Stopover in a Quiet Town

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The Twilight Zone original series Season five (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1963 – Summer 1964 List of The Twilight Zone episodes
Episodes: In Praise of Pip Steel Nightmare at 20,000 Feet A Kind of a Stopwatch The Last Night of a Jockey Living Doll The Old Man in the Cave Uncle Simon Probe 7, Over and Out The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain Ninety Years Without Slumbering Ring-a-Ding Girl You Drive The Long Morrow The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross Number 12 Looks Just Like You Black Leather Jackets Night Call From Agnes—With Love Spur of the Moment An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge Queen of the Nile What's in the Box The Masks I Am the Night—Color Me Black Sounds and Silences Caesar and Me The Jeopardy Room Stopover in a Quiet Town The Encounter Mr. Garrity and the Graves The Brain Center at Whipple's Come Wander With Me The Fear The Bewitchin' Pool

“Stopover in a Quiet Town” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 150
Season: 5
Production code: 2611
Original air date: April 24, 1964
Writer: Earl Hamner, Jr.
Director: Ron Winston
Producer: Bert Granet
Director of photography: Robert W. Pittack
Music: uncredited

[edit] Cast

Bob Frazier: Barry Nelson
Millie Frazier: Nancy Malone

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Two young adults wake up in an unfamiliar house, remembering only that they had both drank too much at a party the night before, and that on the way home, a large shadow had appeared over their car.

They soon discover that the house is mostly props—the cabinetry is merely glued-on facing; the refrigerator is filled with plastic food. Outside, the town is deserted. They find a stuffed squirrel in a fake tree, search for help in a vacant church, and discover that the grass is flammable. Desperate to escape, they hop a train, only to find that the train departs and arrives from the same station.

They eventually discover that they have been abducted by a giant alien father, who has chosen them as toys for his daughter's dollhouse neighborhood.

[edit] Trivia

The bulletin board in front of the church says that the sermon will be given by Rev. Kosh Gleason. Keogh Gleason was a set decorator at MGM for many years, and worked on The Twilight Zone.

Kosh is the name of the alien ambassador in Babylon 5, a television series created by J. Michael Straczynski, who also wrote for episodes of The New Twilight Zone