The Twilight Zone
Death Ship
TV Flash files “Death Ship” as hour 108 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 4, episode 6, aired 1963-02-07, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E06: listed hour 108 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 6 of 18 in season 4. It aired 1963-02-07 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Mute” (S04E05). Next is “Jess-Belle” (S04E07).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Three astronauts (Jack Klugman, Ross Martin, and Fred Beir) discover exact duplicates of their spaceship and themselves that crashed on a distant planet.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Death Ship sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S04E06 is listed hour 108 of 156 — hour 6 of 18 in season 4, season 4 episode 6.
When did The Twilight Zone S04E06 air?
Death Ship aired 1963-02-07 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the empty-town opener, then the broken-glasses hour. Isolation first, stolen moral second; those two teach the anthology’s real instrument better than any twist ranking.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Serling used fantasy as a smuggled sermon when sponsors would not let a straight drama talk. Watch for isolation as craft, the twist as a bill coming due, and half-hours built to sit in the blood overnight — not to snack in a dump.
October 1959, CBS: a man walks into an empty town and the country learns a new address. The Twilight Zone did not invent the anthology. It invented the anthology as a national flinch — half-hour moral weather, a host in a dark suit, and a closing turn that was supposed to sting after the sponsor smile. Rod Serling had already fought live-drama censors and lost enough rounds to change weapons. Fantasy was the loophole. Aliens, bargains, small towns that eat themselves: the vocabulary of a writer who wanted to talk…
Filed against
- Rod Serling as Host / Narrator
Rod Serling created and hosted The Twilight Zone — moral fables in a black suit, twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection. Sponsor and censor battles are as legendary as the episodes. On TV Flash he is prestige…