The Twilight Zone

~Kick The Can~

Air date: 2/9/62
Written by: George Clayton Johnson

"Sunnyvale Rest, a home for the aged--a dying place--and a common children's game called kick-the-can that will shortly become a refuge for a man who knows he will die in this world if he doesn't escape into...the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Charles Whitley....Ernest Truex Ben Conroy......Russell Collins Mr. Cox.............John Marley David Whitley.......Barry Truex Carlson.............Burt Mustin Mrs. Summers...Marjorie Bennett Frietag..........Hank Patterson Mrs. Wister.........Anne O'Neal Agee..............Earle Hodgins Mrs. Densley...Lenore Shanewise Nurse...............Eve McVeagh Boy #1...........Gregory McCabe Boy #2.............Marc Stevens

"Sunnyvale Rest, a dying place for ancient people who have forgotten the fragile magic of youth. A dying place for those who have forgotten that childhood, maturity and old age are curiously intertwined and not separate. A dying place for those who have grown too stiff in their thinking to visit the Twilight Zone."

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~A Piano In The House~

Air date: 2/16/62
Written by: Earl Hamner, Jr.

"Mr. Fitzgerald Fortune, theater critic and cynic at large, on his way to a birthday party. If he knew what is in store for him he probably wouldn't go, because before this evening is over that cranky old piano is going to play 'Those Piano Roll Blues'--with some effects that could happen only in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Fitzgerald Fortune......Barry Morse Esther Fortune.........Joan Hackett Marge Moore..........Muriel Landers Marvin the Butler...Cyril Delevanti Gregory Walker...........Don Durant Throckmorton..........Phil Coolidge

"Mr. Fitzgerald Fortune, a man who went searching for concealed persons and found himself--in the Twilight Zone."

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~The Last Rights Of Jeff Myrtlebank~

Air date: 2/23/62
Written by: Montgomery Pittman

"Time, the mid-twenties. Place, the Midwest--the southernmost section of the Midwest. We were just witnessing a funeral, a funeral that didn't come off exactly as planned, due to a slight fallout--from the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Jeff Myrtlebank........James Best Comfort Gatewood...Sherry Jackson Orgram Gatewood......Lance Fuller Mr. Peters.............Dub Taylor Pa Myrtlebank.........Ralph Moody Ma Myrtlebank........Ezelle Poule Ma Gatewood.........Helen Wallace Liz Myrtlebank......Vickie Barnes Rev. Siddons.........Bill Fawcett Doc Bolton.........Edgar Buchanan Mrs. Ferguson.......Mable Forrest Mr. Strauss............Jon Lormer Tom....................Pat Hector Jerry................Jim Houghton

"Jeff and Comfort are still alive today, anf their only son is a United States senator who's noted as an uncommonly shrewd politician--and some believe he must have gotten his education in the Twilight Zone."

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~To Serve Man~

Air date: 3/2/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"Respectfully submitted for your perusal--a Kanamit. Height: a little over nine feet. Weight: in the neighborhood of three hundred and fifty pounds. Origin: unknown. Motives? Therein hangs the tale, for in just a moment we're going to ask you to shake hands, figuratively, with a Christopher Columbus from another galaxy and another time. This is the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Chambers.............Lloyd Bochner Kanamit...............Richard Kiel Pat.................Susan Cummings Citizen Gregori...Theodore Marcuse Reporter #1..........Will J. White Reporter #2............Gene Benton Colonel #1.......Bartlett Robinson Colonel #2...........Carlton Young Secy. General......Hardie Albright Senor Valdes..........Robert Tafur M. Leveque.............Lomax Study Scientist..........Nelson Olmstead Man #1..............Charles Tannen Man #2............James L. Wellman Woman #1...........Adrienne Marden Woman #2..............Jeanne Evans

"The recollections of one Michael Chambers, with appropriate flashbacks and soliloquy. Or more simply stated, the evolution of man, the cycle of going from dust to dessert, the metamorphosis from being the ruler of a planet to an ingredient in someone's soup. It's tonight's bill of fare on the Twilight Zone."

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~The Fugitive~

Air date: 3/9/62
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"It's been said that science fiction and fantasy are two different things: science fiction, the improbable made possible; fantasy, the impossible made probable. What would you have if you put these two different things together? Well, you'd have an old man named Ben who knows a lot of tricks most people don't know and a little girl named Jenny who loves him--and a journey into the heart of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Old Ben.....J. Pat O'Malley Jenny..........Susan Gordon Mrs. Gann........Nancy Kulp Man #1...........Wesley Lau Man #2...........Paul Tripp Howie........Stephen Talbot Pitcher........Johnny Eiman Doctor..........Russ Bender

"Mrs. Gann will be in for a big surprise when she finds this [photo of a handsome young man] under Jenny's pillow, because Mrs. Gann has more temper than imagination. She'll never dream that this is a picture of Old Ben as he really looks, and it will never occur to her that eventually her niece will grow up to be an honest-to-goodness queen--somewhere in the Twilight Zone."

