Examination Day/A Message from Charity
- Episode aired Nov 1, 1985
- TV-PG
- 48m
Puritan Charity Payne in the year 1700 and modern teenager Peter Wood, residents of the same Massachusetts town, are psychically connected due to delirium induced by a bacterial infection, a... Read allPuritan Charity Payne in the year 1700 and modern teenager Peter Wood, residents of the same Massachusetts town, are psychically connected due to delirium induced by a bacterial infection, and can see the world through each other's eyes.Puritan Charity Payne in the year 1700 and modern teenager Peter Wood, residents of the same Massachusetts town, are psychically connected due to delirium induced by a bacterial infection, and can see the world through each other's eyes.
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- Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity")
- (as Duncan McNeil)
- Pilgrim
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- Rod Serling
- Philip DeGuere Jr.(segment Examination Day)
- Henry Slesar(segment Examination Day)
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Storyline
Did you know
- Trivia"Examination Day" has no narration, at either the beginning or the end. "A Message from Charity" has no opening narration.
- GoofsCharity refers to 1700 as being the first year of the 18th Century. However, it was the last year of the 17th Century.
- Quotes
Narrator (segment "A Message from Charity"): [closing narration for "A Message from Charity"] He reached out with his mind, searching for some trace of her... but found only silence. Peter Wood was alone...
Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity"): [one year later at school, Peter is finishing his talk to his friends] I got to go. I got trig at one. I'll see you later
Narrator (segment "A Message from Charity"): A new year with new friends and a new confidence and, in time, he began to doubt whether it had ever really happened. Until, one day...
Charity Payne (segment "A Message from Charity"): Peter
Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity"): Charity.
Charity Payne (segment "A Message from Charity"): Hi. For a minute, please Peter. Only for a minute. But I had to tell you, there is a message.
Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity"): A what?
Charity Payne (segment "A Message from Charity"): Look at Bear Rock, Peter. Under the bear's jaw on the left side.
Peter Wood (segment "A Message from Charity"): Charity.
[Peter then runs to Bear Rock]
Narrator (segment "A Message from Charity"): Harmon Brook is very different today. Its waters not quite as pure, its banks lined with tract homes and shopping centers. But Bear Rock is still there. And so is a message, a message from a girl long gone, and yet, not really gone in heart and mind. A last remembrance of friendship and first love.
[Peter finds Charity's message chiseled into Bear Rock which is a Valentine-like heart with the initials "PW + CP"]
Narrator (segment "A Message from Charity"): A love that will live, only and always... in the Twilight Zone.
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