The Ninth Floor Twilight Zone

From the cbs video library cover.

The ninth floor twilight zone.

The great dean. Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store carrying miss marsha white on a most prosaic ordinary run of the mill errand. This happens to be the twilight zone. Marsha white anne francis browsing for a gift for her mother in a department store decides on a gold thimble.

A short clip from the twilight zone season one classic episode the after hours 1959. 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. With rod serling anne francis elizabeth allen james millhollin. Directed by douglas heyes.

She walks out onto the ninth floor and turns to complain to the. 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. The after hours is the thirty fourth episode of the the twilight zone. She buys it although the saleslady who appears familiar is extremely rude.

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. 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. A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor. She s taken by the elevator man to the ninth floor although the elevator s floor indicator only shows eight floors.

As marsha returns to the first. Stream it here. 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.