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Made several changes and additions to the article tonight, including rearranging sections to comply with the WikiProject standards, as well as adding material on the Beech Ridge Energy Project, Schools, County Government,and some "see also" and external links. There is additional work to be done, including upgrading the county government section with the names of current elected officials,and perhaps a little information on their responsibilties. Also, we need to add a section on the economy (and probably move Beech Ridge there). May also want to add some info on the local controversy over the windmills. The History section could also be fleshed out, to talk about the springs, perhaps, and particularly to add a section on the Greenbrier and its rich history, including early medicinal use, use as a military hospital, internment of foreign dignitaries during WWII, the Bunker, presidential and congressional visithttp://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/button_sig.png Your signature with timestamps, etc. Also CCC camps, The Greenbrier Railroad, history of logging, Meadow River Lumber Company? --Cmichael 08:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

History
I like the history section overall, but I do think we should rework the Indian Wars section to bring it into compliance with NPOV requirements. While I believe it is true that the County was basically uninhabited prior to the coming of the Europeans, I also believe that Greenbrier County, like most of West Virginia, was part of the "Kentucky Territory" that most of the native Americans, by treaty, considered to be a hunting ground. Their agreement with each other was that all would share its resources, but none were allowed to establish permanent settlements here. The arriving European settlers faild to respect that tradition. The current wording kind of makes it sound like nobody was using it, so the Europeans moved in, then the cranky indians started attacking them. In truth, I think the Europeans' moving into the area was tantamount to raiding the natives' refrigerator, and consequently they acted in defense (here and elsewhere). So, if we're going to refer to white fighters as "heros," then we should cite native Americans who fought valiantly as well. I'll have to find my references for that, however, before I change the article. Any thoughts? --Cmichael 08:21, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Eckert writes historical fiction!
Please be aware that Allan W. Eckert's The Frontiersmen: A Narrative (2001) -- cited extensively in the history section -- is a work of historical fiction. It therefore contains much speculation and invented quotations. 96.231.137.242 (talk) 02:41, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

 * I actually did some searching on the web, and while I do find criticism of Eckert's writing style, I can find no credible claim that his work is fiction. If you are going to make that claim, please cite it.  Meanwhile, I'll roll it back. Thanks.  Cmichael (talk) 11:37, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

The citations are the reviews mentioned in the Allan W. Eckert article (Publishers Weekly, etc). Ill roll it back again. 96.231.137.242 (talk) 14:42, 15 August 2009 (UTC) Also, The Frontiersman is categorized as a "historical novel". See here for example. 96.231.137.242 (talk) 14:49, 15 August 2009 (UTC)

 * As you say, Alibris does, in fact, categorize it in that way. However, Worldcat calls it a "biography."  Google Books lists it under "Biography and Autobiography."  Frankly, I doubt that any of those services put any serious effort into determining what category the book really belongs in, beyond reading the back cover.

 * I don't find the references in the Eckert article to be very useful, as they both point to book reviews that are nearly 20 years old, and are not available to me. (See my note at Talk:Allan W. Eckert for my thoughts on that. Additionally, at least two of them seem to be describing another of Eckert's books, rather The Frontiersman.

 * According to Amazon, The Frontiersman cites 10 other books, and is cited itself by at least 5, so it may perhaps be reasonably well researched.

 * Finally, in reading the narratives of criticism of Eckert that I have been able to find, the gist seems to be that he may be inexact in quoting historical figures (eg. creating conversations based on historically factual background). I can find no claims that his work is otherwise factually inaccurate.  This might call the Blackfish quote into question, but would not otherwise effect the text of our article, I don't think.  If you do think some of the "facts" in our article are incorrect, then I would encourage you to replace them with more accurate, better cited "facts" for everyone's review.

 * Having said all of that, I'll see if I can't track down some of Eckert's own sources and try to match our account up with them. That might take some time.  But I am more interested in creating an accurate, properly sourced encyclopedia article than I am in either attacking or defending Eckert.  Cmichael (talk) 03:04, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. I would definitely take the quote-in-quotes out as it is fake. Professional historians are not impressed with Eckert unless some of them like reading his "historical fiction" works. You can tell that by the fact that no one ever quotes him in an academic history book/article... Or even a popular history book. I'm adding an "unreliable source" tag to the article. 96.231.137.242 (talk) 22:33, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

 * If you enjoy throwing stones, then have at it. But, it would probably be more helpful if you would simply correct whatever you think is inaccurate, (citing your sources, of course), since you seem to be knowledgeable about the subject matter.  Cheers!  Cmichael (talk) 23:28, 17 August 2009 (UTC)

I agree it should be corrected. Unfortunately, that would probably entail taking out most, or all, of the Eckert material. And there won't be much of anything from other sources to replace it. (We whites managed to obliterate early oral Indian history pretty thoroughly.) But better to have a very short history section than one filled with novelistic invention masquerading as history. 96.231.137.242 (talk) 14:19, 22 August 2009 (UTC)

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Should I move here Me and my family are looking for a place with low gas prices and a nice home that is aforable. 184.21.63.97 (talk) 10:39, 30 June 2022 (UTC)
 * I'm afraid that question is beyond the scope of Wikipedia to answer—you'll have to research affordability on your own, based on your criteria. P Aculeius (talk) 14:04, 30 June 2022 (UTC)

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Joining WV
I do not see why this was a "dubious" act either. Since Lincoln was dead in 1865, the joint resolution by Congress in 1866 was hardly an homage to the dead President. ANYONE else???Coal town guy (talk) 15:03, 13 February 2013 (UTC)

Joining WV part 2
Larry Kump can join whatever he wants, but his actions are in clear violation of the WV state constitution where such matters are clearly defined as the sole office of the Governor...... I think there should be a citation to the WV state constitution of WV code...its rather clearly defined......Coal town guy (talk) 16:28, 7 August 2014 (UTC)

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Proposed merge of Jefferson County Sheriff's Department (West Virginia) into Jefferson County, West Virginia
The Jefferson County Sheriff's Department page mentions two incidents, the Ronald Fletcher shooting, and the Sheriff Robert Shirley police brutality case. For the first one, the citation is broken and I'm struggling to find another source for it. (Archive.org doesn't even have a copy of that Herald-Mail URL...) Aside from that, the Organization section is basically uncited. I think, removing the dubious material, this Sheriff's department could be handled adequately as a section on this page. Apocheir (talk) 01:24, 21 December 2021 (UTC)

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Book banning
This really merits its own article. --Caponer 20:39, 21 February 2006 (UTC)

 * I guess there is precedent for that, because it seems all semi-notable events get their own articles. If you like you can move it, the only source is the one I cited. Ashibaka tock 03:39, 24 February 2006 (UTC)

