~Two~

Air date: 9/15/61
Written by: Montgomery Pittman

"This is a jungle, a monument built by nature honoring disuse, commemorating a few years of nature being left to it's own devices. But it's another kind of jungle, the kind that comes from the aftermath of man's battles against himself. Hardly an important battle, not a Gettysburg or a Marne or an Iwo Jima. More like one insignificant corner patch in the crazy quilt of combat. But it was enough to end the existence of this little city. It's been five years since a human being walked these streets. This is the first day of the sixth year--as man used to measure time. The time: perhaps a hundred years from now. Or sooner. Or perhaps it's already happened two million years ago. The place? The signposts are in English so that we may read them more easily, but the place--is the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Man............Charles Bronson
Woman.....Elizabeth Montgomery
Stunt double......Sharon Lucas

"This has been a love story, about two lonely people who found each other...in the Twilight Zone."

~The Arrival~

Air date: 9/22/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"This object, should any of you have lived underground for the better part of your lives and never had occasion to look toward the sky, is an airplane, it's official designation a DC-3. We offer this rather obvious comment because this particular airplane, the one you're looking at, is a freak. Now, most airplanes take off and land as per scheduled. On rare occasions they crash. But all airplanes can be counted on doing one or the other. Now, yesterday morning this particular airplane ceased to be just a commercial carrier. As of its arrival it became an enigma, a seven-ton puzzle made out of aluminum, steel, wire and a few thousand other component parts, none of which add up to the right thing. In just a moment, we're going to show you the tail end of it's history. We're going to give you ninety percent of the jigsaw pieces and you and Mr. Sheckly here of the Federal Aviation Agency will assume the problem of putting them together along with finding the missing pieces. This we offer as the evening's hobby, a little extracurricular diversion which is really the national pasytime in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Grant Sheckly....Harold J. Stone
Paul Malloy..........Fredd Wayne
Bengston...............Noah Keen
Airline official...Robert Karnes
Ramp attendant......Bing Russell
Dispatcher.............Jim Boles
Tower operator...Robert Brubaker

"Picture of a man with an Achilles' heel, a mystery landed in his life and then turned into a heavt weight, dragged across the years to ultimately take the form of an illusion. Now, that's the clinical answer that they put on the tag as they take him away. But if you choose to think that the explanation has to do with an airborne Flying Dutchman, a ghost ship on a fog-enshrouded night on a flight that never ends, then you're doing your business in an old stand...in the Twilight Zone."

~The Shelter~

Air date: 9/29/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"What you are about to watch is a nightmare. It is not meant to be prophetic, it need not happen, it's the fervent and urgent prayer of all men of good will that it never shall happen. But in this place, in this moment, it does happen. This is the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Dr. Stockton.......Larry Gates
Jerry Harlowe...Jack Albertson
Marty Weiss.....Joseph Bernard
Henderson.........Sandy Kenyon
Man................John McLiam
Grace Stockton...Peggy Stewart
Paul Stockton....Michael Burns
Mrs. Harlowe.........Jo Helton
Mrs. Weiss........Moria Turner
Mrs. Henderson....Mary Gregory

"No moral, no message, no prophetic tract, just a simple statement of fact: for civilization to survive, the human race has to remain civilized. Tonight's very small exercise in logic from the Twilight Zone."

~The Passersby~

Air date: 10/6/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"This road is the afterwards of the Civil War. It began at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, and ended at a place called Appomattox. It's littered with the residue of broken battles and shattered dreams...In just a moment, you will enter a strange province that knows neither North nor South, a place we call the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Lavinia.......Joanne Linville
The Sergeant....James Gregory
Abe Lincoln......Austin Green
Charlie............Rex Holman
The Lieutenant...David Garcia
Jud.........Warren Kemmerling

"Incident on a dirt road during the month of April, the year 1865. As we've already pointed out, it's a road that won't be found on a map, but it's one of many that lead in and out of the Twilight Zone."

