For "The Twilight Zone" Fans Trivia Quiz

Answer: It's a Good Life

Billy Mumy plays Anthony Fremont, a boy that can, and is, allowed to do anything he wants. Anthony dominates the now isolated town of Peaksville, by the fear he may do something unspeakable to the people, usually by making them into something grotesque, then sending them "into the corn field".

He can also control TV broadcasts and the weather. Mumy appeared in two other "Twilight Zone" episodes - "Long Distance Call" and "In Praise of Pip", then went on to star in the role for which he is best remembered - Will Robinson on the sci-fi series "Lost in Space".

Answer: The Monsters are Due on Maple Street

A strange light in the sky followed by power outages and erratically operating appliances, have the residents of Maple Street mildly curious until a young boy plants the suggestion that it is being caused by a family of aliens in the neighborhood. One by one, hysteria sweeps over the people who start becoming suspicious of everyone else being the aliens and start attacking each other. Come to find out, it IS aliens causing the ruckus - as part of their psychological study of earthlings.

Answer: The Eye of the Beholder

Janet Tyler's head is swathed in bandages since she has just undergone plastic surgery to correct her "non-conformity". Her doctor tells her that she has had the last operation allowed, and if it hasn't been successful, she will be "sent away" to live in a segregated community of others like her.

When her bandages are removed, it's discovered that the operation failed. Her face is revealed showing what, to us, is a very pretty face (Donna Douglas). However, in her society, unsymmetrical and misshapen faces are "normal". Donna Douglas is best remembered for playing Ellie Mae Clampett on "The Beverly Hillbillies".

Answer: Walking Distance

Gig Young is Martin Sloan, a harried businessman. He finds out that his hometown is just a few miles away and decides to visit it and discovers nothing has changed since he left it. He relishes his memories by trying to relive his boyhood and ends up becoming a minor nuisance to the community.

He locates his parents, but his father (Frank Overton), knowing Martin's true identity from a dropped wallet, discourages Martin from staying - "There's only one summer for every customer." Reluctantly Martin leaves to face his adult responsibilities.

Answer: Nick of Time

William Shatner plays Don Carter, a successful businessman on his honeymoon. He and his bride (Patricia Breslin) have to wait for their car to be repaired and wander into the small town's diner to have lunch. While there he sees a tabletop fortune telling machine.

As a gag, he asks it a question about an expected promotion and the slip of paper indicates that "It has been decided in your favor". He calls his office and learns he did get the promotion. Intrigued, he starts asking more and more questions, all the answers seemingly fit his questions, until his wife becomes alarmed and persuades him not to depend on a machine to decide their future. Shatner also played the lead character in the, perhaps, more well-remembered "Twilight Zone" episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet".

Answer: A Hundred Yards Over the Rim

Christian Horn (Cliff Robertson) is leading a wagon train from Ohio to California, but they are out of water and his son is very sick. Horn goes to seek water, but once over the edge of a hill sees a paved road, telephone poles, an 18-wheeler rig and a diner.

The diner owners befriend who they take to be a man disorientated by exposure. While there, Horn learns from a book that his son grew up to be a famous doctor. The diner owner calls the sheriff to take Horn away, but he escapes with a bottle of antibiotic pills for his son and once over the hill again, he is back in 1847.

Answer: The Fugitive

Old Ben (J. Pat O'Malley) has the ability to assume any form and does so to entertain orphaned Jenny (Susan Gordon) who is handicapped and lives with her hard-nosed aunt (Nancy Kulp). One day two men show up looking for Ben. Ben tells Jenny he is a fugitive and the men are his pursuers and he will have to go away to escape from them. Before departing, he cures Jenny, but the men make her ill again to lure Ben back. Ben returns and the men reveal that Ben is not a criminal, but a respected, albeit diffident, ruler of their planet. Ben is obligated to return with them, but Jenny is told she can't go with Ben. Jenny asks for a minute alone with Ben to say goodbye and when the men return, there are two Jennys.

Not knowing who the real Ben is, the men have to take both of them.

At the end Rod Serling reveals that Ben's true form is that of a handsome young man who will eventually marry Jenny.

Answer: A Quality of Mercy

Eager to prove himself worthy of a command assignment, shavetail Lt. Katell (Dean Stockwell), orders his troops to assault a cave in 1945 in the the Philippines where some Japanese soldiers are sheltering. Some of the war-weary American soldiers advise the officer to bypass the cave, but Katell is determined to show no mercy to the enemy. All at once, he is at Corregidor in 1942, and has become Japanese Lt. Yamuri ordered to assault a cave were American soldiers are hiding.

He pleads unsuccessfully with the Japanese captain to show mercy to the Americans. Suddenly he is back in the Philippines where the American troops hear about the A-Bomb.

The war is over and they are ordered not to attack the Japanese.

Answer: Back There

Russell Johnson plays Peter Corrigan, a member of a Washington, D.C. men's club where the conversation of the night is about time travel and whether a person going back in time could alter history. When Peter leaves the club, he discovers that he has gone back to April 14, 1865 - the exact day of President Lincoln's assassination.

In trying to prevent Lincoln's death, people think him a lunatic or a drunk. "Mr. Wellington" steps in to seemingly befriend Peter, but is actually John Wilkes Booth trying to stop Peter's interference. Booth drugs Peter then leaves to assume his place in history.

When Peter revives, he learns Lincoln has been shot and killed. He returns to the present and finds the former club attendant, William, is now a wealthy man and a club member. Come to find out, William's great-grandfather was a policeman who believed Peter's story, became famous for trying to stop the assassination, entered politics and became rich. Peter now knows MAJOR events can't be changed, just ones not affecting world history.

Answer: A World of His Own

Gregory West (Keenan Wynn), a playwright, whose returning wife, Victoria (Phyllis Kirk), sees him through the window in the obviously amorous company of another woman. She barges in, but the woman has disappeared. Confessing, West tells Victoria that he can simply describe the physical features of someone into his dictaphone and the person will materialize.

When he wants to get rid of them, he just throws the tape in the fireplace. Victoria is incredulous, so West demonstrates by making an elephant appear in their front hallway.

She still thinks he is insane and threatens to have him taken away to an asylum. He goes to a wall safe and removes an envelope with her name written on it and pulls out a length of tape. Still not believing, she grabs it away and throws it in the fire.

She vanishes. West then starts to dictate her attributes, but re-considers and goes ahead to describe the "other" woman. In a tongue-in-cheek ending, Serling, making his first on-screen appearance in a "Twilight Zone" episode, walks on to explain the episode. West goes to his safe and gets an envelope with "Rod Serling" written on it.

He tosses it into the fire. Serling says, "Oh well, that's the way it goes.", and promptly disappears.