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Season 3

Season 3 • 1961

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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

1. Two

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

1961-09-1526 min

2. The Arrival

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

1961-09-2226 min

3. The Shelter

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

1961-09-2926 min

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.

1961-10-0626 min

5. A Game of Pool

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

1961-10-1326 min

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.

1961-10-2026 min

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.

1961-10-2726 min

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.

1961-11-0326 min

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.

1961-11-1026 min

10. The Midnight Sun

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

1961-11-1726 min

11. Still Valley

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

1961-11-2426 min

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.

1961-12-0126 min

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!

1961-12-1526 min

14. Five Characters in Search of an Exit

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

1961-12-2226 min

15. A Quality of Mercy

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.

1961-12-2926 min

16. Nothing in the Dark

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

1962-01-0526 min

17. One More Pallbearer

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

1962-01-1226 min

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.

1962-01-1926 min

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.

1962-01-2626 min

20. Showdown with Rance McGrew

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.

1962-02-0226 min

21. Kick the Can

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".

1962-02-0926 min

22. A Piano in the House

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.

1962-02-1626 min

23. The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

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

1962-02-2326 min

24. To Serve Man

The Kanamits, 9 foot tall aliens, arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man.

1962-03-0226 min

25. The Fugitive

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

1962-03-0926 min

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.

1962-03-1626 min

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.

1962-03-2326 min

28. The Little People

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

1962-03-3026 min

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.

1962-04-0626 min

30. Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

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

1962-04-1326 min

31. The Trade-Ins

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

1962-04-2026 min

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.

1962-04-2726 min

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!

1962-05-0426 min

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.

1962-05-1126 min

35. I Sing the Body Electric

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

1962-05-1826 min

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.

1962-05-2525 min

37. The Changing of the Guard

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.

1962-06-0125 min