1. First Aired: 20 November 1959Copy !req
2. There is a fifth dimension.
Beyond that which is known to man.Copy !req
3. It is a dimension as vast as space.Copy !req
4. And as timeless as infinity.Copy !req
5. It is the middle ground
between light and shadow...Copy !req
6. between science and superstition.Copy !req
7. And it lies between
the pit of man's fears...Copy !req
8. and the summit of his knowledge.Copy !req
9. This is the dimension
of imagination.Copy !req
10. It is an area which we call:
The Twilight Zone.Copy !req
11. Two, three, four.Copy !req
12. One, two, three.Copy !req
13. Mrs Chester, have you ever read
David Copperfield?Copy !req
14. It's a wonderful book.Copy !req
15. There's this poor little fella.
His father...Copy !req
16. has passed away and his mother
has married...Copy !req
17. this miserable man called Murdstone.Copy !req
18. Isn't that a villainous name?
Murdstone.Copy !req
19. This Murdstone has a sister
called Jane...Copy !req
20. You shortchanged me again, Mr Bemis.
You owe me one more dollar.Copy !req
21. See? There's only 24 here
and there should be 25.Copy !req
22. Oh, I'm terribly sorry,
Mrs Murd... Mrs Chester.Copy !req
23. I thought there was five ones
and there's only four.Copy !req
24. I thought I'd given you five.
Sorry.Copy !req
25. Then there's another funny
character called Mr Micawber.Copy !req
26. And he's always being sent
to debtor's prison.Copy !req
27. Then there's another character
called Peggotty.Copy !req
28. That is David's nurse.Copy !req
29. I wonder if I might see
you in my office, Mr Bemis?Copy !req
30. Why, certainly, Mr Carsville.Copy !req
31. Have you read David Copperfield?
- No, Mr Bemis, I have not.Copy !req
32. Now if you'd kindly accompany me.Copy !req
33. Witness Mr Henry Bemis, a member
in the fraternity of dreamers.Copy !req
34. A bookish little man,
whose passion is the printed page.Copy !req
35. But who is conspired against by
a bank president, a wife...Copy !req
36. and the unrelenting hands of
a clock. But in just a moment...Copy !req
37. Mr Bemis will enter a world without
bank presidents, wives or clocks.Copy !req
38. He'll have a world all to himself.
Without anyone.Copy !req
39. Now, Mr Bemis,
I shall come to the point.Copy !req
40. I shall arrive via
the following route:Copy !req
41. 'What constitutes an efficient
member of this organization'Copy !req
42. Viz, a bank teller who knows
his job and performs it.Copy !req
43. I.E., an organization man who
functions within an organization.Copy !req
44. You, Mr Bemis, do not function
within the organization.Copy !req
45. You are neither an efficient bank
teller nor a proficient employee.Copy !req
46. You are a reader.
A reader!Copy !req
47. A reader of books, magazines
periodicals, newspapers.Copy !req
48. I see you constantly
going downstairs...Copy !req
49. into the vault during
your lunch hour.Copy !req
50. Ultimatum, Mr Bemis!Copy !req
51. You'll henceforth devote
your time to your job.Copy !req
52. Or you'll be able to read the whole
day on a park bench. Without a job.Copy !req
53. Do I make myself perfectly clear?
- Yes, sir. It's just that...Copy !req
54. Just that what, Bemis?Copy !req
55. Make it quick and
get back to your cage.Copy !req
56. It's just that my wife
won't let me read at home.Copy !req
57. See, when I get home at night and
try to pick up a newspaper...Copy !req
58. she yanks it out of my hand.Copy !req
59. And after dinner if I try to find
a magazine, she hides them.Copy !req
60. I got so desperate
that I found myself...Copy !req
61. trying to read the labels on the
condiment bottles on the table.Copy !req
62. Now, she won't even
let me use the ketchup.Copy !req
63. Unasked, I give my reaction to this.Copy !req
64. Your wife is an
amazingly bright woman.Copy !req
65. I remember last November
you spent the days...Copy !req
66. reading campaign buttons
on customers' lapels.Copy !req
67. You will recall the lady
who took exception to this...Copy !req
68. and tried to hit you
with her umbrella.Copy !req
69. I never got a chance to tell her...Copy !req
70. that I was only looking
to see who she voted for.Copy !req
71. Good day, Bemis.Copy !req
72. Henry!Copy !req
73. Yes, dear?
I'm in the living room.Copy !req
74. You want more coffee or don't you?
- No, thank you, dear.Copy !req
75. Why don't you tell me that...Copy !req
76. and don't sneak off into the loving
room to bury yourself in newsprint?Copy !req
77. I think we've been over
this quite enough, Henry.Copy !req
78. I won't tolerate a husband of mine
sacrificing the art of conversation.Copy !req
79. All right. What's so funny?Copy !req
80. No, dear. It's just that you said:
'A husband of mine'.Copy !req
81. How many husbands have you got?
You've only got me.Copy !req
82. I would appreciate that
not being rubbed in.Copy !req
83. We're playing cards tonight.
I want you to change your shirt.Copy !req
84. We're going over to
the Phillips' house.Copy !req
85. All right, Henry. Anything to say?
- No, dear, nothing to say.Copy !req
86. What time do we do that?
- In about 15 minutes.Copy !req
87. I'll be ready on time.
- See that you are!Copy !req
88. Henry?
- Yes, my dear?Copy !req
89. What have you got, Henry?
