I watched this episode again with a Cold War mentality and the final scene really got to me. For any one around that time this image should send shivers down your spine. No one knew what was going to happen and this image might have stuck in fear with some people
Truth is, she wouldn't have to drag the family beyond the bomb's range, she would just need to find a well stocked nuclear shelter, and drag them there.
plants would grow nor die. for one person the water supply will be no problem if you are in a place with more than 2 stores near by. and the food in grocery stores considering it will never go bad, in 1 store alone would last one person for years. move along to the next one every decade or so and ull be fine.. you may go mad though yes thats a possibility.
I love all the comments below this episode!..Everybody talking and imagining what they would do in her circumstances at the end....thought-provoking episode!
Actually, I just realized something...this is potentially a horrific ending for everyone, not just this woman. (It all hinges on how this necklace really works...does it literally stop time for everyone, or just for her?) If she restarts time -- and I think we all know she won't -- everyone will suffer as a result of the nuclear strike. However, if she doesn't start time -- and if time won't restart after she dies -- then everyone, perhaps even the entire universe, is permanently suspended.
I watched this episode when it aired (I was in high school) and I remember being horrified by the realization of what this woman would be condemned to endure...a truly hellish fate which I wouldn't wish on anyone. She was selfish and immature, yes...but she wasn't really that bad in comparison, was she?
@OreadNYC I saw this when I was in school too. I thought the same thing I was sitting in the living room and was watching it with my parents and we were kinda laughing through most of the episode and when the end came nobody said a word, everybody just sat there stunned. I noticed it was directed by Wes Craven. Had to laugh looking back now. lol
@TechnoHajikelist -- She'd need a VERY tall ladder...and quite probably a space suit as well. It actually wouldn't look like this, but since they weren't given much warning, what she sees in the sky is probably a SLBM (submarine-launched ballistic missile). A ballistic missile launch takes place in several stages, and the trajectory usually takes them outside Earth's atmosphere where the MIRVs (multiple independent re-entry vehicles) separate from the rocket and re-enter the atmosphere.
This was a re-hash of 'Some kind of stopwatch', which was a twilight zone story from the 60's. Personally i like the original story better...but thanks for the upload.
i d say go to the market steal or take all the food or rob the WHole place go find a shelter grab your hubby grab ur kids one by one take them to the shelter then grab on or 2 people u like in case you wanna make new friends lol and then PUSH THE BUTTON and let the rest burn into pieces including that dude you liked in the supermarket .and then america is all urs to have bwahahahaha
why would the media broadcast a nuclear war? its like telling everyone when they will die and i would much rather just have it happen than see it coming
What I love about this episode is the 360-degree mood shift at the end. You think this episode is just gonna be a light little comedy about the wacky misadventures of a housewife with the power to stop time and using it to her advantage, then, WHAM! Nuclear war! Frozen in time forever! Horrible choice to make! Huge downer ending! Love it
i would get stoned, then go to ussr by whatever means possible and find the guy shooting these bombs ...and destroy the system but not sure what 2 do about the ones hes already fired
It would have already detonated if it were that close. They go off above the earth's surface for maximum destruction. But what a great show though. I remember it from when I was a kid
I don't think she'd be able to use a car or any other type of machinery to save her life or her family's, unless she makes a wooden cart and pulls it herself across the country. Combustion occurring in the motor wouldn't take place with time stopped and electricity wouldn't travel.
If I were her I'd honestly attempt to do that. It's not impossible. She could simple just gather enough food and make frequent rest stops until she makes it across the country.
Now here's what I want to know, in the Day After they said it took half an hour for the missiles to go from Russia to US and vice versa, so how here did it only take a couple of minutes only a couple years later?
@TheBookWorm1718 Maybe the missiles were shot a half hour before then the news finally got the scoop and started broadcasting an emergency message at that point.
@michaelcalleo -- Either that, or they were launched from "boomer" submarines carrying ballistic missiles (such as the Soviet typhoon class) stationed in the Atlantic and Pacific. "Boomers" are stealth weapons designed to minimize detection and fire missiles at the targets from comparatively close range. That was one advantage the Soviets had over the United States...while they had a lot of coastline like we have, most of it was at a much higher latitude above the Arctic circle.
@michaelcalleo That's right. For a lot of people the first warning might be watching their missiles leave their silos. The warning system was hardly perfect and organized.
The true scary parts where that 1) This was possible at the time this episode was made. 2) When the radio announcer said it's all over... damn, that's the most scariest thing ever.
@DraculaCronqvist Totally, because these are the people who are supposed to keep their cool no matter what's going on. It's like this past summer when there were horrible storms occurring all over the map, this one weather reporter was at the site where a tornado had destroyed a town and he started crying, we found out later it was because there was a dead body next to where he was reporting from. It was unbelievable.
lol me? If I at least knew how to fly planes... I'd drag the bodies of the people i care for.. drive to the air port.. take a plane.. and fly to probably England or somewhere else that might be safe.. then do the keep talking saying and .. well.. idk from there lol
@Benny2Infinity I swear I definitely thought the same thing. Or at least drag my families bodies into a car, and drive miles and miles away and since everything is frozen when the gas runs low find the nearest gas station and take refill. That may be a missile, but there's no way that is going to spread if you're on the other side of the country.
@potross11 glad you would use the endless amount of time to do some good in the world. If I had the power, I would put your dick in your mouth and attach you to some power lines.
After learning how to speak Chinese, robbing a bank, taking the clothes off of all the people, setting up cameras at a distance, and building a bunker for my family to be in during the blast, I would restart time.
I was a probably 7 years old..this is the first time I'm seeing this in 26 years. The fact that I remembered it so well and took the time to search for it on YouTube only shows what kind of impact the ending had on me!
