Still Valley

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The Twilight Zone original series Season three (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1961 – Summer 1962 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: Two The Arrival The Shelter The Passersby A Game of Pool The Mirror The Grave It's a Good Life Deaths-Head Revisited The Midnight Sun Still Valley The Jungle Once Upon a Time Five Characters in Search of an Exit A Quality of Mercy Nothing in the Dark One More Pallbearer Dead Man's Shoes The Hunt Showdown With Rance McGrew Kick the Can A Piano in the House The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank To Serve Man The Fugitive Little Girl Lost Person or Persons Unknown The Little People Four O'Clock Hocus-Pocus and Frisby The Trade-Ins The Gift The Dummy Young Man's Fancy I Sing the Body Electric Cavender Is Coming The Changing of the Guard

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

[edit] Details

Episode number: 76
Season: 3
Original air date: November 24, 1961
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: James Sheldon

[edit] Cast

Gary Merrill and
Vaughn Taylor.

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

During the American Civil War, Confederate Sergeant Joseph Paradine is offered a book from an old man. He is told the book contains a spell that can freeze the Union Army in its tracks, and is urged to use the spell to save the Confederacy. The old man dies, and Paradine reports to his superior officers. Upon opening the book, he sees that the spell requires him to call upon Satan and renounce God. Rather, he throws the book into the fire, saying that if the Confederacy is to die, let it be buried in hallowed ground. The next day, Paradine receives orders that the army is going to march to Gettysburg.