The Best Episodes of The Twilight Zone Season 3

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

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: Montgomery Pittman

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

Director: Boris Sagal

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

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.

Director: Elliot Silverstein

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

After 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.

Director: Don Medford

Writer: Rod Serling

Before 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.

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: Montgomery Pittman

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.

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Rod Serling, Jerome Bixby

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

Director: Don Medford

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: Anton Leader

Writer: Rod Serling

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

Director: James Sheldon

Writer: Rod Serling

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.

Director: William Claxton

Writer: Charles Beaumont

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

Director: Norman Z. McLeod

Writer: Richard Matheson

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

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 from leading a charge against American forces.

Director: Buzz Kulik

Writer: Rod Serling, Sam Rolfe

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

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

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: Rod Serling

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 revenge against his killer.

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: Charles Beaumont

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 him.

Director: Harold D. Schuster

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

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.

Director: Christian Nyby

Writer: Rod Serling

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 called "kick-the-can".

Director: Lamont Johnson

Writer: George Clayton Johnson

Fortune 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.

Director: David Greene

Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.

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

Director: Montgomery Pittman

Writer: Montgomery Pittman

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

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Rod Serling, Damon Knight

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

Director: Richard L. Bare

Writer: Charles Beaumont