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Nightmare as a Child

Episode Number: 29    Season Num: 1    First Aired: April 29, 1960    Prod Code: 173-3635
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment. The little girl seems to know her, and tries to jog her memory about a man she saw earlier that day. The man arrives at Helen's door…

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Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Alvin Ganzer
Star: Rod Serling (Narrator/Host),  Janice Rule (Helen Foley)
Guest Star: Terry Burnham (Markie),  Shepperd Strudwick (Peter Selden),  Michael Fox (Doctor),  Joe Perry (Police Lieutenant),  Morgan Brittany (Girl with the Doll)

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Rod Serling named the lead character Helen Foley after a favorite schoolteacher of his. (edit)
Included on volume 32 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)

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(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Miss Helen Foley, who has lived in night and who will wake up to morning. Miss Helen Foley, who took a dark spot from the tapestry of her life and rubbed it clean, then stepped back a few paces and got a good look at the Twilight Zone. (edit)
(Opening Narration)
Narrator: Month of November, hot chocolate, and a small cameo of a child's face, imperfect only in its solemnity. And these are the improbable ingredients to a human emotion, an emotion, say, like fear. But in a moment this woman, Helen Foley, will realize fear. She will understand what are the properties of terror. A little girl will lead her by the hand and walk with her into a nightmare. (edit)

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When Helen pushed Seldon to his death, his body was facing to the right. But when the next segment started, it was facing to the left. (edit)

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