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SEASON 1 – CBS

Created by Rod Serling

Theme song by Bernard Herrmann, narrated by Rod Serling

NOTE: The 1957 pilot for this anthology series was entitled “The Time Element”, which was broadcast in 1958 on the anthology series “Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse.”

• 000. Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse: The Time Element – 11/24/1958
  • A man named Peter Jenson (William Bendix) visits psychologist Dr. Arnold Gillespie (Martin Balsam) to tell him about a recurring dream that he has been having. He describes the dream, which starts when he wakes up with a severe hangover in a strange hotel in Honolulu, even though his last memory is of being in New York City. He is quite disagreeable with everyone he meets, including the hotel bartender (Jesse White). He also meets a young newlywed couple, Ensign Janowski (Darryl Hickman) and his bride Edna (Carolyn Kearney). When Janowski mentions being stationed on the U.S.S. Arizona, Jenson mentions that shop sinking in Pearl Harbor on December 7. When Jenson sees their startled reactions, he checks the newspaper and sees that the date is December 6, 1941… which is seventeen years earlier than 1958, the date he believes it to be. At this point in the current day in 1958, Jenson tells Gillespie that he believes that the entire occurrence is not a dream at all but that he is time traveling in a loop. He continues to describe the situation in Hawaii, where he starts making bets on sporting events of which he knows the outcome. When Janowski stops by to see him to make sure he is okay, Jenson pretends that he never mentioned 1958. Jenson begins to worry about what will take place the next day and heads to the Honolulu News to report the impending attack to the editor Mr. Gibbons (Bartlett Robinson) and reporter Hannify (Don Keefer). They humor him at first and then try to throw him out, but again Jenson is forced into a physical altercation. The men subdue Jenson and call an army doctor (Alan Baxter) to examine him. Although Jenson slips up on naming the current president and vice-president, after he leaves, the men agree that he is not crazy and really believes what he is saying. He meets up with the couple for drinks again, he starts to pity what will happen to them, and again returns to telling them that he should not be on the Arizona the next day. This earns him a punch in the mouth from Janowski and then when he starts singing World War 2 songs, from the bartender. Jenson wakes up the next morning in his Honolulu hotel room and sees the Japanese planes flying over. Back in the present, he tells Dr. Gillespie that he feels there is more to the dream but he has always awakened at this point. Gillespie tries to convince him of the impossibility of time travel, as making one small change in the past cold drastically alter the future. Jenson tells him that he looked up Janowski and his wife and called Janowski’s mother, only to find out that they had been killed in Pearl Harbor. Jenson then falls asleep on the doctor’s couch and begins the dream over again, as the doctor watches him. This time, as the planes are flying over, Jenson is shot and killed through his window. Back in the office, Dr. Gillespie has a strange feeling that something has happened, but Jenson is nowhere to be found. Gillespie doesn’t have any memory of him and leaves for the day. He stops at a bar for a drink on the way home, and he sees a photograph of Jenson hanging behind the bar. The bartender (Paul Bryar) tells Gillespie that it is a photo of Peter Jenson who wants tended bar there, but he has been killed in Pearl Harbor. Desi Arnaz introduces the episode and provides commentary on it after the show. He speculates that the doctor had seen the photo in the past and then dreamed the entire encounter with Jenson. Lucille Ball appears as herself to promote the next episode of The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour. Joe DeRita is the drunk at the bar. Jesslyn Fax is the hotel maid. 1/29/24 

• 001. Where Is Everybody? – 10/2/1959
  • Mike Ferris (Earl Holliman) finds himself roaming the small town of Oakwood with no recollection of where he is, how he got there, or his own name. The town appears to be inhabited with the exception of the fact that there is no one to be found. In addition, he has the distinct feeling that he is being watched. As he comes closer and closer to mental breakdown, he presses the button on a street WALK sign that turns out to be a panic button; it is revealed that he is actually an astronaut that has been put into an isolation tank in preparation for a flight to the moon. His day has been a hallucination brought on by 484 hours of sensory deprivation. James Gregory plays the Air Force General. Rod Serling provides the show’s introduction and closing narrative. 1/10/14
•  002. One for the Angels – 10/9/1959
  • Lou Bookman (Ed Wynn), a kindhearted pitchman loved by the neighborhood children is stalked by Mr. Death (Murray Hamilton), who tells Lou that he will die at midnight. Lou pleads with Death and convinces him not to take him until he makes one more ‘big pitch.’ Utilizing this loophole, Lou decides to retire and not even make an effort for the big pitch. Death then selects an alternative and his little friend Maggie (Dana Dillaway) is hit by a car. Lou pleads that Death take him instead but he is told that it is too late. Knowing the Death has to claim Maggie at midnight, he sets up his wares on her doorstep and make a captivating pitch to Death, who becomes so enthralled that he misses his window and Maggie survives. Having now made his ‘big pitch’, Lou accompanies death willingly. 1/10/14
• 003. Mr. Denton on Doomsday – 10/16/1959
  • Al Denton (Dan Duryea) is a an ex-gunslinger in the old west who once shot down a 16-year old challenger and has since become a drunk that is tormented by Dan Hotaling (Martin Landau) and his friends, who force him to sing How Dry I Am for drinks. A mysterious peddler named Henry J. Fate (Malcolm Atterbury) leaves Denton a gun that seems to fire itself and Denton uses it to fend off Hotaling. Immediately he regains his reputation and is challenged by visiting stranger Pete Grant (Doug McClure). Fate gives Denton an elixir that will ‘solve all of his problems’ and make him a crack shot temporarily. When Denton and Grant have their showdown, Denton notices that Grant has the same elixir. When they draw, they shoot each other in the hand, thus ending both of their gun-fighting carriers…and solving both of their problems. Jeanne Cooper plays Miss Smith and Ken Lynch is Charlie. Robert McCord makes his first of 32 episode appearances. 1/29/14
• 004. The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine – 10/16/1959
  • Former actress Barbara Jean Trenton (Ida Lupino) has secluded herself in her house, trying to re-live her glory days by watching her old films from the 30’s. Her agent Danny Weiss (Martin Balsam) convinces her to get out of her house and consider taking on another film role…a small part as an older lady. She lashes out at producer Marty Sall (Ted de Corsia), who in turn insults her and tells her that any work she gets at this point would be charity. Weiss defends her, but privately chastises her for living in the past, but arranges for her old leading man Jerry Herndon (Jerome Cowan) to meet up with her. When she sees Jerry, retired and looking old, she demands that he leave. Distraught she pleads for the old days, and soon the maid discovers that she has become part of the movie that is showing on the screen. She calls Danny over and he plead with her to come back, but she remains with her co-stars from the past. 1/29/14
• 005. Walking Distance – 10/30/1959
  • An advertising executive named Martin Sloan (Gig Young) goes for a country drive and winds up a mile and a half away from his home town of Homewood. He decides to take a walk and visit his old neighborhood and is surprised to find that nothing has changed, including the price of ice cream sodas. He spots a youngster carving his name in the bandstand and realizes that it is actually him as a child (Michael Montgomery). He goes and visits his parents (Frank Overton, Irene Tedrow) who think that he is crazy. He heads back to the park to seek out his younger self on the carousel to tell him to appreciate his time and not take it for granted, but he scares the younger Martin and he falls off the carousel and injures his leg. His father then approaches him to tell him that he now knows that he is the Martin of the future, but that he should leave and let the younger Martin have the summer to himself. Martin agrees and returns to the soda shop, which is now in the present day – and now has a limp from his childhood carousel injury. Ron Howard appears as the Wilcox boy. 2/23/14
• 006. Escape Clause – 11/6/1959
  • Hypochondriac Walter Bedeker (David Wayne) laments to his wife Ethel (Virginia Christine) that it is a shame that man’s lifespan is so painfully short. As he lies in bed feigning illness, he is visited by a a man who claims his name is Mr. Cadwallader (Thomas Gomez), who is actually the devil, and makes a deal with Bedeker that he will give him immortality in exchange for his soul. There is a built-in clause that Bedeker can get out of the deal at any time and receive a painless death. Bedeker searches for thrills in his new life, attempting feats that would normally kill him, but find it all boring. As he is about to jump off his roof, he wife tries to stop him and fall off the roof to her death. Bedeker confesses to the crime hoping to give the electric chair a try, but his lawyer Cooper (Wendell Holmes) ends up getting him life imprisonment. Knowing this will go on for eternity, he exercises his escape clause and Cadwallader gives him a deadly heart attack. Joe Flynn and Dick Wilson appear as lawyers. 2/23/14

 

• 007. The Lonely – 11/13/1959
  • In 2046, convicted murderer (who acted in self-defense) James Corry (Jack Warden) has been sentenced to solitary confinement on an asteroid millions of miles from the earth. His biggest enemy is loneliness and he looks forward to Captain Allenby’s (John Dehner) visits four times a year to bring him rations, although the Captain’s assistants, Adams (Ted Knight) and Carstairs (James Turley) are less friendly. Allenby has pity for Corry and brings him a robot woman named Alicia (Jean Marsh) who appears remarkably lifelike. At first Corry rejects the idea of a robot, but soon comes to accept and fall in love with her as his companion. Less than a year later, Corry is pardoned but he refuses to leave without Alicia. Allenby convinces Corry that she is just a machine by shooting her in the face, exposing her inner electronics. Corry finally accepts this fact, and heads back to Earth. 5/8/14

• 008. Time Enough at Last – 11/20/1959
  • Nebbish banker Henry Bemis (Burgess Meredith) has only one desire in life: to be able to read his books in peace. His boss Mr. Carsville (Vaughn Taylor) and his overbearing wife Helen (Jacqueline deWitt) have other ideas for him, making his life miserable. One day, Bemis steals away to the bank vault to read in peace, while a Hydrogen Bomb goes off outside. Bemis survives the blast but can’t find any other survivors and the town has been reduced to rubble. He finds enough food to last him but laments the boredom he will face not having anything to do. As he contemplates suicide, he spots a library and finds scads of books – enough to keep him busy for years. He is ecstatic that he now has enough time to spend with his reading…until he stumbles and his glasses shatter, rendering him almost completely blind. 5/8/14

• 009. Perchance to Dream – 11/27/1959
  • A nervous man named Edward Hall (Richard Conte) stumbles into the office of psychiatrist Dr. Rathmann (John Larch), claiming that if he falls asleep he will die. He further explains that he has a heart condition and that if he stays awake any longer he will die of the physical strain, but if he goes back to sleep he will be scared to death by his dream. He has been dreaming in sequence and in the dream he is lured to a carnival by a dancer named Maya (Suzanne Lloyd), and when he last fall asleep, she had taken him on a roller-coaster. After telling his tale, he exits the office and sees Maya as the office receptionist. He runs back into the office screaming and jumps out the window. It is then revealed that Hall is still on the couch in the office, having come in, immediately fallen asleep, and then dying without ever saying a word to the doctor. 7/22/14

• 010. Judgment Night – 12/4/1959
  • Carl Lanser (Nehemiah Persoff) appears on a British passenger liner with no recollection of who he is or how he came on board. He seems to have knowledge of impending doom that is coming to the ship by way of a German U-boat attack. Captain Wilbur (Ben Wright) becomes suspicious, and Lanser discovers a German naval officer’s cap in his room with his own name printed inside. Increasingly panicked, he begins to remember more and warns the passengers that the attack will come at 1:15 in the morning. Unable to convince or gather them together, he is forced to watch the attack – and spots himself at the helm of the attacking German submarine. Later, on the submarine, Lanser is asked by his first mate if he feels that they will be judged for sinking an unarmed ship, forced to re-live the nightmare over and over again. The episode begins with Lanser back on board the British liner, as the nightmare begins once again. Patrick McNee, James Franciscus, Hugh Sanders, Deirdre Owens, and Leslie Bradley also star in the episode. 7/23/14

• 011. And When the Sky Was Opened – 12/11/1959
  • In the aftermath of the maiden test flight of the X-20 DynaSaur – which temporarily disappeared from radar – Col. Clegg Forbes (Rod Taylor) is in a panic as he swears that there were three astronauts on board to Major William Gart (Jim Hutton). As he recounts, the two of them plus Col. Ed Harrington (Charles Aidman) all went on the mission. After Gart was injured and hospitalized, Harrington and he went out to a bar for drinks, at which point Harrington said he was feeling funny and then disappeared leaving no trace or memory to anyone except him. Gart insists that only the two of them went up in the ship. Forbes then sees that his reflection in the mirror is gone and runs out of the hospital room. Gart tries to follow, but is told that no one was with him, and notices the headline now reads that only ONE astronaut returned from the mission. At that point he and the ship both disappear, leaving no trace that any of them ever existed. Sue Randall appears as a nurse. 7/23/14

• 012. What You Need – 12/25/1959
  • An old man named Fred Renard is peddling his wares in a coffee shop, giving out trinkets that seemingly make no sense, but end up being exactly what the receiver needs. He gives a baseball player named Lefty (Read Morgan) a ticket to Scranton, just before he gets called for a job there. He gives a lonely-heart young lady (Arlene Martel) some spot remover, which she uses to help Lefty remove a spot on his jacket (and presumably start a romance). A man named Pedott (Ernest Treux) witnesses this and demands that the old man give him what he needs. It turns out to be a pair of scissors, which saves Pedott that night from being strangled in his elevator. He returns and demands more from Renard, who reluctantly gives him a leaky pen which spills ink on a horse-racing column and predicts the winner. He continues to hound Renard for more, at which point Pedott grabs a pair of shoes that he assumes are what he needs, but he is mowed down by a truck when the slippery shoes cause him to fall in the road. Renard confesses that the shoes were not Pedott needed, but rather what he needed to avoid getting murdered by Pedott. 7/30/14

• 013. The Four of Us Are Dying – 1/1/1960
  • Arch Hammer (Harry Townes) has the ability to change his face at will as long as he can see or think of another person’s face. He first utilizes this ability to impersonate Johnny Foster (Ross Martin)m a deceased trumpeter, in order to steal his girlfriend Maggie (Beverly Garland). He then changes his face to deceased mobster Virgil Sterig (Phillip Pine) in order to extort money from the crime boss Mr. Penell (Bernard Fein) who had him bumped off. In attempt to escape form Penell’s goons, Hammer assumes the identity of boxer Andy Marshak (Don Gordon) after seeing his face on a poster. He runs into Marshak’s father (Peter Brocco), who berates him for breaking his mother and wife’s heart. Later Hammer is picked up by the police, but escapes by using Marshak’s identity again. But when he runs into Marshak’s father again, this time he shoots Hammer dead. As he lies dying, his face morphs through the three identities he assumed, and ends up on his own. 7/30/14

• 014. Third from the Sun – 1/8/1960
  • Will Sturka (Fritz Weaver) is a scientist working at a military base where production of hydrogen bombs are on the rise. Realizing that the planet will soon be obliterated, he plots with his co-worker Jerry Riden (Joe Maross) to steal a spacecraft from the base, flee the planet with their families, and head for an inhabitable planet 11 million miles away. As the time nears for their escape, tensions mount as they fear that their boss Carling (Edward Andrews) is on to them. When the time comes to steal the spacecraft, Carling nearly stops them at gunpoint when they arrive at the base, but they are able to overpower him and make their escape. As their shift heads toward their new home, they remark how amazing that they found a planet with similar life forms to their own…which turns out to be the third planet from the sun, ie. EARTH. Denise Alexander is Jody Sturka and Lori March is her mother Eve. Jeanne Evans is Ann Riden. 8/2/14

• 015. I Shot an Arrow into the Air – 1/15/1960
  • The first manned spacecraft into outer space, the Arrow One disappears from radar not long after its takeoff. The ship’s crew are then seen in a desolate wasteland, which they assume to be an uncharted asteroid. Most of the crew are dead, but four survive – Colonel Donlin (Edward Binns), Officer Corey (Dewey Martin), Officer Pierson (Ted Otis), and Navigator Hudak. It becomes apparent that Corey only thinks of his own survival and wants to withhold water from Hudak, who has been injured and is clearly dying – which he eventually does. Corey and Pierson set off to explore and only Corey comes back, claiming that Pierson fell to his death. When they locate Pierson, he is still alive and draws a T-shaped symbol in the sand, and then dies. Corey shoots Donlin, thinking that he will survive longer alone. As he continues to wander the desert, he spots telephone poles and a sign indicated that they are 37 miles from Reno. The spaceship had never left the earth, and Corey has killed two people for no reason. Harry Bartell is Langford, Leslie Barrett is Brandt. 9/14/14

• 016. The Hitch-Hiker – 1/22/1960
  • Nan Adams (Inger Stevens) is on vacation, traveling from Manhattan to California, when she has a tire blow-out in Pennsylvania. After the mechanic (Lew Gallo) gets her spare tire on, she notices a hitch-hiker (Leonard Strong) who seems to be staring at her. She continues to see him as she crosses the country, both scared and curious how he always stays ahead of her. At one point, her car nearly gets struck by a train while the hitch-hiker stands by. At that point she realizes that he is beckoning her and wanted her to die. Late one night she runs out of gas and encounters a sailor (Adam Williams), whom she pleads to ride with her, but when she veers off the road trying to kill the hitch-hiker – whom the sailor cannot see – he gets scared and leaves her behind. Panicked, Nan tries to call her mother at home, only to find out that her mother has had a nervous breakdown upon the death of her daughter Nan, due to a blow-out car accident in Pennsylvania. She finally realizes who that the hitch-hiker is death and has come to take her home. She drives off with him in the back seat of her car. George Mitchell is the gas station owner, and Eleanor Audley is the voice of Mrs. Whitney. 9/14/14

• 017. The Fever – 1/29/1960
  • Crotchety Franklin Gibbs (Everett Sloane) goes along with his wife Flora (Vivi Janiss) on a weekend getaway to Las Vegas that she won in a contest. Franklin has no patience for gambling and has a fit when Flora puts a nickel in a slot machine. While heading back to his room, a drunk forces a silver dollar in his hand and has him put it into a slot machine. He reluctantly pulls the arm and it pays off; he boasts that unlike other people, he will keep the money. That night the slot machine seems to audibly call his name. He tells Flora that the money he won is tainted and he is going to go feed it back into the machine. He ends up playing all night long, hoping for the $10,000 prize, spending his savings while doing so. Flora tries desperately to get him to quit, but he insists that the machine is about to pay out. When the machine jams on one of his dollars, he has a meltdown and knocks it over, which gets him ejected from the casino. Back in his room, he sees the slot machine following him, while Flora sees nothing. It ultimately knocks him out the window, which kills him. We then see the slot machine roll up and give him back his dollar. 10/13/14

