The Twilight Zone: Season 3
Image (1961)
Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
In Collection
#1420
0*
Seen ItYes
014381642353
IMDB   9.0
960 mins USA / English
Blu-ray Disc  Region Free   NR (Not Rated)
Richard Haydn
Rod Serling Narrator / Host
Earl Holliman
Vaughn Taylor
Keenan Wynn
J. Pat O'Malley
Jay Overholts
Robert McCord
S. John Launer
Robert Redford
Peter Falk
Dean Stockwell
Lee Marvin
Cliff Robertson
Producer Rod Serling
Writer Rod Serling


The Twilight Zone was a popular American anthology series. The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination."
Episodes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/15/1961  1.  Two
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 
Guest starring:  Charles Bronson, Elizabeth Montgomery, Sharon Lucas
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/22/1961  2.  The Arrival
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing!
Director:  Boris Sagal  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Harold J. Stone, Fredd Wayne,  Noah Keen, Jim Boles, Bing Russell, Robert Karnes
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    9/29/1961  3.  The Shelter
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 
Guest starring:  Larry Gates,  Jack Albertson, Joseph Bernard, Sandy Kenyon, Peggy Stewart, Michael Burns, Jo Helton, Moria Turner, Mary Gregory, John McLiam
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/6/1961  4.  The Passersby
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 
Guest starring:  Joanne Linville, James Gregory, Austin Green, Rex Holman, David Garcia,  Warren J. Kemmerling
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/13/1961  5.  A Game of Pool
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
Director:  Buzz Kulik  Writer:  George Clayton Johnson 
Guest starring:  Jack KlugmanJonathan Winters
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/20/1961  6.  The Mirror
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 
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
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    10/27/1961  7.  The Grave
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 
Guest starring:  Lee MarvinStrother Martin, James Best,  Lee Van Cleef, Elen Willard, William Challee, Stafford Repp, Larry Johns, Richard Geary
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/3/1961  8.  It's a Good Life
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 
Guest starring:  Bill MumyJohn LarchCloris Leachman, Tom Hatcher, Jeanne Bates, Lenore Kingston, Max Showalter, Don Keefer, Alice Frost
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/10/1961  9.  Deaths-Head Revisited
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 
Guest starring:  Joseph Schildkraut, Oscar Beregi Jr, Karen Verne, Robert Boon,  Ben Wright, Chuck Fox
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/17/1961  10.  The Midnight Sun
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction.
Director:  Anton Leader  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Lois Nettleton, Betty Garde, Tom Reese, Jason Wingreen, June Ellis, William Keene, Robert J. Stevenson
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    11/24/1961  11.  Still Valley
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 
Guest starring:  Mark Tapscott, Jack Mann, Addison Myers,  Vaughn Taylor, Gary Merrill, Ben Cooper
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/1/1961  12.  The Jungle
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 
Guest starring:  John Dehner, Emily McLaughlin, Walter Brooke, Jay Adler, Hugh Sanders, Howard Wright, Donald Foster,  Jay Overholts
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/15/1961  13.  Once Upon a Time
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 
Guest starring:  Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams, Jesse White, James Flavin, Gil Lamb, Milton Parsons, Warren Parker, Harry Fleer, George E. Stone
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/22/1961  14.  Five Characters in Search of an Exit
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Director:  Lamont Johnson  / Marvin Petal  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  William WindomMurray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood, Clark Allen, Mona Houghton, Carol Hill
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    12/29/1961  15.  A Quality of Mercy
A soldier gets a new perspective on war when he is forced to experience it from his enemy's point of view.
Director:  Buzz Kulik  / Sam Rolfe  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Dean StockwellAlbert SalmiJerry FujikawaLeonard Nimoy, Rayford Barnes, Ralph Votrian, Dale Ishimoto, J.H. Fujikawa,  Michael Pataki
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/5/1962  16.  Nothing in the Dark
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting ""Mr. Death.""
Director:  Lamont Johnson  Writer:  George Clayton Johnson 
Guest starring:  Gladys Cooper,  Robert RedfordR.G. Armstrong
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/12/1962  17.  One More Pallbearer
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
Director:  Lamont Johnson  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Joseph Wiseman, Gage Clarke, Katherine Squire, Trevor Bardette, Ray Galvin, Josip Elic, Robert Snyder
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/19/1962  18.  Dead Man's Shoes
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 
Guest starring:  Warren Stevens,  Ben Wright, Joan Marshall, Harry Swoger, Eugene Borden, Richard Devon, Florence Marly, Ron Hagerthy, Joe Mell
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    1/26/1962  19.  The Hunt
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. 