 * This really needs moving. There are many hundreds of significant events & contributions by/of the population of this county. As both my parents worked for the Kanwaha Country School Board at the time (Principal/Executive Secretary to The Superintendent of Schools respectively) I am both fully aware of its importance & implications. This incident is not part of a movement nor is it discussed editorially. Please move or delete this section & let's leave the Wiki page to its more informational representation of the county. --Brittus —Preceding undated comment added 17:34, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

 * It sounds more than minor, seeKanawha County textbook controversy. • Sbmeirow  •  Talk  •  22:03, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

 * Someone needs to expand the history section! •  Sbmeirow  •  Talk  •  22:08, 10 January 2013 (UTC)

Etymology
Which Native American language does this name come from? Badagnani (talk) 22:12, 8 August 2008 (UTC)
 * If I'm not mistaken, it's from an Iroquois tribe. - JWhitt (talk) 02:55, 17 August 2010 (UTC)
 * Kanawha was the name of the tribe which resided thereCoal town guy (talk) 14:39, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

Pronunciation of Kanawha
I am a native of the area and I'd like to note that we pronounce it /kəˈnɑ/, as in we don't add in a third syllable. - JWhitt (talk) 02:55, 17 August 2010 (UTC)

Encyclopedia vs travel brochure
Can we all please in some way at least attempt to monitor the page content here and agree that family fun, swell places and the new Walmart might not be what you want in an encyclopedic article......Thats why we have touring agenciesCoal town guy (talk) 14:15, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * Actually, that's what Wikivoyage is for (within reason).  Acroterion   (talk)   15:18, 1 March 2013 (UTC)
 * I agree 100% BUT, I have to say that the edits look EXACTLY like a brochure...one that is found at the WV Visitor center.........which has working restrooms and a great friendly staff(ha ha ha)Coal town guy (talk) 15:48, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

History section
Kanawha was part of WV PRIOR to the conclusion of the Civil War. Post Civil War Counties formed in WV are as follows: Grant, Mineral, Lincoln, Summers and Mingo..Coal town guy (talk) 18:14, 24 February 2014 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I've changed the pronunciation to match the pronunciation listed in Kanawha River. The old pronunciation of /ɑː/ rather than /ɔː/ also is probably a reflection of the cot-caught merger. Talu42 (talk) 07:07, 11 July 2014 (UTC)

Parent County not identified
From which county was Kanawha County formed? 2602:304:CDA6:51B0:5149:55D0:8FCC:3420 (talk) 21:42, 18 August 2016 (UTC)

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NOTABLE????
WHY is Rebecca Copin a Notable person? She poisoned her husband after he beat her like a rented pack mule. While tragic, is that NOTABLE???Coal town guy (talk) 17:57, 15 February 2018 (UTC)

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Can you include some information about some famous lakes and rivers? Also, it would help me if you would please include a map. 207.69.138.137 01:46, 16 April 2007 (UTC)

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I'd like to discuss whether the 1632 series should be noted here; please weigh in at Talk:Mannington,_West_Virginia. ErikHaugen (talk | contribs) 18:37, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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I removed the history section because it was a copy-and-paste copyright violation from this site. Malepheasant 05:13, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

Zip codes and phone numbers
Is the list of zip codes or phone numbers notable? Since the advent of portable phone numbers, it isn't even correct. Why do we need this stuff? WVhybrid (talk) 15:06, 1 November 2008 (UTC)

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Virgil Lewis boo in the early 20th century was in error when it identified Stephen Mason, it was George Mason, which he does identify as George Mason in his 1889 1st edition the History of West Virginia in 2 parts........Which I own a copy of.Coal town guy (talk) 02:58, 31 October 2013 (UTC)
 * HERE is the Mason County data Bibliography as presented by the WV Division of Culture and History, NOTE, the Historical facts portion on the page, stating it was indeed George Mason as the namesake........There are over 15 published sources on Mason County history there.........Coal town guy (talk) 03:51, 31 October 2013 (UTC)

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This counties specific history section looks to be a direct quote from the McDowell County History text OR the Poli Sci page at WV University......... I will verify with my copy at home and begin edits. As to the local history, the assumption with a local history tag is that you go a level up for veracity, at the county level, that would mean what exactly?? The State, the USA???Coal town guy (talk) 20:18, 11 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I doubt it is from the Poli Sci page... Poli Sci archive. It seems like I was rewording the section, but I found trouble finding sources for more recent information. –  Nascar1996  ( talk • cont ) 03:40, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I do not doubt it came from the McDowell County History book however.........I did indeed check my copy. This is a series of summary quotes with no refs, and thats not too cool really. I think I can fix that within the next few days. As far as most recent, the county has a population of under 20,000 and is in the process of a death spiral, not fun to watch. Most of their places on the NRHP are ready to be visited by a bulldozer and there is virtually no budget to maintain, much less restore these places. AND lest we forget, YES, I did go there in my car (2013) and YES, a dozer is in the future.Coal town guy (talk) 14:24, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Lets try this again shall we? Here is a verbatim extract from the poli sci page "In an effort to raise revenue following the American Revolutionary War, the newly formed federal government sold vast areas of unoccupied land to land speculators, typically as low as three cents per acre. In 1794, three large land grants were sold that covered all of the present county and more. Wilson Cary Nicholas purchased a land grant of 300,000 acres and another 320,000 acre land grant with Jacob Kenney. This latter land grant was said to have covered most of the present McDowell County. It was sold the following year to Robert Morris (1734-1806), the famous wealthy financier who was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, used his financial fortune to underwrite the expenses of the American Revolutionary Army, and, late in life, lost his fortune and spent three years in debtor's prison. Also, in 1794, David Paterson purchased a 150,00 acre land grant that may have included a small portion of the present county. He sold it to Robert Pollard the following year. Thus, in 1795, Robert Morris owned nearly all of land that is now known as McDowell County." The article History section we are discussing for McDowell County is a near precise rewording, paraphrased including the 3 cents an acre verbage and the following the Revolutionary war verbage. Read the article with the extract....While not an exact copy, its a reworded essay with over 80% of the quoted extract with no ref, ergo, UNLESS there is a ref, it will go bye bye.Coal town guy (talk) 15:56, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I suggest hiding it. I doubt there is a reference online, and I don't own any books related to the area. (I was confused on what part of the history you were referring to at first.) –  Nascar1996  ( talk • cont ) 23:47, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * I own the physical books, there is believe it or not (and sometimes I do not) a benefit behind starting a Phd in Appalachian studies, didnt finish the Phd, BUT I have a decent library on WV. There are scant books on strictly McDowell County history, I know 2 of the authors as they are still alive, BUT, online, Virgil Lewis, History of WV at Google books, the 1890's edition is a cool start. I own that text as well and from what I can recall, there should be enough between that and a few others I have to actually upgrade the history. After a closer review, there is some repetition, and we could use SOME of the poli sci page of course. As to hiding it, can we hold off for 1 week? I think I can nail most of it to the point of it NOT being a restatement of a single web page by then. ANY help would be GREATLY appreciatedCoal town guy (talk) 03:05, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

