The Twilight Zone - Season 3

The Twilight Zone - Season 3

Season 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.
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Episodes37
DatesSep 15, 1961 - Jun 1, 1962
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Episodes

Two
Season 3Episode 130 min

Two

Two soldiers from opposing sides cross paths in a city demolished by a devastating war that occurred years before. While they approach one another with suspicion and some hostility, they soon realize they need one another to survive.

Sep 15, 1961
The Arrival
Season 3Episode 230 min

The Arrival

An FAA inspector (Harold J. Stone) and members of the airport staff (Noah Keen, Fredd Wayne, Robert Karnes, and Bing Russell) investigate a plane that arrives without a single person onboard – and each sees it differently.

Sep 22, 1961
The Shelter
Season 3Episode 330 min

The Shelter

When a suburban dinner party is interrupted by an announcement that a nuclear attack on the U.S. is imminent, the party goers scramble home to try and find a way to survive. However, when several families discover that their neighbor, Dr. Stockton has built a bomb shelter for just such an occasion, everyone turns against one another in an attempt to be invited inside the shelter. Will things be able to return to normal if warning turns out to be false?

Sep 29, 1961
The Passersby
Season 3Episode 430 min

The Passersby

While traveling down an apparently deserted road, toward the end of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate Soldier stops to take a rest on the steps of a destroyed mansion. While there, he meets a widow of a Confederate Officer. They soon watch as soldiers, from the North and South, travel down the road, and ultimately realize that at the end of the road is the Promised Land.

Oct 6, 1961
A Game of Pool
Season 3Episode 530 min

A Game of Pool

A legendary pool player (Jonathan Winters) returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark (Jack Klugman) with the shark's life at stake.

Oct 13, 1961
The Mirror
Season 3Episode 630 min

The Mirror

In Central America, a mirror allows a dictator (Peter Falk) to see the faces of his enemies.

Oct 20, 1961
The Grave
Season 3Episode 730 min

The Grave

When the outlaw Pinto Sykes is gunned downed after being ambushed by the men in his hometown, Pinto vows revenge on the gun-for-hire that the men sent after him. When Conny Miller, the man hired to bring Sykes to justice arrives in town following the ambush, he is told of Sykes deathbed vow: if Miller ever comes near his grave, he'll reach up and have his revenge. Thinking that Miller was scared of Sykes, the men of town bet him to go to his grave, and soon discover that vengeance, even from beyond the grave, is a powerful thing.

Oct 27, 1961
It's a Good Life
Season 3Episode 830 min

It's a Good Life

A six-year-old boy terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality.

Nov 3, 1961
Deaths-Head Revisited
Season 3Episode 930 min

Deaths-Head Revisited

A former Nazi SS Captain arrives in a small Bavarian town, looking to visit Dachau, an old Concentration camp, wanting to remember what it was like during the war. However, the ghosts of the men he put to death soon arrive, looking to put him on trial for the part he played in their deaths and other crimes against humanity.

Nov 10, 1961
The Midnight Sun
Season 3Episode 1030 min

The Midnight Sun

The earth gets thrown off its orbit, and as a result, is getting pulled closer to the sun. Unable to leave their apartment building to find a cooler place to live, two women attempt to acclimate to their new living conditions. However, it soon appears to be nothing but a bad dream of one of the women, as they live on a freezing earth that is being pulled away from the sun.

Nov 17, 1961
Still Valley
Season 3Episode 1130 min

Still Valley

During the Civil War, a Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place.

Nov 24, 1961
The Jungle
Season 3Episode 1230 min

The Jungle

An engineer in Africa returns to the States... and a tribesman's curse follows him.

Dec 1, 1961
Once Upon a Time
Season 3Episode 1330 min

Once Upon a Time

A janitor (Buster Keaton) travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet.

Dec 15, 1961
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Season 3Episode 1430 min

Five Characters in Search of an Exit

Five individuals--a major, a clown, a ballerina, a hobo, and a piper--find themselves trapped in a metal cylinder with no memory of how they came there or their past lives... and no apparent hope of a future.

Dec 22, 1961
A Quality of Mercy
Season 3Episode 1530 min

A Quality of Mercy

During World War II, a gung-ho young American lieutenant is forced to see the enemy's side of the battlefield... whether he wants to or not.

Dec 29, 1961
Nothing in the Dark
Season 3Episode 1630 min

Nothing in the Dark

An elderly woman living in a condemned building is scared of leaving her home and finding a new place to live, because she fears that "Mr. Death" is out to kill her. When she finds a wounded young police officer outside her door, she is uncertain if she should help him, fearing that if she does, it would lead to her death.

