No Time Like the Past

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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:

  1. In His Image
  2. The Thirty-Fathom Grave
  3. Valley of the Shadow
  4. He's Alive
  5. Mute
  6. Death Ship
  7. Jess-Belle
  8. Miniature
  9. Printer's Devil
  10. No Time Like the Past
  11. The Parallel
  12. I Dream of Genie
  13. The New Exhibit
  14. Of Late I Think of Cliffordville
  15. The Incredible World of Horace Ford
  16. On Thursday We Leave for Home
  17. Passage on the Lady Anne
  18. The Bard

“No Time Like the Past” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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[edit] Cast

  • Paul Driscoll: Dana Andrews
  • Abigail Sloan: Patricia Breslin
  • Harvey: Robert F. Simon
  • Professor Eliot: Malcolm Atterbury
  • Mrs. Chamberlain: Marjorie Bennett
  • Horn Player: John Zaremba

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Paul Driscoll uses a time machine with the noble intention to go back in time and alter past events (in such a way as to minimize the loss of human life). After failing to warn a Hiroshima police captain about the atomic bomb, assassinate Adolf Hitler (in August, 1939 immediately before the outbreak of World War II in September, 1939), and change the course of the Lusitania to avoid being torpedoed (by a World War I German U-boat), he accepts the hypothesis that the past cannot be changed. He then uses the time machine to journey to the town of Homeville, Indiana back in the year 1881 (with the intention of escaping and living out a quiet, uncomplicated life). After reading in a history book that Homeville's schoolhouse will burn down because of a kerosene lantern thrown from a runaway wagon, he spots the wagon and attempts to prevent this event from occurring. But instead he causes the fire he intended to prevent.

[edit] Memorable quotes

Japanese officer: I won't put you up against the wall and shoot you; I'll give you a chance to speak to other authorities. If you get back to your country, you might remember the face of the enemy is not devoid of some compassion.

Driscoll: You might remember this conversation, and if you're still alive, remember that the same thing could be said of your enemy. He tried to save the people of Hiroshima.


Maid: You heard that? That is our new Germany, and that is something you'll never understand.

Driscoll: That, madam, is the old Germany, and that is something you'll never understand.

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