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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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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: “Hocus-Pokus and Fisby” [Season 3, Episode 30]
Original Air Date: April 13, 1962
Director: Lamont Johnson
Writer: Rod Serling based on a short story by Frederick Louis Fox
Starring: Andy Devine, Milton Selzer and Howard McNear.
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Somerset Fisby [Devine] is known to tell tale tales about everything. To hear Fisby tell it he has several advanced degrees and the greatest minds in the world seek his advice.
Everyone knows to take what Fisby says with a grain of salt except for the two strangers passing through town… they turn out to be aliens in disguise and believe Fisby would be the perfect example of a human to take to their planet.
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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: “To Serve Man” [Season 3, Episode 24]
Original Air Date: March 2, 1962
Director: Richard L. Bare
Writer: Rod Serling based on a story by Damon Knight
Starring: Lloyd Bochner, Susan Cummings and Richard Kiel.
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Aliens come to earth promising peace and shared technology. They seem to be making good on their promise to turn earth into a paradise, yet some doubts linger…
This is one of the best Twilight Zone episodes made.
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