~Mirror Image~

Air date: 2/26/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Millicent Barnes, age twenty-five, young woman waiting for a bus on a rainy November night. Not a very imaginative type is Miss Barnes, not given to undue anxiety or fears, or for that matter even the most temporal flights of fancy. Like most young career women, she has a generic classification as a, quote, girl with a head on her shoulders, end of quote. All of which is mentioned now because in just a moment the head on Miss Barnes's shoulders will be put to a test. Circumstances will assault her sense of reality and a chain of nightmares will put her sanity on a block. Millicent Barnes, who in one minute will wonder if she's going mad."

Cast:

Millicent Barnes.....Vera Miles
Paul Grinstead....Martin Milner
Ticket agent.......Joe Hamilton
Woman attendant...Naomi Stevens
Husband...........Ferris Taylor
Old woman...........Terese Lyon
Bus driver...........Edwin Rand

"Obscure metaphysical explanation to cover a phenomenon, reasons dredged out of the shadows to explain away that which cannot be explained. Call it parallel planes or just insanity. Whatever it is, you find it in the Twilight Zone."

~The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street~

Air date: 3/4/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Maple Street, U.S.A. Late summer. A tree-lined little road of front porch gliders, barbeques, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice-cream vendor. At the sound of the roar and the flash of light, it will be precisely 6:43 P.M. on Maple Street...This is Maple Street on a late Saturday afternoon, in the last calm and reflective moment--before the monsters came."

Cast:

Steve Brand......Claude Akins
Charlie...........Jack Weston
Mr. Goodman.....Barry Atwater
Tommy............Jan Handzlik
Tommy's mother...Mary Gregory
Mrs. Brand........Anne Barton
Mrs. Goodman......Lea Waggner
Pete Van Horn.......Ben Erway
Don.............Burt Metcalfe
Charlie's wife......Lyn Guild
Woman next door...Joan Sudlow
Man one.........Jason Johnson
Woman one....Amzie Strickland
First alien....Sheldon Allman
second alien....William Walsh

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices--to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own--for the children, and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone."

~A World Of Difference~

Air date: 3/11/60
Written by: Richard Matheson

"You're looking at a tableau of reality, things of substance, of physical material: a desk, a window, a light. These things exist and have dimension. Now, this is Arthur Curtis, age thirty-six, who is also real. He has flesh and blood, muscle and mind. But in a moment we will see how thin a line separates that which we assume to be real with that manufactured inside of a mind."

Cast:

Arthur Curtis....Howard Duff
Marty..........Frank Maxwell
Nora.............Eileen Ryan
Brinkly..........David White
Sally..............Gail Kobe
Endicott........Peter Walker
Kelly........William Idelson
Marian............Susan Dorn

"The modus operandi for the departure from life is usually a pine box of such and such dimensions, and this is the ultimate in reality. But there are other ways for a man to exit from life. Take the case of Arthur Curtis, age thirty-six. His departure was along the highway with an exit sign that reads:'This way to escape.' Arthur Curtis, en route to...the Twilight Zone."

~Long Live Walter Jameson~

Air date: 3/18/60
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"You're looking at Act One, Scene One, of a nightmare, one not restricted to witching hours or dark, rainswept nights. Professor Walter Jameson, popular beyond words, who talks of the past as if it were the present, who conjures up the dead as if they were alive...In the view of this man, Professor Samuel Kittridge, Walter Jameson has access to knowledge that couldn't come out of a volume of history, but rather from a book on black magic, which is to say that this nightmare begins at noon."

Cast:

Prof. Walter Jameson...Kevin McCarthy
Prof. Samuel Kittridge...Edgar Stehli
Laurette Bowen........Estelle Winwood
Susanna Kittridge..........Dody Heath

"Last stop on a long journey, as yet another human being returns to the vast nothingness that is the beginning and into the dust that is always the end."

~People Are Alike All Over~

Air date: 3/25/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animal with extrely small heads whose name is Man. Warren Marcusson, age thirty-five. Samuel A. Conrad, age thirty-one...They're taking a highway into space, Man unshackling himself and sending his tiny, groping fingers up into the unknown. Their destination is Mars, and in just a moment we'll land there with them."

Cast:

Sam Conrad.....Roddy McDowall
Warren Marcusson....Paul Comi
Teenya...........Susan Oliver
Martian #1.......Byron Morrow
Martian #2.........Vic Perrin
Martian #3........Vernon Gray

"Species of animal brought back alive. Interesting similarity in physical characteristics to human beings in head, trunk, arms, legs, hands, feet. Very tiny underdeveloped brain; comes from primitive planet named Earth. Calls himself Samuel Conrad. And he will remain here in his cage with the running water and the electricity and the central heat as long as he lives. Samuel Conrad has found the Twilight Zone."

~Execution~

Air date: 4/1/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Commonplace-if-somewhat-grim unsocial event known as a necktie party, the guest of dishonor a cowboy named Joe Caswell, just a moment away from a rope, a short dance several feet off the ground, and then the dark eternity of all evil men. Mr. Joe Caswell, who, when the good Lord passed out a conscience, a heart, a feeling for fellow man, must have been out for a beer and missed out. Mr. Joe Caswell, in the last quiet moment of a violent life."

