From Agnes—With Love

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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

“From Agnes—With Love” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 140
Season: 5
Production code: 2629
Original air date: February 14, 1964
Writer: Bernard C. Schoenfeld
Director: Richard Donner
Producer: William Froug
Director of photography: George T. Clemens
Music: Van Cleave

[edit] Cast

James Ellwood: Wally Cox
Millie: Sue Randall
Supervisor: Raymond Bailey
Walter Holmes: Ralph Taeger

[edit] Synopsis

[edit] Opening narration

"James Elwood, master programmer, in charge of Mark 502-741, commonly known as 'Agnes,' the world's most advanced electronic computer. Machines are made by men for man's benefit and progress, but when man ceases to control the products of his ingenuity and imagination he not only risks losing the benefit, but he takes a long and unpredictable step into--the Twilight Zone."

[edit] Main story

James Elwood, a programmer, gradually realizes that 'Agnes,' the supercomputer he works on, has fallen in love with him, as the computer wreaks havoc on his love life.

[edit] Closing narration

"Advice to all future male scientists: be sure you understand the opposite sex, especially if you intend being a computer expert. Otherwise, you may find yourself, like poor Elwood, defeated by a jealous machine, a most dangerous sort of female, whose victims are forever banished--to the Twilight Zone."