Four O'Clock
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| “Four O'Clock” | |||||||
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |||||||
 Theodore Bikel in "Four O'Clock" |
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 94 |
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| Written by | Rod Serling - (Based on the story by Price Day. First published in Alfred Hitchcock Presents : 14 of My Favorites in Suspense (1959) ) | ||||||
| Directed by | Lamont Johnson | ||||||
| Guest stars | Theodore Bikel : Oliver Crangle Moyna MacGill : Mrs. Williams Phyllis Love : Mrs. Lucas Linden Chiles : Hall |
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| Featured music | Stock | ||||||
| Production no. | 4832 | ||||||
| Original airdate | April 6, 1962 | ||||||
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"Four O’Clock" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Synopsis
Oliver Crangle is a fanatic who maintains records of people he deems evil, calling and writing their employers to remind them of the evil acts in question and to demand their immediate firing. Unsatisfied with the results he gets with anonymous threats, he searches for a more effective way to eliminate all evil from the world.
His acts attract the attention of the government and agent Hall is sent to investigate. Crangle tells him that he has finally devised a plan to shrink every "evil" person down to two feet tall at four o’clock that afternoon through sheer force of will. Hall dismisses him as a crank and leaves.
When four o'clock rolls around, Crangle is dismayed to find that he himself has been shrunk to two feet tall.
[edit] References
- Zicree, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)