~A Game Of Pool~

Air date: 10/13/61
Written by: George Clayton Montgomery

"Jesse Cardiff, pool shark, the best on Randolph Street, who will soon learn that trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks in or out of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Jesse Cardiff.....Jack Klugman
Fats Brown....Jonathan Winters

"Mr. Jesse Cardiff, who became a legend by beating one, but who has found out after his funeral that being the best of anything carries with it a special obligation to keep on proving it. Mr. Fats Brown, on the other hand, having relinquished the champion's mantle, has gone fishing. These are the ground rules in the Twilight Zone."

~The Mirror~

Air date: 10/20/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"This is the face of Ramos Clemente, a year ago a beardless, nameless worker of the dirt who plodded behind a mule, furrowing someone else's land. And he looked up at a hot Central American sun and he pledged the impossible. He made a vow that he would lead an avenging army against the tyranny that put the ache in his back and the anguish in his eyes, and now one year later the dream of the impossible has become fact. In just a moment we will look deep into this mirror and see the aftermath of a rebellion...in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Ramos Clemente..........Peter Falk
Cristo................Tony Carbone
D'Allesandro........Richard Karlan
Tabal.............Arthur Batanides
General DeCruz.........Will Kuluva
Priest...........Vladimir Sokoloff
Garcia...............Rodolfo Hoyos
Offstage voice...Robert McCord III
Offstage voice..........Jim Turley
Stunt double........Dave Armstrong
Guard..................Val Ruffino

"Romos Clemente, a would-be god in dungarees, strangled by an illusion, that will-o'-the-wisp mirage that dangles from the sky in front of the eyes of all ambitious men, all tyrants--and any resemblance to tyrants living or dead is hardly coincidental, whether it be here or in the Twilight Zone."

~The Grave~

Air date: 10/27/61
Written by: Montgomery Pittman

"Normally, the old man would be correct: this would be the end of the story. We've had the traditional shoot-out on the street and the badman will soon be dead. But some men of legend and folk tale have been known to continue having their way even after death. The outlaw and killer Pinto Sykes was such a person, and shortly we'll see how he introduces the town, and a man named Conny Miller in particular, to the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Conny Miller.......Lee Marvin
Mothershed....Strother Martin
Johnny Rob.........James Best
Steinhart.......Lee Van Cleef
Ira Broadly......Stafford Rep
Ione............Ellen Willard
Jasen.........William Challee
Corcoran..........Larry Johns
Pinto Sykes.....Richard Geary

"Final comment: you take this with a grain of salt or a shovelful of earth, as shadow or substance, we leave it up to you. And for any further research check under 'G' for 'ghosts' in the Twilight Zone."

~It's A Good Life~

Air date: 11/3/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"Tonight's story on The Twilight Zone is somewhat unique and calls for a different kind of introduction. This, as you mat recognize, is a map of the United States, and there's a little town there called Peaksville. On a given morning not too long ago, the rest of the world disappeared and Peaksville was left all alone. Its inhabitants were never sure whether the world was destroyed and only Peaksville left untouched or whether the village had somehow been taken away. They were, on the other hand, sure of one thing: the cause. A monster had arrived in the village. Just by using his mind, he took away the automobiles, the electricity, the machines--because they displease him--and he moved an entire community back into the dark ages--just by using his mind. Now I'd like to introduce you to some of the people in Peaksville, Ohio. This is Mr. Fremont. It's in his farmhouse that the monster resides. This is Mrs. Fremont. And this is Aunt Amy, who probably had more control over the monster in the beginning than almost anyone. But one day she forgot; she began to sing aloud. Now, the monster doesn't like singing, so his mind snapped at her, turned her into the smiling, vacant thing you're looking at now. She sings no more. And you'll note that the people in Peaksville, Ohio, have to smile; they have to think happy thoughts and say happy things because, once displeased, the monster can wish them into a cornfield or change them into a grotesque, walking horror. This particular monster can read minds, you see. He knows every thought, he can feel every emotion. Oh yes, I did forget something, didn't I? I forgot to introduce you to the monster. This is the monster. His name is Anthony Fremont. He's six years old, with a cute little-boy face and blue, guileless eyes. But when those eyes look at you, you'd better start thinking happy thoughts, because the mind behind them is absolutely in charge. This is the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Anthony Fremont......Billy Mumy
Mr. Fremont..........John Larch
Mrs. Fremont....Cloris Leachman
Aunt Amy............Alice Frost
Dan Hollis...........Don Keefer
Ethel Hollis.......Jeanne Bates
Pat Riley...........Casey Adams
Bill Soames.........Tom Hatcher
Thelma Dunn.....Lenore Kingston

