Mute (The Twilight Zone)

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The Twilight Zone Original series Season four (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) January 1963 – June 1963 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In His Image The Thirty-Fathom Grave Valley of the Shadow He's Alive Mute Death Ship Jess-Belle Miniature Printer's Devil No Time Like the Past The Parallel I Dream of Genie The New Exhibit Of Late I Think of Cliffordville The Incredible World of Horace Ford On Thursday We Leave for Home Passage on the Lady Anne The Bard

“Mute” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 107
Season: 4
Original air date: January 31, 1963
Writer: Richard Matheson
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Producer: Herbert Hirschman
Director of photography: Robert W. Pittack
Music: Fred Steiner

[edit] Cast

Ilse Nielsen: Ann Jillian
Harry Wheeler: Frank Overton
Cora: Barbara Baxley
Miss Frank: Irene Dailey
Professor Werner: Oscar Beregi, Jr.
Tom Poulter: Percy Helton

[edit] Synopsis

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A seemingly mute twelve-year-old girl's parents die in a fire. She goes to public schooling, where the teacher is horrified that her parents raised her in ignorance. The girl's relatives check on her to find that her telekinetic training has been lost after being taught to speak in school.