The Man in the Bottle

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The Twilight Zone original series
Season two (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5)
Fall 1960 – Summer 1961
List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes:

  1. King Nine Will Not Return
  2. The Man in the Bottle
  3. Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room
  4. A Thing About Machines
  5. The Howling Man
  6. The Eye of the Beholder
  7. Nick of Time
  8. The Lateness of the Hour
  9. The Trouble With Templeton
  10. A Most Unusual Camera
  11. Night of the Meek
  12. Dust
  13. Back There
  14. The Whole Truth
  15. The Invaders
  16. A Penny for Your Thoughts
  17. Twenty-Two
  18. The Odyssey of Flight 33
  19. Mr. Dingle, the Strong
  20. Static
  21. The Prime Mover
  22. Long Distance Call
  23. A Hundred Yards Over the Rim
  24. The Rip Van Winkle Caper
  25. The Silence
  26. Shadow Play
  27. The Mind and the Matter
  28. Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?
  29. The Obsolete Man

“The Man in the Bottle” is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Luther Adler gets his wish—and finds he is Hitler at the conclusion of World War II.
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Luther Adler gets his wish—and finds he is Hitler at the conclusion of World War II.
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Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A downtrodden pawnbroker and his wife are offered four wishes by a genie. Distrustful, they use their first wish to repair a broken glass cabinet to prove the genie's power. They then wish for one million dollars, but after they give tens of thousands away to their friends, the tax man comes to claim the rest, leaving them with $5.

The genie warns them that every wish has consequences, and that they should consider carefully before making a wish. The husband makes his third wish, to be the leader of a powerful country in which he cannot be "voted out of office" -- he finds himself as Adolf Hitler in the last days of World War II, hiding in a Berlin bunker and contemplating suicide. He uses the fourth and final wish to wish that "none of this ever happened", cancelling the third wish and returning him safely home.

The couple ends up with nothing to show for the experience, except for a changed perspective on life and the repaired cabinet, and as fate would have it, the pawnbroker accidentally breaks it.

The story has a similar theme and premise to the classic tale The Monkey's Paw, albeit with a happier ending.

This episode was a twilight zone Radio Drama

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