The Twilight Zone - Complete Season 3 (1961) (repost)

In his third year as executive producer, host, narrator and primary writer for The Twilight Zone, Serling was beginning to feel exhausted. "I've never felt quite so drained of ideas as I do at this moment", said the 37-year old playwright at the time. In the first two seasons he contributed 48 scripts, or 73% of the show's total output. He contributed only 56% of this season's output. "The show now seems to be feeding off itself", said a Variety reviewer of the season's episode two.

Despite his avowed weariness, Serling again managed to produce several teleplays that are widely regarded as classics, including "It's a Good Life", "To Serve Man", and "Five Characters in Search of an Exit". Scripts by Montgomery Pittman and Earl Hamner Jr. supplemented Matheson and Beaumont's output, and George Clayton Johnson submitted three teleplays that examined complex themes. The episode "I Sing the Body Electric" could boast, "Written by Ray Bradbury." By the end of the season, the series had reached over 100 episodes.

EPISODES:
1 "Two"
2 "The Arrival"
3 "The Shelter"
4 "The Passersby"
5 "A Game of Pool"
6 "The Mirror"
7 "The Grave"
8 "It's a Good Life"
9 "Deaths-Head Revisited"
10 "The Midnight Sun"
11 "Still Valley"
12 "The Jungle"
13 "Once Upon a Time"
14 "Five Characters in Search of an Exit"
15 "A Quality of Mercy"
16 "Nothing in the Dark"
17 "One More Pallbearer"
18 "Dead Man's Shoes"
19 "The Hunt"
20 "Showdown with Rance McGrew"
21 "Kick the Can"
22 "A Piano in the House"
23 "The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"
24 "To Serve Man"
25 "The Fugitive"
26 "Little Girl Lost"
27 "Person or Persons Unknown"
28 "The Little People"
29 "Four O'Clock"
30 "Hocus-Pocus and Frisby"
31 "The Trade-Ins"
32 "The Gift"
33 "The Dummy"
34 "Young Man's Fancy"
35 "I Sing the Body Electric"
36 "Cavender Is Coming"
37 "The Changing of the Guard"