A Matter of Minutes

Season 1, Episode 38, Aired
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A young couple wakes up one morning to find their street mysteriously devoid of people and blue-suited workers constructing everything in their world.
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  • Truely unforgetable!

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    By crkjosh73, Apr 25, 2007 Report Abuse
    Unforgetable!!!!! This is the one episode I could not forget! Anytime I have told someone about this episode they would look at me like I was crazy. Even devout Twilight Zone fans. I was so happy to find this recap on the WWW - i even printed it so I can prove Im not (totally) crazy. This is one of those that just sticks with you. Makes you truely wonder about time, life, space, reality etc.... Could this be true - or even partially real? We are only here for a vapor of time - but is time really "here" does it "really" exist as we know it or is it all just a facade. Like the show said - ever lose your keys look everywhere - only to find them in the very first place you looked........ do the blue men forget things or are they just messing with us?moreless

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  • Couple discovers that time is already laid before them, well not entirely.

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    By twilightboy, Dec 07, 2006 Report Abuse
    what an AWESOME idea is this one for a show!. One of the few episodes of the Twilight Zone that i can actually remember from my childhood. This episode is also one of the fews that makes me wonder and wonder and wonder. To be able to step out of your time and see what is been done behind the scenes is a great idea which by itself helps this episode to be so great. I loved the guys in blue creating the future and the idea that places nobody is going to visit at a certain minute are left blank.moreless

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    • The couple mention that their science writer friend writes for Omni and Science Digest magazines, both since defunct, with Science Digest publishing its final issue only a few months after the episode aired. Edit
    • The town theater has a poster in front for Time Bandits released five years before the episode. Edit

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    • This episode is based on the short story "Yesterday Was Monday", by Theodore Sturgeon. The story was first published in Unknown (June, 1941). Edit

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    • (Closing Narration) Narrator: Time, a handy fiction to explain why everything doesn't happen all at once. Or maybe we're the fiction, moving minute by minute ... through the Twilight Zone. Edit

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