Stopping time means the annihilation of all matter and energy. Time is a unit of measure conceptualized by human beings. It is the universe of objects acting and interacting in accordance with their identities which gives rise to the concept of time. To cease all motions on every scale from general relativity to quantum fluctuations violates the Law of Identity. A=A would become A=non A. To import this understanding into the episode renders Penny's amulet a doomsday device for the universe.
I saw the original broadcast of this episode in 1985. The ICBM above the city with the airburst in suspended animation horrified me. In grade school we frequently talked about the possibility of nuclear war. This episode captures the pervasive fear of the 1980s cold war era.
I was brought here for much the same reason as many other posters. I remember this from the mid 80's..I think i was 10 when it first aired. Had NO IDEA it was Melinda Dillon...Must have been right after A Christmas Story...
I would find a way to get my family to safety before I unfroze time. I would have to find a way to transport them hundreds of miles away with me. Even if i had to put them im a wheel barrell or something. I would also need to take time to bring food water and supplies. It would take a long time but that's what I would do. Thoughts??
I remember seeing this episode as a kid and i wanted to re watch this as an adult and now that i have found it and you uploaded it! Thank you so much! Im really happy to see it again! I will share this with friends and family as a what if scenario!
As for the ending! Lol..all is not lost! If she can somehow turn that missle around! Problem solved. Lol. Just my solution. I know it would be impossible! TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE 80's and below FTW!
@americanjedi77 Holy shit! I couldn't have said it better myself. This is why I came to this video, to see that exact seen. I remember watching this as a kid at night and getting scared shitless while at the same time wishing for the time stopping clock.
remember this from so long ago, the missle hovering in the air just left me uneasy as a kid. saw it again on chiller this past weekend, the way the camera panned to the missle relatively quickly still gave me chills.....wow...thx for the upload
Man, this is one of the most memorable points in television ever. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of this episode. Both that it would be nice to make everything stop for a second, then the feeling of dread this episode leaves on. Powerful.
It was a real blast from the past seeing this again. Thanks for the upload.
I remember watching this when i was like twelve when this was played in reruns on KTVT channel 11 a dallas station. I'm 34 now. This episode and the older 60's version episode of this guy they think is dead and moves his finger to let them know he is alive are the ones that really stick out in my head.
You are totally right. This IS the Twilight Zone. MY idea when I first saw it was she might be able to find a way to reach the bomb (perhaps building one HECK of a pyramid with crates and ladders [hey, I was young!]) and damage the firing mechanism.
But, if I were in her situation I would probably go to my family, let it all go on, and go with them to the next realm. Or probably not!
@ADreamToRemember ther no other realm so you would just die periode and also ther are many things she can do... Go to libary read up then disactivate it... then start the time again
@UnderDog988 That wouldn't work. That sound you hear rigth before she freezes time is a nuke bursting on the horizon. Also, you can see the fireball from the burst.
I've been obsessing over finding this episode for the past 25 years! I was 6 the last time I saw it. Couldn't remember the name of the episode, until a friend mentioned it last night.
Since she literally has all the time in the world, she should find (and stock) bomb shelters and cart everyone in town there. I'm sure most Mid-Western Towns had them in the 80's.
@Nafetitive Sorry. Wouldn't work. She's living her life between one moment and the next. Her perception and her body are burning up. Put it this way: If she lives to be a hundred, her body will age the remaining years to a hundred, but outside of her happened only an instant. (Relativistic effects and everything.)
@ADreamToRemember But it could work in the land of Television. What would the Twilight Zone be without the viewers' suspension of disbelief? Had the episode continued, would it have been so far a stretch to have her move everyone into fully stocked bomb shelters? I fully appreciate Logic and Reason, and am keen to the Laws of Physics, but this IS the Twilight Zone we're talking about. :)
@JohnnyDart76: sorry to disappoint you smartass, but CBS gave the new Twilight Zone a greenlight in 1984 under the supervision of Carla Singer, meaning that the scripts were already written in that year.
so you read all the comments of this video just to reply to someone's comment to show off your little knowledge, here is a piece of advice, GET A LIFE !
@liquidus2172: The hell's your problem, smartass? All I said was that this was aired in 1985, 2 years after the world almost ended in '83. I wasn't trying to come off as a know-it-all or anything, that should've been obvious. You sir, are the one that needs a life. Good day.
and airing a tv show is not the same as writing it, the writing comes first, this was written in 1984 so my original comment was right, your reply was WRONG! goodnight kid and sweet dreams.
@GameShutxx - if there IS some "illuminati shit" hidden in this episode, it don't mean the illuminati are real - Harlan Ellison is one o the writers, he loves stuff like that. Now, as to how to use the stopwatch to survive, the lady just needs to get her family outta the US. For instance, Australia is nice, and there's little point nuking it from the Sov point of view (it's already basically a radioactive desert) She could get there in a canoe (the waves and sharks won't move, right?)
@MsBettyBowers we are all illuminati, the concept of human society is getting illuminated by the truth from God , afterall the ones who refuse it / resist it get killed by god himself.
@backtublive Look mate, I don't think that's the Illuminati we're talkin about here, but a mythical secret cult mostly used in scifi. The only folks who believe this kind of illuminati are actually real usually also believe in psichic powers, UFOs and vampires. As to God killing folks, well, if God is real he actually arranged the universe to kill 100% of us didn't he. But I'm not a superstitious person - if you wanna waste your life worryin about the magic sky fairy, I don wanna hear about it.
I remember this from when I was a kid. This episode bothered me for YEARS. The end where she's looking up at that missile poised in the sky just freaked me out about how she had to keep the world frozen or everyone would be dead.
I love the theater with Failsafe and Dr. Strangelove showing at it.
