The Bard
Season 4, Episode 18
Jack Weston plays an aspiring TV writer who inadvertently conjures up the ghost of William Shakespeare (John Williams), and takes credit for the Bard's brilliant teleplay. Burt Reynolds plays method actor Rocky Rhodes. Shannon: John McGiver. Sadie: Doro Merande. Hugo: Henry Lascoe. Dolan: William Lanteau. Bramhoff: Howard McNear. Secretary: Marge Redmond. Bus Driver: Clegg Hoyt.
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Hoping to save her marriage, a woman books a transatlantic cruise---on a ship the couple find filled with only elderly passengers and crew. Eileen: Joyce Van Patten. Allan: Lee Philips. McKenzie: Wilfrid Hyde-White. Mrs. McKenzie: Gladys Cooper. Burgess: Cecil Kellaway. Rod Serling is the host.
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James Whitmore stars as the leader of space pioneers about to return to Earth, having failed to establish a Utopia on a distant planet. But he doesn't want to relinquish his power. Al: James Broderick. Sloane: Tim O'Conner. Hank: Russ Bender. George: Paul Langton. Julie: Jo Helton. Jo Jo: Daniel Kulick.
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Reginald Rose (“12 Angry Men”) wrote this tale of a middle-aged toy designer (Pat Hingle) whose idyllic childhood memories are jolted when he visits his old neighborhood. Laura: Nan Martin. Leonard: Phillip Pine. Mr. Judson: Vaughn Taylor. Hermy: Jerry Davis. Host: Rod Serling.
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Julie Newmar is the devil dealing with a bored tycoon (Albert Salmi) who exchanges his fortune for a trip to the past and a new start. But he should have been more specific. Deidrich: John Anderson. Gibbons: Guy Raymond. Joanna: Christine Burke.
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Martin Balsam plays a museum caretaker who stores wax figures of five notorious murderers in his basement. And then bodies start piling up. Emma: Maggie Mahoney. Ferguson: Will Kuluva. Jack the Ripper: David Bond. Hicks: Bob Mitchell. Landru: Milton Parsons.
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Howard Morris is a timid bookkeeper who acquires a brass lamp that houses genie Jack Albertson, whose offer of a single wish prompts fantasies for the bookkeeper. Ann: Patricia Barry. Watson: Loring Smith. Starlet: Joyce Jameson. Roger: Mark Miller. Salesman: James Millhollin. Sam: Bob Hastings. Clerk: Robert Ball.
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Steve Forrest plays an astronaut who returns from an orbital flight to find that things aren't quite the way they were when he left. Helen: Jacqueline Scott. Connacher: Frank Aletter. Maggie: Shari Lee Bernath. General: Philip Abbott. Psychiatrist: Paul Comi. Project Manager: William Sargent. Captain: Morgan Jones.
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Dana Andrews plays a scientist who goes back in time seeking to alter disasters in history. Abigail: Patricia Breslin. Harvey: Robert F. Simon. Lusitania Captain: Tudor Owen. Professor: Malcolm Atterbury. Hanford: Robert Cornthwaite. Musician: John Zaremba. Bartender: Lindsay Workman.
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In his fourth and final series appearance, Burgess Meredith plays a linotypist who saves a dying newspaper by reporting on disasters---before they happen. Winter: Robert Sterling. Franklin: Ray Teal. Jackie: Patricia Crowley. Andy: Charles Thompson. Landlady: Doris Kemper.
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Miniature
Season 4, Episode 8
Robert Duvall is a timid office clerk who finds life in the figurines of a museum's miniature 19th-century dollhouse. A lawsuit over the story idea kept the episode out of initial syndication. Myrna: Barbara Barrie. Mrs. Parkes: Pert Kelton. Buddie: Len Weinrib. Wallman: William Windom. Doll: Claire Griswold. Maid Doll: Nina Roman. Man Doll: Richard Angarola. Guard: John McLiam.
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Anne Francis plays a mountain girl who wins back her fickle beau with the help of a witch (Jeanette Nolan), who exacts a high price for her love potion. Written by Earl Hamner Jr. (“The Waltons”). Billy-Ben: James Best. Ellwyn: Laura Devon. Ossie Stone: Virginia Gregg. Luther: George Mitchell. Mattie: Helen Kleeb.
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In his third series appearance, Jack Klugman plays one of three astronauts who find their lifeless look-alikes in a crashed spaceship on a distant planet. Mason: Ross Martin. Carter: Fredrick Beir. Ruth: Mary Webster. Jeannie: Tammy Marihugh. Kramer: Ross Elliott. Mrs. Nolan: Sara Taft.
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Mute
Season 4, Episode 5
A telepathic mute girl (a preteen Ann Jillian) is the only survivor of a fire.
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Dennis Hopper stars as a neo-Nazi leader whose struggle for supporters is assisted by advice from a mysterious stranger with tips on attracting followers. Directed by Stuart Rosenberg (“Cool Hand Luke,” “The Amityville Horror”). Ganz: Ludwig Donath. Stranger: Curt Conway. Frank: Paul Mazursky. Stanley: Barnaby Hale. Nick: Howard Caine. Gibbons: Jay Adler. Bartender: Wolfe Barzell. Heckler: Bernard Fein. Host: Rod Serling.
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Ed Nelson plays a newspaper reporter who stumbles into a small town where residents have extraordinary powers, which they insist remain hidden from the outside world. Dorn: David Opatoshu. Ellen: Natalie Trundy. Connelly: Jacques Aubuchon. Girl: Suzanne Cupito. Gas Station Attendant: Sandy Kenyon.
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Terror grips a seaman when a strange tapping sound draws his shipmates to the site of a sunken WWII submarine. Bell: Mike Kellin. Doctor: David Sheiner. Beecham: Simon Oakland. Smith: Bill Bixby. McClure: John Considine. Rod Serling is the host.
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In the first hour-long show, George Grizzard portrays a man whose sudden murderous impulse is followed by an apparent loss of memory and familiar surroundings. Jessica: Gail Kobe. Man: Wallace Rooney. Driver: George Petrie. Rod Serling is the host.
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