A toy telephone becomes the link between a young boy and his dead grandmother.A toy telephone becomes the link between a young boy and his dead grandmother.A toy telephone becomes the link between a young boy and his dead grandmother.
Bill Mumy
- Billy Bayles
- (as Billy Mumy)
Arch Johnson
- Fireman
- (uncredited)
Robert McCord
- 1st Fireman
- (uncredited)
Jutta Parr
- Nurse
- (uncredited)
Rod Serling
- Narrator
- (uncredited)
- …
James Turley
- 2nd Fireman
- (uncredited)
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- TriviaThe original script called for 6-year-old Bill Mumy's character to be found floating face down in the decorative pond behind the house. However, the child actor's mother refused to allow her son to participate in a drowning scene. Director James Sheldon modified the shot to show only the father reaching into the pond to pull Billy out, carefully filmed to exclude having to show the boy. Says Mumy, "I wanted to do it. I was a very good swimmer, but Mom was terrified I'd get some weird ideas about suicide if I did."
- Quotes
[closing narration]
Narrator: A toy telephone, an act of faith, a set of improbable circumstances, all combine to probe a mystery, to fathom a depth, to send a facet of light into a dark after-region, to be believed or disbelieved, depending on your frame of reference. A fact or a fantasy, a substance or a shadow - but all of it very much a part of The Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: Long Distance Call (2021)
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More Than Meets the Ear
I saw this when it first appeared back in the early '60s and it had the entire family riveted to the set. Back in those days, there weren't any doom-ridden voice-overs with the endless (and sometimes pointless) morals that inevitably followed. It was a beautifully thought-out episode with three-dimensional characters and their unexpected interactions, The grandmother who gave her grandson the toy phone was unlikeable to begin with, selfish and completely wrapped up in herself. The father had all the answers, none of them right and the wife was quite upset, of course. I particularly enjoyed the part where she grabs the phone from her son and thinks she might have heard something from the other side... The ending could have benefited from some tidying up, perhaps and something less histrionic but please remember I'm recalling something from a long time back. I haven't seen it since. That's precisely how affecting it was!
Curtis Stotlar
Curtis Stotlar
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- Nov 25, 2010
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- Runtime25 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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