The Twilight Zone 3x37

Directed by Robert Ellis Miller

Liam Sullivan as Headmaster • Donald Pleasence as Ellis Fowler • Philippa Bevans as Mrs. Landers • Tom Lowell as Artie Beechcroft • Pat Close as Hudson

An elderly private school teacher wonders if his life has meant anything as he contemplates suicide on Christmas Eve and is reminded by former students that he has, indeed, made an effect on the lives of his students over the years.

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1. You're traveling to another dimension.

2. A dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind.

3. A journey into a wondrous land of imagination.

4. Your next stop: The Twilight Zone.

5. We have talked of the work of Alfred Edward Housman.

6. Born... In what year, Mr. Graham?

7. - What year, sir? - Precisely the question.

8. - Sometime this century, I think. - Close, Mr. Graham.

9. Closer than usual.

10. Alfred Edward Housman was born, Mr. Graham,

11. and for the benefit of the rest of the class, was born in 1859.

12. His death occurred, what year, Mr. Butler?

13. - Around 1900, sir. - Upon my soul, young Mr. Butler.

14. You and Mr. Graham are kindred spirits: Masters of inexactness.

15. Alfred Edward Housman died in 1936.

16. All of you will recall, I'm quite sure, a Shropshire lad.

17. A little of which I'm now going to read to you.

18. 'When I was one and twenty, I heard a wise man say:

19. 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas,

20. 'but not your heart away.

21. 'Give pearls away and rubies.

22. 'But keep your fancy free.

23. 'But I was one and twenty.

24. 'No use to talk to me.

25. 'The heart out of the bosom, was never given in vain.

26. 'Tis paid with sighs aplenty.

27. 'And sold for endless rue.

28. 'And I am two and twenty.

29. 'And, oh, 'tis true.

30. 'Tis true.'

31. this being the last afternoon of the semester

32. and three days before the Christmas holidays, it behooves me

33. to show at least a minute degree of compassion and let you out early.

34. I might add that whilst your final examination papers

35. are not yet ready to be returned to you

36. you have all, amazingly enough, passed.

37. - Oh, boy. - Yes.

38. My delight is only exceeded by my sense of shock.

39. It is rare, young men, that in 51 years of teaching

40. I have ever encountered such a class of dunderheads.

41. But nice dunderheads,

42. and potentially fine young men who will make their marks,

43. and leave their marks.

44. God bless you all and a Merry Christmas.

45. Professor Ellis Fowler,

46. a gentle, bookish guide to the young

47. who is about to discover that life still has certain surprises,

48. and that the campus of the Rock Spring school for boys

49. lies in a direct path to another institution

50. commonly referred to as The Twilight Zone.

51. Charles, my regards to your father.

52. Sir. Could you step inside a moment, please?

53. Sit down.

54. Be comfortable.

55. - Am I keeping you? - No. It's

56. there's a broadcast of Handel's Messiah on the radio at 5:00.

57. I'd very much like to hear it. That's a very lovely thing that...

58. - Very yule-like. - Yes. This won't take long.

59. Professor, you did not respond to the letter the trustees sent you.

60. Letter?

61. I'm terribly sorry, headmaster. I've just remembered.

62. I haven't opened my mail for the last few weeks.

63. I've been so busy. Preparation for the holidays and that sort of thing.

64. Though very I'm certain I know the contents of that particular letter.

65. - And your reaction? - Naturally, I'll go along.

66. That's very perspicacious of you, professor.

67. I shall tell the trustees that you agree with their communication.

68. - As to your replacement... - I was telling my housekeeper

69. I shall very likely go on teaching in this place until I'm 100 years old.

70. Two years ago I actually taught the grandson of one of my former pupils.

71. I think it's not beyond the bounds of possibility

72. that I shall live to teach a great grandson one of these days.