• 018. The Last Flight – 2/5/1960
  • Flight Lieutenant Terry Decker (Kenneth Haigh) gets lost in the clouds during a World War 1 battle in 1913. He lands on an American airbase in France in 1959 with no idea how he got there. He is taken into custody by General Harper (Alexander Scourby) and Major Wilson (Simon Scott). Harper has difficulty believing his story, but Wilson is more sympathetic to his story. He claims that he left his comrade Alexander Mackaye behind when they were attacked by seven German planes. He believes that Mackaye was killed, but Harper and Wilson tell him that Mackaye was on his way to the base for an inspection. Decker realizes that he has been given a second chance to save Mackaye and manages to escape back to his plane and take off back into the strange cloud through which he came. When Mackaye (Robert Warwick) arrives at the base, he is asked about Terry Decker…and he recalls the day Terry had saved his life, after he had mysteriously re-appeared after he had ran from the scene. Decker had been killed in battle, but Mackaye survived. 10/15/14

• 019. The Purple Testament – 2/12/1960
  • During a stint in the Philippines during World War 2, Lieutenant William “Fitz” Fitzgerald (William Reynolds) reveals to his friend and superior Captiain Phil Riker (Dick York) that he had seen a light on the four men’s face who had just died in battle…and had written down their names the day before. Riker has him talk to the Medical Officer Captain E.L. Gunther (Barney Phillips), who suggests that Fitz may need a leave of rest. Fitz sees the light again on an injured soldier named Smitty (Michael Vandever), and soon he too is dead. Back at their tent as they prepare for the next battle, Fitz sees the light on Riker’s face. Riker rejects the prediction, but sets aside some of his personal items, and is in fact killed in battle. As Fitz is getting ready to head to headquarters for some rest, he sees the light on his own face…in addition to the face of his driver (Warren Oates), who has been warned about some landmines on the road ahead. Resigned to his fate, he responds “I doubt it” when the driver says they have a four-hour ride ahead of them. Later the soldiers at camp hear an explosion in the distance. S. John Launer is the Lieutenant Colonel. Paul Mazursky is an orderly. Ron Masak plays the one-handed harmonica player. 11/12/14

• 020. Elegy – 2/19/1960
  • Three astronauts – Captain James Webber (Kevin Hager), Peter Kirby (Don Dubbins), and Kurt Meyers (Jeff Morrow) in the year 2185 get lost in a space storm while on a geological mission and are forced to land on an asteroid. The atmosphere and terrain resemble mid-20th century earth, except for it having two suns…and the fact that the population of people seem to be frozen in time like statues. They have some theories, but they don’t really get their answer until they meet Jeremy Wickwire (Cecil Kellaway) who explains the nature of the asteroid. It is a cemetery called “Happy Glades” where the departed are placed in the position of their choice where they will stay for eternity in peace. As Wickwire explains that he is a robotic caretaker, the astronauts realize that they’ve been poisoned. Having stated that the place they’d rather be more than any other is on their ship headed for home, they die, because where there are men, there can be not peace. Their bodies are placed at the controls of their ship where Wickwire dusts them off. 11/12/14

• 021. Mirror Image – 2/26/1960
  • A woman named Millicent Barnes (Vera Miles) is waiting at a bus station in Ithaca, New York, for the bus to Cortland en route to a new job in Buffalo. She begins to become distressed when both the ticket agent (Joe Hamilton) and washroom attendant (Naomi Stevens) claim to have just seen her minutes earlier, when it is her first interaction with both of them. She then sees a woman identical to herself in the bus terminal, but the lady vanishes before she can confront her. Another traveler named Paul Grinstead (Martin Milner) tries to comfort her and helps her on to the bus…but she spots her double already in a seat on the bus. She faints and when she wakes up, she recalls reading about identical people in parallel plains who make their way into our world, and then have to edge out their doubles so they can go on living. Grinstead thinks she is going crazy, and ends up having her picked up by the police…only to then have his suitcase stolen by a man who looks exactly like him. 12/26/14

• 022. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street – 3/4/1960
  • When a shadow and bright light pass over the peaceful inhabitants of Maple Street, followed by mass power outages – including in their cars – the neighbors begin to panic. Tommy (Jan Handzlik), one of the neighborhood boys who is familiar with sci-fi stories, insists that there are invaders present and do not want them to leave…and what’s more that they have sent aliens disguised as humans ahead of them to infiltrate the town. When townsman Les Goodman’s (Barry Atwater) car inexplicably starts, suspicion moves toward him. Steve Brand (Claude Akins) is next to be accused when his wife reports that he has been working on a Ham Radio in the basement. When Pete Van Horn (Ben Erway), who has gone on a scouting mission, returns to Maple Street in the dark, Charlie Farnsworth (Jack Weston) panics and shoots him. In order to re-direct suspicion on himself, Charlie then accuses the boy Tommy of being the intruder. Soon the town erupts into a melee of violence. From afar, two aliens stand back and watch the chaos, and note that all they have to do is move from town to town and manipulate the power until the people destroy themselves out of fear…which is part of their plan to overtake Earth. Amzie Strickland, Mary Gregory, Burt Metcalfe, and Anne Barton appear as townspeople. 12/26/14

• 023. A World of Difference – 3/11/1960
  • A man named Arthur Curtis (Howard Duff) carries out his normal business activities in his office while planning a trip with his wife Marion (Susan Dorn), when suddenly he hears a voice yell “Cut!” and finds him on the set of a movie in which he is playing a character named Arthur Curtis, while everyone else knows him as actor Gerry Reagan. Jerry’s ex-wife Nora (Eileen Ryan) shows up and escorts him back to his house to force him to write an alimony check. Arthur insists that he has a life – including a wife and daughter – as Arthur Curtis, even though his agent Brinkley (David White) shows him the script to the film The Private Life of Arthur Curtis. He tries in vain to find information about Curtis, but comes up blank. Brinkley informs him that they are shutting down production and dismantling his office, causing Arthur to rush back to the studio and plead that he not be left in Reagan’s sordid world. When he opens his eyes, things are back as he knew them and he greets his wife. In the distance he can hear the people on the set, and in the ‘other world’ Brinkley shows up at the set in search of Reagan, who has inexplicably disappeared. Gail Kobe is Arthur’s secretary Sally. Frank Maxwell is director Marty Fisher. 2/8/15

• 024. Long Live Walter Jameson – 3/18/1960
  • After holding his students rapt in his attention to detail, history professor Walter Jameson (Kevin McCarthy) visits the home of his colleague and future-father-in law Prof. Samuel Kittridge (Edgar Stehli). Kittridge has found a photo in a Civil War photo album of a man strongly resembling Jameson, down to the mole on his face and the same ring on his finger. Jameson finally admits that he is over 2000 years old, as a result of visiting an alchemist who enabled him to outlive everyone who ever knew and loved. Kittridge pleads with him not to marry his daughter Susanna (Dody Heath), but Jameson won’t listen. Back at Jameson’s house, he is confronted by an elderly lady named Laurette Bowen (Estelle Windwood), to whom Jameson was once married and had to abandon as she got older. Laurette shoots Jameson insisting that he could never do this to any other woman. Kittridge arrives at his house, only to watch Jameson finally die, his body aging and ultimately turning to dust as he perishes. 2/8/15

• 025. People Are Alike All Over – 3/25/1960
  • A rocked manned by astronaut Mark Marcusson (Paul Comi) and scientist Sam Conrad (Roddy McDowall) head toward a discovery mission on Mars. Conrad is nervous about leaving Earth, but Marcusson is more optimistic, assuring him that if there is life on Mars, they promise to be very similar to Earthlings since people everywhere are ultimately alike. They travel 35 million miles and crash land on Mars, which kills Marcusson, who once again assures a nervous Conrad of his assertion not to be afraid to open the ship door. When Conrad finally leaves the ship, he finds a very human-like population with whom he can communicate, led by three men (Byron Morrow, Vic Perrin, Vernon Gray) and a woman named Teenya (Susan Oliver), who seems unsettled by everything. The Martians set him up in a house very much like that on Earth, using Conrad’s thoughts, to gather the information. Conrad is comfortable, but soon realizes that he is locked inside with no windows. The wall then opens revealing a cage and crowd of Martians observing him. He spots the upset Teenya, and also finds a sign in front of his cage which reads “Earth Creature in His Native Habitat.” He realizes that he is in a zoo, and yells out for Marcusson that people are indeed alike everywhere. 3/23/15

• 026. Execution – 1/1/1960
  • In the old west circa 1880, evil outlaw cowboy Joe Caswell (Albert Salmi) is being hanged for shooting a man in the back. As he drops, he suddenly disappears from his noose, leaving the Judge (Fay Roope) and Reverend (Jon Lormer), and the father (George Mitchell) of his victim puzzled. Caswell has been pulled eighty years into the future by a time machine operated by Professor Manion (Russell Johnson), who quickly realizes that Caswell was an outlaw about to be hanged and tells him that he is going to have to send him back. Caswell knocks out Manion with a lamp and heads out into the busy streets of New York City, overcome by the noise and traffic which drive him mad. He returns to the professor for help but realizes that he is dead, just as a robber Paul Johnson (Than Wyenn) breaks into the professor’s lab to rob it. Johnson and Caswell get into a scuffle and Johnson kills Caswell by strangling him with a curtain cord. Johnson then investigates the lab and inadvertently stumbles into the time machine and sends himself back to 1880, where he ends up at the end of the rope that had been meant for Caswell. Richard Karlan is the bartender. 3/23/15

• 027. The Big Tall Wish – 4/8/1960
  • Bolie Jackson is a washed up boxer who is hopeful that his next match against Joey Consiglio (Charles Horvath) will be his big comeback. Bolie’s biggest fan is his girlfriend Frances’ (Kim Hamilton) son Henry (Steven Perry), who promises to use his one big tall wish so that Bolie doesn’t get hurt. Bolie is jaded from the hard times he’s seen and doesn’t believe it magic. When Bolie finds out that his coach Thomas (Henry Scott) is betting against him, he tries to punch him and ends up breaking his hand on the wall. Consiglio ends up punching him out, but as the referee (Frankie Van) counts him out, Henry is making his big wish. Magically Bolie and Consiglio change places and Bolie gets the victory, as well as a repaired hand. Although Bolie remembers being knocked out, everyone else maintains that he was never knocked down. Henry later tells him that it was his wish that made it happen, but Bolie refuses to believe. Henry warns him that if he doesn’t believe, the wish won’t happen… and sure enough Bolie returns to the ring to accept the loss. Henry remembers making his wish, but thinks that it never came true, neither he nor Bolie having any memory of Bolie’s victory. 6/17/15

• 028. A Nice Place to Visit – 4/15/1960
  • Small time crook Rocky Valentine (Larry Blyden) is shot as he tries to escape the police following a robbery. When he awakens, a portly man named Pip (Sebastian Cabot) identifying himself as Rocky’s ‘guide’ offers to give him everything he wants, which includes a luxurious suite, unlimited money, gorgeous women, and non-stop gambling at which he wins every time. After a month of this, Valentine starts to go nuts with boredom and insists that he shouldn’t be in heaven and asks to be taken to the ‘other place’, to which Pip responds that he actually is in the ‘other place’. Nels Nelson is the midget policeman. Sandra Warner is a casino girl. 6/17/15

• 029. Nightmare as a Child – 4/29/1960
  • School teacher Helen Foley (Janice Rule) meets a strange girl named Markie (Terry Burnham) in her apartment complex who seems to know a lot about her, including things which Helen has blocked out from her childhood. Markie mentions a man whom Helen spotted that day and vaguely recognized. When that very man – Peter Selden (Shepperd Strudwick) shows up at her apartment, Markie flees in hear. Selden tells Helen that he knew her and her mother, who had been murdered, when Helen was a child. He talks about being there the night she was killed and is very interested to know if Helen’s mental block had ever cleared away. Selden tells Helen that she herself used to be nicknamed ‘Markie’ and shows her a picture of herself, which is identical to the Markie she just met. Helen falls asleep and remembers that it was Selden who killed her mother. Markie returns and tells her that she is in fact Helen as a child. Selden also returns and confesses to the crime and tries to kill Helen, who overpowers him and knocks him down the stairs. A doctor (Michael Fox) comes and diagnoses that Helen has manifested the child version of herself to unblock her memories. Helen hears Markie signing again, but then realizes that it is actually another little girl (Morgan Brittany), much to Helen’s delight. Joseph V. Perry is the Police Lieutenant. 8/7/15
• 030. A Stop at Willoughby – 5/6/1960
  • Ad executive Gart Williams (James Daly) is lambasted by his overbearing boss Oliver Misrell (Howard Smith) for losing a major account, until Misrell’s ‘push push push’ mantra causes Gart to blow up at him. On his way home Williams falls asleep on the train and dreams of seeing the peaceful town of Willoughby in July of 1888 out the window. The conductor (James Maloney) describes it to Gart as an ideal place where a man can live his life “full measure.” When he awakens he asks the actual conductor (Jason Wingreen) if Willoughby exists and is told that it does not. At home Gart’s wife Jane (Patricia Donahue) is relieved to find that Gart’s boss took him back, but pressures him to work even harder to be more successful. Later Gart returns to work and sees Willoughby once again and vows to get off the next time. That day at work he nearly has a breakdown again and heads home, this time getting off when the train stops at Willoughby, where he is welcomed with open arms by its citizens. In reality Gart has jumped from the train and died, being carried off in a hearse owned by Willoughby and Sons Funeral Home. Mavis Neal Palmer is Helen. Billy Booth appears as a boy in Willoughby. 8/8/15

• 031. The Chaser – 5/13/1960
  • A man named Roger Shackleforth (George Grizzard) is desperately in love with a girl named Leila (Patricia Barry). As Roger calls Leila over and over from a pay phone, a frustrated man named Homburg (J. Pat O’Malley) gets frustrated and tells Roger to visit a professor named A. Daemon (John McIntire). Daemon sells Roger a love potion for $1, which works so successfully that Roger gets sick of the constant doting. He returns to Daemon to get the counter-potion, which Daemon refers to as ‘glove cleaner’. In actuality it is an untraceable poison that sells for $1000. He buys it and attempts to administer it to Leila, but just before he does, she tells him that she is pregnant. He drops the drink and claims he could never have gone through with it, as Daemon sits at home smoking a cigar and blowing heart-shaped rings. Marjorie Bennett, Barbara Perry, and Rusty Westcoatt play the folks in line for the phone. 11/14/15

• 032. A Passage for Trumpet – 5/20/1960
  • Joey Crown (Jack Klugman) is an alcoholic trumpet player who is down on his luck. His old friend Baron (Frank Wolff) refuses him a job because the bottle had interfered with his playing in the past. Joey decides to sell his trumpet to Nate (Ned Glass) the pawn shop owner, and then feeling more depressed than ever, steps out in front of a truck in a suicide attempt. When he gets up, he finds that no one can hear him as he wonders around town. He assumes he is dead until he runs into a man (John Anderson) who he can communicate with. The man explains that Joey is in limbo, while the people who can’t hear him are actually dead. He also tells Joey how life is worth living despite the ups and down. Joey decides to go back to the world of the living and bids farewell to his new friend… who identifies himself as Gabriel. Joey wakes up after being struck by the car, and the driver (James Flavin) gives him some money, enough to buy back his trumpet. As he plays, he is approached by a woman named Nan (Mary Webster) who has just arrived in town and accepts Joey’s offer to show her around. 11/14/15

• 033. Mr. Bevis – 6/3/1960
  • An eccentric man named James H.W. Bevis (Orson Bean) with a wide variety of hobbies and quirks has quite a bad day. First he gets fired from his job by his boss Mr. Peckinpaugh (Charles Lane), then his car gets destroyed, and finally he gets evicted from his apartment. While drowning his sorrows at the local bar, a guardian angel named J. Hardy Hempstead (Henry Jones) appears to him in the mirror. Since one of Bevis’ ancestors had done a good deed in the past, Hempstead had been put in charge of watching over the hero’s descendants. He sets up Bevis with a do-over day, giving him a nicer suit of clothes, nicer car, and a boss ready to give him a raise. Unfortunately, this means that Bevis has to give up his hobbies and quirks. After a while, Bevis decides he’d rather go back to his misfortune than give up his lifestyle. Bevis gets fired all over again, but Hempstead is still watching over him, bringing him back his wrecked car – and seeing that he gets out of a receiving a ticket. William Schallert appears as a policeman. 5/4/13

• 034. The After Hours – 6/10/1960
  • Miss Marsha White (Anne Francis) is browsing a department store, looking for a gold thimble. The elevator operator takes her to the mysterious 9th floor which contains “Specialties.” The floor seems completely vacant, save for one saleslady (Elizabeth Allen) and a glass case that contains the thimble she is looking for. She then realizes that the thimble is damaged, so she talks to Mr. Armbruster (James Millhollin) in the complaints department and the store manager Mr. Sloan (Patrick Whyte), who inform her that there is no 9th floor. She thinks she sees the saleslady who sold her the thimble but it turns out to be a mannequin, and Marsha faints. When she waks up, the store has closed and she is alone. As she roams the store, she begins to hear the beckoning calls of the mannequins, who begin to come to life. She finally recalls that she too is a mannequin and they remind her that each mannequin gets to live among the people for one month and she was due back yesterday. It is the saleslady’s turn out, and Marsha relinquishes her human existence and returns to being a mannequin. The next day, Mr. Armbruster seem to recognize her mannequin-form as he opens the store. 5/5/13

