"Twilight Zone" Season One (First Half of Season) Quiz

Answer: Where Is Everybody?

After a while of walking around, he collapses and presses the "walk" button (which in reality is a "panic button"). He's a training astronaut confined to an isolation room located within an aircraft hangar for more than 10 days to see if he can take it.

He is eventually taken away on a stretcher promising, "Next time it'll be for real. So don't go away. We'll be up there in a little while." Original air date was October 2, 1959.

Answer: Distracts Death with a "sales pitch" ("a pitch for the angels")

He is a sidewalk salesman. While he's making the pitch, Death gets so into the sale, that Death forgets to take the little girl at midnight and instead ends up buying every thing the salesman has.

Answer: He uses the "Escape Clause" in the contract to give up immortality

Walter creates a scam of collecting money from insurance companies for negligent accidents like the one where he falls down an elevator shaft, or getting run over by a bus. A cool fact is that in Disney's Twilight Zone Tower of Terror, there's a plaque by the elevator: "The last time the elevator was checked was October 2, 1959" (date "The Twilight Zone's" pilot episode first aired).

Answer: Eyeglasses

Mr. Bemis actually sorts all the books he is going to read in order. Poor guy is left alone to read till death, and Rod Serling throws us that ironic twist.

Answer: He sinks a freighter full of innocent passangers

The story line goes from Lanser being completely oblivious as to the reason he is there, to him realizing that he has to relive people dying at his hands over and over. Funny fact here is that in this first half of season one only one line in the script was changed. Instant coffee sponsor Sanka had a scene changed from tea being served on camera, to it being served away from the viewers.

Answer: What You Need

In the end the peddler gives a man a comb, used to groom himself before he's photographed as a witnesses for the news about the "hit and run" accident that kills Fred Renard (the thug). The episode was an inspiration for Stephen King's "I Know What You Need" (his first short story anthology "Night Shift").

Answer: He can change his face

Don't you wish we could "morph" too? He ends up switching to four different faces, but finally makes a mistake by morphing into a man's son. The father wants to correct the wrong his son has done and shoots him.

Answer: Earth

Rod Serling wrote about "hard hitting" issues like discrimination, and war. In this one you see what "desperation" can lead to: The crew realizes they never left Earth to begin with and they have killed crew members for nothing.

Answer: She hasn't survive the accident after all (she is dead)

Nan ends up finding out she's dead from a phone call she makes to her Mother. Mrs. Whitney answers the phone instead and explains that Mrs. Adams (her Mother) is in the hospital due to a nervous breakdown after finding out that her daughter was killed in an car accident (her car blew a tire and overturned causing the fatality).

Answer: Gambling

His wife tries to stop him from spending everything they own to no avail because he hears the slots calling his name. Franklin eventually gets so hooked on the "one armed bandit" that he plays away his last dollar when the slot machine malfunctions. After imagining that the machine has followed him all the way up the stairs into his room, he backs up into a window falling to his death.