~A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain~

Air date: 12/13/63
Written by: Rod Serling

"Picture of an aging man who leads his life, as Thoreau said, 'in quiet desperation.' Because Harmon Gordon is enslaved by a love affair with a wife forty years his junior. Because of this, he runs when he should walk. He surrenders when simple pride dictates a stand. He pines away for the lost morning of his life when he should be enjoying the evening. In short, Mr. Harmon Gordon seeks a fountain of youth, and who's to say he won't find it? This happens to be the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Harmon Gordon.......Patrick O'Neal
Flora Gordon..............Ruta Lee
Dr. Raymond Gordon...Walter Brooke

"It happens to be a fact: as one gets older, one does get wiser. If you don't believe it, ask Flora. Ask her any day of the ensuing weeks of her life, as she takes note during the coming years and realizes that the worm has turned--youth has taken over. It's simply the way the calendar crumbles...in the Twilight Zone."

~Ninety Years Without Slumbering~

Air date: 12/20/63
Written by: Richard deRoy

"Each man measures his time; some with hope, some with joy, some with fear. But Sam Forstmann measures his allotted time by a grandfather's clock, a unique mechanism whose pendulum swings between life and death, a very special clock that keeps a special kind of time--in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Sam Forstmann...........Ed Wynn
Marnie Kirk.....Carolyn Kearney
Doug Kirk........James Callahan
Dr. Mel Avery...William Sargent
Carol Chase.........Carol Byron
Mover #1............Dick Wilson
Mover #2............Chuck Hicks
Policeman..........John Pickard

"Clocks are made by men, God creates time. No man can prolong his allotted hours, he can only live them to the fullest--in this world or in the Twilight Zone."

~Ring-A-Ding Girl~

Air date: 12/27/63
Written by: Earl Hamner, Jr.

"Introduction to Bunny Blake. Occupation: film actress. Residence: Hollywood, California, or anywhere in the world that cameras happen to be grinding. Bunny Blake is a public figure; what she wears, eats, thinks, says is news. But underneath the glamor, the makeup, the publicity, the build-up, the costuming, is a flesh-and-blood person, a beautiful girl about to take a long and bizarre journey into the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Bunny Blake....Maggie McNamara
Hildy Powell.......Mary Munday
Bud Powell.......David Macklin
Ben Braden........Bing Russell
Mr. Gentry......Hank Patterson
State trooper.......Vic Perrin
Dr. Floyd......George Mitchell
Cici..........Betty Lou Gerson
Pilot.............Bill Hickman

"We are all travellers. The trip starts in a place called birth--and ends in that lonely town we call death. And that's the end of the journey, unless you happen to exist for a few hours, like Bunny Blake, in the misty regions of the Twilight Zone."

~You Drive~

Air date: 1/3/64
Written by: Earl Hamner, Jr.

"Portrait of a nervous man: Oliver Pope by name, office manager by profession. A man beset by life's problems: his job, his salary, the competition to get ahead. Obviuosly, Mr. Pope's mind is not on his driving...Oliver Pope, businessman-turned-killer on a rain-soaked street in the early evening of just another day during just another drive home from the office. The victim, a kid on a bicycle, lying injured, near death. But Mr. Pope hasn't time for the victim, his only concern is for himself. Oliver Pope, hit-and-run driver, just arrived at a crossroad in his life, and he's chosen the wrong turn. The hit occured in the world he knows, but the run will lead him straight into--the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Oliver Pope.......Edward Andrews
Lillian Pope....Hellena Westcott
Pete Radcliff........Kevin Hagen
Policeman.............John Hanek
Woman.................Totty Ames

"All persons attempting to conceal criminal acts involving their cars are hereby warned: check first to see that underneath that chrome there does not lie a conscience, especially if you're driving along a rain-soaked highway in the Twilight Zone."

~The Long Morrow~

Air date: 1/10/64
Written by: Rod Serling

"It may be said with a degree of assurance that not everything that meets the eye is as it appears. Case in point: the scene you're watching. This is not a hospital, not a morgue, not a mausoleum, not an undertaker's parlor of the future. What it is is the belly of a spaceship. It is en route to another planetary system an incredible distance from the Earth. This is the crux of our story, a flight into space. It is also the story of the things that might happen to human beings who take a step beyond, unable to anticipate everything that might await them out there...Commander Douglas Stansfield, astronaut, a man about to embark on one of history's longest journeys--forty years out into endless space and hopefully back again. This is the beginning, the first step toward man's longest leap into the unknown. Science has solved the mechanical details, and now it's up to one human being to breathe life into blueprints and computers, to prove once and for all that man can live half a lifetime in the total void of outer space, forty years alone in the unknown. This is Earth. Ahead lies a planetary system. The vast region in between is the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Com. Douglas Stansfield...Robert Lansing
Sandra Horn.............Mariette Hartley
Dr. Bixler...............George MacReady
Gen. Walters................Edward Binns
Technician..................William Swan

"Commander Douglas Stansfield, one of the forgotten pioneers of the space age. He's been pushed aside by the flow of progress and the passage of years--and the ferocious travesty of fate. Tonight's tale of the ionospere and irony, delivered from--the Twilight Zone."