Paraphrasing and History
After a verbatim review, the entire History section is what we call Close Paraphrasing and may constitute plagiarismCoal town guy (talk) 16:01, 12 July 2013 (UTC)
 * Thanks for looking into this! :) I see it's been worked on since then. Can I ask if you think this is still an issue that merits the tag? If so, is there anything that I can do to help with the rewrite? Is it bad enough to require removing the section so it can be rewritten from scratch? --Moonriddengirl (talk) 16:55, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, I think you are correct, I have been trying to get to it, BUT I have not been able to dedicate the time it needs.Coal town guy (talk) 17:04, 14 October 2013 (UTC)
 * Yup, I am actually going to started editing it again, I blew my knees out this past year, learning to walk vs editing....hey, a man has to choose.Coal town guy (talk) 14:50, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

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Time to prune this thorny bush
So after 5 years, I decided to remove all close paraphrasing, all political stumping, and all unrefed statements. SO, how about we start from what we have and build an actual article? A few observations, why did this county article have a drug related deaths section? Why not a violent crime and rape section as well? Why not do this for ALL counties and possibly just possible create a consistant approach in this encyclopedia? Coal town guy  (talk)   12:49, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * If you're the number one county in the U.S. in drug deaths, murder, rape, etc; then it deserves a mention in the article. "Consistency" as you envision it might prevent information from being included that is essential for understanding the subject -- and one of the most important facts about McDowell County is that it has a serious drug problem. I'm going to put the drug info back in the article -- unless you can come up with a better alternative.Smallchief  (talk) 13:37, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Hey thats fine, honestly, but its does not answer the concern. Why now? 5 years go by and wow, I know in addition to the close paraphrasing lets talk about drugs and OD's thats fine. That basically says that in 5 years the best that has been done is the fact that we can keep almost all of the close paraphrasing AND add a blurb about drug addiction. Do you honestly believe that this issue is new? Its possibly the poorest county in the state, its close, they have no funds, no police budget, you can score almost any illegal drug you want on the weekends really. No police, no budget for it. BUT of all of this nations counties, you choose this one? Because its newsworthy, sure. It is in the news. How about ALL OF THE OTHER COUNTIES? You mean in Ohio, or Michigan or Oregon there is no drug issue??? So you know what? Keep it in there. Thats right because thats the best we have now. (hushed sounds of thunderous applause) How about rape? Did you get that stat? WHY this one county, DO THEM ALL, be fair? Right? NO. Its newsworthy and notable. THAT is how YOU determined that this issue is one of the most the most important things about this county.. So this isnt an encyclopedia, its a newshub.And whatever trends that is what we put in. NO HISTORY..Why thats boring. OK, I am done here. UNINVOLVED.  Coal town guy   (talk)   14:31, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * First of all, the material about drug deaths is not 5 years old. It was put in the article on 12 January 2017 -- and not by me.  The data is from 2015 -- not five years ago.  Secondly, it's not unusual for material like this to be put in articles about cities or counties.  Check, for example Memphis, Tennessee and Sumter, South Carolina both of which have sections about their high crime rates.  Third, the article Drugs in the United States lists drug deaths by state and West Virginia, is the highest in the country -- and McDowell Country had in 2015 the highest death toll per capita in West Virginia.
 * If you have reliable information that drug deaths have decreased (or increased) substantially in McDowell County since 2015, I suggest you put it into the article, along with a rationale for the decrease (or increase) if one is offered in the reliable source. Smallchief (talk) 18:40, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * NOT the point. The point is ALL counties should have the data.The data is reliable, the data is not five years old. The data appears after a request to redo a closely worded History section was marked in 2013.... Coal town guy  (talk)   18:50, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * All counties don't have a drug problem -- or one as serious as McDowell Country. McDowell country is notable for the severity of the problem, just like Moore, Oklahoma is notable for the severity of its tornadoes. Shall we require that all counties in the U.S. have a section on tornadoes? Smallchief  (talk) 18:58, 4 October 2018 (UTC)
 * Are you serious? I am a tad startled at your point of view (POV) pushing here. Because that means that all of the stats you are posting while accurate, are done because YOUR WORDS "All counties don't have a drug problem". THAT is called a POV. and a POV is a NO NO. EVERY county has a drug problem. ALL OF THEM. SO until you can prove your statement that All Counties do not have a drug problem, (which you better let the DEA know because they are wasting millions of dollars) they will be deleted because its your POV. AND BEFORE YOU START, Do you have a metric documented that states oh at this level, you are at a McDowell County meltdown and wow thats bad?...Do you have that? Whats the ref? Frontline? I have lived there and yes there is a HUGE problem. AND there are HUGE problems with illegal drugs and opioid abuse everywhere.  Coal town guy   (talk)   20:12, 4 October 2018 (UTC)

If McDowell really is number one in the U.S. in drug problems, that is worth a mention in and of itself, without reference to any other county. 213.205.240.237 (talk) 17:39, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

Drug induced deaths
SO, where are all of the other county drug induced deaths? Wyoming County? Boone County etc etc. I mean if we want to news monger, wee need rape and murder rates too Coal town guy  (talk)   12:55, 5 October 2018 (UTC)

Flag for McDowell County
ANY source for this???? I am unable to see it, I know people on the County Commission, they do not know of it, ANYONE, ANYTHING?? Coal town guy  (talk)   17:22, 15 May 2019 (UTC)

Pronunciation
I don't know how or where to add this information, but I think it should be documented somewhere that the pronunciation for the name of this location is "Mack Dow" in the mouth of an local resident: at 09:45.
 * Geographyinitiative (talk) 09:21, 6 July 2019 (UTC)
 * That man quite clearly pronounces the "ell" part of the name. --Khajidha (talk) 23:16, 30 July 2019 (UTC)

County Seat
On some guy’s farm 1866-74. Why? 62.105.172.44 (talk) 17:47, 9 March 2020 (UTC)

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My Mothe was born In the town called Dot and it is in Mercer Co.Her name is Ruth C Rash. I am trying to find her home where she was born —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.89.23.159 (talk) 22:34, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

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I have concerns about Gary Howell's notability for listing in this article. His article was previously deleted as being non-notable. It was only recreated after he was elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates, which is the only thing that gives him notability.

