~Still Valley~

Air date: 11/24/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"The time is 1863, the place the state of Virginia. The event is a mass blood-letting known as the Civil War, a tragic moment in time when a nation was split into two fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation...This is Joseph Paradine, Confederate cavalry, as he heads down toward a small town in the middle of a valley. But very shortly, Joseph Paradine will make contact with the enemy. He will also make contact with an outpost not found on a military map--an outpost called the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Paradine......Gary Merrill
Old man......Vaughn Taylor
Dauger..........Ben Cooper
Sentry.......Addison Myers
Lieutenant...Mark Tapscott
Mallory..........Jack Mann

"On the following morning, Sergeant Paradine and the rest of these men were moved up north to a little town in Pennsylvania, an obscure little place where a battle was brewing, a town called Gettysburg--and this one was fought without the help of the Devil. Small historical note not to be found in any known books, but part of the records in the Twilight Zone."

~The Jungle~

Air date: 12/1/61
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"The caracass of a goat, a dead finger, a few bits of broken glass and stone--and Mr. Alan Richards, a modern man of a modern age, hating with all his heart something in which he cannot believe and preparing--although he doesn't know it--to take the longest walk of his life, right down to the center of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Alan Richards.........John Dehner
Doris Richards...Emily McLaughlin
Chad Cooper.........Walter Brooke
Templeton............Hugh Sanders
Hardy...............Howard Wright
Sinclair............Donald Foster
Taxi driver.........Jay Overholts
Derelict................Jay Adler

"Some superstitions, kept alive by the long night of ignorance, have their own special power. You'll hear of it through a jungle grapevine in a remote corner of the Twilight Zone."

~Once Upon A Time~

Air date: 12/15/61
Written by: Richard Matheson

"Mr. Mulligan, a rather dour critic of his times, is shortly to discover the import of that old phrase, 'Out of the frying pan, into the fire'--said fir burning brightly at all times in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Woodrow Mulligan...Buster Keaton
Rollo..............Stanley Adams
Repair man...........Jesse White
Prof. Gilbert.....Milton Parsons
Sroe manager.......Warren Parker
Policeman 1890..........Gil Lamb
Policeman 1962......James Flavin
Policeman 1962.......Harry Fleer
Fenwick..........George E. Stone

"'To each his own'--so goes another old phrase to which Mr. Woodrow Mulligan would heartily subscribe, for he has learned--definitely the hard way--that there is much wisdom in a third old phrase which goes as follows: 'Stay in your own backyard.' To which might be added, 'and if possible, assist others to stay in theirs'--via, of course, the Twilight Zone."

~Five Characters In Search Of An Exit~

Air date: 12/22/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"Clown, hobo, ballet dancer, bagpiper, and an army major--a collection of question marks. Five improbable entities stuck together into a pit of darkness. No logic, no reason, no explanation; just a prolonged nightmare in which fear, loneliness and the unexplainable walk hand in hand through the shadows. In a moment we'll start collecting clues as to the whys, the whats and the wheres. We will not end the nightmare, we'll only explain it--because this is the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

The Major.......William Windom
The Clown......Murray Matheson
The Ballerina...Susan Harrison
The Tramp.......Kelton Garwood
The Bagpiper.......Clark Allen
Little girl......Mona Houghton
Woman...............Carol Hill

"Just a barrel, a dark depository where are kept the counterfeit, make-believe pieces of plaster and cloth, wrought in the distorted image of human life. But this added, hopeful note: perhaps they are unloved only for the moment. In the arms of children there can be nothing but love. A clown, a tramp, a bagpipe player, a ballet dancer and a major. Tonight's cast of players on the odd stage known as the Twilight Zone."

~A Quality Of Mercy~

Air date: 12/29/61
Written by: Rod Serling

"It's August, 1945, the last grimy pages of a dirty, torn book of war. The place is the Philippine Islands. The men are what's left of a platoon of American Infantry, whose dulled and tired eyes set deep in dull and tired faces can now look toward a miracle, that moment when the nightmare appears to be coming to an end. But they've got one more battle to fight, and in a moment we'll observe the battle. August, 1945, Philippine Islands. But in reality it's high noon in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Lt. Katell/
Lt. Yamuri........Dean Stockwell
Sgt. Causarano......Albert Salmi
Japanese Capt.....Jerry Fujikawa
Japanese non-com...Dale Ishimoto
Hansen.............Leonard Nimoy
Watkins...........Rayford Barnes
Hanacheck..........Ralph Votrain
Jeep driver.......Michael Pataki

"'The quality of mercy is not strained, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.' Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, but applicable to any moment in time, to any group of soldiery, to any nation on the face of the Earth--or, in this case, to the Twilight Zone."

