Perchance to Dream
- Episode aired Nov 27, 1959
- TV-PG
- 25m
A fatigued man fights to stay awake as he explains to a psychiatrist that if he falls asleep it will trigger a nightmare, which will cause his heart to fail.A fatigued man fights to stay awake as he explains to a psychiatrist that if he falls asleep it will trigger a nightmare, which will cause his heart to fail.A fatigued man fights to stay awake as he explains to a psychiatrist that if he falls asleep it will trigger a nightmare, which will cause his heart to fail.
- Girlie Barker
- (uncredited)
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Man on Street
- (uncredited)
- Rifle Range Barker
- (uncredited)
- Roller Coaster Operator
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Charles Beaumont
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe title of the episode, and the Charles Beaumont-written short story that inspired it, is taken from William Shakespeare's Hamlet's "to be or not to be" speech. "To sleep, perchance to dream-ay, there's the rub." The very next line, "For in that sleep of death what dreams may come," was used by fellow The Twilight Zone (1959) writer Richard Matheson as the title of his novel/movie What Dreams May Come (1998).
- Goofs(at round 1 min) During Rod Serling's monologue, people come and go through a revolving door. One lady exiting the building slows the revolving door by putting her hand through where the glass pane should be.
- Quotes
Edward Hall: You mind if I walk around a bit? It's the only way I can stay awake.
Dr. Rathmann: Stand on your head, if you think it'll help.
[Hall laughs]
Dr. Rathmann: What's funny?
Edward Hall: You are. Are you sure you're a psychiatrist?
Dr. Rathmann: Why do you ask?
Edward Hall: I don't know. I guess I expected something different.
Dr. Rathmann: Like an old man with a white beard and a German accent?
Edward Hall: Maybe.
Dr. Rathmann: I know. It's what everybody expects, and they're always disappointed.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: Perchance To Dream (2020)
- Coventry
- May 5, 2016
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1