Category: Z-View

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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Twilight Zone: “Nothing in the Dark” [Season 3, Episode 16]
Original Air Date: January 5, 1962

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

Starring: Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford and R.G. Armstrong.

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An old woman is afraid Death will take her if she leaves her apartment.  She has food delivered and never opens the door until no one is around.  Death has come calling before but she never lets him in.  When a police officer is shot and left to die outside her door she is faced with a dilemma…

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Twilight Zone: “A Quality of Mercy” [Season 3, Episode 15]
Original Air Date: December 29, 1961

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Rod Serling from an idea by Sam Rolfe

Starring: Dean Stockwell, Albert Salmi, Rayford Barnes and Leonard Nimoy.

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World War II is days from ending.  A ragged group of battle-weary soldiers on the front line get a new Lieutanant [Stockwell] who hopes to make a name for himself no matter the cost to his men.

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Twilight Zone: “Five Characters in Search of an Exit” [Season 3, Episode 14]
Original Air Date: December 22, 1961

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling from a short story by Marvin Petal

Starring: Susan Harrison, William Windom and Murray Matheson.

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An army major, a ballerina, a clown, a hobo and a bagpiper wake up to find themselves in a strange round room.  The walls are sheer and high, but there is no roof so if they could some how make it up and over they could escape.  But escape to where?

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Twilight Zone: “The Jungle” [Season 3, Episode 12]
Original Air Date: December 1, 1961

Director: William Claxton

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring: John Dehner, Walter Brooke and Jay Adler.

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Back home in New York City, after a year in Africa overseeing a major construction project, Alan Richards [Dehner] discovers his wife secretly placed a charm to ward off evil spells in his coat pocket.

His wife was afraid because a witch doctor had placed a curse on Richards and those working on the project which was destroying their land.  Richards leaves the charm on the bar as he heads home and it isn’t long before dangerous things begin to happen.

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Twilight Zone: “Still Valley” [Season 3, Episode 11]
Original Air Date: November 24, 1961

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Rod Serling from a story by Manly Wade Wellman

Starring: Gary Merrill, Vaughn Taylor and Mark Tapscott

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Confederate Scout Joseph Paradine [Merrill] enters a town deserted except for an old man and a Union Army unit frozen in place in the middle of the street.  The old man is a warlock and since he is dying, willing to pass along his powers to Paradine.  With his new powers Paradine plans to change the course of the war.

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