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The Twilight Zone Podcast

Time Enough At Last

The Twilight Zone Podcast

Tom Elliot

Tv Reviews, After Shows, Tv & Film

4.8601 Ratings

🗓️ 5 June 2011

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

The Twilight Zone Podcast introduces one of the most iconic episodes of all, starring one of Twilight Zone's most beloved actors. Burgess Meredith stars in Time Enough At Last.

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0:00.0

Which were you most pleased with, or which stick to stick out in your mind?

0:04.0

Oddly enough, the best, I thought the two best shows we did.

0:06.0

One I wrote, one I didn't write.

0:08.0

One was an original by Dick Matheson called The Invaders.

0:13.0

And the other was an adaptation of mine, a very free, loose adaptation, of a Lucille Fletcher, I think it was Lucille Fletcher.

0:20.0

I could be wrong. A short story called Time Enough at Last,

0:23.6

about a myopic bank teller, who at the end, at the end of the world, breaks his glasses just when he's able to read all that he's ever wanted to read,

0:31.6

which was sheer, pure, beautiful irony. And in terms of production values, the adaptation I mentioned was gorgeously done. We used an

0:39.3

MGM back lot with existing sets that were already there, and it looked like a movie.

0:43.3

There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and as timeless as infinity.

0:57.0

It is the middle ground between light and shadow, between science and superstition, and it lies

1:03.0

between the pit of man's fears and the summit of his knowledge. This is the dimension

1:10.0

it is an area which we is the dimension of imagination.

1:13.7

It is an area which we call the Twilight Zone.

1:21.4

In the last episode of the Twilight Zone podcast,

1:24.0

I read the story by Lynn Venable that would go on to become one of the most beloved

1:26.9

and referenced Twilight Zone episodes

1:29.1

of all time time enough at last so if you're listening to this podcast sometime after that release

1:36.1

then the episode is the last one in the podcast stream or you can find it at the Twilight Zone podcast

1:42.3

dot com in the Twilight zone specials section.

1:46.0

So considering I just read that short story, I'm going to try and keep the synopsis brief,

1:51.0

because apart from a few differences, what's in the short story ends up on the screen, basically.

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