| 
|
| Rod Serling adapted the teleplay for this Twilight Zone episode from a short story by Price Day, which first appeared in Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. Decked out in coke-bottle glasses and greased-down hair, Theodore Bikel is malevolence personified as Oliver Crangle, a self-appointed "social conscience" who spends all his waking hours persecuting innocent people whom he has designated as evil. After casually ruining several lives, this Crangle declares that he has in his possession the means to shrink all evil people in the world to a height of two feet -- and that this metamorphosis will occur exactly at Four O'Clock. Appearing as Crangle's landlady is Moyna McGill, the actress mother of Angela Lansbury. "Four O'Clock" was first telecast on April 6, 1962. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi | |
| | |
Series Information |
| Even non-devotees of The Twilight Zone are able to distinguish the series'... Ida Lupino stars as Barbara Jean Trenton, a 1930s movie queen who refuses... One the finest of all Twilight Zone episodes, "Walking Distance" benefits... Mike Ferris (Earl Holliman) doesn't know where he's been or where he's... Ed Wynn guest stars as Lew Bookman, an aging and not altogether successful... First telcast October 16, 1959, this episode stars Dan Duryea as Al Denton,... Hypochondriac Walter Bedecker (David Wayne) would do anything to feel... Discounting the pilot "Where Is Everybody?", "The Lonely" was the first... In his first Twilight Zone appearance, Burgess Meredith stars as Henry... Originally telecast November 27, 1959, "Perchance to Dream" was writer... Nehemiah Persoff stars as Lanser, who inexplicably finds himself aboard a... Richard Matheson was first represented on the Twilight Zone with the... Appropriately telecast December 25, 1959, this Twilight Zone episode... Although The Twilight Zone suffered from anemic ratings and a certain... During a manned space flight, a spaceship crashlands on a distant, desolate... Once seen in childhood, the January 1, 1960 Twilight Zone episode "The Four... While sitting in his office and discussing business matters with his... Scripted by Robert Presnell, Jr. from a short story by John Collier, this... College professor Kittridge (Edgar Stehli) cannot understand why the... Written by Rod Serling, this episode represented the joint Twilight Zone... Bearing traces of the classic John Collier short story "Evening Primrose",... This episode was based on an earlier Rod Serling TV play, in which a losing... The first season Twilight Zone came to a delightful conclusion on July 1,... As had been the case with the first season's inaugural episode "Where Is... This variation of the old "Aladdin and the Magic Lamp" yarn stars Luther... Though obviously an episode designed to absorb the costs of the more... First telecast January 22, 1960, this Twilight Zone episode was adapted by... Everett Sloane, who previously starred in Rod Serling's award-winning TV... Richard Matheson's first full-fledged Twilight Zone script was written for... William Reynolds stars as Fitzgerald, a WWII army lieutenant with an... Adapted for television by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, the... While waiting in a lonely bus station, Millicent Barnes (Vera Miles) is... A neighborhood full of friendly people degenerates into a mob when Maple... Having scoffed at his colleague Warren Marcusson's (Paul Comi) assertion... After a brief production hiatus, the Twilight Zone staff resumed the... A predominantly black cast appears in this episode of Twilight Zone, which... Shot down while escaping the cops, two-bit hoodlum Rocky Valentine (Larry... While visiting the apartment house where she grew up, schoolteacher Helen... First telecast May 6, 1960, A Stop at Willoughby was scripter Rod Serling's... The scene is the magnificent but isolated home of scientist Dr. Loren (John... The past and present collide with poignant results in this handsomely... Having just robbed a pawnshop, two-bit crooks Chester and Paula Diedrich... Twilight Zone's Yuletide offering for the 1960-61 season was this... Magazine critic Bartlett Finchley (Richard Haydn) despises all things... Adapted by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, this is one of a... An irreducable masterpiece, the Rod Serling-scripted Twilight