• 035. The Mighty Casey – 6/17/1960
  • “Mouth” McGarry (Jack Warden) is the managers of a second-rate Major League baseball team, the Hoboken Zephyrs. An inventor named Dr. Stillman (Abraham Sofaer) present his robot Casey (Robert Sorrells) to the team. Casey has a fastball that no human can hit, and the team’s luck begins to turn around. However, when Casey is hit in the head by a baseball, a doctor declares that Casey is not human, and thus not eligible to play. Stillman then gives Casey an artificial heart, which by definition makes him ‘human’ and eligible to play once again. However, now that Casey has emotions, his empathy for the other players precludes his ability to strike them out. Casey is forced to retire, but McGarry ends up with another idea: to create a team entirely of Caseys. 8/24/13

• 036. A World of His Own – 7/1/1960
  • Playwright Gregory West (Keenan Wynn) is caught by his wife Victoria (Phyllis Kirk) entertaining a lovely young lady named Mary (Mary La Roche) when she spies them through the window. However when Victoria enters the room, Mary has vanished. Gregory explains that any character that he creates and narrates into his tape recorder will appear in the flesh, and he demonstrates this by re-creating Mary, as well as an elephant. If he cuts out that portion of the tape and throws it into the fire, the creation will disappear. Victoria thinks that he is made and threatens to have him committed. Gregory pulls out an envelope that contains her piece of tape, which she grabs and angrily throws into the fire…which naturally causes her to disappear just as she realizes that he was telling the truth. Gregory starts to re-describe his wife into the recorder, but then changes direction and describes Mary instead…who becomes his new wife. As Rod Serling delivers his closing narrative, West pulls out an envelope marked “Rod Serling” and throws it into the fire, causing Serling to vanish. 8/24/13

 SEASON 2

Theme music: “Etrange 3 (Strange No. 3)” and “Milieu 2 (Middle No. 2)” – combination of two cues composed by Marius Constant, narrated by Rod Serling

• 037. King Nine Will Not Return – 9/30/1960
  • The King Nine B-25 bomber has crash landed in the African desert during a routine trip to France during World War II in 1943. Captain James Embry (Robert Cummings) finds himself lying in the sand next to the wreckage. As the captain of the plain, he feels responsible for his crew, but he cannot locate them anywhere. He has visions of them that only disappear, and eventually he finds the grave of one of the crew. He also has no explanation of the jets, which haven’t been invented yet, that are flying overhead, nor how he even has knowledge of jets. Eventually he collapses in a panic, only to wake up in a hospital rooms, where the doctor (Paul Lambert) and psychologist (Gene Lyons) are discussing how he went crazy after seeing a newspaper headline detailing the finding of the King Nine in the dessert 17 years after the crash. It seems that Embry had been slated to pilot the mission in 1943, but came down ill just before it took off and another officer was re-assigned to take the flight. His survivor guilt has triggered the hallucination. One of the nurses then finds that one of Embry’s shoes is full of sand. 1/18/14
• 038. The Man in the Bottle – 10/7/1960
  • Arthur Castle (Luther Adler) and his wife Edna (Vivi Janiss) run an antique store, and in an act of charity give a poor woman one dollar for an old wine bottle. The bottle turns out to contain a genie (Joseph Ruskin) who offers the Castles four wishes. To test the genie, they use up one wish on having a glass case repaired. The second wish is for a million dollars, but after giving away money to their friends and an IRS agent (Olan Soule) claims the government’s share, they end up with on five dollars left. Arthur uses his third wish on becoming the leader of a contemporary foreign country who cannot be voted out of office…which turns out to be Adolf Hitler at the end of World War 2. Castle is forced to use his fourth wish on returning to his old life, appreciating his life as the shop proprietor all the more. 1/19/14

• 039. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room – 10/14/1960
  • A small time gangster named Jackie Rhoades (Joe Mantell) waits nervously in a hot, cheap motel room to find out form his boss George (William D. Gordon) what his latest job will be. When George arrives, he presents Jackie with his next assignment: to kill a bartender. Jackie is impish and insecure and bemoans his life, knowing in his heart that he will be caught if he performs the task, but will be killed by George if he doesn’t. As he paces the room, his much more confident reflection in the mirror recounts the bad turns in his life, begging to be let out to assume control of his life. Beaten down, Jackie finally agrees. When George shows up, he finds the much more confidant, assertive John Rhoades, who beats up George and tells him that he’s retiring from his life of crime. When he leaves the room, to search for a respectable job and possible wife, he glances back at the old Jackie, who is now confined to the mirror. 2/24/14

• 040. A Thing About Machines – 10/28/1960
  • Bartlett Finchley (Richard Haydn) is a sophisticated man eternally frustrated by machines. His TV repairman (Barney Phillips) advises him that he himself is causing the damage to them by kicking and throwing them when he gets irritated. Later, Finchley chastises his secretary Edith Rogers (Barbara Stuart) for typing slowly, but also blaming the typewriter…and all the other machines that confound him. She gets frustrated and quits, but he begs her to stay because he needs company…but once he goes back into the machine tirede, she angrily leaves. The TV, typewriter, and phone begin to warn him to “Get out of here Finchley” and his electric razor chase him out of the house. His car then chases him through the streets until he falls into a swimming pool and drowns, sinking directly to the bottom with a terrified look on his face. 2/24/14

• 041. The Howling Man – 11/4/1960
  • An American man named David Ellington (H.M. Wynant) recounts a tale to his housekeeper a post World War I walking tour of Europe, and the time he got lost in a storm and stumbled onto a mysterious hermitage that denies him refuge. However, when Ellington passes out, Brother Christophorus (Frederic Ledebur) takes him to the leader, Brother Jerome (John Carradine). Jerome again asks him to leave, but not before Ellington hears a mysterious howling coming from the castle. Ellington stumbles on a man (Robin Hughes) imprisoned in a cell, who claims that everyone in the hermitage is crazy and that he has been wrongly jailed for kissing his girlfriend in public. Ellington demands an explanation from Jerome and threatens to go to the police. Jerome claims that the howling man is actually the devil, held captive by Jerome’s staff of truth. Ellington promises not to let him out, but does just the opposite, and then realizes that he has freed the devil. Years later, in post-World War II and Korean War, Ellington tells his housekeeper how he had tracked the devil and imprisoned him once again and to never open the door he is behind, despite the howling. As Ellington leaves, the housekeeper opens the door. 5/11/14
• 042. The Eye of the Beholder – 11/11/1960
  • Janet Tyler (Maxine Stuart) lies in a hospital with her face wrapped in bandages, pleading with unseen doctors to heal her disfigured face so that she will not be banished by the government to live among other people of ‘her own kind’. The doctors and nurses have treated her ten times in the past, and legally the government will only assist in eleven treatment before she is banished. When the bandages are removed, the doctors are disappointed that her face has not changed at all. When she is revealed to the audience, she (now played by Donna Douglas) is beautiful, while the doctors and nurses are revealed to be ugly and deformed. As Janet runs away in panic, she runs into a handsome (by audience standards) man named Walter Smith (Edson Stroll), who is there to escort her to her new community. 5/18/14

• 043. Nick of Time – 11/18/1960
  • Don and Pat Carter (William Shatner, Patricia Breslin) are traveling through Richfield, Ohio when their car breaks down and they are stranded for several hours while a mechanic (Stafford Repp) sends for a part from Dayton. While waiting, they happen into a the Busy Bee Cafe where they sit at a table that has a “Mystic Seer” fortune telling machine, which they can feed a penny and ask it a yes-or-no question. Having fun at first, Don asks it about whether he will receive a promotion…then finds out that he gets it, just as the machine predicted. He gradually becomes more obsessed with the machine as it tells them how long to stay in the cafe (thus avoiding being hit by a car), how long it will take their car to be repaired, etc. Pat is very worred about Don’s obsession and finally after much convincing, Don agrees to leave and decide their own fate. After the leave, another couple comes in and sits at the table, begging the machine for more answers…and permission to leave town. 8/11/14

• 044. The Lateness of the Hour – 12/2/1960
  • Jana Loren (Inger Stevens) gradually becomes more and more distraught by the fact that her parents (John Hoyt, Irene Tedrow) are holed up in their mansion, and surrounded by a household run by human-like robots. Her request eventually becomes an ultimatum, so Dr. Loren dismantles the robots to comply with her wishes. Jana feels liberated and free without the robots, but when she mentions having children, her mother is visibly distraught. Gradually she realizes that there are no childhood pictures, and soon it becomes apparent that she too is a robot. She is so stricken with grief that Dr. Loren ultimately erases her memory and re-programs her to be the house maid. NOTE: This is the first of six episodes to be shot on video, as opposed to film. 8/11/14

• 045. The Trouble with Templeton – 12/9/1960
  • Booth Templeton (Brian Aherne) is an aging Broadway actor discontent with his life and loveless marriage to a younger woman. He confesses to his valet Marty (Dave Willock) that he hasn’t truly been happy since the passing of his first wife Laura (Pippa Scott) when she died at age 25. Templeton arrives at his first day of rehearsals and finds the young director Arthur Willis (Sydney Pollack) to be most disrespectful to him, chastising him in front of the other actors for being late. He flees the theater and finds himself in the midst of adoring fans, and seeing posters of his play The Great Seed. He has traveled back to 1927 and makes his way to a speakeasy where his finds his late wife Laura. He is ecstatic but both she and their producer friend Barney Flueger (Charles S. Carlton) are aloof and cold to him. Laura tells him that he is not wanted there and that he should go back where he belongs. When he leaves, the lights go low in the speakeasy and everyone in there stops talking and watches him leave; Laura looks distraught and compassionate. Templeton returns to the theater where he find the script of what he just experienced. He deduces that they were only acting in order to get Templeton’s mind back to the present and not dwell in the past. He tells the director that he is back in the play, but this time he demands – and gets – respect. King Calder is Sid Sperry, Larry J. Blake is Freddie. 9/15/14

• 046. A Most Unusual Camera – 12/16/1960
  • Married petty thieves Chester (Fred Clark) and Paula Diedrich (Jean Carson) have just knocked over a curio shop, and among the junk is an antique camera. When Chester takes a picture of Paula, they notice that she is wearing a fur coat in the photo but wasn’t wearing actually wearing one. They assume it is a gag camera until the chest from the robbery is opened and inside is the very same fur coat. Chester is obsessed with the camera, but Paula blows it off and takes a photo of their hotel room door. The photo shows Paula’s brother Woodward (Adam Williams) coming inside, and sure enough he shows up. At first Chester decides to give the camera to ‘humanity’ but then decides to use it at the racetrack, where they win gobs of money. When a French waiter (Marcel Hillaire) comes to their room, he translates the words on the camera indicating that it only takes ten pictures per owner. Thinking they only have two left, all three fight over the camera and accidentally take their ninth picture. It is of Paula screaming. Chester assumes it is because Woodward is going to kill him, so he pulls a knife and in the struggle, they both fall out the window. Paula recovers from her sadness quickly when she realizes she is rich, and flippantly snaps a photo of their bodies in the courtyard. The waiter returns and robs Paula of her money, noting that their are three bodies in the photo of the courtyard. Paula runs to the window and falls out. Then the waiter notices that their are actually four bodes…as his screams are heard as he falls as well. 9/15/14

• 047. The Night of the Meek – 12/23/1960
  • A department store Santa Claus named Henry Corwin (Art Carney) spends Christmas Eve in a bar, lamenting the state of the world, using alcohol to numb his sadness. When he returns to the store, he falls over drunk and is fired by his boss Mr. Dundee (John Fiedler). Corwin hits the street and finds a bag of empty cans, which inexplicable turn into presents. He immediately starts distributing them to the poor and needy, but when he reaches the Delancey Street Mission House, Sister Florence (Meg Wyllie) reports him to Officer Flahety (Robert P. Lieb), who brings him to the police station and calls his former boss. Dundee shows up and assumes that Corwin has robbed him, but everything in the bag turns back into cans…except for the brandy that Dundee sarcastically requested. While Dundee drinks with Officer Flaherty, Corwin gives out his last gift and runs into an elf and sleigh pulled by reindeer. Dundee and Flaherty witness Corwin flying overhead…and acknowledge that they’ve just witnessed a miracle. Bert Mustin plays one of the men who receive a gift. Val Avery is the bartender. NOTE: This episode was filmed on video. 10/12/14

• 048. Dust – 1/6/1961
  • In the Old West, a condemned man named Luis Gallegos (John Alonzo) awaits hanging for running over and killing a child while riding his horse while drunk. The unscrupulous salesman named Peter Sykes (Thomas Gomez) who sold the executioner the noose walks the town selling his wares, and taunting Gallegos – much to the chagrin of the sheriff (John Larch). When Gallegos’ father (Vladimir Sokoloff) begs the parents of the dead child, Mr. and Mrs. Canfield (Paul Genge, Dorothy Adams) to call off the hanging, Sykes sees it as a chance to capitalize on the situation and sells his ‘magic’ dust that will turn hate into love and forgiveness. Gallegos raises 100 pesos to buy the dust, which is nothing more than dirt that Sykes took off the ground. On the day of the hanging, Gallegos throws the dust toward the crowd and begs them to give in to the magic. Luis is released through the trap door…but the rope breaks. The Canfields realize that there might be other worldly forces at play, so they decide to pardon Luis. Sykes thinks that only magic could have caused the brand new rope to break. The magic touches him as well…as he gives away the $100 pesos to the poor children. 10/12/14

• 049. Back There – 1/13/1961
  • Peter Corrigan (Russell Johnson) has a theoretical discussion about time travel with friends at the Potomac Club in Washington D.C. as to whether the course of history can be altered. After bumping into the attendant William (Bartlett Robinson) on the way out the door, he suddenly finds himself back in time on April 14, the day of Lincoln’s assassination. He visits the boarding house that was once his old home, and then causes a ruckus at Ford’s Theatre trying to warn them of the impending murder, for which he gets arrested. Only one police officer (Jimmy Lydon) seems to believe him and Peter is held until an apparent psychiatrist identifying himself as John Wellington (John Lasell) asks that he be released in his custody. Wellington ends up being John Wilkes Booth and he sedates Peter and continues with the murder. Peter ten inexplicably returns to the present with an answer to his question: some events cannot be changed. However, William the attendant is now a long-time member of the club, having inherited his fortune from his great-grandfather, once a police officer who had believed Corrigan and warned everyone in Washington about Lincoln’s murder, and had parlayed his fame into a promotion and made some wise investments. So it seemed that other things can in fact be changed. Paul Hartman is the police sergeant. Raymond Bailey and Raymond Greenleaf are two of the club members. 11/15/14

• 050. The Whole Truth – 1/20/1961
  • Used car salesman Harvey Hunnicut (Jack Carson) spends his days purchasing old cars at low prices and selling lemons at high prices. As he works his latest young couple (Jack Ging, Nan Peterson), an old man (George Chandler) shows up with a jalopy that Harvey buys for $25. The man tells him the car is haunted, but Harvey blow him off. However, Harvey soon finds that he cannot stop telling the truth, which makes it nearly impossible to sell his lemons. He nearly has the car sold to politician Luther Grimbley (Loring Smith), but then he is forced to tell him about the curse. He does however get the idea to sell the car to someone who is pictured on the front of the newspaper. After selling the car to his representative (Patrick Westwood), it is revealed that he has just sold the car to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushev (Lee Sabinson). He tries to get through to President Kennedy to tell him what he has done. Arte Johnson is Irv, Hunnicut’s assistant. NOTE: This episode was filmed on video. 11/15/14

• 051. The Invaders – 1/27/1961
  • A lone woman (Agnes Moorehead) in a rustic cabin with no modern conveniences hears a loud noise on her roof and discovers a flying saucer that has landed inside her attic. Two small robotic creatures emerge who have tiny weapons that they are able to discharge at her and cause welts on her body. She and the creatures play a cat-and-mouse game as they continue to injure her with there guns and one of her own knives. Finally she is able to capture one in a bed sheet and beat it to death and throw it into the fire. She follows the other one back to its ship and begins to destroy the ship. Before finishing the job, she is able to hear the creature (Douglas Heyes) in plain English transmit a plea not to send any more ships to this land with the incredible race of giants. On the outside of the ship is written U.S. Air Force Space Probe No. 1. 12/26/14

• 052. A Penny for Your Thoughts – 2/3/1961
  • Bank clerk Hector Poole (Dick York) tosses a quarter into the money box of a paperboy (Anthony Ray) and it lands on its edge. From that point on, he is able to hear the thoughts of everyone around him. At first, it is the pedestrians on the street and a driver who nearly runs him over. In the bank, he can hear the thoughts of his boss Mr. Bagby (Dan Tobin), who is cheating on his wife, client Mr. Sykes (Hayden Rorke), who is ready to gamble the money is borrowing from the bank, secretary Helen Turner (June Dayton), who clearly has a crush on him, and accountant Mr. Smithers (Cyril Delevanti). He ‘hears’ Smithers planning to steal money from the bank vault and run off to Bermuda, and with Helen’s encouragement, he informs Bagby. The security guard stops Smithers on his way out, only to find that he has no money on him. Smithers later confesses to Hector that he was right about his fantasy of robbing the bank, but that it would only remain a fantasy. Poole is fired, but when Bagby finds out that Sykes was correct about the gambling, he offers him his job back. And with Helen’s telepathic advice, he demands, and gets, a promotion, using Bagby’s affair as a bargaining chip. Poole and Helen head out together, but when Poole throws another quarter into the paperboy’s money box, he knocks over the quarter that has been standing all day. At that moment, he loses his mind-reading ability. 12/26/14

• 053. Twenty Two – 2/10/1961
  • Exotic dancer Liz Powell (Barbara Nichols) is in the hospital for fatigue, where she has a recurring dream that she wakes up, accidentally breaks a water glass, and then follows a nurse down to the basement where she is greeted at the door of Room 22 – the morgue – by the nurse (Arlene Martel) who says to her “room for one more honey.” Her doctor (Jonathan Harris) tries to convince her that it is only a dream brought about by overwork. She even tries to change things up in the dream by not reaching for the glass, but a cigarette instead, but still ends up breaking the glass. The doctor privately expresses concern of how she knew the number of the morgue. Later she is released from the hospital and plans to head to Miami. At the airport she knocks into a woman who breaks a glass vase, and then is greeted by a stewardess who looks identical to the morgue nurse, who greets her with “room for one more honey.” Liz runs screaming from the plane, only to watch it explode upon takeoff. Fredd Wayne is Liz’s agent Barney Kamener. NOTE: This episode was filmed on video. 2/9/15