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~Little Girl Lost~

Air date: 3/16/62
Written by: Richard Matheson

"Missing: one frightened little girl. Name: Bettina Miller. Description: six years of age, average height and build, light brown hair, quite pretty. Last seen being tucked into bed by her mother a few hours ago. Last heard--aye, there's the rub, as Hamlet put it. For Bettina Miller can be heard quite clearly, despite the rather curious fact that she can't be seen at all. Present location? Let's say for the moment--in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Bill............Charles Aidman Chris Miller....Robert Sampson Ruth Miller.....Sarah Marshall Tina...........Tracy Stratford Tina's voice....Rhoda Williams

"The other half where? The fourth dimension? The fifth? Perhaps. They never found the answer. Despite a battery of research physicists equipped with every device known to man, electronic and otherwise, no result was ever achieved, except perhaps a little more respect for and uncertainty about the mechanisms of the Twilight Zone."

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~Person Or Persons Unknown~

Air date: 3/23/62
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"Cameo of a man who has just lost his most valuable posession. He doesn't know about the loss yet. In fact, he doesn't even know about the posession. Because, like most people, David Gurney has never really thought about the matter of his identity. But he's going to be thinking about it a great deal from now on, because that is what he's lost. And his search for it is going to take him into the darkest corners of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

David Gurney.....Richard Long Dr. Koslenko....Frank Silvera Wilma #1......Shirley Ballard Wilma #2......Julie Van Zandt Woman clerk.....Betty Harford Sam Baker...........Ed Glover Policeman........Michael Keep Bank guard........Joe Higgins Mr. Cooper........John Newton

"A case of mistaken identity or a nightmare turned inside out? A simple loss of memory or the end of the world? David Gurney may never find the answer, but you can be sure he's looking for it--in the Twilight Zone."

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~The Little People~

Air date: 3/30/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"The time is the space age, the place is a barren landscape of a rock-walled canyon that lies millions of miles from the planet Earth. The cast of characters? You've met them: William Fletcher, commander of the spaceship; his copilot, Peter Craig. The other characters who inhabit this place you may never see, but they're there, as these two gentlemen will soon find out. Because they're about to partake in a little exploration into that gray, shaded area in space and time that's known as the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Peter Craig...........Joe Maross William Fletcher....Claude Akins Spaceman #1.........Michael Ford Spaceman #2.........Robert Eaton

"The case of navigator Peter Craig, a victim of delusion. In this case, the dream dies a little harder than the man. A small exercise in space psychology that you can try on for size--in the Twilight Zone."

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~Four O'Clock~

Air date: 4/6/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"That's Oliver Crangle, a dealer in petulance and poison. He's rather arbitrarily chosen four o'clock as his personal Gotterdammerung, and we are about to watch the metamorphosis of a twisted fanatic, poisoned by the gangrene of prejudice, to the status of an avenging angel, upright and omniscient, dedicated and fearsome. Whatever your clocks say, it's four o'clock--and wherever you are, it happens to be the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Oliver Crangle...Theodore Bikel Mrs. Williams.....Moyna MacGill Mrs. Lucas.........Phyllis Love Hall..............Linden Chiles

"At four o'clock, an evil man made his bed and lay in it, a pot called a kettle black, a stone-thrower broke the windows of his glass house. You look for this one under 'F' for fanatic and 'J' for justice--in the Twilight Zone."

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~Hocus-Pocus And Frisby~

Air date: 4/13/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"The reluctant gentleman with the sizeable mouth is Mr. Frisby. He has all the drive of a broken camshaft and the aggressive vinegar of a corpse. As you've no doubt gathered, his big stock in trade is the tall tale. Now, what he doesn't know is that the visitors out front are a very special breed, destined to change his life beyond anything even his fertile imagination could manufacture. The place is Pitchville Flats, the time is the present. But, Mr. Frisby's on the first leg of a rather fanciful journey into the place we call the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Frisby.....Andy Devine Alien #1......Milton Selzer Alien #2.....Larry Breitman Alien #3.......Peter Brocco Mitchell......Howard McNear Scanlan.........Dabbs Greer Old man.........Clem Bevans

"Mr. Somerset Frisby, who might have profited by reading an Aesop fable about a boy who cried wolf. Tonight's tall tale from the timbelands--of the Twilight Zone."

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