Writer:	Rod Serling
Director:	Allen Reisner
Star:	Rod Serling (Narrator/Host),  Dan Duryea (Al Denton)
Guest Star:	Martin Landau (Hotaling),  Doug McClure (Pete Grant),  Bill Erwin (Man),  Robert Burton (Doctor),  Arthur Batanides (Leader),  Ken Lynch (Charlie),  Jeanne Cooper (Liz),  Malcolm Atterbury (Henry J. Fate)

Martin Landau would later star in another TZ episode, "The Jeopardy Room" (edit) This is one of a few episodes that feature a different opening title sequence (the camera zooms in on a large, live human eye) and narration. (edit) Included on volume 12 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)

(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Mr. Henry Fate, dealer in utensils and pots and pans, liniments and potions. A fanciful little man in a black frock coat who can help a man climbing out of a pit - or another man from falling into one. Because, you see, fate can work that way in the Twilight Zone. (edit) (Opening Narration)
Narrator: Portrait of a town drunk named Al Denton. This is a man who's begun his dying early - a long, agonizing route through a maze of bottles. Al Denton, who would probably give an arm or a leg or a part of his soul to have another chance, to be able to rise up and shake the dirt from his body and the bad dreams that infest his consciousness. In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler, a rather fanciful-looking little man in a black frock coat. And this is the third principal character of our story. Its function: perhaps to give Mr. Al Denton his second chance. (edit)

Although set in the Old West, modern-day (for 1959, anyway) radio antennas can be glimpsed off in the distance. (edit)

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