~Nothing In The Dark~

Air date: 1/5/62
Written by: George Clayton Johnson

"An old woman living in a nightmare, an old woman who has fought a thousand battles with death and always won. Now she's faced with a grim decision--whether or not to open a door. And in some strange and frightening way she knows that this seemingly ordinary door leads to the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Wanda Dunn.......Gladys Cooper
Harold Beldon...Robert Redford
Man............R. G. Armstrong

"There was an old woman who lived in a room and, like all of us, was frightened of the dark, but who discovered in the minute last fragment of her life that there was nothing in the dark that wasn't there when the lights were on. Object lesson for the more frightened amongst us--in or out of the Twilight Zone."

~One More Pallbearer~

Air date: 1/12/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"What you have just looked at takes place three hundred feet underground, beneath the basement of a New York City skyscraper. It's owned and lived in by one Paul Radin. Mr. Radin is rich, eccentric and single-minded. How rich we can already perceive; how eccentric and single-minded we shall see in a moment, because all of you have just entered the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Paul Radin.........Joseph Wiseman
Mr. Hughs..............Gage Clark
Mrs. Langford....Katherine Squire
Col. Hawthorne....Trevor Bardette
Policeman..............Ray Galvin
Electrician 1.........Joseph Elic
Electrician 2.......Robert Snyder

"Mr. Paul Radin, a dealer in fantasy, who sits in the rubble of his own making and imagines that he's the last man on Earth, doomed to a perdition of unutterable loneliness because a practical joke has turned into a nightmare. Mr. Paul Radin, pallbearer at a funeral that he manufactured himself...in the Twilight Zone."

~Dead Man's Shoes~

Air date: 1/19/62
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"Nathan Edward Bledsoe, of the Bowery Bledsoes, a man once, a specter now. One of those myraid modern-day ghosts that haunt the reeking nights of the city in search of a flop, a handout, a glass of forgetfulness. Nate doesn't know it but his search is about to end, because those shiny new shoes are going to carry him right into the capital of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Nate Bledsoe.....Warren Stevens
Chips................Ben Wright
Wilma.............Joan Marshall
Sam................Harry Swoger
Maitre D'.........Eugene Borden
Dagget............Richard Devon
Dagget's woman...Florence Marly
Ben................Ron Hagerthy
Jimmy..................Joe Mell

"There's an old saying that goes, 'If the shoe fits, wear it.' But be careful. If you happen to find a pair of size nine black-and-gray loafers, made to order in the old country, be very careful--you might walk right into the Twilight Zone."

~The Hunt~

Air date: 1/26/62
Written by: Earl Hamner, Jr.

"An old man and a hound dog named Rip, off for an evening's pleasure in quest of raccoon. Usually, these evenings end with one tired old man, one battle-scarred hound dog and one or more extremely dead raccoons, but as you may suspect that will not be the case tonight. These hunters won't be coming home from the hill. They're headed for the backwoods of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Hyder Simpson....Arthur Hunnicut
Rachel Simpson....Jeanette Nolan
Wesley Miller........Titus Moede
Tillman Miller...Orville Sherman
Rev. Wood...........Charles Seel
Gatekeeper..........Robert Foulk
Messenger..........Dexter Dupont

"Travellers to unknown regions would be well-advised to take along the family dog. He could just save you from entering the wrong gate. At least, it happened that way once--in a mountainous area of the Twilight Zone."

~Showdown With Rance McGrew~

Air date: 2/2/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"Some one-hundred-odd years ago, a motley collection of tough moustaches galloped across the West and left behind a raft of legends and legerdemains, and it seems a reasonable conjecture that if there are any television sets up in cowboy heaven and any of these rough-and-wooly nail-eaters could see with what careless abandon their names are bandied about, they're very likely turing over in their graves--or worse, getting out of them. Which gives you a clue as to the proceedings that will begin in just a moment, when one Mr. Rance McGrew, a three-thousand-buck-a-week phony-baloney discovers that this week's current edition of make-believe is being shot on location--and that location is the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Rance McGrew.......Larry Blyden
Jesse James........Arch Johnson
Director.....Robert Cornthwaite
Prop man.........William McLean
Cowboy #1...........Troy Melton
Cowboy #2.........Jay Overholts
TV bartender...Robert Stevenson
Old man...........Hal K. Dawson
Rance's double.......Jim Turley

"The evolution of the so-called 'adult' western, and the metamorphosis of one Rance McGrew, formerly phony-baloney, now upright citizen with a preoccupation with all things involving tradition, truth and cowpoke predecessors. It's the way the cookie crumbles and the six-gun shoots...in the Twilight Zone."