The Twilight Zone

~In His Image~

Air date: 1/3/63
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"What you have just witnessed could be the end of a particularly terrifying nightmare. It isn't--it's the beginning. Although Alan Talbot doesn't know it, he is about to enter a strange new world, too incredible to be real, to real to be be a dream. It's called the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Alan Talbot/ Walter Ryder, Jr....George Grizzard Jessica Connelly..........Gail Kobe Old woman..........Katherine Squire Man..................Wallace Rooney Girl.................Sherry Granato Sheriff..................James Seay Driver................George Petrie Hotel clerk...........Jamie Forster Grizzard's doubl.....Joseph Sargent

"In a way, it can be said that Walter Ryder succeeded in his life's ambition, even though the man he created was, after all, himself. There mat be easier ways to self-improvement, but sometimes it happens that the shortest distance between two points is a crooked line--through the Twilight Zone."

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~The Thirty Fathom Grave~

Air date: 1/10/63
Written by: Rod Serling

"Incident one hundred miles off the coast of Guadacanal. Time: the present. The United States naval destroyer on what has been the most uneventful cruise. In a moment, they're going to send a man down thirty fathoms to check on a noise maker--someone or something tapping on metal. You may or may not read the results in a naval report, because Captain Beecham and his crew have just set a course that will lead this ship and everyone on it into the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Chief Bell............Mike Kellin Capt. Beecham.......Simon Oakland Doc.................David Sheiner McClure............John Considine O.O.D..................Bill Bixby Lee helmsman............Tony Call Helmsman............Derrick Lewis Ensign Marmer.......Conlan Carter Sonar operator...Charles Kuenstle ASW officer.......Forrest Compton Junior O.O.D..........Henry Scott Sailor #1...........Vince Bagetta Sailor #2.............Louie Elias

"Small naval engagement, the month of April, 1963. Not to be found in any historical annals. Look for this one under 'H' for haunting--in the Twilight Zone."

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~Valley Of The Shadow~

Air date: 1/17/63
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"You've seen them. Little towns, tucked away far from the main roads. You've seen them, but have you thought about them? What do the people in these places do? Why do they stay? Phillip Redfield never thought about them. If his dog hadn't gone after that cat, he would have driven through Peaceful Valley and put it out of his mind forever. But he can't do that for now, because whether he knows it or not his friend's shortcut has led him right into the capital of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Phillip Redfield......Ed Nelson Ellen Marshall...Natalie Trundy Dorn.............David Opatoshu Father.............James Doohan Girl.............Suzanne Cupito Evans...............Dabbs Greer Connelly.......Jacques Aubuchon Gas attendent......Sandy Kenyon Man #1............Henry Beckman Man #2...............Bart Burns Man #3..............King Calder Man #4...............Pat O'Hara

"You've seen them. Little towns, tucked away far from the main roads. You've seen them, but have you thought about them? Have you wondered what the people do in such places, whay they stay? Phillip Redfield thinks about them now and he wonders, but only very late at night, when he's between wakefulness and sleep--in the Twilight Zone."

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~He's Alive~

Air date: 1/24/63
Written by: Rod Serling

"Portrait of a bush-league fuehrer named Peter Vollmer, a sparse little man who feeds off his self-delusions and finds himself perpetually hungry for want of greatness in his diet. And like some goose-stepping predecessors he searches for something to explain his hunger, and to rationalize why a world passes him by without saluting. That something he looks for and finds is in a sewer. In his own twisted and distorted lexicon he calls it faith, strength, truth. But in just a moment Peter Vollmer will ply his trade on another kind of corner, a strange intersection in a shadowland called the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Peter Vollmer...Dennis Hopper Ernst Ganz......Ludwig Donath Adolf Hitler......Curt Conway Frank...........Paul Mazursky Nick.............Howard Caine Stanley..........Barnaby Hale Heckler..........Bernard Fein Gibbons.............Jay Adler Proprietor......Wolfe Brazell

"Where will he go next, this phantom from another time, this resurrected ghost of a previuos nightmare--Chicago; Los Angeles; Miami, Florida; Vincennes, Indiana; Syracuse, New York? Anyplace, everyplace, where there's hate, where there's prejudice, where there's bigotry. He's alive. He's alive so long as these evils exist. Remember that when he comes to your town. Remember it when you hear his voice speaking out through others. Remember it when you hear a name called, a minority attacked, any blind, unreasoning assault on a people or any human being. He's alive because through these things we keep him alive."

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~Mute~

>Air date: 1/31/63
Written by: Richard Matheson

"What you're witnessing is the curtain-raiser to a most extraordinary play; to wit, the signing of a pact, the commencement of a project. The play itself will be performed almost entirely offstage. The final scenes are to be enacted a decade hence and with a different cast. The main character of these final scenes is Ilse, the daughter of Professor and Mrs. Nielsen, age two. At the moment she lies sleeping in her crib, unaware of the singular drama in which she is to be involved. Ten years from this moment, Ilse Nielsen is to know the desolating terror of living simultaneously in the world--and in the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Ilse Nielsen.........Ann Jillian Harry Wheeler......Frank Overton Cora Wheeler......Barbara Baxley Miss Frank..........Irene Dailey Prof. Karl Werner...Oscar Beregi Frau Nielsen.......Claudia Bryer Holger Nielsen.......Robert Boon Frau Maria Werner.....Eve Soreny Tom Poulter.........Percy Helton

"It has been noted in a book of proven wisdom that perfect love casteth out fear. While it's unlikely that this observation was meant to include that specific fear which follows the loss of extrasensory perception, the principle remains, as always, beautifully intact. Case in point, that of Ilse Nielsen, former resident of the Twilight Zone."

