The Twilight Zone - Complete Season 4 (1963) (repost)

In November 1962, CBS contracted Twilight Zone (now sans The) as a mid-season January replacement for Fair Exchange, the very show that replaced it in the September 1962 schedule. In order to fill the Fair Exchange time slot each episode had to be expanded to an hour, an idea which did not sit well with the production crew. "Ours is the perfect half-hour show… If we went to an hour, we'd have to fleshen our stories, soap opera style. Viewers could watch fifteen minutes without knowing whether they were in a Twilight Zone or Desilu Playhouse", Serling responded. Herbert Hirschman was hired to replace long-time producer Buck Houghton. One of Hirschman's first decisions was to direct a new opening sequence, this one illustrating a door, eye, window and other objects suspended in space. His second task was to find and produce quality scripts.

This season of Twilight Zone once again turned to the reliable trio of Serling, Matheson and Beaumont. However, Serling’s input was limited this season; he still provided the lion’s-share of the teleplays, but as executive producer he was virtually absent and as host, his artful narrations had to be shot back-to-back against a gray background during his infrequent trips to Los Angeles. Due to complications from a developing brain disease, Beaumont’s input also began to diminish significantly. Additional scripts were commissioned from Earl Hamner, Jr. and Reginald Rose to fill in the gap.

EPISODES:
1 "In His Image"
2 "The Thirty-Fathom Grave"
3 "Valley of the Shadow"
4 "He's Alive"
5 "Mute"
6 "Death Ship"
7 "Jess-Belle"
8 "Miniature"
9 "Printer's Devil"
10 "No Time Like the Past"
11 "The Parallel"
12 "I Dream of Genie"
13 "The New Exhibit"
14 "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"
15 "The Incredible World of Horace Ford"
16 "On Thursday We Leave for Home"
17 "Passage on the Lady Anne"
18 "The Bard"