@Sungkawa Start with the closest missile in sight. Stop nuclear holocaust by stopping time every time a missile gets close enough for her to reach up and grab, and simply just put it down gently on the ground. thus stopping them from going off. It'd take a LOOOONG time, and it'd be a bitch of a work out, but wouldn't it be the ONLY solution since she can't go back in time?
@Greenkai3000 Unfortunately most nuclear missiles actually do not detonate when they hit the ground (Unlike the atomic bomb which was a drop bomb) Rather they are designed as "Air Burst" weapons that detonate in the air to increase the area of effect of the explosion. She would have to somehow transport the missile (which can sometimes weigh several tons) to a safe location, like the desert. (Ocean = Tsunami)
ironic, the cbs eye followed by a company with the initials POV [point of view] but the point of view is their persistence of vision and the illuminati dollar bill eye. aaargh!!! BIG BROTHER N all that. heh heh, but great video, I remember seeing it, thanks! :)
I watched this as a kid, too. Scared the pee out of me. Personally, watching it now, I think the writer(s) of this episode were definitely trying to urge people to care about the nuclear situation before it seriously got out of hand.
@Nabelnoir but y cnt she unfreeze time shes got the power to do so, and also all she has to do is either carry them or drive to a save place shes got all the time in the world!!
@WesthamMr She could unfreeze time, but it would mean WWIII would start up again and she and her family would be killed. The only thing she could do is do like you say and maybe drag them in a freewheeling conveyance of some sort to a hopefully relatively safe spot. The thing is, where in the world is safe when you have thousands of nuclear missles poised to go off.
Brilliant episode! I remember watching it and the fear of those days. Unfortunately the world has gotten more violent since the end of the soviet union and M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Do we need the threat of something like that to make us all get along?
wow! seems like most episodes end with a somewhat happy twist.... that one certainly didn't. not what I expected at all. I don't think there was any possible positive outcome from that.
i lived by an air port when i was a kid. so any time a plane would take off or land i would go running outside to make sure it wasnt a nuke . this episode (and The Day After) truly fucked me up. lol
@boynamedsioux33 My God, you must have run yourself ragged making sure all those planes were not nukes. I can sympathise. I lived in Maryland all through the 80's, right between D.C. and Andrews Air Force Base.
There is a probable solution: "She gets all her family members and any needed supplies in the station wagon, drive a few thousnd miles to a safe place such as a steel enclosed basement, and then say "start talking." I know The Twilight Zone series tries to have a never ending cliff-hanger for every episode, but this is just to eazy to figure out! And if anyone thought this was brilliant, or even good, needs to be tested for possible reataurdation.
Yes this is scary...but good! Just the thought of nuclear warhead frozen in mid-air about to strike doom is frightning! But that was what was going on back then and there were these movies about a Russian attack or take over; namely The Day After and Red Dawn!! Like I said Scary but good
By the way for those of you who don't know they're remaking Red Dawn except this time the US isn't invaded by the Russians, but by the Chinese!
I watched this video when I was a teenager...it was very powerful to me, even after all these years, I still remember the ending...the missile in the air and everybody was freeze....
I remember this nightmare inducing episode from my childhood. Along with this and "The Day After" on ABC back in the 80's, I lived in constant fear of a nuclear war erupting at any second. Its good to see by the comments here, I wasnt the only one.
im 31 now and just today it popped in my head that i had to look up this episode! i saw it the first time when i was about 8 years old and i have NEVER forgotten it! wow it made such a profound impact on me! and even today it still sends chills down my spine! i LOVE twilight zone - especially the 80`s episodes - guess it reminds me of when i was a kid!! THANKS for posting!!!
It's sort of funny because before youtube when I was nine, my aunt told me about this episode and the ending and the thought of it always stuck in my mind even though I never saw it.
Now I'm 19 and I thought "I should try and find that episode she told me about" and low and behold I discover it and even now at this age, the very idea of is really terrifying... and now that I've seen it I can't get this image of the missile hanging in the air out of my mind.
Watching this as a kid really fucked with my mind, especially the ending. I only ever watched this bit of Twilight Zone but my highly-suggestible mind absorbed it totally.
yes like she was going through the supermarket people again in day & noticed this huge thing in the sky much bigger that this missile like a huge mother-ship or a giant foot ready to crush the earth horrifying. The sfx is good > the sound of time approaching the screams wailing of gnashing of teeth I doubt she'd ever take a helicopter ride up there & try to disable the missile as it could set it off in mid air! why not? her car wasn't frozen with the fuel not working so the missile could go off
it's so obvious what I'd do...grab a bus, get my wife, dog a couple of male friends + their girlfriends/wives, dogs, cats, etc ...drive to a mall..for "provisions"..get a LOT of weed (stop in Amsterdam or Nth California or Laos) go to a collage and grab about 30 attractive young women ("re-population" the wives will have to accept this)...drive to a remote mountain-range..(the Himalayas, Andes, Canadian Rockys etc) find a bunch of log cabins and do away with the owners..
It's the thought of having two choices, unstop time and everyone dies instantly including you..or living the most lonely life ever imaginable, surrounded by people you know and love..but can't interact with.
Well at least she stopped the nuclear holocaust.
Irishknightable 13 hours ago
I watched this episode again with a Cold War mentality and the final scene really got to me. For any one around that time this image should send shivers down your spine. No one knew what was going to happen and this image might have stuck in fear with some people
ClutchLikeMeIo 3 days ago
Truth is, she wouldn't have to drag the family beyond the bomb's range, she would just need to find a well stocked nuclear shelter, and drag them there.
brianboyko 1 week ago
wonder if they would really transmit the message of nuclear attack....
