Answer: Lane Smith
Lane Smith plays Doctor Joseph Fitzgerald, a historian from the late 22nd century who is doing field research in the 1960s. He is a relative of President Kennedy. Fitzgerald travels to Dallas on November 22, hoping to observe, but intervenes at the last minute to save Kennedy's life. He joins the President on Air Force One to return to Washington. Andrew Robinson played Kennedy.
Dean Stockwell did lots of science fiction, most notably "Quantum Leap". Walter Koenig was Chekov in the original "Star Trek" series and several films. Andrew Robinson is probably most famous as the serial killer in "Dirty Harry" (1971).
From Quiz: More Time Travel in "The Twilight Zone"
Answer: a flower pot falls off a window sill
When Paladine (played by Gary Merrill) sees a regiment and walks over to them, no one is moving; they're frozen still. He walks among them, trying to figure out what's going on, concluding that they're sleeping or dead. He's confused but gladdened by a box of hard tack he finds, saying its the first meat that he's had in months. As he's gnawing hungrily on the meat a flower pot falls off a windowsill. It gives Paradine a start. He gets up and heads over to it. He picks up the broken pot and dismisses it as the wind.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 3
Answer: Sydney Pollack
Brian Aherne plays an older actor who, nostalgic for the past and missing his late wife, steps into a night club they used to frequent. He finds his younger wife there as he has seemingly stepped into the past.
Pollack plays Arthur Willis, an up-and-coming theatre director who has replaced the director of the play Templeton is acting in. There is friction between the two men at first, but by the end, Templeton has regained his coonfidence and is able to show Willis his commitment to the play is solid.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 2
Answer: "It is quite possible"
Shatner and Patty Breslin played newlyweds who come to the diner to kill time while they await repairs made to their broken down car. The Mystic Seer is a fortune telling novelty at the booth where they sit. Shatner's character Don Carter plays the machine for kicks at first, and his initial bemusement with gradually descends into desperate obsession.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 1
Answer: Two
"Two" was the first episode of season 2, premiering on September 15, 1961. With the story's East vs. West imagery, the timing was very fitting, as this was only two weeks following the erection of the Berlin Wall.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Goes to War
Answer: Jerome Bixby
Jerome Bixby (1923 - 1998) was a prolific writer of science fiction. Among his accomplishments were writing four episodes of "Star Trek," and co-authoring the story upon which the movie "Fantastic Voyage" was based. His most famous work, however, is the short story, "It's a Good Life," upon which this episode of "The Twilight Zone" is based, and he is mentioned in the show's credits.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone": "It's a Good Life"
Answer: Where Is Everybody?
After a while of walking around, he collapses and presses the "walk" button (which in reality is a "panic button"). He's a training astronaut confined to an isolation room located within an aircraft hangar for more than 10 days to see if he can take it. He is eventually taken away on a stretcher promising, "Next time it'll be for real. So don't go away. We'll be up there in a little while." Original air date was October 2, 1959.
From Quiz: "Twilight Zone" Season One (First Half of Season)
Answer: The Sixteen Millimeter Shrine
The 16mm film gauge was originally intended for low-budget productions. The protagonist in this episode is "Barbara Jean Trenton, whose world is a projection room, whose dreams are made out of celluloid." She wishes for a return to her brief fame as an actress. In her case, her wish is manifested in an eerie manner. "To the wishes that come true, to the strange, mystic strength of the human animal, who can take a wishful dream and give it a dimension of its own. To Barbara Jean Trenton, movie queen of another era, who has changed the blank tomb of an empty projection screen into a private world."
From Quiz: Let's Revisit the "Twilight Zone"
Answer: Henry J. Fate
The title of the episode from season one is "Mr. Denton On Doomsday". Fate steps in to restore some semblance of dignity to Denton. Denton has been ignominiously tortured by the somewhat sadistic Dan Hotaling (Martin Landau) on more than one occasion. Hotaling is humiliated by Denton's apparently lucky shots with a newly found weapon. It's time for a showdown with a new young talent, though. The new talent's name is Pete Grant portrayed by Doug McClure. Mr. Fate persuades Denton to stay and fight by offering Denton a potion or elixir. As it happens, Grant has been offered the very same potion. The duel ends in a draw which prevents both of them from ever shooting again.
