~And When The Sky Was Opened~

Air date: 12/11/59
Written by: Rod Serling

"Her name: X-20. Her type: an experimental interceptor. Recent history: a crash landing in the Mojave desert after a thirty-one-hour flight nine hundred miles into space. Incidentaldata: the ship, with the men who flew her, disappeared from the radar screen for twenty-four hours...But the shrouds that cover mysteries are not always made out of tarpaulin, as this man will soon find out on the other side of a hospital door."

Cast:

Col. Clegg Forbes........Rod Taylor
Col. Ed Harrington...Charles Aidman
Maj. William Gart......James Hutton
Amy...................Maxine Cooper
Girl in bar.............Gloria Pall
Bartender................Paul Bryer
Nurse #1................Sue Randall
Investigator............Logan Field
Officer..............Oliver McGowan
Medical officer.........Joe Bassett
Mr. Harrington.......S. John Launer
Nurse #2.........Elizabeth Fielding

"Once upon a time, there was a man named Harrington, a man named Forbes, a man named Gart. They used to exist, but don't any longer. Someone--or something--took them somewhere. At least they are no longer a part of the memory of man. And as to the X-20 supposed to be housed here in this hangar, this too does not exist. And if any of you have any questions cancerning an aircraft and three men who flew her, speak softly of them...and only in the Twilight Zone."

~What You Need~

Air date: 12/25/59
Written by: Rod Serling

"You're looking at Mr. Fred Renard, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt. This is a sour man, a friendless man, a lonely man, a grasping, compulsive, nervous man.This is a man who has lived thirty-six undistinguished, meaningless, pointless, failure-laden years and who at this moment looks for an escape--any escape, any way, anything, anybody--to get out of the rut...And this little old man is just what Mr. Renard is waiting for."

Cast:

Fred Renard.....Steve Cochran
Pedott...........Ernest Truex
Girl in bar........Arline Sax
Lefty.............Read Morgan
Bartender....William Edmonson
Woman on street....Judy Ellis
Man on street.....Fred Kruger
Hotel clerk....Norman Sturgis
Waiter..........Frank Allocca
Photographer......Mark Sunday

"Street scene. Night. Traffic accident. Victim named Fred Renard, gentleman with a sour face to whom contentment came with difficulty. Fred Renard, who took all that was needed...in the Twilight Zone."

~The Four Of Us Are Dying~

Air date: 1/1/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"His name is Arch Hammer. He's thirty-six years old. He's been a salesman, a dispatcher, a truck driver, a con man, a bookie, and a part-time bartender. This is a cheap man, a nickle-and-dime man, with a cheapness that goes past the suit and the shirt; a cheapness of mind, a cheapness of taste, a tawdry little shine on the seat of his conscience, and a dark-room squint at the world whose sunlight has never gotten through to him. But Mr. Hammer has a talent, discovered at a very early age. This much he does have. He can make his face change. He can twitch a muscle, move a jaw, concentrate on the cast of his eyes, and he can change his face. He can change it into anything he wants. Mr. Archie Hammer, jack of all trades, has just checked into a three-eighty a night, with two bags, some newspaper clippings, a most odd talent--and a master plan to destroy some lives."

Cast:

Arch Hammer........Harry Townes
Hammer as Foster....Ross Martin
Hammer as Sterig...Phillip Pine
Hammer as Marshak....Don Gordon
Maggie..........Beverly Garland
Pop Marshak........Peter Brocco
Penell.............Bernard Fein
Detective..........Milton Frome
Trumpet player....Harry Jackson
Man in bar..........Bob Hopkins
Man two............Pat Comiskey
Busboy..............Sam Rawlins

"He was Arch Hammer, a cheap little man who just checked in. He was Johnny Foster, who played a trumpet and was loved beyond words. He was Virgil Sterig, with money in his pocket. He was Andy Marshak, who got some of his agony back on a sidewalk in front of a cheap hotel. Hammer, Foster, Sterig, Marshak--and all four of them were dying."

~Third From The Sun~

Air date: 1/8/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"5:30 P.M.: Quitting time at the plant. Time for supper now. Time for families. Time for a cool drink on a porch. Time for the quiet rustle of leaf-laden trees that screen out the moon. And underneath it all, behind the eyes of the men, hanging invisible over the summer night, is a horror without words. For this is the stillness before storm. This is the eve of the end."

Cast:


William Struka........Fritz Weaver
Jerry Riden.............Joe Maross
Carling.............Edward Andrews
Eve.....................Lori March
Jody..............Denise Alexander
Ann...................Jeanne Evans
Guard................Will J. White
Loudspeaker voice...S. John Launer br>
"Behind a tiny ship heading into space is a doomed planet on the verge of suicide. Ahead lies a place called Earth, third planet from the sun. And for William Sturka and the man and women with him, it's the eve of the beginning...in the Twilight Zone."

~I Shot An Arrow Into The Air~

Air date: 1/15/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Her name is the Arrow One. She represents four and a half years of planning, preparation and training, and a thousand years of science and mathematics and the projected dreams and hopes of not only a nation but a world. She is the first manned aircraft into space. And this is the countdown, the last five seconds before man shot an arrow into the air."

