Category: Z-View

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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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