You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of mind,

a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination.

That's the signpost up ahead.

Your next stop, the Twilight Zone.

The... Rod Sailing said about the episode that we're going to be discussing tonight.

I got the idea for this one watching a Santa Claus float.

The worthy gentleman, chosen for the role, must have been a last minute and at least third

string replacement. He weighed just a few pounds more than slim Somerville, and his Santa Claus

suit must have been dredged out of a canal someplace.

It suddenly came to me that perhaps there's a story lurking somewhere in the whole concept of these guys who play Santa Claus for a living.

And then I started to conceive of a tale of what would happen to an A-Stack Chris Cringle if he found he suddenly

was Santa Claus.

This is Mr. Henry Corwin, normally unemployed, who once a year takes the lead role in

the uniquely popular American institution that of the department store Santa Claus in a road company version of the night before Christmas.

But in just a moment, Mr. Henry Corwin, Ursot's Santa Claus, will enter a strange kind of North Pole,

which is one part the wondrous spirit of Christmas and one part the magic that can only be found in the Twilight Zone. First broadcast on the 23rd of the 12th 1960 written by Rod Sailing and directed by Jack

Smyth we've already come across Jack Smite in season two of the Twilight Zone with

another of those videotaped episodes the lateness of the hour and he also directed the first season classic, The Lonely.

But there are other previous connections between our three main players here.

There's Rod Serling, Jack Smite and the actor who plays Henry Corwin, Art Carney.

Art Carney starred in a Sailing penned episode of Playhouse 90 called The Velvet Alley,

and Jack Smyth had also directed Carney in several things. Most recently, before this, a story called

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