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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 Rip van Winkle Caper

Having successfully robbed a train shipment of gold bullion, four thieves, headed by Mr. Farwell, decide to lay low until the heat is off -- for 100 years, to be exact. Farwell and his three cohorts -- DeCruz, Brooks , and Erbie -- repair to a cave, where they enter four glass cases and place themselves in suspended animation. Awakening a century later, Farwell and his partners figure that they can now enjoy their $1,000,000 booty. . .but they're wrong, dead wrong! "The Rip Van Winkle Caper" is a typical lesson in human nature from the pen of Twilight Zone series creator Rod Serling..

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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