Cast:

Corey..........Dewey Martin
Col. Donlin.....Edward Bins
Pierson............Ted Otis
Brandt.......Leslie Barrett
Langford......Harry Bartell

"Practical joke perpetrated by Mother Nature and a combination of improbable events. Practical joke wearing the trappings of nightmare, of terror, of deseration. Small human drama played out in a desert ninety-seven miles from Reno, Nevada, U.S.A., continent of North America, the Earth, and of course--the Twilight Zone."

~The Hitch-Hiker~

Air date: 1/22/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Her name is Nan Adams. She's twenty-seven years old. Her occupation: buyer at a New York department store, at present on vacation, driving cross-country to Los Angeles, California, from Manhattan...Minor incident on Highway 11 in Pennsylvania, perhaps to be filed away under accidents you walk away from. But from this moment on, Nan Adams's companion on a trip to California will be terror; her route--fear; her destination--quite unknown."

Cast:

Nan Adams...........Inger Stevens
Hitch-hiker........Leonard Strong
Sailor..............Adam Williams
Mechanic................Lew Gallo
Flag man..........Dwight Townsend
Counterman............Russ Bender
Waitress.............Mitzi McCall
Gas station man...George Mitchell
Mrs. Whitney.......Eleanor Audley

"Nan Adams, age twenty-seven. She was driving to California, to Los Angeles. She didn't make it. There was a detour--through the Twilight Zone."

~The Fever~

Air date: 1/29/60
Writtenby: Rod Serling

"Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Gibbs, from Elgin, Kansas, three days and two night, all expenses paid, at a Las Vegas hotel, won by virtue of Mrs. Gibbs's knack with a phrase. But unbeknownst to either Mr. or Mrs. Gibbs is the fact that there's a prize in their package neither expected nor bargained for. In just a moment one of them will succumb to an illness worse than any virus can produce, a most inoperative, deadly, life-shattering affliction known as The Fever."

Cast:

Franklin Gibbs.........Everett Sloane
Flora Gibbs...............Vivi Janiss
Drunk.......................Art Lewis
Public relations man...William Kendis
Floor manager...............Lee Sands
Cashier...................Marc Towers
Photographer...............Lee Millar
Sheriff...............Arthur Peterson
Girl......................Carole Kent
Croupier................Jeffrey Sayre

"Mr. Franklin Gibbs, visitor to Las Vegas, who lost his money, his reason, and finally his life, to an inanimate metal machine variously described as a one-armed bandit, a slot machine or, in Mr. Franklin Gibbs's words, a monster with a will all it's own. For our purposes we'll stick with the latter definition--because we're in the Twilight Zone."

~The Last Flight~

Air date: 2/5/60
Written by: Richard Matheson

"Witness Flight Lieutenant William Terrance Decker, Royal Flying Corps, returning from a patrol somewhere over France. The year is 1917. The problem is that the Lieutenant is hoplessly lost. Lieutenant Decker will soon discover that a man can be lost not only in terms of maps and miles, but also in time--and time in this case can be measured in eternities."

Cast:

Flight Lt. Decker......Kenneth Haigh
Major Wilson.............Simon Scott
Gen. Harper........Alexander Scourby
Air Marshal Mackaye...Robert Warwick
Stunt Pilot....Frank Gifford Tallman
Corporal..............Harry Raybould
Guard...................Jerry Catron
Jeep driver..............Paul Baxley
Truck driver............Jack Perkins >br>
"Dialogue from a play, Hamlet to Horatio: 'Ther are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of in your philosophy.' Dialogue from a play written long before men took to the sky, There are more things in heaven and earth, and in the sky, that perhaps can be dreamt of. And somewhere in between heaven, the sky, and earth, lies the Twilight Zone."

~The Purple Testament~

Air date: 2/12/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Phillipine Islands, 1945. These are the faces of the young men who fight. As if some omniscient painter had mixed a tube of oils that were at one time earth brown, dust gray, blood red, beard black, and fear--yellow white, and these men were the models. For this is the province of combat and these are the faces of war."

Cast:

Lt. Fitzgerald...William Reynolds
Capt. Riker.............Dick York
Capt. Gunther.....Barney Phillips
Jeep driver..........Warren Oates
Smitty...........Michael Vandever
Sargeant...........William Phipps
Orderly.............Paul Mazursky
Freeman...............Marc Cavell
Colonel............S. John Launer
Man with harmonica......Ron Masak

"From William Shakespeare, Richard the Third, a small excerpt. The line reads, 'He has come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.' And for Lieutenant William Fitzgerald, A Company, First Platoon, the testament is closed. Lieutenant Fitzgerald has found the Twilight Zone."

~Elegy~

Air date: 2/19/60
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"The time is the day after tomorrow. The place: a far corner of the universe. The cast of characters: three men lost amongst the stars, three men sharing the common urgency of all men lost--they're looking for home. And in a moment they'll find home, not a home that is a place to be seen but a strange, unexplainable experience to be felt."

Cast:

Jeremy Wickwire......Cecil Kellaway
Capt. James Webber......Kevin Hagen
Kurt Meyers.............Jeff Morrow
Peter Kirby.............Don Dubbins

"Kirby, Webber, and Meyers, three men lost. They shared a common wish, a simple one, really--they wanted to be aboard their ship, headed for home. And fate, a laughing fate, a practical jokester with a smile that stretched across the stars, saw to it that they got their wish, with just one reservation: the wish came true, but only in the Twilight Zone."