By his edits, Howell claims to be a notable Mineral County resident. I do not believe that state delegates representing a county are notable for purposes of listing here. We're already determined that he isn't notable based on his other ventures. I think his listing amongst notable residents should be removed, but Howell's IP sockpuppet keeps reverting my edits. Bitmapped (talk) 18:13, 24 December 2010 (UTC)

References, they can be done, honest
Folks, I have read thios entire page several times. It has so many issues. There are virtually no refs for any claim. There are lists of Swimming pools, in a County Page article, incomplete sentences for the histiory article which also, has virtually NO refs....I am willing to ref the article, especially after the totally incorrect represenjtation of the WV Constitution, which, was ALSO, NOT ref'd. HOWEVER, I was very concerned when I looked up the Historic locations, listed on this page and guess what? MOST of them have NO REFS..........I am one person here, does anyone else widsh to add some refs??? Otherwise, I will edit the data out.Coal town guy (talk) 13:38, 7 May 2013 (UTC)

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What is the topography of the county? What are the highest and lowest elevations? Kdammers (talk) 02:52, 13 July 2010 (UTC)

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As discussed in this Charleston Gazette article, Haynes Cave is located in Monroe County. Thus, a mention of the cave in this article is relevant. Brian Powell (talk) 03:41, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

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"Mr. Denton on Doomsday" is episode three of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on October 16, 1959, on CBS. It was the first Twilight Zone episode to be rerun.

Opening narration
Portrait of a town drunk named Al Denton. This is a man who's begun his dying early—a long, agonizing route through a maze of bottles. Al Denton, who would probably give an arm or a leg or a part of his soul to have another chance, to be able to rise up and shake the dirt from his body and the bad dreams that infest his consciousness. [The camera pans up to a figure standing before a stagecoach] In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler, a rather fanciful-looking little man in a black frock coat. [A revolver mysteriously appears on the ground next to Denton] And this is the third principal character of our story. Its function: perhaps to give Mr. Al Denton his second chance.

Plot
Al Denton was once known as the quickest draw in town, but riddled with increasing guilt over the losers in his gun duels (one of whom was a teenage boy), he became an alcoholic wreck and the laughingstock of the community. A mysterious salesman named Henry J. Fate causes Denton to inexplicably regain his expert shooting touch and once again inspire the respect and awe of the townsfolk; Denton explains to Liz, a saloon girl, that this will only cause reputation-hungry gunslingers from miles around to seek him out and, inevitably, kill him. He cleans himself up and goes sober but only, he says, so as to die with dignity. Just as Denton predicted, soon enough a challenge is delivered which Denton dares not refuse.

The still-weary and not-so-sure-handed Denton practices in the desert for his suicidal duel, but he misses his targets miserably and concludes that he must skip town. As he packs his things and tries to flee under the cover of night, he strikes up a conversation with Fate, who seems to know things about Denton and offers him a way out. Fate offers him a potion guaranteed to make the drinker the fastest gun in the West for exactly ten seconds. Denton is skeptical but Fate goads him into drinking a free sample, after which Denton immediately realizes its benefits.

At the appointed time, Denton faces his challenger, Pete Grant, a brash young gunfighter. Denton downs his potion only to find his opponent holding an identical empty bottle. Grant and Denton both realize that Fate tricked them, but it is too late to back out of the duel. Each man shoots the other in the hand, causing injuries which are minor but forever ruin both men's ability to pull a trigger.

Denton tells his young opponent that they have both been blessed because they will never again be able to fire a gun in anger. He tells Liz that Grant is lucky because he was given this lesson early. Henry J. Fate tips his hat to Denton and rides quietly out of town.

Closing narration
Mr. Henry Fate, dealer in utensils and pots and pans, liniments and potions. A fanciful little man in a black frock coat who can help a man climbing out of a pit—or another man from falling into one. Because, you see, fate can work that way, in the Twilight Zone.

Preview for next week's story
This motion picture projector and this film provide a background in next week's story when a most distinguished actress takes a journey into The Twilight Zone. Ms. Ida Lupino stars in "The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine," a haunting story of a haunted woman, that I think you'll find interesting and perhaps shocking. We hope you'll join us then. Thank you and good night.

Episode notes
In his 1959 promotional film shown to potential sponsors, Rod Serling summarized an earlier version of this episode's plot under its original title, "Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle". As told by Serling, the basic premise is similar, but the earlier version seems to have been more comedic in tone, involving a meek schoolteacher who quite unintentionally gains notoriety as a top gunslinger. The name "Mr. Dingle" (originally intended for the Dan Duryea character) would be used by Serling for a future episode, with Burgess Meredith playing the eponymous character in "Mr. Dingle, the Strong" in 1961. The harmonica in the background is playing the Russian folksong "Stenka Razin" (the melody of which was later adapted for the 1965 hit "The Carnival Is Over" by The Seekers).

Al Denton's speech to Liz Smith, in which he describes having been a top gunfighter until he turned to drink after being "called out" by a 16-year-old boy, was parodied in the Mel Brooks comedy Blazing Saddles. In that film, the Waco Kid (Gene Wilder) had also been a top gunfighter until he was challenged (and shot) by a six-year-old child, leading him to become an alcoholic.

Martin Landau, playing here the sadistic bully to the story's protagonist, Al Denton, would return to The Twilight Zone five years later in “The Jeopardy Room”; this time he is the sadistically treated victim - a KGB major longing to defect but targeted for assassination.

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The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine

"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine", starring Ida Lupino, is episode four of the American television series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on October 23, 1959, on CBS. The title is a reference to 16 mm film.

Opening narration
Picture of a woman looking at a picture. Movie great of another time, once-brilliant star in a firmament no longer a part of the sky, eclipsed by the movement of earth and time. Barbara Jean Trenton, whose world is a projection room, whose dreams are made out of celluloid. Barbara Jean Trenton, struck down by hit-and-run years and lying on the unhappy pavement, trying desperately to get the license number of fleeting fame.

Plot
Aging film star Barbara Jean Trenton secludes herself in her private screening room, where she reminisces about her past by watching her old films from the 1930s. In an attempt to bring her out into the real world, her agent Danny Weiss arranges a part for her in a new movie. Barbara and the man who runs the studio, Marty Sall, however, have historically had a contentious relationship; he is rather petty, small, and callous. He offers her the role of a mother, which she refuses, to which Marty then insults her, telling her she's living in the past and that any role she would receive would be charity. Barbara leaves in anger. When Barbara returns home, she and Danny get into an argument when she decides to throw a party for her show-business friends. Danny points out that all of those friends have either moved away or have died, and that she keeps wishing for things that are dead.