Zone episode... Future Star Trek captain William Shatner stars as Don Carter, who is on his... Scriptwriter Rod Serling had intended the June 3, 1960, Twilight Zone... Director Richard L. Bare made an impressive Twilight Zone debut with this... Surviving several defecting sponsors and vacillating ratings, Twilight Zone... This sledgehammer attack on Cuban dictator Fidel Castro stars Peter Falk as... Originally filmed for Twilight Zone's second season, writer-director... In the last days of WWII, "90-day wonder" Lieutenant Katell (Dean... In his second Twilight Zone appearance, Jack Klugman stars as pool hustler... Adapted by Rod Serling from a story by Jerome Bixby, "It's a Good Life"... The ongoing trial of Nazi war criminal Adolph Eichmann was the obvious... For reasons beyond comprehension, the Earth has changed its orbit and is... This episode was adapted by Rod Serling from "The Valley Was Still," a... Adapted by Charles Beaumont from his own short story, this episode stars... Twilight Zone's only foray into old-time slapstick comedy, this episode... This episode was adapted by Rod Serling from Marvin Petal's short story... First telecast May 12, 1961, this amusing Twilight Zone entry was purely... Originally titled "Nobody Here but Us Martians," this darkly comic Twilight... The second season of Twilight Zone came to a powerful conclusion with this... Season Three of Twilight Zone got off to a flying start with this episode,... FAA investigator Grant Sheckly (Harold J. Stone) is called to the scene... One of the few Twilight Zone episodes with virtually no sci-fi/fantasy... Upon discovering that his business partner Jimbo Cobb (Buddy Ebsen)... The last of the six videotaped Twilight Zone installments of the 1960-61... As the Civil War limps to a close, Confederate widow Lavinia Godwin (Joanne... After speculating on the possibility that a person can travel back in time... Wandering into the small Mexican town where Luis Gallegos (John Alonso) is... This videotaped Twilight Zone episode is a variation on a most familiar... Thrown off course by a freak tailwind, a passenger jet finds itself flying... First telecast March 3, 1961, this is a deft reworking of the first-season... Jack Carson stars as Harvey Hunnicutt, a fast-talking used car salesman to... Written by Richard Matheson, this is one of those classic Twilight Zone... Long before he costarred in Bewitched, Dick York was forced to contend with... Dean Jagger stars as Ed Lindsay, a cranky middle-aged man living in a... After briefly experimenting with the videotape format, The Twilight Zone... Having successfully robbed a train shipment of gold bullion, four thieves,... Fed up with the loud and incessant talking of fellow men's club member... One of the best of the "existential" Twilight Zone episodes, Charles... Ambrose Bierce's classic hallucinatory short story An Occurrence at Owl... Everybody knows the "punchline" of this classic Twilight Zone episode, but... One of Charles Beaumont's most charming Twilight Zone scripts, this episode... Though it is often assumed that Twilight Zone was rife with special-effects... Awakening with "the grandaddy of all hangovers," David Gurney (Richard... Though it casts all known laws of physics to the four winds, this Rod... Rod Serling adapted the teleplay for this Twilight Zone episode from a... Andy Devine stars as Mr. Frisby, the biggest liar in three counties.... In his second Twilight Zone apperance of the 1961-62 season, Joseph... Released just in time for Easter on April 27, 1962, this Rod... Though he'd originally intended to write several scripts for the original... Bearing traces of such earlier film offerings as The Great Gabbo and Dead... Written by Rod Serling, this nostalgic Twilight Zone episode was clearly... A reworking of the first-season Twilight Zone episode "Mr. Bevis,"... Written by George Clayton Johnson, this low-key Twilight Zone episode stars... Hoping to get even with several old enemies, millionaire Paul Radin (Joseph... Written by Charles Beaumont with the uncredited assistance of OCee Ritch),... Originally telecast January 26 1962, this episode was the first of several... Larry Blyden stars in this hilarious Twilight Zone entry as egocentric TV... Written by George Clayton Johnson, this elegiac Twilight Zone episode stars... An atypical Twilight Zone entry