73. It was the Reynolds boy. His father was Damon Reynolds.

74. And his grandfather, oh dear. Regular rascal of a boy.

75. Would persist in calling me 'Weird beard.'

76. - He didn't know I knew that. - Professor Fowler

77. I think it best you read that communication the trustees sent.

78. Yes, I will. Oh, indeed, I will, Mr. Headmaster.

79. Thought this contract signing year after year, is an odd formality.

80. You can tell the trustees that old Fowler won't desert the ship.

81. He'll stay at the wheel through fair weather and foul.

82. Watch the crews come aboard and then depart.

83. Professor Fowler, please hear me out.

84. The communication from the trustees was not a contract.

85. As a matter of fact, it was a notice of termination.

86. You've been on the faculty for more than 50 years.

87. You reached the normal retirement age several years ago.

88. We decided at our winter meeting that perhaps a younger man

89. if you could have been at that meeting, sir

90. you would have been very proud of the things said about you.

91. A teacher of incalculable value to all of us, but youth must be served.

92. Changing of the guard. That sort of thing.

93. Am I to understand, Mr. Headmaster

94. that my contract is not to be renewed?

95. - I'm discharged? - Discharged?

96. No, professor, please don't call it that. It's retirement.

97. And at half salary for the rest of your life.

98. Rest of my...

99. It certainly proves one thing. On my word it does.

100. Proves that a man should read his mail.

101. Yes. Certainly should read his mail.

102. - Merry Christmas, professor. - Have a happy holiday, sir.

103. Mr. McTavish, Mr. Haliday, have a very Merry Christmas.

104. Don't eat too much turkey. You're fine young men, both of you.

105. Merry Christmas.

106. Have a Merry Christmas.

107. What's the matter with Old Weird Beard?

108. He was crying.

109. Did you notice that? He was crying.

110. - Would you care for some more tea? - No, thank you.

111. Dinner will be ready in a half hour. Why don't you take a little nap?

112. I'm being very difficult, but could we put off dinner for tonight?

113. - I haven't much of an appetite. - You've got to eat something.

114. - Perhaps later. - I could keep it warm for you.

115. - Why don't you take a little nap? - Timothy Arnold.

116. I never thought that one would pass.

117. Had an incorrigible habit of chewing bubble gum and then popping it.

118. It sounded exactly like a howitzer.

119. William Hood. Little Bill Hood.

120. Smallest boy ever to play varsity football here.

121. Had a penchant for Shelley.

122. Artie Beechcroft.

123. There was a staunch lad.

124. Full of heart, that one.

125. Was he the one that...

126. Yes, I remember now. His father wrote me a letter.

127. He was killed at Iwo Jima.

128. Freckle-faced little fellow. He had a most infectious grin.

129. Never stopped grinning. He walked into the classroom and had to smile.

130. They all come and go like ghosts.

131. Faces, names, smiles.

132. Funny things they said or sad things, or the poignant ones.

133. I gave them nothing at all.

134. Poetry that left their minds the minute they themselves left.

135. Aged slogans that were out of date when I taught them.

136. Quotations dear to me that were meaningless to them.

137. I was a failure, Mrs. Landers, an abject, miserable failure.

138. I walked from class to class an old relic

139. teaching by rote to unhearing ears, unwilling heads

140. as an abject, dismal failure.

141. I moved nobody. I motivated nobody.

142. I left no imprint on anybody.

143. Where did I ever got the idea that I was accomplishing anything?

144. Think I'll take that nap now.

145. And I apologize for putting off our dinner like this.

146. He's taken...

147. Professor. Professor Fowler?

148. Professor Fowler?

149. Well, Mr. Mann, I wonder if you ever had any self-doubts.

150. I guess not.

151. 'Be ashamed to die

152. 'until you have won some victory for humanity.'

153. I have won no victory, and now I am ashamed to die.

154. Class bells.

155. That's odd. Why would they ring now?

156. There's no special assembly now. There's nothing of the sort.

157. What?

158. Boys, forgive me, boys,

159. but I don't, understand.