From Quiz: Once Upon a Time in the "Twilight Zone"
Answer: "One for the Angels"
In this second episode from the first season of the original "Twilight Zone," Bookman is seen selling his robots in the first scene. Death is observing. Mr. Death tells Mr. Bookman that the departure time is at twelve midnight. Mr. Bookman makes a deal with Death to elude his fate. Mr. Bookman's deal with Mr. Death has unforeseen consequences. In order to prevent Mr. Death from claiming the little girl, Bookman sacrifices himself to save her life. Bookman makes a final sales pitch that prevents Mr. Death from meeting his scheduled appointment.
From Quiz: Use the Key of Your Imagination
Answer: The Lonely
The gift given to him by the captain was a female robot named Alicia. He begins to love the robot and later on in the episode he is found innocent and is allowed to come back home, only there is not enough weight to bring Alicia back also.
From Quiz: Greatest Episodes From Each Season: Season One
Answer: Mother had passed away
This is one of my favorite episodes. The one daughter realizes that the grandmother cannot die and leave her and is finally able to accept her. The music used in this is the theme song for the exercise show called "Body Electric".
From Quiz: "Twilight Zone"-The Series
Answer: Rod Serling
Rod Serling created and hosted "The Twilight Zone" in the 1960's. He died of lung cancer in 1975.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone"
Answer: "The Mighty Casey"
Casey was a human-looking robot whose perfect pitches brought the Hoboken Zephyrs from last place to fourth place in the standings. After Casey was hit in the head by a line drive, doctors discovered he was a robot and had no heart. Casey's creator, Dr. Stillman, gives Casey a mechanical heart, but Casey, not having learned about competitiveness, wouldn't strike out the batters. "I just can't bring myself to hurt their careers." said Casey. Dr. Stillman gives McGarry Casey's blueprints as a keepsake. In the closing narration of this episode, Rod Serling says, "Once upon a time there was a major-league baseball team called the Hoboken Zephyrs who, during the last year of their existence, wound up in last place and shortly thereafter wound up in oblivion. There's a rumor, unsubstantiated of course, that a manager named McGarry took them to the West Coast and wound up with several pennants and a couple of world's championships. This team had a pitching staff that made history. Of course, none of them smiled very much, but it happens to be a fact that they pitched like nothing human. And if you're interested as to where these gentlemen came from, you might check under 'B' for baseball, in the Twilight Zone." (Do you suppose he was referring to the Los Angeles Dodgers?)
From Quiz: Stories from "The Twilight Zone"
Answer: She's a mannequin
She comes to life for a little 'vacation'.
From Quiz: More 'Twilight Zone'
Answer: They intend to eat them
One of the many classic episodes that 'The Simpsons' spoofed.
From Quiz: 'The Twilight Zone'
Answer: Agnes Moorehead
The other women were in other episodes.
From Quiz: Memories of the 'Twilight Zone'
Answer: Nikita Khrushchev
Once Fitzgerald saves Kennedy, there are massive disturbances in the timeline. One of the biggest being the murder of the Soviet leader and a major power shake-up in the Russian Politburo, leading to a confrontation in Berlin.
Fitzgerald's computer tells him that saving Kennedy has so distorted the time line that all future time lines lead to either nuclear or environmental annihilation. The only way to fix things: restore the original time line. Fitzgerald gives Kennedy his homing device, which sends the President 200 years into the future. Fitzgerald then returns to the motorcade and takes Kennedy's place, after helping the Secret Service engineer the biggest cover-up of all time. The episode closes with Kennedy lecturing as a history professor at 22nd century Harvard University.
"Profile in Silver" was part of the 20th episode of Season 1, and aired March 7, 1986.
