The Trouble With Templeton

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“The Trouble With Templeton”
The Twilight Zone episode

Scene form "The Trouble With Templeton"
Episode no. Season 2
Episode 45
Written by E. Jack Neuman
Directed by Buzz Kulik
Guest stars Brian Aherne
Pippa Scott
Sydney Pollack
Dave Willock
Featured music Jeff Alexander
Production no. 173-3649
Original airdate December 9, 1960
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"The Trouble With Templeton" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

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[edit] Opening narration

“ Pleased to present for your consideration Mr. Booth Templeton, serious and successful star of over thirty Broadway plays, who is not quite all right today. Yesterday and its memories is what he wants, and yesterday is what he'll get. Soon his years and his troubles will descend on him in an avalanche. In order not to be crushed, Mr. Booth Templeton will escape from his theater and his world, and make his debut on another stage in another world that we call the Twilight Zone. ”

[edit] Synopsis

Booth Templeton is a Broadway actor nostalgic for his youth and his late wife. During rehearsals for a new play, he finds himself back in the milieu of his first success in 1927. After the adventure and his return to 1960, he gains appreciation for the current state of affairs and chooses to focus on the good things about his life instead of dwelling on the past.

[edit] Closing narration

“ Mr. Booth Templeton, who shared with most human beings the hunger to recapture the past moments, the ones that soften with the years. But in his case, the characters of his past blocked him out and sent him back to his own time, which is where we find him now. Mr. Booth Templeton, who had a round-trip ticket into the Twilight Zone. ”

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