LarvaePod 1 week ago
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plants would grow nor die. for one person the water supply will be no problem if you are in a place with more than 2 stores near by. and the food in grocery stores considering it will never go bad, in 1 store alone would last one person for years. move along to the next one every decade or so and ull be fine.. you may go mad though yes thats a possibility.
bassistdakota 2 weeks ago
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bassistdakota 2 weeks ago
I love all the comments below this episode!..Everybody talking and imagining what they would do in her circumstances at the end....thought-provoking episode!
Torkgasmicgirl8 3 weeks ago
@lashmooze O.o
seedot35 3 weeks ago
your govt always scheming up new ways to scare amerikans.
snakesinmypants 3 weeks ago
Actually, I just realized something...this is potentially a horrific ending for everyone, not just this woman. (It all hinges on how this necklace really works...does it literally stop time for everyone, or just for her?) If she restarts time -- and I think we all know she won't -- everyone will suffer as a result of the nuclear strike. However, if she doesn't start time -- and if time won't restart after she dies -- then everyone, perhaps even the entire universe, is permanently suspended.
OreadNYC 1 month ago
I watched this episode when it aired (I was in high school) and I remember being horrified by the realization of what this woman would be condemned to endure...a truly hellish fate which I wouldn't wish on anyone. She was selfish and immature, yes...but she wasn't really that bad in comparison, was she?
OreadNYC 1 month ago
@OreadNYC I saw this when I was in school too. I thought the same thing I was sitting in the living room and was watching it with my parents and we were kinda laughing through most of the episode and when the end came nobody said a word, everybody just sat there stunned. I noticed it was directed by Wes Craven. Had to laugh looking back now. lol
TheCarcrash47 1 month ago
Hot house wife...No doubt about it....
bolderdo 1 month ago
Couldn't she just get a ladder and then take the missile into a river or a ocean and make it explode there?
TechnoHajikelist 1 month ago
@TechnoHajikelist -- She'd need a VERY tall ladder...and quite probably a space suit as well. It actually wouldn't look like this, but since they weren't given much warning, what she sees in the sky is probably a SLBM (submarine-launched ballistic missile). A ballistic missile launch takes place in several stages, and the trajectory usually takes them outside Earth's atmosphere where the MIRVs (multiple independent re-entry vehicles) separate from the rocket and re-enter the atmosphere.
OreadNYC 4 weeks ago
This was a re-hash of 'Some kind of stopwatch', which was a twilight zone story from the 60's. Personally i like the original story better...but thanks for the upload.
Amorphustruth 1 month ago in playlist classic television 06
i d say go to the market steal or take all the food or rob the WHole place go find a shelter grab your hubby grab ur kids one by one take them to the shelter then grab on or 2 people u like in case you wanna make new friends lol and then PUSH THE BUTTON and let the rest burn into pieces including that dude you liked in the supermarket .and then america is all urs to have bwahahahaha
lostintimeline 1 month ago
Is there anything she could theoretically do? She could take her fam one by one in a wheel barrel and get them to a shelter.
GTAFORME 1 month ago
why would the media broadcast a nuclear war? its like telling everyone when they will die and i would much rather just have it happen than see it coming
paniclego97 1 month ago
@paniclego97 The media broadcast it so people get to safety...
UnderDog988 1 month ago
What I love about this episode is the 360-degree mood shift at the end. You think this episode is just gonna be a light little comedy about the wacky misadventures of a housewife with the power to stop time and using it to her advantage, then, WHAM! Nuclear war! Frozen in time forever! Horrible choice to make! Huge downer ending! Love it
krystlerita 2 months ago
i would get stoned, then go to ussr by whatever means possible and find the guy shooting these bombs ...and destroy the system but not sure what 2 do about the ones hes already fired
germany1990 2 months ago
lol. i love reading about all of the stupid things that you idiots would do if you could stop time. keep 'em coming...!
movitmovit 2 months ago
It would have already detonated if it were that close. They go off above the earth's surface for maximum destruction. But what a great show though. I remember it from when I was a kid
Whoporschedatis 2 months ago
what happened next?
iwannab0123 2 months ago
I don't think she'd be able to use a car or any other type of machinery to save her life or her family's, unless she makes a wooden cart and pulls it herself across the country. Combustion occurring in the motor wouldn't take place with time stopped and electricity wouldn't travel.
thewolf312 2 months ago 3
@thewolf312 That's the smartest comment on here! I thought about that myself.
michaelcalleo 2 months ago
@thewolf312
If I were her I'd honestly attempt to do that. It's not impossible. She could simple just gather enough food and make frequent rest stops until she makes it across the country.
hautxtalons 3 weeks ago
@thewolf312 i would be willing to pull a cart that far for my family
Swedishlemon 2 weeks ago
God, look how close that Nuke is!!!!! it's just hanging there!!
Vampiregothmother 2 months ago
i would carry my family to canada then restart time
alealmartin99 2 months ago
Now here's what I want to know, in the Day After they said it took half an hour for the missiles to go from Russia to US and vice versa, so how here did it only take a couple of minutes only a couple years later?
TheBookWorm1718 2 months ago
@TheBookWorm1718 Maybe the missiles were shot a half hour before then the news finally got the scoop and started broadcasting an emergency message at that point.
michaelcalleo 2 months ago 3
@michaelcalleo I don't know, as much as everyone had been talking about the whole thing I'd think they'd have some idea before it reached zero hour.
TheBookWorm1718 2 months ago
@michaelcalleo -- Either that, or they were launched from "boomer" submarines carrying ballistic missiles (such as the Soviet typhoon class) stationed in the Atlantic and Pacific. "Boomers" are stealth weapons designed to minimize detection and fire missiles at the targets from comparatively close range. That was one advantage the Soviets had over the United States...while they had a lot of coastline like we have, most of it was at a much higher latitude above the Arctic circle.
