A Kind of a Stopwatch
- Episode aired Oct 18, 1963
- TV-PG
- 25m
IMDb RATING
7.5/10
2.3K
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A man is given a stopwatch that halts time.A man is given a stopwatch that halts time.A man is given a stopwatch that halts time.
Dick Wessel
- Charlie
- (as Richard Wessel)
Ray Kellogg
- Fred
- (as Ray Kellog)
Sam Balter
- Game Announcer
- (uncredited)
Roy Damron
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Rudy Germane
- Office Worker
- (uncredited)
Stuart Hall
- Banker
- (uncredited)
Robert McCord
- Man in Bar Doorway
- (uncredited)
Ray Pourchot
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Paul Power
- Banker
- (uncredited)
John Roy
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
Al Silvani
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of only three episodes to feature the introductory line, "Submitted for your approval" during Rod Serling's opening narration, which is the phrase usually most associated with the show's monologues.
- GoofsWhen the helicopter is shown frozen in flight the blades are shown as a blur, the result of the rotor moving too fast to be caught by the camera's slower frame rate.
- Quotes
McNulty: [early draft; later revised] Say, uhm... You wouldn't be interested in having dinner, would ya?
Secretary: If the world as we know it was about to end, if you were its most prominent restauranteur, and if I weren't very happily married already, I *might* be. But it isn't, you aren't, and I am; so *drift*, McNulty.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Twilight-Tober-Zone: A Kind of A Stopwatch (2023)
Featured review
A Kind of Underrating
When Twilight Zone was on TV thirty years ago I video taped nearly a third of them. This episode, along with Long Live Walter Jameson, are the ones I've watched most often, and I'm surprised it's not higher up the ratings list.
The idea of time standing still, or at least appearing to, may not be original, see TZ episode Elegy.
What for me makes Stopwatch outstanding is the witty, quick-fire repartee, especially between the tiresome McNulty and bartender Joe Palucci, in which our anti-hero invariably comes off worse.
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- midbrowcontrarian
- Sep 9, 2020
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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