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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
9/15/1961
1.
Two
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A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
Director:
Montgomery Pittman
Writer:
Montgomery Pittman
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Guest starring:
Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery, Sharon Lucas
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
9/22/1961
2.
The Arrival
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A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
Director:
Boris Sagal
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Harold J. Stone, Fredd Wayne,
Noah Keen, Jim Boles, Bing Russell, Robert Karnes
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
9/29/1961
3.
The Shelter
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When a UFO invasion appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbours fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
Director:
Lamont Johnson
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Larry Gates,
Jack Albertson, Joseph Bernard, Sandy Kenyon, Peggy Stewart, Michael Burns, Jo Helton, Moria Turner, Mary Gregory, John McLiam
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
10/6/1961
4.
The Passersby
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On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.
Director:
Elliot Silverstein
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Joanne Linville, James Gregory, Austin Green, Rex Holman, David Garcia,
Warren J. Kemmerling
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
10/13/1961
5.
A Game of Pool
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Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
10/20/1961
6.
The Mirror
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After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.
Director:
Don Medford
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Peter Falk, Tony Carbone, Vladimir Sokoloff, Dave Armstrong, Val Ruffino, Jim Turley, Richard Karlan, Arthur Batanides, Will Kuluva, Rodolfo Hoyos, Jr, Robert L. McCord
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
10/27/1961
7.
The Grave
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Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.
Director:
Montgomery Pittman
Writer:
Montgomery Pittman
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Guest starring:
Lee Marvin,
Strother Martin, James Best,
Lee Van Cleef, Elen Willard, William Challee, Stafford Repp, Larry Johns, Richard Geary
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
11/3/1961
8.
It's a Good Life
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Little Anthony Fremont controls an entire town with his ability to read minds and make people do as he wishes. Which is a real good thing.
Director:
Jerome Bixby
/ James Sheldon
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Bill Mumy,
John Larch,
Cloris Leachman, Tom Hatcher, Jeanne Bates, Lenore Kingston, Max Showalter, Don Keefer, Alice Frost
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
11/10/1961
9.
Deaths-Head Revisited
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A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
Director:
Don Medford
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Joseph Schildkraut, Oscar Beregi Jr, Karen Verne, Robert Boon,
Ben Wright, Chuck Fox
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
11/17/1961
10.
The Midnight Sun
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The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
Director:
Anton Leader
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde, Tom Reese, Jason Wingreen, June Ellis, William Keene, Robert J. Stevenson
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
11/24/1961
11.
Still Valley
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Paradine wanders into a town full of Union soldiers. They are all frozen in time by a old man with a black book. Knowing he will die soon, the old man gives the book to Paradine, telling him to use it to win the war. He takes the book back to camp and convinces his commanding officer to allow him to try to freeze the entire Union army. When he starts to read the book aloud he realizes he will have to call on the Devil, and renounce God to cast the spell. He throws the book on the fire and decides to allow the war to end in its own way.
Director:
James Sheldon
/ Manly Wade Wellman
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Mark Tapscott, Jack Mann, Addison Myers,
Vaughn Taylor, Gary Merrill, Ben Cooper
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
12/1/1961
12.
The Jungle
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Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
Director:
Charles Beaumont
/ William Claxton
Writer:
Charles Beaumont
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Guest starring:
John Dehner, Emily McLaughlin, Walter Brooke, Jay Adler, Hugh Sanders, Howard Wright, Donald Foster,
Jay Overholts
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
12/15/1961
13.
Once Upon a Time
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Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!
Director:
Norman Z. McLeod
/ Les Goodwins
Writer:
Richard Matheson
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Guest starring:
Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, Jesse White, James Flavin, Gil Lamb, Milton Parsons, Warren Parker, Harry Fleer, George E. Stone
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
12/22/1961
14.
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
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A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Director:
Lamont Johnson
/ Marvin Petal
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
William Windom,
Murray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood, Clark Allen, Mona Houghton, Carol Hill
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
12/29/1961
15.