• 054. The Odyssey of Flight 33 – 2/24/1961
  • Global Airlines Flight 33 is nearing Idlewild airport on their way from London when they are caught in a jet stream that increases their speed and causes turbulence. They travel through a bright light, and the as they near New York City, the crew led by Captain Farver (John Anderson), is surprised to see New York without any buildings. As they near the ground they also see a dinosaur and realize that they’ve traveled back in time. Their solution is to head back where they came and catch the jet stream again, which they do successfully. However, even though the city has re-appeared, they cannot get hold of Idlewild on the radio and end up talking to LaGuardia airport, who have no idea what a ‘jet’ is. They then notice that the 1939 World’s Fair buildings are on the ground, indicating that they’ve traveled back…but not quite far enough. Farver then tells the passengers what is going on and asks them to pray as they make the attempt again. Paul Comi is First Officer Craig, Wayne Heffley is Second Officer Wyatt, Sandy Kenyon is Navigator Hatch, Harp McGuire is Flight Engineer Purcell, Beverly Brown is Stewardess Janie, and Betty Garde is a passenger. 2/11/15

• 055. Mr. Dingle, the Strong – 3/3/1961
  • Luther Dingle (Burgess Meredith) is a milquetoast hanging out at a bar where he is constantly pushed around by customers Bettor (Don Rickles) and Callahan (Edward Ryder) despite the objections of bartender O’Toole (James Westerfield), who advises Dingle to just remain neutral. An invisible two-headed Martian (Douglas Spencer, Michael Fox) comes into the bar one day and performs an experiment by giving Dingle superhuman strength. Although confused by his power, he walks around town performing various feats of strength, until a newspaper pick up his antics and publishes an article about him. TV reporter Abernathy (James Millhollin) does a piece on Dingle as well, during which Dingle destroys parts of the bar and finally gets his revenge on Bettor. The Martians are disgusted that Dingle only uses his powers for exhibition and removes it from him in the middle of the TV story, leaving the town laughing at him as a fraud. As the Martians are leaving, two Venusians (Donald Losby, Greg Irwin) enter and ask the Martians for an interesting specimen on whom to experiments. The Martians recommend Dingle and suddenly he has intelligence 300 times greater than the average man. 3/22/15

• 056. Static – 3/10/1961
  • Ed Lindsay (Dean Jagger) is a crotchety old man living in a boarding house, who has grown sick of his roommates constantly watching television. With the help of a neighbor boy (Stephen Talbot), Ed retrieves from the basement his old radio, of which his former fiancee Vinnie (Carman Matthews), who also lives in the boarding house, fondly recalls. Through much static, Ed is able to tune into now-defunct radio station WPDA and hear broadcasts of Major Bowes, Fred Allen, Tommy Dorsey, and President Franklin Roosevelt from the 1940’s. Vinnie and sympathetic boarder Professor Ackerman (Robert Emhardt) become concerned that only Ed can seem to hear these broadcasts when alone, and while they give him the benefit of the doubt at first, they eventually take the radio to a junk dealer, thinking it best for Ed, who angrily retrieves the radio from the dealer (Clegg Hoyt) and brings it back. Vinnie suggests that Ed is longing for a time twenty years earlier during which he was going to marry Vinnie but then never did. Ed throws her out of the room and tunes back into his radio, and when his and Vinnie’s song, Dorsey’s I’m Getting Sentimental Over Year, he finds that both and he and Vinnie are twenty years younger and he is now re-living that part of his life. Arch W. Johnson is Roscoe Bragg, Alice Pearce is Mrs. Nielson. Pat O’ Malley is Mr. Llewellyn. NOTE: This episode was shot on video.  3/22/15

• 057. The Prime Mover – 3/24/1961
  • Ace Larson (Dane Clark) is a down-on-his-luck small-time gambler who can’t seem to catch a break. One night in front of his diner, his partner Jimbo Cobb (Buddy Ebsen) thwarts a fatal car accident by using telekinesis to turn a car over. Ace sees the potential of this to change their luck and help him win big in Las Vegas. Jimbo reluctantly goes along with it, despite the fact that using his gift gives him headaches. As Ace’s winnings mount, he puts a call out for mob gambler Big Phil Nolan (Nesdon Booth) and starts winning even more from him. Jimbo asks him to stop, and Ace’s girlfriend Kitty (Christine White) gets disgusted with Ace’s greed and walks out. As Ace puts all his money down on one game of craps, Jimbo says his power has completely left him, and Ace loses all of his winnings. Ace returns back to their cafe, all the wiser for what he has experienced, and asks Kitty to marry him. When they are not looking, Jimbo lifts a broom telekinetically, proving that he really never did lose his power. Jane Burgess is Sheila. Clancy Cooper is the trucker. William Keene is a desk clerk. 6/14/15

• 058. Long Distance Call – 3/31/1961
  • Grandma Bayles (Lili Darvas) is very close to her grandson Billy (Billy Mumy), feeling that Billy’s father – her son – Chris (Philip Abbott) was taken away when he got married to Billy’s mother Sylvia (Patricia Smith). Grandma becomes ill and dies shortly after a Billy’s birthday party, during which she gives him a toy telephone and tells him that he can always use that to talk to her. After her death Billy spends an undue amount of time on the phone, and one day he nearly throws himself in front of the car of a man named Mr. Peterson (Reid Hammond), stating that his grandmother told him that this was the way to see her again. Sylvia starts to worry that Billy’s imagination is running wild, and her husband talk to Billy to try to get him to cool it on the phone. One night Sylvia grabs the phone away from Billy and actually hears his grandmother on the other side. During her near-breakdown, Billy runs out and tries to drown himself in the pool. As paramedics (Arch Johnson, Lew Brown) try to resuscitate him, Chris grabs the toy phone and pleads with his mother to let Billy go and give him the chance at life. After he hangs up, the paramedics announce that miraculously Billy will be okay. Henry Hunter is Dr. Unger. Jenny Maxwell is babysitter Shirley. NOTE: This episode was shot on video. 6/14/15

• 059. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim – 4/7/1961
  • In 1847, a wagon train is working its way from Ohio to California, fighting off sickness and hunger. Some of the clan wants to turn back, but the leader Christian Horn (Cliff Robertson), whose son is deathly ill, insists that they must move forward. Chris sets out to look over a rim for water, but when he crosses, his caravan disappears and he is confronted with power poles, a truck, and a cafe in 1961. He accidentally shoots himself in the arm when a truck nearly misses him, and the couple at the cafe, Joe (John Crawford) and Mary Lou (Evans Evans) get him medical attention from the local doctor (Edward Platt). Horn sees the calendar and realizes that he has time-traveled and attempts to the explain it to the doctor, who diagnoses him as delusional, but is shocked by the amount of detail that he can provide. Horn peruses an encyclopedia and finds information about his son Christian Jr., who goes on to make significant medical contributions to the world. Horn takes a bottle of penicillin with him and flees the cafe back over the rim, where he encounters his caravan and gives his son the medicine. Back in 1961, the sheriff (Robert L. McCord III) has retrieved Horn’s gun, which has now aged 100 years and breaks apart at a mere touch. John Astin is Charlie.  8/9/15

• 060. The Rip Van Winkle Caper – 4/21/1961
  • Four bandits – DeCruz (Simon Oakland), Farwell (Oscar Beregi Jr.), Brooks (Lew Gallo), and Erbie (John Mitchum) – have stolen a million dollars worth of gold from a train traveling from Fort Knox to Los Angeles. Scientist Farwell has designed four chambers in a cave in Death Valley in which a gas will stop all of their bodily functions for 100 years, at which time they will re-awaken and be able to enjoy their wealth without being chases by the authorities. They do in fact succeed and re-awaken in 2061, which they only know because a rock has fallen on Erbie’s chamber and he is now nothing more than a skeleton. After a disagreement, DeCruz runs Brooks over with their getaway truck and then crashes it, forcing him and Farwell to travel through the desert carrying what gold they can. DeCruz begins to charge Farwell for drinks of water until Farwell has no gold left, at which time he kills DeCruz. Farwell is later found by a couple (Wallace Rooney, Shirley O’Hara) and offers them his gold for a ride to civilization, but then immediately dies of dehydration. The couple discuss being puzzled by the fact that this man acted as if gold where a treasure when man has in fact come up with a way to now manufacture it. 8/9/15

• 061. The Silence – 4/28/1961
  • The crotchety aristocratic Colonel Archibald Taylor (Franchot Tone) gets so tired of the endless talking of fellow men’s club member Jamie Tennyson (Liam Sullivan) that he wagers a half-million dollars that Tennyson cannot remain quite for one entire year. Tennyson is offended, but needing the money to satisfy his wife’s expensive taste, he accepts the bet. A glass-walled room is erected in the club game room and Tennyson moves in. After months pass, Taylor becomes concerned that Tennyson will succeed and offers him $1000 to walk away. When Tennyson refuses, Taylor begins hounding him every day, telling him tales that Tennyson’s wife is stepping out on him. Taylor’s colleague George Alfred (Jonathan Harris) starts to question Taylor’s honesty and integrity. Sure enough when the year passes, Taylor admits that he doesn’t have the money to pay off Tennyson… who in turn admits that he has cheated a bit himself – by having his own vocal chords severed. Cyril Delevanti is Franklin. 11/14/15

• 062. Shadow Play – 5/5/1961
  • A man named Adam Grant (Dennis Weaver) is found guilty of murder, sentenced by the judge (Gene Roth), and is to be executed the same day. Grant insists to everyone around him that he is in a recurring dream and when they execute him, everyone in the dream will cease to be. A reporter named Paul Carson (Wright King) is partially convinced that what he is saying is true, and visits District Attorney Henry Ritchie (Harry Townes) at his home to try and convince him. Ritchie visits Grant in his cell, and Grant is able to spout off Ritchie’s exact dialogue, as well as point out the stereotypical nature of the situation and everyone in it. Even if Ritchie isn’t fully convinced, he phones the Governor to ask for a stay of execution, deducing that if Grant is telling the truth, then he is crazy. Unfortunately the Governor is too late, and the switch is pulled on the electric chair, as everything around Carson and Ritchie starts to disappear. The dream replays with Grant’s trial, now with everyone in his dream assuming different roles, ie. fellow prisoner Jiggs (William Edmonson) is not the judge. Bernie Hamilton is Colie. Anne Barton is Ritchie’s wife Carol. Mack Williams is Father Beaman. Chet Brandenburg is a juror. 11/14/15

• 063. The Mind and the Matter – 5/12/1961
  • A man named Archibald Beechcroft (Shelley Berman) can hardly stand the daily routine of taking the subway to work because of all of the noisy inconsiderate people he encounters each day. An office boy named Henry (Jack Grinnage), who earlier had spilled coffee on him, gives him a book called The Mind and the Matter, which deals with how to control one’s concentration. After reading the book, he is able to make his annoying landlady (Jeane Wood) disappear at his will. The next day he utilizes this to full force by making everyone around him disappear. He eventually starts talking to himself and realizing that he is lonely, so he re-populates the work… with each person an exact replica of him. This too gets on his nerves because each person is as irritable as he is. Finally he reverts the world back to the way it once was, telling Henry that the book’s ideas were too ‘unbelievable’. Chet Stratton is Rogers.  1/9/16

• 064. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? – 5/26/1961
  • Troopers Bill Padgett (John Archer) and Dan Perry (Morgan Jones) visit the roadside Hi-Way Cafe for two purposes: to notify the passengers of a bus that the bridge on their path is temporarily impassable with ice floes stacked up against it, and that they are searching for an alien whose tracks they have followed from a UFO that landed in Tracy’s Pond to the diner. The bus driver Olmstead (William Kendis) recalls only six passengers on the bus, but there are seven in the diner: a crotchety businessman named Ross (John Hoyt), a professional dancer named Ethel McConnell (Jean Willes), a crazy old man named Avery (Jack Elam), and two couples, Peter (Bill Erwin) and Rose Kramer (Gertrude Kramer), and George (Ron Kipling) and Connie Prince (Jill Ellis). As the troopers question the folks in the diner, everyone – even the couples – begin to suspect each other, and the jukebox and lights start going on and off by themselves. Eventually when the alien does not reveal itself, the police get word that the bridge is okay and releases everyone to leave. After they depart, Ross returns and announces to Haley (Barney Phillips) the proprietor that the bridge was not safe after all and that it has collapsed killing everyone but him. He also tells Haley that he has in fact come to scout the planet for Martian colonization, and then reveals a third arm. Haley then has a surprise for him: that his people have been intercepted, and that Haley is from Venus and has come for the same purpose, revealing a third eye under his hat. 1/9/16

• 065. The Obsolete Man – 6/2/1961
  • In a future America run by a godless totalitarian government, librarian Romney Wordsworth (Burgess Meredith) is brought before a council led by an unfeeling Chancellor (Fritz Weaver) and sentenced to liquidation because he and his occupation ar are deemed obsolete. Wordsworth asks only that his method of death be between him and his executioner and that it be televised. The Chancellor agrees to his terms, and upon invitation comes to visit Wordsworth at his home on the day he is set to die. Wordsworth tells the Chancellor that he has planted a bomb in his own room set to explode in a half-hour, and locks the Chancellor in the room with him, while he reads passages from the Bible. Shortly before the bomb is set to go off, the Chancellor has a meltdown and pleads for mercy. Wordsworth lets him out of the room, just before the bomb explodes. When the Chancellor returns to his council, he is excused by his subaltern (Josip Elic) of disgracing the State as a coward. He himself is deemed obsolete and sentenced to liquidation as officials bear down on him. 3/21/16

SEASON 3

• 066. Two – 9/15/1961
  • In an abandoned war-torn city that has not seen an inhabitant in five years, a lone woman (Elizabeth Montgomery) wanders the street scavenging. When she spots a man (Charles Bronson), who was from the opposing side of whatever war has taken place, she attacks him but is knocked out by him as he defends himself. The man brings the woman back to consciousness and feeds her, stressing that there is no reason for them to fight. They walk the streets together and each arm themselves from weapons that they find in a movie theater full of corpses. The man takes a dress off a mannequin in a shop window and gives it to her. When the woman sees a war propaganda poster, she fires her gun at the man, who escapes unharmed. When the woman re-appears the next day, he tells her to leave. But when she steps out from behind an abandoned car wearing the new dress and smiling at the man, they walk off together. 3/24/16

• 067. The Arrival – 9/22/1961
  • DC-3 airplane Flight 107 from Buffalo lands at an airbase without any luggage, passengers, or pilot. FAA investigator Grand Sheckly (Harold J. Stone) arrives to look into the situation, and is assisted by local airport staff vice-president Bengston (Noah Keen), public relations man Paul Malloy (Fredd Wayne), mechanic Robbins (Robert Karnes), ramp attendant George Cousins (Bing Russell), and the dispatcher (Jim Boles). Over the course of the investigations, Sheckly determines that everyone sees the plane in a different way – different colored seats, different registrations numbers, etc. – and comes to the conclusion that the plane is an illusion that they only see through the power of suggestion. He proves this by sticking his arm into the rotating propeller, causing the plane to disappear…. along with the staff who he was working with. Sheckly heads back to the operations room, where he encounters Malloy and Bengston, who have no recollection of the plane. However they do recall that Sheckly had once investigated a missing Flight 107 from Buffalo 17 or 18 years earlier, and it remained the only case that Sheckly had never solved, causing Sheckly to collapse in despair. Robert Brubaker is the tower operator. 6/25/16

• 068. The Shelter – 9/29/1961
  • Bill Stockton (Larry Gates) enjoys his birthday with his wife Grace (Peggy Stewart), son Paul (Michael Burns), and his brother-in-law Jerry Harlowe (Frank Albertson) and his wife Martha (Jo Helton), and his friends Marty Weiss (Joseph Bernard) and his wife (Moria Turner), and Frank Henderson (Sandy Kenyon) and his wife (Mary Gregory). The party is very cordial, but his friends rib Bill about all of the time he’s spent and noise he’s made building his bomb shelter. Before the end of their visit, a message comes on the radio from U.S. Civil Defense indicating that unidentified objects were heading toward the country. Assuming them to be nuclear bombs, the Stocktons scramble to their shelter, but are interrupted by Jerry and Martha who plead to let them and their son into the shelter as well. Bill denies them since there is only enough supplies and air for his own family. The Weisses and Hendersons then join in the madness by insisting they too should be entitled entry. Jerry tries to keep them at bay for a while, but eventually they all join in together using a makeshift battering ram and knock down the door of the shelter. Another Civil Defense message then indicates that the unidentified objects were actually satellites. Everyone is apologetic to Bill, but he sullenly wonders if they have already destroyed each other without a bomb. 6/25/16

• 069. The Passersby – 10/6/1961
  • The Civil War has ended and both Confederate and Unions soldiers slowly march an old dirt road toward an unknown destination. One of the Confederate Sergeants (James Gregory) makes a stop of the home of a widow named Lavinia Godwin (Joanna Linville), who has a bitter feeling toward the Union and particularly the soldier who ended her husband’s life. The Sergeant plays guitar and sings Black Is the Color (Of My True Love’s Hair), a song that Lavinia’s late husband used to sing. One Union Lieutenant stops in front of the house, and the Sergeant recognizes him as a man who helped him during a battle… but also as a man who had been killed. Lavinia attempts to shoot the Lieutenant but the bullets have no affect on him. The Sergeant realizes that he must follow the road to see what is at the end of it, despite Lavinia’s pleas for him to remain. Lavinia’s husband Jud (Warren J. Kemmerling) then shows up singing Black Is the Color. He tries to convince Lavinia that he is dead… and she too has died from fever. She insists that she is still alive and refuses to leave, but Jud tells her that he will wait at the end of the road. Just then the last casualty of the Civil War, and thus the last person in the parade of men, approaches her. It is Abraham Lincoln (Austin Green) and he convinces her that she needs to head down the road. She finally agrees and heads toward her husband, who is waiting in the fog. Rex Holman is Charlie Constable. 9/16/16

