The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
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| num_episodes = 37
| network = CBS
| first_aired = {{Start date|1961|09|15}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1962|06|01}}
| prev_season = Season 2
| next_season = Season 4
| episode_list = List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) episodes
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The third season of The Twilight Zone aired Fridays at 10:00–10:30 pm (EST) on CBS from September 15, 1961 to June 1, 1962. There are 37 episodes.
Continuing with Marius Constant's theme music, a different set of graphics was used for the opening, consisting of a rotating cone with concentric circles suggesting a spiral, receding into a star field. Rod Serling's narration from the second season was used, with the verse "That's the signpost up ahead" taken out:
"You're traveling through another dimension. A dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. Your next stop—The Twilight Zone."[http://www.tv.com/shows/the-twilight-zone/episodes/ TV.com episode list] Some subtle changes in the opening's acoustics were made beginning with "Little Girl Lost".
Episodes
{{see also|List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) episodes}}
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 66
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = Two
| DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman
| WrittenBy = Montgomery Pittman
| Aux2 = Van Cleave
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|09|15}}
| ProdCode = 4802
| ShortSummary = Two soldiers, a man (Charles Bronson) and a woman (Elizabeth Montgomery), are the only inhabitants of a deserted city, and both are soldiers from opposing sides.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 67
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = The Arrival
| DirectedBy = Boris Sagal
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|09|22}}
| ProdCode = 4814
| ShortSummary = An FAA inspector (Harold J. Stone) and members of the airport staff (Noah Keen, Fredd Wayne, Robert Karnes, and Bing Russell) investigate a plane that arrives without a single person onboard – and each sees it differently.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 68
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = The Shelter
| DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|09|29}}
| ProdCode = 4803
| ShortSummary = An alert is issued for an imminent nuclear attack, prompting neighbors to unite against the physician (Larry Gates) whose bomb shelter has room enough only for his family.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 69
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = The Passersby
| DirectedBy = Elliot Silverstein
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = Fred Steiner
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|10|06}}
| ProdCode = 4817
| ShortSummary = At the end of the American Civil War, wounded soldiers pass by the house of a woman (Joanne Linville).
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| EpisodeNumber = 70
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = A Game of Pool
| DirectedBy = Buzz Kulik
| WrittenBy = George Clayton Johnson
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|10|13}}
| ProdCode = 4815
| ShortSummary = A legendary pool player (Jonathan Winters) returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark (Jack Klugman) with the shark's life at stake.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 71
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = The Mirror
| DirectedBy = Don Medford
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|10|20}}
| ProdCode = 4819
| ShortSummary = In Central America, a mirror allows a dictator (Peter Falk) to see the faces of his enemies.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 72
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = The Grave
| DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman
| WrittenBy = Montgomery Pittman
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|10|27}}
| ProdCode = 3656
| ShortSummary = A hired killer (Lee Marvin) is challenged to visit the grave of the outlaw (Dick Geary) who died swearing vengeance against him.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 73
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = It's a Good Life
| DirectedBy = James Sheldon
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on a short story by|s=Jerome Bixby}}
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|11|03}}
| ProdCode = 4801
| ShortSummary = A six-year-old boy (Bill Mumy) terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality.
In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #31 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.{{cite journal |year=1997 |title=Special Collector's Issue: 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time |journal=TV Guide |issue=June 28-July 4 }}
Note: A remake, directed by Joe Dante, was Segment III of Twilight Zone: The Movie. A sequel, "It's Still A Good Life" also starring Mumy, was broadcast on February 19, 2003 as part of the 2002 revival series.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 74
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = Deaths-Head Revisited
| DirectedBy = Don Medford
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|11|10}}
| ProdCode = 4804
| ShortSummary = A former SS Captain (Oscar Beregi, Jr.) visits the now-deserted concentration camp he commanded where he is tried for his crimes by the ghosts of his prisoners.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 75
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = The Midnight Sun
| DirectedBy = Anton Leader
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = Van Cleave
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|11|17}}
| ProdCode = 4818
| ShortSummary = A landlady (Betty Garde) and her tenant (Lois Nettleton) struggle to survive when the Earth changes its orbit and begins moving toward the Sun.
