She was the only person in the history of the original twilight zone to have acted in one episode and directed another. I am the night, color me black has a reputation as being an example of serling at his. Meredith as henry bemis, a man who only wants time to read his beloved books. Wealthy jason foster is dying and he invites his greedy heirs to a mardi gras party where they must wear the masks he specially had made for them or else be cut off from their inheritance.
April 24, 1964 some justice to mete out the twilight zone. Bemis lives to read and rejoices, perhaps prematurely, when a nuclear attack leaves him the sole survivor in a sea of books. The episode was adapted from a short story written by lynn venable pen name of marilyn venable. The second episode were going to be learning from is the masks s5e25. The only twilight zone episode directed by a woman, the masks is also one of the grimmest tales ever told about inner ugliness. Why ida lupino was such a groundbreaker for women in scifi syfy. Why the twilight zones the monsters are due on maple street is sadly still essential viewing. In the twilight zone, the fifth season episode the masks takes this idea. Mardi gras gets the twilight zone treatment, with a dash of knives out, as very wealthy, very terminallyill man invites his greedy family over to settle his affairs. Over the years, rod serlings twilight zone series would often tell stories about the. The four rejoice in their newly inherited wealth and unmask, but discover to their horror that. With robert keith, milton selzer, virginia gregg, brooke hayward.
Robert keith in the twilight zone 1959 milton selzer in the twilight zone. The twilight zone radio dramas audible audiobook original recording rod serling. Battlestar galacticast jabba the pod project blue book. Jason informs them that their inheritance is still written in the will but on one condition, that they. Welcome back to learning the lessons of the twilight zone. Actressturneddirector ida lupino and star of the twilight zones. Alan sues who swoop to his deathbed like vultures catching the whiff of inheritance. Worlds of science fiction about seven years before the television episode first aired. The masks was directed by ida lupino, who had starred in the firstseason episode the sixteenmillimeter shrine.
The masks is episode 145 of the american television series the twilight zone. Each of the masks is meant to reflect some aspect of their personality and. There are hundreds of classic twilight zone episodes. It is the only episode directed by a woman and lupino is the only person to have appeared in an episode and to direct an episode. The twilight zone episode the masks airs 1964 ida lupino directed this classic episode of the twilight zone, the masks which first aired march 20, 1964. The short story appeared in the january 1953 edition of the science fiction magazine if. He insists that they all don grotesque masks that match their uniquely terrible personality traits if they dont, they wont see a dime of their inheritance. Forced to wear hideous masks until midnight to get their inheritance, the family starts. A man with a bad heart fears a recurring nightmare will kill him, and when his dream and reality become indistinguishable, his fate appears sealed. Time enough at last is the eighth episode of the american television anthology series the twilight zone. If any of them removes their mask before then, they will forfeit the inheritance, and be sent away. She was also the only woman to direct an episode of the twilight zone.