• 070. A Game of Pool – 10/13/1961
  • Hotshot pool player Jesse Cardiff (Jack Klugman) laments the fact that he will never be able to play the greatest pool player in history, the late Fats Brown (Jonathan Winters). Fats is then summoned while he plays pool in the great beyond to Lister’s Pool Room, where he meets Jessie. He agrees to play Jessie, but only for a wager: Jessie’s life. At first Jessie won’t agree, but eventually realizes he can never achieve his goal without playing Fats. They play straight pool to 300 points, and the game is tight with the advantages passing between players. With the game tied, Fats distracts Jesse by dropping his stick, but then misses his next shot and leaves a simple shot open for Jesse, warning him that he might get more than he bargained for if he makes it. Jesse sinks the shot and rejoices, and Fats thanks him for beating him and then disappears. As an epilogue Jesse is now in the great beyond being summoned once again to report to a pool hall to take on yet another challenger. 9/16/16

• 071. The Mirror – 10/20/1961
  • A Central American revolutionary named Ramos Clemente (Peter Falk) who has just overthrown the government with his comrades D’Alessandro (Richard Carlan), Cristo (Antony Carbone), Tabal (Arthur Batanides), and Garcia (Rodolfo Hoyos Jr.).  The former dictator  General De Cruz (Will Kuluva) when brought in to face Clemente, warns him that he will live in fear of assassination and tells him that a mirror in the office will show him the face of his assassin. One by one he sees his comrades in the mirror brandishing weapons, he kills two himself and has other two shot. His paranoid murders continue until he is confronted by a priest named Father Tomas (Vladimir Sokoloff), who tells him that the people are unhappy with his killing spree and warns him that his greatest enemy is the one he would never suspect. After looking in the mirror and seeing only himself, he smashes it, and then shoots himself. Father Tomas identifies Clemente as ‘the last assassin.’ 12/9/16

• 072. The Grave – 10/27/1961
  • Outlaw Pinto Sykes (Dick Geary) is gunned down by the citizens of a western town. Some time later, hired gun Conny Miller returns to the saloon in town and laments the fact that he had been chasing Pinto for four months and had been unable to catch him for the reward. A local man named Mothershed (Strother Martin) tells Conny that before he died, Pinto told a different story, that no matter how much he slowed down, Conny would never approach him. He also warned that if Conny ever came near his grave, he’d reach up and grab him. The other men in the saloon, Johnny Rob (James Best) and Steinhart (Lee Van Cleef) infer that Conny is too scared to go visit Sykes’ grave, and each bet him $20 that he won’t visit the grave at midnight and stick a knife in it. Conny takes them up on the bet, but when he goes to stick the knife in, he collapses. The next morning the men, along with Pinto’s sister Ione (Elen Willard), visit the grave and find Conny dead on top of it. Steinhart deduces that when Conny stuck the knife into the ground, he caught his coat with the knife, so when he stood up, he was pulled back and had a heart attack. Ione points out that the wind was blowing a different direction the night before and would not have blown his coat over the grave. William Challee is Jason. Stafford Repp is Ira Broadley. Larry Johns is Corcoran. NOTE: This episode was filmed during Season 2 but held over to be broadcast as part of Season 3. 12/9/16

• 073. It’s a Good Life – 11/3/1961
  • In the former town of Peaksville, Ohio, the surrounding country of which no longer exists, a 6-year old boy named Anthony Freemont (Billy Mumy) is seen by his parents (John Larch, Cloris Leachman) and their neighbors as a monster who can, at his will, banish them into the cornfield, turn animals into monsters, or do anything else he wishes with the power of his mind. In order to keep him happy, everyone in town constantly reassures him that they love him and that all he does is good. Anthony has mostly disconnected anything that requires power and forbids singing of any kind, but will occasionally allow TV programs that he has made up to air. One night the Freemonts host a birthday party for neighbor Dan Hollis (Don Keefer). After Anthony forbids a record that he received from his birthday from being played, he insists that Pat Riley (Max Showalter) play the piano, while Dan begins to get drunk. Finally Dan can take no more and begins singing and making noise to irritate Anthony, hoping that while his mind is distracted on him, others will attack and destroy Anthony. No one makes a move, and consequently Dan is turned into a human jack-in-the-box and banished to the cornfield. Randomly, Anthony begins to make it snow, which will destroy all of the crops on their farmland, but despite his irritation Anthony’s father tells him that has done a real good thing. Alice Frost is Aunt Amy. Jeanne Bates is Ethel Hollis. Lenore Kingston is Thelma Dunn. Tom Hatcher is Bill Soames. 3/19/17