After the argument, Barbara has, according to her maid, chosen to stay in the screening room day and night. Danny decides to bring a former leading man—now also older, Jerry Herndon, many years retired from acting and managing a chain of grocery stores—to visit her. She is horrified by her friend's aged appearance and orders them both to leave. After the ill-fated visit, Barbara goes back into the projector room and puts on a movie that features Jerry's younger self. She will not accept that the present-day Jerry is the real one and voices her wish repeatedly to join the one on the screen; the screen blurs accordingly.

Barbara's maid comes with a snack and coffee, only to find the room empty—and is horrified by what she sees on the screen. She calls Danny and, when he comes over, tells him that—to her mind—Barbara has vanished from the house. He runs the projector and sees, in the movie, the front hall of the house filled with movie stars, looking as they did in the old films. Barbara descends the stairs, welcomes them to the party and says that dinner will be by the pool. As she starts off with Jerry, Danny tries to call her back to 1959 and reality. In response, she blows a kiss, throws her scarf toward the camera, and departs. The film ends. In the actual front hall, Danny finds Barbara's scarf. "To wishes, Barbie", he says wistfully. "To the ones that come true."

Closing narration
To the wishes that come true, to the strange, mystic strength of the human animal, who can take a wishful dream and give it a dimension of its own. To Barbara Jean Trenton, movie queen of another era, who has changed the blank tomb of an empty projection screen into a private world. It can happen in the Twilight Zone.

Preview for next week's story
Next week, we invite you to take a strange journey back in time with Mr. Gig Young, who tries to make the exodus of all men in their desperate attempt to relive the past. We offer a most bizarre story called "Walking Distance," and we hope you'll be around to share it with us. Thank you and good night.

Episode notes
This episode contains several similarities to Billy Wilder's 1950 film Sunset Boulevard starring Gloria Swanson and shares the same composer and conductor of music, Franz Waxman. Mitchell Leisen directed Billy Wilder scripts at Paramount in the 1930s. It also evokes 1952's The Star with Bette Davis which was directed by Stuart Heisler and released by Twentieth Century Fox.

Ida Lupino later directed the season five episode "The Masks". She was both the only person to have acted in one episode and directed another, and the only woman to direct a Twilight Zone episode.

Martin Balsam returned to star in the season four episode "The New Exhibit". Between his two episodes of Twilight Zone, Balsam appeared in three iconic films of the era: Psycho, Breakfast at Tiffany's and Cape Fear.

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Walking Distance

"Walking Distance" is episode five of the American television series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on October 30, 1959. The episode was listed as the ninth best episode in the history of The Twilight Zone by Time magazine.

Opening narration
"Martin Sloan, age thirty-six. Occupation: vice-president, ad agency, in charge of media. This is not just a Sunday drive for Martin Sloan. He perhaps doesn't know it at the time, but it's an exodus. Somewhere up the road he's looking for sanity. And somewhere up the road, he'll find something else."

Plot
While driving his car in the countryside on a summer afternoon circa 1959, 36-year-old New York advertising executive Martin Sloan stops to have his car serviced at a gas station within walking distance of Homewood, his hometown. After walking into town, he sees that it apparently has not changed since he was a boy. He visits the drugstore, and he is confused when he finds out that ice cream sodas are still only 10 cents.

Martin walks to the town park, where he is startled to see himself as a young boy, carving his name into the bandstand, exactly as he remembers doing. Martin approaches, resulting in preteen Martin becoming scared, believing himself to be in trouble, and he runs away. Following his younger self home, he meets his parents as they were in his childhood, but he is turned away. He sees the next door neighbor, a teen boy working on his brand new roadster; Martin soon discovers that it is the year 1934.

"A man can think a lot of thoughts and walk a lot of pavements between afternoon and night. And to a man like Martin Sloan, to whom memory has suddenly become reality, a resolve can come just as clearly and inexorably as stars in the summer night. Martin Sloan is now back in time. And his resolve is to put in a claim to the past."

Confused and worried, Martin wanders around town and ends up at his former home again later that evening, where he again tries to convince his parents who he is by showing his identification, but he is slapped by his mother and rejected.

Martin wanders back to the park and finds his preteen self on a carousel. His advances again frighten young Martin, who falls off the merry-go-round and injures his leg. Simultaneously, adult Martin experiences excruciating pain in his leg due to the effect of the injury propagating through time to his adult self. The carousel is stopped, and Martin tries to tell his younger self to enjoy his boyhood while it lasts.

After 11-year-old Martin is carried away, adult Martin, sitting dejectedly on the carousel, is joined by his father who tells him young Martin will be all right, but will have a limp. He also tells him that having seen money with future dates and adult Martin's driver's license (with a 1960 expiration date) from Martin's wallet, which he had dropped at the house during the confrontation earlier, he now believes Martin's story. Martin's father advises his son that everyone has his time and that instead of looking behind him, he should look ahead; as delightful and rewarding as he may remember childhood to be, adulthood holds its own delights and rewards.

When Martin walks back into the drugstore, he finds himself back in 1959, where ice cream sodas are now 35 cents. He discovers that he now has a limp from the carousel injury. Martin makes his way back to the gas station where he picks up his car. He drives away, content for once to live his life in his own age group.

Closing narration
"Martin Sloan, age thirty-six, vice-president in charge of media. Successful in most things but not in the one effort that all men try at some time in their lives—trying to go home again. And also like all men, perhaps there'll be an occasion, maybe a summer night sometime, when he'll look up from what he's doing and listen to the distant music of a calliope, and hear the voices and the laughter of the people and the places of his past. And perhaps across his mind there'll flit a little errant wish, that a man might not have to become old, never outgrow the parks and the merry-go-rounds of his youth. And he'll smile then too, because he'll know it is just an errant wish, some wisp of memory not too important really, some laughing ghosts that cross a man's mind, that are a part of the Twilight Zone."

Preview for next week's story
An excursion into fantasy on The Twilight Zone next week as two distinguished actors, Mr. David Wayne and Mr. Thomas Gomez, appear in "Escape Clause", the story of a strange contract between a mortal man and his most satanic majesty; a contract that ends most surprisingly. We hope you'll be around to see what that surprise is. Thank you and good night.

Production
Unlike some episodes of the show that were accompanied by pre-composed stock music cues, Walking Distance was underscored with music specially written for it. As for other Twilight Zone episodes, Bernard Herrmann—also composer of the first season's main title music and some of its stock music—wrote the music for this one. The intimate score has an isolated running time of about 19 minutes, and it is played by a 19-piece-orchestra consisting of strings (violins, violas, cellos, basses) and one harp.

