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The Twilight Zone Season 4 Episodes
Season 4 Episode Guide
18 Episodes 1963 - 1963
Episode 1
In His Image
Thu, Jan 3, 196351 mins
Alan Talbot is a scientist that lives and works in Couerville's university. He met Jessica "Jess" Connelly a couple days ago in New York and they decide to get married in five days. Alan decides to travel to Couerville to show his town and his aunt to Jess. While waiting for the subway to meet Jess, Alan feels confused and throws an old religious commuter under the train. He forgets his murder and meets Jess at home. She drives her car with Alan to Couerville, but the town has differences from Alan's recollections and they find neither his aunt nor the university where he works. While returning to New York city, Alan feels desire to kill Jess and asks her to leave him on the road and go home. What is happening to Alan Talbot?
Episode 2
The Thirty-Fathom Grave
Thu, Jan 10, 196351 mins
As a U.S. Navy destroyer cruises near Guadalcanal in the South Pacific, its sonar detects muted but constant hammering on metal undersea. The eerie sounds emanate from a submarine on the ocean floor, apparently there since World War II. The ship's chief boatswain's mate becomes very nervous, having served aboard that sub - and he was its sole survivor.
Episode 3
Valley of the Shadow
Thu, Jan 17, 196351 mins
On the back roads, trying to find his way back home, reporter Philip Redfield and his dog, Rollie, stop in the small town of Peaceful Valley, for gas and food, and directions. When Rollie runs off in pursuit of a cat, a young girl points a device at the dog, and he disappears. Though her father brings Rollie back, Philip finds it all very strange. When Phillip tries to leave town, his car crashes into an invisible barrier, preventing his departure. Shaken up, the town's mayor, Dorn, reveals their secret, and gives Philip the choice; join them or die.
Episode 4
He's Alive
Thu, Jan 24, 196351 mins
Peter Vollmer is the leader of a small neo-Nazi movement in a large American city. He's having trouble getting his message across and seems to alienate people every time he opens his mouth. After a particularly bad rally, he hears a voice and sees a man standing in the shadows. He begins to advise Peter on what to say and how he can structure his message to make it more appealing to his particular audience. Peter has success but his mentor begins pushing him to extremes. There is a limit however and there is a voice of reason in the mob that seemed so willing to follow him.
Episode 5
Mute
Thu, Jan 31, 196351 mins
Sometime after World War II, a small group of people make a pact to develop their telepathic abilities as a means of communicating, foregoing any type of oral communication. One couple, the Nielsens, announce that they are migrating to a small town in the USA, German Corners, Pa. After a tragic fire at their house 10 years later, Sheriff Harry Wheeler and his wife Cora take in the only survivor, the now orphaned Ilsa Nielsen. The young girl has never learned to speak, always using telepathy to communicate with her parents. They don't quite understand why Ilsa won't speak to them and Cora sees her as a replacement for the daughter she lost in an accident some years ago. When they enroll Ilsa in school, her teacher is determined to make her act like all the other children.
Episode 6
Death Ship
Thu, Feb 7, 196351 mins
In 1997, the spaceship E-89 arrives at the 13th planet in star system 51. Their mission is to collect plant samples to take back to an overpopulated Earth so it can be determined if the planet could be colonized. What they find however is a crashed spaceship of Earth design. Inside the ship they discover three dead crew members - but the dead are their duplicates and the crashed vessel is the E-89. The captain refuses to accept that they might be dead and explores several possibilities to explain what has happened including the theory that they may have time-traveled. The two crewmen hallucinate and come to believe they are already dead but the captain refuses to accept that and intends to prove that they are very much alive.
Episode 7
Jess-Belle
Thu, Feb 14, 196351 mins
After the love of her life, Billy Ben Turner, gets engaged to Ellwyn, the daughter of a rich farmer, a jealous Jess-Belle turns to a local witch to help her get him back. Granny Hart is known in the area as the person to go to for any potion you might want. Jess-Belle has no money, however, and all Granny Hart can give her is a potion that carries a high price. Jess-Belle is prepared to pay any price, and the potion she takes seems to work: as soon as Billy Ben sets eyes on her, he falls madly in love with her. When the clock strikes midnight, however, Jess-Belle is transformed and later realizes that she, too, is now a witch.
