Twilight Zone: Season 1, Episode 8

Time Enough at Last (20 Nov. 1959)
"The Twilight Zone" Time Enough at Last (original title)

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A henpecked book lover finds himself blissfully alone with his books after a nuclear war.

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Rated #25 on TV Guide's "100 Most Memorable Moments in Television". See more »

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Mr. Bemis expects to live "years and years and years" post-attack. In 1959, the effects of nuclear fallout were still under initial study and not widely understood. We see Bemis emerging from the bank vault more or less immediately after a thermonuclear blast (bomb-shelter protocol says to wait at least two weeks for the worst of the radioactivity to decay), eating packaged food that was probably irradiated, etc. So even with his glasses, Bemis would have not lived to enjoy his books for very long. See more »

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Narrator: [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.
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The Bookworm
19 December 2012 | by (Buffalo, New York) – See all my reviews

Burgess Meredith was apparently a favored performer of Rod Serling as he appeared in several Twilight Zone episodes. This multi-faceted player did such a variety of roles that no wonder he was a favorite and Serling found so much material for him.

In this episode Meredith is Henry Bemis a most nearsighted employee of a bank who gets locked in the bank's vault when nuclear war hits his city. When he gets out he's all that's left of humanity.

But that suits him fine because he finds the library's store of books has been left undamaged. Shakespeare, Keats, Milton, everything he ever wanted to go through is at his fingertips.

Of course there is a joker in this deck and it wouldn't be the Twilight Zone without one. Let's hope that Meredith really is not the only human being left alive and he finds some companionship soon. Even just for some conversation about all these classics.

Burgess Meredith was never bad in anything and this is no exception.


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