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5.21 Spur of the Moment
Director: Elliot Silverstein
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“This is the face of terror: Anne Marie Mitchell, forty-three years of age, her desolate existence once more afflicted by the hope of altering her past mistake—a hope which is, unfortunately, doomed to disappointment. For warnings from the future to the past must be taken in the past; today may change tomorrow but once today is gone, tomorrow can only look back in sorrow that the warning was ignored.”
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5.19 Night Call
Director: Jacques Tourneur
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Miss Elva Keene lives alone on the outskirts of London Flats, a tiny rural community in Maine. Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene’s existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair, reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication and waiting for something different to happen. Miss Keene doesn’t know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended. For something different is about to happen to her, has, in fact already begun to happen via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night.”
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5.16 The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
Director: Don Siegel
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“The Salvadore Ross program for self-improvement. The all-in-one, surefire success course that lets you lick the bully, learn the language, dance the tango, and anything else you want to do - or think you want to do.“
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5.15 The Long Morrow
Director: Robert Florey
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“My life had been space. It had been missions, projects, and expeditions. There had been no time for intrusions that took the form of a woman’s face, a voice, a short month of a man and a woman drawing together, becoming a part of one another, reaching tentatively into that strange and mysterious pond of love and then watching the ripples that came from it. But now I think of these things. Now they come to mind, now in the darkness, in the cold, the solitude, the stillness, the loneliness. Now there comes a feeling of warmth.”
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5.14 You Drive
Director: John Brahm
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Portrait of a nervous man: Oliver Pope by name, office manager by profession. A man beset by life’s problems: his job, his salary, the competition to get ahead. Obviously, Mr. Pope’s mind is not on his driving. Oliver Pope, businessman turned killer, on a rain-soaked street in the early evening of just another day during just another drive home from the office. The victim, a kid on a bicycle, lying injured, near death. But Mr. Pope hasn’t time for the victim, his only concern is for himself. Oliver Pope, hit-and-run driver, just arrived at a crossroad in his life, and he’s chosen the wrong turn.”
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5.13 Ring-a-Ding Girl
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“We are all travelers. The trip starts in a place called birth, and ends in that lonely town called death. And that’s the end of the journey, unless you happen to exist for a few hours, like Bunny Blake, in the misty regions of The Twilight Zone.”
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5.12 Ninety Years Without Slumbering
Director: Roger Kay
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Each man measures his time; some with hope, some with joy, some with fear. But Sam Forstmann measures his allotted time with a grandfather’s clock, a unique mechanism whose pendulum swings between life and death, a very special clock that keeps a special kind of time…”
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5.11 A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain
Director: Bernard Girard
Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
“Picture of an aging man who leads his life, as Thoreau said, ‘in quiet desperation.’ Because Harmon Gordon is enslaved by a love affair with a wife forty years his junior. Because of this, he runs when he should walk. He surrenders when simple pride dictates a stand. He pines away for the lost morning of his life when he should be enjoying the evening. In short, Mr. Harmon Gordon seeks a fountain of youth, and who’s to say he won’t find it?”
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5.09 Probe 7, Over and Out
Director: Ted Post
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“One Colonel Cook, a traveler in space. He’s landed on a remote planet several million miles from his point of departure. He can make an inventory of his plight by just one 360-degree movement of head and eyes. Colonel Cook has been set adrift in an ocean of space in a metal lifeboat that has been scorched and destroyed and will never fly again. He survived the crash but his ordeal is yet to begin. Now he must give battle to loneliness. Now Colonel Cook must meet the unknown.”
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5.08 Uncle Simon
Director: Don Siegel
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Dramatis personae: a metal man, who will go by the name of Simon, whose life as well as his body has been stamped out for him; and the woman who tends to him, the lady Barbara, who’s discovered belatedly that all bad things don’t come to an end, and that once a bed is made, it’s quite necessary that you sleep in it.”
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5.07 The Old Man in the Cave
Director: Alan Crosland Jr.
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“When we talked about the ways that men could die, we forgot the chief method of execution. We forgot faithlessness, Major French. Maybe you’re not to blame. Maybe if it weren’t you, it would have been someone else. Maybe this has to be the destiny of man. I wonder if that’s true. I wonder. I guess I’ll never know. I guess I’ll never know.”
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5.06 Living Doll
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Director of Photography: Robert Pittack
“Of course, we all know dolls can’t really talk, and they certainly can’t commit murder. But to a child caught in the middle of turmoil and conflict, a doll can become many things: friend, defender, guardian.”
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