The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 4
The Twilight Zone | |
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Season 4 | |
No. of episodes | 18 |
Release | |
Original network | CBS |
Original release | January 3 (1963-01-03) – May 23, 1963 (1963-05-23) |
Season chronology | |
← Previous Season 3 Next → Season 5 | |
List of episodes |
The fourth season of The Twilight Zone aired Thursdays at 9:00–10:00 pm on CBS from January 3 to May 23, 1963.
This season broke with the previous seasons in presenting hour-long episodes instead of the earlier half-hour episodes. The opening sequence was revamped, and introduces the now-iconic floating door, smashed window, clock, eyeball, wooden doll, and the equation for Einstein's theory of relativity. Rod Serling's introduction was also changed from the earlier seasons:
"You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension. A dimension of sound. A dimension of sight. A dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone."[1]
An intermission graphic based on this opening was used for the fourth and fifth seasons as well.[2]
Episodes
No. overall | No. in season | Title | Directed by | Written by | Music by | Original air date | Prod. code |
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103 | 1 | "In His Image" | Perry Lafferty | Charles Beaumont | N/A | January 3, 1963 (1963-01-03) | 4851 |
A man (George Grizzard) is confused by a murderous impulse and a loss of his memory. | |||||||
104 | 2 | "The Thirty Fathom Grave" | Perry Lafferty | Rod Serling | N/A | January 10, 1963 (1963-01-10) | 4857 |
A strange tapping sound draws a ship to the site of a sunken World War II submarine. | |||||||
105 | 3 | "Valley of the Shadow" | Perry Lafferty | Charles Beaumont | N/A | January 17, 1963 (1963-01-17) | 4861 |
A newspaper reporter (Ed Nelson) discovers a small town with incredibly advanced technology that they wish to keep secret. | |||||||
106 | 4 | "He's Alive" | Stuart Rosenberg | Rod Serling | N/A | January 24, 1963 (1963-01-24) | 4856 |
The struggling leader of a small group of Neo-Nazis (Dennis Hopper) receives advice from a mysterious stranger (Curt Conway) about gaining followers. | |||||||
107 | 5 | "Mute" | Stuart Rosenberg | Richard Matheson | Fred Steiner | January 31, 1963 (1963-01-31) | 4858 |
A mute telepathic girl (Ann Jillian) is the sole survivor of a fire that kills her parents. | |||||||
108 | 6 | "Death Ship" | Don Medford | Richard Matheson | N/A | February 7, 1963 (1963-02-07) | 4850 |
Three astronauts (Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, and Fred Beir) discover exact duplicates of their spaceship and themselves on a distant planet. | |||||||
109 | 7 | "Jess-Belle" | Buzz Kulik | Earl Hamner, Jr. | Van Cleave | February 14, 1963 (1963-02-14) | 4855 |
A mountain girl (Anne Francis) enlists a witch (Jeanette Nolan) to help her win back her lover (James Best). | |||||||
110 | 8 | "Miniature" | Walter Grauman | Charles Beaumont | Fred Steiner | February 21, 1963 (1963-02-21) | 4862 |
A timid clerk (Robert Duvall) sees the figurines of a museum's 19th-century miniature dollhouse come to life. | |||||||
111 | 9 | "Printer's Devil" | Ralph Senensky | Charles Beaumont | N/A | February 28, 1963 (1963-02-28) | 4864 |
A newspaperman (Robert Sterling) saves his failing periodical by hiring the mysterious Mr. Smith (Burgess Meredith), who reports disasters before they happen on his own Linotype machine. | |||||||
112 | 10 | "No Time Like the Past" | Justus Addiss | Rod Serling | N/A | March 7, 1963 (1963-03-07) | 4853 |
A scientist (Dana Andrews) uses his time machine to go back in time to try and change history. | |||||||
113 | 11 | "The Parallel" | Alan Crosland, Jr. | Rod Serling | N/A | March 14, 1963 (1963-03-14) | 4859 |
An astronaut (Steve Forrest) returns from a space flight to find things much changed during his absence. | |||||||
114 | 12 | "I Dream of Genie" | Robert Gist | John Furia, Jr. | Fred Steiner | March 21, 1963 (1963-03-21) | 4860 |
An office worker (Howard Morris) acquires a lamp with a genie (Jack Albertson) who offers him a wish. | |||||||
115 | 13 | "The New Exhibit" | John Brahm | Charles Beaumont | N/A | April 4, 1963 (1963-04-04) | 4866 |
A wax museum curator (Martin Balsam) lovingly maintains wax figures of five infamous killers in his basement after the museum discards them. When he loses his job, his enemies are mysteriously murdered. | |||||||
116 | 14 | "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" | David Lowell Rich | Based on the short story "Blind Alley" by : Malcolm Jameson Teleplay by : Rod Serling | N/A | April 11, 1963 (1963-04-11) | 4867 |
An aging tycoon (Albert Salmi) exchanges his fortune for a trip to the past and a new beginning when he meets the mysterious Miss Devlin (Julie Newmar). | |||||||
117 | 15 | "The Incredible World of Horace Ford" | Abner Biberman | Reginald Rose | N/A | April 18, 1963 (1963-04-18) | 4854 |
A middle-aged toy designer (Pat Hingle) goes back to his childhood when he visits his old neighborhood. | |||||||
118 | 16 | "On Thursday We Leave for Home" | Buzz Kulik | Rod Serling | N/A | May 2, 1963 (1963-05-02) | 4868 |
In 2021, a group of space pioneers prepare for a return trip to Earth upon having failed to establish a new society on a distant planet. The group's leader (James Whitmore) refuses to give up his authority. | |||||||
119 | 17 | "Passage on the Lady Anne" | Lamont Johnson | Charles Beaumont | Rene Garriguenc | May 9, 1963 (1963-05-09) | 4869 |
To save their marriage, a couple (Lee Philips, Joyce Van Patten) book a cruise on a ship whose other passengers are elderly. | |||||||
120 | 18 | "The Bard" | David Butler | Rod Serling | Fred Steiner | May 23, 1963 (1963-05-23) | 4852 |
An aspiring screenwriter (Jack Weston) conjures up the spirit of William Shakespeare (John Williams) to help him in his television script. |
References
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- "Where Is Everybody?"
