![]() ![]() The total number of new episodes was projected at twenty-nine, more than half of which (sixteen) had already been filmed by November 1960. Episode Notesįive weeks into The Twilight Zone's second season, the show's budget was showing a deficit. ![]() Our story is called " A Hundred Yards Over the Rim". Cliff Robertson in a strange tale of a handful of American pioneers who made a detour in time and found themselves one afternoon on the fringe of the future. Your itinerary is across the Great Plains over the Rockies to a point in New Mexico. Next week, you'll ride upfront in this wagon on a trek west. A fact or a fantasy, a substance or a shadow - but all of it very much a part of The Twilight Zone." Preview for Next Week's Story "A toy telephone, an act of faith, a set of improbable circumstances, all combine to probe a mystery, to fathom a depth, to send a facet of light into a dark after-region, to be believed or disbelieved, depending on your frame of reference. The paramedics successfully revive Billy as his parents embrace. Billy's father goes into Billy's room, picks up the toy phone, and begs his mother to give Billy back and allow him to experience life. A paramedic informs the parents that Billy's chances aren't very good. His mother takes the phone away, and Billy attempts to drown himself. His father still thinks Billy is pretending. Later, his mother grabs the phone out of his hands and hears breathing on the other end, convinced that the telephone is a direct link to the dead grandmother. The driver, who barely manages to swerve out of the way, reports that Billy said someone told him to do it. One day, Billy runs out in front of a car. He says that she tells him she is lonely and misses him. His parents become concerned when Billy spends all his time having "pretend" phone conversations with his deceased grandmother. The doctor came later and when Billy and his parents went to see her in bed, she began saying that Billy was her son and his father was taken away from her. She gave him a toy telephone on his birthday. For in a moment, a child will try to cross that bridge which separates light and shadow, and, of course, he must take the only known route, that indistinct highway through the region we call The Twilight Zone." Episode SummaryĪ boy named Billy has a very close relationship with his Grandmother. And it's been said, and probably rightfully so, that what follows this life is one of the unfathomable mysteries, an area of darkness which we, the living, reserve for the dead - or so it is said. Death, an omnipresent player to the third and final act of every life. "As must be obvious, this is a house hovered over by Mr. ![]()
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