37 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.
Air date: 1961-09-15 · 30 min
Two soldiers from opposing sides cross paths in a city demolished by a devastating war that occurred years before. While they approach one another with suspicion and some hostility, they soon realize they need one another to survive.
Open episode 1 ↗Air date: 1961-09-22 · 30 min
An FAA inspector (Harold J. Stone) and members of the airport staff (Noah Keen, Fredd Wayne, Robert Karnes, and Bing Russell) investigate a plane that arrives without a single person onboard – and each sees it differently.
Open episode 2 ↗Air date: 1961-09-29 · 30 min
When a suburban dinner party is interrupted by an announcement that a nuclear attack on the U.S. is imminent, the party goers scramble home to try and find a way to survive. However, when several families discover that their neighbor, Dr. Stockton has built a bomb shelter for just such an occasion, everyone turns against one another in an attempt to be invited inside the shelter. Will things be able to return to normal if warning turns out to be false?
Open episode 3 ↗Air date: 1961-10-06 · 30 min
While traveling down an apparently deserted road, toward the end of the Civil War, a wounded Confederate Soldier stops to take a rest on the steps of a destroyed mansion. While there, he meets a widow of a Confederate Officer. They soon watch as soldiers, from the North and South, travel down the road, and ultimately realize that at the end of the road is the Promised Land.
Open episode 4 ↗Air date: 1961-10-13 · 30 min
A legendary pool player (Jonathan Winters) returns from the dead to meet the challenge of a pool shark (Jack Klugman) with the shark's life at stake.
Open episode 5 ↗Air date: 1961-10-20 · 30 min
In Central America, a mirror allows a dictator (Peter Falk) to see the faces of his enemies.
Open episode 6 ↗Air date: 1961-10-27 · 30 min
When the outlaw Pinto Sykes is gunned downed after being ambushed by the men in his hometown, Pinto vows revenge on the gun-for-hire that the men sent after him. When Conny Miller, the man hired to bring Sykes to justice arrives in town following the ambush, he is told of Sykes deathbed vow: if Miller ever comes near his grave, he'll reach up and have his revenge. Thinking that Miller was scared of Sykes, the men of town bet him to go to his grave, and soon discover that vengeance, even from beyond the grave, is a powerful thing.
Open episode 7 ↗Air date: 1961-11-03 · 30 min
A six-year-old boy terrorizes the residents of Peaksville, Ohio, with special powers that control reality.
Open episode 8 ↗Air date: 1961-11-10 · 30 min
A former Nazi SS Captain arrives in a small Bavarian town, looking to visit Dachau, an old Concentration camp, wanting to remember what it was like during the war. However, the ghosts of the men he put to death soon arrive, looking to put him on trial for the part he played in their deaths and other crimes against humanity.
Open episode 9 ↗Air date: 1961-11-17 · 30 min
The earth gets thrown off its orbit, and as a result, is getting pulled closer to the sun. Unable to leave their apartment building to find a cooler place to live, two women attempt to acclimate to their new living conditions. However, it soon appears to be nothing but a bad dream of one of the women, as they live on a freezing earth that is being pulled away from the sun.
Open episode 10 ↗Air date: 1961-11-24 · 30 min
During the Civil War, a Confederate scout (Gary Merrill) enters a town to find Yankee soldiers frozen in place.
Open episode 11 ↗Air date: 1961-12-01 · 30 min
An engineer in Africa returns to the States... and a tribesman's curse follows him.
Open episode 12 ↗Air date: 1961-12-15 · 30 min
A janitor (Buster Keaton) travels from 1890 to 1962, courtesy of a time helmet.
Open episode 13 ↗Air date: 1961-12-22 · 30 min
Five individuals--a major, a clown, a ballerina, a hobo, and a piper--find themselves trapped in a metal cylinder with no memory of how they came there or their past lives... and no apparent hope of a future.
Open episode 14 ↗Air date: 1961-12-29 · 30 min
During World War II, a gung-ho young American lieutenant is forced to see the enemy's side of the battlefield... whether he wants to or not.
Open episode 15 ↗Air date: 1962-01-05 · 30 min
An elderly woman living in a condemned building is scared of leaving her home and finding a new place to live, because she fears that "Mr. Death" is out to kill her. When she finds a wounded young police officer outside her door, she is uncertain if she should help him, fearing that if she does, it would lead to her death.
Open episode 16 ↗Air date: 1962-01-12 · 30 min
A wealthy man sets out to get revenge on three people that he thinks have wronged him... by convincing them that he's the only one who can protect them from a coming nuclear war.