~The Self Improvement Of Salvadore Ross~

Air date: 1/17/64
Written by: Jerry McNeely

"Confidential personnel file on Salvadore Ross. Personality: a volatile mixture of fury and frustration. Distinguishing physical characteristic: a badly-broken hand which will require emergency treatment at the nearest hospital. Ambition: shows great determination toward self-improvement. Estimate of potential success: a sure bet for a listing in Who's Who--in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Salvadore Ross........Don Gordon
Leah Maitland..........Gail Kobe
Mr. Maitland.......Vaughn Taylor
Old man..........J. Pat O'Malley
Albert..............Doug Lambert
Mr. Halpert...Douglass Dumbrille
Jerry............Seymour Cassell
Bartender............Ted Jacques
Nurse..........Kathleen O'Malley

"The Salvadore Ross program for self-improvement. The all-in-one, sure-fire success course that lets you lick the bully, learn the language, dance the tango and anything else you want to do--or think you want to do. Money-back guarantee. Offer limited to...the Twilight Zone."

~Number Twelve Looks Just Like You~

Air date: 1/24/64
Written by: John Tomerlin

"Given the chance, what young girl wouldn't happily exchange a plain face for a lovely one? What girl could refuse the opportunity to be beautiful? For want of a better estimate, let's call it the year 2000. At any rate, imagine a time in the future when science has developed a means of giving everyone the face and body he dreams of. It may not happen tomorrow--but it happens now in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

* Marilyn Cuberle.........Collin Wilcox
* Lana Cuberle/Simmons/Doe/Grace/Jane/
Patient/#12............Suzy Parker
* Uncle Rick/Dr. Rex/Sigmund Friend/
Dr. Tom/Attendant.....Richard Long
* Valerie/Marilyn (after)/#8.....Pam Austin

"Portrait of a young lady in love--with herself. Improbable? Perhaps. But in an age of plastic surgery, body building and an infinity of cosmetics, let us hesitate to say impossible. These and other strange blessings may be waiting in the future--which after all, is the Twilight Zone."

~Black Leather Jackets~

Air date: 1/31/64
Written by: Earl Hamner, Jr.

"Three strangers arrive in a small town, three men in black leather jackets in an empty rented house. We'll call them Steve and Scott and Fred, but their names are not important; their mission is, as three men on motorcycles lead us into the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Scott............Lee Kinsolving
Ellen Tillman...Shelley Fabares
Steve............Michael Forest
Fred...............Tom Gilleran
Stu Tillman.........Denver Pyle
Martha Tillman.....Irene Hervey
Sheriff Harper...Michael Canrad
Mover.............Wayne Heffley

"Portrait of an American family on the eve of invasion from outer space. Of course, we know it's merely fiction--and yet, think twice when you drink your next glass of water. Find out if it's from your local reservoir, or possibly it came direct to you...from the Twilight Zone."

~Night Call~

Air date: 2/7/64
Written by: Richard Matheson

"Miss Elva Keene lives alone on the outskirts of London Flats, a tiny rural community in Maine. Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene's existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication--and waiting for something different to happen. Miss Keene doesn't know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended, for something different is about to happen to her, has in fact already begun to happen, via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night, telephone calls routed directly through--the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Miss Elva Keene.....Gladys Cooper
Margaret Phillips....Nora Marlowe
Miss Finch.......Martine Bartlett

"According to the Bible, God created the heavens and the Earth. It is man's prerogative--and wonam's--to create their own particular and private hell. Case in point, Miss Elva Keene, who in every sense has made her own bed and now must lie in it, sadder, but wiser, by dint of a rather painful lesson in responsibility, transmitted from the Twilight Zone."

~From Agnes--With Love~

Air date: 2/14/64
Written by: Bernard Shoenfeld

"James Elwood, master programmer, in charge of Mark 502-741, commonly known as 'Agnes,' the world's most advanced electronic computer. Machines are made by men for man's benefit and progress, but when man ceases to control the products of his ingenuity and imagination he not only risks losing the benefit, but he takes a long and unpredictable step into--the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

James Elwood........Wally Cox
Millie............Sue Randall
Walter Holmes....Ralph Taeger
Supervisor.....Raymond Bailey
Fred Danziger......Don Keefer
Secretary........Nan Peterson
Assistant..........Byron Kane

"Advice to all future male scientists: be sure you understand the opposite sex, especially if you intend being a computer expert. Otherwise, you may find yourself, like poor Elwood, defeated by a jealous machine, a most dangerous sort of female, whose victims are forever banished--to the Twilight Zone."