The Signpost Up Ahead

It’s our Season One finale! We answer all your burning questions that we posed in previous episodes! We run all the numbers on the season! We do bits! We once again ask you for money and reviews!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyRate and Review Us! Tip Us @primesilver on Venmo! Send Us Emails!

Her name is Mary. She's hot, but not, you know, like supermodel-hot. More like lady-I-run-into-at-the-gym-all-the-time-hot. She's walking boobily down the hall, her breasts blowing in the wind.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Richard MathesonProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Ralph NelsonGregory West: Keenan WynnVictoria West: Phyllis KirkMary: Mary La Roche

Jack Warden must have some rotten luck to keep being paired with robots. He doesn’t even get to have sex with this one (or does he?)Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Robert Parrish and Alvin GanzerMouth McGarry: Jack WardenCasey: Robert SorrellsDr. Stillman: Abraham SofaerMonk: Don O'KellyDoctor: Jonathan HoleBeasley: Alan DexterCommissioner: Rusty Lane

Climb down off it, Marsha. Now back on it. Now off it again. Slowly.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Douglas HeyesMarsha White: Anne FrancisSaleswoman: Elizabeth AllenArmbruster: James MillhollinElevator Operator: John ConwellMiss Keevers: Nancy RennickSloan: Patrick Whyte

Listen to this zither music, it’ll change your life.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: William AsherJames B. W. Bevis: Orson BeanJ. Hardy Hempstead: Henry JonesMr. Peckinpaugh: Charles LanePoliceman: William Schallert2nd Policeman: House Peters Jr.Young Lady: Colleen O'SullivanBartender: Horace McMahonMargaret: Florence MacMichaelLandlady: Dorothy NeumanPeddler: Vito ScottiLittle Boy: Timmy Cletro

Enter Klug-manTell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Don MedfordJoey Crown: Jack KlugmanGabe: John AndersonNan: Mary WebsterBaron: Frank WolffTruck Driver: James FlavinPawnshop Owner: Ned GlassWoman Pedestrian: Diane Honodel

Months later, we still don't know what "Why don't you take a flying jump at the moon" actually means.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Robert Presnell, Jr., based on the short story “The Chaser” by John CollierProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Douglas HeyesRoger Shackleforth: George GrizzardProf. Daemon: John McintireLeila: Patricia BarryHomburg: J. Pat O'MalleyBlonde: Barbara PerryFat Lady: Marjorie BennettBartender: Duane GreyTall Man: Rusty Wescoatt

Next stop, the GartverseTell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Robert ParrishGart Williams: James DalyJane Williams: Patricia DonahueMr Misrell: Howard SmithConductor 1: Jason WingreenConductor 2: James MaloneyHelen: Mavis NealBoy One: Billy BoothBoy Two: Butch HengenTrainman: Ryan HayesMan on Wagon: Max Slaten

Why, you don’t remember me? I used to work for your mother. She found me extremely problematic because of the way I talked about you when you were eight. We were great friends. She fired me after a year.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Alvin GanzerHelen Foley: Janice RuleMarkie: Terry BurnhamPeter Selden: Shepperd StrudwickDoctor: Michael FoxPolice Lt: Joe PerryLittle Girl: Suzanne Cupito

Oh, I see the play here. You invite a guy to a fancy penthouse suite, give him everything he wants, engrave is name on the door, then you POISON him! Pretty slick but I’m too fast for you!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Charles BeaumontProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: John BrahmRocky Valentine: Larry BlydenMr Pip: Sebastian CabotPoliceman: John CloseCroupier: Wayne TuckerFirst Beautiful Girl: Sandra WarnerDancing Girl: Barbara EnglishCraps Dealer: Peter HornsbyPoliceman: Neds NelsonParking Attendant: Bill Mullikin

“Oh, the ‘big tall wish’? He uses that shit all the time. Last night he tried to use the big tall wish to get four more minutes in the bathtub, and he hadn’t even wanted to take a bath in the first place!”Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Ron WinstonBolie Jackson: Ivan DixonHenry: Steven PerryFrances: Kim HamiltonMizell: Walter BurkeThomas: Henry ScottOther Fighter: Charles HorvathAnnouncer: Carl McintireReferee: Frankie Van

Sooner or later, Justice will get you. And Justice always means death. Sorry, I don’t make the “justice rules”.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on an unpublished short story by George Clayton JohnsonProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: David Orrick McDearmonJoe Caswell: Albert SalmiGeorge Manion: Russell JohnsonJohnson: Than WyennReverend: Jon LonnerJudge: Fay RoopeElderly Man: George MitchellBartender: Richard KarlanCowboy: Joe Haworth

Hey son, I heard they've got a new exhibit over at the city zoo. It even speaks English. Let's go see it scream before it gets too hoarse.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on the short story "Brothers Beyond the Void" by Paul FairmanProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Mitchell LeisenSam Conrad: Roddy McDowallWarren Marcusson: Paul ComiTeenya: Susan OliverMartian 1: Byron MorrowMartian 2: Vic PerrinMartian 3: Vernon Gray

