The Twilight Zone

***The Twilight Zone*** is an American anthology television series that aired from 1959 to 1964. Its later revival *The Twilight Zone* also appears in *The Clock*.

## Appearances

### "Where Is Everybody?"

* 6:15 a.m. In a restaurant's kitchen, Mike Ferris (Earl Holliman) goes to make his own breakfast. He accidentally knocks over a clock on the counter and picks it up to look at it.

### "One for the Angels"

* 11:40 p.m. Next to an alarm clock, Maggie Polanski (Dana Dillaway) sleeps in bed.
* 11:49 p.m. The alarm clock shows the time as Maggie sleeps.
* 11:55 p.m. Maggie sleeps by the alarm clock.
* 11:59 p.m. The alarm clock displays the time.

### "Time Enough at Last"

* 12:00 p.m. At a bank, teller Henry Bemis (Burgess Meredith) looks up at a wall clock before putting up a "Next Window Please" sign at his station.
* 12:18 p.m.–12:19 p.m. Henry walks past stacks of book, designating a month to read through each one. He embraces a large clock, exclaiming, "There's all the time I need and all the time I want. Time, time, time, there's time enough at last."

### "Third from the Sun"

* 6:10 p.m. Will Sturka (Fritz Weaver) takes a pocketwatch from Jerry Riden (Joe Maross). He tells Jerry to stay quiet and walks over to a machine.

### "Mirror Image"

* 2:06 a.m. At a bus depot, Millicent Barnes (Vera Miles) looks at her wristwatch, then a wall clock behind her. She tells the ticket agent (Joe Hamilton) that her bus was supposed to arrive half an hour ago and asks when it will arrive. He says he doesn't know and refuses to speculate.

### "Mr. Bevis"

* 8:58 a.m. A wall clock in an office shows the time as Mr. Peckinpaugh (Charles Lane) notices an empty desk. He yells to his employees that he wants to see whoever sits at the cluttered desk when they show up for work. Mr. Peckinpaugh looks at a mammy figurine with a clock on it.

### "A Thing About Machines"

* 3:49 a.m. Bartlett Finchley (Richard Haydn) wakes up on a sofa and hears the chime of a clock that isn't there. He looks around to find the source of the sound.
* 3:54 a.m. Finchley picks up a chair and throws it through the screen of a television. He goes upstairs.
* 2:00 p.m. A clock chimes repeatedly. Finchley tells it to stop and smashes it on the floor.

### "Nick of Time"

* 2:12 p.m. Sitting in front of a wall clock at a cafe, Don Carter (William Shatner) puts a penny into the fortune teller machine and gets the response "try again".
* 2:13 p.m. Don's wristwatch displays the time.
* 2:14 p.m. Sitting next to his wife Pat (Patricia Breslin), Don looks at his watch.
* 2:56 p.m. A wall clock shows the time as Pat grabs a pack of cigarettes from a cigarette machine.
* 3:00 p.m. A clock outside displays the time.
* 3:22 p.m. Don and Pat drive off, past the clock outside.

### "The Lateness of the Hour"

* 7:26 p.m.–7:27 p.m. A clock shows the time as Dr. William Loren (John Hoyt) asks Robert (Tom Palmer) for his pipe, with Jana (Inger Stevens) mouthing their conversation verbatim.
* 8:14 p.m. Jana looks at a clock and walks over to a window to see outside. She checks herself in a mirror.
* 10:21 p.m. Dr. Loren walks over to the clock and tells his wife (Irene Tedrow) that they're all alone now.

### "A Penny for Your Thoughts"

* 9:10 a.m. When Hector B. Poole (Dick York) arrives at the office, the security guard (Patrick Waltz) tells him it's 9:10. Hector looks at his wristwatch, then at a wall clock behind him.
* 4:30 p.m. Hector starts to tell his boss Mr. Bagby (Dan Tobin) about a plan set to begin at exactly 4:30. Looking at his wristwatch, Hector says, "It's time."

### "Twenty Two"

* 12:11 a.m. Ms. Jameson (Norma Connolly), a nurse, stands in front of a wall clock. In a hospital room, Liz Powell (Barbara Nichols) sleeps restlessly and looks at a ticking clock when she wakes.
* 8:11 p.m. At an airport, Liz looks out the window. A wall clock displays the time.

