Writer:	Rod Serling
Director:	Robert Parrish
Star:	Rod Serling (Narrator/Host),  Ed Wynn (Lew Bookman)
Guest Star:	Murray Hamilton (Mr. Death),  Dana Dillaway (Maggie),  Mickey Maga (Ricky),  Jay Overholts (The Doctor),  Merritt Bohn (The Truck Driver)

Ed Wynn would later star in another TZ episode, "Ninety Years Without Slumbering"; his actor-son Keenan would also star in a TZ episode, "A World of His Own" (edit) The toy Robby The Robot featured in this episode is the Nomura (TN) 1957 Robby Mechanized Robot (aka the Kitahara #1). Someone in the prop department applied a sticker of a blood shot human eye onto its dome to give it a distinctive, different look. (edit) One of the toys being sold by Lew is of Robby The Robot. Robby "himself" was later featured in some Twilight Zone episodes. (edit) Included on volume 14 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)

(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Lewis J. Bookman, age sixtyish. Occupation: pitchman. Formerly a fixture of the summer, formerly a rather minor component to a hot July. But throughout his life, a man beloved by the children, and therefore a most important man. Couldn't happen, you say? Probably not in most places - but it did happen in the Twilight Zone. (edit) (Opening Narration)
Narrator: Street scene: summer. The present. Man on a sidewalk named Lew Bookman, age sixtyish. Occupation: pitchman. Lew Bookman, a fixture of the summer, a rather minor component to a hot July, a nondescript, commonplace little man whose life is a treadmill built out of sidewalks. In just a moment, Lew Bookman will have to concern himself with survival, because as of three o'clock this hot July afternoon he'll be stalked by Mr. Death. (edit)

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