Queen of the Nile (The Twilight Zone)

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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

“Queen of the Nile” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 143
Season: 5
Production code: 2626
Original air date: March 6, 1964
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: John Brahm
Producer: William Froug
Director of photography: Charles Wheeler
Music: Lucien Moraweck

[edit] Cast

Pamela Morris/Constance Taylor: Ann Blyth
Jordan Herrick: Lee Philips
Viola Draper: Celia Lovsky
Krueger: Frank Ferguson
Maid: Ruth Phillips

[edit] Synopsis

A movie actress is interviewed by a columnist, who learns the secret of her enduring youth, which turns out to be a small scarab beetle jewel that drains the life of others. When he finally begins to question why she tells him this, he becomes yet another of her victims.

At the end of the episode, it is implied that the actress is actually Cleopatra, and that she has been existing this way for centuries.