Season 4 60 min.
103. In His Image

gs: George Grizzard (Alan Talbolt / Walter Ryder, Jr.) Gail Kobe (Jessica Connelly) Wallace Rooney (Man) Katherine Squire (The Old Woman) George Petrie (Driver) James Seay (Sheriff) James Forster (Hotel Clerk) Sherry Granato (Girl)


A scientist creates an android that has the qualities which he feels he's lacking.

b: 03-Jan-1963 w: Charles Beaumont d: Perry Lafferty


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• This episode is based on the short story "In His Image" by Charles Beaumont. The story was first published in Imagination (February, 1957).
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104. The Thirty-Fathom Grave

gs: Mike Kellin (Chief Bell) Simon Oakland (Captain Beecham) Bill Bixby (O.O.D.) David Sheiner (Doc) John Considine (McClure) Tony Call (Lee Helmsman) Derrik Lewis (Helmsman) Conlan Carter (Ensign Marmer) Charles Kuenstle (Sonar Operator) Forrest Compton (ASW Officer) Henry Scott (Jr. O.O.D.) Vince Bagetta (Sailor #1) Louie Elias (Sailor #2)


A US naval destroyer investigates a mysterious tapping sound coming from a sunken submarine.

b: 10-Jan-1963 pc: 4857 w: Rod Serling d: Perry Lafferty


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• Included on volume 20 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• Plot Keywords: ghosts / military-ship
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105. Valley of the Shadow

gs: Ed Nelson (Philip Redfield) Dabbs Greer (Evans) Natalie Trundy (Ellen Marshall) James Doohan (Father) David Opatoshu (Dorn) Morgan Brittany (Girl) Jacques Aubuchon (Connelly) Sandy Kenyon (Gas Attendent) Henry Beckman (Man #1) Bart Burns (Man #2) King Calder (Man #3) Pat O'Hara (Man #4)


A reporter finds himself trapped in a small town where people can reverse time and do many other amazing things.

b: 17-Jan-1963 pc: 4861 w: Charles Beaumont d: Perry Lafferty


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• Included on volume 24 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• The title comes from Psalm 23
• Morgan Brittany was credited as Susanne Cupito
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106. He's Alive

gs: Dennis Hopper (Peter Vollmer) Ludwig Donath (Ernst Ganz) Curt Conway (Adolf Hitler) Paul Mazursky (Frank) Howard Caine (Nick) Barnaby Hale (Stanley) Bernard Fein (Heckler) Jay Adler (Gibbons) Wolfe Brazell (Proprietor)


Peter Vollmer, a small-time neo-Nazi leader, yearns for more power. Advised by a shadowy benefactor, Vollmer's following grows, as does his ego...

b: 24-Jan-1963 pc: 4856 w: Rod Serling d: Stuart Rosenberg


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• Included on volume 27 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
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107. Mute

gs: Ann Jillian (Ilse Nielson) Frank Overton (Harry Wheeler) Barbara Baxley (Cora Wheeler) Irene Dailey (Miss Frank) Oscar Beregi Jr (Prof. Karl Werner) Claudia Bryer (Frau Nielsen) Robert Boon (Holger Nielsen) Eva Soreny (Frau Maria Werner) Percy Helton (Tom Poulter)


A 12-year-old girl who lost her parents in a fire doesn't speak because she has grown up in a secret telepathic community. The couple who take her in, and her teacher, are determined to help her adapt to their society, no matter the cost.

b: 31-Jan-1963 pc: 4858 w: Richard Matheson d: Stuart Rosenberg


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 are only 30 minutes.
• This episode is based on the short story "Mute" by Richard Matheson. The story was first published in the Charles Beaumont edited anthology The Fiend in You (1962).
• Included on volume 28 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
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108. Death Ship

gs: Fred Beir (Lt. Mike Carter) Jack Klugman (Captain Paul Ross) Ross Martin (Lt. Ted Mason) Fredrick Beir (Lt. Mike Carter) Mary Webster (Ruth) Tammy Marihugh (Jeannie) Ross Elliott (Kramer) Sara Taft (Mrs. Nolan)


A three-man spacecraft lands on a planet only to discover the wreckage of a spacecraft identical to their own. Two of the crew are convinced that they are dead, but the captain refuses to see the truth.

b: 07-Feb-1963 pc: 4850 w: Richard Matheson d: Don Medford


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 are only 30 minutes.
• This episode is based on the short story "Death Ship" by Richard Matheson. The story was first published in Fantastic Story Magazine (March, 1953). It was later included in Matheson's Shock! collection (Dell, 1961).
• Included on volume 18 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• The miniature spaceship prop was the same one used in the classic 1956 film Forbidden Planet.
• Some of the music in this episode was "borrowed" from Jerry Goldsmith's score to Episode 49, Back There.
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109. Jess-Belle

gs: Anne Francis (Jess-Belle) James Best (Billy-Ben Turner) Laura Devon (Ellwyn Glover) Jeanette Nolan (Granny Hart) Virginia Gregg (Ossie Stone) George Mitchell (Luther Glover) Helen Kleeb (Mattie Glover) Jim Boles (Obed Miller) Jon Lormer (Minister)