Open episode 17 ↗Air date: 1962-01-19 · 30 min
A homeless man (Warren Stevens) literally walks into another life when he steals the shoes from a corpse.
Open episode 18 ↗Air date: 1962-01-26 · 30 min
An old man and his hound dog drown while out raccoon and soon begin trying to find out where they belong in the afterlife. When the first place they come to along the road appears too good to be true, old Hyder Simpson is ready to walk through the gate. However, when he discovers that his dog won't be allowed to join him, he soon has second thoughts and eventually continues on down the road to the Promised Land.
Open episode 19 ↗Air date: 1962-02-02 · 30 min
The egotistic star (Larry Blyden) of a western TV series comes face to face with the real Jesse James (Arch Johnson).
Open episode 20 ↗Air date: 1962-02-09 · 30 min
The dispirited residents of a nursing home are urged by one of their number to believe that they can recapture their youth by playing a children's game. Note : Steven Spielberg remade this as Segment II of Twilight Zone: The Movie , showing the nursing-home residents being offered a second chance at youth by their new arrival, Mr. Bloom (Scatman Crothers).
Open episode 21 ↗Air date: 1962-02-16 · 30 min
Sadistic and hated theater critic Fitzgerald Fortune buys a player piano that has the power to reveal the souls of all who hear it.
Open episode 22 ↗Air date: 1962-02-23 · 30 min
As family and friends sit through the funeral of Jeff Myrtlebank, they are in for a rude awakening when he sits up from his coffin, demanding to know what's going on. They then begin to fear Jeff came back to life, possessed by a demon and soon bow to his will for fear of what might happen to their crops and loved ones.
Open episode 23 ↗Air date: 1962-03-02 · 30 min
An alien race, the Kanamits, come to Earth providing technology and guidance to turn the planet into a utopia. But one man questions their benevolence.
Open episode 24 ↗Air date: 1962-03-09 · 30 min
A fugitive (J. Pat O'Malley) from another world befriends a handicapped girl (Susan Gordon).
Open episode 25 ↗Air date: 1962-03-16 · 30 min
When parents Chris and Ruth Miller wake up in the middle of the night to the cries of their daughter Tina, they are shocked to discover that she somehow fell through the wall of her bedroom into another dimension. They then call Chris' physicist friend Bill for help in rescuing Tina before the portal she fell through closes for good.
Open episode 26 ↗Air date: 1962-03-23 · 30 min
David Allen Gurney wakes up on morning and discovers that no one knows who he is and that he doesn't exist in the new world that he finds himself in.
Open episode 27 ↗Air date: 1962-03-30 · 30 min
When two astronauts (Claude Akins, Joe Maross) land on a distant planet, one of them becomes a "God" to a race of tiny people.
Open episode 28 ↗Air date: 1962-04-06 · 30 min
A fanatical one-man moral crusader (Theodore Bikel) decides to shrink those he deems evil to a height of two feet at four o'clock.
Open episode 29 ↗Air date: 1962-04-13 · 30 min
A rural gas station attendant given to telling tall tales about himself is kidnapped by aliens who believe him to be one of Earth's leading intellects.
Open episode 30 ↗Air date: 1962-04-20 · 30 min
An elderly couple look to trade-in their aging bodies for younger models. However, they only have enough money for one to go through the process, and the husband decides to go through it and then earn the money for his wife. However, upon going through with it, he realizes he made a mistake.
Open episode 31 ↗Air date: 1962-04-27 · 30 min
A visitor from outer space (Geoffrey Horne) tries to present a gift to a Mexican village that greets him only with suspicion.
Open episode 32 ↗Air date: 1962-05-04 · 30 min
A ventriloquist (Cliff Robertson) believes his dummy is alive ... and is beginning to take over not just the act.
Open episode 33 ↗Air date: 1962-05-11 · 30 min
Upon a newlywed's arrival to his boyhood home with his bride, he starts to have reservations selling the place following his mother's death. However, it doesn't take long for the home to have a magical effect on the couple: time has turned back to when the overbearing mother is back alive and the bridegroom is back living as a little boy, who promptly tells his bride to go away.
Open episode 34 ↗Air date: 1962-05-18 · 30 min
A recent widower, needing loving care for his three young children, orders a cybernetic "grandmother". While two of the children accept her, one of his daughters fiercely rejects her, with near tragic consequences.
Open episode 35 ↗Air date: 1962-05-25 · 30 min
Inept guardian angel Harmon Cavender is given a chance to earn his wings by helping an unconventional big city woman, the young, awkward Agnes Grep.
Open episode 36 ↗Air date: 1962-06-01 · 30 min
An elderly boys school teacher faces mandatory retirement and questions whether he's done anything with his life.
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