~King Nine Will Not Return~

Air date: 9/30/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"This is Africa, 1943. War spits out it's violence overhead and the sandy graveyard swallows it up. Her name is King Nine, B-25, medium bomber, Twelfth Air Force. On a hot, still morning she took off from Tunisia to bomb the southern tip of Italy. An errant piece of flak tore a hole in her wing tank and, like a wounded bird, this is where she landed, not to return this day, or any other day."

Cast:

Capt. James Embry...Bob Cummings
Doctor..............Paul Lambert
Psychiatrist..........Gene Lyons
Nurse..............Jenna McMahon
British officer....Seymour Green
British man.......Richard Lupino

"Enigma buried in the sand, a question mark with broken wings that lies in silent grace as a marker in a desert shrine. Odd how the real consorts with the shadows, how the present fuses with the past. How does it happen? The question is on file in the silent desert, and the answer? The answer is waiting for us in--the Twilight Zone."

~The Man In The Bottle~

Air date: 10/7/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Castle, gentle and infinitely patient people, whose lives have been a hope chest with a rusty lock and a lost setof keys. But in just a moment the hope chest will be opened, and an improbable phantom will try to bedeck the drabness of these two people's failure-laden lives with the gold and precious stones of fulfillment. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Castle, standing on the outskirts and about to enter the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Arthur Castle.......Luther Adler
Edna Castle..........Vivi Janiss
Genie..............Joseph Ruskin
Mrs. Gumley............Lisa Golm
Man from IRS..........Olan Soule
German officer.........Peter Coe
German officer #2...Albert Szabo

"A word to the wise now to the garbage collectors of the world, to the curio seekers, to the antique buffs, to everyone who would try to coax out a miracle from the unlikely places. Check the bottle you're taking back for a two-cent deposit. The genie you save might be your own. Case in point, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Castle, fresh from the briefest of trips into the Twilight Zone."

~Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room~

Air date: 10/14/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"This is Mr. Jackie Rhoades, age thirty-four, and where some men leave a mark of their lives as a record of their fragmentary existence on earth, this man leaves a blot, a dirty, discolored blemish to document a cheap and undistinguished sojourn amongst his betters. What you're about to watch in this room is a strange and mortal combat between a man and himself, for in just a moment Mr. Jackie Rhoades, whose life has been given over to fighting adversaries, will find his most formidable opponent in a cheap hotel room that is in reality the outskirts of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Jackie Rhoades.....Joe Mantell
George.......William D. Gordon

"Exit Mr. John Rhoades, formerly a reflection in a mirror, a fragment of someone else's conscience, a wishful thinker made out of glass, but now made out of flesh and on his way to join the company of men. Mr. John Rhoades, with one foot through the door and one foot out--of the Twilight Zone."

~A Thing About Machines~

Air date: 10/28/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"This is Mr. Bartlett Finchley, age forty-eight, a practicing sophisticate who writes very special and very precious things for gourmet magazines and the like. He's a bachelor and a recluse with few friends, only devotees and adherents to the cause of tart sophistry. He has no interests save whatever current annoyances he can put his mind to. He has no purpose to his life except the formulation of day-to-day opportunities to vent his wrath on mechanical contrivances of an age he abhors. In short, Mr. Bartlett Finchley is a malcontent, born either too late or too early in the century, and who in just a moment will enter a realm where muscles and the will to fight back are not limited to human beings. Next stop for Mr. Bartlett Finchley--the Twilight Zone.

Cast:

Bartlett Finchley...Richard Haydn
TV repairman......Barney Phillips
Edith..............Barbara Stuart
Intern..............Jay Overholts
Girl on TV......Margerita Cordova
Policeman...........Henry Beckman
Telephone repairman.....Lew Brown

"Yes, it could be. It could just be that Mr. Bartlett Finchley succumbed from a heart attack and a set of delusions. It could just be that he was tormented by an imagination as sharp as his wit and as pointed as his dislikes. But as perceived by those attending, this is one explanation that has left the premises with the deceased. Look for it filed under "M" for machines--in the Twilight Zone."

~The Howling Man~

Air date: 11/4/60
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"The prostrate form of Mr. David Ellington, scholar, seeker of truth and, regrettably, finder of truth. A man who will shortly arise from his exhaustion to confront a problem that has tormented mankind since the beginning of time. A man who knocked on a door seeking sanctuary and found instead the outer edges of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

David Ellington.............H. M. Wynant
Brother Jerome............John Carradine
The Howling Man.............Robin Hughes
Brother Christophorus...Frederic Ledebur
Housekeeper.................Ezelle Poule

"Ancient folk saying: 'You can catch the Devil, but you can't hold him long.' Ask Brother Jerome. Ask David Ellington. They know, and they'll go on knowing to the end of their days and beyond--in the Twilight Zone."

~The Eye Of The Beholder~

Air date: 11/11/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"Suspended in time and space for a moment, your introduction to Miss Janet Tyler, who lives in a very private world of darkness, a universe whose dimensions are the size, thickness, length of a swath of bandages that cover her face. In a moment we'll go back into this room and also in a moment we'll look under those bandages, keeping in mind, of course, that we're not to be surprised by what we'll see, because this isn't just a hospital, and patient 307 is not just a woman. This happens to be the Twilight Zone, and Miss Tyler, with you, is about to enter it."