"No comment here, no comment at all. We only wanted to introduce you to one of our very special citizens, little Anthony Fremont, who lives in a place called Peaksville in a place that used to be Ohio. And if by some strange chance you should run across him, you had best think only good thoughts. Anything less than that is handled at your own risk, because if you do meet Anthony you can be sure of one thing: you have entered the Twilight Zone."

~Deaths-Head Revisited~

Air date: 11/10/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"Mr. Schmidt, recently arrived in a small Bavarian village which lies eight miles northwest of Munich, a picturesque, delightful little spot onetime known for it's scenery but more recently related to other events having to do with some of the less positive pusuits of man: human slaughter, torture, misery and anguish. Mr. Schmidt, as we will soon perceive, has a vested interest in the ruins of a concentration camp--for once, some seventeen years ago, his name was Gunther Lutze. He held the rank of a captain in the S.S. He was a black-uniformed, strutting animal whose function in life was to give pain, and like his colleagues of the time he shared the one affliction most common amongst that breed known as nazis: he walked the Earth without a heart. And now former S.S. Captain Lutze will revisit his old haunts, satisfied perhaps that all that is awaiting him in the ruins on the hill is an element of nostalgia. What he does not know, of course, is that a place like Dachau cannot exist only in Bavaria. By its nature, by its very nature, it must be one of the populated areas of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Becker.....Joseph Schildkraut
Capt. Lutze......Oscar Beregi
Innkeeper.........Karen Verne
Doctor.............Ben Wright
Taxi driver......Robert Boone
Dachau victim.......Chuck Fox

"There is an answer to the doctor's question. All the Dachaus must remain standing. The Dachaus, the Belsens, the Auschwitzes--all of them. They must remain standing because they are a monument to a moment in time when some men decided to turn the Earth into a graveyard. Into it they shoveled all of their reason, their logic, their knowledge, but worst of all, their conscience. And the moment we forget this, the moment we cease to be haunted by it's remembrance, then we become the gravediggers. Something to dwell on and remember, not only in the Twilight Zone but wherever men walk God's Earth."

~The Midnight Sun~

Air date: 11/17/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"The word that Mrs. Bronson is unable to put into the hot, still, sodden air is 'doomed,' because the people you've just seen have been handed a death sentence. One month ago, the Earth suddenly changed its elliptical orbit and in doing so began to follow a path which gradually, moment by moment, day by day, took it closer to the sun. And all of man's little devices to satir up the air are now no longer luxuries--they happen to be pitiful and panicky keys to survival. The time is five minutes to twelve, midnight. There is no more darkness. The place is New York City and this is the eve of the end, because even at midnight it's high noon, the hottest day in history, and you're about to spend it in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Norma............Lois Nettleton
Mrs. Bronson........Betty Garde
Intruder..............Tom Reese
Neighbor.........Jason Wingreen
Neighbor's wife......June Ellis
Repaiman..............Ned Glass
Policeman...........John McLiam
Doctor............William Keene
Announcer...Robert J. Stevenson

"The poles of fear, the extremes of how the Earth might conceivably be doomed. Minor exercise in the care and feeding of a nightmare, respectfully submitted by all the thermometer-watchers in the Twilight Zone."