from scriptwriter Earl Hamner, Jr., this... Writer-director Montgomery Pittman's final Twilight Zone offering was the... According to this Richard Matheson-scripted Twilight Zone episode, there... Canceled by CBS at the end of its third season, the weekly, half-hour... Although CBS' decision to rescue Rod Serling's classic fantasy anthology... The leader of a ragtag American neo-Nazi organization, Peter Vollmer... When Alan Talbot (George Grizzard) returns to his home town after a week's... Written by Rod Serling, this 60-minute Twilight Zone episode gets under way... Stranded in the remote mountain town of Peaceful Valley, reporter Philip... Rod Serling scripted this minimalist Twilight Zone episode from an idea by... Bernard Herrmann composed his final Twilight Zone musical score for the... Famous for her collection of valuable rings, movie star Bunny Blake (Maggie... Though credited to Charles Beaumont, this Twilight Zone episode was... Several years after a nuclear war, a handful of survivors are compelled to... Resentful over having to wait on her invalid Uncle Simon (Cedric Hardwicke)... Having embarked upon a long-range space probe, astronaut Col. Cook (Richard... While on maneuvers near the site of Custer's Last Stand, a modern-day Army... First telecast October 18, 1963, the pedestrian Twilight Zone episode "A... By the year 1974, robots have replaced humans in the boxing ring.... In the tradition of his earlier Alcoa/Goodyear Theater episode "Eddie,"... Cited by many aficionados as the all-time best Twilight Zone episode,... Reginald Rose adapted the script for this Twilight Zone episode from his... Thirty years after leaving Earth, a group of space colonists live a spartan... Charles Beaumont adapted this hauntingly-poignant 60-minute Twilight Zone... Former streetcar conductor Julius Moomer (Jack Weston) aspires to be a... After a brief flirtation with the 60-minute form, Twilight Zone wisely... Scripted by Richard Matheson from his own short story, this episode stars... Landing on a distant planet, astronauts Paul Ross (Jack Klugman), Ted Mason... A haunting folk song written by Van Cleave serves as a framing device for... Robert Duvall stars as Charley Parkes, a shy and lonely man who spends his... In his last Twilight Zone appearance, Burgess Meredith stars as Mr. Smith,... Disillusioned with the present, Paul Driscoll (Dana Andrews) builds a time... This 60-minute Twilight Zone entry was adapted by Rod Serling from Malcolm... First telecast April 4, 1963, this grim 60-minute Twilight Zone installment... Written by John Furia, Jr., this hilarious 60-minute Twilight Zone entry... While on an orbital flight, American astronaut Robert Gaines (Steve... Written by Bernard Schoenfeld, this moderately amusing Twilight Zone outing... This Twilight Zone episode was purportedly adapted by Charles Beaumont from... Three leather-jacketed motorcyclists converge upon a small town and... This eerie Twilight Zone entry was scripted by Richard Matheson from his... A typical "wrinkle in time" drama from the pen of Richard Matheson, this... Clearly inspired by the then-current publicity blitz surrounding the... As a repairman (Sterling Holloway) works on his malfunctioning television... When businessman Oliver Pope (Edward Andrews) strikes down a young... Just before embarking upon a 40-year space journey, Cmdr. Douglas... Don Gordon stars as Salvatore Ross, a repulsively arrogant young man who... Investigating a strange series of occurences -- eerie noises, flashing... Written by Anthony Wilson, this episode stars Gary Crosby as cynical... Awakening from a mutual hangover, Bob and Millie Frazier (Barry Nelson and... One of three fifth-season Twilight Zone episodes written by Martin M.... A jaunty harmonica-music score by Tommy Morgan was the main redeeming... Ruthlessly efficient businessman Wallace V. Whipple (Richard Deacon) runs... This episode stars Jackie Cooper as Jonathan West, a pathetically... Having just defected from an Iron Curtain country, Major Ivan Kuchenko... On the eve of Mardi Gras in New Orleans, dying millionaire Jason Foster... Hate hangs heavy in the air in the small midwestern town where accused... John McGiver stars as ex-Navy man Roswell G. Flemington, who insists upon... Written by Earl Hamner, Jr., this late Twilight Zone episode shows evidence... | |
| | |
| |
