TWILIGHT
ZONE EPISODE GUIDE
All episodes feature Stacy Keach
as narrator
Episodes from 2003
7-5-03
“A Kind of Stopwatch” starring Lou
Diamond Phillips (La Bamba / Young Guns). Special guest
star: Spike O'Dell.
Plot: The world’s most talkative bore gets a magical
stopwatch that can stop everything except him. But when
he misuses it, a wonderful conversation piece becomes a
real party killer.
7-12-03
“After Hours” starring Kim Fields (Facts
of Life / Living Single). Special guest star: John Williams.
Plot: A young woman goes gift shopping in a department store
and is trapped on the ninth floor when the store closes
– even though no such floor exists.
7-19-03
“The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” starring
Frank John Hughes (Band of Brothers / Catch Me If You Can).
Special guest stars: Kathy O'Malley & Judy Markey.
Plot: The residents of a quiet street suspect an alien invasion
is imminent and that one of their own is an alien monster.
7-26-03
“The Man in the Bottle” starring Ed
Begley, Jr. (St. Elsewhere / Best In Show / Six Feet Under).
Special guest star: Steve Cochran.
Plot: What if a genie granted your heart’s desire?
Is it possible to wish your way to happiness – or
is the hidden price more than anyone can pay?
8-2-03
“The Thirty-Fathom Grave” starring
Blair Underwood (LA Law / Full Frontal). Special guest stars:
David Kaplan and Tom Waddle.
Plot: When a naval destroyer picks up a signal from a ship
that sank twenty years ago, a crewman is haunted by a strange
memory buried at the bottom of the sea.
8-9-03
“Mr. Dingle the Strong” starring Tim
Kazurinsky (Police Academy / SNL) Special guest star: Milt
Rosenberg.
Plot: A mild-mannered vacuum cleaner salesman is given the
strength of three hundred men in a scientific experiment
conducted by two Martians.
8-16-03
“The Lateness of the Hour” starring
Jane Seymour (Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman) and James Keach
(Vacation). Special guest stars: Steve King & Johnnie
Putman.
Plot: A young woman lives a life of comfort and ease, thanks
to her father’s robot servants. The problem is, she
may also be a prisoner in her own perfect home.
8-23-03
“The Bard” starring John Ratzenberger
(Cheers / Monsters Inc.). Special guest stars: Orion Samuelson
and Max Armstrong.
Plot: Jack Weston is an untalented would-be TV writer whose
career takes off when the ghost of William Shakespeare (played
by Stacy Keach) writes a script for him. But when the sponsor
makes changes, Shakespeare is appalled and won’t stand
for it.
8-30-03
“Escape Clause” starring Mike Starr
(Goodfellas / Dumb & Dumber / Mad Dog and Glory) Special
guest star: Tom Petersen.
Plot: Hypochondriac Walter Bedeker sells his soul for immortality
and indestructibility, only to find out that life might
not be worth living if the thrill is gone.
9-6-03
“The Passersby” starring Morgan Brittany*
(Dallas) Special guest star: Nick Digilio.
Plot: On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate
soldier meets a widow and together they learn that the road
they’re traveling may not be leading home at all.
* Factoid: Before child actress Suzanne Cupito changed her
name to Morgan Brittany she appeared in three Twilight Zone
television programs, “Ceasar and Me” (4-10-64),
“Nightmare as a Child” (4-29-60) and “Valley
of the Shadow” (1-17-63).
9-13-03
“A Short Drink From A Certain Fountain”
starring Adam West (Batman) Special guest star: Dave Eanet.
Plot: An aging man desperate to keep up with his much younger
wife tries a highly experimental youth serum with disastrous
results.
9-20-03
“A Stop At Willoughby” starring Chelcie
Ross (A Simple Plan / Major League / Rudy) Special guest
stars: Mike Nowak and Kathleen Thompson.
Plot: An ad executive dreams himself away from his job pressures
and finds himself back in time to a peaceful town called
Willoughby.
9-27-03
“The Lonely” starring Mike Starr (Goodfellas
/ Mad Dog & Glory / Dumb & Dumber)
Plot: A convicted murderer incarcerated on a distant asteroid
is dying of loneliness until a supply ship Captain leaves
him a female robot for a companion.
