Category: Z-View

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.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers…

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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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.

The Overview: Beware of Spoilers….

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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