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| The Twilight Zone Season 3 : |
| 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] |
| Details : A man and a woman on opposite sides of a future war encounter each other in a deserted town. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Elizabeth Montgomery | Charles Bronson | Writer : Montgomery Pittman | Director : Montgomery Pittman | |
| Air Date : Sep. 15, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 2 - [The Arrival] |
| Details : A plane lands safely but all its passengers pilot and crew are missing! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Bing Russell | Noah Keen | Director : Boris Sagal | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Sep. 22, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 3 - [The Shelter] |
| Details : When a nuclear attack appears imminent several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jack Albertson | Larry Gates | Joseph Bernard | Peggy Stewart | Sandy Kenyon | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Lamont Johnson | |
| Air Date : Sep. 29, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 4 - [The Passersby] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : James Gregory as Confederate Sergeant | Joanne Linville | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Elliot Silverstein | |
| Air Date : Oct. 06, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 5 - [A Game Of Pool] |
| Details : Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jonathan Winters as James Howard Fats Brown | Jack Klugman as Jesse Cardiff | Director : Buzz Kulik | Writer : George Clayton Johnson | |
| Air Date : Oct. 13, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 6 - [The Mirror] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Peter Falk | Antony Carbone | Vladimir Sokoloff as Gallegos | Director : Don Medford | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Oct. 20, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 7 - [The Grave] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lee Marvin | Stafford Repp as Mechanic | James Best | Lee Van Cleef | Strother Martin | Writer : Montgomery Pittman | Director : Montgomery Pittman | |
| Air Date : Oct. 27, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 8 - [It's A Good Life] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Larch as Sheriff Koch | Bill Mumy | Alice Frost as Sally | Don Keefer | Cloris Leachman | Max Showalter | Jeanne Bates | Lenore Kingston | Thomas Hatcher | Director : James Sheldon | Writer : Rod Serling | Writer : Jerome Bixby | Director : Joe Dante | |
| Air Date : Nov. 03, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 9 - [Deaths-Head Revisited] |
| Details : A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce and is met by one of his victims. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joseph Schildkraut | Kaaren Verne | Oscar Beregi Jr. | Ben Wright as Doctor | Director : Don Medford | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Nov. 10, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 10 - [The Midnight Sun] |
| Details : The Earth's orbit has been changed drawing ever closer to the sun and promising eminent destruction. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Jason Wingreen as 1960 Conductor | William Keene | Betty Garde | Lois Nettleton | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Anton Leader | |
| Air Date : Nov. 17, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 11 - [Still Valley] |
| Details : Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town town full of Union soldiers and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vaughn Taylor as Mr. Carsville | Gary Merrill | Ben Cooper | Director : James Sheldon | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Nov. 24, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 12 - [The Jungle] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Emily McLaughlin | Walter Brooke | John Dehner as Captain Allenby | Jay Adler | Donald Foster | Director : William Claxton | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Dec. 01, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 13 - [Once Upon A Time] |
| Details : Woodrow a janitor living in the year 1890 accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962 - then promptly breaks down! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Stanley Adams | James Flavin as Truck Driver | Buster Keaton | Jesse White | George E. Stone | Director : Norman Z. McLeod | Director : Leslie Goodwins | Writer : Richard Matheson | |
| Air Date : Dec. 15, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 14 - [Five Characters In Search Of An Exit] |
| Details : A hobo clown bagpipe player ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Susan Harrison | William Windom | Murray Matheson | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Lamont Johnson | |
| Air Date : Dec. 22, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 15 - [A Quality Of Mercy] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Michael Pataki | Albert Salmi as Joe Caswell | Dean Stockwell | Leonard Nimoy | Dale Ishimoto | Ralph Votrian | Writer : Sam Rolfe | Director : Buzz Kulik | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Dec. 29, 1961 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 16 - [Nothing In The Dark] |
| Details : A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting Mr. Death. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : R.G. Armstrong | Robert Redford | Gladys Cooper | Writer : George Clayton Johnson | Director : Lamont Johnson | |
| Air Date : Jan. 05, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 17 - [One More Pallbearer] |
| Details : Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Joseph Wiseman | Trevor Bardette | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Lamont Johnson | |
| Air Date : Jan. 12, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 18 - [Dead Man's Shoes] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Warren Stevens | Joan Marshall | Ben Wright as Chips | Ron Hagerthy | Richard Devon | Florence Marly | Susie Garrett | Director : Montgomery Pittman | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Jan. 19, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 19 - [The Hunt] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Arthur Hunnicutt | Jeanette Nolan | Writer : Earl Hamner Jr. | |
| Air Date : Jan. 26, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★ |