Cast:

Janet Tyler
(under bandages)....Maxine Stuart
Janet Tyler
(revealed)..........Donna Douglas
Doctor..........William D. Gordon
Janet's nurse.....Jennifer Howard
Leader..............George Keymas
Reception nurse......Joanna Heyes
Walter Smith.........Edson Stroll

"Now the question that comes to mind. Where is this place and when is it, what kind of world where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation from that norm? The answer is, it doesn't make any difference. Because the old saying happens to be true. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, in this year or a hundred years hence, on this planet or wherever there is human life, perhaps out among the stars. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Lesson to be learned--in the Twilight Zone."

~Nick Of Time~

Air date: 11/18/60
Written by: Richard Matheson

"The hand belongs to Mr. Don S. Carter, male member of the honeymoon team en route across the Ohio countryside to New York City. In one moment, they will be subjected to a gift most humans never receive in a lifetime. For one penny, they will be able to look into the future. The time is now, the place is a little diner in Ridgeview, Ohio, and what this young couple doesn't realize is that this town happens to lie on the outskirts of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Don Carter.....William Shatner
Pat Carter....Patricia Breslin
Counter man......Guy Wilkerson
Mechanic..........Stafford Rep
Desperate man......Walter Reed
Desperate woman....Dee Carroll

"Counterbalance in the little town of Ridgeview, Ohio. Two people permanently enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstition, facing the future with a kind of helpless dread. Two others facing the future with confidence--having escaped one of the darker places in the Twilight Zone."

~The Lateness Of The Hour~

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

"The residence of Dr. William Loren, which is in reality a menagerie for machines. We're about to discover that sometimes the product of man's talent and genius can walk amongst us untouched by the normal ravages of time. These are Dr. Loren's robots, built to functional as well as artistic perfection. But in a moment Dr. Loren, wife, and daughter will discover that perfection is relative, that even robots have to be paid for, and very shortly will be shown exactly what the bill is."

Cast:

Jana.............Inger Stevens
Dr. Loren............John Hoyt
Mrs. Loren........Irene Tedrow
Nelda.............Mary Gregory
Robert the butler...Tom Palmer
Gretchen..........Doris Karnes
Suzanne...........Valley Keane
Jensen...........Jason Johnson

"Let this be the postscript: should you be worn out by the rigors of competing in a competitive world, if you're distraught from having to share your existence with the noises and neuroses of the twentieth century, if you crave serenity but want it full time and with no strings attached, get yourself a workroom in a basement and then drop a note to Dr. and Mrs. William Loren. They're a childless couple who made comfort a life's work, and maybe there are a few do-it-yourself pamphlets still available--in the Twilight Zone."

~The Trouble With Templeton~

Air date: 12/9/60
Written by: E. Jack Neuman

"Please to present for your consideration, Mr. Booth Templeton, serious and successful star of over thirty Broadway plays, who is not quite all right today. Yesterday and it's memories is what he wants, and yesterday is what he'll get. Soon his years and his troubles will descend on him in an avalanche. In order not to be crushed, Mr. Booth Templeton will escape from his theater and his world and make his debut on another stage in another world--that we call the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Booth Templeton.........Brian Aherne
Laura Templeton..........Pippa Scott
Barney Flueger....Charles S. Carlson
Willis................Sydney Pollack
Freddie..................Larry Blake
Sid Sperry...............King Calder
Marcel..................Dave Willock
Ed Page..................John Kroger
Eddie..................David Thursby

"Mr. Booth Templeton, who shared with most human beings the hunger to recapture the past moments, the ones that soften with the years. But in his case, the character of his past blocked him out and sent him back to his own time, which is where we find him now. Mr. Booth Templeton, who had a round-trip ticket...into the Twilight Zone."

~A Most Unusual Camera~

Air date: 12/16/60
Written by: Rod Serling

"A hotel suite that in this instance serves as a den of crime, the aftermath of a rather minor event to be noted on a police blotter, an insurance claim, perhaps a three-inch box on page twelve of the evening paper. Small addenda to be added to the list of the loot: a camera, a most unimposing addition to the flotsam and jetsam that it came with, hardly worth mentioning really, because cameras are cameras, some expensive, some puchasable at five-and-dime stores. But this camera, this one's unusual, because in just a moment we'll watch it inject itself into the desinies of three people. It happens to be a fact that the pictures that it takes can only be developed in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Chester Diedrich....Fred Clark
Paula Diedrich.....Jean Carson
Woodward.........Adam Williams
Waiter.........Marcel Hillaire
Racetrack tout.....Artie Lewis

"Object known as a camera, vintage uncertain, origin unknown. But for the greedy, the avaricious, the fleet of foot who can run a four-minute mile so long as they're chasing a fast buck, it makes believe that it's an ally, but it isn't at all. It's a beckoning come-on for a quick walk around the block--in the Twilight Zone."