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The Twilight Zone: Season 3
September 15, 1961
37 Episodes
~26 min per episode
Overview
The third season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from September 15, 1961 to June 1, 1962. There are 37 episodes. Continuing with Marius Constant's theme music, a different set of graphics was used for the opening, consisting of a rotating cone with concentric circles suggesting a spiral, receding into a star field. Rod Serling's narration from the second season was used, with the verse "That's the signpost up ahead" taken out: "You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop—The Twilight Zone." Some subtle changes in the opening's acoustics were made beginning with Person or Persons Unknown.
Episodes
37
1
Two
Sep 15, 1961
26 min
3.6/5
A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
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2
The Arrival
Sep 22, 1961
26 min
3.6/5
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
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3
The Shelter
Sep 29, 1961
26 min
4.2/5
When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
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4
The Passersby
Oct 6, 1961
26 min
3.4/5
On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.
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5
A Game of Pool
Oct 13, 1961
26 min
3.6/5
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
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6
The Mirror
Oct 20, 1961
26 min
3.1/5
After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.
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7
The Grave
Oct 27, 1961
26 min
3.4/5
Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.
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8
It's a Good Life
Nov 3, 1961
26 min
4.0/5
Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
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9
Deaths-Head Revisited
Nov 10, 1961
26 min
3.5/5
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
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10
The Midnight Sun
Nov 17, 1961
26 min
3.9/5
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
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11
Still Valley
Nov 24, 1961
26 min
3.0/5
Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
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12
The Jungle
Dec 1, 1961
26 min
3.3/5
Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
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13
Once Upon a Time
Dec 15, 1961
26 min
3.6/5
Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!
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14
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Dec 22, 1961
26 min
4.0/5
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
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15
A Quality of Mercy
Dec 29, 1961
26 min
3.6/5
A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.
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16
Nothing in the Dark
Jan 5, 1962
26 min
3.9/5
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
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17
One More Pallbearer
Jan 12, 1962
26 min
3.5/5
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
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18
Dead Man's Shoes
Jan 19, 1962
26 min
3.4/5
A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.
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19
The Hunt
Jan 26, 1962
26 min
3.3/5
On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.
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20
Showdown with Rance McGrew
Feb 2, 1962
26 min
3.3/5
The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.
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21
Kick the Can
Feb 9, 1962
26 min
3.6/5
A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".
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22
A Piano in the House
Feb 16, 1962
26 min
3.5/5
Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.
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23
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Feb 23, 1962
26 min
3.3/5
Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
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24
To Serve Man
Mar 2, 1962
26 min
4.3/5
The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
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25
The Fugitive
Mar 9, 1962
26 min
3.2/5
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
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26
Little Girl Lost
Mar 16, 1962
26 min
3.5/5
A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever.
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27
Person or Persons Unknown
Mar 23, 1962
26 min
3.8/5
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
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28
The Little People
Mar 30, 1962
26 min
3.8/5
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
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29
Four O'Clock
Apr 6, 1962
26 min
2.9/5
Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.
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30
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
Apr 13, 1962
26 min
3.5/5
A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
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31
The Trade-Ins
Apr 20, 1962
26 min
3.7/5
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
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32
The Gift
Apr 27, 1962
26 min
3.1/5
An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.
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33
The Dummy
May 4, 1962
26 min
3.5/5
A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!
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34
Young Man's Fancy
May 11, 1962
26 min
2.8/5
When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
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35
I Sing the Body Electric
May 18, 1962
26 min
3.6/5
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
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36
Cavender is Coming
May 25, 1962
25 min
3.0/5
Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.
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37
The Changing of the Guard
Jun 1, 1962
25 min
3.5/5
An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.
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