s02e19_20 - Opening & Closing - The Twilight Zone

uniquely American institution known as the  neighborhood bar reading left to right are Mr Anthony otou proprietor who Waters his drinks  like geraniums but who stands for a square for peace and quiet and for booths for ladies this  is Mr Joseph J Callahan an unregistered bookie whose entire life is any sporting event with two  sides and a set of odds his idea of a meeting at the Summit is any dialogue between a catcher and  a pitcher with more than one man on Bas and this animated citizen is eve

ry Anonymous better who  ever dropped rent money in a horse race a prize fight or a floating crap game and who took  out his frustrations and his insolvency and any vulnerable fellow bar stool companion  with an arms and fist reach and this is Mr Luther Dingle a vacuum cleaner salesman whose  volume of business is roughly that of a valot at a hobo convention he's a consant failure in  almost everything but is a good listener and has a prominent jaw take the Dodgers this evening two  to one a tre

mendous blow over the left field fence avear math mathematical plan that the entire  quantum theory of space and time relativity must have necessi equated with a paralleli and law  of definitive numerical dialectic algebraic and must be further annotated exit Mr Luther Dingle  formerly vacuum cleaner salesman strongest man on Earth and now Mental Giant these latter Powers  will very likely be eliminated before too long but Mr Dingle has an appeal to extraterrestrial notet  takers as well as to f

rustrated and insolvent bet losers off hand I'd say that he was in for  a great deal of extremely odd periods simply because there are so many inhabited planets  who send down observers and also because of course Mr Dingle lives his life with one foot  in his mouth and the other in the Twilight [Music] Zone Rod sirling the creator of  of Twilight Zone will tell you about next week's story after this word from  our alternate sponsor and now Mr Serling item of consequence a radio a carryover  from

that other era when quiz shows went up to only $64 and entertainment was aimed only at  the ears Mr Charles Bowmont has given us a most unusual story called Static we invite you to  watch Mr Dean Jagger filled with a few of these knobs change a few stations and find a couple of  programs that are broadcast only in the Twilight Zone see the new Andy Griffith Show each week  over most of these stations consult local listings well sure but I've never seen one  like that before no one ever saw one

quite like that because that's a very special  sort of radio in its day Circa 1935 its type was one of the most elegant consoles  on the market now with it it fabric covered speakers its peculiar yellow dial its serrated  knobs it looks quaint and a little strange Mr Ed Lindsay is going to find out how strange  very soon when he tunes into the Twilight Zone dear dear [Music] fny around and around  she goes and where she stops nobody knows all Ed Lindsay knows is that he desperately  wanted a sec

ond chance and he finally got it through a strange and wonderful time  machine called a radio in the Twilight [Applause] [Music] cem