### "Mr. Dingle, the Strong"

* 6:21 a.m. Luther Dingle (Burgess Meredith) inadvertently destroys his alarm clock when he goes to turn it off.

### "Shadow Play"

* 12:00 a.m. A clock displays the time.
* 11:46 p.m. The clock on the mantle shows the time. Paul Carson (Wright King) wonders why things always happen around midnight, adding that a convict told him he only knows what he sees in movies. District Attorney Henry Ritchie (Harry Townes) responds, "Movies are technically accurate."
* 11:57 p.m. Ritchie places a call to the governor. The clock displays the time.
* 11:58 p.m. The clock shows the time as Ritchie is heard asking someone to wake the governor.

### "The Midnight Sun"

* 3:00 p.m. Mrs. Bronson (Betty Garde) answers the door for Norma (Lois Nettleton), who is there to check on her. Mrs. Bronson asks the time, and Norma tells her it's 3:00 in the afternoon. They hear a sound.

### "The Jungle"

* 3:01 a.m. Chad Cooper (Walter Brooke) looks at his wristwatch and tells Alan Richards (John Dehner) it's 3:00, suggesting they leave.

### "Once Upon a Time"

* 9:30 a.m. A clock outside displays the time.
* 9:45 a.m. Woodrow Mulligan (Buster Keaton) looks at his pocketwatch and tells Rollo (Stanley Adams) he only has 15 minutes.

### "Showdown with Rance McGrew"

* 4:25 p.m. On a cowboy show, one actor puts away a pocketwatch and tells another that a man knows he's going to be shot.

### "Person or Persons Unknown"

* 9:20 a.m. David Gurney (Richard Long) wakes up next to his sleeping wife Wilma (Shirley Ballard). He struggles to see the Perfecta clock on his nightstand and picks it up to read it, grumbling as he gets up.

### "Four O'Clock"

* 3:27 p.m. Oliver Crangle (Theodore Bikel) gestures to two clocks and says it's 3:27. He tells FBI agent Luther Hall (Linden Chiles) that all evil people will shrink to a third of their size in exactly 33 minutes.
* 3:36 p.m. Crangle stumbles past a clock and winds another.
* 4:00 p.m. Looking out the window, Crangle tells his parrot Pete, "It's happening right now. Everyone, all the evil ones, they're all turning into tiny little gnomes."

### "Young Man's Fancy"

* 2:32 p.m. Checking his wristwatch, Alex Walker (Alex Nicol) sets the time on a grandfather clock and starts it. His wife Virginia (Phyllis Thaxter) comes downstairs and sees the clock.

### "In His Image"

* 4:30 a.m. Alan Talbot (George Grizzard) stops in front of the display window of an antique shop. He looks at his wristwatch before going into a subway station.
* 5:55 p.m. Alan's fiancée Jessica Connelly (Gail Kobe) asks why he came home late. Confused, Alan asks if he was 5 minutes late, but Jessica tells him he was 45 minutes late. She says it's almost 6:00. Alan looks at his watch and agrees.

### "Mute"

* 2:02 p.m. A bell rings, and the wall clock in a classroom shows the time. Ms. Frank (Irene Daily), the teacher, holds the door for her students as they leave.

### "Miniature"

* 1:35 p.m. A wall clock in an office displays the time as Charley Parkes (Robert Duvall) arrives at work. Finding a note on his desk from his boss Mr. Diemel (Barney Phillips), Charley goes into Diemel's office and apologizes for being late.

### "Printer's Devil"

* 8:40 a.m. Jackie Benson (Pat Crowley) arrives at an office and passes beneath a wall clock.
* 10:15 p.m. Douglas Winter (Robert Sterling) passes beneath the clock as he leaves work.
* 11:03 p.m. Mr. Smith (Burgess Meredith) picks up a gun and, hiding it from Jackie, leaves it on a desk. They leave the office, passing beneath the clock.
* 11:25 p.m. The wall clock displays the time.
* 11:26 p.m. The wall clock displays the time.
* 11:27 p.m. The wall clock displays the time.
* 11:28 p.m. The wall clock displays the time.

### "The Incredible World of Horace Ford"

* 9:32 p.m. A buzzer rings, and Laura Ford (Nan Martin) rallies everyone for a surprise party. When she opens the door, a boy (Billy Hughes) gives her a Mickey Mouse pocketwatch that he says was dropped.
* 9:33 p.m. Horace Ford (Pat Hingle) looks at his pocketwatch and crosses the street with Laura.