• 074. Deaths-Head Revisited – 11/10/1961
  • A man going by the name of Schmidt checks into an inn in Dachau, Germany, not far from the former WW2 concentration camp. The innkeeper (Kaaren Verne) recognizes Schmidt from days past and expresses her disdain that the camp still stands. Schmidt is in fact Gunther Lutze (Oscar Beregi Jr.) former SS Captain who performed cruel experiments on the camp inmates, killing an incredibly large number of them. Lutze seems to relish the old days as he visits the camp and fondly remembers the terror he inflicted. A former inmate named Alfred Becker (Joseph Schildkraut), who was a caretaker at the camp appears and berates Lutze for his cruelty, ultimately explaining why his acts can’t be forgiven, and them putting him on ‘trial’ where he is judged by the ghosts of his victims. Lutze passes out during the trial, but when he wakes, Becker tells him that he was found guilty, but will ultimately stand trial before God. Lutze tries to kill Becker, but then recalls that he had already done so, right at the moment that the Americans were liberating the camp. Later he is found by a doctor (Ben Wright) and the taxi driver (Robert Boon) who had brought him into town. The doctor notes that Lutze is crying out in agony even though he has no sign of injury… and that he is declaring him legally insane for institutionalization. 3/19/17
• 075. The Midnight Sun – 11/17/1961
  • The Earth is gradually drifting closer and closer to the sun, and artist Norma (Lois Nettleton) and her landlady Mrs. Bronson (Betty Garde) are the last inhabitants of their New York apartment building after the other tenants have all fled. Things gradually get worse as the electric goes on and off, food begins to run out, and the temperature gets higher and higher. The women are able to fend off an intruder (Tom Reese), who is searching for water after having lost his wife and child to the heat. They forgive him and he leaves. As the temperature rises, Mrs. Bronson has a breakdown and passes out, and Norma collapses as the intense heat begins to even melt the paint on her paintings. Suddenly Norma wakes up in her bed, with snow falling outside, being tended to by a doctor (William Keene) for her fever. Mrs. Bronson and the doctor discuss how the Earth has been moving away from the sun, and soon everything on Earth will be frozen. Jason Wingreen and Juney Ellis are Mr. and Mrs. Shuster. 9/24/17
• 076. Still Valley – 11/24/1961
  • Confederate soldiers Sergeant Joseph Paradine (Gary Merrill) and recruit Dauger (Ben Cooper) have orders to scout a valley that Union soldiers are occupied. They hear the army marching in and then go completely quiet. Dauger is afraid to enter the Valley so Paradine goes alone, and finds that the entire Union army is frozen in their tracks… not dead, but not moving. After investigating he comes across an old man named Teague (Vaughn Taylor) who tells him that he has cast a spell on the army from a book titled Witchcraft. He claims that it has the power to freeze the entire union army, but since he is dying, he passes it on to Paradine, who quickly realizes that he must be aligned with the devil in order for it to be effective. Teague dies and Paradine returns to camp and reports what he found to the Lieutenant (Mark Tapscott), who initially doesn’t believe him, but when another solider named Mallory (Jack Mannas) returns from seeing another Union army frozen in the same manner. The Lieutenant thinks that only the devil can save the Confederate army now, but when Paradine realizes he has to invoke the name of Satan and renounce God, he throws the book into the fire and say that if the Confederates are going to be buried, let it be put in hallowed ground. The narration tells us that the next morning, their company headed toward Gettysburg. 9/26/17
• 077. The Jungle – 12/7/1961
  • Construction executive Alan Richards (John Dehner) and his wife Doris (Emily McLaughlin) have just returned from the jungles of Africa where Alan’s company plans to displace a native community to build a dam as part of the Kokola River Dam Project. Doris is frightened by the natives and is carrying several items that they have told her will ward off evil. Although he finds the notion ridiculous, when he leaves for the office he finds a dead goat outside his door. At a board meeting, Alan berates his co-workers Messrs. Templeton (Hugh Sanders), Hardy (Howard Wright), and Sinclair (Donald Foster) for scoffing at the potential curses of the natives. After the meeting, Richards meets his colleague Chad Cooper (Walter Brooke) for a drink, and finds that his wife has slipped him a lion’s tooth, presumably for protection. When Richards leaves the bar, he forgets to grab the tooth, and cannot get back inside. A payphone rings and he hears jungle sounds on the other end of the line, then begins to hears the sounds emanating from all over the city. He attempts to take a cab home, but the driver (Jay Overholts) dies at a stop. He then offers to pay a vagrant (Jay Adler) to walk home with him, but he disappears. Weaving through the city’s noises, he finally makes it home where he finally finds peace and quiet. However he then hears a lion’s roar from the bedroom, where he finds his dead wife and lion waiting to pounce on him. 4/25/18
• 078. Once Upon a Time – 12/15/1961
  • Woodrow Mulligan (Buster Keaton) is a crotchety janitor in Harmony, New York, tired of the hustle and bustle and rising costs of the year 1890, which the audiences view as a silent movie. His boss Professor Gilbert (Milton Parsons) has just invented a time travel helmet. When Mulligan tries it on, it transports him to infinitely noisier world of 1960, where he arrives in his underwear. After giving chase to a kid on roller skates who pick up his helmet, he catches up with the kid and now broken helmet while running into a scientist named Rollo (Stanley Adams). He joins Mulligan’s pursuit at getting the helmet fixed so they visit a repairman (Jesse White) at Jack’s Fix-It Shop. Mulligan is able to swipe some pants from a clothing store manager (Warren Parker), just as the helmet is fixed. Rollo tells Mulligan how much he envies that period that Mulligan will be returning to… then swipes the helmet himself and they are both transported back to 1890. They arrive back in the ‘silent’ world, being greeted by Mulligan’s nemesis Officer Flannagan (Gil Lamb). After a week in the period, Mulligan has come to appreciate the carefree life, but Rollo has become increasingly frustrated with the lack of scientific equipment or modern-day comforts to be found. Mulligan does him a favor and turns the helmet on and sends Rollo back where he came from. 4/25/18
• 079. Five Characters in Search of an Exit – 12/22/1961
  • An army major (William Windom) wakes up inside a walled cylinder with an open roof and artificial light above and no obvious exits in the wall. He quickly encounters a clown (Murray Matheson), who introduces him to three other characters: a hobo (Kelton Garwood), a ballerina (Susan Harrison), and a Scotsman with bagpipes (Clark Allen). The Major looks for explanations, but the other characters all assure him they have already looked for any means of escape and tries to make sense of their situation. With no memory of who they are, they all speculate various theories including being in someone’s dream, being aliens, or being in purgatory. The Major comes to the conclusion that they are in hell. He then orchestrates an escape plan by which they will climb upon each other and allow the ballerina at the top to scale the wall. They come close but she is just a couple of inches shy, and when they hear a thunderously loud bell sound, they topple over, the ballerina injuring her leg. The Major then tries again, but this time excludes the ballerina, climbs to the top himself, and uses a rope and sword to act as a grappling hook. He does manage to get to the top, but topples outside of teh barrel and lands in a pile of snow. It turns out they are all toys being collected for a Christmas toy drive for a girls orphanage. A little girl (Mona Houghton) finds the Major doll and is instructed by the bell ringer (Carol Hill) to put it back in the barrel. The final shot is of the lifeless dolls of the Major, Bagpiper, Ballerina, Clown, and Hobo, a tear streaming from the eye of the ballerina. The narrator offers hope for the dolls that they will eventually find happiness in a little girl’s arms. 12/25/18
• 080. A Quality of Mercy – 12/29/1961
  • World War II is in its final days in August of 1945, but the newly assigned Second Lieutenant Katell (Dean Stockwell) orders his troop to make an attack on a cave full of wounded Japanese soldiers. Sgt. Causarano (Albert Salmi) tries to dissuade Katell from attacking the men, for both the enemies’ sake and their own, as it is sure to bring about American casualties as well. Katell is hawkish in his desire to take out as many of the enemy as he can and readies the troops to attack. However just before he gives the order, he drops his binoculars, and when he picks them up, he suddenly finds that he is now in the Japanese regiment, and he is told by Captain (J.H. Fujikawa) that his name is Lt. Yamuri and it is actually now 1942. The situation is now reversed and the unit is preparing to attack a cave full of wounded Americans. Yamuri pleads with his superior Sgt. Yamazaki (Dale Ishimoto), but he espouses much of the same hawkish rhetoric that had been spoke by Katell. As they are about to invade, Katell suddenly finds himself back on the American side ready to invade… but the word comes down that the atomic bomb has been dropped and they are ordered to fall back. Causarano tells him that there will be surely be other battles and more human beings to attack. But Katell’s attitude has changed and he mutters to himself that he hopes not. Leonard Nimoy is Hansen. Ralph Votrian is Hanacheck. Rayford Barnes is Andrew J. Watkins. 12/25/18
• 081. Nothing in the Dark – 1/5/1962
  • An elderly woman named Wanda Dunn (Gladys Cooper) lives alone in the lower level of a tenement building, in constant fear that she is going to be visited and taken by Mr. Death. When a police officer named Harold Beldon (Robert Redford) is shot outside her apartment, she is even reluctant to give him refuge, but finally allows him entrance. He begins to recover, but she is too scared to call a doctor, for fear that any visitor may in fact be death. She tells him how she has evaded all visitors after witnessing death in many forms come and touch people causing them to die. She also tells of people who have come to her door to evict her, and although all of her neighbors have moved out, she has refused to leave or answer them. When a knock comes on the door from a man claiming to be a contractor (R.G. Armstrong) who is going to tearing down the building within the hour, she won’t let him in either, but he forces himself inside nearly knocking her out. He is apologetic but warns her that he will have to have the police take her out physically if she won’t leave. She implores Harold to tell him of her situation, but the contractor doesn’t appear to even see Harold. After she leaves, she is struck by the realization that Beldon is in fact Mr. Death after all and he has come to take her… but not by frightening force but gently and peacefully. Wanda sees herself lying dead on the bed, and at last is able to accompany him out the door without fear. NOTE: This episode was filmed during Season 2 but held over to be broadcast as part of Season 3. 12/16/19
• 082. One More Pallbearer – 1/12/1962
  • Rich and eccentric Paul Radin (Joseph Wiseman) builds an underground bomb shelter and has electricians (Josip Elic, Robert Snyder) it with video and a sound system that can simulate an atomic bomb blast. He then invites a former high school teacher Mrs. Langsford (Katherine Squire), who flunked and humiliated him, Colonel Hawthorne (Trevor Bardette), who had him court-martialed in the military, and Reverend Hughes (Gage Clarke), who blamed him publicly for a woman’s suicide, to visit him in the shelter. Still bitter about his treatment, Radin claims that the world is coming to an end and he is offering to allow the three invitees to stay in the shelter if they beg him for his pardon for what they’ve done in the past. All three of them stubbornly decline his offer and demand to be set free from the shelter. After they all leave, Raden continues to hear the warnings and witnesses the explosion on the video. When he exits the bunker, he finds that the world really has been destroyed by an atomic blast. However he is not seeing reality and is found by an officer (Ray Galvin) wailing in the street. 12/18/19
• 083. Dead Man’s Shoes – 1/19/1962
  • Gangster Bernie Dagget (Richard Devon) and his men Ben (Ron Hagerthy) and Jimmy (Joseph Mell) drop off the dead body of a man named Dane in an alley. A nearby hobo named Nathan Edward Beldsoe (Warren Stevens) finds the body and steals the black and white loafers he is wearing. Two of his fellow hobo friends Sam (Harry Swoger) and Chips (Ben Wright) assume he has come into some money and harass him. Nate reacts angrily, and it becomes obvious that he has ‘become’ the late Dane. He heads directly for Dane’s girlfriend Wilma’s (Joan Marshall) apartment. She thinks it is an intruder but quickly falls under his spell. However when he removes the shoes and becomes Nate again, she behaves aggressively and holds him at gunpoint. When he puts them back on, he is domineering again. He then heads to Dagget’s bar and confronts him, making it clear that he knows about the murder. He pulls a gun to shoot Dagget, but has to fire one off and hit Jimmy, before he turns back to get Dagget… but he is shot by Ben and dies vowing revenge that he will get him eventually. The men drop off Nate’s body in the same alley, where Chips finds the body and puts the shoes on. Florence Marley is Dagget’s girlfriend. 4/3/20
• 084. The Hunt – 1/26/1962
  • Backwoods mountain man Hyder Simpson (Arthur Hunnicut) prepares for a raccoon hunt with his dog Rip. His wife Rachel (Jeanette Nolan) of fifty years warns him not to go, as she has experienced a couple of omens recently indicating death, but Hyder and Rip go anyway. Sure enough Rip chases a possum into a pond and Hyder dives in after him, and neither come up. Hyder and Rip wake up on the side of the pond and head home, encountering the Miller brothers Wesley (Titus Moede) and Tillman (Orville Sherman), who are burying a dog and refuse to speak to Hyder. When he arrives at his home, Rachel won’t speak to him either, and he sees Reverend Wood (Charles Seel) discussing his funeral service and his body being carried out. He follows him toward the cemetery but when he comes up over the hill, he is in a strange place and follows a fence he hasn’t seen before. Soon he comes to a gate manned by a gatekeeper (Robert Foulk), who tells him that he is dead. Hyder assumes he is St. Peter letting him into the gates of heaven, but Rip doesn’t seem to want to come in. The gatekeeper tells him that there is a separate heaven for dogs and that Rip can’t come in. Hyder decides that if Rip isn’t welcome, he won’t go in either, so he begins walking further. He runs into another man (Dexter Dupont) who has been looking for him and knows him by name. He tells Hyder that he is in fact an angel who is sent to escort him into heaven. He also reveals that the gatekeeper was trying escort him into hell, and the Rip wasn’t welcome because he would have smelled the brimstone. Hyder makes his way to heaven, where it is promised that there is plenty of coon hunting and that Rachel would be along shortly. 4/3/20
• 085. Showdown with Rance McGrew – 2/2/1962
  • Cowboy actor Rance McGrew (Larry Blyden) stars as a U.S. Marshal in a western TV show named after himself. He is often late, bossy to the property man Tommy (William McLean), clumsy to the point that he continuously breaks the barroom mirror, calls for his stuntman (Jim Turley) even in the simplest situations, and often demands that his character defeat the bad buys using ridiculous stretches of the imagination. Although his director  Cy (Robert Cornthwaite) usually bends to his every demand, the actor (Robert Kline) playing Jesse James takes issue when Rance calls for Jesse to shoot him in the back. While shooting the next scene, Rance is suddenly transported to the real old west where he encounters the real Jesse James (Arch Johnson), who lectures him on the bad name he is giving real-life western figures, who have discussed him and sent Jesse to challenge him to a showdown. Jesse forces him to face him the streets, and Rance is not even able to draw his gun during the showdown. He begs Jesse for mercy and offers him anything in exchange for not killing him. Jesse tells him that he’ll be watching over him to ensure that he plays it straight. Jesse disappears, and Rance re-materializes back on the set. Before they film the next scene, Jesse shows up posing as his agent and demands that he play the scene with Jesse James escaping and throwing Rance through the window. He takes the idea to director who thinks he is crazy, but goes along with it. This time Rance performs his own stunt when crashing through the window. The agent Jesse begins making his requests for next week’s episode with Billy the Kid. Robert J. Stevenson is the bartender. Hal K. Dawson is the old man. Troy Melton and Jay Overholts are the cowboys. 7/17/20
• 086. Kick the Can – 2/9/1962
  • At the Sunnyville Rest Home for the Aged, resident Charles Whitley (Ernest Truex) proudly leaves with is son (Barry Truex) thinking that he is taking him out of the home. However he disappoints his father by telling him that he only came to take about it, leaving Whitley to quickly return to the home in shame. As he exits the car and head back in, he encounters a group of children playing Kick the Can. Whitley picks up the can, and although a boy (Gregory McCabe) asks for it back, he hangs onto it. Later he chats with his grumpy roommate Ben Conroy (Russell Collins), a friend since childhood, who is irritated by the kids playing outside, and Whitley recalls their youth playing Kick the Can and other games. He speculates that there may be a magical source of having a youthful state of mind. Conroy goes to the home’s superintendent Cox (John Marley) to report that Whitley might be going senile. Whitley tries to rouse the other residents Mr. Carlson (Burt Mustin), Mr. Freitag (Hank Patterson), Mrs. Summers (Marjorie Bennett), Mr. Agee (Earle Hodgins), Mrs. Densley (Lenore Shanewise), and Mrs. Wister (Anne O’Neal) to have some fun by running through the sprinklers. Mr. Cox sees this and orders that the orderlies take him back to his room and put him to bed. Ben tries to convince him to behave like normal or otherwise he will be taken away. That night Whitley wakes up all of the residents  except for Ben and asks them all to play Kick the Can using the can that he had from the kids. They all agree, and then he tries to wake up Ben, but he won’t have any part of it. Everyone else sneaks past the night nurse (Eve McVeagh) by distracting her with firecrackers and head outside to play. Ben wakes up Mr. Cox, but by the time they get outside, there are only children playing Kick the Can. Ben recognizes one of the boys as his old friend Charlie Whitley, and although Ben begs him to take him with him, Charlie runs off into the woods. He resigns himself that Mr. Cox will not find the residents. 7/17/20
• 087. A Piano in the House – 2/16/1962
  • Theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune (Barry Morse) buys a player piano for his younger wife Esther’s (Joan Hackett) 26th birthday at the Treasures Unlimited curio shop store from crotchety shop owner Mr. Throckmorton (Philip Coolidge). However when the music begins playing, Throckmorton takes on a much gentler tone that lasts until the music is done. That night he has a party, but before the guest begin to arrive he notices that his humorless butler Marvin (Cyril Delevanti) acts giggly and giddy once the music starts. Then Esther listens to the music and pours out her true feelings about her hatred for Fitzgerald, and how he has never lived up to what she expected in an older man. Fitzgerald is merely amused by this, and begins using the piano to peer into the souls of his guests. He gets Gregory Walker (Don Durant) to admit to being in love and having an affair with Esther. Then for no good reason, he selects the overweight Marge Moore (Muriel Landers) to listen to a piano roll, during which she pontificates about her desire to be a child ballerina and a ‘perfect snowflake.’ Before Fitzgerald can rope in another guest, Esther switches the piano roll, and it is Fitzgerald who then spills out his true feelings, that he is frightened by everyone and everything, and jealous of all of his peers. He admits that he has never been able to reciprocate the love of his wife. The guest leave one by one, and Esther leaves with Gregory, prompting a tantrum from Fitzgerald, who destroys everything in the room and tears out the piano roll. When Marvin enters the room, Fitzgerald orders him not to laugh, to which Marvin responds that Fitzgerald is not funny anymore. 10/31/20
• 088. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank – 2/23/1962
  • In the south-midwest of the 1920’s, during the funeral of young adult Jeff Myrtlebank (James Best), those at the service are shocked and scared when Jeff suddenly rises out of his coffin. Doc Bolton (Edgar Buchanan) had pronounced him dead from the flu three days earlier, and tries to figure out what could have happened, offering an excuse that a rare medical phenomenon had occurred. Everyone in town including his parents (Ralph Moody, Ezelle Poule) and sister Liz (Vickie Barnes) are scared of him initially but quickly embrace him with open arms. However his family starts to worry again when his work and eating behaviors are dramatically different from his previous self. Townfolk start to gather and question whether an outside spirit had taken over Jeff’s body. His old girlfriend Comfort Gatewood (Sherry Jackson) is repulsed when Jeff brings her roses that died shortly after he picked them. Comfort’s brother Orgram (Lance Fuller) tells Jeff not to come around anymore and picks a fight, which Jeff uncharacteristically wins. The townsfolk decide to run him out of town, but Comfort goes to him to warn him. Jeff asks her if she will marry him and she accepts. Once the men in town tell him that they think he is a spirit occupying Jeff’s body and deliver their ultimatum that he leaves town, Jeff responds and says if they’re wrong there is nothing to worry about. However, if they are right, he will bring plagues to their lives and crops. They quickly back down and offer to hold a marriage celebration with him and Comfort. As Jeff and Comfort walk away together, Jeff light his pipe with a match that ignites itself. When she questions it, he responds that she needs to stop imagining things. Dub Taylor is Peters. Jon Lormer is Strauss. William Fawcett is Reverend Siddons. Mabel Forrest is Mrs. Ferguson. Helen Wallace is Ma Gatewood. James Houghton and Patrick Hector are the boys Jerry and Tom. 11/1/20
• 089. To Serve Man – 3/2/1962
  • Government codebreaker Michael Chambers (Lloyd Bochner) is seemingly locked in a room in spaceship traveling through space, where is offered food from an unknown source. He recalls the incidents over the past year, starting with an alien race of Kanamits (Richard Kiel, voice of Joseph Ruskin) landing near Newark, New Jersey. A nine-foot tall Kanamit makes his way to the United Nations where he telepathically communicates to the Secretary General  (Hardie Albright) that they have come in peace and wish to help man undo the damage being done to the Earth, both natural and through the folly of man. When questioned by Senor Valdes (Robert Tafur) of Argentina, Dennis Leveque (Lomax Study) of France, and Mr. Gregari  (Theodore Marcuse) of the Soviet Union, the Kanamit reveals that they intend to enrich the soil to eliminate famine, build forcefields around countries to eliminate war, and introduce alternate cheap forms of energy. The Kanamit is even able to pass a lie-detector test administered by a scientist (Nelson Olmstead). Chambers and his assistant Patty (Susan Cummings) attempt to translate a book that the Kanamit arrived with, but they only decipher the title: To Serve Man. After a year, everything the Kanamits declared comes to pass and Earth is functioning like a paradise. The Kanamits offer trips to visit their euphoric paradise of a planet, and people sign up in droves to board their ship. Even Chambers and Patty plan to take the journey. However, just as Chambers is getting ready to board the plane, Patty arrives to tell him that she has deciphered more of the Kanamit book, which is revealed to be a cookbook. The Kanamit forces him onto the shop before he can turn back. In his chamber, the Kanamits encourage him to eat to make sure he doesn’t lose any weight before arrival. Bartlett Robinson and Carlton Young are the Colonels that Chambers predicts will be out of a job when wars end. J.H. Fujikawa is the Japanese delegate. 2/20/21
