Season 3
La Quatrième Dimension
Avec des thèmes ressassés, plusieurs épisodes statiques ou empesés et une difficulté à trouver de nouveaux sponsors, CBS et Serling lui-même cèdent néanmoins à l'effet d'usure. À l'issue de cette saison, au printemps 1962, l'anthologie est mise en suspens. Cette pause allait durer une année, jusqu'au début de 1963. Elle va entraîner de grands changements au sein de la production et un affaiblissement de la position de Serling, entre-temps parti enseigner. Même si les saisons 4 et 5 développeront encore moult épisodes captivants, de nombreux fans et critiques estiment que l'âge d'or de l'anthologie, le plus innovant et audacieux, s'achève avec cette saison 3.
Épisodes
Two
A man and a woman, on opposite sides of a future war, encounter each other in a deserted town.
★ 7.0 · 23 votes
The Arrival
A plane lands safely, but all its passengers, pilot and crew are missing.
★ 7.0 · 21 votes
The Shelter
When a nuclear attack appears imminent, several suburban friends and neighbors fight over control of a single bomb shelter.
★ 8.4 · 29 votes
The Passersby
On the road home from the Civil War, a Confederate soldier stops at a burned-out house and gets to know the owner, a recent widow.
★ 6.7 · 18 votes
A Game of Pool
Championship pool player Fats Brown returns from the grave for one last game.
★ 7.0 · 18 votes
The Mirror
After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.
★ 6.3 · 17 votes
The Grave
Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.
★ 6.8 · 16 votes
It's a Good Life
On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
★ 8.2 · 29 votes
Deaths-Head Revisited
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
★ 7.0 · 22 votes
The Midnight Sun
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.
★ 7.9 · 25 votes
Still Valley
Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
★ 6.1 · 14 votes
The Jungle
Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
★ 6.6 · 14 votes
Once Upon a Time
Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962.
★ 7.2 · 18 votes
Five Characters in Search of an Exit
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
★ 7.9 · 25 votes
A Quality of Mercy
A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.
★ 7.1 · 15 votes
Nothing in the Dark
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
★ 7.8 · 27 votes
One More Pallbearer
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
★ 6.6 · 16 votes
Dead Man's Shoes
A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.
★ 6.7 · 13 votes
The Hunt
On a hunting trip, Hyder Simpson and his dog Rip dive into a lake after a raccoon. When he gets home he finds that no one can see or hear him.
★ 6.8 · 17 votes
Showdown with Rance McGrew
The star of a Western TV series suddenly finds himself transported back in time to the real Wild West, and face-to-face with the real Jesse James.
★ 6.7 · 16 votes
Kick the Can
A retiree living in a rest home thinks he has discovered the secret of youth — acting young, and in particular playing a children's game called "kick-the-can".
★ 7.1 · 15 votes
A Piano in the House
Fortune discovers that a piano he bought his wife for her birthday has magical properties - the music that it plays makes people reveal their true essence.
★ 7.1 · 13 votes
The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank
Jeff Myrtlebank comes back to life at his own funeral and soon begins to act very strangely...
★ 6.7 · 14 votes
To Serve Man
An alien race comes to Earth, promising peace and sharing technology. A team of linguists sets out to translate the aliens' language, using a book whose title they deduce to be "To Serve Man."
★ 8.5 · 35 votes
The Fugitive
Old Ben, who is able to transform himself into anything, tries to help a crippled little girl.
★ 6.7 · 13 votes
Little Girl Lost
Awakened by the cries of their daughter Bettina, Chris and Ruth Miller enter her room to find that she has vanished, even though they still hear her crying for help. Chris' physicist friend Bill thinks she moved into another dimension.
★ 7.1 · 19 votes
Person or Persons Unknown
David Gurney wakes up to find that no one - his wife, his co-workers, his best friend, not even his own mother knows him.
★ 7.5 · 16 votes
The Little People
An astronaut declares himself a god when his ship lands on a planet populated by people smaller than ants.
★ 7.3 · 18 votes
Four O'Clock
Oliver Crangle is a bitter, prejudiced man. Through unknown means he intends to shrink every evil person in the world at four o'clock.
★ 5.9 · 15 votes
Hocus-Pocus and Frisby
A loud-mouthed braggart's boasts attract the attention of some aliens.
★ 6.9 · 17 votes
The Trade-Ins
An elderly couple visit the New Life Corporation, hoping to transport their personalities into youthful artificial bodies.
★ 6.9 · 15 votes
The Gift
An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.
★ 6.2 · 13 votes
The Dummy
A ventriloquist is convinced that his dummy, Willie, is alive and evil. He makes plans for a new act with a new dummy: plans that Willie doesn't support!
★ 6.9 · 15 votes
Young Man's Fancy
When a newlywed couple briefly return to the groom's childhood home, the ties of the past prove too strong to resist.
★ 5.9 · 11 votes
I Sing the Body Electric
A widower buys a robot grandmother for his three children.
★ 6.7 · 12 votes
Cavender is Coming
Cavender, an angel trying to win his wings, tries to help down-on-her-luck Agnes, who has just been fired.
★ 6.3 · 13 votes
The Changing of the Guard
An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.
★ 6.9 · 17 votesPhotos