### "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"

* 10:37 p.m. Bob Wilson (William Shatner) looks out the window of a plane flying through a heavy storm.

### "A Kind of Stopwatch"

* 8:26 a.m. Patrick McNulty (Richard Erdman) wakes up and turns off his alarm.

### "Ninety Years Without Slumbering"

* 3:10 a.m.–3:11 a.m. Sam Forstmann (Ed Wynn) tries to go into a locked house and walks around to the window, where he looks at a grandfather clock. Saying that it's dying, he breaks the window but is stopped by a police officer (John Pickard). The officer takes Sam home as Sam insists that he needs to wind the clock, explaining that he'll die if it stops.
* 3:41 a.m. Sam walks up to the grandfather clock and winds it, asking it never to stop.
* 3:50 a.m. Lying in bed across from the grandfather clock, Sam turns on the light and looks at his pocketwatch.
* 2:17 p.m. Sam tells his psychiatrist, Dr. Mel Avery (William Sargent), that he'll die if his clock stops ticking, wondering if that makes him crazy. Dr. Avery places his hand on a clock.
* 6:10 p.m. Arriving home, Doug Kirk (James Callahan) opens the door into the grandfather clock. His wife Marnie (Carolyn Kearney) looks at it.
* 8:34 p.m. Marnie talks to Sam about his preoccupation with the clock. Doug says that Sam spends a lot of time with it.
* 9:36 p.m. Sam works on a grandfather clock. Marnie helps him off a chair, and he says the clock has been a few minutes off recently.

### "Ring-a-Ding Girl"

* 3:00 p.m. A clock shows the time, and Hildy Powell (Mary Munday) checks her pocketwatch.
* 3:03 p.m. Looking at her pocketwatch, Hildy tells her sister Bunny Blake (Maggie McNamara) they're late. Bunny says the show can't start without her. Hildy calls up to her son Bud (David Macklin), who can't find his tie.

### "You Drive"

* 7:44 p.m. Sitting next to a ticking alarm clock, Oliver Pope (Edward Andrews) asks over the phone about a boy who was in a car crash.

### "Night Call"

* 2:01 a.m. A phone rings as Elva Keene (Gladys Cooper) tries to sleep during a storm. She answers the phone next to a clock on her nightstand.
* 8:01 p.m. The phone rings next to the clock, and Elva picks up the receiver and listens. After some pause, she says, "Hello?"
* 11:10 p.m. Elva answers the phone.

### "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

* 5:48 p.m. Peyton Farquhar (Roger Jacquet) stands on a plank above a river, with a noose wrapped around his neck. A soldier takes Farquhar's pocketwatch, which plays a tune when opened. When the plank is released, the rope breaks and Farquhar drops into the river below.

### "I Am the Night—Color Me Black"

* 3:18 a.m.–3:19 a.m. Ella Koch (Eve McVeagh) wakes up as her husband Charlie (Michael Constantine) is getting ready for work. She asks the time, but Charlie's wristwatch has stopped. Based on the darkness of the sky, he estimates 3:00 or 4:00. Ella gripes about a hanging, and Charlie tells her to go back to sleep.
* 9:00 p.m. As a clock tower chimes, a deputy tests out a noose.

### "Sounds and Silences"

* 4:57 a.m. The sound of a dripping faucet wakes Roswell G. Flemington (John McGiver). He goes into the bathroom and grabs the faucet.
* 5:00 a.m. Flemington holds a ticking alarm clock. Startled by its alarm, he drops it, and the clock makes the sound of an explosion when it hits the floor.
* 2:29 p.m. Flemington knocks on a wall clock and turns off a record player.
* 9:02 p.m. Flemington enters a room and looks at a wall clock, comparing it against his wristwatch. "Mind over matter!" he exclaims.

## Notes

1. ↑ A clock on the oven shows a different time.
2. ↑ In the original episode, this scene is set around 3:50 a.m., and the clock has stopped.
3. ↑ In the original episode, this scene is set at 3:00 p.m.
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 The 11:10 p.m. scene reuses some footage from the 8:01 p.m. scene.
5. ↑ In the original episode, this scene is set later in the morning, and the Kochs misjudge the time because of the darkness of the sky.
6. ↑ In the original episode, this scene is set at 9:00 a.m., but the sky is dark, with no sun in the sky.

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