No Time Like the Past 4/6

The Twilight Zone (S4 E112) Original airdate: March 7, 1963

Paul Driscoll uses a time machine with the noble intention to go back in time and alter past events (in such a way as to minimize the loss of human life). After failing to warn a Hiroshima police captain about the atomic bomb, assassinate Adolf Hitler (in August, 1939 immediately before the outbreak of World War II in September, 1939), and change the course of the RMS Lusitania to avoid being torpedoed (by a World War I German U-boat), he accepts the hypothesis that the past cannot be changed..

(opening narration) Exit one Paul Driscoll, a creature of the 20th century. He puts to a test a complicated theorem of space-time continuum, but he goes a step further, or tries to. Shortly, he will seek out three moments of the past in a desperate attempt to alter the present-- one of the odd and fanciful functions in a shadowland known as... the Twilight Zone..

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• Twilight
• Zone
• Time
• Travel
• Assassination
• Adolf
• Hitler
• Past
• Change
• Changed
• Hiroshima
• Atomic
• World
• War
• Rod
• Serling

[Scotty7617]

Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone's creator, is definitely one who can criticize chickenhawks.

He fought in the Pacific in WWII and suffered from PTSD for the rest of his life. It was his experiences in the war that ledto him creating the show.

[om4444]

Great scene and the speech is timeless. Even Dana Andrews would be shocked how "virile as the devil" this country is now.....murdering, lying invaders. Having spent hundreds of hours looking at it, I've come to the unfortunate conclusion that 9-11 was a govt. operation. Don't call me a conspiracy theorist, just look at it. That's what the media doesn't want you to do. They want us to believe their conspiracy theory and not question it. Sorry, but I still have a brain.

[MobHeataEnt]

Man talks of more colonizing lol 1:40

[Beck19781]

@OrodesIII And the sad thing is that despite this sensibility existing in the United States, Vietnam was just around the corner.

[CrowTR0bot]

@om4444 The same government that couldn't keep a lid on unauthorized phone taps when the people involved were just a handful?The same government that couldn't keep a lid on insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan. Wake up! It doesn't take a grandiose impossible-to-keep-secret plan to bring down two towers. Just 19 very determined and clever people who had too many grievances with the west and zero conscience.

[mongoosesvd]

This is scary because there are some fools who still think like the Mr. Hanford character, he sounds like O'Reilly.

[OrodesIII]

Rod Serling wrote a wonderful speech and Dana Andrews delivered it perfectly. That scene should be required viewing in American schoolrooms today.

[ishoify]

FUCKU  INDIANS CAME HEAR FIRST

[guitarshredking]

@hurmpfff must have a big red button in his palm with ESCAPE written on it lol

[ParagramTree]

He goes back to 1880 to live in a nice small town, but how does he manage to pay for his room and other things? Does he get a job there from which to get wages to pay for those things? If so how does he get a job there? Remember this is supposed to be 1880 he can't just sign on the dole and claim benefits as there is no social security back then only the work house.

[Paltum1]

@om4444

What are the facts? Not liking the president or the party he represents isn't enough. Face it Radical Muslims were behind the killing of the innocent in that building not the USA government. The Dems have you in their pockets and know you will believe that stupidity! And vote for any dem!

[73849309378]

@om4444 And you use it well, contrary to belfastatheist! Dana Andrews speech was great. Too bad our so-called leaders don't show that kind of wisdom and sincerity these days.