- "One for the Angels"
- "Mr. Denton on Doomsday"
- "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"
- "Walking Distance"
- "Escape Clause"
- "The Lonely"
- "Time Enough at Last"
- "Perchance to Dream"
- "Judgment Night"
- "And When the Sky Was Opened"
- "What You Need"
- "The Four of Us Are Dying"
- "Third from the Sun"
- "I Shot an Arrow into the Air"
- "The Hitch-Hiker"
- "The Fever"
- "The Last Flight"
- "The Purple Testament"
- "Elegy"
- "Mirror Image"
- "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"
- "A World of Difference"
- "Long Live Walter Jameson"
- "People Are Alike All Over"
- "Execution"
- "The Big Tall Wish"
- "A Nice Place to Visit"
- "Nightmare as a Child"
- "A Stop at Willoughby"
- "The Chaser"
- "A Passage for Trumpet"
- "Mr. Bevis"
- "The After Hours"
- "The Mighty Casey"
- "A World of His Own"
- "King Nine Will Not Return"
- "The Man in the Bottle"
- "Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room"
- "A Thing About Machines"
- "The Howling Man"
- "Eye of the Beholder"
- "Nick of Time"
- "The Lateness of the Hour"
- "The Trouble with Templeton"
- "A Most Unusual Camera"
- "The Night of the Meek"
- "Dust"
- "Back There"
- "The Whole Truth"
- "The Invaders"
- "A Penny for Your Thoughts"
- "Twenty Two"
- "The Odyssey of Flight 33"
- "Mr. Dingle, the Strong"
- "Static"
- "The Prime Mover"
- "Long Distance Call"
- "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"
- "The Rip Van Winkle Caper"
- "The Silence"
- "Shadow Play"
- "The Mind and the Matter"
- "Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"
- "The Obsolete Man"
- "Two"
- "The Arrival"
- "The Shelter"
- "The Passersby"
- "A Game of Pool"
- "The Mirror"
- "The Grave"
- "It's a Good Life"
- "Deaths-Head Revisited"
- "The Midnight Sun"
- "Still Valley"
- "The Jungle"
- "Once Upon a Time"
- "Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
- "A Quality of Mercy"
- "Nothing in the Dark"
- "One More Pallbearer"
- "Dead Man's Shoes"
- "The Hunt"
- "Showdown with Rance McGrew"
- "Kick the Can"
- "A Piano in the House"
- "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"
- "To Serve Man"
- "The Fugitive"
- "Little Girl Lost"
- "Person or Persons Unknown"
- "The Little People"
- "Four O'Clock"
- "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby"
- "The Trade-Ins"
- "The Gift"
- "The Dummy"
- "Young Man's Fancy"
- "I Sing the Body Electric"
- "Cavender Is Coming"
- "The Changing of the Guard"
- "In His Image"
- "The Thirty-Fathom Grave"
- "Valley of the Shadow"
- "He's Alive"
- "Mute"
- "Death Ship"
- "Jess-Belle"
- "Miniature"
- "Printer's Devil"
- "No Time Like the Past"
- "The Parallel"
- "I Dream of Genie"
- "The New Exhibit"
- "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"
- "The Incredible World of Horace Ford"
- "On Thursday We Leave for Home"
- "Passage on the Lady Anne"
- "The Bard"
- "In Praise of Pip"
- "Steel"
- "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
- "A Kind of a Stopwatch"
- "The Last Night of a Jockey"
- "Living Doll"
- "The Old Man in the Cave"
- "Uncle Simon"
- "Probe 7, Over and Out"
- "The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms"
- "A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain"
- "Ninety Years Without Slumbering"
- "Ring-a-Ding Girl"
- "You Drive"
- "The Long Morrow"
- "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"
- "Number 12 Looks Just Like You"
- "Black Leather Jackets"
- "Night Call"
- "From Agnes—With Love"
- "Spur of the Moment"
- "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"
- "Queen of the Nile"
- "What's in the Box"
- "The Masks"
- "I Am the Night—Color Me Black"
- "Sounds and Silences"
- "Caesar and Me"
- "The Jeopardy Room"
- "Stopover in a Quiet Town"
- "The Encounter"
- "Mr. Garrity and the Graves"
- "The Brain Center at Whipple's"
- "Come Wander with Me"
- "The Fear"
- "The Bewitchin' Pool"