160. What I mean to say, I

161. I don't recollect.

162. Artie Beechcroft, sir. Second form, class of '41.

163. - How are you, professor? - How's that?

164. How's that again?

165. You say you're Artie Beechcroft.

166. So you are. I'd recognize you anywhere.

167. I really am delighted to see you, Artie.

168. I've missed you, Artie. But

169. forgive me, but what are you doing here?

170. You shouldn't be here.

171. - Artie, you were... - I was killed at Iwo Jima, sir.

172. That's right, professor. I wanted to show you this.

173. It's the congressional medal of honor. It was awarded to me, posthumously.

174. Very prideful thing, Mr. Beechcroft.

175. Very prideful thing.

176. And I am indeed proud of you. You were always a fine young man.

177. - I don't understand. - Professor? Sir.

178. I'm Bartlett. Third form. Class of '28.

179. I died in Roanoke, Virginia, sir.

180. I was conducting research on X-ray treatment for cancer.

181. I was exposed to radioactivity and I contracted leukemia.

182. I do remember now, Bartlett.

183. That was an incredibly brave thing you did, Bartlett.

184. I kept remembering something you told me.

185. A quote, a poet named Walter.

186. Howard Arnold Walter. I remember.

187. He said:

188. 'I would be true, for there are those who trust me.

189. 'I would be pure, for there are those who care.

190. 'I would be strong for there is much to suffer.

191. 'And I would be brave for there is much to dare.'

192. I never forgot that, professor. That was something that you left me.

193. And I never forgot it.

194. Very decent of you, Bartlett, to say that.

195. That's why I brought this medal to show you.

196. Because it's partly yours.

197. You taught me about courage. You taught me what it meant.

198. How incredible.

199. - Sir. - Weiss. Isn't it? Dickie Weiss.

200. - You were the first one. - The first one to die, professor.

201. I was at Pearl Harbor on the Arizona. I was an ensign.

202. I remember, Dickie.

203. You saved a dozen men from a boiler room after they were trapped.

204. - Lost your own life doing it. - You were at my elbow that day.

205. You may not have known it, but you were there.

206. It was something you taught me. A poem by John Donne.

207. 'Any man's death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind.

208. 'And therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls.

209. 'It tolls for thee.'

210. Thompson, sir. Second form, class of '39.

211. I died on New Guinea, but you taught me about patriotism.

212. Rice, sir. Third form, class of 1917.

213. I died of wounds at Chateau Thierry. You taught me about courage.

214. Hudson, sir. Second form, class of 1922.

215. You taught me about loyalty.

216. Whiting, sir. Fourth form, class of '51.

217. You taught me about ethics and honesty.

218. We have to go back now, professor.

219. But we wanted to let you know that we were grateful.

220. That we were forever grateful.

221. That each of us has in turn carried with him something that you gave him.

222. We wanted to thank you, professor.

223. Yes, headmaster, he's home. He's all right.

224. Yes, he's just fine. Thank you.

225. ♪ The world in solemn stillness lay

226. ♪ to hear the angels sing

227. - A Merry Christmas to yo, professor. - Thank you very much, my boy.

228. God bless you all, and a Merry Christmas.

229. I've had time to think it over, Mrs. Landers.

230. I really think I will retire. I've taught all that I can teach.

231. I wouldn't want the returns to diminish.

232. I do believe I may have left my mark.

233. A few gauntlets of knowledge that I've thrown down have been picked up.

234. 'Be ashamed to die until you have won

235. "some victory for humanity.'

236. I didn't win the victories, but I helped others to win them.

237. So, perhaps, in some small measure they are victories I can share.

238. I've had a very good life, Mrs. Landers.

239. A very full life. A very rich life.

240. This particular changing of the guard

241. I wouldn't have it any other way.

242. Professor Ellis Fowler, teacher

243. who discovered rather belatedly something of his own value.

244. A very small scholastic lesson from the campus of...

245. The Twilight Zone.

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