OreadNYC 1 month ago
@michaelcalleo That's right. For a lot of people the first warning might be watching their missiles leave their silos. The warning system was hardly perfect and organized.
DTanza 3 weeks ago
God, I remember seeing this on TV years ago and it still sends shivers down my spine even now!!
3rdEye2011 2 months ago
well... she had all the time in the world...
why not go to the library... become a science wiz ... get a ladder ... and disarm the bomb?
julianamercy 3 months ago
@julianamercy Alternatively, she could have armed herself with an ice pick, gone to the Soviet Union, killed every leader and saved the world.
tikletik 3 months ago
The true scary parts where that 1) This was possible at the time this episode was made. 2) When the radio announcer said it's all over... damn, that's the most scariest thing ever.
DraculaCronqvist 3 months ago
@DraculaCronqvist Totally, because these are the people who are supposed to keep their cool no matter what's going on. It's like this past summer when there were horrible storms occurring all over the map, this one weather reporter was at the site where a tornado had destroyed a town and he started crying, we found out later it was because there was a dead body next to where he was reporting from. It was unbelievable.
TheBookWorm1718 2 months ago
In Soviet Russia rocket launches you!
ZackTheGopher 4 months ago
lol me? If I at least knew how to fly planes... I'd drag the bodies of the people i care for.. drive to the air port.. take a plane.. and fly to probably England or somewhere else that might be safe.. then do the keep talking saying and .. well.. idk from there lol
Benny2Infinity 4 months ago
@Benny2Infinity I swear I definitely thought the same thing. Or at least drag my families bodies into a car, and drive miles and miles away and since everything is frozen when the gas runs low find the nearest gas station and take refill. That may be a missile, but there's no way that is going to spread if you're on the other side of the country.
Nikkita05 3 months ago
in soviet russia missile kill u
MuleHouseProductios 4 months ago
@potross11 glad you would use the endless amount of time to do some good in the world. If I had the power, I would put your dick in your mouth and attach you to some power lines.
FreedInPieces 5 months ago
After learning how to speak Chinese, robbing a bank, taking the clothes off of all the people, setting up cameras at a distance, and building a bunker for my family to be in during the blast, I would restart time.
FreedInPieces 5 months ago
wow that zoom in on the missile at the end was pretty cheesy
steakdiaper 5 months ago
i think she would have had time to move her family to a safe haven
TAGHERO1010 6 months ago
Do the cars work? Toss your family in the trunck and head for Canada or Mexico!
jjmfrees 6 months ago 2
@jjmfrees Lol i was thinking the same thing :D
dizzyb111 6 months ago
I was a probably 7 years old..this is the first time I'm seeing this in 26 years. The fact that I remembered it so well and took the time to search for it on YouTube only shows what kind of impact the ending had on me!
cdbutler1204 7 months ago 2
good video
scouthusky1 7 months ago
Stopping time means the annihilation of all matter and energy. Time is a unit of measure conceptualized by human beings. It is the universe of objects acting and interacting in accordance with their identities which gives rise to the concept of time. To cease all motions on every scale from general relativity to quantum fluctuations violates the Law of Identity. A=A would become A=non A. To import this understanding into the episode renders Penny's amulet a doomsday device for the universe.
SCRYER1973 7 months ago
I saw the original broadcast of this episode in 1985. The ICBM above the city with the airburst in suspended animation horrified me. In grade school we frequently talked about the possibility of nuclear war. This episode captures the pervasive fear of the 1980s cold war era.
SCRYER1973 7 months ago
Wow, that's karma right there.
tessabellem 7 months ago
4:13 'Dr.Strangelove' haha nice touch
stylezofom 8 months ago
@stylezofom
"Fail Safe" too.
Both were about the risk of nuclear war, and in both a mistake (a psychotic general and a computer error) starts the problems.
McLarenMercedes 8 months ago
I was brought here for much the same reason as many other posters. I remember this from the mid 80's..I think i was 10 when it first aired. Had NO IDEA it was Melinda Dillon...Must have been right after A Christmas Story...
Thanks for posting the episode!!!
cgram75 8 months ago
Melinda Dillion hot! hot! hot!
lashmooze 9 months ago
Crazy scary!!!.....
Wondermouth1 9 months ago
I would find a way to get my family to safety before I unfroze time. I would have to find a way to transport them hundreds of miles away with me. Even if i had to put them im a wheel barrell or something. I would also need to take time to bring food water and supplies. It would take a long time but that's what I would do. Thoughts??
mjmj779 9 months ago
her boob almost came out of the robe
longfootbuddy 9 months ago
shit.
evfich 10 months ago
I remember seeing this episode as a kid and i wanted to re watch this as an adult and now that i have found it and you uploaded it! Thank you so much! Im really happy to see it again! I will share this with friends and family as a what if scenario!
As for the ending! Lol..all is not lost! If she can somehow turn that missle around! Problem solved. Lol. Just my solution. I know it would be impossible! TWILIGHT ZONE OF THE 80's and below FTW!
AzNJ808 10 months ago
@americanjedi77 Holy shit! I couldn't have said it better myself. This is why I came to this video, to see that exact seen. I remember watching this as a kid at night and getting scared shitless while at the same time wishing for the time stopping clock.
Amino2 10 months ago
Great i watch this in the Philippines on ABS CBN 2
back in the mid 80's. I think it was aired every Sunday night.
I got nightmares to this episode
hilarioph 10 months ago
@hilarioph SHUT UP ASSHOLE CHINK CHINA MAN!!!! GO BACK TO CHINA YOU WORTHLESS CUNT! I HOPE YOU MASTURBATE WITH SQUID!!!
