The Twilight Zone (Season 3)

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A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.

Two 7.2
Air date: 1961-09-15
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
The Arrival 6.9
Air date: 1961-09-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
The Shelter 8.4
Air date: 1961-09-29
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
The Passersby 6.6
Air date: 1961-10-06
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.
A Game of Pool 7.1
Air date: 1961-10-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
The Mirror 6.3
Air date: 1961-10-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.
The Grave 6.7
Air date: 1961-10-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.
It's a Good Life 8.0
Air date: 1961-11-03
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
Deaths-Head Revisited 6.9
Air date: 1961-11-10
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
The Midnight Sun 7.7
Air date: 1961-11-17
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
Still Valley 5.8
Air date: 1961-11-24
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
The Jungle 6.6
Air date: 1961-12-01
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
Once Upon a Time 7.2
Air date: 1961-12-15
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!
Five Characters in Search of an Exit 7.8
Air date: 1961-12-22
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
A Quality of Mercy 7.2
Air date: 1961-12-29
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.
Nothing in the Dark 7.7
Air date: 1962-01-05
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
One More Pallbearer 6.9
Air date: 1962-01-12
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
Dead Man's Shoes 6.7
Air date: 1962-01-19
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.
The Hunt 6.2
Air date: 1962-01-26
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.
Showdown with Rance McGrew 6.6
Air date: 1962-02-02
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.
Kick the Can 7.2
Air date: 1962-02-09
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".
A Piano in the House 7.0
Air date: 1962-02-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank 6.4
Air date: 1962-02-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
To Serve Man 8.5
Air date: 1962-03-02
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
The Fugitive 6.2
Air date: 1962-03-09
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
Little Girl Lost 7.1
Air date: 1962-03-16
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever.
Person or Persons Unknown 7.3
Air date: 1962-03-23
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
The Little People 7.2
Air date: 1962-03-30
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
Four O'Clock 5.6
Air date: 1962-04-06
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby 6.8
Air date: 1962-04-13
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
The Trade-Ins 7.3
Air date: 1962-04-20
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
The Gift 6.2
Air date: 1962-04-27
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.
The Dummy 6.8
Air date: 1962-05-04
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!
Young Man's Fancy 5.4
Air date: 1962-05-11
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
I Sing the Body Electric 7.2
Air date: 1962-05-18
Runtime: 26 min
Overview: A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
Cavender is Coming 5.9
Air date: 1962-05-25
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.
The Changing of the Guard 6.9
Air date: 1962-06-01
Runtime: 25 min
Overview: An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.