A World of His Own

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The Twilight Zone original series
Season one (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1959 – Summer 1960
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. Where Is Everybody?
  2. One for the Angels
  3. Mr. Denton on Doomsday
  4. The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine
  5. Walking Distance
  6. Escape Clause
  7. The Lonely
  8. Time Enough at Last
  9. Perchance to Dream
  10. Judgment Night
  11. And When the Sky Was Opened
  12. What You Need
  13. The Four of Us Are Dying
  14. Third from the Sun
  15. I Shot an Arrow Into the Air
  16. The Hitch-Hiker
  17. The Fever
  18. The Last Flight
  19. The Purple Testament
  20. Elegy
  21. Mirror Image
  22. The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street
  23. A World of Difference
  24. Long Live Walter Jameson
  25. People Are Alike All Over
  26. Execution
  27. The Big Tall Wish
  28. A Nice Place to Visit
  29. Nightmare as a Child
  30. A Stop at Willoughby
  31. The Chaser
  32. A Passage for Trumpet
  33. Mr. Bevis
  34. The After Hours
  35. The Mighty Casey
  36. A World of His Own

“A World of His Own” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Coming home, Victoria West spots her husband, playwright Gregory West, through the window sharing a drink with Mary, an attractive blonde. But when Victoria barges into the room, Mary is nowhere to be found.

Gregory explains to his wife that if he describes anything into his dictation machine, he can cause that thing to suddenly appear in his study. To make it disappear, all he has to do is throw the tape into his fireplace. He demonstrates this, first with Mary and then an elephant in the hallway.

Believing none of this, Victoria tells Gregory that he is insane and she is going to have him committed. In response, Gregory takes a tape from his safe and explains that it contains her description. Victoria snatches the tape away from him and throws it on the fire—and promptly disappears. Frantic, Gregory rushes to his dictation machine and begins to redescribe Victoria—then reconsiders and describes Mrs. Mary West. Mary reappears and mixes her husband a drink.

Serling appears on the set and says, “We hope you enjoyed tonight’s romantic story on The Twilight Zone. At the same time, we want you to realize that it was, of course, purely fictional. In real life, such ridiculous nonsense—”. “Rod you shouldn’t!” interrupts Gregory, who walks over to his safe and pulls out a tape marked “Rod Serling”. “I mean, you shouldn't say things as ‘nonsense’ and ‘ridiculous’!” he continues as he throws the tape into the fire. “Well that’s the way it goes” replies Serling as he disappears.

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[edit] Trivia

This is the only episode in the first season in which Rod Serling appears on-screen and breaks the 4th wall. Serling's cameo was so well-received, he appeared on-screen to introduce subsequent episodes.

The 2002-2003 new 'Twilight Zone' ran a similar episode. A graphic novel author, afflicted with writer's block, creates a perfect girlfriend to help inspire him. However, she soon asserts her independence and starts hitting on other guys. Eventually, she reveals that she is the real author, not him, and then erases him from existence.

[edit] References

  • Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

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