"The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 2 Quiz

Answer: Sydney Pollack

Brian Aherne plays an older actor who, nostalgic for the past and missing his late wife, steps into a night club they used to frequent. He finds his younger wife there as he has seemingly stepped into the past.
Pollack plays Arthur Willis, an up-and-coming theatre director who has replaced the director of the play Templeton is acting in. There is friction between the two men at first, but by the end, Templeton has regained his coonfidence and is able to show Willis his commitment to the play is solid.

Answer: Penicillin

Cliff Robertson plays Chris Horn, a western pioneer leading wagon train group across the country in 1847. His son Christian has fallen seriously ill. The whole group is in danger actually, short on both food and water. It's another time travel episode as Horn decides to set out ahead of the group in a desperate attempt to find help. On the other side of a hill he finds....a gas station.

In 1961 in New Mexico. Once inside he describes to the proprietors Joe and Mary Lou his encounter with a monster (it was a truck). Thinking there is something, um, "off" about Chris what with his stove pipe hat and musket and old timey garb, Joe calls a doctor.

The doctor finds him rational, but has some penicillin for him nonetheless. Which he winds up taking back with him.

Answer: Death Valley

Part of Rod Serling's opening monologue includes: "...The time is now, and the place is a mountain cave in Death Valley, U.S.A. In just a moment, these four men will utilize the services of a truck placed in cosmoline, loaded with a hot heist cooled off by a century of sleep, and then take a drive into The Twilight Zone."

The quartet of men who heisted the gold brick from a train hope that by hiding out in the cave for 100 years they will both evade capture and allow time to forget their crime, but also after all that time, the price of their gold will have skyrocketed! That was their hope anyway.

Answer: Happy Daze Cafe

Ace Larsen (Dane Clark) is the owner of the Happy Daze Cafe. He also has a predilection for gambling. He works with his girlfriend Kitty Cavanaugh (played by Christine White, who appeared in another episode, 'Nightmare at 20,000 Feet' playing Shatner's wife) and his friend Jimbo Cobb, played by Buddy Ebsen of "The Beverly Hillbillies.".

When Ace discovers Jimbo's special telekinetic abilities, he seeks to exploit it in the casinos to help tilt the odds in his favor.

Answer: murder in the first degree

Peter Coyote plays Adam Grant in the 1986 reboot of this episode, but in the original, Dennis Weaver plays the man doomed to the electric chair for first degree murder.
The Jury Foreman tells us this: "Your Honor, we find the defendant, Adam Grant, guilty of murder in the first degree."

Answer: makes his landlady disappear

Beechcroft, played by comedian Shelley Berman develops the ability to alter reality after reading the occult book "The Mind and the Matter". There he is in his apartment when the landlady comes a knockin' for the rent, and to test out his book learnin' Beechcroft wishes her away and it works. (Is she in the corn field too, like so many of Billy Mumy's victims?) He performs a couple of the other tricks mentioned among the choices such as ridding a subway car of its passengers and making everyone in the world just like him, but ridding the landlady was the first act he performed.

Answer: Charles Beaumont

Rod Serling wrote the original screenplays for or adapted 99 of the 156 "The Twilight Zone" episodes. Charles Beaumont wrote the second most episodes for the series, with 22; Richard Matheson wrote the third most with 14, and Earl Hamner Jr. wrote the fourth most with 4.

Answer: Abraham Lincoln

In front of a war-torn southern mansion, a somber procession of those wounded in the Civil War walk wearily down a dusty road where a bitter young woman named Lavinia sits waiting. The secret of the road gradually becomes apparent--all these people eerily traveling along this road are dead. Lavinia's dead husband Jud, who has come along tells her so.

He continues his trek down the road and tells Lavinia he will wait for her at the end of it. She crieds out for him, but then a comforting voice comes from behind.

It is Abraham Lincoln, the final casualty of the war, and the last man on the road. Lavinia accepting that she too is dead goes after Jud as Lincoln follows behind.

Answer: Randolph

The episode takes place in a Chicago pool hall. Rod Serling's opening monologue tells us: "Jesse Cardiff, pool shark, the best on Randolph Street, who will soon learn that trying to be the best at anything carries its own special risks. In or out of the Twilight Zone." In "The Incredible world of Horace Ford", toy designer Horace Ford (played by Pat Hingle), becomes obsessed with revisiting his childhood because he remembers it as a wonderful time, growing up on Randolph Street.

When the opportunity to indeed go back in time to his childhood come up, he learns that perhaps it wasn't all that wonderful after all.

Answer: stick a Bowie knife into the grave

In this episode Conny Miller (Lee Marvin) returns to his local town after the notorious outlaw Pinto Sykes (played by Richard Geary) was shot and killed by the citizens of the town. Conny had been hired to track down Pinto Sykes and kill him himself, but he never got close to Sykes. Sykes was only too happy to brag to the townspeople that Conny was afraid to get up close to him and purposely kept his distance. On his deathbed, Pinto put a curse on Conny.

Some of the local townsfolk challenge Conny to go to Sykes grave; Sykes' sister even taunts Conny that he isn't brave enough to. Conny takes up the dare and they all agree that Conny would prove he went to Pinto's grave at midnight by and sticking a dagger in the earth.