The Twilight Zone

Season 3 1961 - 1962
TV-PG

  • 1961-09-16T01:30:00Z on CBS
  • 25m
  • 16h (37 episodes)
  • United States
  • English
  • Drama, Mystery, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror
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.

37 episodes

Season Premiere

1961-09-16T01:30:00Z

3x01 Two

Season Premiere

3x01 Two

  • 1961-09-16T01:30:00Z26m

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

1961-09-23T01:30:00Z

3x02 The Arrival

3x02 The Arrival

  • 1961-09-23T01:30:00Z26m

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

1961-09-30T01:30:00Z

3x03 The Shelter

3x03 The Shelter

  • 1961-09-30T01:30:00Z26m

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

1961-10-07T01:30:00Z

3x04 The Passersby

3x04 The Passersby

  • 1961-10-07T01:30:00Z26m

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.

1961-10-14T01:30:00Z

3x05 A Game of Pool

3x05 A Game of Pool

  • 1961-10-14T01:30:00Z26m

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

1961-10-21T01:30:00Z

3x06 The Mirror

3x06 The Mirror

  • 1961-10-21T01:30:00Z26m

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.

1961-10-28T01:30:00Z

3x07 The Grave

3x07 The Grave

  • 1961-10-28T01:30:00Z26m

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.

1961-11-04T02:30:00Z

3x08 It's a Good Life

3x08 It's a Good Life

  • 1961-11-04T02:30:00Z26m

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.

1961-11-11T02:30:00Z

3x09 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.

1961-11-18T02:30:00Z

3x10 The Midnight Sun

3x10 The Midnight Sun

  • 1961-11-18T02:30:00Z26m

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

1961-11-25T02:30:00Z

3x11 Still Valley

3x11 Still Valley

  • 1961-11-25T02:30:00Z26m

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

1961-12-02T02:30:00Z

3x12 The Jungle

3x12 The Jungle

  • 1961-12-02T02:30:00Z26m

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.

1961-12-16T02:30:00Z

3x13 Once Upon a Time

3x13 Once Upon a Time

  • 1961-12-16T02:30:00Z26m

Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down!

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

1961-12-30T02:30:00Z

3x15 A Quality of Mercy

3x15 A Quality of Mercy

  • 1961-12-30T02:30:00Z26m

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.

1962-01-06T02:30:00Z

3x16 Nothing in the Dark

3x16 Nothing in the Dark

  • 1962-01-06T02:30:00Z26m

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

1962-01-13T02:30:00Z

3x17 One More Pallbearer

3x17 One More Pallbearer

  • 1962-01-13T02:30:00Z26m

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

1962-01-20T02:30:00Z

3x18 Dead Man's Shoes

3x18 Dead Man's Shoes

  • 1962-01-20T02:30:00Z26m

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.

1962-01-27T02:30:00Z

3x19 The Hunt

3x19 The Hunt

  • 1962-01-27T02:30:00Z26m

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.

Actor Rance McGrew makes TV Westerns for a living, but he's a lousy actor and a worse cowboy. Despite that, each week he "wins" against the bad guys. Finally the bad guys have enough and send Jesse James to Earth to teach McGrew a lesson.

1962-02-10T02:30:00Z

3x21 Kick the Can

3x21 Kick the Can

  • 1962-02-10T02:30:00Z26m

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."

1962-02-17T02:30:00Z

3x22 A Piano in the House

3x22 A Piano in the House

  • 1962-02-17T02:30:00Z26m

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.

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

1962-03-03T02:30:00Z

3x24 To Serve Man

3x24 To Serve Man

  • 1962-03-03T02:30:00Z26m

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

1962-03-10T02:30:00Z

3x25 The Fugitive

3x25 The Fugitive

  • 1962-03-10T02:30:00Z26m

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

1962-03-17T02:30:00Z

3x26 Little Girl Lost

3x26 Little Girl Lost

  • 1962-03-17T02:30:00Z26m

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.

1962-03-24T02:30:00Z

3x27 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.

1962-03-31T02:30:00Z

3x28 The Little People

3x28 The Little People

  • 1962-03-31T02:30:00Z26m

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

1962-04-07T02:30:00Z

3x29 Four O'Clock

3x29 Four O'Clock

  • 1962-04-07T02:30:00Z26m

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

1962-04-14T02:30:00Z

3x30 Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

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

1962-04-21T02:30:00Z

3x31 The Trade-Ins

3x31 The Trade-Ins

  • 1962-04-21T02:30:00Z26m

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

1962-04-28T02:30:00Z

3x32 The Gift

3x32 The Gift

  • 1962-04-28T02:30:00Z26m

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.

1962-05-05T01:30:00Z

3x33 The Dummy

3x33 The Dummy

  • 1962-05-05T01:30:00Z26m

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!

1962-05-12T01:30:00Z

3x34 Young Man's Fancy

3x34 Young Man's Fancy

  • 1962-05-12T01:30:00Z26m

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

1962-05-19T01:30:00Z

3x35 I Sing the Body Electric

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

1962-05-26T01:30:00Z

3x36 Cavender is Coming

3x36 Cavender is Coming

  • 1962-05-26T01:30:00Z25m

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

Season Finale

1962-06-02T01:30:00Z

3x37 The Changing of the Guard

Season Finale

3x37 The Changing of the Guard

  • 1962-06-02T01:30:00Z25m

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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