Writer:	Charles Beaumont
Director:	Robert Florey
Star:	Rod Serling (Narrator/Host),  Richard Conte (Edward Hall)
Guest Star:	John Larch (Dr. Rathmann),  Suzanne Lloyd (Maya/Miss Thomas),  Eddie Marr (Girlie Barker),  Russell Trent (Rifle Range Barker),  Ted Stanhope (Man on the Street)

The first script of the series not written by Rod Serling. (edit) Included on volume 7 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit) This episode is based on the short story "Perchance to Dream" by Charles Beaumont. The story was first published in Playboy (November, 1958). (edit)

(Closing Narration)
Narrator: They say a dream takes only a second or so, and yet in that second a man can live a lifetime. He can suffer and die, and who's to say which is the greater reality: the one we know or the one in dreams, between heaven, the sky, the earth in the Twilight Zone. (edit) (Opening Narration)
Narrator: Twelve o'clock noon. An ordinary scene, an ordinary city. Lunchtime for thousands of ordinary people. To most of them, this hour will be a rest, a pleasant break in the day's routine. To most, but not all. To Edward Hall, time is an enemy, and the hour to come is a matter of life and death. (edit)

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The title is taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet. It is part of the "To Be or Not to Be" soliloquy wherein Hamlet ponders the nature of life, death and his very existence. The full line reads:
"To die, - To sleep, -
To sleep ! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause: there's the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;" (edit)