From Quiz: More Time Travel in "The Twilight Zone"
Answer: goat
Alan Richards (John Dehner) and his wife Doris (Emily McLaughlin) recently returned from a trip to Africa, where Alan's company is building a dam. Alan finds outs that his wife has kept several items that a local shaman on the trip had given to her for protection. When he confronts her about them, she insists that they are nothing more than souvenirs to her. He tests this explanation by burning them, which upsets her. She then begs him to stop construction on the dam. Dismissing her pleas he opens the door to leave for work and there in the hallway of his apartment building, just outside his door, is the carcass of a dead goat.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 3
Answer: Penicillin
Cliff Robertson plays Chris Horn, a western pioneer leading wagon train group across the country in 1847. His son Christian has fallen seriously ill. The whole group is in danger actually, short on both food and water. It's another time travel episode as Horn decides to set out ahead of the group in a desperate attempt to find help. On the other side of a hill he finds....a gas station. In 1961 in New Mexico.
Once inside he describes to the proprietors Joe and Mary Lou his encounter with a monster (it was a truck). Thinking there is something, um, "off" about Chris what with his stove pipe hat and musket and old timey garb, Joe calls a doctor. The doctor finds him rational, but has some penicillin for him nonetheless. Which he winds up taking back with him.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 2
Answer: a bus ticket to Scranton, Pennsylvania
Ernest Truex plays the peddler Pedott who happens to have the uncanny gift of being able to bestow people with something they need just by reaching into his briefcase for it. It doesn't matter how seemingly innocuous or cheap the item is, it will surely enough prove to be just what that person needs in a moment or two.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 1
Answer: Eye of the Beholder
Following her final surgery, the bandages were removed from Miss Tyler's face. The doctors were horrified that the surgery had failed. The viewer sees her face for the first time and found that she was actually a stunningly beautiful woman. When the doctors and nurses removed their surgical masks, we see that it is actually they who had twisted disfigured faces. Ms. Tyler ran down the hospital corridor while a Hitleresque dictator was shown on television monitors, ranting about the necessity of conforming to the standards of the majority. She met up with the "disfigured" (handsome) Walter Smith, who was to escort Ms. Tyler to a village where other disfigured citizens were segregated from the general population.
Ms. Tyler's role (unmasked) was played by the always gorgeous actress, Donna Douglas, who would return to another episode of "The Twilight Zone" in 1961. She is best known for her regular role as Elly May Clampett on "The Beverly Hillbillies". The unseen and bandaged Ms. Tyler was portrayed by Maxine Stuart, chosen for this part of the role because of her sympathetic sounding voice.
The part of Walter Smith was played by Edson Stroll who, like Ivan Dixon would go on to play a regular role on "McHale's Navy".
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Overcomes Racism
Answer: Shadow Play
This is a truly fascinating episode. The character, Adam Grant, relives the moments before his execution over and over. Weaver went on to star in "Gunsmoke", "McCloud" and a series of other shows and movies including the movie "Duel". He died on February 24, 2006.
From Quiz: "Twilight Zone" Actors: Do you remember?
Answer: Ohio
"Its inhabitants were never sure whether the world was destroyed and only Peaksville left untouched, or whether the village had somehow been taken away . . . Now I'd like to introduce you to some of the people in Peaksville, Ohio."
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone": "It's a Good Life"
Answer: Distracts Death with a "sales pitch" ("a pitch for the angels")
He is a sidewalk salesman. While he's making the pitch, Death gets so into the sale, that Death forgets to take the little girl at midnight and instead ends up buying every thing the salesman has.
From Quiz: "Twilight Zone" Season One (First Half of Season)
Answer: Third from the Sun
"Behind a tiny ship heading into space is a doomed planet on the verge of suicide. Ahead lies a place called Earth, the third planet from the sun. And for William Sturka and the men and women with him, it's the eve of the beginning." William Sturka is portrayed by Fritz Weaver and the antagonist is played by Edward Andrews. The nice twist ending is inherent in the title of the episode, but it is still a nice twist.
From Quiz: Let's Revisit the "Twilight Zone"
Answer: reading books
Mr. Beamis is the ultimate bibliophile. His great passion for reading books is thwarted by his boss at the bank and scorned by his wife. Suddenly, Beamis finds himself to be the apparent sole survivor of a global nuclear devastation. Now, Beamis appears to have all the time in the world to pursue his passion for reading books. In the event that you have not seen this episode or do not know the story, I won't spoil the ending for you.
From Quiz: Use the Key of Your Imagination
Answer: Time Enough At Last
After surviving the explosion he can't stand the loneliness and almost commits suicide, but then he sees the library. He begins to read when his glasses break and he can no longer see well.