AllahuAkbarMosque 10 months ago
Saw this as a child. I've never forgotten it.
mrsdesktop1 10 months ago
i dont get the ending... can anyone explain??? it usually has a guy to explain it lol...
lorell88 1 year ago
@lorell88 She has the dilemma of living forever in a silent but safe world, or letting time run again but killing everyone instantly.
joshscomputer 11 months ago
remember this from so long ago, the missle hovering in the air just left me uneasy as a kid. saw it again on chiller this past weekend, the way the camera panned to the missle relatively quickly still gave me chills.....wow...thx for the upload
owenbb505 1 year ago
Anyone notice Doctor strangelove and Failsafe playing at the cinema? :]
TheLennonLad 1 year ago 8
@TheLennonLad ye. nice reference
Marty0Mcfly 8 months ago
Does anyone have the original ending?
sgauden 1 year ago
Man, this is one of the most memorable points in television ever. There isn't a day that goes by that I don't think of this episode. Both that it would be nice to make everything stop for a second, then the feeling of dread this episode leaves on. Powerful.
It was a real blast from the past seeing this again. Thanks for the upload.
elbryan42 1 year ago
The pendant of Chronos
krakken242 1 year ago
@americanjedi77 Yes, and then the episode would end without another word. Super creepy!! That always freaked me out about the 80's Twilight Zones!
ravegods 1 year ago
i didnt get the ending
xXxbellaxlunaxXx 1 year ago
@xXxbellaxlunaxXx
Because there wasn't one.
jerkthezerk 1 year ago
@xXxbellaxlunaxXx she is gonna be alone w/ no one to talk to and iff she starts it again the missile will strike
jasondrboy 9 months ago
@jasondrboy she should move her family out of out the area, then unfreeze time. The people will have to die so time can continue.
415price 9 months ago
Brilliant episode, classic twilight zone, thanks for uploading this michaelcalleo
cheekyzengirl 1 year ago
I remember watching this when i was like twelve when this was played in reruns on KTVT channel 11 a dallas station. I'm 34 now. This episode and the older 60's version episode of this guy they think is dead and moves his finger to let them know he is alive are the ones that really stick out in my head.
jerbojones 1 year ago
You are totally right. This IS the Twilight Zone. MY idea when I first saw it was she might be able to find a way to reach the bomb (perhaps building one HECK of a pyramid with crates and ladders [hey, I was young!]) and damage the firing mechanism.
But, if I were in her situation I would probably go to my family, let it all go on, and go with them to the next realm. Or probably not!
You're right! She can at least make a go at it.
ADreamToRemember 1 year ago
@ADreamToRemember ther no other realm so you would just die periode and also ther are many things she can do... Go to libary read up then disactivate it... then start the time again
UnderDog988 1 year ago
@UnderDog988 That wouldn't work. That sound you hear rigth before she freezes time is a nuke bursting on the horizon. Also, you can see the fireball from the burst.
Binky40SW 1 year ago
@Binky40SW Right then my only advise is run like hell
UnderDog988 1 year ago
@potross11 Maybe you should be in one of these episodes.
sgauden 1 year ago
I've been obsessing over finding this episode for the past 25 years! I was 6 the last time I saw it. Couldn't remember the name of the episode, until a friend mentioned it last night.
Since she literally has all the time in the world, she should find (and stock) bomb shelters and cart everyone in town there. I'm sure most Mid-Western Towns had them in the 80's.
Nafetitive 1 year ago 2
@Nafetitive Sorry. Wouldn't work. She's living her life between one moment and the next. Her perception and her body are burning up. Put it this way: If she lives to be a hundred, her body will age the remaining years to a hundred, but outside of her happened only an instant. (Relativistic effects and everything.)
ADreamToRemember 1 year ago
@ADreamToRemember But it could work in the land of Television. What would the Twilight Zone be without the viewers' suspension of disbelief? Had the episode continued, would it have been so far a stretch to have her move everyone into fully stocked bomb shelters? I fully appreciate Logic and Reason, and am keen to the Laws of Physics, but this IS the Twilight Zone we're talking about. :)
Nafetitive 1 year ago
Well, whenever she gets bored she'll know what to do.
Gencoil 1 year ago
this episode ear raped me.
bloodshot738 1 year ago 2
The two movies on the cinema: Fails Safe and Dr. Strangelove
yuzuruizawa 1 year ago
Man this was creepie.
lejonfo 1 year ago
and knowing this is one year after the Soviet Union almost launched their ICBMs gives me the shivers.
liquidus2172 1 year ago
@liquidus2172: Two, actually. =)
JohnnyDart76 2 months ago
@JohnnyDart76: sorry to disappoint you smartass, but CBS gave the new Twilight Zone a greenlight in 1984 under the supervision of Carla Singer, meaning that the scripts were already written in that year.
so you read all the comments of this video just to reply to someone's comment to show off your little knowledge, here is a piece of advice, GET A LIFE !
liquidus2172 2 months ago
@liquidus2172: What's your problem? You had a bad day yesterday or something? =\
JohnnyDart76 2 months ago
@JohnnyDart76 get a life kid, cheers.
liquidus2172 2 months ago
@liquidus2172: The hell's your problem, smartass? All I said was that this was aired in 1985, 2 years after the world almost ended in '83. I wasn't trying to come off as a know-it-all or anything, that should've been obvious. You sir, are the one that needs a life. Good day.
