A Penny for Your Thoughts

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The Twilight Zone original series Season two (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1960 – Summer 1961 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: King Nine Will Not Return The Man in the Bottle Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room A Thing About Machines The Howling Man The Eye of the Beholder Nick of Time The Lateness of the Hour The Trouble With Templeton A Most Unusual Camera Night of the Meek Dust Back There The Whole Truth The Invaders A Penny for Your Thoughts Twenty-Two The Odyssey of Flight 33 Mr. Dingle, the Strong Static The Prime Mover Long Distance Call A Hundred Yards Over the Rim The Rip Van Winkle Caper The Silence Shadow Play The Mind and the Matter Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up? The Obsolete Man

“A Penny for Your Thoughts” is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Dick York in A Penny for Your Thoughts

Details

Episode number: 52
Season: 2
Production code:
Original air date: February 3, 1961
Writer: George Clayton Johnson
Director: James Sheldon
Producer: Buck Houghton
Music: uncredited

[edit] Cast

Dick York
June Dayton
Dan Tobin
Hayden Rourke
Cyril Delevanti

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A bank clerk gains telepathic powers after making a coin stand on its edge. Able to read other people’s thoughts; he is surprised to hear what people are thinking. Eventually he uncovers an apparent plot to steal money from the bank he is working for. The plot is eventually disproved — the veteran bank employee admits he was thinking about stealing money, but would never go through with such a plan. The protagonist later uses his telepathy to blackmail his boss into giving his veteran coworker an overdue vacation. After work, the bank clerk returns home and inadvertently knocks down the coin he stood up earlier. To his relief, he is no longer able to read minds.