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The first episode of the fourth season of "The Twilight Zone" — titled "In His Image" — opens with a startling act of violence. Alan Talbot (George Grizzard) is approached by an evangelist while waiting at a subway station, and his simmering irritation with her triggers a strange sensation: electronic beeps zap his brain, leading him to push her on the tracks. The woman is killed by the oncoming train, and Alan flees, reappearing a while later with his fiancée Jessica (Gail Kobe) near his hometown. He seems to have no recollection of his transgression at the subway.

As series creator and host Rod Serling states in the episode's opening narration, this is just the beginning of the nightmarish hell Alan is about to experience, as he stands at the cusp of a world both real and dream-like. Alan's tale is based on Charles Beaumont's captivating short story "In His Image,...

Season 4 begins its run of 18 one-hour episodes with a man suffering from an identity crisis. He hears strange sounds, and, sometimes, he wants to kill people! Sounds like an average New Yorker to me ... The Twilight Zone, Episode #103: "In His Image" (original air date January 3, 1963) The Plot: Alan Talbot (George Grizzard) stands on the platform of a subway station, where he's accosted by an older woman who's all riled up about something. He tries to be polite, but she rants onward, and starts to talk about the Devil, about how the Devil's all around us, and he can't get into us if we don't stand guard against him, that kind of thing. Then she shoves a religious pamphlet...