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How do you do?

You gentlemen, of course, know how to push a product. That essentially is your

job.

My presence here is for much the same purpose, simply to push a product.

To acquaint you with an entertainment product which we hope and which we

expect will make your product pushing that much easier.

What you're about to see, gentlemen, is a series called The Twilight Zone.

We think it's a rather special kind of series.

Essentially, people watch television to get entertained.

And the keynote of this series, the thing we're concerned with, the thing

aiming for, the thing we're working toward, is entertainment.

This is a series for the storyteller, because it's our thinking that an

will always sit still and listen and watch a well -told story.

And now that I've immodestly gone on record predicting the high quality of

series, let me very briefly show you what we mean by a special kind of

You know, writers in general are notoriously bad verbal tellers of

do much, much better behind a typewriter.

So I hope you'll bear with me while I tell you about a few stories that happen

to be the first ones we're shooting in our current production cycle.

This is sand.

It represents desert.

The desert that you'll see on your screen in a story we call The Lonely.

The Lonely is about a man sentenced to a lifetime of solitary confinement.

The confinement takes place on a sandy asteroid far out in space.

It's the story about a man slowly succumbing to a kind of nightmarish

loneliness, a gradual disintegration of mind and body because human beings have

that palpable need for companionship.

A most benevolent and compassionate official sends the prisoner a long

rectangular box containing

Well, a machine.

A machine inside of a robot built in the form of a woman.

It's a robot that talks and acts like a human being.

A robot that thinks like a human being.

Gentlemen, I can only tell you that the Lonely, which involves a man and a woman

made out of plastic and wires with a machine for a heart, will provide a most

bizarre experience as to the physiological extensions of their

that is, man and female machine, and what they do in their spare time.

We're leaving this wide open.

Object in point here, a file cabinet containing a contract.

All very legal and proper, except the party of the first part in this case,

well, what do we call him? He has a lot of names.

Beelzebub, Mr. Scratch.

No.

Well, that happens to be the party of the first part.

in a somewhat charred contract, only in our story, which we call Escape Clause.

His name is simply Mr.

Cadwallader. As portrayed, he has all the charm of a well -tipped waiter.

He makes a deal with a little man who has a psychotic fear of dying.

It's really a simple contract.

Mr. Cadwallader supplies the immortality, and the little man supplies

And then our little man proceeds to live it up, or down, depending on the moral

view. But he gets bored with immortality, and he then proceeds to

out -of -the -ordinary kind of a life.

A life best described as simply violent.

He was so bored with constantly being the only survivor.

So he now turns to homicide, happily aware that while a jury may convict him,

there isn't a single legal modus operandi that the state can use to put

away. A gas chamber? Impossible.

They can't kill him. Hanging, electrocution, none of these things are

on our little friend.

He's immortal.

But what happens, and we'd be most appreciative if you wouldn't tell this

your friends, is that a very good lawyer pleads his case and gets him life

imprisonment.

Poor little guy.

Yeah, he has immortality.

He can live forever.

Right here, behind these things.

We'll hold up on telling you the ending.

Just think about it. It'll come to you.

A parenthetic note here. On the Twilight Zone, there'll be a variety of stories.

And this is a variety that covers not only story type, but time, locale, the

nature of the people.

For example, this is a western called Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle.

And this is the principal character in the story.

It's a Colt .45.

There's a schoolmaster named Dingle who picks up this gun one day, finding it in

the schoolyard.

Quite accidentally, it goes off on a couple of occasions. First, it hits a

rattlesnake between the eyes at 50 yards.

Then he knocks the gun out of a desperado's hand.

And while it's all quite accidental, the various onlookers make an assumption

that Mr. Dingle's a pretty fast gun.

And they start to build not only a reputation for this spindly little dude,

also almost a reverent tradition.

And as in the classic Western mold, every top gun in and out of the

converge on the town, ready to invite Mr. Dingle, poor little Mr. Dingle, who

really doesn't know how to use a gun, to a showdown.

So...

Mr. Dingle buys himself a little vial full of liquid.

And it's simply out of this world.

Because it comes with a money -back guarantee.

Simply that it will make him the fastest gun in the West for 15 seconds.

It's this vial he carries into a saloon one night, ready to meet at gunpoint a

gentleman called Dirty Dan Destry. A fast gun in his own right.

So fast he makes Hugh O 'Brien look like Charles Colburn.

