A Kind of a Stopwatch

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The Twilight Zone original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“A Kind of a Stopwatch” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 124
Season: 5
Production code: 2609
Original air date: October 18, 1963
Writer: Rod Serling, from an unpublished story by Michael D. Rosenthal
Director: John Rich
Producer: Bert Granet
Music: Nathan Van Cleave

[edit] Cast

Patrick Thomas McNulty: Richard Erdman
Mr. Cooper: Roy Roberts
Potts: Leon Belasco
Joe: Herbie Faye

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Patrick McNulty, a talkative and unpopular know-it-all, befriends an odd man named Potts, whom he meets in the local bar the day after McNulty is fired. Potts offers him a stopwatch, “an old family heirloom” in exchange for his friendship. Thinking it an odd gift, the man soon realizes that when the button is pressed, the stopwatch is capable of stopping time itself. Excited with his new toy, he unsuccessfully uses it in an attempt to win back his job and his friends. Disappointed at the results, he finds another use for it. While he is robbing a bank, the watch falls and breaks—leaving the universe forever frozen in time except for McNulty, who now has no one to talk to.