The episode of the man who talked to the cat was called "Soldier" and was also written by Harlen Ellison. It was about a soldier from the future who accidentally gets sent back in time. An enemy soldier from his own time also gets sent back to track him down and kill him. In the future cats are used for reconnaissance so he tries to talk to them. The best episode was another written my Ellison called "Demon with a Glass Hand." Robert Culp wakes up in a strange building being pursued by aliens. He can't remember who he is or how he got there. His hand is made of glass and missing most of his fingers. The hand tells him that if he can capture the missing fingers from the aliens it can tell him who he is. In the end he turns out to be a robot sent from the future, carrying the human race encoded inside him, to escape the future earth intentionally polluted to destroy the invading aliens. If these sound familiar its because years later Ellison successfully sued James Cameron for using similar ideas in Terminator. This was a truly great television series.
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