Season 3
37 episodes · Sep 15, 1961
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.
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S3E1Two
Sep 15, 196126mA man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
S3E2The Arrival
Sep 22, 196126mA plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing.
S3E3The Shelter
Sep 29, 196126mWhen a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
S3E4The Passersby
Oct 6, 196126mOn 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.
S3E5A Game of Pool
Oct 13, 196126mChampionship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
S3E6The Mirror
Oct 20, 196126mAfter 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.
S3E7The Grave
Oct 27, 196126mBefore 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.
S3E8It's a Good Life
Nov 3, 196126mOn an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
S3E9Deaths-Head Revisited
Nov 10, 196126mA former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
S3E10The Midnight Sun
Nov 17, 196126mThe Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.
S3E11Still Valley
Nov 24, 196126mConfederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
S3E12The Jungle
Dec 1, 196126mAlan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
S3E13Once Upon a Time
Dec 15, 196126mWoodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962.
S3E14Five Characters in Search of an Exit
Dec 22, 196126mA hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
S3E15A Quality of Mercy
Dec 29, 196126mA 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.
S3E16Nothing in the Dark
Jan 5, 196226mA lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
S3E17One More Pallbearer
Jan 12, 196226mPaul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
S3E18Dead Man's Shoes
Jan 19, 196226mA 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.
S3E19The Hunt
Jan 26, 196226mOn 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.
S3E20Showdown with Rance McGrew
Feb 2, 196226mThe 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 James.
S3E21Kick the Can
Feb 9, 196226mA retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".
S3E22A Piano in the House
Feb 16, 196226mFortune 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.
S3E23The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Feb 23, 196226mJeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
S3E24To Serve Man
Mar 2, 196226mAn alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A team of linguists sets out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."
S3E25The Fugitive
Mar 9, 196226mOld Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
S3E26Little Girl Lost
Mar 16, 196226mAwakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished, even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.
S3E27Person or Persons Unknown
Mar 23, 196226mDavid Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
S3E28The Little People
Mar 30, 196226mAn astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
S3E29Four O'Clock
Apr 6, 196226mOliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.
S3E30Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
Apr 13, 196226mA loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
S3E31The Trade-Ins
Apr 20, 196226mAn elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
S3E32The Gift
Apr 27, 196226mAn 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.
S3E33The Dummy
May 4, 196226mA 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!
S3E34Young Man's Fancy
May 11, 196226mWhen a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
S3E35I Sing the Body Electric
May 18, 196226mA widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
S3E36Cavender is Coming
May 25, 196225mCavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.
S3E37The Changing of the Guard
Jun 1, 196225mAn 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.