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A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain ()

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  • Season 5
  • Episode 11
An aging married man convinces his brother to inject him with a youth serum.
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Harmon Gordon
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Flora Gordon
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Dr. Raymond Gordon
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Bernard Girard

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Rod Serling ... (teleplay by)
 
Lou Holtz ... (based on a story by) (as Lou Holz)
 
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Bert Granet ... producer

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George T. Clemens ... director of photography

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Thomas Scott ... (as Thomas W. Scott)

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Patricia Mock ... (as Patricia Rose)

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George W. Davis
Walter Holscher

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Robert R. Benton
Henry Grace

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Ralph W. Nelson ... production manager

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Charles Bonniwell ... assistant director (as Charles Bonniwell Jr.)

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Franklin Milton ... sound
Philip Mitchell ... sound (as Philip N. Mitchell)

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James V. King ... camera operator (uncredited)

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Bruce Campbell ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Marius Constant ... composer: theme music (uncredited)
Jerry Goldsmith ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
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Harmon Gordon is now quite elderly but is married to Flora, an attractive woman some 40 years younger than him. She's something of a gold digger and is now quite bored with her marriage. Harmon turns to his younger brother Raymond, a medical doctor who has been experimenting with cellular regeneration. Raymond's experiments to date have been on lab animals and he's reluctant to help Harmon as he has no idea what effect his youth serum might have on him. In the end, he administers his serum and by the next day Harmon is a new man, so to speak. Written by garykmcd

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  • A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain (United States)
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  • 25 min
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Trivia Until episodes became available on VHS and DVD, this was one of four "lost" episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) that were not included with syndication packages during the 1960s through the 1980s. The other three were Miniature (1963), Sounds and Silences (1964), and The Encounter (1964). This episode, "Miniature," and "Sounds and Silences" were excluded from the package because of lawsuits that had been filed claiming those episodes were plagiarized. "The Encounter" had drawn complaints of anti-Japanese prejudice and epithets expressed by one of the characters. The episodes were finally re-released for broadcast television in a 1983 special hosted by Patrick O'Neal, the lead actor of "Fountain". See more »
Goofs Young Harmon has shoes on yet their need could not have been anticipated. See more »
Movie Connections References Dr. Kildare (1961). See more »
Soundtracks Twilight Zone Theme See more »
Quotes Dr. Raymond Gordon: I wonder if she has any idea what she's done, even one slight, little suspicion. But I promise you, that if you don't survive or if you're damaged in any way, I'm gonna take it out of her skin, piece by piece. She's gonna donate a pint of blood for every pint that she's bled out of you. That's not a medical hypothesis, that's a promise.
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