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Miniature ()

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  • Season 4
  • Episode 8
Mousey misfit Charley Parkes finds the world unfolding before him in a museum doll house to be more real than his boring job and overbearing mother.
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Charley Parkes
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Mrs. Parkes
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Myra Russell
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Dr. Wallman
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Buddy Russell
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Guard
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Diemel
Joan Chambers ...
Harriet
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Guide
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The Suitor
Nina Roman ...
The Maid
Claire Griswold ...
The Doll
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Office Worker (uncredited)
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Narrator / Self - Host (uncredited)

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Walter Grauman ... (as Walter E. Grauman)

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Charles Beaumont ... (written by)
 
Rod Serling ... (created by) (creator)

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Murray Golden ... associate producer
Herbert Hirschman ... producer

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Fred Steiner

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Robert Pittack ... director of photography

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Edward Curtiss ... (as Edw. Curtiss)

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Edward C. Carfagno ... (as Edward Carfagno)
George W. Davis

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Henry Grace
Don Greenwood Jr.

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Ralph W. Nelson ... production manager

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Ray DeCamp ... assistant director (as Ray De Camp)

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Joe Edmondson ... sound
Franklin Milton ... sound

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

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Fred Steiner ... conductor
Marius Constant ... composer: theme music (uncredited)

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John Conwell ... assistant to producer
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  • CBS (1963) (United States) (tv) (original airing)
  • Image Entertainment (2011) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)

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Plot Summary

Charley Parkes is a thirty and something years old clerk with a tedious job that lives with his mother Mrs. Parkes, who treats him like a boy. One day, he visits the County Museum and feels attracted by a woman in miniature named Alice. He overhears a song played by her in the piano, but the security guard tells him that it is impossible since the miniatures are wooden made without any mechanism. When he returns to his job, his chief fires him since he is a weird and antisocial man and has no teamwork with his colleagues. Soon Charley becomes fascinated by the doll and instead of looking for another job, he spends his days talking to the miniature doll. Until his family interns him in a psychiatric clinic. Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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  • Miniature (United States)
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  • 51 min
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Trivia Because of a lawsuit, this episode was not included in the syndication package for The Twilight Zone. It was finally re-aired in 1984 as "The Miniature" (see Alternate Versions). See more »
Goofs The miniaturized piano would only be able to produce very high notes because of the short length of its strings. (The mass and tension of the string also affect the pitch produced, but the strings could not be made massive and loose enough to compensate for the short length.) See more »
Movie Connections Featured in Miniature (2023). See more »
Soundtracks Twilight Zone Theme See more »
Quotes Narrator: [Opening Narration] To the average person, a museum is a place of knowledge, a place of beauty and truth and wonder. Some people come to study, others to contemplate, others to look for the sheer joy of looking. Charley Parkes has his own reasons. He comes to the museum to get away from the world. It isn't really the sixty-cent cafeteria meal that has drawn him here every day, it's the fact that here in these strange, cool halls, he can be alone for a little while, really and truly alone. Anyway, that's how it was before he got lost and wandered into - The Twilight Zone.
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