Cast:

Joe Caswell........Albert Salmi
George Manion...Russell Johnson
Johnson..............Than Wyenn
Reverend.............Jon Lormer
Judge.................Fay Roope
Elderly man.....George Mitchell
Bartender........Richard Karlan
Cowboy..............Joe Haworth

"This is November, 1880, the aftermath of a necktie party. The victim's name--Paul Johnson, a minor-league criminal and the taker of another human life. No comment on his death save this: justice can span years. Retribution is not subject to a calendar. Tonight's case in point in the Twilight Zone."

~The Big Tall Wish~

Air date: 4/8/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"In this corner of the universe, a prizefighter named Bolie Jackson, one hundred eighty-three pounds and an hour and a half from a comeback at St. Nick's arena. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who by the standards of his profession is an aging, over-the-hill relic of what was, and who now sees a reflection of a man who has left too many pieces of his youth in too many stadiums for too many years before too many screaming people. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who might do well to look for some gentle magic in the hard-surfaced glass that stares back at him."

Cast:

Bolie Jackson........Ivan Dixon
Henry..............Steven Perry
Frances............Kim Hamilton
Mitzell............Walter Burke
Thomas..............Henry Scott
Other fighter...Charles Horvath
Announcer.........Carl McIntire
Referee.............Frankie Van

"Mr. Bolie Jackson, one hundred eighty-three pounds, who left a second chance lying in a heap on a rosin-spattered canvas at St. Nick's arena. Mr. Bolie Jackson, who shares the most common ailment of all men, the strange and perverse disinclination to believe in a miracle, the kind of miracle to come from a little boy, perhaps only to be found in the Twilight Zone."

~A Nice Place To Visit~

Air date: 4/15/60
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"Portrait of a man at work, the only work he's ever done, the only work he knows. His name is Henry Francis Valentine but he calls himself Rocky, because that's the way his life has been--rcky and perilous and uphill at a dead run all the way. He's tired now, tired of running or wanting, of waiting for the breaks that come to the others but never to him, never to Rocky Valentine...A scared, angry little man. He thinks it's all over now, but he's wrong. For Rocky Valentine, it's just the begining."

Cast:

Rocky Valentine........Larry Blyden
Mr. Pip.............Sebastian Cabot
Policeman................John Close
Croupier...............Wayne Tucker
first beautiful girl..Sandra Warner
Dancing girl........Barbara English
Crap dealer...........Peter Hornsby
Midget policeman........Nels Nelson
Parking attendant.....Bill Mullikin

"A scared, angry little man who never got a break. Now he has everything he's ever wanted--and he's going to have to live with it for eternity...in the Twilight Zone."

~Nightmare As A Child~

Air date: 4/29/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Month of Novenber, hot chocolate, and a small cameo of a child's face, imperfect only in it's solemnity. And these are the improbable ingredients to a human emotion, say, like--fear. But in a moment this woman, Helen Foley, will realize fear. She will understand what are the properties of terror. A little girl will lead her by the hand and walk with her into a nightmare."

Cast:

Helen Foley...........Janice Rule
Markie..............Terry Burnham
Peter Seldon...Shepperd Strudwick
Doctor................Michael Fox
Police Lt...............Joe Perry
Little girl........Suzanne Cupito

"Miss Helen Foley, who has lived in night and who will wake up to morning. Miss Helen Foley, who took a dark spot from the tapestry of her life and rubbed it clean--then stepped back a few paces and got a good look at the Twilight Zone."

~A Stop At Willoughby~

Air date: 5/6/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"This is Gart Williams age thirty-eight, a man protected by a suit of armor all held together by one bolt. Just a moment ago, someone removed the bolt, and Mr. Williams's protection fell away from him and left him a naked target. He's been cannonaded this afternoon by all the enemies of his life. His insecurity has shelled him, his sensitivity has straddled him with humiliation, his deep-rooted disquiet about his own worth has zeroed in on him, landed on target, and blown him apart. Mr. Gart Williams, ad agency exec, who in just a moment will move into the Twilight Zone--in a desperate search for survival."

Cast:

Gart Williams.........James Daly
Jane Williams...Patricia Donahue
Mr. Misrell.........Howard Smith
Conductor #1......Jason Wingreen
Conductor #2.......James Maloney
Helen.................Mavis Neal
Boy #1...............Billy Booth
Boy #2..............Butch Hengen
Trainman..............Ryan Hayes
Man on wagon..........Max Slaten

"Willoughby? Maybe it's wishful thinking nestled in a hidden part of a man's mind, or maybe it's the last stop in the vast design of things--or perhaps, for a man like Gart Williams, who climbed on a world that went by too fast, it's a place around the bend where he could jump off. Willoughby? Whatever it is, it comes with sunlight and serenity, and is part of the Twilight Zone."