JohnnyDart76 2 months ago
@JohnnyDart76 you still here kid !
and airing a tv show is not the same as writing it, the writing comes first, this was written in 1984 so my original comment was right, your reply was WRONG! goodnight kid and sweet dreams.
liquidus2172 2 months ago
@GameShutxx - if there IS some "illuminati shit" hidden in this episode, it don't mean the illuminati are real - Harlan Ellison is one o the writers, he loves stuff like that. Now, as to how to use the stopwatch to survive, the lady just needs to get her family outta the US. For instance, Australia is nice, and there's little point nuking it from the Sov point of view (it's already basically a radioactive desert) She could get there in a canoe (the waves and sharks won't move, right?)
MsBettyBowers 1 year ago
@MsBettyBowers we are all illuminati, the concept of human society is getting illuminated by the truth from God , afterall the ones who refuse it / resist it get killed by god himself.
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MsBettyBowers 1 year ago
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@backtublive Look mate, I don't think that's the Illuminati we're talkin about here, but a mythical secret cult mostly used in scifi. The only folks who believe this kind of illuminati are actually real usually also believe in psichic powers, UFOs and vampires. As to God killing folks, well, if God is real he actually arranged the universe to kill 100% of us didn't he. But I'm not a superstitious person - if you wanna waste your life worryin about the magic sky fairy, I don wanna hear about it.
MsBettyBowers 1 year ago
Freeze!Nobody moves,nobody gets hurt!
TheTheultimatelover 1 year ago
so I guess the bitch left her family ot die............
msmd15 1 year ago
I would take my sweet time, and spend a year or so trying to get that missle out of the sky and into the ocean.
BoochiesBob 1 year ago
what's that echoing sound in the background? I thought it's supposed to be completely silent everytime she stops time.
Greenkai3000 1 year ago
@Greenkai3000 hmmmm good question
Sungkawa 1 year ago
anyone noticed the illumanti shit in the end? 5:21. Scray shit. Maybe the illumanti worte this shit or something...
GameShutxx 1 year ago
I remember this from when I was a kid. This episode bothered me for YEARS. The end where she's looking up at that missile poised in the sky just freaked me out about how she had to keep the world frozen or everyone would be dead.
I love the theater with Failsafe and Dr. Strangelove showing at it.
Lendorien 1 year ago 3
@Lendorien weirdly, both those movies came out at the same time, but as far as i could tell they were completely unrelated.
after all these years, they still hold up well.
mattukenobaka 1 year ago
2:57
lol it looks like hes eating his head :P
marzipin 1 year ago
Maybe there are additional options on the timepiece she has. ??
Kg277 1 year ago
Great writer! Find the solution to the problem you guys.
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?
funny8636 1 year ago
well actually she could've used her Power to stop the Missile from droping !
Sungkawa 1 year ago
@Sungkawa Start with the closest missile in sight. Stop nuclear holocaust by stopping time every time a missile gets close enough for her to reach up and grab, and simply just put it down gently on the ground. thus stopping them from going off. It'd take a LOOOONG time, and it'd be a bitch of a work out, but wouldn't it be the ONLY solution since she can't go back in time?
Greenkai3000 1 year ago
@Greenkai3000 it seems she has to !
beeing the only able to stop time should have such adventage
Sungkawa 1 year ago
@Greenkai3000 Unfortunately most nuclear missiles actually do not detonate when they hit the ground (Unlike the atomic bomb which was a drop bomb) Rather they are designed as "Air Burst" weapons that detonate in the air to increase the area of effect of the explosion. She would have to somehow transport the missile (which can sometimes weigh several tons) to a safe location, like the desert. (Ocean = Tsunami)
Squirll 1 year ago
@Squirll DANG IT. THEN EVERYONE'S SCREWED. LOL
Greenkai3000 9 months ago
ironic, the cbs eye followed by a company with the initials POV [point of view] but the point of view is their persistence of vision and the illuminati dollar bill eye. aaargh!!! BIG BROTHER N all that. heh heh, but great video, I remember seeing it, thanks! :)
clintrock 1 year ago
I watched this as a kid, too. Scared the pee out of me. Personally, watching it now, I think the writer(s) of this episode were definitely trying to urge people to care about the nuclear situation before it seriously got out of hand.
Smalltowngal29 1 year ago
ok so she just left her family to die
WesthamMr 1 year ago
@WesthamMr NO, they were frozen in time like everything else. Perfectly frozen.....Unless she frees it....WHICH SHE CAN NEVER DO EVER AGAIN!!!
Nabelnoir 1 year ago
@Nabelnoir but y cnt she unfreeze time shes got the power to do so, and also all she has to do is either carry them or drive to a save place shes got all the time in the world!!
WesthamMr 1 year ago
@WesthamMr She could unfreeze time, but it would mean WWIII would start up again and she and her family would be killed. The only thing she could do is do like you say and maybe drag them in a freewheeling conveyance of some sort to a hopefully relatively safe spot. The thing is, where in the world is safe when you have thousands of nuclear missles poised to go off.
Nabelnoir 1 year ago
I love the Zone. I was eating oreos while watching this.
HRVDNT 1 year ago 2
Nice tip of the hat to "Dr. Strangelove" at the end!
uw1LL0b3y 1 year ago
All she has to do is get into a helicopter and disarm all those missiles!
neil73 1 year ago
@neil73 Yeah....MacGyver unfortunately was on another channel on Sunday nights.....oh and since he didn't posess the watch, he was frozen.
Nabelnoir 1 year ago
Brilliant episode! I remember watching it and the fear of those days. Unfortunately the world has gotten more violent since the end of the soviet union and M.A.D. (Mutually Assured Destruction)
Do we need the threat of something like that to make us all get along?
jatrichlin 1 year ago
Music by Grateful Dead awesome!
