Spur of the Moment
The Twilight Zone Podcast
Tom Elliot
4.7 • 615 Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Spur of the Moment gallops through time, regret, and the echoes of choices not yet made. Is this gothic thriller a forgotten masterpiece… or a melodramatic misfire?
The Twilight Zone Podcast reins it in for a closer look.
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| 0:00.0 | You unlock this door with the key of imagination. |
| 0:10.0 | Beyond it is another dimension, a dimension of sound, |
| 0:14.0 | a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. |
| 0:18.0 | You're moving into a land of both shadow and substance |
| 0:21.6 | of things and ideas you've just crossed over into the Twilight Zone. |
| 0:26.6 | The Twilight Zone. Listeners of a certain age may remember passing the time in their youth, |
| 0:51.6 | by reading and playing, choose your own adventure books. |
| 0:55.0 | The first of those books was released in 1979 and it was called the Cave of Time, |
| 1:03.0 | written by Edward Packard, and it begins like this. |
| 1:09.0 | You are lost in a strange dimly lit cave. Gradually you can make out two |
| 1:15.6 | passageways. One curves downward to the right, the other leads upwards to the left. |
| 1:21.6 | It occurs to you that the one leading down may go to the past, and the one leading up may go to the future. |
| 1:32.3 | That very question of past or future left or right is at the heart of tonight's twilight zone. |
| 1:40.3 | We meet Anne Henderson, an heiress enjoying a peaceful horseback ride around her family's |
| 1:47.0 | estate. |
| 1:52.0 | When an ominous figure dressed in black appears at the crest of a hill, little does she know, |
| 2:00.0 | but Anne will soon face a terrifying |
| 2:03.3 | decision. What happens when one single moment sets you down a path with no return? Tonight |
| 2:12.0 | the Twilight Zone asks us, can you turn back the page and choose again, like in a choose your own adventure book, or are you forced to live with a decision that you made in the spare of the moment? |
| 2:27.3 | This is the face of terror. Anne-Marie Henderson, 18 years of age, her young existence suddenly marred by a savage |
| 2:36.1 | and wholly unanticipated pursuit by a strange, nightmarish figure of a woman in black, |
| 2:42.2 | who has appeared as if from nowhere, and now at driving gallop chases the terrified girl across |
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