The After Hours
- Episode aired Jun 10, 1960
- TV-PG
- 25m
IMDb RATING
8.4/10
4.6K
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A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.
- Director
- Writer
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaOne of four The Twilight Zone (1959) episodes to include an eye, not a spiral, at the introduction. The other three are Mr. Bevis (1960), A World of His Own (1960), and The Mighty Casey (1960).
- GoofsThe closing narration mentions that Marsha turns human for one month every year. However, only one mannequin turns human every month without repeats and twelve other mannequins are already present when Marsha is welcomed back, so the numbers don't work out.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Closing Narration] Marsha White in her normal and natural state: a wooden lady with a painted face, who, one month out of the year, takes on the characteristics of someone as normal and as flesh and blood as you and I. But it makes you wonder, doesn't it? Just how normal are we? Just who are the people we nod our hellos to as we pass on the street? A rather good question to ask - particularly in The Twilight Zone.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: The After Hours (2021)
Featured review
Beware the 9th Floor
I saw this episode when I was about 12 years old, and it is one of the Twilight Zone episodes which has been etched in my consciousness as an almost archetypal story. Without giving the plot away, suffice it to say that the combination of a large urban department store, darkness, and a plethora of life-like manikens would be frightening even without the added twists.
When our heroine, a young female shopper, goes to look for a present for her mother and winds up on the 9th floor of an 8-story department store, the real weirdness begins.
Anne Francis is both lovely and convincingly bewildered as the eerie plot unfolds. While the episode is creepy and scary, it also has a certain humor and "humanity" which in the end relieve the tension in an entertaining and ultimately satisfying way.
This is the Twilight Zone at its very best.
When our heroine, a young female shopper, goes to look for a present for her mother and winds up on the 9th floor of an 8-story department store, the real weirdness begins.
Anne Francis is both lovely and convincingly bewildered as the eerie plot unfolds. While the episode is creepy and scary, it also has a certain humor and "humanity" which in the end relieve the tension in an entertaining and ultimately satisfying way.
This is the Twilight Zone at its very best.
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- philhodgman
- Dec 31, 2007
Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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