Season Three
11. Still Valley
Airdate: 24 Nov 1961Main Cast: Gary Merrill, Vaughn Taylor, Ben Cooper
Writer: Rod Serling
Paradine, a Confederate officer, walks into a town full of Union soldiers who have been frozen in time by a man with a black book. Close to death, the man gives Paradine the book and tells him to use it to win the war.
12. The Jungle
Airdate: 1 Dec 1961Main Cast: John Dehner, Emily McLaughlin
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Alan Richard's company is building a dam in Africa. He tells his board members that the local witch doctors have put a curse on the project. The board members scoff, but they find that they all have superstitious items about them.
13. Once Upon a Time
Airdate: 15 Dec 1961Main Cast: Buster Keaton, Stanley Adams
Writer: Richard Matheson
A janitor, Woodrow Mulligan, uses a time helmet developed by his boss to move forward in time seventy-two years.
14. Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Airdate: 22 Dec 1961Main Cast: William Windom, Murray Matheson, Susan Harrison, Kelton Garwood, Clark Allen
Writer: Rod Serling
Five characters, a ballet dancer, a hobo, a clown, a bagpiper and an army Major, find themselves trapped inside a cylindrical object with no memory of how they got there.
15. A Quality of Mercy
Airdate: 29 Dec 1961Main Cast: Dean Stockwood, Albert Salmi
Writer: Sam Rolfe/Rod Serling
In World War II a young Lieutenant orders his troops to mount a suicidal attack on a group of weary Japanese soldiers. Sergeant Causarano tries to change the Lieutenant's mind, but the Lieutenant will have none of it. Suddenly, the Lieutenant is transported back in time three years earlier as a Lieutenant in the Japanese army and gets a different perspective.
16. Nothing in the Dark
Airdate: 5 Jan 1962Main Cast: Robert Redford, Gladys Cooper
Writer: George Johnson
Wanda Dunn, an elderly woman, is afraid to venture outside her dreary basement apartment because she thinks "Mr. Death" is lying in wait. When a policeman is shot just outside her door, she manages to overcome her fear and drag him inside.
17. One More Pallbearer
Airdate: 12 Jan 1962Main Cast: Joseph Wiseman
Writer: Rod Serling
Paul Radin invites three people to meet him at his self-built bomb shelter. They are people that Radin feels have wronged him in the past. He fakes a nuclear war and tries to get each person to apologise for their past actions.
18. Dead Man's Shoes
Airdate: 19 Jan 1962Main Cast: Warren Stevens, Richard Devon
Writer: Charles Beaumont/OCee Ritch
Street bum Nate Bledscoe takes a pair of good shoes from a body dumped in the alley. The body happens to be that of a gangster who was the target of a mob hit. The shoes give Nate the personality of the victim, and he continues where he left off.
19. The Hunt
Airdate: 26 Jan 1962Main Cast: Arthur Hunnicut, Jeanette Nolan
Writer: Earl Hammer
Hyder Simpson goes hunting with his dog Rip. During the hunt, his dog dives into a lake after a raccoon. Moments later, only the raccoon emerges unscathed from the waters. Next morning, Hyder and Rip find themselves lying down next to the lake.