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The Gift

Episode Number: 97    Season Num: 3    First Aired: April 27, 1962    Prod Code: 4830
An alien who crash-lands into a remote mountain village stirs up the villagers' fears and animosity, but he befriends a little boy and gives him a mysterious present.

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Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Allen H. Miner
Star: Rod Serling (Narrator/Host),  Geoffrey Horne (Williams)
Guest Star: Nico Minardos (Doctor),  Edmund Vargas (Pedro),  Lea Marmer (Woman #2),  Cliff Osmond (Manolo),  Paul Mazursky (Officer),  Vladimir Sokoloff (Guitarist),  Vito Scotti (Rudolpho),  Carmen D'Antonio (Woman),  Henry Corden (Sanchez),  Joe Perry (Man #1),  David Fresco (Man #2)

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Included on volume 38 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)

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(Closing Narration)
Narrator: Madiero, Mexico, the present. The subject: fear. The cure: a little more faith. An Rx off a shelf--in the Twilight Zone. (edit)
(Opening Narration)
Narrator: The place is Mexico, just across the Texas border, a mountain village held back in time by its remoteness and suddenly intruded upon by the twentieth century. And this is Pedro, nine years old, a lonely, rootless little boy, who will soon make the acquaintance of a traveler from a distant place. We are at present forty miles from the Rio Grande, but any place and all places can be--the Twilight Zone. (edit)

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marvelfan89
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9.2
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The Gift
"Series classic"
Written by Rod Serling himself, it's about a wanted man in Mexico whose hiding a special gift for the people. However the townspeople look to kill the man before he does it.
Continue » Posted Jul 3, 2006 4:39 pm PST

AJ1952Chats
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The Gift
"Tearjerker"
Without giving away any spoilers, I'm going to say that this episode will bring you to tears, if you're someone who has dealt with the death of special people in your life that is brought about in a certain way.
Continue » Posted Nov 30, 2005 1:46 pm PST
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