Jan 5, 1962
One More Pallbearer
Season 3Episode 1730 min

One More Pallbearer

A wealthy man sets out to get revenge on three people that he thinks have wronged him... by convincing them that he's the only one who can protect them from a coming nuclear war.

Jan 12, 1962
Dead Man's Shoes
Season 3Episode 1830 min

Dead Man's Shoes

A homeless man (Warren Stevens) literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse.

Jan 19, 1962
The Hunt
Season 3Episode 1930 min

The Hunt

An old man and his hound dog drown while out raccoon and soon begin trying to find out where they belong in the afterlife. When the first place they come to along the road appears too good to be true, old Hyder Simpson is ready to walk through the gate. However, when he discovers that his dog won't be allowed to join him, he soon has second thoughts and eventually continues on down the road to the Promised Land.

Jan 26, 1962
Showdown with Rance McGrew
Season 3Episode 2030 min

Showdown with Rance McGrew

The egotistic star (Larry Blyden) of a western TV series comes face to face with the real Jesse James (Arch Johnson).

Feb 2, 1962
Kick the Can
Season 3Episode 2130 min

Kick the Can

The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game.

Note: Steven Spielberg remade this as Segment II of Twilight Zone: The Movie, showing the nursing-home residents being offered a second chance at youth by their new arrival, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers).

Feb 9, 1962
A Piano in the House
Season 3Episode 2230 min

A Piano in the House

Sadistic and hated theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it.

Feb 16, 1962
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Season 3Episode 2330 min

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

As family and friends sit through the funeral of Jeff Myrtlebank, they are in for a rude awakening when he sits up from his coffin, demanding to know what's going on. They then begin to fear Jeff came back to life, possessed by a demon and soon bow to his will for fear of what might happen to their crops and loved ones.

Feb 23, 1962
To Serve Man
Season 3Episode 2430 min

To Serve Man

An alien race, the Kanamits, come to Earth providing technology and guidance to turn the planet into a utopia. But one man questions their benevolence.

Mar 2, 1962
The Fugitive
Season 3Episode 2530 min

The Fugitive

A fugitive (J. Pat O'Malley) from another world befriends a handicapped girl (Susan Gordon).

Mar 9, 1962
Little Girl Lost
Season 3Episode 2630 min

Little Girl Lost

When parents Chris and Ruth Miller wake up in the middle of the night to the cries of their daughter Tina, they are shocked to discover that she somehow fell through the wall of her bedroom into another dimension. They then call Chris' physicist friend Bill for help in rescuing Tina before the portal she fell through closes for good.

Mar 16, 1962
Person or Persons Unknown
Season 3Episode 2730 min

Person or Persons Unknown

David Allen Gurney wakes up on morning and discovers that no one knows who he is and that he doesn't exist in the new world that he finds himself in.

Mar 23, 1962
The Little People
Season 3Episode 2830 min

The Little People

When two astronauts (Claude Akins, Joe Maross) land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people.

Mar 30, 1962
Four O'Clock
Season 3Episode 2930 min

Four O'Clock

A fanatical one-man moral crusader (Theodore Bikel) decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock.

Apr 6, 1962
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
Season 3Episode 3030 min

Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

A rural gas station attendant given to telling tall tales about himself is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's leading intellects.

Apr 13, 1962
The Trade-Ins
Season 3Episode 3130 min

The Trade-Ins

An elderly couple look to trade-in their aging bodies for younger models. However, they only have enough money for one to go through the process, and the husband decides to go through it and then earn the money for his wife. However, upon going through with it, he realizes he made a mistake.

Apr 20, 1962
The Gift
Season 3Episode 3230 min

The Gift

A visitor from outer space (Geoffrey Horne) tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion.

Apr 27, 1962
The Dummy
Season 3Episode 3330 min

The Dummy

A ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act.

May 4, 1962
Young Man's Fancy
Season 3Episode 3430 min

Young Man's Fancy

Upon a newlywed's arrival to his boyhood home with his bride, he starts to have reservations selling the place following his mother's death. However, it doesn't take long for the home to have a magical effect on the couple: time has turned back to when the overbearing mother is back alive and the bridegroom is back living as a little boy, who promptly tells his bride to go away.

May 11, 1962
I Sing the Body Electric
Season 3Episode 3530 min

I Sing the Body Electric

A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.

May 18, 1962
Cavender is Coming
Season 3Episode 3630 min

Cavender is Coming

Inept guardian angel Harmon Cavender is given a chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.

May 25, 1962
The Changing of the Guard
Season 3Episode 3730 min

The Changing of the Guard

An elderly boys school teacher faces mandatory retirement and questions whether he's done anything with his life.

Jun 1, 1962

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