I was obsessed with defying mortality. I went to doctors, scientists, magicians, nothing. Finally, I'm talking to a friend and he says, "You should talk to my friend, he has his doctorate in philosophy." So I go to his friend and ask him if he knows of anything about living for eternity. Guy doesn't say a word, just pulls out his STUDENT LOANS. I get no respect, I tell ya.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Charles BeaumontProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Anton LeaderWalter Jameson: Kevin McCarthySam Kittridge: Edgar StehliLaurette Bowen: Estelle WinwoodSusanna Kittridge: Dody Heath

You ever have the feeling that one day you're in your office, thinking you're living your normal life, and suddenly you find out you’re an actor on a set? This episode is a bit like that.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Richard MathesonProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Ted PostArthur Curtis: Howard DuffMarty: Frank MaxwellNora: Eileen RyanBrinkley: David WhiteSally: Gail KobeEndicott: Peter WalkerKelly: William IdelsonMarian: Susan Dorn

I don't know if you know this, but people can rush to conclusions about other people with only superficial information...hahaha only in FICTION! Let's entertain Rod's whimsy with the film version of the teleplay my English teacher made me read in 7th grade.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Ron WinstonSteve Brand: Claude AkinsCharlie: Jack WestonMr. Goodman: Barry AtwaterTommy: Jan HandzlikTommy's Mother: Mary GregoryMrs. Brand: Anne BartonMrs. Goodman: Lea WaggnerPete Van Horn: Ben ErwayDon: Burt MetcalfeCharlie's Wife: Lyn GuildWoman Next Door: Joan SudlowMan One: Jason JohnsonWoman One: Amzie StricklandFirst Alien: Sheldon AllmanSecond Alien: William Walsh

Do you believe in alternate universes? In this episode, we meet one of them: the Finger Lakes region. Stop asking me when the goddamn bus is coming and go sleep on the bench with the rest of the filth!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: John BrahmMillicent Barnes: Vera MilesPaul Grinstead: Martin MilnerTicket Agent: Joe HamiltonWoman Attendant: Naomi StevensHusband: Ferris TaylorOld Woman: Therese LyonBus Driver: Edwin Rand

It's Construction Week here at The Signpost Up Ahead! We support our men in orange by recording an entire episode "on site". Beep beep beep, backing up a hot new episode for you!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Charles BeaumontProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Douglas HeyesJeremy Wickwire: Cecil KellawayCapt. James Webber: Kevin HagenKurt Meyers: Jeff MorrowPeter Kirby: Don Dubbins

Memorial Day just passed, but that doesn't mean we can stop remembering heroes like Melvin Levy, who actually died on stage. War, good god y'all, what is it good for? Nothing, it stinks!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Richard L. BareLt. Fitzgerald: William ReynoldsCapt. Riker: Dick YorkCapt. Gunther: Barney PhillipsJeep Driver: Warren OatesSmitty: Michael VandeverSergeant: William PhippsOrderly: Paul MazurskyFreeman: Marc CavellColonel: S. John LaunerMan with Harmonica: Ron Masak

When would you say we are? How many eternities by your measurement? Come join us as we pursue the ultimate weapon of global domination, Time Cloud!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Richard MathesonProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: William ClaxtonFlight Lt. Decker: Kenneth HaighMajor Wilson: Simon ScottGeneral Harper: Alexander ScourbyAir Marshal Mackaye: Robert Warwick

We're back for the second half of the season and do we have a banger for you! We're gambling, we're in Vegas, we are winning silver dollars in excruciatingly small amounts, and we've met a friend!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Robert FloreyFranklin Gibbs: Everett SloaneFlora Gibbs: Vivi JanissDrunk: Art LewisPR Man: William KendisFloor Manager: Lee SandsCashier: Marc TowersPhotographer: Lee MillarSheriff: Arthur PetersonGirl: Carole KentCroupier: Jeffrey Sayre

This episode we hit the road and go cross-country across Orange County, maybe Ventura County if we drive in shifts. It’s one of the all-timers of the entire series and we’re here for the hilly, flat land. Hallooooooo!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on the radio play by Lucille FletcherProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Alvin GanzerNan Adams: Inger StevensHitch-Hiker: Leonard StrongSailor: Adam WilliamsMechanic: Lew GalloHighway Flag Man: Dwight TownsendCounterman: Russ BenderWaitress: Mitzi McCallGas Station Man: George MitchellMrs. Whitney: Eleanor Audley

We're back, talking about the three worst survivalists in the space program. Will they do all of their manual labor and walking during the day in the hot desert sun? Probably!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on an idea by Madelon ChampionProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Stuart RosenbergCorey: Dewey MartinColonel Donlin: Edward BinnsPierson: Ted OtisBrandt: Leslie BarrettLangford: Harry Bartell

We’re back for another famous episode, and we’re ready to talk about everything from experimental French jazz to exotic interior design.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on the short story of the same name by Richard MathesonProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Richard L. BareWilliam Sturka: Fritz WeaverJerry Riden: Joe MarossCarling: Edward AndrewsEve: Lori MarchJody: Denise AlexanderAnn: Jeanne Evans

