The Twilight Zone

~The Trade-Ins~

Air date: 4/20/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"Mr. and Mrs. John Holt, aging people who slowly and with trembling fingers turn the last pages of a book of life and hope against logic and the preordained that some magic printing press will add to this book another limited edition. But these two senior citizens happen to live in a time of the future where nothing is impossible, even the trading of old bodies for new. Mr. and Mrs. John Holt, in their twilight years--who are about to find that there happens to be a zone with the same name."

Cast:

John Holt.....Joseph Schildkraut Marie Holt............Alma Platt Mr. Vance..............Noah Keen Farraday........Theodore Marcuse John Holt (young)...Edson Stroll Gambler #1....Terrence de Marney Gambler #2.........Billy Vincent Receptionist........Mary McMahon Attendant........David Armstrong

"From Kahil Gibran's The Prophet 'Love gives not but itself and takes not from itself, love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.' Not a lesson, just a reminder, from all the sentimentalists in the Twilight Zone."

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~The Gift~

Air date: 4/27/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"The place is Mexico, just across the Texas border, a mountain village held back in time by its remoteness and suddenly intruded upon by the twentieth century. And this is Pedro, nine years old, a lonely, rootless little boy, who will soon make the acquaintance of a traveller from a distant place. We are at present forty miles from the Rio Grande, but any place and all places can be--the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Williams.......Geoffrey Horne Doctor..........Nico Minardos Pedro...........Edmund Vargas Manuelo..........Cliff Osmond Officer.........Paul Mazursky Guitarist...Vladimir Sokoloff Rudolpho..........Vito Scotti Woman........Carmen D'Antonio Sanchez..........Henry Corden Woman #2...........Lea Marmer Man #1..............Joe Perry Man #2...........David Fresco

"Madeiro, Mexico, the present. The subject: fear. The cure: a little more faith. An Rx off a shelf--in the Twilight Zone."

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~The Dummy~

Air date: 5/4/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"You're watching a ventriloquist named Jerry Etherson, a voice-thrower par excellence. His alter ego, sitting atop his lap, is a brash stick of kindling with the sobriquet 'Willy'. In a moment, Mr. Etherson and his knotty-pine partner will be booked into one of the out-of-the-way bistros, that small, dark, intimate place known as the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Jerry Etherson...Cliff Robertson Frank...............Frank Sutton Willy (alive).....George Murdock Georgie..............John Harmon Noreen.............Sandra Warner M.C...................Rudy Dolan Doorkeeper...........Ralph Manza Chorus girl.......Bethelynn Grey Chorus girl.........Edy Williams

"What's known in the parlance of the times as the old switcheroo, from boss to blockhead in a few easy lessons. And if you're given to nightclubbing on occasion, check this act. It's called Willie and Jerry, and they generally are booked into some of the clubs along the 'Gray Night Way' known as the Twilight Zone."

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~Young Man's Fancy~

Air date: 5/11/62
Written by: Richard Matheson

"You're looking at the house of the late Mrs. Henrietta Walker. This is Mrs. Walker herself, as she appeared twenty-five years ago. And this, except for isolated objects, is the living room of Mrs. Walker's house, as it appeared in that same year. The other rooms upstairs and down are much the same. The time, however, is not twenty-five years ago but now. The house of the late Henrietta Walker is, you see, a house which belongs almost entirely to the past, a house which, like Mrs. Walker's clock here, has ceased to recognize the passage of time. Only one element is missing now, one remaining item in the estate of the late Mrs. Walker: her son Alex, thirty-four years of age and, up till twenty minutes ago, the so-called 'perennial bachelor.' With him is his bride, the former Miss Virginia Lane. They're returning from the city hall in order to get Mr. Walker's clothes packed, make final arrangements for the sale of the house, lock it up and depart on their honeymoon. Not a complicated set of tasks, it would appear, and yet the newlywed Mrs. Walker is about to discover that the old adage 'You can't go home again' has little meaning in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Virginia.......Phyllis Thaxter Alex................Alex Nicol Mr. Wilkinson...Wallace Rooney Mother.............Helen Brown Alex (age 10)....Rickey Kelman

"Exit Miss Virginia Lane, formerly and most briefly Mrs. Alex Walker. She has just given up a battle and in a strange way retreated, but this has been a retreat back to reality. Her opponent, Alex Walker, will now and forever hold a line that exists in the past. He has put a claim on a moment in time and is not about to relinquish it. Such things do happen--in the Twilight Zone."

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~I Sing The Body Electric~

Air date: 5/18/62
Written by: Ray Bradbury

"They make a fairly convincing pitch here. It doesn't seem possible, though, to find a woman who might be ten times better than mother in order to seem half as good--except, of course, in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Grandma........Josephine Hutchinson Anne (age 11)...Veronica Cartwright Father..................David White Tom (age 12)........Charles Herbert Karen (age 10)........Dana Dillaway Salesman..............Vaughn Taylor Nedra..................Doris Packer Anne (age 19)...........Susan Crane Tom (age 20)...........Paul Nesbitt Karen (age 18)..........Judy Morton

"A fable? Most assuredly. But who's to say at some distant moment there might not be an assembly line producing a gentle product in the form of a grandmother whose stock in trade is love. Fable, sure--but who's to say?"

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~Cavender Is Coming~

Air date: 5/25/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"Small message of reassurance to that horizontal young lady: don't despair, help is en route. It's coming in an odd form from a very distant planet, but it's nonetheless coming...Submitted for your approval, the case of one Miss Agnes Grep, put on Earth with two left feet, an overabundance of thumbs and a propensity for falling down manholes. In a moment she will be up to her jaw in miracles, wrought by apprentice angel Harmon Cavender, intent on winning his wings. And, though it's a fact that both of them should have stood in bed, they will tempt all the fates by moving into the cold, gray dawn of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Agnes Grep..........Carol Burnett Cavender..............Jesse White Polk.................Howard Smith Field rep #1....William O'Connell Field rep #2.........Pitt Herbert Field rep #3.........John Fiedler Field rep #4.....G. Stanley Jones Stout...............Frank Behrens Frenchman..........Albert Carrier Bus driver............Roy Sickner Little girl.........Norma Shattuc Little boy...........Rory O'Brien Woman #1.............Sandra Gould Woman #2..........Adrienne Marden Truck driver.........Jack Younger Child................Danny Kulick Woman #3............Donna Douglas Man #1..........Maurice Dallimore Matronly woman...Barbara Morrison

"A word to the wise now to any and all who might suddenly feel the presence of a cigar-smoking helpmate who takes bankbooks out of thin air. If you're suddenly aware of any such celestial aids, it means that you're under the beneficent care of one Harmon Cavender, guardian angel. And this message from the Twilight Zone."

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~The Changing Of The Guard~

Air date: 6/1/62
Written by: Rod Serling

"Professor Ellis Fowler, a gentle bookish guide to the young, who is about to discover that life still has certain surprises, and that the campus of the Rock Springs School for Boys lies on a direct path to another institution, commonly referred to as the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Prof. Fowler...Donald Pleasence Headmaster........Liam Sullivan Mrs. Landers....Philippa Bevans Graham.............Bob Biheller Butler.............Kevin O'Neal Boy #1..............Jimmy Baird Boy #2..............Kevin Jones Boy #3...............Tom Lowell Boy #4...........Russell Horton Boy #5...............Buddy Hart Boy #6...........Darryl Richard Boy #7...........James Browning Boy #8................Pat Close Boy #9............Dennis Kerlee

"Professor Ellis Fowler, teacher, who discovered rather belatedly something of his own value. A very small scholastic lesson, from the campus of the Twilight Zone"

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