Guest starring:  Arthur Hunnicutt,  Jeanette Nolan, Titus Moede, Orville Sherman, Charles Seel, Dexter Dupont, Robert Foulk
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/2/1962  20.  Showdown with Rance McGrew
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 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/9/1962  21.  Kick the Can
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 
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
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/16/1962  22.  A Piano in the House
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. 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    2/23/1962  23.  The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
Director:  Montgomery Pittman  Writer:  Montgomery Pittman 
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
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/2/1962  24.  To Serve Man
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 
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
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/9/1962  25.  The Fugitive
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
Director:  Richard L. Bare  Writer:  Charles Beaumont 
Guest starring:  J. Pat O'Malley, Susan Gordon,  Nancy Kulp, Wesley Lau, Paul Tripp, Russ Bender, Stephen Talbott, Johnny Eiman
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/16/1962  26.  Little Girl Lost
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 
Guest starring:  Charles Aidman, Robert Sampson, Sarah Marshall, Tracy Stratford,  Rhoda Williams
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/23/1962  27.  Person or Persons Unknown
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 
Guest starring:  Richard Long, Frank Silvera, Shirley Ballard, Julie Van Zandt
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    3/30/1962  28.  The Little People
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 
Guest starring:  Joe Maross,  Claude Akins, Michael Ford, Robert Eaton
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/6/1962  29.  Four O'Clock
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 
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/13/1962  30.  Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
Director:  Lamont Johnson  / Frederick Louis Fox  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Andy Devine, Milton Selzer, Larry Breitman,  Dabbs Greer, Howard McNear, Clem Bevans,  Peter Brocco
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/20/1962  31.  The Trade-Ins
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
Director:  Elliot Silverstein  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt,  Noah Keen, Theodore Marcuse, Edson Stroll, Terrence de Marney, Billy Vincent, Mary McMahon, David Armstrong
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    4/27/1962  32.  The Gift
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 
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
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/4/1962  33.  The Dummy
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 
Guest starring:  Cliff Robertson, Frank Sutton, George Murdock, Sandra Warner, John Harmon, Rudy Dolan, Ralph Manza, Bethelynn Grey, Edy Williams
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/11/1962  34.  Young Man's Fancy
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 
Guest starring:  Phyllis Thaxter, Alex Nicol, Ricky Kelman, Wallace Rooney, Helen Brown
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/18/1962  35.  I Sing the Body Electric
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
Director:  William Claxton  / James Sheldon  Writer:  Ray Bradbury 
Guest starring:  Josephine Hutchinson,  Veronica Cartwright, David White, Charles Herbert, Dana Dillaway,  Vaughn Taylor, Doris Packer, Susan Crane, Paul Nesbitt, Judy Morton
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    5/25/1962  36.  Cavender is Coming
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 
Guest starring:  Carol Burnett, Jesse White
    Seen it: Yes   30 mins    6/1/1962  37.  The Changing of the Guard
A retiring professor contemplates suicide.