• 090. The Fugitive – 3/9/1962
  • The kids in the neighborhood play with an elderly man named Old Ben (J. Pat O’Malley), who has the ability to do magic like hitting a baseball out of the park and turning himself into a hideous monster when they place ‘spaceman.’ Ben’s favorite little girl Jenny (Susan Gordon) walks with a leg brace and lives with her mean Aunt Agnes Gann (Nancy Kulp). Two men (Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp) watch Ben from afar and note some of his ‘magic’, and then come looking for him at the Gann apartment. Agnes tells them where he lives elsewhere in the appointment, but Jenny runs up to warn him and he is able to turn himself into a mouse by the time they arrive. Ben finally tells Jenny that he is from another planet and is a wanted criminal there, and now that the men have found him, he must leave to find another world to hide. Before he leaves, he cures her leg by using a foreign fan-like device. When Agnes nearly catches them, he turns himself into a bee and flies out the window. Jenny pursues him, but the men catch her and demand to know where he is, and then they knock her out using their own device. The doctor (Russ Bender) comes to see Jenny and tells a remorseful Aunt Agnes that she is close to death. Ben returns as a bee and cures her with his device, and by the time he is finished, the men are in the room ready to take him. Much to Jenny’s surprise however, the men are actually his subjects, as he is king of his planet, bored with his last 1000 years of service, and not looking forward to the next 4000. Nevertheless he agrees to return. Jenny asks to go along, but the men insist that the council would never allow it. Ben then turns himself into an identical replica of Jenny, so the men have no idea which is which, and are forced to take both. Stephen Talbot is Howie Gutliff. Johnny Eimen is the pitcher. 2/20/21
• 091. Little Girl Lost – 3/16/1962
  • One night a little girl named Tina Miller (Tracy Stratford, voice of Rhoda Williams) wakes up in the middle of the night calling for her parents, Chris (Robert Sampson) and Ruth (Sarah Marshall). Chris goes in to check on her, and although he can hear her voice, he cannot find her. Ruth joins him in her room in a panic, and although it sounds like she is under the bed, she is no there. Their dog Mac runs under the bed to look for her as well… and he doesn’t return either. Realizing that something otherworldly is going on, Chris calls his physicist friend Bill (Charles Aidman) to come check it out. He investigates, and is able to draw an outline on the wall, which seems to be acting as a portal to another dimension. They hear Tina’s voice in other areas of the house, but cannot see her. Eventually Chris reaches inside to try and grab her, but he gets pulled all the way in. On the outside, Bill is telling him not to move, and to hurry and get her out of there. Eventually Chris is able to locate Tina and Mac, and all at once, they are pulled back into her room. Bill tells Chris that the reason he wanted him to hurry was that the wall portal was slowly closing. Although Chris could not feel it, Bill had ahold of his lower half, and now they wonder what would have happened if the portal had closed with half of Chris in this world, and half in the other. No physicist who later investigated the room was ever able to find anything unusual. 6/16/21
• 092. Person or Persons Unknown – 3/23/1962
  • A man named David Anthony Gurney (Richard Long) wakes up hungover and late for work on morning, and is shocked when his wife Wilma (Shirley Ballard) claims to not know who he is. He thinks she is joking, but she insistent that he leave the house. Furthermore, none of his clothes can be found in their bedroom closet or drawers. He heads to work, where he receives similar treatment. A man named Mr. Cooper (John Newton) is sitting at his desk, and when he attempts to throw him out, he himself is escorted out by Jim (Joe Higgins) the bank guard. A policeman (Michael Keep) escorts Gurney to see psychiatrist Dr. Koslenko (Frank Silvera), who tries to convince Gurney that he’s manufactured the entire Gurney persona in his mind. Gurney can’t go along with it, and suggests that someone has gone to great lengths to wipe him out completely, but they must’ve overlooked details that only he’s aware of. He stops by a bar that he’s never told anyone about, but the bartender Sam Baker (Edmund Glover) does not recognize him, even though Gurney can recite details of Baker’s life. Gurney then remembers that a photographer snapped a photo of him with Wilma at the zoo. He heads to the photographer’s office and a clerk (Betty Harford) helps locate the photo for him. Sure enough it is a photo of him with his wife. Overwhelmed with relief, he rushes out of the office only to run into Dr. Koslenko, but when he shows him the photo, it is of him alone. He breaks down onto the floor, only to wake up in his own bed. Relieved of the nightmare, he is thrilled to see that Wilma now knows him, but when she washes off her face, he doesn’t recognize this woman who is acting as Wilma (Julie Van Zandt). 6/16/21
• 093. The Little People – 3/30/1962
  • Astronauts Commander William Fletcher (Claude Akins) and Navigator Peter Craig (Joe Maross) land in the canyon of a desolate planet to make repairs on their ship. Craig has a bad attitude and blames Fletcher for the landing. He often wanders off and appears to be completely hydrated despite not drinking any of his water supply. Both astronauts strange chirping sound in certain areas of the terrain. When Fletcher finally confronts Craig about his whereabouts, Craig shares that he’s found a tiny community of microscopic people. One of their trucks is the size of a grain of rice. Craig also demonstrates that he has been terrorizing the people so that he can force them to do things to honor him as their God, even forcing them to build a giant statue in his honor. Fletcher tries to get him to behave humanely, but Craig is hellbent on ruling over them like a tyrant. Fletcher finally gets the ship repaired, but Craig refuses to depart with him, forcing him a gunpoint to leave without him. After Fletcher takes off, Craig begins barking his demands from the little people, but he is interrupted by another ship landing on the planet. Two giant astronauts (Michael Ford, Robert Eaton) depart and hear Craig screaming at them. One of them pick him to see what he is and accidentally crush him to death, then cast him aside. 10/14/21
• 094. Four O’Clock – 4/6/1962
  • Oliver Crangle (Theodore Bikel) is a hateful fanatic who maintains a list of ‘evil’ people, by his standards, whom he feels owes a debt to society. He lives along with his parrot Pete and spends his days and nights calling them and threatening them, or calling their supervisors and demanding that they are fired from their job. He even makes a threat to his landlady Mrs. Williams (Moyna Macgill) when she questions the amount of mail he gets. One woman named Mrs. Lucas (Phyllis Love) comes to see him and plead that he stop hassling her husband, a doctor who failed to save the life of a woman. Lucas has now become depressed and questions whether he could have saved the patient. Crangle refuses to let up, and sends her on her way. Crangle then decides that instead of approaching the evil people personally, he will enact a punishment by simple force of will: to shrink all of the evil-doers to two feet tall at 4:00 that afternoon. He calls the FBI to tell them his plans, so he is visited by agent Luther Hall (Linden Chiles), who tells Crangle that his support is appreciated, but not warranted as they have law men who will handle the evil-doers. He also asks Crangle if he has ever had any psychiatric help. Crangle takes it as an insult and throws him out, then accuses him of being in on the conspiracy of evil. That afternoon when 4:00 rolls around, it is only Crangle who shrinks down to the size of two feet, now unable to even reach the nut dish of his parrot. 10/14/21
• 095. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby – 4/13/1962
  • Somerset Frisby (Andy Devine) runs a general store in the town of Pitchville Flats, where his friends Mitchell (Howard McNear), Scanlan (Dabbs Greer), Pete (Clem Bevans), and others gather around to hear Frisby spin his exceptionally tall tales about all of Frisby’s experiences that involve war heroism, advice he has given presidents, and the eight doctoral degrees he has earned. Frisby’s lies alternately amuse and annoy his friends, who decide to leave the store when his tales become too outlandish. As Frisby is closing up the store, two customers lure him outside for gas, and reveal themselves as aliens in human disguises and magically transport him onto their spacecraft. The aliens have taken Frisby’s stories at face value and believe him to be the most remarkable man on Earth, and desire to use him in their collection of interplanetary specimens. Frisby complains that he is late for supper, and then admits to the aliens that he is a flat out liar and all of the things they’ve heard about him are gross exaggerations. The aliens don’t understand the concept of lying, so they tell him to sit quietly until they depart for their home planet. While he waits, Frisby pulls out his harmonica and starts to play, which causes a noise that is extraordinarily painful to the aliens. The aliens allow Frisby to escape in order to get rid of the noise. When he runs back to his store, he finds all of his friends there, ready to throw him a surprise 63rd birthday party. As Frisby tries to tell the story of the aliens, they all assume it to be another whopper, and they present him with a trophy that declares him the “World’s Greatest Liar.” Milton Selzer is the ‘human’ alien. Peter Brocco and Larry Breitman are uncredited aliens. Bartlett Robinson is uncredited as the other ‘human’ alien  in the car. 4/20/22
• 096. The Trade-Ins – 4/20/1962
  • One day in the future, elderly couple John (Joseph Schildkraut) and Marie Holt (Alma Platt) visit a company that is able to transfer the mind and soul from an elderly body and put it inside a younger, healthier body. This is of particular interest to John, as he suffers with chronic pain. Unfortunately, the salesman Mr. Vance (Noah Keen) tells them that the procedure costs $10,000 for both of them, and they only have $5000 to spend. They both offer to let the other one get the procedure, but neither will do it alone. John arranges a poker game with a professional gambler named Mr. Farraday (Ted Marcuse), and his friends (Terence De Marney, Billy Vincent aka Sailor Vincent) so that John will have a chance to double his money. After a losing streak, John goes all in on a hand that allow him to keep the $5000 with which he started. John reveals that he has three kings, but Farraday has three aces. However, Farraday takes pity on John and doesn’t reveal his hand. letting John keep his original money. All through the game, John has been suffering bursts of pain, so he decides to move forward with the procedure by himself. With the support of his wife, he is taken in by the surgeon (David Armstrong) and the procedure is successful. John emerges as a young, strong, and vibrant looking young man (Edson Stroll). He bounces around the room, excited to begin a new and exciting life with Marie… but it doesn’t take long for him to realize that she is still old and frail. John decides to return into the surgeon’s room and have the procedure reversed and re-enter his original, elderly body. He tells Marie that he’d rather live through the pain than to go through a life without her. Mary McMahon is the receptionist. 4/25/22
• 097. The Gift – 4/27/1962
  • In the sleepy Mexican town of Madeiro, the police officer Sanchez (Henry Corden) comes to the local cantina run by bartender Manolo (Cliff Osmond) with a dead police officer, claiming that a U.F.O. has landed and produced an alien monster who killed the officer. The Captain says he has shot the monster, but that it is still roaming around the town in the dark, so he puts everyone under curfew and orders them back to their homes. After he leaves, the ‘monster’ in the form of a human calling himself Mr. Williams (Geoffrey Horne) comes into the bar, bleeding from his injury. Manolo tries to run out and report him, but Williams knocks him out with the wine bottle. An orphan boy named Pedro (Edmund Vargas) who works in the bar befriends Williams, and the local Doctor (Nico Minardos) treats his injuries. The doctor is surprised that Williams needs no anesthetic while removing two bullets, and that his pulse is just as strong as a normal man even under the duress of being shot. After the operation, Manolo admits that he has told the Captain that when the Army comes to help find the monster, they need look no further than his cantina. The doctor calls him a Judas for betraying his patient. Williams gives Pedro a package containing a gift that he has brought to show Earth that he has come in peace, but does not reveal what it is before asking Pedro to hold onto it until he is ready to present it. Eventually the army does show up, led by the army Captain (Paul Mazursky) and they enter the cantina to arrest Williams for murder. Williams has escaped via his window, but doesn’t walk very far before he is found. Williams asks Pedro to now present them with the gift, but when the townspeople panic that it must be evil, Manolo burns it before anyone can see it. Pedro beckons Williams who slowly walks toward him, causing a nervous soldier to begin firing, killing Williams in the street. The doctor reads the one page that didn’t get burned from the gift, indicating that the box contained the chemical formula for the vaccine to eradicate all forms of cancer. Vladimir Sokoloff is the guitarist Ignacio. Vito Scotti is Rudolpho the telegram sender. 8/24/22
• 098. The Dummy – 5/4/1962
  • Jerry Etherson (Cliff Robertson) runs a moderately successful nightclub act consisting of himself as a ventriloquist and his dummy Willy. After being absent from the stage for a brief time, he makes his return, much to the pleasure of his agent Frank (Frank Sutton). However, Jerry does not seem to be fully recovered from whatever took him out of circulation for a while, because he is still drinking… and still maintaining that Willy is alive. When he returns backstage, he finds that Willy has bitten his finger, and also finds Willy in different positions when he looks away. He then sees Willy wink at him after he decides he is going to do his show with another dummy known as Goofy Goggles. For his next act that night, he takes the new dummy for a spin, and gets a warm reaction, but the nightclub manager Georgie (John Harmon) doesn’t like that fact that Willy keeps to his dressing room when he isn’t performing and won’t circulate among the crowd. Frank has had enough of Jerry’s erratic behavior and tells him that he’s quitting him. Jerry is fine with this, and tells him that he is going to take Goofy on the road to Kansas City. He locks Willy inside of his case, and leaves the theater. However, he keeps hearing the voice of Willy call out to him from the box in the dressing room, and is eventually compelled to return. He opens the box and destroys the dummy, but then realizes he has destroyed Goofy under the mocking, watchful eye of Willy who now talks to him and tells Jerry that he made him what he is today, and shrieks at him in laughter. The next time they take the stage, Willy (George Murdock) has come to life and is now the ventriloquist, while Jerry has been transformed into the dummy. Ralph Manza is Ralph the doorman. Sandra Warner is Doreen. Rudy Dolan is the M.C. 8/24/22
• 099. Young Man’s Fancy – 5/11/1962
  • A year after the death of his mother Henrietta Walker (Helen Brown), her son Alex (Alex Nicol) returns to the house with his newlywed bride Virginia Lane Walker (Phyllis Thaxter). They are there so that Alex can pack for their honeymoon as well as signs some papers so their real estate agent Jim Wilkinson (Wallace Rooney) can begins showing the house. Alex seems to have trouble letting the house go and tells Virginia all about things his mother dead while she was living: sitting in the rocking chair, reading movie magazines, filling the dish with fudge. Virginia doesn’t want to dwell on the past and wants to quickly get out of there. When Alex goes to pack, Virginia looks at a picture of his mother and tells her that she can’t have him. When she gets upstairs, he is going through his old toys. An old radio turns on his mother’s favorite song Lady in Red, a broken clock starts working again, and Virginia starts to see old relics, furniture, and appliances around the house. When Wilkinson arrives to have Alex sign the papers, Alex has second thoughts and decides to wait until after the honeymoon. Then after he leaves, Alex starts talking about keeping the house and simply redecorating it. Virginia starts to shift to panic mode as she feels she is losing him to the memories of his mother, who caused her to have to wait twelve years for Alex to finally marry her. Then Virginia sees Henrietta on the stairs, and when Virginia tells her again that she can’t have him, Henrietta assures her that it is not her doing. Alex appears and tells his mother to return to him, and then Alex turns into a version of his younger self (Rickey Kelman). He turns to Virginia and tells her to leave, that they don’t need her any longer. 12/7/22
• 100. I Sing the Body Electric – 5/18/1962
  • Three children, Anne (Veronica Cartwright), Tom (Charles Herbert), and Karen (Dana Dillaway), live with their widower father Geroge Rogers (David White). Their Aunt Nedra (Doris Packer) has come to watch over them after their mother passed away. Anne especially has been unhappy and bitter, while Tom and Karen do better at masking their unhappiness. Nedra feels this is too much for her to handle, so she leaves them and tells David that they need professional help. He isn’t sure which way to turn, but Tom finds an article in Modern Science magazine about a company called Facsimile Ltd., whose motto is “I Sing the Body Electric.” They offer lifelike electronic processing systems, which looks like an elderly woman who can offer loving supervision to a family. They go to see what they have to offer, and their salesman (Vaughn Taylor) makes a convincing pitch. They kids are able to assemble the look of their new caregiver from various varieties of synthetic body parts. Anne has no interest in making the robot look like their mother, who she claims to hate. Later, the robot (Josephine Hutchinson) shows up at the Rogers house, and Tom and Karen name her “Grandma”. Anne is curious but keeps her difference. She shows them how she can fly a kite on demand and can also replay the kids’ conversations through her hands. Grandma tries her best to win over Anne, but Anne is too bitter about the abandonment she feels about her mother. During an especially heated exchange during which Anne tells Grandma that she hates her, she runs out of the house. Her father and Grandma follow her, and Anne winds up running in front of a van. Grandma jumps out and pushes her to safety, but Grandma is struck by the truck and appears to be dead. Seconds later, Grandma stand up fully recovered. She tells Anne that she will never leave her, and this finally wins Anne over. Over the years, Ann cares for them and teaches them. Tom (Paul Nesbitt), Anne (Susan Crane), and Karen (Judee Morton) reach adulthood and get ready to go off to college. Grandma tells them that she will now return to Facsimile Ltd. where her essence will go into a ‘room of voices’ where she will confer with other robot and share all of the things they learned during their assignments. She hopes that someday she will be rewarded with a real life. Anne tells her that she has always been alive to them. She says goodbye, sends the kids upstairs, and heads out. 12/7/22
• 101. Cavender Is Coming – 5/25/1962
  • An angel named Harmon Cavender (Jesse White) is still awaiting his wings, and the head angel Polk (Howard Smith) and his assistant field agent (John Fiedler) tell him about his next and final assignment to improve the life of a clumsy woman named Agnes Grep (Carol Burnett), who can’t seem to hold a job. If Cavender isn’t successful at this job of guardian angel, he will be demoted. Agnes is currently working at a fancy movie theater where she is given the job of directing customers by the manager Mr. Stout (Frank Behrens). She immediately flounders in the job and winds up tripping and falling through a giant mirror into Stout’s office. On her way home on the bus, Cavender appears next to her and introduces himself. He even proves his identity as an angel by replacing the bus with a horse-drawn carriage and then a fancy convertible before making the bus reappear. When she gets home, she is warmly greeted by other tenants and children to whom she gives candy and cookies. Cavender then reappears in the living room couch and explains that he is going to make her happy by giving her great wealth. He fills her bank account with over $23,000 and moves her to the swanky Morgan mansion. They transport there right into the middle of a high society party. They spend the night socializing, dancing, and drinking, while Agnes rebuffs the flirtation of a Frenchman (Albert Carrier). The next morning, Cavender wakes up at the party to find that Agnes has left. He finds her back at her old apartment, which has been leased to someone else. Agnes tells him how happy she was there, poor lifestyle and all. She enjoyed her neighbors and her bowling and her life of moving from job to job. She pleads for him to return her, so he does. Before he leaves, he tells her that she is one of the wealthiest subjects he’s ever known, not in cash but in her own happiness. When Cavender returns to the 3rd Celestial Division of Angel Placement, Polk is getting ready to reassign Cavender, but then Polk sees Agnes at the bowling alley and she is clearly happy. He decides that Cavendar should continue to act as a guardian angel. Sandra Gould is the neighbor making potato pancakes. Barbara Morrison is the resident matron in the apartment. Donna Douglas is the debutante. Danny Kulick is the cookie boy. Jack Younger is the bus driver. 5/25/23
• 102. The Changing of the Guard – 6/1/1962
  • Professor Ellis Fowler (Donald Pleasence), who has taught poetry at the Rock Spring School for Boys in Vermont, gets ready to dismiss his class for Christmas break after giving them some good-natured ribbing and calling them dunderheads, particularly Mr. Graham (Robert Biheller) and Mr. Butler (Kevin O’Neal). Before they all leave, he tells them what a good class they’ve been and wish them a Merry Christmas. He is then called to speak to the headmaster (Liam Sullivan) who inquires about a letter sent from the school board indicating that he was being forced into retirement. Even though he had taught there for more than fifty years, Fowler is completely shocked by this. He walks out of the office in a daze, unable to hold back his tears in front of his students McTavish (Jimmy Baird) and Halliday (Kevin Jones). He heads home and reminisces through the yearbooks filled with his former students and speaks to his housekeeper Mrs. Landers (Phillipa Bevans) about how he feels that he never helped or impacted a single student throughout all of his years of teaching. He heads to the statue of the school founder Horace Mann… and brings his gun with him. Intending to kill himself, he hears the school bells before he can carry out the deed. He returns to his classroom where the ghosts of numerous former students who had all passed away tells Fowler about the good deeds in their life that lead to their deaths, and the way that his words had inspired them to have courage, honor, dignity, and honesty in their lives. After they’ve built him back up, they all disappear into nothingness. Professor Fowler then returns home, content to enjoy his life knowing that he has in fact contributed to great acts performed by his students. He enjoys the Christmas carols from students who have come around to sing to him. Tom Lowell is Archie Beechcroft. Russell Horton is Bartlett. Buddy Hart aka Buddy Joe Hooker is Dickie Weiss. Darryl Richard is Thomson. James Browing is Rice. Pat Close is Hudson. Dennis Kerlee is Whiting. 5/25/23

