The Twilight Zone season 3 Still Valley - Metacritic

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TV-PG
CBS
Nov 24, 1961
25 m

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CBS
Nov 24, 1961
25 m

Summary The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination." Rod Serling, creator and host of the s...

Directed By: James Sheldon

Written By: Rod Serling, Manly Wade Wellman

TV-PG
CBS
Nov 24, 1961
25 m

TV-PG
CBS
Nov 24, 1961
25 m

The Twilight Zone

S3 • Episode 11

Still Valley

Air Date: Nov 24, 1961

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Summary The series was a collection of various tales that range from the tragic to the comedic. They may be scary or just thought-provoking. Most episodes have unexpected endings and a moral lesson. But, no matter what, it's "a journey into a wondrous land, whose boundaries are that of the imagination." Rod Serling, creator and host of the s...

Created By: Rod Serling

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Episode 1 • Sep 15, 1961 • 25 m

Two survivors of an apocalyptic battle, a man and a woman from opposing sides, approach each other suspiciously.

Episode 2 • Sep 22, 1961 • 25 m

Federal aviation investigator Grant Sheckly must deal with a mystery when a plane lands at an airport without pilots, passengers or luggage.

Episode 3 • Sep 29, 1961 • 25 m

A suburban dinner party is interrupted by a bulletin warning of an impending nuclear attack. As the neighbors scramble to prepare themselves, they turn against the one family that installed a permanent bomb shelter.

Episode 4 • Oct 6, 1961 • 25 m

While headed home, a Confederate soldier meets an anguished woman at the end of the Civil War.

Episode 5 • Oct 13, 1961 • 25 m

A frustrated pool champion has beaten everyone. Everyone except one man - the legendary Fats Brown. Brown is dead and the champ can only curse his name. But guess who just walked in.

Episode 6 • Oct 20, 1961 • 25 m

A Central American revolutionary comes into the possession of a mirror that shows him his potential assassins.

Episode 7 • Oct 27, 1961 • 25 m

Old West lawman Conny Miller visits the grave of a man who he failed to track down to prove he was never afraid of him but gets more than he bargained for.

Episode 8 • Nov 3, 1961 • 25 m

It's a Good Life

On an isolated family farm, a young boy with vast mental powers, but lacking emotional development, holds his terrified family in thrall to his every juvenile wish.

Episode 9 • Nov 10, 1961 • 25 m

Deaths-Head Revisited

A former German SS captain returns to Dachau concentration camp and begins reminiscing on the power he enjoyed there, until he finds himself on trial by those who died at his hands.

Episode 10 • Nov 17, 1961 • 25 m

The Midnight Sun

When Earth deviates from its normal orbit, getting closer to the sun, two women try to cope with increasingly oppressive heat in a nearly abandoned city.

Episode 11 • Nov 24, 1961 • 25 m

In June 1863, Confederate soldiers come across a warlock who can help bring victory to the Southern cause.

Episode 12 • Dec 1, 1961 • 25 m

A businessman who has recently returned from Africa is plagued by superstitions and the dire warnings of a native witch doctor.

Episode 13 • Dec 15, 1961 • 25 m

Once Upon a Time

Janitor Woodrow Mulligan gets a trip from 1890 to 1962 courtesy of his employer's time-machine helmet.

Episode 14 • Dec 22, 1961 • 25 m

Five Characters in Search of an Exit

An Army major awakens in a small room with no idea of who he is or how he got there. He finds four other people in the same room, and they all begin to question how they each arrived there, and more importantly, how to escape.

Episode 15 • Dec 29, 1961 • 25 m

A Quality of Mercy

Hot-shot new Lieutenant Katell tries to make his mark on the last day of World War II in the Pacific and gets a unique perspective on his actions.

Episode 16 • Jan 5, 1962 • 25 m

Nothing in the Dark

An old woman has fought with death a thousand times and has always won. But now she finds herself afraid to let a wounded policeman in her door for fear he is Mr. Death. Is he?

Episode 17 • Jan 12, 1962 • 25 m

One More Pallbearer

Millionaire Paul Radin tries to convince three people who wronged him in the past to apologize to him by offering them shelter from a staged and phony nuclear war scenario.

Episode 18 • Jan 19, 1962 • 25 m

Dead Man's Shoes

A homeless man takes the shoes off a dead gangster and steps into his life.

Episode 19 • Jan 26, 1962 • 25 m

Upon returning from a coon hunt, Hyder Simpson discovers that no one can see or hear him because he has passed on.

Episode 20 • Feb 2, 1962 • 25 m

Showdown with Rance McGrew

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 James.

