![]() ![]() 43 DVD under its alternate title, "The Private World of Darkness", along with the alternate version of " Where Is Everybody?", " A World of His Own" and " A Thing About Machines". ![]() This episode is included on the Image Entertainment Vol. Corporation, The ( 2008) (France) (DVD).Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS) ( 1959) (USA) (TV) (original airing).Columbia Broadcasting System ( CBS) (in association with).Donna Douglas as Janet Tyler (unmasked).Maxine Stuart as Janet Tyler (under bandages).Thank you and good night." Themes Critical Response Background Information Cast Richard Matheson and you're invited to partake of it. A most intriguing tale called " The Nick of Time" by Mr. You put a penny in.and out comes a card, only this particular machine which you'll see next week is a little bit unique in that the fortunes that it tells happen to come true. "You've probably run across these penny-machines that tell your fortune. Lesson to be learned - in The Twilight Zone." Preview for Next Week's Story On this planet or wherever there is human life, perhaps out amongst the stars. Beauty *is* in the eye of the beholder, in this year or a hundred years hence. Because the old saying happens to be true. "Now the questions that come to mind: 'Where is this place, and when is it?' 'What kind of world where ugliness is the norm and beauty the deviation from that norm?' You want an answer? The answer is, it doesn't make any difference. Before the two leave, the man comforts Tyler, saying that "beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Flat-screen television screens throughout the hospital project an image of the State's despotic leader giving a speech calling for greater conformity.Įventually, a handsome man (by our standards) afflicted with the same "condition" arrives to take the crying, despondent Tyler into exile to a village of her "own kind", where her "ugliness" will not trouble the State. Distraught by the failure of the procedure, Tyler runs through the hospital as the faces of everyone she runs into, the norm in this society, are revealed. The camera pulls back to reveal that she is actually beautiful.Īt this point, the doctor, nurses and other people in the hospital are revealed to be horribly deformed from our perspective, with large, thick brows, sunken eyes, swollen and twisted lips, and wrinkled, pig-like snouts. ![]() The procedure has failed, and her face has undergone "no change-no change at all". The reaction of the doctor and nurses is horror and disappointment. After a climactic buildup, the bandages are removed. Tyler pleads with the doctor and eventually convinces him to remove the bandages early. The outcome of the procedure cannot be known until the bandages are removed. She is described as being "not normal" by the nurses and doctor, whose own faces are always in shadows or off-camera. The details of the treatment are not given, but Tyler is first shown with her head completely bandaged so that her face cannot be seen. Janet Tyler has undergone her eleventh treatment (the maximum number legally allowed) in an attempt to look like everybody else. This happens to be The Twilight Zone, and Miss Janet Tyler, with you, is about to enter it." Episode Summary In a moment, we'll go back into this room, and also in a moment, we'll look under those bandages, keeping in mind, of course, that we're not to be surprised by what we see, because this isn't just a hospital, and this patient 307 is not just a woman. While she deals with the doctors and nurses in the hospital, we see her head wrapped completely in bandages."Suspended in time and space for a moment, your introduction to Miss Janet Tyler, who lives in a very private world of darkness, a universe whose dimensions are the size, thickness, length of a swath of bandages that cover her face. The episode recounted the recovery of a woman named Janet Tyler after a series of medical procedures attempting to fix a face that has apparently been completely deformed. In fact, it was one of the best, and most memorable, twist endings in the show’s history. But unlike “Hillbillies,” where her good looks were used as a punch line, here they became part of a ghoulish twist. The episode aired in 1960, years before “The Beverly Hillbillies” in 1962. It was her first, but not her only, trip to “The Twilight Zone.”ĭouglas appeared for just a few minutes in the final moments of the second season episode, “The Eye of the Beholder,” written by series creator Rod Serling. Donna Douglas, who died Thursday, found lasting fame in her role as Elly May Clampett on the CBS sitcom “The Beverly Hillbillies.” But it was a small role she had two years before that has arguably had a more lasting impact. ![]()
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