Sounds and Silences

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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

“Sounds and Silences” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 147
Season: 5
Production code: 2631
Original air date: April 3, 1964
Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Richard Donner
Producer: William Froug

[edit] Cast

Roswell G. Flemington: John McGiver
Mrs. Flemington: Penny Singleton
Conklin: Billy Benedict
Doctor: Francis de Sales
Psychiatrist: Michael Fox
Ms. Abernathy (Secretary) Renee Aubry

[edit] Synopsis

A model ship magnate thunders about his home and office, until his ears play tricks on him.

Roswell G. Flemington was raised in a home where he couldn't even have cookies because they made too much noise. At least his mother bought brownies. So when he came of age, he went to sea, and his desire to make up for not making enough noise is driving everyone else mad. He has collected all sorts of sea-themed noisemakers, from bells and whistles to actual recordings of sea battles.

Now his wife is leaving and she has afflicted him with increasingly acute hearing, so that every little noise is like an explosion, and he sees a doctor who helps him understand it is all in his head, all he needs to do is overcome the mental block, and he does. The only problem is that he goes too far in the other direction, so that now he can't hear anything at all. He has lost his precious noise!