The park in this episode is said to be inspired by Recreation Park in Binghamton, New York, which is located about five blocks away from Rod Serling's childhood home. Like the park in "Walking Distance", Recreation Park has a carousel and a bandstand. There is a plaque in the Recreation Park bandstand commemorating the episode. The plaque and the episode are referenced heavily in the 2014 film The Rewrite, which is mostly set in Binghamton.

Themes
Similar themes of nostalgia, its potential risks, the relentless pressures of the business world, and the disillusionments that come with being an adult are explored in "A Stop at Willoughby", "Young Man's Fancy", "The Incredible World of Horace Ford", "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville", and to a lesser extent, "The Brain Center at Whipple's", as well as two Serling teleplays from before and after The Twilight Zone: The Kraft Television Theatre episode "Patterns" and the Night Gallery episode "They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar".

Critical response
"Walking Distance" has continued to be one of the more popular and critically acclaimed of all Twilight Zone episodes. Paul Mandell of American Cinematographer wrote: "[Walking Distance] was the most personal story Serling ever wrote, and easily the most sensitive dramatic fantasy in the history of television." The episode was listed as the ninth best episode in the history of the series by Time in celebration of the series' 50th anniversary.

In an audio recording of an early 1970s lecture at Ithaca College included in Twilight Zone DVD packages, Serling was critical toward the episode, feeling in retrospect that his relative inexperience as a writer at the time was apparent in the screenplay. However, Jodi Serling said in a 2019 interview with SyFy Wire that "Walking Distance" was her father's favorite episode of the show because it was "a very personal story for him" and there were "pieces of him in it". Serling stated it was her favorite episode as well due to her father's connection to it, saying: "My father every summer would take a ride from our place on Cayuga Lake, which is in Ithaca, New York, and he would ride an hour to Binghamton, New York, and revisit his hometown. It was like his private journey of seeing his old house. It's still there on Bennett Ave., going on the merry-go-round — which isn't the same merry-go-round — and walking the streets as he did when he played marbles with his friends. That episode is so nostalgic [for me] because it's so much about my dad. I can't help but see him."

Soundtrack releases
Due to the high popularity of the episode and the music, the score has received several releases on CD in its original film version in monoaural sound and two re-recordings in stereo as well, one done by Joel McNeely with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (the only complete version) and the other by William T. Stromberg conducting the Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Orchestrator John Morgan enlarged all sections of the orchestra for the latter, referring to Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings as Herrmann's main influence on the score in the liner notes. Composer/pianist Tom Alexander included the piece "Excerpts from Walking Distance" on his 2016 solo piano album Overbrook Avenue.

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Escape Clause

"Escape Clause" is episode six of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It is "the story of a strange contract between a mortal man and his most satanic majesty"; it originally aired on November 6, 1959, on CBS.

Opening narration
You're about to meet a hypochondriac. Witness Mr. Walter Bedeker, age forty-four. Afraid of the following: death, disease, other people, germs, draft, and everything else. He has one interest in life and that's Walter Bedeker. One preoccupation: the life and well-being of Walter Bedeker. One abiding concern about society: that if Walter Bedeker should die, how will it survive without him?

Plot
Walter Bedeker, a paranoid and self-absorbed hypochondriac, is convinced his wife Ethel and his doctor (who insists Bedeker is in good health) are conspiring to kill him by purposely making him sick. After they leave, a large rotund man calling himself Cadwallader appears in Bedeker's room, offering him immortality and a near-total halt to his physical aging. Bedeker guesses Cadwallader's true identity (the Devil) but is unafraid. He haggles with Cadwallader, who admits he wants Bedeker's soul and accurately points out the other will never miss it or notice when it's gone.

Cadwallader inserts an escape clause allowing Bedeker to summon him at any time if he chooses to die. Bedeker is suspicious but after Cadwallader leaves, he tests his new power by placing his hands on a hot radiator and finding them uninjured, then throws all his medicines out of a window, to Ethel's surprise.

Bedeker uses his newfound invulnerability to commit insurance fraud, claiming false settlements, and garnering cheap thrills by hurling himself into life-threatening accidents. After doing so 14 times, he concludes that the absence of risk and fear has made his life a dreadful bore. He purposely mixes a concoction of poisonous household liquids and drinks it, shocking Ethel, but it has no effect on him at all. Bedeker explains his situation to Ethel, admonishing her that if she had any imagination, she would find some way for him to experience some excitement. Proclaiming he is going to jump down the lightwell of their apartment building, Ethel futilely tries to stop him, tragically falling to her own demise.

Bedeker calmly calls the police, confessing to murdering Ethel. He is arrested and brought to trial. He hopes to experience the electric chair. However, due to his lawyer's defense strategy, he is instead sentenced to life in prison without parole. Cadwallader appears in Bedeker's jail cell to remind him of the escape clause. Realizing he will face eternity in prison if he does not use it, Bedeker nods and immediately suffers a fatal heart attack. The guard discovers his lifeless body and sighs, "Poor devil … ."

Closing narration
There's a saying, "Every man is put on Earth condemned to die, time and method of execution unknown." Perhaps this is as it should be. Case in point: Walter Bedeker, lately deceased. A little man with such a yen to live. Beaten by the devil, by his own boredom, and by the scheme of things in this, the Twilight Zone.

Preview for next week's story
One of next week's stars is alongside me now. She'll appear in a most unusual tale called "The Lonely". It's a story that takes place on a - (female voice) an asteroid, and it's a most intriguing premise. (Serling) Sounds it. Next week on The Twilight Zone, Jack Warden, John Dehner, and Jean Marsh appear in a bizarre tale of a man and a - a woman? I don't understand it either. Thank you and good night.

Production
"Escape Clause" was one of the three episodes-in-production mentioned by Rod Serling in his 1959 promotional film pitching the series to potential sponsors, the others being "The Lonely" and "Mr. Denton on Doomsday" (referred to as "Death, Destry, and Mr. Dingle").

Impact
"Here was a little gem. Good work, Rod Serling.  This little piece about a hypochondriac who gets tangled up with an obese, clerical devil ranked with the best that has ever been accomplished in half-hour filmed television." —Excerpt from the Daily Variety review.

Disney's Twilight Zone Tower of Terror has a reference to this episode located in the basement of the attraction. The elevators have a certificate of inspection plaque, signed by "Cadwallader", bearing the inspection number "10259". These numbers represent October 2, 1959, the date The Twilight Zone first aired.

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The Lonely

"The Lonely" is the seventh episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on November 13, 1959, on CBS.

