Category: Z-View

Z-View Twilight Zone: “100 Yards Over the Rim”

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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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Z-View Twilight Zone: “Long Distance Call”

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Twilight Zone: “Long Distance Call” [Season 2, Episode 22]
Original Air Date: March 31, 1961

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring:  Philip Abbott, Lili Darvas, Patricia Smith and Billy Mummy.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Billy Bayles [Mummy] receives a toy phone from his grandmother [Darvas] as a birthday gift.  Grandma and Billy claim that the phone will always keep them in touch.  After Grandma dies, Billy says she still talks to him on the phone.  His parents don’t believe him until…

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “The Prime Mover” [Season 2, Episode 21]

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Twilight Zone: “The Prime Mover” [Season 2, Episode 21]
Original Air Date: March 24, 1961

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Charles Beaumont

Starring:  Dane Clark, Buddy Ebsen and Christine White.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Ace Larson [Clark] and his buddy, Jimbo Cobb [Ebson] own a small diner.  While they are getting by, they ain’t gettin’ rich.  Larson hopes to save enough money to marry his girl [White] but the outlook isn’t rosy… until Larson learns his pal Cobb has telekinetic powers!

Larson convinces Cobb to go to Vegas so they can “earn” enough money for him to wed, but greed gets in the way…

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “Static” [Season 2, Episode 20]

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Twilight Zone: “Static” [Season 2, Episode 20]
Original Air Date: March 10, 1961

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Charles Beaumont from a story by Oceo Ritch

Starring:  Dean Jagger, Carmen Mathews and Robert Emhardt.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Ed Lindsay [Jagger], living in a boarding house with other tenants (including a woman he almost married) has, over the years, turned into a mean old man.  Things begin to change when Lindsay begins listening to an vintage radio and hears a radio station that has been off the air for over a decade.

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “Mr. Dingle, the Strong” [Season 2, Episode 19]

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Twilight Zone: “Mr. Dingle, The Strong” [Season 2, Episode 19]
Original Air Date: March 3, 1961

Director: John Brahm

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring:  Burgess Meredith, James Westerfield and Eddie Ryder.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Luther Dingle [Meredith] spends most evenings at the local pub trying to relax with a beer.  Sadly Dingle is often called to settle ever-escalating arguments between another patron and the bartender.  Somehow Dingle always ends up the loser.

Invisible aliens visiting our planet see what is happening to Dingle and decide to give him super strength.  Dingle becomes a local celebrity… for a while.

Burgess Meredith saves this episode.

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “The Odyssey of Flight 33” [Season 2, Episode 18]

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Twilight Zone: “The Odyssey of Flight 33” [Season 2, Episode 18]
Original Air Date: February 24, 1961

Director: Justus Addiss

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: John Anderson, Paul Comi and Sandy Kenyon.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Flight 33 from London to New York appears to be a routine flight until they hit some strange turbulence that rockets the plane to dangerous speeds.  When the plane is free of the turbulence all returns to normal… or so it seems until it is time to land.

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “22” [Season 2, Episode 17]

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Twilight Zone: “22” [Season 2, Episode 17]
Original Air Date: February 3, 1961

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: Bennett Cerf

Starring: Barbara Nichols, Jonathon Harris, and Arlene Martel.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

While recovering in the hospital, Liz Powell [Nichols] has a recurring nightmare where she ends up in a morgue.  Fearing that this is a vision she is going to die, Powell tells the dream to her manager and her doctor.  Both men laugh it off as her being tired from overwork.

When Powell finally begins to piece together what the dream means, it may be too late…

 

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “A Penny for Your Thoughts” [Season 2, Episode 16]

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Twilight Zone: “A Penny for Your Thoughts” [Season 2, Episode 16]
Original Air Date: February 3, 1961

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

Starring: Dick York and June Daytona.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

When a timid bank teller [York] gains the ability to read other people’s minds, he is able to see that many are not as they seems.

 

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “The Invaders” [Season 2, Episode 15]

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Twilight Zone: “The Invaders” [Season 2, Episode 15]
Original Air Date: January 27, 1961

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Richard Matheson

Starring: Agnes Morrehead.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

An old woman who lives alone in a rural shack with no modern conveniences finds herself under attack when small visitors from another planet land on her roof.

Contains one of the best Twilight Zone twist endings of all.

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “The Whole Truth” [Season 2, Episode 14]

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Twilight Zone: “The Whole Truth” [Season 2, Episode 14]
Original Air Date: January 20, 1961

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Jack Carson.

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Harvey Hunnicutt [Carson] is all that the worst used car salesmen are said to be.  He stretches the truth and only cares about making the sale.  All of that changes when Hunnicut buys a used car for resale that compels him to tell the truth in all situations.

A nice change of pace that is under-rated.

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “Back There” [Season 2, Episode 13]

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Twilight Zone: “Back There” [Season 2, Episode 13]
Original Air Date: January 13, 1961

Director: David Orrick McDearmon

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Russell Johnson and Paul Hartman.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

Pete Corrigan [Russell Johnson of Gilligan’s Island fame] spends the evening debating the possibility of time travel to the past to change events.  When he walks outside that evening Corrigan finds himself transported back in time to the evening that President Lincoln was assassinated.  With little time to spare, can Corrigan change history?

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “Dust” [Season 2, Episode 12]

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Twilight Zone: “Dust” [Season 2, Episode 12]
Original Air Date: January 6, 1961

Director: Douglas Heyes

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Thomas Gomez, John Larch and Vladimir Sokoloff.

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Gallegos’ son is scheduled to be hanged for the accidental death of child. Gallegos begs the Marshall for mercy, but unless the dead child’s parents give consent to stop, the hanging must go on.

An unscrupulous traveling salesman offers to sell Gallegos magic dust which has the power to grant his wish.

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “The Night of the Meek” [Season 2, Episode 11]

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Twilight Zone: “The Night of the Meek” [Season 2, Episode 11]
Original Air Date: December 23, 1960

Director: Jack Smight

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Art Carney and John Fiedler.

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

Henry Corwin [Carney] is an alcoholic who gets seasonal work playing Santa at a department store.  When Corwin shows up late to work and under the influence he is fired.  Corwin thinks about all of the children he has let down and how he wishes he were the real Santa and could give out presents to all.  Sometimes wishes do come true…

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “A Most Unusual Camera” [Season 2, Episode 10]

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Twilight Zone: “A Most Unusual Camera” [Season 2, Episode 10]
Original Air Date: December 16, 1960

Director: John Rich

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Fred Clark, Jean Carson and Adam Williams.

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

When a husband and wife team who are small time hustlers get their hands on a camera that takes photos that are five minutes in the future, they head to the race track to get rich. All is good until the brother-in-law shows up.

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Z-View Twilight Zone: “The Trouble with Templeton” [Season 2, Episode 9]

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Twilight Zone: “The Trouble with Templeton” [Season 2, Episode 9]
Original Air Date: December 9, 1960

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Rod Serling

Starring: Brian Aherne, Pippa Scott and Sydney Pollack.

The Overview:  Beware of Spoilers…

Booth Templeton [Aherne] is an aging actor nostalgic for the good old days when he was the toast of the town and his wife was still alive.  Sadly, when Templeton gets a chance to visit the past he finds things are not as he remembered them.

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