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The Twilight ZoneSeason 3

The third season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm on CBS from September 15, 1961 to June 1, 1962. There are 37 episodes. Continuing with Marius Constant's theme music, a different set of graphics was used for the opening, consisting of a rotating cone with concentric circles suggesting a spiral, receding into a star field. Rod Serling's narration from the second season was used, with the verse "That's the signpost up ahead" taken out: "You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop—The Twilight Zone." Some subtle changes in the opening's acoustics were made beginning with Person or Persons Unknown.

Episodes

  • E01 Two

    7.0

    Sep 15, 1961 · 26m

    A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.

  • E02 The Arrival

    7.0

    Sep 22, 1961 · 26m

    A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing.

  • E03 The Shelter

    8.4

    Sep 29, 1961 · 26m

    When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.

  • E04 The Passersby

    6.7

    Oct 6, 1961 · 26m

    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.

  • E05 A Game of Pool

    7.0

    Oct 13, 1961 · 26m

    Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.

  • E06 The Mirror

    6.3

    Oct 20, 1961 · 26m

    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.

  • E07 The Grave

    6.8

    Oct 27, 1961 · 26m

    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.

  • E08 It's a Good Life

    8.2

    Nov 3, 1961 · 26m

    On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.

  • E09 Deaths-Head Revisited

    7.0

    Nov 10, 1961 · 26m

    A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.

  • E10 The Midnight Sun

    7.9

    Nov 17, 1961 · 26m

    The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.

  • E11 Still Valley

    6.1

    Nov 24, 1961 · 26m

    Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.

  • E12 The Jungle

    6.6

    Dec 1, 1961 · 26m

    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.

  • E13 Once Upon a Time

    7.2

    Dec 15, 1961 · 26m

    Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962.

  • E14 Five Characters in Search of an Exit

    7.9

    Dec 22, 1961 · 26m

    A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.

  • E15 A Quality of Mercy

    7.1

    Dec 29, 1961 · 26m

    A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.

  • E16 Nothing in the Dark

    7.8

    Jan 5, 1962 · 26m

    A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."

  • E17 One More Pallbearer

    6.6

    Jan 12, 1962 · 26m

    Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.

  • E18 Dead Man's Shoes

    6.7

    Jan 19, 1962 · 26m

    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.

  • E19 The Hunt

    6.7

    Jan 26, 1962 · 26m

    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.

  • E20 Showdown with Rance McGrew

    6.7

    Feb 2, 1962 · 26m

    The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.

  • E21 Kick the Can

    7.3

    Feb 9, 1962 · 26m

    A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".

  • E22 A Piano in the House

    7.1

    Feb 16, 1962 · 26m

    Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.

  • E23 The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

    6.7

    Feb 23, 1962 · 26m

    Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...

  • E24 To Serve Man

    8.5

    Mar 2, 1962 · 26m

    An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A team of linguists sets out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."

  • E25 The Fugitive

    6.7

    Mar 9, 1962 · 26m

    Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.

  • E26 Little Girl Lost

    7.1

    Mar 16, 1962 · 26m

    Awakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished, even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.

  • E27 Person or Persons Unknown

    7.5

    Mar 23, 1962 · 26m

    David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

  • E28 The Little People

    7.3

    Mar 30, 1962 · 26m

    An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.

  • E29 Four O'Clock

    5.9

    Apr 6, 1962 · 26m

    Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.

  • E30 Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

    6.8

    Apr 13, 1962 · 26m

    A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.

  • E31 The Trade-Ins

    6.9

    Apr 20, 1962 · 26m

    An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.

  • E32 The Gift

    6.2

    Apr 27, 1962 · 26m

    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.

  • E33 The Dummy

    6.8

    May 4, 1962 · 26m

    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!

  • E34 Young Man's Fancy

    5.9

    May 11, 1962 · 26m

    When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.

  • E35 I Sing the Body Electric

    6.7

    May 18, 1962 · 26m

    A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

  • E36 Cavender is Coming

    6.3

    May 25, 1962 · 25m

    Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.

  • E37 The Changing of the Guard

    6.9

    Jun 1, 1962 · 25m

    An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.

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