The Twilight Zone
In the original pilot for The Twilight Zone, writer Rod Serling came up with an interesting idea. What if a man from 1958 kept waking up in Hawaii on Dec. 6, 1941, the day before the bombing of Pearl Harbor? What if he tried to warn everybody of the coming disaster? And what if nobody listened?

"The Time Element" was written when Serling was still just in college, but it included many of the elements that later episodes of The Twilight Zone would come to exemplify. Mind-bending twists, lonely or confused characters in unfamiliar surroundings, and maybe most importantly, internal commentary on the way these characters deal with the strange situations in which they find themselves.

SYNOPSIS

listen: The Twilight Zone - The Passersby

As the Civil War limps to a close, Confederate widow Lavinia Godwin sits grimly on the porch of her ruined mansion, watching a seemingly endless parade of wounded soldiers drag themselves down the road in front of her property. One of the soldiers, a Southern sergeant with a wooden leg, stops to rest, engaging the embittered Lavinia in conversation. As they talk, a sudden horrific realization hits them both -- a realization confirmed by the climactic appearance of "the last casualty of the Civil War."

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EPISODES

The Twilight Zone - The Passersby
The Twilight Zone - The Rip van Winkle Caper
The Twilight Zone - 4 o'clock
The Twilight Zone - The Obsolete Man
The Twilight Zone - A Kind of Stopwatch

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