What's in the Box

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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

“What’s in the Box” is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

[edit] Details

Episode number: 144
Season: 5
Production code: 2635
Original air date: March 13, 1964
Writer: Martin M. Goldsmith
Director: Richard L. Bare
Producer: William Froug
Director of photography: George T. Clemens
Music: uncredited

[edit] Cast

Joan Blondell: Phyllis Britt
William Demarest: Joe Britt
Sterling Holloway: TV Repairman
Herbert Lytton: Dr. Saltman
Sandra Gould: Woman

[edit] Synopsis

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

Joe and Phyllis are an old married couple who don’t get along much at all. Joe gets home from his job as a cab driver late one night and Phyllis starts jumping to conclusions about him seeing another woman. In the meantime, a man is in the next room fixing their broken TV. The man leaves and their TV starts getting channel 10 which is a station that sees into the past, present, and future of Joe and Phyllis’ lives. However, only Joe can see this channel. The TV shows Joe’s fate by showing him how he kills Phyllis in a fight, his trial where he is found guilty for murder, and how he is to die in the electric chair. Witnessing these events angers Joe, causing them to come true.