10-4-03
“The Odyssey of Flight 33” Starring
Daniel J. Travanti (Hill Street Blues) Special guest stars:
Mike Mathis, Anne Maxfield and Mary Van De Velde.
Plot: Flight 33 picks up a peculiar tailwind and is blown
off course. After apparently correcting the problem, the
flight arrives at its destination – a billion years
ahead of schedule!
10-11-03
“Mr. Garrity and the Graves” Starring
Chris McDonald (Happy Gilmore / Quiz Show / Air Force One)
Special guest stars: Dave Stewart, Paula Cooper and Charlie
Myerson.
Plot: Jared Garrity makes a living as a resurrecter of the
dead in the Old West. He doesn’t make money from people
who want to see their loved ones again, but from the many
town folk who want to keep the dead buried!
10-18-03
“Four O’Clock” Starring Stan
Freberg (Satirist)
Plot: Political fanatic Oliver Crangle has determined that
at 4 p.m. he’ll eliminate all his enemies by shrinking
them, but his plan proves to be “short-sighted.”
10-25-03
“No Time Like the Past” Starring Jason
Alexander (Seinfeld / Curb Your Enthusiasm) Special guest
star: Lyle Dean.
Plot: A scientist travels back in time to try to prevent
some of history’s catastrophes. Unsuccessful, he decides
to stay in the past without interfering until disaster strikes
close to home.
11-1-03
“One More Pallbearer” Starring Chelcie
Ross (Rudy / Above the Law / A Simple Plan) Special guest
stars: Steve Bertrand, Judy Pielach and Andrea Darlas.
Plot: Eccentric millionaire Paul Radin offers the use of
his bomb shelter to three people who wronged him in life.
But the price they have to pay, an apology, may be too high.
11-8-03
“The Dummy” Starring Bruno Kirby (City
Slickers / Good Morning Vietnam / Godfather Part II) Special
guest stars: Dave Eanet at Wes Bleed.
Plot: A ventriloquist is convinced that Willie, his dummy,
is alive and quite evil. He makes plans for a new act with
a new dummy … plans that Willie is not about to let
happen.
11-15-03
“A Most Unusual Camera” Starring Mike
Starr (Dumb & Dumber / Jersey Girl / Ed Wood) Special
guest stars: Garry Lee Wright and Larry Schreiner.
Plot: Two thieves discover that a camera they have stolen
takes pictures of the future, but not every photo develops
as they might expect.
11-22-03
“The Obsolete Man” Starring Jason Alexander
(Seinfeld / Curb Your Enthusiasm) Special guest star: Dean
Richards.
Plot: In a future state where religion and books have been
banned, a librarian is judged to be obsolete by the Chancellor
and sentenced to death.
11-29-03
“Still Valley” Starring Adam West (Batman)
Special guest star: Spike O'Dell.
Plot: A Confederate soldier gets his chance to win the civil
war for the South but to do it he must call on the devil.
12-6-03
“Hocus-Pocus and Frisby” Starring Shelley
Berman * (Twilight Zone / Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Plot: Frisby is a loud-mouthed braggart whose boasts attract
the attention of aliens. Perhaps he should have read the
story of the boy who cried wolf before embarking on his
greatest adventure.
* Factoid: Shelley Berman starred in the original Twilight
Zone episode “The Mind and the Matter” originally
televised 5-12-61.
12-13-03
“A Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room”
Starring Adam Baldwin (My Bodyguard / Radio Flyer / Full
Metal Jacket)
Plot: Ordered to commit a murder he doesn’t want to
perform, a small-time hood nervously looks in the mirror
and sees the man he could have been – confident, strong
and determined to get out.
12-20-03
“The Changing of the Guard” starring
* Orson Bean (Twilight Zone / Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman)
with special guest, Steve Cochran.
Plot: Professor Ellis Fowler is forced to retire after 51
years of teaching. Feeling his life was worthless he decides
to end his life until he is visited by the ghostly appearances
of former students. (* Factoid: Orson Bean starred in the
Twilight Zone TV episode “Mr. Bevis” originally
televised 6/3/60)
12-27-03
“The Incredible World of Horace Ford” starring
Mike Starr (Goodfellas / Mad Dog and Glory / Ed Wood) with
special guest, Kathy O’Malley.
Plot: Toy designer Horace Ford spends most of his time reminiscing
about his idyllic childhood. But when he gets the chance
to go back to those years, he gets a bad taste of reality.
