Parada en Willoughby
Título V.O.: A Stop at Willoughby
Guión: Rod Serling
Director: Robert Parrish
Fecha de emisión en USA: 06/05/1960
Guest Starring: James Daly (Gart Williams), Patricia Donahue (Jane Williams), Howard Smith (Mr. Misrell), Jason Wingreen (Train Conductor), Mavis Neal Palmer (Helen), James Maloney (1888 Train Conductor), Billy Booth (First Boy), Butch Hengen (Second Boy), Ryan Hayes (Engineer), Max Slaten (Man on the Wagon)
Sinopsis: Un hombre sencillo, agobiado por las necesidades de su trabajo y la ambición de su mujer, encuentra una posible vía de escape: el sereno y pacífico pueblecito de Willoughby, un lugar que se le aparece en sus sueños.
Frases destacadas:
Opening Narration: This is Gart Williams, age thirty-eight, a man protected by a suit of armor all held together by one bolt. Just a moment ago, someone removed the bolt, and Mr. Williams's protection fell away from him and left him a naked target. He's been cannonaded this afternoon by all the enemies of his life. His insecurity has shelled him, his sensitivity has straddled him with humiliation, his deep-rooted disquiet about his own worth has zeroed in on him, landed on target, and blown him apart. Mr. Gart Williams, ad agency exec, who in just a moment will move into the Twilight Zone, in a desperate search for survival.
Closing Narration: Willoughby? Maybe it's wishful thinking nestled in a hidden part of a man's mind, or maybe it's the last stop in the vast design of things, or perhaps, for a man like Mr. Gart Williams, who climbed on a world that went by too fast, it's a place around the bend where he could jump off. Willoughby? Whatever it is, it comes with sunlight and serenity, and is a part of the Twilight Zone.
Curiosidades:
- En este episodio se nombra "la cuenta Bradbury". Este es un guiño a Ray Bradbury, uno de los más grandes escritores de ciencia ficción del siglo XX, del cual Rod Serling era un fan declarado. De hecho, el episodio 100 de esta serie se basa en un relato suyo.