Got!Copy !req
90. Nothing, my dear.
- What's this?Copy !req
91. What, that?
- This!Copy !req
92. Isn't that odd?
How did that get here?Copy !req
93. I can only hazard a guess.
'A book of modern poetry.'Copy !req
94. Yours, Henry?Copy !req
95. Would you like to read me some?Copy !req
96. Do you mean read you out loud
out of the book?Copy !req
97. Do you want to?
- Oh, I would love to.Copy !req
98. There are some lovely
things in here.Copy !req
99. There are one or two things
from T.S. Eliot.Copy !req
100. And Edna St. Vincent Millay,
Robert Frost, Carl Sandburg.Copy !req
101. Helen.Copy !req
102. Who did this, Helen?
- Who do you think did it, Henry?Copy !req
103. You should thank me, really.Copy !req
104. A grown man who reads silly
ridiculous, nonsensical doggerel.Copy !req
105. There's some beautiful things here.
- I say it's doggerel.Copy !req
106. And I also say it's a waste of time.
- Helen, don't do that!Copy !req
107. Helen, please don't do that!Copy !req
108. Why do you do these things?Copy !req
109. Because I'm married to a fool.Copy !req
110. I can only tell you,
that in adherence to duty...Copy !req
111. that a bank, like a political
office, is a public trust.Copy !req
112. Those things are basic
above all things.Copy !req
113. Just the qualities I've mentioned.Copy !req
114. Ms Jackson, that's my speech
for Thursday night banquet.Copy !req
115. Would you type that...Copy !req
116. Seconds, minutes, hours...Copy !req
117. They crawl by on hands and knees
for Mr Henry Bemis.Copy !req
118. Who looks for a spark
in the ashes of a dead world.Copy !req
119. A telephone connected
to nothingness.Copy !req
120. A neighborhood bar, a movie,
a hardware store...Copy !req
121. The mailbox of what was once
his house and is now a rubble.Copy !req
122. They lie at his feet as monuments
to what was, but is no more.Copy !req
123. Where are you?Copy !req
124. Mr Henry Bemis, on an
eight-hour tour of a graveyard.Copy !req
125. They're all dead. They must be.Copy !req
126. Everybody's dead except me.Copy !req
127. I'm all right.
Why am I all right?Copy !req
128. I was right there in the middle of the vault.Copy !req
129. I was down in the vault.
That's why I'm alive.Copy !req
130. I went down in the...Copy !req
131. The thing of it is, though...Copy !req
132. The thing of it is...Copy !req
133. I'm not at all sure
that I want to be alive.Copy !req
134. Well, I'm not going to starve
to death anyway.Copy !req
135. Lots of food.Copy !req
136. Food enough to last for years
and years and years.Copy !req
137. All the food I can eat.Copy !req
138. And more too.Copy !req
139. The worst part, the very worst part,
is being alone.Copy !req
140. Is this how it's going to be
sitting around day after day eating?Copy !req
141. Smoking a cigarette.Copy !req
142. Reading the same half of a
newspaper over and over...Copy !req
143. And over again.Copy !req
144. Is someone there?
Please, someone!Copy !req
145. Is someone there?Copy !req
146. No. No. No.Copy !req
147. That doesn't make any difference.
It doesn't make a bit of difference.Copy !req
148. It's quite all right.
This is solitude.Copy !req
149. I've never had much solitude.Copy !req
150. I have enough to occupy
my mind and my time.Copy !req
151. I have enough food and
I'm really very fortunate.Copy !req
152. Yes, I'm really extremely fortunate.Copy !req
153. Help. Help. Help.Copy !req
154. Someone, please! Someone!Copy !req
155. Please. Please, someone!Copy !req
156. Someone! Please!Copy !req
157. If it just weren't
for the loneliness.Copy !req
158. If it just weren't for the sameness.Copy !req
159. If there were just something
to do, do, do.Copy !req
160. I'm sure I'll be
forgiven for this...Copy !req
161. The way things are.Copy !req
162. I know I'll be forgiven.Copy !req
163. Collected works of Dickens.Copy !req
164. Collected works of
George Bernard Shaw.Copy !req
165. Poems by Browning.
Shelley, Keats.Copy !req
166. Great dramas of the world.
Books. Books.Copy !req
167. All the books I'll need.Copy !req
168. All the books I'll ever want.Copy !req
169. Shelley, Shakespeare, Shaw.Copy !req
170. All the books I want.
All the books.Copy !req
171. January, February, March.Copy !req
172. April, May.Copy !req
173. This year. The next year.Copy !req
174. And the year after.
And the year after that.Copy !req
175. And the year after that.Copy !req
176. And the best thing,
the very best thing of all.Copy !req
177. Is there's time now.Copy !req
178. There's all the time I need
and all the time I want.Copy !req
179. Time, time, time.Copy !req
180. There's time enough at last.Copy !req
181. That's not fair.Copy !req
182. That's not fair at all.Copy !req
183. There was time now.Copy !req
184. There was all the time I needed.Copy !req
185. It's not fair.Copy !req
186. It's not fair.Copy !req
187. The best laid plans of mice
and men and Henry Bemis.Copy !req
188. The small man in the glasses
who wanted nothing but time.Copy !req
189. Henry Bemis, now just a part
Of a smashed landscape.Copy !req
190. Just a piece of the rubble.Copy !req
191. Just a fragment of what man
has deeded to himself.Copy !req
192. Mr Henry Bemis in:
The Twilight Zone.Copy !req