Editing Third from the Sun (section)

{{For|the Richard Matheson story collection that carries the same title in some editions|Born of Man and Woman (collection)}}
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{{Primary sources|date=December 2011}}
{{Infobox television episode
| series         = [[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]
| image          = Twilight Zone Third From the Sun 1960.jpg
| image_size     = 220
| caption        = Joe Maross in "Third from the Sun"
| season         = 1
| episode        = 14
| airdate        = {{Start date|1960|01|08}}
| production     = 173-3615
| teleplay       = [[Rod Serling]]
| based_on       = {{Based on|"Third from the Sun"|[[Richard Matheson]]}}
| director       = [[Richard L. Bare]]
| guests         = * [[Fritz Weaver]] as Will Sturka
* [[Edward Andrews]] as Carling
* [[Joe Maross]] as Jerry Riden
* [[Denise Alexander]] as Jody Sturka
* [[Lori March]] as Eve Sturka
* [[Jeanne Evans]] as Ann Riden
| season_article = The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 1)
| episode_list   = List of The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) episodes
| prev           = [[The Four of Us Are Dying]]
| next           = [[I Shot an Arrow into the Air]]
}}
"'''Third from the Sun'''" is the fourteenth episode of the [[American television]] anthology series ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''. It is based on a short story of the same name by [[Richard Matheson]] which first appeared in the first issue of the magazine ''[[Galaxy Science Fiction]]'' in October 1950.