Rembbrandt 1 year ago
wow! seems like most episodes end with a somewhat happy twist.... that one certainly didn't. not what I expected at all. I don't think there was any possible positive outcome from that.
demxod8 1 year ago
i lived by an air port when i was a kid. so any time a plane would take off or land i would go running outside to make sure it wasnt a nuke . this episode (and The Day After) truly fucked me up. lol
boynamedsioux33 1 year ago
@boynamedsioux33 My God, you must have run yourself ragged making sure all those planes were not nukes. I can sympathise. I lived in Maryland all through the 80's, right between D.C. and Andrews Air Force Base.
Nabelnoir 1 year ago
There is a probable solution: "She gets all her family members and any needed supplies in the station wagon, drive a few thousnd miles to a safe place such as a steel enclosed basement, and then say "start talking." I know The Twilight Zone series tries to have a never ending cliff-hanger for every episode, but this is just to eazy to figure out! And if anyone thought this was brilliant, or even good, needs to be tested for possible reataurdation.
TheLANC95 1 year ago
Yes this is scary...but good! Just the thought of nuclear warhead frozen in mid-air about to strike doom is frightning! But that was what was going on back then and there were these movies about a Russian attack or take over; namely The Day After and Red Dawn!! Like I said Scary but good
By the way for those of you who don't know they're remaking Red Dawn except this time the US isn't invaded by the Russians, but by the Chinese!
DrMindBender76 1 year ago
Lol @ the reference to Dr Strangelove.
DanaWhite0 1 year ago
This was one of the few episodes of the twilight zones i remember watching as a kid also. That missile scared me to death also.
Artylang 1 year ago
BRILLIANT EPISODE!!!!
kingklabe 1 year ago
I watched this video when I was a teenager...it was very powerful to me, even after all these years, I still remember the ending...the missile in the air and everybody was freeze....
What would you do if you were the woman?
cellcell315 1 year ago
she could read how to diffuse the thing, steal a giant crane lol climb up there to the sky and fix it lol. that's prettey far tetched yes.
ogskeetdizzle 2 years ago
I remember this nightmare inducing episode from my childhood. Along with this and "The Day After" on ABC back in the 80's, I lived in constant fear of a nuclear war erupting at any second. Its good to see by the comments here, I wasnt the only one.
mrwesdaddy 2 years ago 3
it would prob take her months, if not years. but she could drive a number of people at a time to a safe point, if any.
flickers1988 2 years ago
scary!!!
dickieman1 2 years ago
O_O Oh no, run. Run for your lives.
xxpandamidknightxx 2 years ago
im 31 now and just today it popped in my head that i had to look up this episode! i saw it the first time when i was about 8 years old and i have NEVER forgotten it! wow it made such a profound impact on me! and even today it still sends chills down my spine! i LOVE twilight zone - especially the 80`s episodes - guess it reminds me of when i was a kid!! THANKS for posting!!!
bjskj 2 years ago 19
@bjskj hell ya dude, I always remembered this episode since I was a kiddo, had to look it up today... been looking for this one for a while now
PvPvEHunter 1 year ago
It's sort of funny because before youtube when I was nine, my aunt told me about this episode and the ending and the thought of it always stuck in my mind even though I never saw it.
Now I'm 19 and I thought "I should try and find that episode she told me about" and low and behold I discover it and even now at this age, the very idea of is really terrifying... and now that I've seen it I can't get this image of the missile hanging in the air out of my mind.
estupido7490 2 years ago 4
The radio said the first missile was in us airspace..this implies that all of America was about to be destroyed, not just the city she lived in..
BelfastAtheist 2 years ago
WOW!!!!
CharroDavid 2 years ago
Watching this as a kid really fucked with my mind, especially the ending. I only ever watched this bit of Twilight Zone but my highly-suggestible mind absorbed it totally.
LeGronk 2 years ago 2
Same here! But for some reason i remember it being daytime when she saw the missle.
WuYorkYankees 2 years ago
yes like she was going through the supermarket people again in day & noticed this huge thing in the sky much bigger that this missile like a huge mother-ship or a giant foot ready to crush the earth horrifying. The sfx is good > the sound of time approaching the screams wailing of gnashing of teeth I doubt she'd ever take a helicopter ride up there & try to disable the missile as it could set it off in mid air! why not? her car wasn't frozen with the fuel not working so the missile could go off
midguardz 2 years ago 2
What an ending...
NickLendow 2 years ago
Lol at Dr. Stangelove playing in the theater!
KSakemi 2 years ago
it's so obvious what I'd do...grab a bus, get my wife, dog a couple of male friends + their girlfriends/wives, dogs, cats, etc ...drive to a mall..for "provisions"..get a LOT of weed (stop in Amsterdam or Nth California or Laos) go to a collage and grab about 30 attractive young women ("re-population" the wives will have to accept this)...drive to a remote mountain-range..(the Himalayas, Andes, Canadian Rockys etc) find a bunch of log cabins and do away with the owners..
and enjoy the "new age"
homerbear46 2 years ago
@homerbear46 That wouldn't work. Full stop.
Gorilla199abuser 2 years ago 3
yes it would. full stop.
homerbear46 2 years ago
but the food would go bad and who cares how you look if nobody sees you so why steal clothes from the mall..
jilliancnow23 2 years ago
@jilliancnow23 actually the food wouldn't go bad if time was frozen
jimcobb3 2 years ago 3
I don't understand why this is "scary"?.. I'm not trying to be rude , I'm just curious as to what exactly makes the ending scary? Thanks :)
MotherRat 2 years ago
It's the thought of having two choices, unstop time and everyone dies instantly including you..or living the most lonely life ever imaginable, surrounded by people you know and love..but can't interact with.
BelfastAtheist 2 years ago 3
lol "You should go to the closest shelter... whats the point"
jamamed 2 years ago
i got a crap on my pants
rba15 2 years ago
This episode freaks me out! I think I might have to change my pants.
HeroOfTime121 2 years ago