A Quality of Mercy
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A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view.
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
1/5/1962
16.
Nothing in the Dark
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A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting ""Mr. Death.""
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
1/12/1962
17.
One More Pallbearer
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Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
Director:
Lamont Johnson
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Joseph Wiseman, Gage Clarke, Katherine Squire, Trevor Bardette, Ray Galvin, Josip Elic, Robert Snyder
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
1/19/1962
18.
Dead Man's Shoes
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A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.
Director:
Montgomery Pittman
Writer:
Charles Beaumont
/ OCee Ritch
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Guest starring:
Warren Stevens,
Ben Wright, Joan Marshall, Harry Swoger, Eugene Borden, Richard Devon, Florence Marly, Ron Hagerthy, Joe Mell
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
1/26/1962
19.
The Hunt
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On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.
Director:
Harold Schuster
Writer:
Earl Hamner Jr.
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Guest starring:
Arthur Hunnicutt,
Jeanette Nolan, Titus Moede, Orville Sherman, Charles Seel, Dexter Dupont, Robert Foulk
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
2/2/1962
20.
Showdown with Rance McGrew
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Rance McGrew is shooting a scene where ""Jesse James"" shoots him in the back. He is suddenly transported to a real Old West saloon, and the real Jesse James enters. He tells Rance that he and the other desperadoes of old are tired of the way they are being portrayed. He challenges Rance to a gun fight. Rance, having never shot a gun, falls to his knees and says he'll do anything to spare his life. Jesse agrees, and Rance is suddenly back on the studio lot. Then Rance's agent, Jesse James, arrives. He plans on staying and insuring that the outlaws always win. He begins with the TV Jesse James throwing Rance through a window.
Director:
Christian Nyby
/ Frederick Louis Fox
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
2/9/1962
21.
Kick the Can
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The senior residents of Sunnyvale decide that the secret to youth is acting young, and in particular playing a childhood game called ""kick-the-can.""
Director:
Lamont Johnson
Writer:
George Clayton Johnson
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Guest starring:
Ernest Truex, Russell Collins, John Marley, Hank Patterson, Earle Hodgins, Marjorie Bennett, Lenore Shanewise, Anne O'Neal, Burt Mustin, Barry Truex, Eve McVeagh, Gregory McCabe, Marc Stevens
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
2/16/1962
22.
A Piano in the House
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Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music it plays makes people reveal their true essence. At the party, Fortune uses the piano to humiliate the guests - an overweight woman reveals fantasies of being thin and a playwright admits to being in love with Fortune's wife. Fortune hands his wife another roll to put in the piano, but his wife substitutes a different roll - one that enchants Fortune. He reveals himself to be nothing more than a sadistic, mean-spirited child. The guests all leave along with Fortune's wife.
Director:
David Greene
/ David Greene (I)
Writer:
Earl Hamner Jr.
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
2/23/1962
23.
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
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Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
Director:
Montgomery Pittman
Writer:
Montgomery Pittman
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Guest starring:
James Best, Sherry Jackson, Lance Fuller,
Dub Taylor, Ralph Moody, Ezelle Poule, Helen Wallace, Vickie Barnes, Bill Fawcett, Edgar Buchanan, Mabel Forrest, Jon Lormer, Pat Hector, Jim Houghton
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
3/2/1962
24.
To Serve Man
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The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.
Director:
Richard L. Bare
/ Damon Knight
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Lloyd Bochner,
Richard Kiel, Susan Cummings, J.H. Fujikawa, James L. Wellman, Charles Tannen, Gene Benton, Nelson Olmsted, Carlton Young, Bartlett Robinson, Theodore Marcuse,
Hardie Albright, Robert Tafur, Lomax Study, Adrienne Marden
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
3/9/1962
25.
