Episode
The Twilight Zone: The Jungle
Overview
Alan Richards plans to build a dam in Africa on a tribe's ancestral land. The tribe's voodoo doctor puts a curse on him.
Details
- Series
- The Twilight Zone
- Season
- Season 3
- Episode
- Episode 12
- Air date
- 1961-12-01
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
The Jungle is Episode 12 in Season 3 of The Twilight Zone. It aired on 1961-12-01. The runtime is 26 min.
Previous / Next
Episode 11: Still Valley
Confederacy scout Sgt. Joseph Paradine finds a town full of Union soldiers, and an old man who claims he used witchcraft to paralyze them.
Episode 13: Once Upon a Time
Woodrow, a janitor living in the year 1890, accidentally activates a time travelling helmet which transports him to 1962.
More episodes from this season
Episode 10: The Midnight Sun
The Earth's orbit has been changed, drawing ever closer to the sun and promising imminent destruction.
Episode 14: Five Characters in Search of an Exit
A hobo, clown, bagpipe player, ballerina and military officer are trapped in a huge cylinder.
Episode 9: Deaths-Head Revisited
A former Nazi SS Captain returns to the ruins of a concentration camp to reminisce, and is met by one of his victims.
Episode 15: A Quality of Mercy
A gung ho young soldier gets a new viewpoint on war when he inexplicably changes places with a Japanese officer trying to stop his superior from leading a charge against American forces.
Episode 8: It's a Good Life
On an isolated family farm in Peakesville, Ohio, young Anthony Fremont, who has vast mental powers but lacks emotional development, holds his terrified family and neighbors in thrall to his every juvenile wish.
Episode 16: Nothing in the Dark
A lonely old woman refuses to leave her apartment for fear of meeting "Mr. Death."
Episode 7: The Grave
Before he died, notorious gunslinger Pinto Sykes put a curse on hired-gun Conny Miller. Miller returns to town and is challenged to visit the grave of Sykes, despite the curse.
Episode 17: One More Pallbearer
Paul Radin has invited three people to join him in his bomb shelter.
Episode 6: The Mirror
After a poor but ambitious Central American farm worker overthrows his country's tyrannical leader, he believes he sees assassins everywhere. A look in the mirror reveals his most dangerous enemy.
Episode 18: Dead Man's Shoes
A vagrant steps into a murdered gangster's expensive shoes and is taken over by the dead man's ghost, who vows to remain on Earth to seek revenge against his killer.