Category: Z-View

Twilight Zone: “The Mirror” [Season 3, Episode 6]
Original Air Date: October 20, 1961

Director: Don Medford

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Peter Falk, Will Kuluva and Antony Carbone.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Ramos Clemente [Falk] and his generals have led a successful revolution to overthrow their government.  Before his execution, the ousted dictator tells Clemente that the mirror in his office can predict who will betray him.  Clemente begins to see things in the mirror that are not happening in reality and that his closest generals plan to execute him!

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Twilight Zone: “A Game of Pool” [Season 3, Episode 5]
Original Air Date: October 6, 1961

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

Starring: Jack Klugman and Jonathon Winters.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Jesse Cardiff [Klugman] is the greatest pool player alive.  Sadly, no matter who or how many people Jesse beats, he always is told, that the late “Fats” Brown was better.  One night, alone in the pool hall, Jesse says he’d give anything to play “Fats.”

“Fats” appears and accepts the game if Jesse will wager his life.

Be careful what you ask for, because you just may get it all.

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Twilight Zone: “The Passerby” [Season 3, Episode 4]
Original Air Date: October 6, 1961

Director: Elliott Silverstein

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: James Gregory, Joanne Linville and Rex Holman.

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The Civil War has ended.  A young Confederate widow sits on her porch and watches a long procession of soldiers [Union and Confederate] slowly march by her house which is on a dark, remote road.  When a soldier asks for water and a chance to rest, she comes to discover that all is not what it seems.

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Twilight Zone: “The Shelter” [Season 3, Episode 3]
Original Air Date: September 29, 1961

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Larry Gates, Joseph Bernard and Jack Albertson.

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Several families from the neighborhood have come together to celebrate a birthday.  Just as toasts are made with everyone expressing their friendship, an emergency warning announcing an imminent nuclear attack is broadcast.

As each family prepares for the incoming bombs, they realize that one of the families has a bomb shelter.  Sadly it is not big enough to hold everyone.

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Twilight Zone: “Two” [Season 3, Episode 2]
Original Air Date: September 22, 1961

Director: Boris Sagal

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Harold J. Stone, Fredd Wayne and Noah Keen.

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When a commercial plane lands at an airport and is found to be empty of passengers and crew, it is up to Federal Aviation Investigator Grant Sheckly to discover what happened.

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Twilight Zone: “The Obsolete Man” [Season 2, Episode 29]
Original Air Date: June 2, 1961

Director: Elliott Silverstein

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver and Josip Elic.

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In a future totalitarian world, the government eliminates those who are no longer useful.  Romeny Wordsworth [Meredith], a librarian is determined to be obsolete and given a date for extermination.  What chance does this meek little man have against the will of the government?

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Twilight Zone: “The Mind and the Matter” [Season 2, Episode 27]
Original Air Date: May 12, 1961

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring:  Shelley Berman, Jack Grinnage and Chet Stratton.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Archibald Beechcroft [Berman] goes to work every day hating the ride in with all the people.  Once at work Beechcraft is irritated by his co-workers.  Then the ride home again among so many people.  Beechcroft feels like a cog in a broken wheel until he develops the power to make everyone disappear or be exactly like him.

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Twilight Zone: “The Silence” [Season 2, Episode 25]
Original Air Date: April 28, 1961

Director: Boris Sagal

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring:  Franchot Tone, Liam Sullivan, and Cyril Delevanti .

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Jamie Tennyson [Sullivan] loves to hear himself talk.  He has an opinion or story on or about anything.  He never shuts up.  Colonel Taylor [Tone] can no longer take the constant chatter so he bets Tennyson a fortune that Tennyson can’t go a year without talking.

The bet is made — Tennyson will live in a room at the club where he will be under constant watch.  As the months roll on and it begins to look like Tennyson might make it, Taylor goes to lengths to get him to talk… ah, but Tennyson has a trick of his own.

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Twilight Zone: “Shadow Play” [Season 2, Episode 26]
Original Air Date: May 5, 1961

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring:  Dennis Weaver, Harry Townes and Wright King.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

When convicted murder, Adam Grant [Weaver], is sentenced to die he begins to scream that he won’t be killed again and that if he is, he will come back and it is they who will die.  A newspaper man begins to believe Grant and if what Grant says is true, if Grant dies, everyone dies.

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Twilight Zone: “100 Yards Over the Rim” [Season 2, Episode 23]
Original Air Date: April 7, 1961

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring:  Cliff Robertson, John Crawford, Evans Evans and Edward Platt.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Christian Horn [Robertson] is leading a wagon train out west in 1847.  Horn’s son is burning up with a high fever and unless some water is found he may die.  Horn leaves the wagon train to search for water.  When he goes over a dune he finds himself in modern times.

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