Episode 8
Miniature
Thu, Feb 21, 196351 mins
Charley Parkes is a thirty and something years old clerk with a tedious job that lives with his mother Mrs. Parkes, who treats him like a boy. One day, he visits the County Museum and feels attracted by a woman in miniature named Alice. He overhears a song played by her in the piano, but the security guard tells him that it is impossible since the miniatures are wooden made without any mechanism. When he returns to his job, his chief fires him since he is a weird and antisocial man and has no teamwork with his colleagues. Soon Charley becomes fascinated by the doll and instead of looking for another job, he spends his days talking to the miniature doll. Until his family interns him in a psychiatric clinic.
Episode 9
Printer's Devil
Thu, Feb 28, 196351 mins
When the powerful newspaper, The Gazette, arrives in the city, The Dansburg Courier goes near bankruptcy with many debts. The editor, Douglas "Doug" Winter, sees the end of his newspaper when the experienced printing-press operator Andy Praskins quits his job to work at The Gazette. Doug's secretary and lover, Jackie Benson, is the only employee that stays with him. After drinking a bottle of whiskey, Doug promises anything to save his newspaper and is ready to commit suicide jumping off a bridge. Out of the blue, the mysterious Mr. Smith arrives and asks him for a ride to the city. Doug drives Mr. Smith to the city and offers a drink to him. However, he has no more credit, but Mr. Smith pays the bill. Then Mr. Smith says that he is an efficient reporter and a printing-press operator. Doug tells him that his debt is almost US$ 5,000.00 and Mr. Smith lends the amount to him. Soon, Mr. Smith prints several scoops and The Dansburg Courier becomes successful. What is the secret of Mr. Smith?
Episode 10
No Time Like the Past
Thu, Mar 7, 196351 mins
Paul Driscoll does not much like the way the 20th century has developed thus far and decides to go back in time to change mankind's future. He first travels to Hiroshima and tries to warn an English-speaking policeman of what is to come, but to no avail. He then travels to Nazi Germany and attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler but is thwarted when his rifle misfires. He then finds himself aboard the Lusitania but again is unable to convince the ship's captain to alter course before it is torpedoed. When he returns to the present, he agrees with his colleague Harvey that the past cannot be changed. He still does not like the present, so decides to go back to July 1881 to live his life in the small town of Homeville, Indiana. Unfortunately he learns yet again that past events cannot be changed.
Episode 11
The Parallel
Thu, Mar 14, 196351 mins
Astronaut Major Robert Gaines is the latest to orbit the Earth but something happens while there. Ground control loses all contact with him and although he returns safely, he apparently blacked out and has no recollection of what may have happened. Nor can he explain how the craft landed on land - completely undamaged - when it was meant to splash down in the ocean. When Gaines returns home he finds that little things are different: he's now a full colonel and has been for some time; his house now has a picket fence; he no longer seems to take sugar in his coffee; and even his wife senses he is different after she kisses him. It is soon apparent that Gaines has returned to an Earth in an alternate universe.
Episode 12
I Dream of Genie
Thu, Mar 21, 196351 mins
A wiseacre genie appears from a lamp to a meek man, George P. Hanley. Hanley is so used to bad luck, he imagines how each of three possible wishes could go very wrong - but the genie will grant him only one wish!
Episode 13
The New Exhibit
Thu, Apr 4, 196351 mins
Martin Lombard Senescu is a gentle man and the curator of Murderer's Row in Ferguson's wax museum. He loves his work and is fascinated by what drives men to commit the crimes that they do. He's informed by his boss Mr. Ferguson that the property is being sold to developers who will raze the building and erect a supermarket. Martin brings 5 of wax figures home but after a year his wife is at her wits' end. Martin spends all of his time in the basement with his beloved friends and the cost of keeping them is eating into their already limited income. When Martin finds Emma dead in the basement he buries her there. When her brother Dave shows up, he too is apparently killed. After Mr. Ferguson finally finds a buyer for the wax figures, Martin reluctantly agrees to let them go. There is an addition to the exhibit however.
