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Opening Day (The Twilight Zone)
"Opening Day" is the third and final segment of the tenth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series '' The Twilight Zone''. In this segment, a man plots to kill his lover's husband so he can marry her, but steps into an altered reality where his role seems to be swapped with that of his victim. Plot During a party, a wealthy socialite named Sally Wilkerson coaxes her lover Joe Farrell to murder her husband Carl during a duck hunt planned for the next morning. Joe has reservations because he has never killed anyone before and Carl is his friend, but Sally says this is the only way they can be together. During the hunt, Carl tells Joe how much he appreciates his friendship. When Carl turns to shoot at some ducks, Joe slams his rifle butt into Carl's head, knocking him into the lake. Joe repeatedly hits Carl until he is dead. The police arrive. Joe tells them that Carl was knocked into the water by his rifle's recoil, and that he unsuccessfully tried to h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Twilight Zone (1985 TV Series)
''The Twilight Zone'' is an anthology television series which was constructed from September 27, 1985 to April 15, 1989. It is the first of three revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1959–64 television series, and like the original it featured a variety of speculative fiction, commonly containing characters from a seemingly normal world stumbling into paranormal circumstances. Unlike the original, however, most episodes contained multiple self-contained stories instead of just one. The voice-over narrations were still present, but were not a regular feature as they were in the original series; some episodes had only an opening narration, some had only a closing narration, and some had no narration at all. The multi-segment format liberated the series from the usual time constraints of episodic television, allowing stories ranging in length from 8-minutes to 40-minute mini-movies. The series ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication. Series hist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |