Craig Zablo

Twilight Zone: “Night Call” [Season 5, Episode 19]
Original Air Date: February 7, 1964

Director: Jacques Tourneur

Writer: Richard Matheson

Starring: Gladys Cooper, Nora Marlowe and Martine Bartlett.

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An old woman repeatedly gets phone calls from a man that are hard to understand.  The calls frighten the woman so she asks and then tells the man to stop calling.  Calls to the telephone company determine the location where a line is down and promise that the line will be fixed. When the woman travels to the location of the downed line she is shocked…

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Twilight Zone: “Black Leather Jackets” [Season 5, Episode 18]
Original Air Date: January 31, 1964

Director: Earl M. Neuman

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Starring: Lee Kinsolving, Shelley Fabares, Michael Forest, Denver Pyle and Michael Conrad.

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Three young motorcyle gang members move into a quiet neighborhood.  They’re trouble all right, but not the kind you’d think.

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Twilight Zone: “Number 12 Looks Just Like You” [Season 5, Episode 17]
Original Air Date: January 24, 1964

Director: Abner Biberman

Writer: Charles Beaumont and John Tomerlin

Starring: Collin Wilcox Paxton, Richard Long and Pamela Austin.

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Marilyn Cuberle [Wilcox] is approaching her 19th birthday and will have to chose the body-type she wishes to have.  In her futuristic society all people have a beautiful body since they must chose one of the offered prototypes.  Marilyn doesn’t want to change her looks and that’s not going over too well.

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Twilight Zone: “The Improvement of Salvadore Ross” [Season 5, Episode 16]
Original Air Date: January 17, 1964

Director: Don Siegel
Writer: Jerry McNeely based on a short story by Henry Slesar

Starring: Don Gordon, Gail Kobe and Vaughn Taylor.

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Salvadore Ross [Gordon] has the ability to trade characteristics with others.  Once he learns this Ross begins to amass all of the things he ever wanted.  He trades his youth for riches.  Ross then trades off some money to regain his youth.  The only thing that Ross can’t get is the affection of the woman [Kobe] he loves but he vows he will die trying…

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Twilight Zone: “The Long Morrow” [Season 5, Episode 15]
Original Air Date: January 10, 1964

Director: Robert Florey
Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Robert Lansing, Mariette Hartley and Edward Binns.

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An astronaut [Lansing] chosen for a mission to deep space because he had no family falls in love with a woman shortly before leaving on his 40 year mission into space.  Since he will be in suspended animation, he will not have aged when he returns but everyone else (including his lover) will be 40 years older.

This episode could have been written by O. Henry.

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Twilight Zone: “You Drive” [Season 5, Episode 14]
Original Air Date: January 3, 1964

Director: John Brahm
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

Starring: Edward Andrews, Helen Westcott and Kevin Hagen.

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After Oliver Pope [Andrews] accidently hits a bicyclist and leaves the boy to die, Andrews’ car begins to try to kill him!

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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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