One of my favorite episodes:
"Time Enough At Last"
o Writer: Rod Serling (based on a short story "Time Enough At Last" by Lynn Venable)
o Director: John Brahm
o Producer: Buck Houghton
o Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
o Music: Leith Stevens
o Cast:
+ Henry Bemis: Burgess Meredith
+ Mr. Carsville: Vaughn Taylor
+ Helen Bemis: Jacqueline deWit
+ Woman in bank: Lela Bliss
"Witness Mr. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. But in just a moment Mr. Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. He'll have a world all to himself - without anyone."
Bank teller Henry Bemis loves to read. He sneaks into the vault at lunchtime to read and is knocked unconscious by a shockwave. When he wakes up, he discovers a nuclear war has destroyed the Earth. He decides to commit suicide until he sees a library. This is paradise to him, and he begins to organize books to read for years to come. Just as he settles down to read his glasses slip from his face and smash, forever trapping him in a blurry world.
"The best-laid plans of mice and men - and Henry Bemis, the small man in the glasses who wanted nothing but time. Henry Bemis, now just a part of a smashed landscape, just a piece of the rubble, just a fragment of what man has deeded to himself. Mr. Bemis... in the Twilight Zone."
