The Twilight Zone: The Old Man in the Cave
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7.3
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The Old Man in the Cave
- 127.
- Season: 5
- Episode: 7
- First Aired: 11/8/1963
- Prod Code: 2603
A mysterious guardian helps a tiny community survive after the Bomb destroys much of the Earth. Read full recap »
- Writers:
- Rod SerlingHenry Slesar
- Stars:
- Rod Serling (Narrator/Host)
- John Anderson (I) (Mr. Goldsmith)
- James Coburn (Major French)
- Guest Star:
- John Marley (Jason)
- Josie Lloyd (Evelyn)
- Frank Watkins (Harber)
- Lenny Geer (Douglas)
- Natalie Masters (Woman)
- Don Wilbanks (Furman)
- After the mob has entered the cave, they begin throwing stones at the computer. At one point, one of the hurled stones hits the head of one of the actors standing in the front row. The shot is quickly edited to cut away to remove as much of it as possible, but, you can still see the actor blink as the rock goes on the rest of its journey. edit »
- (Closing Narration)
Narrator: Mr. Goldsmith, survivor, an eye witness to man's imperfection, an observer of the very human trait of greed and a chronicler of the last chapter--the one reading 'suicide.' Not a prediction of what is to be, just a projection of what could be. This has been the Twilight Zone. edit » - (Opening Narration)
Narrator: What you're looking at is a legacy that man left to himself. A decade previous he pushed his buttons and, a nightmarish moment later, woke up to find that he had set the clock back a thousand years. His engines, his medicines, his science were buried in a mass tomb, covered over by the biggest gravedigger of them all: a Bomb. And this is the Earth ten years later, a fragment of what was once a whole, a remnant of what was once a race. The year is 1974, and this is the Twilight Zone. edit »
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The Old Man in the Cave
The Bottom Line: "Average"07/21/08 05:09am | report abuseIt is 1974, ten years after much of civilization was destroyed by nuclear war. A small community has managed to survive because they have been under the care of a reclusive "old man." Then one day soldiers arrive and take control of the community. ...Continue »
The Old Man in the Cave
The Bottom Line: "Exactly why I watch this series"06/07/07 12:46pm | report abuseA look at man's inhumanity as well as man's assumpption that mankind is the only possible intelligience ...Continue »
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