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| EpisodeNumber = 76
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = Still Valley
| DirectedBy = James Sheldon
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on a short story by|s=Manly Wade Wellman}}
| Aux2 = Wilbur Hatch
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|11|24}}
| ProdCode = 4808
| ShortSummary = During the American Civil War, a Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 77
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = The Jungle
| DirectedBy = William F. Claxton
| WrittenBy = Charles Beaumont
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|12|01}}
| ProdCode = 4806
| ShortSummary = An engineer (John Dehner) building a dam in Africa is cursed by natives who object to his plans.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 78
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = Once Upon a Time
| DirectedBy = Norman Z. McLeod
| WrittenBy = Richard Matheson
| Aux2 = William Lava
Ray Turner
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|12|15}}
| ProdCode = 4820
| ShortSummary = A janitor (Buster Keaton) travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet built by a scientist (Milton Parsons).
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 79
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = Five Characters in Search of an Exit
| DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on a short story by|s=Marvin Petal}}
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|12|22}}
| ProdCode = 4805
| ShortSummary = An Army major (William Windom), a clown (Murray Matheson), a hobo (Paul Wexler), a ballerina (Susan Harrison) and a bagpiper (Clark Allen) find themselves in a cylinder with no memory of how they got there.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 80
| EpisodeNumber2 = 15
| Title = A Quality of Mercy
| DirectedBy = Buzz Kulik
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on an idea by|s=Sam Rolfe}}
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1961|12|29}}
| ProdCode = 4809
| ShortSummary = During World War II, a U.S. lieutenant (Dean Stockwell) gets a unique opportunity to see the conflict from the Japanese point of view.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 81
| EpisodeNumber2 = 16
| Title = Nothing in the Dark
| DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson
| WrittenBy = George Clayton Johnson
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|01|05}}
| ProdCode = 3652
| ShortSummary = An elderly recluse (Gladys Cooper) facing imminent eviction refuses to allow anyone into her apartment, fearing that any visitor might be Death incarnate; her resolve is tested when a young police officer (Robert Redford) is seriously wounded outside her door.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 82
| EpisodeNumber2 = 17
| Title = One More Pallbearer
| DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|01|12}}
| ProdCode = 4823
| ShortSummary = Staging a fake nuclear war, a millionaire (Joseph Wiseman) offers shelter to three people (Katherine Squire, Trevor Bardette, Gage Clark) he believes wronged him in the past if they will only beg his forgiveness.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 83
| EpisodeNumber2 = 18
| Title = Dead Man's Shoes
| DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman
| WrittenBy = Charles Beaumont
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|01|19}}
| ProdCode = 4824
| ShortSummary = A homeless man (Warren Stevens) literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 84
| EpisodeNumber2 = 19
| Title = The Hunt
| DirectedBy = Harold Schuster
| WrittenBy = Earl Hamner, Jr.
| Aux2 = Robert Drasnin
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|01|26}}
| ProdCode = 4810
| ShortSummary = A mountain man (Arthur Hunnicutt) goes hunting for raccoons with his dog. When he returns, he comes to realize that something is much changed.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 85
| EpisodeNumber2 = 20
| Title = Showdown with Rance McGrew
| DirectedBy = Christian Nyby
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on an idea by|s=Frederic Louis Fox}}
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|02|02}}
| ProdCode = 4812
| ShortSummary = The egotistic star (Larry Blyden) of a western TV series comes face to face with the real Jesse James (Arch Johnson).
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 86
| EpisodeNumber2 = 21
| Title = Kick the Can
| DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson
| WrittenBy = George Clayton Johnson
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|02|09}}
| ProdCode = 4821
| ShortSummary = The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game.
Note: Steven Spielberg remade this as Segment II of Twilight Zone: The Movie, showing the nursing-home residents being offered a second chance at youth by their new arrival, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers).
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 87
| EpisodeNumber2 = 22
| Title = A Piano in the House
| DirectedBy = David Greene
| WrittenBy = Earl Hamner, Jr.
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|02|16}}
| ProdCode = 4825
| ShortSummary = A cynical theater critic (Barry Morse) takes advantage of a player piano that reveals people's hidden selves.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 88
| EpisodeNumber2 = 23
| Title = The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
| DirectedBy = Montgomery Pittman
| WrittenBy = Montgomery Pittman
| Aux2 = Tommy Morgan
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|02|23}}
| ProdCode = 4811
| ShortSummary = When a "dead" man (James Best) sits up in the coffin at his funeral during the mid-1920s, the townsfolk become suspicious whether it's really him, especially when he doesn't behave the way he used to.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 89
| EpisodeNumber2 = 24
| Title = To Serve Man
| DirectedBy = Richard L. Bare
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on a short story by|s=Damon Knight}}
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|03|02}}
| ProdCode = 4807
| ShortSummary = Representatives of a 9 ft. tall alien race (Richard Kiel) come to Earth and offer mankind cures for all earthly ills.
