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Season 3

1961 · 37 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.

Episodes

Episode 1
Two
8.0September 15, 196126m

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

Episode 2
The Arrival
8.0September 22, 196126m

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

Episode 3
The Shelter
8.9September 29, 196126m

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

Episode 4
The Passersby
8.0October 6, 196126m

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
8.1October 13, 196126m

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

Episode 6
The Mirror
7.7October 20, 196126m

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
8.1October 27, 196126m

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
8.8November 3, 196126m

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
8.0November 10, 196126m

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
8.6November 17, 196126m

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

Episode 11
Still Valley
7.8November 24, 196126m

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
8.1December 1, 196126m

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
8.2December 15, 196126m

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
8.6December 22, 196126m

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

Episode 15
A Quality of Mercy
8.3December 29, 196126m

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
8.5January 5, 196226m

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

Episode 17
One More Pallbearer
8.0January 12, 196226m

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

Episode 18
Dead Man's Shoes
8.2January 19, 196226m

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
8.0January 26, 196226m

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
8.0February 2, 196226m

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
8.3February 9, 196226m

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
8.4February 16, 196226m

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
8.1February 23, 196226m

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

Episode 24
To Serve Man
8.9March 2, 196226m

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
8.2March 9, 196226m

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

Episode 26
Little Girl Lost
8.2March 16, 196226m

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
8.5March 23, 196226m

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
8.3March 30, 196226m

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

Episode 29
Four O'Clock
7.6April 6, 196226m

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
8.1April 13, 196226m

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

Episode 31
The Trade-Ins
8.2April 20, 196226m

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

Episode 32
The Gift
7.9April 27, 196226m

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
8.2May 4, 196226m

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
7.9May 11, 196226m

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
8.2May 18, 196226m

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

Episode 36
Cavender is Coming
8.0May 25, 196225m

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
8.1June 1, 196225m

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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