Opening narration
Witness if you will, a dungeon, made out of mountains, salt flats, and sand that stretch to infinity. The dungeon has an inmate: James A. Corry. And this is his residence: a metal shack. An old touring car that squats in the sun and goes nowhere—for there is nowhere to go. For the record, let it be known that James A. Corry is a convicted criminal placed in solitary confinement. Confinement in this case stretches as far as the eye can see, because this particular dungeon is on an asteroid nine million miles from the Earth. Now witness, if you will, a man's mind and body shriveling in the sun, a man dying of loneliness.

Plot
In 2046, an inmate named Corry, convicted of murder, is sentenced to fifty years' solitary confinement on a distant asteroid. On the fifteenth day of the sixth month of the fourth year of incarceration, he is visited by the spacecraft (flown by a Captain Allenby) that brings him supplies and news from Earth four times a year. While Corry expects that perhaps he and Allenby will have time to play cards or chess, the captain informs the inmate that the ship and crew can stay only fifteen minutes this time; the asteroid's orbit is such that they would otherwise be stuck fourteen days at least, awaiting favorable orbital conditions to depart. Allenby's crew resent being away from Earth because of the likes of Corry.

Allenby has been trying to make Corry's stay humanely tolerable by bringing him things to take his mind off the loneliness, like the components to build an old car. He believes Corry that the killing was in self-defense and sympathizes with him. On this particular trip, the transport crew delights in bringing news that Corry's pardon was rejected and that murder cases are not even being reviewed. This causes Corry to feel that there is no way he is going to last out the years and the loneliness. Before leaving, Allenby orders his men to fetch a large crate which the captain instructs Corry to not open until the transport crew is out of sight—they have no clue what is inside the box.

Upon opening this special container, Corry discovers that Allenby has left him with a gynoid named Alicia to keep him company. Alicia is capable of emotions and memory and has a lifespan comparable to a human. At first, Corry detests her, rejecting her as a mere machine; synthetic skin and wires only capable of mocking him. However, when Corry hurts Alicia and sees that she is in fact capable of crying, he realizes that she has feelings. Over the next eleven months, Corry begins to fall in love with her. Alicia develops a personality that mirrors Corry's, and the days become bearable.

When the ship returns, Captain Allenby brings news that the murder cases have been reviewed and Corry has been pardoned. He can return home to earth immediately but they only have twenty minutes before they must leave; the crew has been dodging meteors and are nearly out of fuel. Corry learns that, because there are seven other passengers from other asteroids on the ship, there is only room for him and fifteen pounds of luggage. He is initially unconcerned as he doesn't have fifteen pounds' worth of possessions that he cares about; then he realizes that Allenby does not consider Alicia human. The fifteen-pound limit is far too small to accommodate her. He frantically tries to find some way to take Alicia with him, arguing that she is not a robot, but a woman, and insisting that Allenby simply does not know Alicia as he does. At that point, just as the transport crew is surprised at the sight of Alicia, the captain suddenly draws his gun and shoots her in the face. The robot breaks down, malfunctioning, her face a mass of wire and broken circuitry which repeats the name "Corry". Allenby then takes Corry back to the ship, assuring him he will only be leaving behind loneliness. "I must remember that", Corry says tonelessly. "I must remember to keep that in mind".

Closing narration
On a microscopic piece of sand that floats through space is a fragment of a man's life. Left to rust is the place he lived in and the machines he used. Without use, they will disintegrate from the wind and the sand and the years that act upon them. All of Mr. Corry's machines, including the one made in his image, kept alive by love, but now obsolete—in The Twilight Zone.

Preview for next week's story
Next week, a distinguished actor lends us his talents as Mr. Burgess Meredith stars in "Time Enough at Last", the story of a man who seeks salvation in the rubble of a ruined world. We hope you'll share this very strange experience with us. Thank you and good night.

Other media
An audio adaptation of "The Lonely", featuring Mike Starr as Corry, was produced for radio in the mid-2000s; it was released on CD by CBS Consumer Products in 2007 as part of The Twilight Zone Radio Dramas Vol. 4.

In 2007, "The Lonely" was produced for the stage by 4 Letter Entertainment.

Production information
"The Lonely" was the first regular episode to enter production following the success of the pilot episode, "Where Is Everybody?" in selling the series.

It was the first of several episodes (including "I Shot an Arrow into the Air", "A Hundred Yards Over the Rim" and "The Rip Van Winkle Caper") to be filmed on location in Death Valley. Unprepared for the terrible conditions they would face, the crew suffered extreme dehydration and heat exhaustion and director of photography George T. Clemens even collapsed, falling from a camera crane while filming continued.

For reasons unknown, Ted Knight is not listed in the episode credits.

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Time Enough at Last

"Time Enough at Last" is the eighth episode of the American anthology series The Twilight Zone, first airing on November 20, 1959. The episode was adapted from a short story by Lynn Venable, which appeared in the January 1953 edition of If: Worlds of Science Fiction.

"Time Enough at Last" became one of the most famous episodes of the original Twilight Zone. It is "the story of a man who seeks salvation in the rubble of a ruined world." The man in question is Henry Bemis, played by Burgess Meredith, who loves books but is surrounded by those who would prevent him from reading them. The episode follows Bemis through a post-apocalyptic world, touching on such social issues as anti-intellectualism, the dangers of reliance upon technology, and the distinction between solitude and loneliness.

Opening narration
"Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment, Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself... without anyone."

Plot
Bank teller and avid bookworm Henry Bemis reads David Copperfield while serving a customer. He is so engrossed in the novel that he attempts to regale the increasingly annoyed woman with information about the characters, and shortchanges her. Bemis' angry boss, and later his nagging wife, both complain to him that he wastes far too much time reading "doggerel". As a cruel joke, his wife asks him to read poetry to her from one of his books; he eagerly obliges, only to find that she has crossed out the text on every page. Seconds later, she destroys the book by ripping the pages from it.

The next day, as usual, Henry takes his lunch break in the bank's vault, where his reading cannot be disturbed. Moments after he sees a newspaper headline, which reads "H-Bomb Capable of Total Destruction", an enormous explosion outside shakes the vault, knocking Bemis unconscious. After regaining consciousness and recovering his thick glasses, Bemis emerges from the vault to find the bank demolished and everyone in it dead. Leaving the bank, he sees that the entire city has been destroyed, and realizes that, while a nuclear war has devastated Earth, his being in the vault has saved him.

"Seconds, minutes, hours—they crawl by on hands and knees for Mr. Henry Bemis, who looks for a spark in the ashes of a dead world. A telephone connected to nothingness. A neighborhood bar, a movie, a baseball diamond, a hardware store, the mailbox at what was once his house is now a rubble. They lie at his feet as battered monuments to what was but is no more. Mr. Henry Bemis, on an eight-hour tour of a graveyard."

