of hostile Indians.

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Twilight Zone: “Probe 7: Over and Out” [Season 5, Episode 9]
Original Air Date: November 29, 1963

Director: Ted Post
Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Richard Basehart, Antoinette Bower and Harold Gould.

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Things are dire for Astronaut Adam Cook.  He has crash-landed on a remote planet and there is no chance for a rescue craft since back home there has been a nuclear armageddon.  Cook is prepared for life alone on this remote planet when he meets the sole-surviving female another world.

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Twilight Zone: “Uncle Simon” [Season 5, Episode 8]
Original Air Date: November 15, 1963

Director: Don Siegal
Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Ford and Ian Wolfe.

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Frumpy Barbara Polk [Ford] has been taking care of her wealthy but mean Uncle Simon for years.  She can’t wait for him to pass on so she can really live. Soon enough Uncle Simon dies in a fall but things don’t turn out quite as Barbara planned.

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Twilight Zone: “The Old Man in the Cave” [Season 5, Episode 7]
Original Air Date: November 1, 1963

Director: Alan Crosland, Jr.
Writer: Rod Serling based on a story by Henry Slesar

Starring: James Coburn, John Anderson and Josie Lloyd.

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Years after a nuclear holocaust a small band of town folk survive thanks to an old man who lives in the cave.  When a small band of soldiers arrive to take over the town, they demand to meet the old man which is something everyone will live to regret.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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: “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.

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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: “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.

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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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