The Ninth Floor Twilight Zone

A short clip from the twilight zone season one classic episode the after hours 1959.

The ninth floor twilight zone. As marsha returns to the first. The way she scurries about the floor so ominous and dark no escape it reminded me of how well the twilight zone could grip and compel me. Ask someone what the twilight zone s most iconic episode is and the first ones you ll likely hear are t o serve man or time enough at last maybe not by name but by the cookbook one or the one with the broken glasses but the after hours season one s thirty fourth episode the one about the mannequi n. She buys it although the saleslady who appears familiar is extremely rude.

Marsha white anne francis browsing for a gift for her mother in a department store decides on a gold thimble. Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store carrying miss marsha white on a most prosaic ordinary run of the mill errand. Miss marsha white on the ninth floor specialties department looking for a gold thimble the odds are that she ll find it but there are even better odds that she ll find something else because this isn t just a department store. No not that one the old twilight zone one is probably somewhere close.

The after hours is the thirty fourth episode of the the twilight zone. The twilight zone has a reputation for being this heady serious show but a penny for your thoughts is proof that the show could have a little fun once in a while. The twilight zone often stumbled when it tackled history some of those episodes have not aged well but this journey into the closing days of world war ii still has power. When marsha white gets off the express elevator on the ninth floor of the department store she finds it a desolate place where the lone piece of merchandise is a gold thimble.

From the cbs video library cover. A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor. I felt genuinely eerie and didn t envy francis all alone on that floor trapped with those lifeless painted wooden bodies the eyes of mannequins alone cause the hairs on my arms to stand up. Directed by douglas heyes.

The great dean. With rod serling anne francis elizabeth allen james millhollin. This happens to be the twilight zone.