Twilight Zone: “Hocus-Pokus and Fisby” [Season 3, Episode 30] / Z-View

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.


The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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] / Z-View

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.


The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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] / Z-View

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.


The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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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116 Amazing Facts for People Who Like Amazing Facts

Alvin Ward and Mental_Floss present 116 Amazing Facts for People Who Like Amazing Facts.  Here are three of my favorites…

50. Roger Ebert and Oprah Winfrey went on a couple dates in the mid-1980s. It was Roger who convinced her to syndicate her talk show.

62. Dolly Parton once entered a Dolly Parton look-a-like contest—and lost.

74. Herbert Hoover was Stanford’s football team manager. At the first Stanford-Cal game in 1892, he forgot to bring the ball.

Twilight Zone: “Person or Persons Unknown” [Season 3, Episode 27] / Z-View

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.


The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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] / Z-View

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 .


The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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] / Z-View

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.


The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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] / Z-View

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.


The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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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