But when the two men face one another and Mr. Dingle drinks his liquid with

money -back guarantee, he suddenly sees in the hand of his opponent a very

familiar vial, identical with his own.

I won't tell you the ending except that it's reasonably happy, if unexpected.

I hope I haven't done these stories an injustice because they'll be much better

told by actors in front of a camera, as you'll soon note in the picture you're

about to see.

All I can tell you is that we think the Twilight Zone is pretty unique.

We think it'll be much talked about,

And we think it'll also be enjoyed.

We think it's the kind of a show that will put people on the edge of their

seats, but only for that one half an hour. We fully expect they'll go to the

stores on the following day and buy your products.

We think it's that kind of a show.

So now the ham walks off to allow the real object and point to entertain you.

The pilot show of your series.

Earl Holloman, James Gregory, starring in Where Is Everybody?

So, gentlemen, please sit back and take your first trip.

Into the Twilight Zone.

See what I mean?

And this is really nothing compared to the way instant Sanka will be

disappearing off grocery counters come this fall.

There is a sixth dimension beyond that which is known to man.

It is a dimension as vast as space.

and as timeless as infinity.

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, and it lies between the pit

man's fears and the sunlight of his knowledge.

This is the dimension of imagination.

It is an area that might be called the Twilight Zone.

The place is here.

The time is now.

And the journey into the shadows that we are about to watch could be our

journey.

Is this thing loud enough for you out here?

I mean, can you hear it all right?

I'm early for this kind of music, isn't it?

Say, I noticed there's a town just up the road. What's the name of it?

Hey, I asked you a question in there. What's the name of the town?

Hey, got a customer out front.

Customer.

Hey,

got a customer out front.

Customer.

Eggs over easy, hash browns.

Hey, you got a customer out here.

I'm an eggs, eggs over easy, hash browns.

Hungry cash customer.

I got $2 .85, American money.

Pure American money.

Well... We got that much settled. I'm an American.

You see, there's some question about my identity.

Let me put it to you this way. I'm not sure who I am.

But I got $2 .85 and I'm hungry. That much is established.

$2 .85 and I'm hungry.

I'm going to wake up in a minute. I know it. I'm going to wake up.

I wish there'd be a little noise or something to wake me up.

A little noise, please.

If a body greet a body coming through the rye.

If a body meet a body, meet a body cry.

Every laddy had...

Anybody here?

Hey! Hey!

Hey, miss?

Miss, over here!

Look, I wonder if you could do me a favor.

It's the craziest thing, but I've looked and I haven't seen anybody around.

Maybe they're all asleep or something, but... Well, literally, there hasn't

a soul.

Look, I don't want you to think I'm nuts or anything. It's nothing like that.

It's just that... Well, it's just that I don't seem to remember who I am.

Well, it's a real oddball thing, but when I woke up this morning, I... Well,

didn't exactly wake up. I just... I just found myself out on that road, walking.

Amnesia. Isn't that what they call it?

Well, that must be what I got, because I just don't remember a thing, and I

can't seem to find anybody to ask.

You're the first person I've seen.

Look, I really don't want you to be frightened or anything, but I was

if there's a doctor or something.

I'm terribly sorry, madam. I can assure you that in no time did I mean to be so

upsetting.

As a matter of fact...

I've always had kind of a secret den for the quiet type.

You know what I mean, babe?

Hey!

Anybody here?

I'm going to get the ignition key out of there.

Operator. Hello, operator.

Hello.

Operator.

Operator.

This

is

the special operator.

Operator, look.

I just wonder if anybody down there could tell me.

Please make sure that you have the right number.

Operator.

Operator, will you listen to me, please?

Special operator, the number you have reached is not a working number.

Please make sure... I yelled at you. Your head's down there. I didn't dial on

them. I dialed the operator.

This is a recording.

Operator. This is a special operator.

Operator, look. All I want to know is where I am.

Look, please, can you... Please make sure that you have...

Evil Adams, I don't know.

Look, boys, where are you? What do you boys live with in this book?

Baker, Bargman, Blatt, Bellman.

A gang who's watching the store.

Who's watching any of the stores.

All right, who's the wise guy who locked the door?

The great gag.

How about I hand somebody a little assistance? How about it?

This is an absolutely hysterical town, and I'm growing very fond of it.

This isn't funny anymore.

I don't like this jackass.

I wish I could shake that crazy feeling of being watched.

Listen.

Calling all cars.

Calling all cars.

Unknown man walking around police station. Suspicious looking character.

Probably wanted for the...