A Kind of a Stopwatch
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| “A Kind of a Stopwatch” | |||||||
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |||||||
 Scene from "A Kind of a Stopwatch" |
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| Episode no. | Season 5 Episode 124 |
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| Written by | Rod Serling (From an unpublished story by Michael D. Rosenthal.) |
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| Directed by | John Rich | ||||||
| Guest stars | Richard Erdman : Patrick Thomas McNulty Roy Roberts : Mr. Cooper Leon Belasco : Potts Herbie Faye : Joe |
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| Featured music | Nathan Van Cleave | ||||||
| Production no. | 2609 | ||||||
| Original airdate | October 18, 1963 | ||||||
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| List of Twilight Zone episodes | |||||||
"A Kind of a Stopwatch" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Opening narration
| “ | Submitted for your approval or at least your analysis: one Patrick Thomas McNulty, who at age forty-one is the biggest bore on Earth. He holds a ten-year record for the most meaningless words spewed out during a coffee break. And it's very likely that, as of this moment, he would have gone through life in precisely this manner, a dull, argumentative bigmouth who sets back the art of conversation a thousand years. I say he very likely would have, except for something that will soon happen to him, something that will considerably alter his existence--and ours. Now you think about that now, because this is the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Synopsis
Patrick McNulty, a talkative and unpopular know-it-all, befriends an odd man named Potts, whom he meets in the local bar the day after McNulty is fired. Potts offers him a stopwatch, “an old family heirloom” in exchange for his friendship. Thinking it's an odd gift, McNulty soon realizes that when the button is pressed, the stopwatch is capable of stopping time itself. Excited with his new toy, he unsuccessfully uses it in an attempt to win back his job and his friends. Disappointed at the results, McNulty finds another use for it. While he is robbing a bank, the watch falls and breaks to pieces—leaving the universe forever frozen in time except for McNulty, who now has no one to talk to or interact with, and is all alone in a still world.
[edit] Closing narration
| “ | Mr. Patrick Thomas McNulty, who had a gift of time. He used it and he misused it, now he's just been handed the bill. Tonight's tale of motion and McNulty--in the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] References
- Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
