"The Twilight Zone" Episodes (1959-1964), Part 3 Quiz

Answer: a flower pot falls off a window sill

When Paladine (played by Gary Merrill) sees a regiment and walks over to them, no one is moving; they're frozen still. He walks among them, trying to figure out what's going on, concluding that they're sleeping or dead. He's confused but gladdened by a box of hard tack he finds, saying its the first meat that he's had in months.

As he's gnawing hungrily on the meat a flower pot falls off a windowsill. It gives Paradine a start. He gets up and heads over to it. He picks up the broken pot and dismisses it as the wind.

Answer: goat

Alan Richards (John Dehner) and his wife Doris (Emily McLaughlin) recently returned from a trip to Africa, where Alan's company is building a dam. Alan finds outs that his wife has kept several items that a local shaman on the trip had given to her for protection.

When he confronts her about them, she insists that they are nothing more than souvenirs to her. He tests this explanation by burning them, which upsets her. She then begs him to stop construction on the dam. Dismissing her pleas he opens the door to leave for work and there in the hallway of his apartment building, just outside his door, is the carcass of a dead goat.

Answer: Rip

Hyder Simpson (played by Arthur Hunnicutt) lives with his wife and his hound dog Rip in the backwoods. Mrs. Simpson does not allow Rip the dog indoors for fear of fleas, but because Rip once saved Hyder's life, Hyder won't ever part with him. Recent bad omens have Mrs. Simpson worried, and warns Hyder not to go raccoon hunting that night.

But Hyder and Rip set out anyway, and when Rip dives into a pond after a raccoon, Hyder jumps in after him to save Rip, but only the raccoon comes up out of the water.

Answer: a truck

Coming out of the commercial break, the episode title, producer, writer, and director are superimposed on a shot of the mountainous landscape that dissolves to Fletcher (Claude Akins) handling some equipment. Craig (Joe Maross) arrives. Annoyed, Fletcher asks, "Well, where's my wandering boy been most of the day? You take a lot of walks, buddy." Fletcher becomes suspicious of a box of Craig's and when they argue, Fletcher wins the struggle and peers at the contents with a magnifier. Craig claims he was only collecting lichen, but Fletch sees trees. Craig says, "Yes, that's what they are: trees. I might as well go the whole route now.

They were alongside of a stream that runs about a hundred feet. It's about two and a half inches wide. If you think that's something, look at this. (opening handkerchief and placing microscopic object onto his palm) Look at it!" Through the magnifier, looking onto Craig's hand, Fletcher sees a truck.

Answer: Colonel

"Probe 7, Over and Out" debuted on November 29th, 1963 on "The Twilight Zone". Richard Basehart plays downed spaceman Colonel Adam Cook, injured and marooned on another planet. Viewers may recall that Basehart also played the commanding Admiral Harriman Nelson on Irwin Allen's sci-fi adventure television series "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" (1964-1968).

Answer: a canteen

Connors, McCluskey, and Langsford, the three National Guardsmen, were playing war games close to where the battle of Little Big Horn occurred many years before. A growing uneasy feelings creeps in as they drive their tank along Rosebud Creek. They hear a rifle shot and an Indian war cry, and then they find a "7th Cavalry" canteen. Later on, they cross paths with a riderless horse and a group of wigwams.

They recall their history lessons and realize that Custer's Last Stand is happening! They approach a ridge and hear the sounds of battle below/ They have to decide whether to play a part in this famous massacre, with their modern weapons.

Answer: Howardville

Bunny Blake, played by Maggie McNamara, is a movie star whose hometown fan club sends her a magic ring, which allows her to see the faces of her friends and family back in the town she grew up in, Howardville. They implore her to come back home. Though she's been hired to make a movie in Rome, Bunny's fans beg her, via the magic ring, to come home and visit.

She does pay a visit, flying there, and she spends time with her sister, Hildy and her nephew Bud. The Howardville annual picnic is to be held that day. Bunny tries to get it postponed, but to no avail.

She arranges a one-woman show at the high school auditorium. It is her attempt to draw people away from the picnic because she has received a bad omen about impending disaster at the picnic.

Answer: FYH 234

THX 138 is the license plate of John Milner's (Paul LeMat) car in George Lucas's film "American Graffiti", an homage he paid to himself for his early sci-fi film "THX-1138" starring Robert Duvall.
TZ 1964, is simply code for "Twilight Zone" 1964, the year this episode came out. Similarly, S5 E14 is code for season 5 episode 14, which applies to "You Drive".

The episode is about a businessman named Oliver Pope who accidentally hits a boy on his bicycle. But instead of helping, he drives away when he realizes no one saw the accident. But there is a witness, who has mistakenly pointed to Oliver's co-worker as the culprit. Oliver's car though, has a sense of justice and begins a crusade to drive Oliver Pope to turn himself in.

Answer: 40 years

This sad episode debuted January 10, 1964, featuring Robert Lansing as astronaut Douglas Stansfield about to embark on a mission exploring another planetary system; it will keep him from Earth for 40 years. He will cryogenically hibernate on the trip, so he actually won't age in all that time relative to people on Earth. Bad timing for romance though as Stansfield meets a woman named Sandra Horn (Mariette Hartley) shortly before the mission and the two fall hopelessly in love with each other.

Answer: 18

The year 2000 must have seemed so far away back in the early '60s of "The Twilight Zone", because in this episode, by the year 2000, the show poses a world in which all men and women are required to undergo a process known as the Transformation whereby bodies are surgically altered to look like one of a small handful of beautiful choices. Marilyn Cuberle (Collin Wilcox) however, doesn't want to change her looks for she is content, and seeks to keep her sense of self in a world of cookie-cutter types.