Episode 21 • Feb 9, 1962 • 25 m

An old man living in a rest home thinks he's found the secret of youth in children's games.

Episode 22 • Feb 16, 1962 • 25 m

A Piano in the House

Sadistic and hated theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it.

Episode 23 • Feb 23, 1962 • 25 m

The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank

A young man wakes up during his own funeral and wants to know what the hell is going on. The townsfolk are glad to see him back, but they begin to wonder if he's a man - or something else.

Episode 24 • Mar 2, 1962 • 25 m

An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A linguist and his team set out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce is "To Serve Man."

Episode 25 • Mar 9, 1962 • 25 m

Jenny and the other kids don't realize that the kindly yet magical old duffer they play with in the park is really an intergalactic fugitive hiding out till two serious men come looking for him, asking questions that test their friendship.

Episode 26 • Mar 16, 1962 • 25 m

Little Girl Lost

Awakened in the middle of the night by the cries of his daughter, a father enters the girl's room to find that she has vanished - even though he can still hear her crying out for help.

Episode 27 • Mar 23, 1962 • 25 m

Person or Persons Unknown

Paying homage to It's a Wonderful Life (1946), David Gurney wakes up to another ordinary day. Except today, nobody knows who he is including his own wife Wilma.

Episode 28 • Mar 30, 1962 • 25 m

The Little People

On a desolate planet, two astronauts discover an entire society populated by incredibly small beings. One of the astronauts decides to rule the society as a god.

Episode 29 • Apr 6, 1962 • 25 m

A very obsessed man wants to expose evil in the world, investigating people he sees as murderers, subversives, perverts and communists, then attempting to ruin their lives.

Episode 30 • Apr 13, 1962 • 25 m

Hocus-Pocus and Frisby

A rural gas station attendant given to telling tall tales about himself is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's leading intellects.

Episode 31 • Apr 20, 1962 • 25 m

An elderly couple shop for younger replacement bodies, then resort to desperate measures to cover the cost.

Episode 32 • Apr 27, 1962 • 25 m

A man from the stars comes with a gift to a small Mexican village whose residents do not welcome this stranger.

Episode 33 • May 4, 1962 • 25 m

Ventriloquist Jerry Etherson is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He locks Willie in a trunk and makes plans for a new act with a new dummy. Too bad he didn't clear those plans with Willie first.

Episode 34 • May 11, 1962 • 25 m

Young Man's Fancy

Newlywed Alex Walker finds himself being pulled back to his childhood and back to his widowed mother in the house where he grew up.

Episode 35 • May 18, 1962 • 25 m

I Sing the Body Electric

A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.

Episode 36 • May 25, 1962 • 25 m

Cavender Is Coming

Inept guardian angel Harmon Cavender is given a chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.

Episode 37 • Jun 1, 1962 • 25 m

The Changing of the Guard

After being forced to retire, Professor Fowler contemplates suicide when he doesn't feel he's made a difference in the world.

5 Seasons

Top Cast

Rod Serling

Narrator, Self - Host, Self - Host & Narrator

Robert McCord

Waiter, 1st Fireman, Bearded Guard with Priest

Jay Overholts

Cowboy #2, Doctor, Intern

James Turley

2nd Fireman, Boxing Match Spectator, Carstairs

Vaughn Taylor

Mr. Carsville, Mr. Judson, Mr. Maitland

David Armstrong

Passenger, Security Guard, Surgeon

Jack Klugman

Captain Ross, Jesse Cardiff, Joey Crown

Burgess Meredith

Henry Bemis, Luther Dingle, Mr. Smith

John Anderson

Capt. 'Skipper' Farver, Deidrich, Gabriel

J. Pat O'Malley

Gooberman - Town Drunk, Homburg, Old Ben

Barney Phillips

Capt. E.L. Gunther, Diemel, Haley the Bartender, TV Repairman

George Mitchell

Dr. Floyd, Gas Station Man, Luther Glover, Old Man

Cyril Delevanti

Franklin, L.J. Smithers, Marvin - Butler, Officer

Jon Lormer

Minister, Man, Strauss

Bill Erwin

Man, Man in Flashback, Peter Kramer, Wilcox

Nan Peterson

Blonde in Bar, Secretary, Woman in Park, Young Woman

Lew Brown

Lieutenant, Sergeant, Telephone Repairman, The Fireman

S. John Launer

Lieutenant Colonel, Moran, Mr. Harrington, PA Announcer

Gladys Cooper

Elva Keene, Millie McKenzie, Wanda Dunn

Albert Salmi

Feathersmith, Joe Caswell, Sgt. Causarano

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