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The Twilight Zone :: In His Image (04x01)
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Episode Information |
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| Title: | In His Image |
| Episode #: | 04x01 |
| Production Number: | 4851 |
| Original Airdate: | Thursday January 03rd, 1963 |
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Episode Summary |
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A scientist tries to correct his imperfections by building a mechanical likeness of himself, which includes of all the finer qualities he is lacking.
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George Grizzard previously visited the Twilight Zone in the episode, "The Chaser."
| This was the first episode shot in the 1 hour format.
| Gail Kobe was also in "A World of Difference" and "The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross."
| George Petrie is best known as a character actor seen in most episodes of The Honeymooners.
| Katherine Squire is also in "One More Pallbearer."
| Wallace Rooney was also in "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" and "Young Man's Fancy."
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New season opening
Narrator: You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
| Opening Narration
Narrator: What you have just witnessed could be the end of a particularly terrifying nightmare. It isn't - it's the beginning. Although Alan Talbot doesn't know it, he is about to enter a strange new world, too incredible to be real, too real to be a dream. It's called the Twilight Zone.
| Lady: Are you sick, young man?
Alan: No.
Lady: You look sick. My husband looked like that, just before he died. All white and pasty.
Alan: No, I'm alright.
Lady: Just what he said. Just those words. 'I'm alright.' Went to bed. Next morning, I went to wake him up and there he was, sprawled out dead. You don't drink, do ya?
Alan: What?
Lady: That's what killed my Jack. I told him it was The Devil's work, but he wouldn't listen to me. You can see where he is now. Oh, The Devil's all around us, Mister, all around us, everywhere we go. And if we don't fight him, if we don't stand up to him, we'll suffer eternal torment!
Alan: I'm sure you're right, yes.
Lady: I know I'm right. And I'll tell you how I know.... It was on a Sunday. I was ironing if you please. And that's when it came, out of a clear blue sky! Oh, the Good Lord's own sweet breath, and his voice like an electric shock! I was revelated! Oh, praise him, Mister and praise his good works! Do you read the book?
Alan: What book is that?
Lady: Why, the Good Book!
Alan: Oh yes, all the time.
Lady: You sure you're tellin' the truth now? We may be a mile underground, Mister, but he hears every word.
Alan: Yes, it's the truth!
Lady: Alright! Leviticus, chapter five, verse two!
Man's Voice: (o.s.) You're perfect! You're perfect!
Lady: Well?!
Alan: Lady, please!!
Lady: (reciting) If a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcass of an unclean beast, or a carcass of unclean cattle, or the carcass of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him, he shall also be unclean, and guilty!
Alan: Lady, please go away!
Lady: Don't you wanna be saved?!
Alan: No! I just want to be left alone!
Lady: We're never alone! Don't you know that? He's with us all the time and He'll help us if we only let Him. But we've got to be be saved first! (she shoves a pamphlet at him that reads 'The Way to Salvation')
Read this, Mister! Take it! Read it! It will change your life! The Devil means to have you, Mister, but I won't let him! I'll fight with you, and we'll win! Listen to me! It's salvation I'm talkin' about! (she looks at him and suddenly stops preaching; Alan's eyes grow wide and violently wild)
Lady: No! No! (he shoves her into the path of the roaring subway, then makes a run for it, back through the turnstiles and up the stairs)
| Closing Narration
Narrator: In a way, it can be said that Walter Ryder succeeded in his life's ambition, even though the man he created was, after all, himself. There may be easier ways to self-improvement, but sometimes it happens that the shortest distance between two points is a crooked line - through the Twilight Zone.
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Scene 1 finds Jessica lighting a cigarette and placing it into an ashtray by the sink. When they show it again, the cigarette is missing.
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Cultural References |
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This episode is based on the short story "In His Image" by Charles Beaumont in Imagination February, 1957
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