Episode 14
Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
Thu, Apr 11, 196351 mins
William Feathersmith is a hard-nosed and cold-hearted misanthropic businessman now quite wealthy but bored. It's clear that what he enjoys is the chase and the acquisition of wealth. He also likes breaking men in the process. While leaving the office one day, he finds himself on the wrong floor (the ominous 13th floor, a number usually associated with bad luck and ill fortune) and in the office of Devlin Travel, run by the statuesque and devilishly attractive Ms. Devlin. In return for his amassed fortune -- not his soul because, as she notes, "we got ahold of your soul some time ago" -- she offers to send him back in time to his hometown of Cliffordville in 1910 where he can start over and get the pleasure of building his empire all over again. He accepts and once back to the days of his youth begins wheeling and dealing. Nothing quite goes as planned however.
Episode 15
The Incredible World of Horace Ford
Thu, Apr 18, 196351 mins
A toy designer, Horace Ford, is very enthusiastic about what he does, and his memories of childhood are beginning to become an obsession. But those childhood moments which brought him great joy aren't remembered by anyone else - even his mother. She doesn't recall their time living on Randolph Street as such a great time. Horace goes to visit the old neighborhood, but when he gets there, he seems to have stepped back in time, and the past starts to spill over into the present. He returns to the street several times, and the scene repeats itself. He begins to realize his childhood wasn't the wonderful one he remembered.
Episode 16
On Thursday We Leave for Home
Thu, May 2, 196351 mins
The colonists of Pilgrim I, Earth's first space colony, have spent 30 years on their new home. It's a lonely, barren place more akin to hell then Eden. Now, they're awaiting the arrival of a ship to take them to Earth. Some colonists are at their wits' end; another - the 9th in 6 months - commits suicide. Their leader, William Benteen, a tough drill sergeant-type, who they call Captain, does his best to keep them together. When the ship arrives, they're given 3 days to prepare to leave. As the day of departure approaches, Benteen's assumption that the community will stay together on Earth, is wrong; most will go their own way once on earth. Hearing this, Benteen decides they should stay. When the group decides otherwise, Benteen's left with only one option.
Episode 17
Passage on the Lady Anne
Thu, May 9, 196351 mins
Eileen and Alan Ransome's marriage is going through a bad patch and they decide to go on a holiday to London. Eileen insists on traveling by ship and they book passage on the Lady Anne, an old ship that is not recommended by the travel agent but is leaving quite soon. When they arrive at the port terminal another passenger, Mr. McKenzie, insists strenuously that the young couple has made a mistake and tries to discourage them from coming along on what is a "private cruise". Mrs. McKenzie keeps her own counsel but clearly shares her husband's sentiments. Another passenger, Burgess, tries to warn them off as well. He and McKenzie offer them money, eventually $10,000, to leave immediately. The Ransomes take umbrage and refuse. The couple finds that all of the other passengers are quite elderly but unsurprisingly have a good deal of wisdom to dispense to the young couple. Alan and Eileen are just beginning to really enjoy the trip when the captain suddenly puts them off the ship at gunpoint with provisions and a promise to notify the authorities of their location. They are rescued but as for the Lady Anne and her other passengers -- well, there's the rub.
Episode 18
The Bard
Thu, May 23, 196351 mins
Julius Moomer, a talentless, but relentless, self-promoting hack who dreams of becoming a successful television writer, uses a book of magic to summon William Shakespeare to write dramatic teleplays that Moomer will pass off as his own. Shakespeare becomes irritated by Moomer's lack of appreciation and is even more appalled when he discovers the changes wrought on his plays by cynical television executives.
