A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain

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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:

  1. In Praise of Pip
  2. Steel
  3. Nightmare at 20,000 Feet
  4. A Kind of a Stopwatch
  5. The Last Night of a Jockey
  6. Living Doll
  7. The Old Man in the Cave
  8. Uncle Simon
  9. Probe 7, Over and Out
  10. The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
  11. A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
  12. Ninety Years Without Slumbering
  13. Ring-a-Ding Girl
  14. You Drive
  15. The Long Morrow
  16. The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross
  17. Number 12 Looks Just Like You
  18. Black Leather Jackets
  19. Night Call
  20. From Agnes—With Love
  21. Spur of the Moment
  22. An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
  23. Queen of the Nile
  24. What's in the Box
  25. The Masks
  26. I Am the Night—Color Me Black
  27. Sounds and Silences
  28. Caesar and Me
  29. The Jeopardy Room
  30. Stopover in a Quiet Town
  31. The Encounter
  32. Mr. Garrity and the Graves
  33. The Brain Center at Whipple's
  34. Come Wander With Me
  35. The Fear
  36. The Bewitchin' Pool

“A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

  • Episode number: 131
  • Season: 5
  • Production code: 2614
  • Original air date: December 13, 1963
  • Writer: Rod Serling, from an idea by Lou Holz
  • Director: Bernard Girard
  • Music: Stock

[edit] Cast

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

A wealthy old man married to a younger woman is exhausted by his wife’s youthful lifestyle. Seeking to keep up the pace, he has his brother inject him with an experimental youth serum. The experiment is a success at first but it backfires and he regresses to an infant. His brother forces his wife to stay and raise him or else she will be cut off from his fortune.

[edit] Trivia

  • Not included in the Twilight Zone syndication package until 1984. When this and other long-unseen episodes became available, a series of short introductions were shot featuring commentary from the cast and crew of the original episodes. In the segment with Patrick O'Neal for this episode, O'Neal remarked on how accurately the show's makeup effects artists had aged him, as he now very closely resembled his older appearance in this episode.
  • Initially, Raymond Gordon was a typical family physician. Disturbed by the character's willingness to experiment on a fellow human (Harmon's brother), CBS asked that his occupation be changed to that of a research scientist. Serling complied.[1]

[edit] References

  • Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Hal Erikson, "Censorship: Another Dimension Behind the Twilight Zone”, published in the October 1985 edition of The Twilight Zone Magazine
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