A Penny for Your Thoughts

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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. The 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

“A Penny for Your Thoughts” is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Dick York in A Penny for Your Thoughts
Dick York in A Penny for Your Thoughts
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[edit] Cast

  • Dick York as Hector B. Poole
  • June Dayton as Miss Turner
  • Dan Tobin as Mr. Bagby
  • Hayden Rourke as Mr. Sykes
  • Cyril Delevanti as Mr. Smithers

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Hector B. Poole, a timid bank clerk gains telepathic powers after tossing a coin that miraculously stands on its edge. He discovers that he is able to "read" other people’s thoughts; and is surprised to hear the things people are thinking around him. He first "hears" a businessman, Mr. Sykes, trying to take out a large loan to pay for a run at the horsetrack to win back money he has embezzled from his company. Hector informs his boss, Mr. Bagby, and thwarts the businessman's plans. Hector then "hears" his boss thinking about a weekend affair he is planning with his mistress. Miss Turner, a co-worker, has been admiring Hector from afar, but wishes he would be more bold. Hector "hears" her thoughts and decides to take her into is confidence by revealing his "gift" to her. Eventually he uncovers an apparent plot by a old trusted employee, Mr. Smithers, to steal money from the bank. The plot is eventually disproved — the veteran bank employee admits he has been thinking about stealing money from the bank for years, but would never go through with such a plan. Mr. Bagby fires Poole, but later reinstates him when he discovers Hector was correct about Sykes. With the encouragement of Miss Turner, Hector uses his knowledge of Mr. Bagby's tryst to blackmail his boss into giving him not only a better position as an office manager at the bank, but Mr. Smithers a long overdue vacation. After work, as Poole returns home with Miss Turner, he inadvertently knocks down the coin he stood up earlier. To his relief, his ability to read minds is gone.

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