Jess-Belle enlists the aid of a local witch who casts a spell that makes Billy-Ben fall in love with her.

b: 14-Feb-1963 pc: 4855 w: Earl Hamner Jr. d: Buzz Kulik


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• Included on volume 30 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• This episode has no closing narration.
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110. Miniature

gs: Robert Duvall (Charley Parkes) Pert Kelton (Mrs. Parkes) Barbara Barrie (Myrna) Lennie Weinrib (Buddie) William Windom (Dr. Wallman) John McLiam (Museum Guard) Claire Griswold (The Doll) Nina Roman (The Maid) Richard Angarola (The Suitor) Barney Phillips (Diemel) Joan Chambers (Harriet) Chet Stratton (The Guide)


A lonely man falls in love with a mini museum doll, which he believes is alive.

b: 21-Feb-1963 w: Charles Beaumont d: Walter Grauman


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 are only 30 minutes.
• This episode was not shown in syndication for many years because of its involvement in a law suit; it was claimed that the idea for "Miniature" was stolen from an earlier script submitted to Cayuga Productions. When the suit was eventually thrown out of court, the episode could be shown again.
• After remaining unseen for many years, this episode was shown as part of a prime-time 25th Anniversary Special in 1984. For this broadcast, the dollhouse sequences were colorized by computer.
• Included on volume 31 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
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111. Printer's Devil

gs: Burgess Meredith (Mr. Smith) Ray Teal (Mr. Franklin) Robert Sterling (Douglas Winter) Pat Crowley (Jackie Benson)


Douglas Winter's paper, The Courier, is in financial trouble. Mr. Smith appears and offers to pay off the debts, and run the linotype machine. Douglas agrees, but soon regrets when he realizes Mr. Smith is the devil. Mr. Smith offers him a contract guaranteeing The Courier's success in exchange for Doug's soul. Afraid of losing Mr. Smith, he agrees. Mr. Smith proceeds to cause all kinds of disasters. Doug asks him to stop, and Mr. Smith makes him another offer: He'll stop if Doug will kill himself. He agrees, but gets an idea. He sets in type a story that says he and the devil's contract is void, and that Mr. Smith is banished from Earth. He decides to run the paper fair and square; the first thing is to destroy that linotype machine.

b: 28-Feb-1963 w: Charles Beaumont d: Ralph Senensky


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• This episode is based on the short story "The Devil, You Say?" by Charles Beaumont. The story was first published in Amazing Stories (January, 1951).
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112. No Time Like the Past

gs: Dana Andrews (Paul Driscoll) Patricia Breslin (Abigail Sloan) Robert F. Simon (Harvey) James Yagi (Japanese Police Captain) Tudor Owen (Lusitania Captain) C. Lindsay Workman (Bartender) Malcolm Atterbury (Professor Eliot) Marjorie Bennett (Mrs. Chamberlain) Robert Cornthwaite (Hanford) John Zaremba (Horn Player)


A man travels back in time to try to prevent some of history's catastrophes.

b: 07-Mar-1963 pc: 4853 w: Rod Serling d: Justus Addiss


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• Included on volume 33 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• Plot Keywords: time-travel / WW II
• Originally, the beginning scene was filmed with Driscoll having a philosophical discussion with his mentor. This was thought to be too dull for TV, thus was scrapped.
• The late Dana Andrews was the brother of Steve Forrest, who starred in "The Parallel" during this same season of TZ.
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113. The Parallel

gs: Steve Forrest (Robert Gaines) Jacqueline Scott (Helen Gaines) Frank Aletter (Col. Connacher) Philip Abbott (General Eaton)


An astronaut arrives back on Earth, then notices several differences.

b: 14-Mar-1963 w: Rod Serling d: Alan Crosland Jr.


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
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114. I Dream of Genie

gs: Howard Morris (George P. Hanley) Patricia Barry (Ann) Jack Albertson (Genie) Mark Miller (Roger) Loring Smith (Watson) Joyce Jameson (Starlet) James Millhollin (Masters) Robert Ball (Clerk) Bob Hastings (Sam)


A man considers several possibilities when offered one wish by a genie.

b: 21-Mar-1963 w: John Furia Jr. d: Robert Gist


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 are only 30 minutes.
• Included on volume 34 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
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115. The New Exhibit

gs: Martin Balsam (Martin Lombard Senescu) Will Kuluva (Mr. Ferguson) Maggie Mahoney (Emma Senescu) William Mims (Dave) Milton Parsons (Henri Desire Landru) David Bond (Jack the Ripper) Bob Mitchell (Albert W. Hicks) Robert L. McCord (Burke) Billy Beck (Hare) Phil Chambers (Gas Man) Leonard Bremen (Van Man) Ed Barth (Sailor) Marcel Hillaire (Guide) Craig Curtis (2nd Sailor)


The curator of a murderers' row in a soon-to-be-defunct wax museum persuades the owner to let him keep the figures for awhile. When his wife attempts to destroy them, a new murderous rampage begins...