From Quiz: Greatest Episodes From Each Season: Season One
Answer: Peter Falk
Peter Falk later went on to star in "Columbo".
From Quiz: "Twilight Zone"-The Series
Answer: "Escape Clause"
Walter Bedeker exchanges his soul to the devil for immortality and indestructibility. He manages to collect tidy sums of money from "accidents" he's involved with. (Such as a steel I-beam falling on him!) He decides to see what would happen if he jumped from the roof of his apartment building. While trying to dissuade him, his wife falls though an airshaft. Bedeker calls the police and reports he has just murdered his wife, hoping he'll get the penalty of the electric chair. But his clever lawyer gets him off with life imprisonment. Knowing he is to live forever, Bedeker exercises the "escape clause" with the devil, and dies of a heart attack. At the end of the episode, the guard makes a comment about the look of utter horror on Bedeker's face.
From Quiz: Stories from "The Twilight Zone"
Answer: "Shadow Play"
It really was all a dream, that repeats every night for him.
From Quiz: "Twilight Zone" Trivia
Answer: USAF
It was shocking, but at the end of the episode, the camera looks onto the roof of the house and you see clearly written on the side of the flying saucer USAF which stands for "United States Air Force".
From Quiz: Next Stop... "The Twilight Zone"
Answer: Bigger
The irony is that he goes from being a suspended jockey at the start of the show to being reinstated at the show's end - after he has had his wish for height granted.
From Quiz: More 'Twilight Zone'
Answer: Rod Serling
They originally wanted Orson Welles to do the monologues, but he wanted too much money. Serling did they pilot and they liked it so much that he did the rest.
From Quiz: 'The Twilight Zone'
Answer: James Daly
Again, the other people were in other episodes of the show.
From Quiz: Memories of the 'Twilight Zone'
Answer: Elvis Presley
Jeff Yagher plays an Elvis impersonator named Gary Pitkin, who is dissatisfied playing low budget motels. Fate sends him to July 1954, where he meets Elvis just before he begins his Rock and Roll career.
Pitkin convinces Elvis that he the ghost of Jessie, Elvis' twin brother, sent to help him with his career. Pitkin tries to get Elvis to play the music he knows will be successful, but the real Elvis objects to Rock and Roll. The men fight, and the real Elvis is killed. Pitkin feels so guilty that he decides to take over Elvis' life and career: the music, the movies, the concerts.
From Quiz: More Time Travel in "The Twilight Zone"
Answer: Rip
Hyder Simpson (played by Arthur Hunnicutt) lives with his wife and his hound dog Rip in the backwoods. Mrs. Simpson does not allow Rip the dog indoors for fear of fleas, but because Rip once saved Hyder's life, Hyder won't ever part with him. Recent bad omens have Mrs. Simpson worried, and warns Hyder not to go raccoon hunting that night. But Hyder and Rip set out anyway, and when Rip dives into a pond after a raccoon, Hyder jumps in after him to save Rip, but only the raccoon comes up out of the water.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 3
Answer: Death Valley
Part of Rod Serling's opening monologue includes: "...The time is now, and the place is a mountain cave in Death Valley, U.S.A. In just a moment, these four men will utilize the services of a truck placed in cosmoline, loaded with a hot heist cooled off by a century of sleep, and then take a drive into The Twilight Zone."
The quartet of men who heisted the gold brick from a train hope that by hiding out in the cave for 100 years they will both evade capture and allow time to forget their crime, but also after all that time, the price of their gold will have skyrocketed! That was their hope anyway.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 2
Answer: "walked"
In this classic episode of "The Twilight Zone" 7-foot tall aliens come to Earth with the promise of bringing them secrets of energy and agriculture that will make life much easier or Earthlings. (In the original short story by Damon Knight, the Kanamits are much shorter and animal-like). Scientists administer a lie-detector test for one of the Kanamit, in order to find out if they are being honest about their intentions. As a control test question they ask "How did you get to Earth?" which the Kanamit answers with "walked". This registered as a lie, so now the scientists know that the lie-detector should be workable.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 1
Answer: The Last Flight
The concept of wartime "Survivor's Guilt" was visited often in this series.
From Quiz: "The Twilight Zone" Looks at Time
