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The Twilight Zone Season 3

September. 15,1961

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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.

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The Twilight Zone Season 3 Full Episode Guide

Episode 37 - The Changing of the Guard

First Aired: June. 01,1962

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.

Episode 36 - Cavender is Coming

First Aired: May. 25,1962

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

Episode 35 - I Sing the Body Electric

First Aired: May. 18,1962

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

Episode 34 - Young Man's Fancy

First Aired: May. 11,1962

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

Episode 33 - The Dummy

First Aired: May. 04,1962

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 32 - The Gift

First Aired: April. 27,1962

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 31 - The Trade-Ins

First Aired: April. 20,1962

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

Episode 30 - Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

First Aired: April. 13,1962

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

Episode 29 - Four O'Clock

First Aired: April. 06,1962

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 28 - The Little People

First Aired: March. 30,1962

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

Episode 27 - Person or Persons Unknown

First Aired: March. 23,1962

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 26 - Little Girl Lost

First Aired: March. 16,1962

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.

Episode 25 - The Fugitive

First Aired: March. 09,1962

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

Episode 24 - To Serve Man

First Aired: March. 02,1962

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

Episode 23 - The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

First Aired: February. 23,1962

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

Episode 22 - A Piano in the House

First Aired: February. 16,1962

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 21 - Kick the Can

First Aired: February. 09,1962

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."

Episode 20 - Showdown with Rance McGrew

First Aired: February. 02,1962

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.

Episode 19 - The Hunt

First Aired: January. 26,1962

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 18 - Dead Man's Shoes

First Aired: January. 19,1962

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 17 - One More Pallbearer

First Aired: January. 12,1962

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

Episode 16 - Nothing in the Dark

First Aired: January. 05,1962

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

Episode 15 - A Quality of Mercy

First Aired: December. 29,1961

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 14 - Five Characters in Search of an Exit

First Aired: December. 22,1961

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

Episode 13 - Once Upon a Time

First Aired: December. 15,1961

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

Episode 12 - The Jungle

First Aired: December. 01,1961

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 11 - Still Valley

First Aired: November. 24,1961

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 10 - The Midnight Sun

First Aired: November. 17,1961

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

Episode 9 - Deaths-Head Revisited

First Aired: November. 10,1961

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

Episode 8 - It's a Good Life

First Aired: November. 03,1961

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.

Episode 7 - The Grave

First Aired: October. 27,1961

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 6 - The Mirror

First Aired: October. 20,1961

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.