![]() It is man's prerogative-and woman's-to create their own particular and private Hell. Then the line goes dead, leaving Elva alone and crying in her bed.Īccording to the Bible, God created the Heavens and the Earth. He replies that she told him to leave her alone and that he always does what she says. At home, she picks up the phone and calls to Brian's ghost, pleading with him to answer. ![]() Now that she can talk to him again, she won't have to be alone. The accident crippled her and caused Brian to fly through the windshield, killing him. That day, she insisted on driving, lost control of the car and hit a tree. Brian died a week before they were to be married. Elva says that she always insisted on having her own way, and Brian always did what she said. Elva and her housekeeper visit the cemetery where she finds that the line is resting on the grave of her long-deceased fiancé, Brian Douglas. Finally he says, "Hello? Where are you? I want to talk to you." Elva, terrified, screams at the man to leave her alone.Įlva calls a phone company, who traces the calls to a telephone line that has fallen in a cemetery. The man continues to call and keeps repeating "Hello?" over and over. Later she hears a man moaning and she repeatedly demands to know who is calling. During the first calls she hears only static. ![]() Plot Īn elderly woman, Elva Keene, receives strange anonymous phone calls in the middle of a stormy night. Miss Keene doesn't know it yet, but her period of waiting has just ended, for something different is about to happen to her, has in fact already begun to happen, via two most unaccountable telephone calls in the middle of a stormy night, telephone calls routed directly through-the Twilight Zone. Up until now, the pattern of Miss Keene's existence has been that of lying in her bed or sitting in her wheelchair, reading books, listening to a radio, eating, napping, taking medication-and waiting for something different to happen. Miss Elva Keene lives alone on the outskirts of London Flats, a tiny rural community in Maine. The story ends differently than the TV episode. The title was changed to "Long Distance Call" when the story was anthologized. The episode is based on Richard Matheson's short story "Sorry, Right Number" which appeared in the November 1953 issue of Beyond Fantasy Fiction. The story follows an elderly woman, played by Gladys Cooper, who receives persistent disturbing phone calls from an anonymous caller. " Night Call" is a 1964 episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone directed by Jacques Tourneur. The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 5) "Long Distance Call" (AKA "Sorry, Right Number") You can check out the full schedule here.9th episode of the 5th season of The Twilight Zone " Night Call" The Twilight Zone marathon begins on the SYFY channel early morning on New Year's Eve and runs through the early hours of Tuesday, Jan. You can see all these actors in the early days of their careers on the series, which just adds gravy to the already rich meal found in each episode. Other notable actors you’ll see on the original series include Charles Bronson (“Two”), Robert Duvall (“Miniature”), Robert Redford (“Nothing in the Dark”), Dennis Hopper (“He’s Alive”), Burt Reynolds (“The Bard”), and Carol Burnett (“Cavender is Coming”). Another Star Trek actor, George Takei, also stars in an episode called “The Encounter” and Spock himself, Leonard Nimoy, is in “A Quality of Mercy.” Kirk, he was on two episodes of The Twilight Zone - “Nick of Time” and the well-known “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet,” where Shatner sees more than he bargained for on the wing of the plane he’s flying in. Many others, however, were relative unknowns whose careers grew after their Twilight Zone appearance.īefore William Shatner became Captain James T. Some of the actors like Buster Keaton (“One Upon a Time”) and Mickey Rooney (“The Last Night of a Jockey”) were well known at the time. ![]() The Twilight Zone is an anthology series and as such, had a large cast. We Get Glimpses of Many Actors Before They Hit It Big Christine White (as Julia Wilson), William Shatner as Bob Wilson in 'Nightmare At 20,000 Feet,' episode of The Twilight Zone. ![]()
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