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The Twilight Zone: The Trade-Ins
An old couple considers exchanging their pain-racked bodies for a more youthful model, but can only afford one transplant right now.
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Episode Info
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Episode number: 3x31 Production Number: 4831 Airdate: Friday April 20th, 1962 |
Co-Guest Stars
Recap
An elderly couple, John and Marie Holt, come to the New Life Corporation and meet with the salesman, Mr. Vance. The salesman reviews their medical histories and notes that John has been suffering from increasing illness and pain, then talks about how they specialize in rebirth. Vance explains that they build new artificial bodies in the prime of health and youth, close to perfection with a lifespan of 112 years. The Holts have been married for 50 years and John insists that their relationship can't end, that all they have is each other. Vance offers to show them the new models and takes them to a darkened series of chambers containing various "model" bodies. Vance explains that they put the patient to sleep and then transfer their personalities into their new perfect bodies without pain. Vance shows them other bodies in various poses and settings and is then called away. The Holts are left to wonder at the miracle presented to them and whether it's real...Read the full recap
Episode Notes
Edson Stroll was also in "The Eye of the Beholder."
Joseph Schildkraut was also in "Deaths-Head Revisited."
Noah Keen was also in "The Arrival."
Theodore Marcuse is also in "To Serve Man."
Joseph Schildkraut's wife died three days into the production of the episode, giving extra emphasis to his performance of a man losing his wife.
Episode Quotes
Opening Narration
Narrator: Mr. and Mrs. John Holt, aging people who slowly and with trembling fingers turn the last pages of a book of life and hope against logic and the preordained that some magic printing press will add to this book another limited edition. But these two senior citizens happen to live in a time of the future where nothing is impossible, even the trading of old bodies for new. Mr. and Mrs. John Holt, in their twilight years - who are about to find that there happens to be a zone with the same name.
Narrator: Mr. and Mrs. John Holt, aging people who slowly and with trembling fingers turn the last pages of a book of life and hope against logic and the preordained that some magic printing press will add to this book another limited edition. But these two senior citizens happen to live in a time of the future where nothing is impossible, even the trading of old bodies for new. Mr. and Mrs. John Holt, in their twilight years - who are about to find that there happens to be a zone with the same name.
Closing Narration
Narrator: From Kahil Gibran's The Prophet: 'Love gives not but itself and takes not from itself, love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.' Not a lesson, just a reminder, from all the sentimentalists in the Twilight Zone.
Narrator: From Kahil Gibran's The Prophet: 'Love gives not but itself and takes not from itself, love possesses not nor would it be possessed, for love is sufficient unto love.' Not a lesson, just a reminder, from all the sentimentalists in the Twilight Zone.
Other Episode Crew
| • Creator | Rod Serling |
| • Executive Producer | Rod Serling |
| • Producer | Buck Houghton |
| • Editor | Bill Mosher |
| • Casting | Robert Walker, Jr. (2) |
| • Make-up | William Tuttle |
| • Set Decorator | H. Web Arrowsmith | Keogh Gleason |
| • Director of Photography | George T. Clemens |
| • Art Director | Philip Barber | Merrill Pye | George W. Davis |
| • Production Manager | Ralph Nelson |
| • Sound Editor | Franklin Milton | Bill Edmondson |
| • Main Title Theme | Marius Constant |
| • Assistant Director | E. Darrell Hallenbeck |
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