In 1997, TV Guide ranked this episode #11 on its list of the 100 Greatest Episodes.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 90
| EpisodeNumber2 = 25
| Title = The Fugitive
| DirectedBy = Richard L. Bare
| WrittenBy = Charles Beaumont
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|03|09}}
| ProdCode = 4816
| ShortSummary = A fugitive (J. Pat O'Malley) from another world befriends a handicapped girl (Susan Gordon).
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 91
| EpisodeNumber2 = 26
| Title = Little Girl Lost
| DirectedBy = Paul Stewart
| WrittenBy = Richard Matheson
| Aux2 = Bernard Herrmann
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|03|16}}
| ProdCode = 4828
| ShortSummary = When a little girl (Tracy Stratford) disappears from her bedroom without a trace, her parents (Robert Sampson, Sarah Marshall) call their physicist friend (Charles Aidman) to help investigate her disappearance.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 92
| EpisodeNumber2 = 27
| Title = Person or Persons Unknown
| DirectedBy = John Brahm
| WrittenBy = Charles Beaumont
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|03|23}}
| ProdCode = 4829
| ShortSummary = A man (Richard Long) discovers that all traces of his identity have been erased when no one, including his own wife, recognizes him.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 93
| EpisodeNumber2 = 28
| Title = The Little People
| DirectedBy = William F. Claxton
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|03|30}}
| ProdCode = 4822
| ShortSummary = When two astronauts (Claude Akins, Joe Maross) land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 94
| EpisodeNumber2 = 29
| Title = Four O'Clock
| DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on a short story by|s=Price Day}}
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|04|06}}
| ProdCode = 4832
| ShortSummary = A fanatical one-man moral crusader (Theodore Bikel) decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 95
| EpisodeNumber2 = 30
| Title = Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
| DirectedBy = Lamont Johnson
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on a story by|s=Frederic Louis Fox}}
| Aux2 = Tommy Morgan
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|04|13}}
| ProdCode = 4833
| ShortSummary = A teller of tall tales (Andy Devine) attracts unwanted attention from aliens.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 96
| EpisodeNumber2 = 31
| Title = The Trade-Ins
| DirectedBy = Elliot Silverstein
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|04|20}}
| ProdCode = 4831
| ShortSummary = An elderly couple (Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt) want new young bodies for the two of them, but can pay for only one.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 97
| EpisodeNumber2 = 32
| Title = The Gift
| DirectedBy = Allen H. Miner
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = Laurindo Almeida
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|04|27}}
| ProdCode = 4830
| ShortSummary = A visitor from outer space (Geoffrey Horne) tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 98
| EpisodeNumber2 = 33
| Title = The Dummy
| DirectedBy = Abner Biberman
| WrittenBy = {{StoryTeleplay|t=Rod Serling|slabel=Based on a story by|s=Lee Polk}}
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|05|04}}
| ProdCode = 4834
| ShortSummary = A ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 99
| EpisodeNumber2 = 34
| Title = Young Man's Fancy
| DirectedBy = John Brahm
| WrittenBy = Richard Matheson
| Aux2 = Nathan Scott
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|05|11}}
| ProdCode = 4813
| ShortSummary = A newlywed husband (Alex Nicol) refuses to give up his childhood home.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 100
| EpisodeNumber2 = 35
| Title = I Sing the Body Electric
| DirectedBy = William F. Claxton
and James Sheldon
| WrittenBy = Ray Bradbury
| Aux2 = Van Cleave
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|05|18}}
| ProdCode = 4826
| ShortSummary = A widower (David White) buys a robot grandmother (Josephine Hutchinson) to care for his children.
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 101
| EpisodeNumber2 = 36
| Title = Cavender Is Coming
| DirectedBy = Christian Nyby
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|05|25}}
| ProdCode = 4827
| ShortSummary = A clumsy theater worker (Carol Burnett) meets her equally bumbling guardian angel (Jesse White).
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{{Episode list/sublist|The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) season 3
| EpisodeNumber = 102
| EpisodeNumber2 = 37
| Title = The Changing of the Guard
| DirectedBy = Robert Ellis Miller
| WrittenBy = Rod Serling
| Aux2 = N/A
| OriginalAirDate = {{start date|1962|06|01}}
| ProdCode = 4835
| ShortSummary = A professor (Donald Pleasence) left despondent after being forced into retirement is visited by the ghosts of his former students.
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