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Twenty-Two

Episode Number: 53    Season Num: 2    First Aired: February 10, 1961    Prod Code: 173-3664
Miss Powell has a recurring nightmare about room 22 – a morgue.

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Writer: Rod Serling
Director: Jack Smight
Star: Rod Serling (Narrator/Host),  Barbara Nichols (Liz Powell)
Recurring Role: Jay Overholts (P.A. Voice)
Guest Star: Joseph Sargent (Ticket Clerk #2),  Wesley Lau (Ticket Clerk),  Mary Adams (Day Duty Nurse),  Norma Connolly (Night Duty Nurse),  Fredd Wayne (Barney),  Arlene Martel (Nurse/Stewardess),  Jonathan Harris (Doctor),  Carole Conn (Nurse Jameson)

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Plot Keywords: airplane / hospital / nurse (edit)
Included on volume 34 of Image-Entertainment's DVD collection. (edit)
This is one of six episodes originally shot on videotape, then transferred to sixteen-millimeter film for broadcast. This was done as a cost-cutting measure. (edit)
This episode is based on an anecdote appearing in Bennett Cerf's Famous Ghost Stories (1944). (edit)

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Nurse: Room for one more, honey. (edit)
Closing Narration
Narrator: "Miss Elizabeth Powell, professional dancer. Hospital diagnosis: acute anxiety brought on by overwork and fatigue. Prognosis: with rest and care, she'll probably recover. But the cure to some nightmares is not to be found in known medical journals. You look for it under 'potions for bad dreams,' to be found in the Twilight Zone." (edit)
Opening Narration
Narrator: "This is Miss Liz Powell. She's a professional dancer and she's in the hospital as a result of overwork and nervous fatigue. And at this moment we have just finished walking with her in a nightmare. In a moment she'll wake up and we'll remain at her side. The problem here is that both Miss Powell and you will reach a point where it might be difficult to decide which is reality and which is nightmare, a problem uncommon perhaps but rather peculiar to the Twilight Zone." (edit)

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It seems as though the first time Liz is standing towards the elevator, she has her hand on her face (in the side shot). The camera immediately switches to her front and her face is the same but her hand is gone. (edit)

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Twenty-Two
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SCARY!
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Room for one more, honey
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Episode: Twenty-Two
Season Number: 2
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