b: 04-Apr-1963 pc: 4866 w: Jerry Sohl d: John Brahm


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• Included on volume 36 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• Although written by Jerry Sohl, the episode was credited to Charles Beaumont.
• Plot Keywords: crime / horror
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116. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville

gs: Albert Salmi (Bill Feathersmith) Julie Newmar (Miss Devlin) John Anderson (Diedrich) Wright King (Hecate) Guy Raymond (Mr. Gibbons) Christine Burke (I) (Joanna Gibbons) John Harmon (Clark) Hugh Sanders (Cronk)


A bored, wealthy businessman gets a chance to go back in time and start over, armed with all the knowledge he's acquired...an arsenal that's not as powerful as he thinks.

b: 11-Apr-1963 pc: 4867 w: Rod Serling s: Malcolm Jameson d: David Lowell Rich


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• This episode is based on the short story "Blind Alley" by Malcolm Jameson. The story was first published in Unknown Worlds (June, 1943).
• Included on volume 37 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• Plot Keywords: devil / time-travel
• Julie Newmar is best known as "Catwoman" from the TV series Batman
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117. The Incredible World of Horace Ford

gs: Pat Hingle (Horace Ford) Nan Martin (Laura Ford) Ruth White (Mrs. Ford) Phillip Pine (Leonard O'Brien) Mary Carver (Betty O'Brien) Vaughn Taylor (Mr. Judson) Jim E. Titus (Horace (child)) Jerry Davis (Hermy Brandt)


Toy designer Horace Ford spends most of his time reminiscing about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets a chance to go back to those years he gets a bitter taste of reality.

b: 18-Apr-1963 pc: 4854 w: Reginald Rose d: Abner Biberman


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• Included on volume 38 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• This story was first produced in 1955 as an episode on Studio One starring Art Carney.
• Plot Keywords: children / nostalgia
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118. On Thursday We Leave For Home

gs: James Whitmore (William Benteen) Tim O'Conner (Col. Sloane) James Broderick (Al) Lew Gallo (Lt. Engle) Paul Langton (George) Jo Helton (Julie) Mercedes Shirley (Joan) Daniel Kulick (Jo Jo) Russ Bender (Hank) Madge Kennedy (Colonist) John Ward (Colonist) Shirley O'Hara (Colonist) Anthony Benson (Colonist)


Benteen has kept the colony alive with tales of the greatness of Earth. When the rescue ship comes, he realizes his power over everyone is going to be gone when they leave the planet. He tells them Earth is really hell, an awful place, and that they'll die if they go there. No one believes him, and he says he's staying. As the spaceship is preparing to leave, he returns to the caves and pretends everyone is still there. While talking about Earth, he suddenly remembers what he has been saying for so long. He runs out but the ship is gone. He is left there all alone.

b: 02-May-1963 w: Rod Serling d: Buzz Kulik


NOTE: Included on volume 39 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection.
• The spaceship prop was the same one used in the classic 1956 film Forbidden Planet. Footage from the film was also used to depict the ship landing and taking off.
• This episode, as with all in Season 4, is an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 are only 30 minutes.
• In more recent years, James Whitmore has co-starred in such movies as The Shawshank Redemption
• The late James Broderick was the father of Matthew.
• Daniel Kulick is director Buzz's real-life son.
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119. Passage on the Lady Anne

gs: Lee Philips (Allan Ransome) Joyce Van Patten (Eileen Ransome) Wilfrid Hyde-White (McKenzie) Gladys Cooper (Mrs. McKenzie) Cyril Delevanti (Officer) Don Keefer (Spiereto) Cecil Kellaway (Burgess) Alan Napier (Captain Prothero)


Instead of the cruise bringing them closer together, the Ransome's agree to get a divorce when they return home. Eileen disappears, and when Allan finds her she is wearing a nightgown that a passenger wore on her honeymoon. Seeing her, Allan realizes how much he still loves her. The passengers force them into a lifeboat, with plenty of provisions, and set them adrift. The Lady Anne sails off.

b: 09-May-1963 w: Charles Beaumont d: Lamont Johnson


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• This episode is based on the short story "Song For a Lady" by Charles Beaumont. The story was first published in Beaumont's collection Night Ride and Other Journeys (1960).
• In more recent years, Joyce Van Patten starred as mother-in-law "Maureen" on the TV series Unhappily Ever After
• Alan Napier is best known as "Alfred" on the TV series Batman
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120. The Bard

gs: Jack Weston (Julius Moomer) Judy Strangis (Cora) John Williams (II) (William Shakespeare) Burt Reynolds (Rocky Rhodes)


Julius Moomer uses a black magic book to summon Shakespeare, who then writes a brilliant teleplay for TV. Moomer becomes a celebrity which angers Shakespeare. He watches a rehearsal of his script and is shocked by the changes made and leaves. Moomer is enlisted to write a two-and-half-hour television show on history. He thinks he's lost, until he remembers the black magic book, and enlists the aid of several characters from the past.

b: 23-May-1963 w: Rod Serling d: David Butler


NOTE: This episode, as with all in Season 4, were an hour in running time. All episodes in Season 1-3 & 5 were only 30 minutes.
• Judy Strangis is best known for such TV series as Electra-Woman and Dyna-Girl (as "D.G.")