Time Enough at Last

Time Enough at Last is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Critical Response

:"It is as fine a piece of theatrical bitter irony as has been constructed. Greek playwrights would look at that and go, 'Pretty Good!'" Keith Olbermann on TV Land's presentation of TV Guide's "100 Most Memorable Moments in Television".

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Keith Olbermann - TV Land's - TV Guide's

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:"Much of the implacable seriousness of the Twilight Zone is seemingly keyed by the clipped, dour delivery of Serling himself an the interlocutor. He never encourages us to laugh, or even smile, even when the plot twist is at least darkly funny. For example, in "Time Enough at Last" (November 20, 1959), written by Rod Serling from a short story by Lynn Venable, a frustrated bookworm played by Burgess Meredith hides in a bank vault to finish David Copperfield in privacy. He emerges to find himself the only survivor in a nuclear holocaust, and looks forward to a lifetime of reading books. Unfortunately, his glasses slip off his nose and crash, leaving him forever unable to sample the literary treasures all around him. C'est a rire, n'est-ce pas? Well, not exactly. The H-bomb is still lurking in the background of the bookworm's "accident." The point is that the bomb could never have gone off on network television were the plot couched in a more realistic format." Andrew Sarris, excerpt from Rod Serling: Viewed from beyond the Twilight Zone

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November 20 - 1959 - Burgess Meredith - David Copperfield - Nuclear holocaust - H-bomb - Andrew Sarris

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