Finding himself alone in the broken world with canned food to last him a lifetime and no means of leaving to look for other survivors, Bemis succumbs to despair. As he prepares to kill himself using a revolver he has found, Bemis sees the ruins of a public library in the distance. Investigating, he finds that the books are still intact; all the books he could ever hope for are his for the reading, and all the time he could ever hope for, to read them without interruption.

His despair gone, Bemis contentedly sorts the books he looks forward to reading for years to come, with no obligations to get in the way. Just as he bends down to pick up a book, he stumbles, and his glasses fall off and shatter. In shock, he picks up the broken remains of his glasses and breaks down in tears, surrounded by books he now can never read.

Closing narration
"The best-laid plans of mice and men ... and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Henry Bemis, in the Twilight Zone."

Preview for next week's story
Next week we enlist the considerable literary talents of Charles Beaumont, and invite you to join us in a strange and shocking dream. Our story is called "Perchance to Dream" and stars Richard Conte. I hope you'll be able to join next week's excursion into The Twilight Zone. Thank you and good night.

Production
"Time Enough at Last" was one of the first episodes written for The Twilight Zone. It introduced Burgess Meredith to the series; he went on to star in three more episodes, being introduced as "no stranger to The Twilight Zone" in promotional spots for season two's "The Obsolete Man". He also narrated the 1983 film Twilight Zone: The Movie, which made reference to "Time Enough at Last" during its opening sequence, with the characters discussing the episode in detail.

Footage of the exterior steps of the library was filmed several months after production had been completed. These steps can also be seen on the exterior of an Eloi public building in MGM's film of The Time Machine (1960). John Brahm was nominated for a Directors Guild award for his work on the episode. The book that Bemis was reading in the vault and that flips open when the bomb explodes is A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus by Washington Irving.

Themes
Although the overriding message may seem to "be careful what you wish for, you just might get it", there are other themes throughout the episode. Among these is the question of solitude versus loneliness, as embodied by Bemis' moment of near-suicide. Additionally, the portrayal of societal attitudes toward books speaks to the contemporary decline of traditional literature and how, given enough time, reading may become a relic of the past. At the same time, the ending "punishes Bemis for his antisocial behavior, and his greatest desire is thwarted".

Rod Serling's concluding statement in the episode alludes to Robert Burns' Scots language poem "To a Mouse". The poem concludes: "The best-laid schemes o' mice an men / Gang aft agley" (translation: "Often go awry"). Meredith himself had portrayed George Milton in the 1939 film adaptation of the Steinbeck novel named for that same line.

Although "Time Enough at Last" implies that nuclear warfare has destroyed humanity, film critic Andrew Sarris notes that the episode's necessarily unrealistic format may have been what allowed its production to commence:

"Much of the implacable seriousness of The Twilight Zone is seemingly keyed by the clipped, dour delivery of Serling himself and the interlocutor. He never encourages us to laugh, or even smile, even when the plot twist is at least darkly funny. For example, in 'Time Enough at Last' ... The H-bomb is still lurking in the background of the bookworm's 'accident.' The point is that the bomb could never have gone off on network television were the plot couched in a more realistic format."

In the era of the Internet and eBooks, the irony depicted in "Time Enough at Last" has an Information Age counterpart, according to Weston Ochse of Storytellers Unplugged. As Ochse points out, when Bemis becomes the last person on Earth, he finally has time to read, with all his books at his fingertips and the only impediment is technology when his medium for accessing them—his glasses—breaks. In a hypothetical world where all books are published electronically, Ochse observes, readers would be "only a lightning strike, a faulty switch, a sleepy workman or a natural disaster away from becoming Henry Bemis at the end of the world"—that is, a power outage has the potential to give them time to read, yet like Bemis, they too would lose their medium for accessing their books—namely the computer.

Similar episodes
The Twilight Zone often explored similar themes throughout its run. "Time Enough at Last" has strong thematic ties to a number of other episodes in the series, starting with that of isolation, first explored in the series pilot, "Where Is Everybody?" It is also a prominent theme in the previous episode "The Lonely". Additionally, in a plot very similar to that of "Time Enough at Last", "The Mind and the Matter" tells of a man who uses his mind to erase humanity, only to find that existence without other people is unbearable. The notion of being an outsider, lost in a sea of conformity, was one of the most common themes of the series.

Other thematic elements in this episode can be found throughout the series, as well. "The Obsolete Man" takes the episode's literary subtext—the notion that reading may eventually be considered "obsolete"—to an extreme: The state has declared books obsolete and a librarian (also played by Meredith) finds himself on trial for his own obsolescence. This notion, akin to Ray Bradbury's short story "The Pedestrian" (1951), is also alluded to in the episode "Number 12 Looks Just Like You", in which a perfect and equal world considers works like those of Shakespeare "smut".

Critical and fan favorite
"Time Enough at Last" was a ratings success in its initial airing and "became an instant classic". It "remains one of the best-remembered and best-loved episodes of The Twilight Zone" according to Marc Zicree, author of The Twilight Zone Companion, as well as one of the most frequently parodied. When a poll asked readers of Twilight Zone Magazine which episode of the series they remembered the most, "Time Enough at Last" was the most frequent response, with "To Serve Man" coming in a distant second. In TV Land's presentation of TV Guide's "100 Most Memorable Moments in Television", "Time Enough at Last" was ranked at No. 25. In an interview, Serling cited "Time Enough at Last" as one of his two favorites from the entire series. (The other was "The Invaders", with Agnes Moorehead.)

The episode has been referenced many times in popular culture. For example, The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, a theme park ride at Disney's Hollywood Studios and formerly Disney California Adventure Park, displays a replica of Henry Bemis' broken glasses in the lobby. It is noted that, while they are indeed reading glasses, Burgess Meredith wears them the entire episode to make Bemis look more bookish. On one appearance of the TV show Futurama's show-within-a-show "The Scary Door", a parody of The Twilight Zone and The Outer Limits, a man like Bemis is presented in a library as "the last man on earth". After he loses his glasses, the show pokes fun on the fact that he can still read books with large print and even in braille, so he successively loses various body parts until the scene ends. The PC game Fallout Tactics (2001) includes a librarian in a desolate world who wants the player to find his missing glasses so he can read his books. In a 2022 expansion for the game Fallout 76 entitled “the Pitt”, players may come across a small room featuring a pair of glasses, a gun, and a note called “Time Enough at Last”, containing lines of dialogue from the character of Bemis.

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