~The Chaser~

Air date: 5/13/60
Written by: Robert Presnell, Jr.

"Mr. Roger Shackleforth. Age: youthful twenties. Occupation: being in love. Not just in love, but madly, passionately, illogically, miserably, all-consumingly in love--with a young woman named Leila who has a vague recollection of his face and even less than a passing interest. In a moment you'll see a switch, because Mr. Roger Shackleforth, the young gentleman so much in love, will take a short but meaningful journey into the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Roger Shackleforth...George Grizzard
Prof. Daemon...........John McIntire
Leila.................Patricia Barry
Homburg.................Pat O'Malley
Blonde.................Barbara Perry
Fat lady............Marjorie Bennett
Bartender.................Duane Grey
Tall man..............Rusty Wescoatt

"Mr. Roger Shackleforth, who has discovered at this late date that love can be as sticky as a vat of molasses, as unpalatble as a hunk of spoiled yeast, and asall-consuming as a six-alarm fire in a bamboo and canvas tent. Case history of a lover boy who should never have entered the Twilight Zone"

~A Passage For Trumpet~

Air date: 5/20/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Joey Crown, musician with an odd, intense face, whose life is a quest for impossible things like flowers in concrete or like trying to pluck a note of music out of the air and put it under glass to treasure...Joey Crown, musician with an odd, intense face, who in a moment will try to leave the Earth and discover the middle ground--the place we call the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Joey Crown..........Jack Klugman
Gabe...............John Anderson
Nan.................Mary Webster
Baron................Frank Wolff
Truck driver........James Flavin
Pawnshop owner.........Ned Glass
Woman pedestrian...Diane Honodel

"Joey Crown, who makes music, and who discovered something about life; that it can be rich and rewarding and full of beauty, just like the music he played, if a person would only pause to look and to listen. Joey Crown, who got his clue in the Twilight Zone."

~Mr. Bevis~

Air date: 6/3/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"In the parlance of the twentieth century, this is an oddball. His name is James B. W. Bevis, and his tastes lean toward stuffed animals, zither music, professional football, Charles Dickens, moose heads, carnivals, dogs, children, and young ladies. Mr. Bevis is accident prone, a little vague, a little discombooberated, with a life that possesses all the security of a floating crap game. But this can be said of our Mr. Bevis: without him, without his warmth, without his kindness, the world would be a considerably poorer place, albiet perhaps a little saner...Should it not be obviuos by now, James B. W. Bevis is a fixture in his own private, optimistic, hopeful little world, a world which has long ceased being suprised by him...James B. W. Bevis, on whom Dame Fortune will shortly turn her back, but not before she gives him a paste in the mouth. Mr. James B. W. Bevis, just a block away from the Twilight Zone. "

Cast:

James B. W. Bevis.....Orson Bean
J. Hardy Hempstead...Henry Jones
Mr. Peckinpaugh.....Charles Lane
Policeman #1...William Schallert
Policeman #2...House Peters, Jr.
Young lady....Colleen O'Sullivan
Bartender........Horace MacMahon
Margaret.....Florence MacMichael
Landlady..........Dorothy Neuman
Peddler..............Vito Scotti
Little boy..........Timmy Cletro

"Mr. James B. W. Bevis, who believes in a magic all his own. The magic of a child's smile, the magic of liking and being liked, the strange and wondrous mysticism that is the simple act of living. Mr. James B. W. Bevis, species of twentieth-century male, who has his own private and special Twilight Zone."

~The After Hours~

Air date: 6/10/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store, carrying Miss Marsha White on a most prosaic, ordinary, run-of-the-mill errand...Miss Marsha White on the ninth floor, specialty department, looking for a gold thimble. The odds are that she'll find it--but there are even better odds that she'll find something else, because this isn't just a department store. This happens to be the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Marsha White.........Anne Francis
Saleswoman........Elizabeth Allen
Armbruster.......James Millhollin
Elevator operator....John Conwell
Miss Pettigrew......Nancy Rennick
Sloan...............Patrick Whyte

"Marsha White in her normal and natural state: a wooden lady with a painted face who, one month out of the year, takes on the characteristics of someone as normal and as flesh and blood as you and I. But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask--particularly in the Twilight Zone."

~The Mighty Casey~

Air date: 6/17/60
Written By: Rod Serling

"What you're looking at is a ghost, once alive but now deceased. Once upon a time, it was a baseball stadium that housed a major-league ballclub known as the Hoboken Zephyrs. Now it hoses nothing but memories and a wind that stirs in the high grass of what was once an outfield, a wind that sometimes bears a faint, ghostly resemblance to the roar of the crowd that once sat here. We're back in time now, when the Hoboken Zephyrs were still a part of the National League and this mausleum of memories was an honest-to-pete stadium. But since this is strictly a story of make-believe, it has to start this way: Once upon a time in Hoboken, New Jersey, it was tryout day. And though he's not yet on the field, you're about to meet a most unusual fella, a left-handed pitcher named Casey."

Cast:

Mouth McGarry.....Jack Warden
Casey.........Robert Sorrells
Dr. Stillman...Abraham Sofaer
Monk..............Don O'Kelly
Doctor..........Jonathan Hole
Beasley...........Alan Dexter
Commissioner.......Rusty Lane

"Once upon a time there was a major league baseball team called the Hoboken Zephyrs who, during the last year of their existence, wound up in last place and shortly thereafter wound p in oblivion. There's a rumor, unsubstantiated of course, that a manager named McGarry took them to the West Coast and wound up with several pennants and a couple of world's championshps. This team has a pitching staff that made history. Of course, none of them smiled very much, but it happens to be a fact that they pitched like nothing human. And if you're interested as to where these gentlemen came from, you might check under 'B' for baseball--in the Twilight Zone."

~A World Of His Own~

Air date: 7/1/60
Written by: Richard Matheson

"The home of Mr. Gregory West, one of America's most noted playwrites. The office of Mr. Gregory West. Mr. Gregory West--shy, quiet, and at the moment very happy. Mary--warm, affectionate...And the final ingredient--Mrs. Gregory West."

Cast:

Gregory West......Keenan Wynn
Victoria West....Phyllis Kirk
Mary............Mary La Roche

"Leaving Mr. Gregory West, still shy, quiet, very happy--and apparently in complete control of the Twilight Zone."