Nightmare as a Child
- Episode aired Apr 29, 1960
- TV-PG
- 25m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
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A schoolteacher keeps seeing a strange little girl in her apartment building.A schoolteacher keeps seeing a strange little girl in her apartment building.A schoolteacher keeps seeing a strange little girl in her apartment building.
- Director
- Writer
- Rod Serling(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaActing debut of Morgan Brittany. She was uncredited even though she had several lines near the end as the little girl with the doll.
- GoofsWhen Markie and Helen are arguing about Markie's real name, Terry Burnham mouths Janice Rule's lines "Understand what?" along with her in between her own before a cut to her close-up.
- Quotes
Narrator: [Opening Narration] Month of November, hot chocolate, and a small cameo of a child's face, imperfect only in its solemnity. And these are the improbable ingredients to a human emotion, an emotion, say, like - fear. But in a moment this woman, Helen Foley, will realize fear. She will understand what are the properties of terror. A little girl will lead her by the hand and walk with her into a nightmare.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: Nightmare as a Child (2020)
Featured review
Out of the past
Janice Rule stars in this Twilight Zone story about a woman who has blocked out
a memory of a terrible tragedy from her childhood. She went away after the
murder of her mother, but now is back and is actually teaching grade school.
Outside her apartment she meets a most strange little girl played by Terry Burnham who keeps bringing up some repressed memories of what happened. Just in time as Sheppard Strudwick who knew her back as a child and exudes more and more menace as the episode goes on.
It's rather obvious what's going on here, still Rule, Burnham, and Strudwick deliver some fine performances.
Outside her apartment she meets a most strange little girl played by Terry Burnham who keeps bringing up some repressed memories of what happened. Just in time as Sheppard Strudwick who knew her back as a child and exudes more and more menace as the episode goes on.
It's rather obvious what's going on here, still Rule, Burnham, and Strudwick deliver some fine performances.
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Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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