Judgment Night
- Episode aired Dec 4, 1959
- TV-PG
- 25m
It's 1942, and a man finds himself on a ship in the Atlantic, not knowing who he is, nor how he got there. He does know the ship will soon be attacked by a German U-boat.It's 1942, and a man finds himself on a ship in the Atlantic, not knowing who he is, nor how he got there. He does know the ship will soon be attacked by a German U-boat.It's 1942, and a man finds himself on a ship in the Atlantic, not knowing who he is, nor how he got there. He does know the ship will soon be attacked by a German U-boat.
- Narrator
- (voice)
- Barbara Stanley
- (as Deirdre Owen)
- Little Girl
- (uncredited)
- Sailor in Ski Cap
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writer
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe Britons' beverages are coffee rather than tea since General Foods sponsored the episode.
Talking about censorship from sponsors, in a late-1959 interview with Mike Wallace, Rod Serling said, "...in 18 scripts [in the 1st Season], Mike, we've had one line changed, which again was a little ludicrous but of insufficient basic concern within the context of this story not to put up a fight. On the bridge of a British ship, the sailor calls down to the Galley and asks - in my script - for a pot of tea, because I believe it's constitutionally acceptable in the British Navy to drink Tea. One of my sponsors [General Foods] happens to sell Instant Coffee and he took great umbrage, or at least minor umbrage anyway with the idea of saying 'tea'. Well, we had a couple of swings back and forth - nothing serious - and we decided to 'ask for a tray to be sent up to the bridge'! But in 18 scripts, that's the only conflict we've had."
- GoofsThe captain of SS Queen of Glasgow is wearing the ribbons of the Africa Star, the Italy Star, and the 1939-45 War Medal in 1942. None of these medals had been instituted at that time.
- Quotes
Lt. Mueller: I just, I just found it difficult to...
Carl Lanser: To do what?
Lt. Mueller: To reconcile the killing of men and women without any warning. Makes me wonder if we're not damned now.
Carl Lanser: In the eyes of the British admiralty, we most certainly are.
Lt. Mueller: I mean, sir, in the eyes of God.
Carl Lanser: Oh, you're not only a fool, Leutnant, but also a religious fool, and perhaps a mystic at that. Suppose we are damned. What will happen then?
Lt. Mueller: I've had dreams about it. Perhaps there is a special kind of hell for people like us. Perhaps to be damned is to have a fate like the people on that ship, to suffer as they suffer and to die as they die.
Carl Lanser: You are a mystic, Leutnant.
Lt. Mueller: We'd ride the ghost of that ship every night. Every night, Herr Kapitän, for eternity. They could die only once, just once, but we could die a hundred million times. We could ride the ghost of that ship every night. Every night for eternity.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: Judgement Night (2020)
- Coventry
- May 14, 2016
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1