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~Death Ship~

Air date: 2/7/63
Written by: Richard Matheson

"Picture of the spaceship E-89, cruising above the thirteenth planet of star system fifty-one, the year 1997. In a little while, supposedly, the ship will be landed and specimens taken: vegetable, mineral and, if any, animal. These will be brought back to overpopulated Earth, where technicians will evaluate them and, if everything is satisfactory, stamp their findings with the word 'inhabitable' and open up yet another planet for colonization. These are the things that are supposed to happen...Picture of the crew of the spaceship E-89: Captain Ross, Lieutenant Mason, Lieutenant Carter. Three men who have just reached a place which is as far from home as they will ever be. Three men who in a matter of minutes will be plunged into the darkest nightmare reaches of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Capt. Paul Ross.....Jack Klugman Lt. Ted Mason........Ross Martin Lt. Mike Carter....Fredrick Beir Ruth................Mary Webster Jeannie...........Tammy Marihugh Kramer..............Ross Elliott Mrs. Nolan.............Sara Taft

"Picture of a man who will not see anything he does not choose to see--including his own death. A man of such indomitable will that even the two men beneath his command are not allowed to see the truth; which truth is, that they are no longer among the living, that the movements they make and the words they speak have all been made and spoken countless times before--and will be made and spoken countless times again, perhaps even unto eternity. Picture of a latter-day Flying Dutchman, sailing into the Twilight Zone."

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~Jess-Belle~

Air date: 2/14/63
Written by: Earl Hamner, Jr.

"The Twilight Zone has existed in many lands, in many times. It has its roots in history, in something that happened long, long ago and got told about and handed down from one generation of folk to the other. In the telling the story gets added to and embroidered on, so that what might have happened in the time of the Druids is told as if it took place yesterday in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Such stories are best told by an elderly grandfather on a cold winter's night by the fireside--in the southern hills of the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Jess-Belle.........Anne Francis Billy-Ben Turner.....James Best Ellwyn Glover.......Laura Devon Granny Hart......Jeanette Nolan Ossie Stone......Virginia Gregg Luther Glover...George Mitchell Mattie Glover.......Helen Kleeb Obed Miller...........Jim Boles Minister.............Jon Lormer

This episode has no closing narration by Mr. Serling. It closes with a folk song written for the episode by Mr. Hamner, Jr.
"Fair was Elly Glover,
Dark was Jess-Belle,
Both they loved the same man,
And both they loved him well."

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~Miniature~

Air date: 2/21/63
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"To the average person, a mueum is a place of knowledge, a place of beauty and truth and wonder. Some people come to study, others to contemplate, others to look for the sheer joy of looking. Charley Parkes has his own reasons. He comes to the museum to get away from the world. It isn't really the sixty-cent cafeteria meal that has drawn him here every day, it's the fact that here in these strange, cool halls he can be alone for a little while, really and truly alone. Anyway, that's how it was before he got lost and wandered in--to the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Charley Parkes...Robert Duvall Mrs. Parkes........Pert Kelton Myrna...........Barbara Barrie Buddie.............Len Weinrib Dr. Wallman.....William Windom Museum guard.......John McLiam Doll...........Claire Griswold Maid................Nina Roman Suitor........Richard Angarola Diemal.........Barney Phillips Harriet..........Joan Chambers Guide............Chet Stratton

"They never found Charley Parkes, because the guard didn't tell them what he saw in the glass case. He knew what they'd say, and he knew they'd be right, too, because seeing is not always believing--especially if what you see happens to be an odd corner of the Twilight Zone."

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~Printer's Devil~

Air date: 2/28/63
Written by: Charles Beaumont

"Take away a man's dream, fill him with whiskey and despair, send him to a lonely bridge, let him stand there all by himself looking down at the black water, and try to imagine the thoughts that are in his mind. You can't, I can't. But there's someone who can--and that someone is seated next to Douglas Winter right now. The car is headed back toward town, but it's real destination is the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Mr. Smith.........Burgess Meredith Douglas Winter.....Robert Sterling Jackie Benson.....Patricia Crowley Mr. Franklin..............Ray Teal Andy Praskins.....Charles Thompson Landlady..............Doris Kemper Molly.............Camille Franklin

"Exit the infernal machine, and with it his satanic majesty, Lucifer, prince of darkness--otherwise known as Mr. Smith. He's gone, but not for good; that wouldn't be like him--he's gone for bad. And he might be back, with another ticket to--the Twilight Zone."

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~No Time Like The Past~

Air date: 3/7/63
Written by: Rod Serling

"Exit one Paul Driscoll, a creature of the twentieth century. He puts to a test a complicated theorum of space-time continuum, but he goes a step further--or tries to. Shortly, he will seek out three moments of the past in a desperate attempt to alter the present--one of the odd and fanciful functions in a shadowland known as the Twilight Zone."

Cast:

Paul Driscoll...........Dana Andrews Abigail Sloan.......Patricia Breslin Harvey...............Robert F. Simon Japanese policeman........James Yagi Lusitania captain.........Tudor Owen Bartender............Lindsay Workman Prof. Eliot........Malcolm Atterbury Mrs. Chamberlain....Marjorie Bennett Hanford..........Robert Cornthwaithe Horn player.............John Zaremba

"Incident on a July afternoon, 1881. A man named Driscoll who came and went and, in the process, learned a simple lesson, perhaps best said by a poet named Lathbury, who wrote, 'Children of yesterday, heirs of tomorrow, what are you weaving? Lobor and sorrow? Look to your looms again, faster and faster fly the great shuttles prepared by the master. Life's in the loom, room for it--room!' Tonight's tale of clocks and calendars--in the Twilight Zone."

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