The Fugitive
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Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
Director:
Richard L. Bare
Writer:
Charles Beaumont
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Guest starring:
J. Pat O'Malley, Susan Gordon,
Nancy Kulp, Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp, Russ Bender, Stephen Talbott, Johnny Eiman
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
3/16/1962
26.
Little Girl Lost
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A six-year-old girl rolls under her bed and vanishes into a fourth dimension. Her parents and a neighbor struggle to free her before the hole between the dimensions closes forever.
Director:
Paul Stewart
Writer:
Richard Matheson
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Guest starring:
Charles Aidman, Robert Sampson, Sarah Marshall, Tracy Stratford,
Rhoda Williams
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
3/23/1962
27.
Person or Persons Unknown
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David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him. He is put in an asylum, but escapes and finds a picture of himself and his wife, proving who he is. When the police arrive, the picture has changed and only shows David by himself. He falls to the floor and wakes up in his bed. It was just a dream. His wife gets up and goes to the bathroom to remove some cream from her face. When she returns David is shocked to see that although she talks the same as always, she looks nothing like the wife he knows.
Director:
John Brahm
Writer:
Charles Beaumont
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Guest starring:
Richard Long, Frank Silvera, Shirley Ballard, Julie Van Zandt
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
3/30/1962
28.
The Little People
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An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
Director:
William Claxton
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Joe Maross,
Claude Akins, Michael Ford, Robert Eaton
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
4/6/1962
29.
Four O'Clock
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Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock. When four o'clock comes around, it is he who shrinks.
Director:
Lamont Johnson
/ Price Day
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
4/13/1962
30.
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
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A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
Director:
Lamont Johnson
/ Frederick Louis Fox
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Larry Breitman,
Dabbs Greer, Howard McNear, Clem Bevans,
Peter Brocco
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
4/20/1962
31.
The Trade-Ins
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An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
Director:
Elliot Silverstein
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt,
Noah Keen, Theodore Marcuse, Edson Stroll, Terrence de Marney, Billy Vincent, Mary McMahon, David Armstrong
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
4/27/1962
32.
The Gift
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An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.
Director:
Allen H. Miner
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Geoffrey Horne, Nico Minardos, Edmund Vargas, Lea Marmer, Cliff Osmond, Paul Mazursky, Vladimir Sokoloff,
Vito Scotti, Carmen D'Antonio, Henry Corden, Joe Perry, David Fresco
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
5/4/1962
33.
The Dummy
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A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!
Director:
Abner Biberman
/ Lee Polk
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, Sandra Warner, John Harmon, Rudy Dolan, Ralph Manza, Bethelynn Grey, Edy Williams
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
5/11/1962
34.
Young Man's Fancy
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When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
Director:
John Brahm
Writer:
Richard Matheson
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Guest starring:
Phyllis Thaxter, Alex Nicol, Ricky Kelman, Wallace Rooney, Helen Brown
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
5/18/1962
35.
I Sing the Body Electric
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A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
Director:
William Claxton
/ James Sheldon
Writer:
Ray Bradbury
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Guest starring:
Josephine Hutchinson,
Veronica Cartwright, David White, Charles Herbert, Dana Dillaway,
Vaughn Taylor, Doris Packer, Susan Crane, Paul Nesbitt, Judy Morton
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
5/25/1962
36.
Cavender is Coming
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Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired. He sets her up in a mansion, with a fortune. However, none of her friends from her old neighborhood remember her. She decides she would rather have friends than money. She asks to be returned to her old life. Cavender's boss is furious, until he notices that Agnes is extremely happy. He decides maybe other people could use Cavender's help.
Director:
Chris Nyby
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Carol Burnett, Jesse White
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Seen it: Yes
30 mins
6/1/1962
37.
The Changing of the Guard
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A retiring professor contemplates suicide.
Director:
Robert Ellis Miller
Writer:
Rod Serling
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Guest starring:
Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan, Philippa Bevans, Bob Biheller, Kevin O'Neal, Jimmy Baird
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