Twilight Zone -Nothing In The Dark

★★★★★  January 5, 1962 Season 3 Episode 16

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A song, a person, flower, or a drawing is beautiful…I don’t think a TV episode would fit into that category but this one does. Future mega star Robert Redford is in this great episode about an elderly lady who would not let anyone inside her soon to be torn down home. She fears “Mr Death” who will come take her. Gladys Cooper plays Wanda Dunn the elderly woman. She was appearing in silent movies in the early part of the century. She would appear in three Twilight Zone episodes…a wonderful actress.

R. G. Armstrong, a great character actor, is also in this classic episode. Everything about this episode works. The acting down to the set is perfect.

This show was written by George Clayton Johnson and Rod Serling

Rod Serling’s Opening Narration: 

An old woman living in a nightmare, an old woman who has fought a thousand battles with death and always won. Now she’s faced with a grim decision—whether or not to open a door. And in some strange and frightening way she knows that this seemingly ordinary door leads to the Twilight Zone.

Summary

The old Ms. Wanda Dunn is afraid of Mr. Death, and does not open the door of her room for anyone who knocks the door. When the police officer Harold Beldon is shot at her front door, the reluctant woman opens it and lets him in.

Rod Serling’s Closing Narration:

There was an old woman who lived in a room. And, like all of us, was frightened of the dark. But who discovered in a minute last fragment of her life that there was nothing in the dark that wasn’t there when the lights were on. Object lesson for the more frightened amongst us in, or out of, the Twilight Zone.

CAST

Rod Serling… Narrator / Self – Host (uncredited)
Gladys Cooper…Wanda Dunn
Robert Redford…Harold Beldon
R. G. Armstrong…Contractor

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28 thoughts on “Twilight Zone -Nothing In The Dark”

  7. This may be my favorite Twilight Zone episode, though I haven’t watched that many. My husband is the big TZ fan in the fam. Regardless, this is a perfect episode. Robert Redford is wonderfully cast…he is so appropriately/inappropriately gorgeous…and the message…it’s beautiful. Very spiritual, I think. As a Christian, I relate to it. There’s nothing to fear if you walk with Christ.

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  8. I was genuinely scared for the old woman at first. My heart went out to her, being forced from her home one way or another. I didn’t even recognize Redford at first! I just thought he sure is a baby-faced cop lol. I agree with your rating. It was very well-done.

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  9. Yes very beautiful episode. Pretty suspenseful at the beginning. I spent the entire episode trying to figure out who the cop was – he looked so familiar 😀

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