The Twilight Zone
Season 3
196137 episodes
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.
Episode 1
Two
Sep 15, 196126m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
Episode 2
The Arrival
Sep 22, 196126m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing.
Episode 3
The Shelter
Sep 29, 196126m
TMDB rating 8.4TMDB
When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
Episode 4
The Passersby
Oct 6, 196126m
TMDB rating 6.7TMDB
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.
Episode 5
A Game of Pool
Oct 13, 196126m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
Episode 6
The Mirror
Oct 20, 196126m
TMDB rating 6.3TMDB
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.
Episode 7
The Grave
Oct 27, 196126m
TMDB rating 6.8TMDB
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.
Episode 8
It's a Good Life
Nov 3, 196126m
TMDB rating 8.2TMDB
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.
Episode 9
Deaths-Head Revisited
Nov 10, 196126m
TMDB rating 7.0TMDB
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
Episode 10
The Midnight Sun
Nov 17, 196126m
TMDB rating 7.9TMDB
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.
Episode 11
Still Valley
Nov 24, 196126m
TMDB rating 6.1TMDB
Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
Episode 12
The Jungle
Dec 1, 196126m
TMDB rating 6.6TMDB
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.
Episode 13
Once Upon a Time
Dec 15, 196126m
TMDB rating 7.2TMDB
Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962.
Episode 14
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Dec 22, 196126m
TMDB rating 7.9TMDB
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Episode 15
A Quality of Mercy
Dec 29, 196126m
TMDB rating 7.1TMDB
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.
Episode 16
Nothing in the Dark
Jan 5, 196226m
TMDB rating 7.8TMDB
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
Episode 17
One More Pallbearer
Jan 12, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.6TMDB
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
Episode 18
Dead Man's Shoes
Jan 19, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.7TMDB
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.
Episode 19
The Hunt
Jan 26, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.8TMDB
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.
Episode 20
Showdown with Rance McGrew
Feb 2, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.7TMDB
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.
Episode 21
Kick the Can
Feb 9, 196226m
TMDB rating 7.3TMDB
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".
Episode 22
A Piano in the House
Feb 16, 196226m
TMDB rating 7.1TMDB
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.
Episode 23
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Feb 23, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.7TMDB
Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
Episode 24
To Serve Man
Mar 2, 196226m
TMDB rating 8.5TMDB
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."
Episode 25
The Fugitive
Mar 9, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.7TMDB
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
Episode 26
Little Girl Lost
Mar 16, 196226m
TMDB rating 7.1TMDB
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.
Episode 27
Person or Persons Unknown
Mar 23, 196226m
TMDB rating 7.5TMDB
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
Episode 28
The Little People
Mar 30, 196226m
TMDB rating 7.3TMDB
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
Episode 29
Four O'Clock
Apr 6, 196226m
TMDB rating 5.9TMDB
Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.
Episode 30
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
Apr 13, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.8TMDB
A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
Episode 31
The Trade-Ins
Apr 20, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.9TMDB
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
Episode 32
The Gift
Apr 27, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.2TMDB
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.
Episode 33
The Dummy
May 4, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.8TMDB
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!
Episode 34
Young Man's Fancy
May 11, 196226m
TMDB rating 5.9TMDB
When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
Episode 35
I Sing the Body Electric
May 18, 196226m
TMDB rating 6.7TMDB
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
Episode 36
Cavender is Coming
May 25, 196225m
TMDB rating 6.3TMDB
Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.
Episode 37
The Changing of the Guard
Jun 1, 196225m
TMDB rating 6.9TMDB
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.