SEASON 4

NOTE: All Season Four episodes are one hour in length.

• 103. In His Image – 1/3/1963
  • A man named Alan Talbot (George Grizzard) finds himself in a subway terminal, where he encounters a woman (Katherine Squire) who insists on proselytizing to Talbot, which ultimately drives him to hear a strange electronic sound and then push her in front of a moving subway car.  Later, seemingly forgetting the events in the subway, he returns to his fiancé Jessica Connelly’s (Gail Kobe) apartment. Although they only met four days earlier, they plan to be married and he wants to take Jessica to his hometown of Couerville to meet his aunt Mildred. When they arrive into town, things seem different than they had just days earlier when he last visited. New buildings stand where nothing was, a hotel clerk (Jamie Forster) tells him that a restaurant where he frequently dined never existed, his Aunt Mildred’s home is occupied by a man (Wallace Rooney) he’s never met, and the university where he worked no longer stands. When they visit the cemetery to see the graves of his parents, they find that the stone now reads “Walter Ryder,” which seems to trigger a memory he can’t identify. Jessica does not know what to make of this but suggests that it seems that time has moved forward, or that he has been in some sort of suspended animation for years. The sheriff (James Seay) catches up with Alan and Jessica based on a report from a man in Mildred’s house and advises Jessica to get Alan to a doctor. They decide to head out of town, and along the way Alan hears the electronic sounds again and suddenly orders her to stop the car. He runs into the woods, but then calls Jessica to join him. He picks up a rock as if to hit her, then stops himself and pleads with her to leave without him. She does as he asks, and he gives chase after her at the last second. As she takes off, he is nearly hit by a driver (George Petrie) and jumps out of the way, cutting his arm open. He is surprised there is no blood, and then pulls back a loose bit of skin, revealing robotic wires in his arm. While Jessica tries to get Alan to see a psychiatrist, Alan surmises that the key to his mystery is Walter Ryder (George Grizzard), a man whom he finds information for in the phone book. He goes to see Walter and is told that he had created Alan out of his lifelong passion to build a self-aware android. He had raised money by developing a calculator that netted him a fortune, and by using other brilliant scientists to help him. He had given Alan many of his own childhood memories of growing up in Couerville, supplemented with other fictional facts, the goal being to build an identical perfect version of himself. Hs only problem is that he also felt the same violent tendencies that Walter often did, but unlike Walter, he was unable to control them. He reveals to Alan two other prototypes that were identical to both Walter and Alan. One day during his development, Alan had gone crazy and stabbed Walter in the chest with a pair of scissors before disappearing. Alan becomes enraged that Walter had created him without considering the consequences, especially where Jessica is concerned. Walter acknowledges the truth in this, and also notes that his life with Jessica can never happens as only she would age. Alan demands that Walter with an improved android that will care for her, but when Alan pulls out some paper to write down Jessica’s address, he finds the religious pamphlet given to him by the woman he pushed in front of the subway. The throws him into a rage and he attacks Walter, and the two fight throughout the lab, destroying much of it. The one who survives the battle then goes to see Jessica and tells her that the nightmare is over and that one day he will tell her what has happened. The lifeless body of Alan lays under rubble in Walter’s lab. Sherry Granto is the teenage girl. 9/25/23
• 104. The Thirty Fathom Grave – 1/10/1963
  • Aboard a Navy destroyer in the South Pacific on a routine patrol, Captain Beecham (Simon Oakland) chews out Chief Bell (Mike Kellin) for not fully securing a motor whale boat during a swell that had been predicted. Bell offers no excuse other than that he did his best but hasn’t been feeling well lately. Shortly after, a sonar operator (Charles Kuenstle) picks up a large object that could be a sunken submarine, as well as a noise that sounds like a metallic banging coming from nearby. When Bell hears the sound, he almost immediately faints and is taken to the sick bay area and is tended to by the doctor (David Sheiner). Once he wakes up, he has a funny feeling that he can’t describe and tells the doctor that he has a compelling feeling to leave the room and never come back. Beecham and the Officer of the Day Smith (Bill Bixby) speculate what the sound could be, and they decide to send down a diver named McClure (John Considine) down the sunken submarine to find out what is making the noise. He goes down to the sunken sub and tries to locate the source of the sound by banging on the ship. He thinks it is coming from the middle of the ship but cannot locate a way in due to a portion of the hatches being buried. Beacham has the lee helmsman (Anthony Call) and helmsman (Derrik Lewis) try to get a rescue team to help pull out the sub. Beecham can’t understand how anyone could be alive in the sub since they had had no sign of any sort of altercation in the last several hours. When they hear that the sub has moved, Beecham sends McClure back down to try to get a number off the ship’s hull now that it has moved. McClure finds out that the ship’s number is 714, which was commissioned in 1941, but was sunk in action in August of 1942. Doc comes to see Beecham about Chief Bell, and how he seems to be having illusions and needs psychiatric help. The doc surmises that he might be having flashbacks since it is known that he had been a shipwreck survivor during the war. Bell begins seeing a group of men beckoning to him in the mirror and out in the hallway. Beecham sends McClure back down to try and get through the hull of the ship. Bell then sees the same men beckoning him out in the hall. The doc is then puzzled when he finds wet seaweed in the same area where the men supposedly were.  While McClure is under water again, he finds some of the dog tags under the water which belong to Bell, who finally realizes that the clanging is all about the shipwreck he had. He blames himself because he dropped a light near Japanese ships that fired upon the ship. He managed to escape the ship and get picked up later, while everyone else on the ship was killed in the gunfire. Without warning, he runs out of the room and jumps overboard. Hours later, no one has found him or his body. McClure and another diver finally get inside the ship and see all eight of the men who had perished, one of them holding a hammer. Conlan Carter is Ensign Marmer. Forrest Compton is the ASW Officer. Henry Scott is the Junior OOD. Vince Bagetta and Louie Elias are sailors. 9/26/23
• 105. Valley of the Shadow – 1/17/1963
  • A newspaper reporter named Philip Redfield (Ed Nelson) is heading to Albuquerque with his dog Rollie but becomes lost along the way. He turns off into a sleepy little town named Peaceful Valley to get gas and while he is chatting with the attendant Fredericks (Sandy Kenyon), Rollie runs after the cat of a neighborhood girl named Cissie Johnson (Suzanne Cupito aka Morgan Brittany), and as she yells at the dog, she pulls out a device that she points at the dog causing it to disappear. Redfield speaks the girl’s father (James Doohan), who assures Redfield that the dog is safe. Once Mr. Johnson is out of Redfield’s sight, he uses a similar device to make Rollie reappear. With the only restaurant in town seemingly closed, Redfield heads to the hotel to seek lunch and encounters the proprietor Ellen Marshall (Natalie Trundy), who acts suspiciously and tells him that all of the room are sold out in the hotel even though there is no one around. Although his curiosity is aroused, Redfield decides to leave town and drives off. He then hits a barrier of some sort which he cannot see, and which throws Rollie from the car and kills him. Four men (Henry Beckman, Bart Burns, King Calder, Pat O’Hara) from town show up at the scene and help Redfield back into town to see a doctor. One of the residents uses a device to bring Rollie back to life. They then bring Redfield to see the town mayor Mr. Dorn (David Opatoshu) and his two assistants Evans (Dabbs Greer) and Connelly (Jacques Aubuchon). They tell Redfield unequivocally that he cannot ever leave town again. They go on to explain that there was a stranger who showed up in town 104 years ago who gave them many equations that unlocked mysterious energy forces so that they are able to create things out of formulas and move things by reorganizing atoms. As illustrated by stabling Evans, they can even reverse injury and death. His stipulation was that only the two employ these formulas and theories, and to not give them to the general public, whose penchant for war makes them not ready to have them. Redfield feel that the power of these equations would save the planet form needless suffering, hunger, and crime. He wants to take the ideas public, but the men insist that he is either to be killed or assimilated. He chooses to be assimilated into the citizens of Peaceful Valley, so they build him a house that Ellen helps him move into. Redfield quick realizes that the houses is surrounded by a forcefield that will keep him from leaving. Redfield pleas with Ellen that they need to get out of this prison and bring these things public. She tells him that she is in love with him and wants to be with him. They conspire to have her pick him up in her car, and before they head out, Redfield uses an equation to make a gun that he uses to shoot Dorn, Evans, and Connelly. He then steals the book of equations from the safe where it is kept, and they begin their drive out of town. Once they pass the area where the forcefield had caused him to crash before, Ellen asks Redfield if he has looked at the formula. When he opens the book, he sees that it is full of empty pages. Ellen then uses her device to make Redfield disappear. When he wakes up, he is under the watchful eye of Dorn and his men, who tell him that they wanted to prove their point about bringing the equations public, and sure enough the first thing he did was create a weapon and commit murder. Now he now has to be executed, but Dorn says it will be done in a way to appease everyone. Instead of actual death, Redfield is sent back to the gas station where he has no memory of his time in Peaceful Valley. He heads out of town, experiencing a very brief moment of deja vu when he sees Ellen, who has tears in her eyes. 1/24/24
• 106. He’s Alive – 1/24/1963
  • A small neo-Nazi group led by an angry young man named Peter Vollmer (Dennis Hopper), with staunch supporters Frank (Paul Mazursky), Nick (Howard Caine), and Stanley (Barnaby Hale) by his side, give a speech maligning many minorities and predicting the government’s financial collapse due to their conspiracies to defraud the general public. The speech goes nowhere, with one member (Bernard Fein) of the crowd beating up Peter. When the police arrive, they act as if they are there to protect the group, but one cop (Paul Bryar) quietly antagonizes Peter. Peter goes to see his longtime friend and surrogate uncle Ernst Ganz (Ludwig Donath), who has looked out for Peter since he was a struggling child. He offers him his help and support but makes it clear that he does not respect what he is doing. That night, a shadowy figure (Curt Conway) comes to see Peter and gives him advice on how to excite a mob by making them feel as one with the speaker. Peter modifies his speech and takes it to a rented hall the next time, getting a much more enthusiastic reaction and a nearly full room. The manager of the hall, Mr. Gibbons (Jay Adler) tells the guys that they owe him $200 for the use of the hall, but Peter tells them they are still growing in their numbers and cannot afford it right now. However, within minutes, an unknown person leaves them an envelope with the needed money, and they turn it over to Gibbons. The shadowy figure returns to Peter that night and tells him that the next step is to create a martyr. He tells Peter that he should have one of his own men killed, choosing Nick Bloss as the victim. Peter is reluctant, but ultimately tells Frank that Nick is an informer. Frank takes on the job and has Nick killed, making it look as if he was killed by an enemy of the cause. Nick’s crowds begin to get larger and larger, while Stanley expresses regret about Nick’s death. Peter tells him that nick was a fat pig, a bigmouth, and a Judas who got exactly what he deserved. During one of Peter’s fiery speeches, Ernst discusses with his friend Schuster (Wolfe Barzell) how reminiscent Peter’s speeches are from those he experienced in Nazi Germany. Ernst decides to put a stop to it, so he mounts the stage with Peter and embarrasses him in front of the crowd, causing many of the audience members to walk out. The shadowy figure emerges again and tells Peter that he needs to kill Ernst. Peter demands that this man who is trying to direct things without being involved reveal himself. The figure steps out from the shadows and reveals himself to be Adolf Hitler. He tells Ernst that if he follows his directions precisely, they will forge a force like Hitler has been part of in the past. Peter goes to Ernst apartment and shoots him, telling him that he must remain as cold and unflinching as steel, with nothing more than purpose and will. As Ernst lay dying, he Peter that he is all strength at the expense of any fragment of decency that makes him love. Peter continues to hear the voice of Hitler and tells him that it felt like he was immortal when he killed Ernst. Just then, a police detective (Robert McCord) enters and arrests him for the murder of Nick Bloss. Peter tries to escape the police but is shot as he is being pursued and dies in the street. Rod Serling speculates where this phantom voice could go next, considering it is bigotry, hate, and prejudice, which is found in every town, that keeps him alive. 2/3/24
• 107. Mute – 1/31/1963
  • In Dusseldorf, Germany in 1953, a group of four couples make a pact with each other to raise their children off the grid and only communicate with them telepathically, until this method is perfected as which time they will all form a joint community. Among the couples are Holger (Robert Boon) and Fanny Nielsen (Claudia Bryar) and Karl (Oscar Beregi, Jr.) and Maria Werner (Eva Soreny aka Eva Szorenyi). The Nielsens and their two-year old daughter Ilse move to the small town of German Corners, Pennsylvania. Ten years later, the Nielsens suffer a deadly fire in their house, and when the local Sheriff Harry Wheeler (Frank Overton) and fireman Tom Poulter (Percy Helton) arrive, they find Ilse (Ann Jillian) outside the house, scared and silent, but unharmed. The Sheriff brings her home, where his wife Cora (Barbara Baxley) takes an instant liking to her. Since it is known that the Nielsens often received letters from Europe, the sheriff decides to wait until the next letters come to see if they can get hold of a relative. However, once they arrived, the post office says that they are unable to legally open the letters, so Wheeler takes the return address off of them and writes them his own letter. Cora, who has suffered the loss of her own daughter Sally from a drowning accident, is resistant to trying to find her family, fearing they may be as irresponsible as the Nielsens, who seemingly never taught their daughter to talk and had never enrolled her in school. When Harry tries to mail the letters, Cora takes them from the mailbox and burns them. Ilse, who has only communicated telepathically with her parents all of her life, realizes that they are now dead. She wants the letters to be sent so that she can be taken to a community with other children like her. However, she is unable to understand anyone’s spoken words, which ring hallow and painful in her ears. She can get general ideas with the images she sees in her head, and when she realizes that Cora has burned the letters, she is upset that they won’t find the others. After weeks pass, Harry gets in touch with the schoolteacher Miss Frank (Irene Dailey), who is anxious to enroll her in school. She is hard on Ilse, and each day demands that she stand in front of the class and say her name, which is a task she can never do. One day, Miss Frank tells Ilse that she’s not fooling anyone, and says that her parents obviously did what her own parents has attempted to do, to raise her as a medium to communicate with the dead. In her own head, Ilse pleads that this is not true. One day, Karl and Maria Werner finally show up in town, having never received any letters from the Wheelers, and therefore neither had they contacted the Wheelers. When they are brought in contact with Ilse, they are able to telepathically communicate with her and remind her of the pact that her parents took. Ilse now begins to hear the telepathic words in echoes, and suddenly bursts out vocally that her name is Ilse. With this breakthrough, combined with the pleas of Cora not to take Ilse from her, the Werners decide to return to Germany without her. Karl believes that the work of the Nielsens was a complete waste since they brought Ilse to the brink of perfecting telepathy, only to have it ripped away. Maria, however, notes that it was the telepathy that helped guide Ilse out of the fire even when her parents were trapped, and ultimately it is the love from the Wheelers that matters much more than their telepathy experiment. Even though they were given legal right by the Nielsens to take custody of Ilse, they decide to let the Wheelers continue with their adoption plans so that Ilse can live a normal life. William Challee is the whittler. Bill Erwin is the man who finds Sally. 5/26/24
• 108. Death Ship – 2/7/1963
  • In the year 1997, United States spaceship E89 flies over the 13th planet of Star System 51, looking for specimens to find out if the land might be inhabitable. They spot a viable planet, and as the crew of Captain Paul Ross (Jack Klugman), Lt. Ted Mason (Ross Martin), and Lt. Mike Carter (Frederick Beir) approach the land, they spot what appears to be a spaceship. Although Captain Ross discourages talk of life, the men suspect there may be just that. When they land, they find a crashed spaceship very similar to their own. Upon closer inspection, they find that it is not only a U.S. ship, but that there are three dead men on board… exact duplicates of each of them. Captain Ross insists there must be a logical explanation and that these men are not them. They are unable to make any contact, and Ross speculates that they might have circumnavigated time in such a way that they are seeing a glimpse of the future. However, he feels they can avoid this fate by remaining on the planet so that there can be no crash. While Mason and Carter do not feel this is a viable plan, Ross pulls rank and insists that he is calling the shots. As Carter pontificates about his fate, he has a vision of himself back on earth where he runs into his old friend Kramer (Ross Elliot) and his neighbor Mrs. Nolan (Sara Taft). Suddenly, he runs back to his house to look for his wife Mary, but only finds her bereavement clothes and a telegram on the bed indicating he had died during his space exploration. When he returns to reality, he realizes that everyone in his vision were dead. While Ross insists that he was merely having a delusion, they also realize that Mason has disappeared from his bunk. He has a similar vision of his wife Ruth (Mary Webster) and daughter Jeannie (Tammy Marihugh) getting ready for a picnic. As he reunites with them, Ross appears and tells him that he is taking him back. Despite his resistance, Mason is pulled from his vision back into reality, where Ross shows him a newspaper clipping reminding him that his wife and daughter were killed in an auto accident. Ross then modifies his theory about what is going on and is now convinced that there is an alien life presence among them that is giving them visions to scare them off the planet and report that it is uninhabitable. Considering this, Ross decides that they should leave the area and go back home after all. They take off, and once they have exited the planet’s orbit, they believe that Ross was right about the telepathic illusions that the aliens gave them. Now that they are safe, Ross says they need to return and gather the samples after all, believing that when they land again, the other ship will be gone. Despite resistance from the other man, Ross gets his way and they re-land. This time the ship appears to be gone, but when the men point out that they might just be facing the other way, they realize that their ship is still there after all. Mason then says he has now accepted the truth and knows that they are dead and are ready to reunite with their loved ones. Ross is unable to accept this theory and tells them that they will go over it again and again until they figure out what is going on. The men are then taken back in time to the moment that they initially spotted the ship’s wreckage as their ship approached the planet, thus beginning the loop of time again. 5/26/24
• 109. Jess-Belle – 2/14/1963
  • Somehwere in the Blue Ridge Mountains, a young man named Billy Ben Turner (James Best) proposes to his love Ellwyn “Ellie” Glover (Laura Devon) during a community barn dance. She accepts, and soon her father Luther (George Mitchell) is making the announcement to everyone at the party. One girl, Jess-Belle Stone (Anne Francis) is clearly hurt by the announcement and steals away from the party. Ellie sends Billy Ben to check on her, and Ellie asks him to recall their time of romance together. He does but says that the fiery coals of romance have turned to ashes. Jess-Belle tells him to ask Ellie not to start making her wedding dress yet, as she may not marry him after all. Jess-Belle then goes to see Granny Hart (Jeanette Nolan), a rumored witch, to ask her for a spell to make Billy Ben love her. Since Jess-Belle has no money to pay her, and the silver she offers is an affront to a witch, Granny says she will pay an even bigger price every night at midnight. She has her drink a potion and tells her to return to Billy Ben. When Jess-Belle returns to the party, as soon as she comes into contact with Billy Ben, he is smitten with her, begins to dance with her as he stares into her eyes, and they both walk out of the dance together. Ellie’s father and mother Mattie (Helen Kleeb) are furious at this, but Ellie says she would take Billy Ben back if he returned, but she knows he never will since she has bewitched him. Jess-Belle and Billy Ben begins their romance, but she has to leave his presence every night at midnight because she transforms into a leopard for the night. Billy Ben begins pushing to set a wedding date, but Jess-Belle is hesitant. When he keeps pushing her, she accidentally scratches his face. Jess-Belle returns to Granny Hart to ask her to restore her soul and changer her back so that she can love Billy Ben properly, but Granny Hart says that she’s paid the price, and now all she has to do is to take the man she bargained for and give him her witch’s love. Jess-Belle returns to Billy Ben to tell him once and for all that they cannot be married, and she returns her ring to him. She has to leave when the clock starts to strike midnight. Billy Ben tries to chase her but is unable to find her. Unbeknownst to him, the leopard is laying on the porch roof above him outside. The next morning, Jess-Belle turns back to being a woman and decides to follow Granny Hart’s advice and marry him after all. She goes to see Ellie while she is picking wildflowers on a hill and taunts her by telling her that she is marrying Billy Ben the next Sunday. Ellie wishes them well and tells Jess-Belle that she knows he is under a magic spell. When Jess-Belle asks her if she’s worried about the wildcat roaming the area, Ellie tells her that her father, Billy Ben, and Obed Miller (Jim Boles) are leading some men to hunt and kill the cat. When Jess-Belle mentions Granny Hart to her mother Ossie (Virginia Gregg), she immediately catches on that Jess-Belle has taken a potion from her and has condemned her soul. Jess-Belle asks her mother to lock her in her room that night and not let her out, but the leopard winds up making its way out the window and to Ellie’s barn. When Ellie sees it, she screams and the men come running, and Billy Ben shoots the leopard, which disappears into a puff of smoke. Billy Ben finds his engagement ring where the leopard was. With the spell apparently broken, Billy Ben returns to courting Ellie. One year later, Billy Ben and Ellie are planning to be married, but Ossie Stone comes to see him to warn him that Jess-Belle isn’t really dead since a witch can’t be killed. She has seen Jess-Belle in her bedroom in the form of a frog, but when she hit it with a broom, it turned into a puff of smoke. During the wedding ceremony, Billy Ben sees a spider on Ellie’s wedding dress and tries to kill it, but it too changes to smoke. After the wedding, they return to Billy Ben’s cabin, but Ellie feels possessed and a spirit takes her hand toward Billy Ben’s neck. Then a mouse appears on the grandfather clock and nearly knocks it onto Ellie. Billy Ben tells Ellie to stay in the house and then goes to see Granny Hart and begs her for the directions to kill a witch. He pays her in money instead of letting her take a lock of his hair, and she tells him to dress up a figure of Jess-Belle in something that she had actually worn, and then stick a silver needle through the dress into where her heart would be. He goes to get a dress from Jess-Belle’s mother, and when he returns home, he finds that Ellie has been possessed by Jess-Belle. He sets up the dress and follows the instructions, causing Jess-Belle to momentarily appear, and then disappear altogether. Although Ellie can’t remember anything since their wedding that day, she sees a shooting star and says that her mother always says that this means that a witch has died. Jon Lormer is the minister. 10/14/24
• 110. Miniature – 2/21/1963
  • Charley Parkes (Robert Duvall) is a milquetoast working in an office setting where is frequently picked on by his co-workers (Norman Burton, Joseph V. Perry) for working late and never socializing. Charley often visits the Burton County Museum on his lunch breaks. One day, he discovers a large doll house that served as a model of a residence in Boston. Inside is a doll figurine of the daughter Alice (Claire Griswold), who lived in the house and has been carved in wood from a piece of the original house’s balcony. As Charley become mesmerized by Alice, the doll starts to move and play the piano. He assumes that the house was designed for this, but the guard (John McLiam) tells him that there is nothing mechanical in the doll house. Charlie returns to work late, and his boss V.E. Diemel (Barney Phillips) calls him into his office and lets him go because he has never fit in with his co-workers. When Charlie returns home to his mother (Pert Kelton), she is upset that he can never hold a job and always makes others feel uncomfortable around him. Charley later returns to the museum, and this time he sees Alice up and moving around in the house along with her maid (Nina Roman). She also has a suitor (Richard Angarola) who takes Alice out of the house for a date. Mrs. Parks has Charley’s sister Myra (Barbara Barrie) and her husband Buddy Russell (Lennie Weinrib) come over and talk to Charley. Buddy offers him a job, but to everyone’s surprise, Charley declines. Instead, he again returns to the museum to watch the dollhouse. Charley begins talking to Alice, arousing the suspicions of the guard, who questions him Charley and is told to leave him alone. The next time he returns to the museum, Charley’s mother has Myra follow him to see what he is doing. When she finds him at the dollhouse, she offers to have lunch with him and offers to set him up on a date with her co-worker Harriet Gunderson (Joan Chambers), thinking that he hasn’t been himself since he needs female companionship. Charley and Harriet share an awkward date, but it ends up with Harriet slapping him after she tries to kiss him, and he rejects her. The next time Charley visits the museum, he witnesses Alice’s suitor overpower his way into the house, strike the maid with his cane, and cause Alice to faint. As he carries her upstairs to the bedroom, Charlie attempts to intervene, ultimately breaking the glass surrounding the house. This time the guard has no choice but to turn him over to a professional doctor named Dr. Wallman (William Windom), who diagnoses him as having hallucinations as a result of trying to cope with the real world. Charley winds up staying in the hospital for several weeks until Dr. Wallman deems that he is ready to leave. He releases him to his family, and Charley assures them that he realizes that the woman in the dollhouse was not real, and he now knows better. When he gets back home, he tells Buddy that he’d be glad to accept the job that he offered, and he tells Myra that he’d love to go out with Harriet again. He goes to bed, and once everyone has left his room, he locks the door and sneaks out the window. No one can find him anywhere, so they call the doctor, who tells them that even though the museum is closed, he is certain that he is there. Sure enough, Charley has hidden himself inside a sarcophagus until after the museum closed, and then he returns to the dollhouse, telling Alice how much he loves her. Dr. Wallman and Charley’s family get the guard to let them in and they search the museum. No one can find Charley… except the guard, who sees that the dollhouse now contains Alice and Charley looking at stereoscopic slides. The guard decides not to tell anyone else. Chet Stratton is the museum tour guide. 10/16/24

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