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.

37 Episodes

Two

Season 3 - Episode 1

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

The Arrival

Season 3 - Episode 2

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

The Shelter

Season 3 - Episode 3

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

The Passersby

Season 3 - Episode 4

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.

A Game of Pool

Season 3 - Episode 5

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

The Mirror

Season 3 - Episode 6

After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere...

The Grave

Season 3 - Episode 7

Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit th...

It's a Good Life

Season 3 - Episode 8

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.

Deaths-Head Revisited

Season 3 - Episode 9

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

The Midnight Sun

Season 3 - Episode 10

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

Still Valley

Season 3 - Episode 11

Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.

The Jungle

Season 3 - Episode 12

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.

Once Upon a Time

Season 3 - Episode 13

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

Five Characters in Search of an Exit

Season 3 - Episode 14

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

A Quality of Mercy

Season 3 - Episode 15

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 ...

Nothing in the Dark

Season 3 - Episode 16

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

One More Pallbearer

Season 3 - Episode 17

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

Dead Man's Shoes

Season 3 - Episode 18

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 re...

The Hunt

Season 3 - Episode 19

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 hi...

Showdown with Rance McGrew

Season 3 - Episode 20

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 ...

Kick the Can

Season 3 - Episode 21

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 cal...

A Piano in the House

Season 3 - Episode 22

Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal thei...

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

Season 3 - Episode 23

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

To Serve Man

Season 3 - Episode 24

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

The Fugitive

Season 3 - Episode 25

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

Little Girl Lost

Season 3 - Episode 26

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 hol...

Person or Persons Unknown

Season 3 - Episode 27

David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.

The Little People

Season 3 - Episode 28

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

Four O'Clock

Season 3 - Episode 29

Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.

Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

Season 3 - Episode 30

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

The Trade-Ins

Season 3 - Episode 31

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

The Gift

Season 3 - Episode 32

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...

The Dummy

Season 3 - Episode 33

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 d...

Young Man's Fancy

Season 3 - Episode 34

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

I Sing the Body Electric

Season 3 - Episode 35

A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.

Cavender is Coming

Season 3 - Episode 36

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

The Changing of the Guard

Season 3 - Episode 37

An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by form...