| Episode 20 - [Showdown With Rance Mcgrew] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Larry Blyden as Henry Francis 'Rocky' Valentine | Robert Cornthwaite | Arch Johnson | Director : Christian Nyby | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Feb. 02, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 21 - [Kick The Can] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Ernest Truex as Pedott | John Marley as Sunnyvale Superintendant Cox | Burt Mustin as Old Man | Marjorie Bennett as Old Woman | Earle Hodgins as Agee (as Earl Hodgins) | Russell Collins as Ben Conroy | Lenore Shanewise as Mrs. Densley | Anne O'Neal as Mrs. Wister | Hank Patterson as Freitag | Writer : George Clayton Johnson | Director : Lamont Johnson | |
| Air Date : Feb. 09, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 22 - [A Piano In The House] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Barry Morse | Don Durant | Joan Hackett | Cyril Delevanti | Writer : Earl Hamner Jr. | Director : David Greene | |
| Air Date : Feb. 16, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 23 - [The Last Rites Of Jeff Myrtlebank] |
| Details : Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely... |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Sherry Jackson | James Best | Dub Taylor | Ralph Moody | Edgar Buchanan | Writer : Montgomery Pittman | Director : Montgomery Pittman | |
| Air Date : Feb. 23, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 24 - [To Serve Man] |
| Details : The Kanamits 9 foot tall aliens arrive on Earth with one lofty goal: To Serve Man. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Lloyd Bochner | Richard Kiel | Joseph Ruskin as Genie | Susan Cummings | Hardie Albright | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Richard L. Bare | |
| Air Date : Mar. 02, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 25 - [The Fugitive] |
| Details : Old Ben who is able to transform himself into anything tries to help a crippled little girl. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : J. Pat O'Malley as Homburg | Nancy Kulp | Stephen Talbot | Wesley Lau | Paul Tripp | Susan Gordon | Director : Richard L. Bare | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Mar. 09, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 26 - [Little Girl Lost] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Charles Aidman as Colonel Ed Harrington | Writer : Richard Matheson | Director : Paul Stewart | |
| Air Date : Mar. 16, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 27 - [Person Or Persons Unknown] |
| Details : David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife his co-workers his best friend not even his own mother knows him. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Betty Harford | Richard Long | Frank Silvera | Joe Higgins | Director : John Brahm | Writer : Charles Beaumont | |
| Air Date : Mar. 23, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 28 - [The Little People] |
| Details : An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Claude Akins as Steve Brand | Joe Maross as Jerry Riden | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : William Claxton | |
| Air Date : Mar. 30, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 29 - [Four O'clock] |
| Details : Oliver Crangle is a bitter prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Theodore Bikel | Phyllis Love | Linden Chiles | Moyna MacGill | Writer : Rod Serling | Writer : Alfred Hitchcock | Director : Lamont Johnson | |
| Air Date : Apr. 06, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 30 - [Hocus-Pocus And Frisby] |
| Details : A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Dabbs Greer | Howard McNear | Peter Brocco as Mr. Marshak | Andy Devine | Milton Selzer | Clem Bevans | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Lamont Johnson | |
| Air Date : Apr. 13, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 31 - [The Trade-Ins] |
| Details : An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Theo Marcuse | Noah Keen | Joseph Schildkraut | Terence de Marney | Edson Stroll as Walter Smith | Writer : Rod Serling | Director : Elliot Silverstein | |
| Air Date : Apr. 20, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |
| Episode 32 - [The Gift] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Vito Scotti as Peddler | Henry Corden | Paul Mazursky as Frank | Nico Minardos | Geoffrey Horne | Cliff Osmond | Vladimir Sokoloff as Gallegos | Director : Allen H. Miner | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Apr. 27, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 33 - [The Dummy] |
| Details : 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! |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Frank Sutton | Cliff Robertson | Sandra Warner as Girl | Edy Williams | George Murdock | John Harmon | Director : Abner Biberman | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : May. 04, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 34 - [Young Man's Fancy] |
| Details : When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home the ties of the past prove too strong to resist. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Phyllis Thaxter | Alex Nicol | Helen Gurley Brown | Director : John Brahm | Writer : Richard Matheson | |
| Air Date : May. 11, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★ |
| Episode 35 - [I Sing The Body Electric] |
| Details : A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : David White | Vaughn Taylor as Mr. Carsville | Veronica Cartwright | Josephine Hutchinson | Charles Herbert | Doris Packer | Writer : Ray Bradbury | Director : James Sheldon | Director : William Claxton | |
| Air Date : May. 18, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★★ |
| Episode 36 - [Cavender Is Coming] |
| Details : Cavender an angel trying to win his wings tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes who has just been fired. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : John Fiedler as Mr. Dundee | Donna Douglas as Janet Tyler (revealed) | Sandra Gould | Howard Smith as Misrell | Carol Burnett | Jesse White | Director : Christian Nyby | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : May. 25, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★ |
| Episode 37 - [The Changing Of The Guard] |
| Details : 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. |
| Guest Cast and Crew : Liam Sullivan as Headmaster | Donald Pleasence as Professor Ellis Fowler | Philippa Bevans as Mrs. Landers - Housekeeper | Tom Lowell as Artie Beechcroft | Director : Robert Ellis Miller | Writer : Rod Serling | |
| Air Date : Jun. 01, 1962 | Rating ➦ ★★★★★★ |