Director:  Robert Ellis Miller  Writer:  Rod Serling 
Guest starring:  Donald Pleasence, Liam Sullivan, Philippa Bevans, Bob Biheller, Kevin O'Neal, Jimmy Baird
Edition Details
Edition 5 Disc Blu-Ray Edition
Series The Twilight Zone
Distributor Image
Release Date 2/15/2011
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Subtitles English
Audio Tracks Mono [English]
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 5

Features
Disc 01 #66 Two •Commentary by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson •Rod Serling Teaser •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Don Johnson #67 The Arrival •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Blair Underwood #68 The Shelter •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Ernie Hudson #69 The Passerby •Isolated Music Score by Fred Steiner •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Morgan Brittany #70 A Game of Pool •Commentary by Jonathan Winters •Commentary by George Clayton Johnson and Marc Scott Zicree •Marc Scott Zicree Interview with Buzz Kulik and Buck Houghton (1978) •Jonathan Winters Reads the Alternate Ending from the Original Script •Clip from the 1989 Remake with George Clayton Johnson's Original Ending •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards #71 The Mirror •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Tony Plana #72 The Grave •Commentary by Gary Gerani •Commentary by Martin Grams, Jr. •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Michael Rooker #73 It's a Good Life •Commentary by Billy Mumy •Commentary by Marv Wolfman and Marc Scott Zicree •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards #74 Deaths-Head Revisited •Commentary by Neil Gaiman and Marc Scott Zicree •Marc Scott Zicree Interview with Buck Houghton (1979) •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring H.M. Wynant #75 The Midnight Sun •Commentary by Lois Nettleton •Commentary by Gary Gerani •Isolated Music Score by Van Cleave •Sponsor Billboards #76 Still Valley •Isolated Music Score by Wilbur Hatch •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Adam West #77 The Jungle •Commentary by William F. Nolan, John Tomerlin and Marc Scott Zicree •Commentary by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Ed Begley, Jr. #78 Once Upon a Time •Commentary by Martin Grams, Jr. •Isolated Music Score by William Lava (Played by Ray Turner) •Sponsor Billboards #79 Five Characters in Search of an Exit •Commentary by William Windom •Marc Scott Zicree Interview with Lamont Johnson (1978) •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Jason Alexander #80 A Quality of Mercy •Commentary by Leonard Nimoy •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards #81 Nothing in the Dark •Commentary by George Clayton Johnson and Marc Scott Zicree •Marc Scott Zicree Interview with Lamont Johnson and Clayton Johnson (1978) •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards #82 One More Pallbearer •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Chelcie Ross #83 Dead Man's Shoes •Clip from 1985 Remake, "Dead Woman's Shoes" •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Bill Smitrovich #84 The Hunt •Commentary by Earl Hamner and Marc Scott Zicree •Marc Scott Zicree Interview with Earl Hamner (1978) •Isolated Music Score by Robert Drasnin •Sponsor Billboards #85 Showdown with Rance McGrew •Commentary by Robert Cornwaite •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards #86 Kick the Can •Commentary by George Clayton Johnson and Marc Scott Zicree •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Shelley Berman and Stan Freberg #87 A Piano in the House •Commentary by Scott Skelton and Jim Benson •Marc Scott Zicree Interview with Buck Houghton and Earl Hamner (1978) •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Michael York #88 The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank •Isolated Music Score by Tommy Morgan •Sponsor Billboards #89 To Serve Man •Commentary by Jeff Vlaming and Marc Scott Zicree •Marc Scott Zicree Interview with Richard L. Bare (1978) •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Blair Underwood #90 The Fugitive •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards #91 Little Girl Lost •Commentary by Mark Fergus and Marc Scott Zicree •Isolated Music Score by Bernard Hermann •Sponsor Billboards #92 Person or Persons Unknown •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboard #93 The Little People •Marc Scott Zicree Interview with Buck Houghton (1978) •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards #94 Four O'Clock •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Stan Freberg #95 Hocus-Pocus and Frisby •Isolated Music Score by Tom Morgan •Sponsor Billboards #96 The Trade-Ins •Interview with Edson Stroll •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring H.M. Wynant and Peggy Webber #97 The Gift •Isolated Music Score by Laurindo Almeida •Sponsor Billboards #98 The Dummy •Audio Commentary by Cliff Robertson •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Bruno Kirby #99 Young Man's Fancy •Isolated Music Score by Nathan Scott •Sponsor Billboards #100 I Sing the Body Electric •Commentary by Marc Scott Zicree •Marc Scott Interview with Buck Houghton (1978) •Isolated Music Score by Van Cleave •Sponsor Billboards #101 Cavender is Coming •Original Laugh Track •Commentary by Martin Grams, Jr. •Isolated Music Score •Clip from The Garry Moore Show #102 The Changing of the Guard •Commentary by Len Wein and Marc Scott Zicree •Isolated Music Score •Sponsor Billboards •Radio Drama starring Orson Bean Additional Material •Liar's Club (SD, 21:34): A section from the 1970s game show hosted by Rod Serling. Look out for Betty White! •Tell It to Groucho Clip (SD, 15:11): Rod Serling on Groucho Marx's interview show in 1962. •The Famous Writers School Promo (SD, 4:37) •Marc Scott Zicree Interiew with George T. Clemens: Part three of this epic interview with Twilight Zone cinematographer George T. Clemens. The other two parts can be found in the seasons one and two sets.