Scoobedoobebop! We're back to talk jazz, daddy-o! Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on the unpublished short story “All of Us Are Dying” by George ClaytonProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: John BrahmArch Hammer: Harry TownesHammer as Foster: Ross MartinHammer as Sterig: Phillip PineHammer as Marshak: Don GordonMaggie: Beverly GarlandPop Marshak: Peter BroccoPernell: Bernard Fein Detective: Milton FromeTrumpet Player: Harry JacksonMan in Bar: Bob HopkinsMan Two: Pat ComiskeyBusboy: Sam Rawlins

We continue to explore the world of traveling wares salesmen, the true protagonists of The Twilight Zone. How do they stock their big display suitcases, especially with bus tickets? And we get a close relative of the soda jerk, the bartender who butts in on everyone’s business! Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on the short story of the same name by Lewis PadgettProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Alvin GanzerFred Renard: Steve CochranPedott: Ernest TruexGirl in Bar: Arline SaxLefty: Read MorganBartender: William EdmonsonWoman on Street: Judy EllisMan on Street: Fred Kruger 

We’re starting to get into the Space Race in earnest, now. Harrington? Harrington!!!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on the short story “The Disappearing Act” by Richard MathesonProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Douglas HeyesClegg Forbes: Rod TaylorEd Harrington: Charles AidmanWilliam Gart: James HuttonAmy: Maxine Cooper

It's WWII, and a German is inexplicably on a boat of Americans and British trying to evade U-boats. It would be a pretty weird situation for a show called “The Normal Zone,” but we got news for you, pal!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: John BrahmLanser: Nehemiah PersoffCaptain Wilbur: Ben WrightFirst Officer: Patrick MacNeeLt. Mueller: James FranciscusFirst Steward: Richard Peel

We finally made it to one of the Mt. Rushmore writers of The Twilight Zone after Rod, Charles Beaumont! We go into his backstory, as well as the first episode he wrote for the series and Maya the Cat Girl!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Charles Beaumont, based on his short story of the same nameProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Robert FloreyEdward Hall: Richard ConteDr. Rathermann: John LarchMaya: Suzanne Lloyd

We’ve done it. We’ve hit our first certified classic episode. There’s not much more to say, except the 60 minutes or whatever we spend talking about it.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod Serling, based on the short story of the same name by Lynn VenableProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: John BrahmHenry Bemis: Burgess MeredithMr. Carsville: Vaughn TaylorHelen Bemis: Jacqueline deWit

This episode we're out in space for possibly the dumbest application of solitary confinement imaginable. We discuss the one thing the crew could not keep away from on set, and how it nearly killed them, and add another to our collection of 12 Angry Men. We have 1/6 of a set!Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Jack SmightJames Corry: Jack WardenAlicia: Jean MarshCaptain Allenby: John DehnerAdams: Ted KnightCarstairs: James Turley

We're back and this is such a weird episode. But it also has all of Rod's favorite themes, which we'll start to explore. As Variety wrote at the time, “Here was a little gem. Good work, Rod Serling.”Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Mitchell LeisenWalter Bedeker: David WayneEthel Bedeker: Virginia ChristineMr. Cadwallader: Thomas Gomez

Our first time travel episode is not at all what you think of when you think of the mechanics of time travel. It also very clearly confused at least one TV executive in 1959. Join us as we talk about the extremely bizarre life of one Gig Young, as well as lippy soda jerks. Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Robert StevensMartin Sloan: Gig YoungWilcox Boy: Ronnie HowardMr. Sloan: Frank Overton

We're back to talk Old Hollywood, baby! This episode has it all, and by “it all” we mean Martin Balsam! Also the god Ida Lupino. Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Mitchell LeisenBarbara Jean Trenton: Ida LupinoDanny Weiss: Martin BalsamJerry Hearndan: Jerome CowanSally: Alice FrostMusic: Franz Waxman

We’re back with the first of many sad harmonica openings, because that’s right, it’s a Western episode! We’ll talk about Henry J. Fate, gun safety in the Wild West, and the bully who has only one bit in his friend group…it’s starting to get a little old.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Allen ReisnerAl Denton: Dan DuryeaDan Hotaling: Martin LandauLiz: Jeanne CooperHenry J. Fate: Malcolm AtterburyPete Grant: Doug McClure

This episode we talk about super-producer Buck Houghton and the series getting picked up. The TZ episode we discuss is “One for the Angels,” about the age-old story of trying to cheat death by selling him a lot of ties.Tell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Robert ParrishLou Bookman: Ed WynnMr. Death: Murray Hamilton

Pilots and Pilots! Join Eric and Joe as they begin their journey discussing the origins of The Twilight Zone, including Rod Serling and the three pilots that led to the series. Check out “The Time Element” here: https://youtu.be/csLzUH1M5F0?si=YFYMllqpCvCgXeaWTell us what you think! [email protected] by Tim DonnellyEpisode Cast & CrewWritten by: Rod SerlingProducer: Buck HoughtonDirector: Robert StevensCinematographer: Joseph La ShelleMike Ferris: Earl HollimanTheme Music: Bernard Herrmann