Upon awakening, she learns that the store is closed and she can’t get out. Visibly upset, she is taken to a private office where she falls asleep. Spotting the saleswoman who sold her the thimble, Marsha is horrified to learn that the figure is a mannequin. ![]() But when she goes to complain she is told there is no ninth floor. Returning to the main floor, she notices the thimble is scratched. ![]() There she finds an empty floor and a saleslady who guides her to the only item on sale: a gold thimble. After getting in the elevator, she arrives on the ninth floor, which is odd because the elevator’s floor indicator only shows eight floors. This happens to be The Twilight Zone.”īrowsing for a gift for her mother, Marsha White (Anne Francis) decides on a gold thimble. The odds are that she’ll find it - but there are even better odds that she’ll find something else, because this isn’t just a department store. Miss Marsha White on the ninth floor, specialties department, looking for a gold thimble. “Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store, carrying Miss Marsha White on a most prosaic, ordinary, run-of-the-mill errand. “The After Hours” (original airdate: June 10, 1960) ![]() If you haven’t watched the show but plan to, you might want to bookmark this and come back after your Twilight Zone binge is complete. Did your favorite make the list? Please visit the Considerable Facebook page to chime in with your picks. With those words in mind, the following is a ranking of my 10 favorite episodes, beginning with No. It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.” There were 156 episodes in its original five-season run on CBS from 1959 to 1964, all beginning with those classic words spoken by creator and writer Rod Serling: “It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies between the pit of man’s fears and the summit of his knowledge. In honor of the new version's recently-debuted second season-which certainly contains its own messages-here are six episodes from the original that still have something to say.Of course, nothing can top the original, and choosing your favorite installment of the classic anthology series is no easy feat. And maybe, they'd learn.ĭecades later, The Twilight Zone is back, and in the very capable hands of Jordan Peele. With a coat of other-worldly paint, people could digest otherwise unpalatable tales. ![]() In the Twilight Zone, he "get his points across-his social feelings that he wanted to talk about."Īt its best, The Twilight Zone broadcasted parables about McCarthyism, nuclear war, social injustice, and human frailty. "He felt that by escaping into outer space, so to speak, he could get these stories across-and he did," Serling's widow, Carol Serling, explained to the New York Times. Because elsewhere, Serling couldn't say what he needed to. In actuality, viewers are entering a carefully curated space, designed by Rod Serling to be just different enough from Earth as we know it. It's easy to think that this dimension, the Twilight Zone, is defined by its sci-fi trappings-spaceships, futurism, Hollywood-style monsters, all which indicate that this world is not our own. The Twilight Zone begins by warning its viewers of where they're going: "the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition," "a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind."
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