Una Cosa Sobre las Máquinas
Título V.O.: A Thing About Machines
Guión: Rod Serling
Director: David Orrick McDearmon
Fecha de emisión en USA: 28/10/1960
Guest Starring: Richard Haydn (Bartlett Finchley), Barney Phillips (Reparador de TV), Barbara Stuart (Edith), Henry Beckman (Policía), Lew Brown (Reparador de Teléfono), Margarita Cordova (Chica), Jay Overholts (Interno)
Sinopsis: Un estirado escritor se ve acosado por las máquinas domésticas que habitan su casa.
Frases destacadas:
Opening Narration: This is Mr. Bartlett Finchley, age forty-eight, a practicing sophisticate who writes very special and very precious things for gourmet magazines and the like. He's a bachelor and a recluse with few friends, only devotees and adherents to the cause of tart sophistry. He has no interests save whatever current annoyances he can put his mind to. He has no purpose to his life except the formulation of day-to-day opportunities to vent his wrath on mechanical contrivances of an age he abhors. In short, Mr. Bartlett Finchley is a malcontent, born either too late or too early in the century, and who in just a moment will enter a realm where muscles and the will to fight back are not limited to human beings. Next stop for Mr. Bartlett Finchley - the Twilight Zone.
Closing Narration: Yes, it could just be. It could just be that Mr. Bartlett Finchley succumbed from a heart attack and a set of delusions. It could just be that he was tormented by an imagination as sharp as his wit and as pointed as his dislikes. But as perceived by those attending, this is one explanation that has left the premises with the deceased. Look for it filed under 'M' for machines in the Twilight Zone.
Curiosidades:
- Este episodio inspiró a Stephen King para escribir La Rebelión de las Máquinas.
