The Twilight Zone (TV Series)
Nightmare as a Child (1960)
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- TV-PG
- 25min
- Drama, Fantasy
- 29 Apr 1960
- TV Episode
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Rod Serling | ... |
Narrator (voice)
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Janice Rule | ... |
Helen Foley
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Shepperd Strudwick | ... |
Peter Selden
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Terry Burnham | ... |
Markie
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Michael Fox | ... |
Doctor
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Joseph V. Perry | ... |
Police Lieutenant
(as Joe Perry)
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Morgan Brittany | ... |
Little Girl (uncredited)
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Directed by
Alvin Ganzer |
Written by
Rod Serling | ... | (written by) |
Rod Serling | ... | (created by) (uncredited) (creator) |
Produced by
Buck Houghton | ... | producer |
Rod Serling | ... | executive producer: Cayuga Productions |
Music by
Jerry Goldsmith |
Cinematography by
George T. Clemens | ... | director of photography |
Editing by
Bill Mosher |
Art Direction by
George W. Davis | ||
Merrill Pye |
Set Decoration by
F. Keogh Gleason | ... | (as Keogh Gleason) |
Henry Grace |
Production Management
Ralph W. Nelson | ... | production manager |
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Donald C. Klune | ... | assistant director (as Don Klune) |
Sound Department
Franklin Milton | ... | sound (as Frank Milton) |
Philip Mitchell | ... | sound |
Van Allen James | ... | sound effects editor (uncredited) |
Animation Department
Sam Clayberger | ... | background artist- opening title sequence (uncredited) / layout artist- title sequence (uncredited) |
Rudy Larriva | ... | animator/animation director - opening titles (uncredited) |
Joe Messerli | ... | effects painter-title sequence (uncredited) |
Additional Crew
Herbert Klynn | ... | title designer (uncredited) |
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- CBS (1960) (United States) (tv) (original airing)
- Image Entertainment (2010) (United States) (Blu-ray) (DVD)
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- Pacific Title (titles and opticals)
Storyline
Plot Summary |
Helen Foley is a school teacher who when arriving home one day meets a little girl, Markie, sitting on the steps just outside her apartment door. Helen invites her in and gives her a cup of hot cocoa. Strangely however, Markie seems to know a great deal about her - that she doesn't like marshmallows in her cocoa or that she has a scar on her elbow. She also knows what Helen did earlier that day including seeing a somewhat familiar man, Peter Selden, behind the wheel of a car. When Selden arrives at her apartment a few moments later he says he worked for her mother but Helen has no memory of what happened to her mother all those years ago. As her memories return however, she finds herself in grave danger. Written by garykmcd |
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Did You Know?
Trivia | Acting debut of Morgan Brittany. She was uncredited even though she had several lines near the end as the little girl with the doll. See more » |
Goofs | When 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. See more » |
Movie Connections | Edited into Nightmare as a Child (2020). See more » |
Soundtracks | Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star See more » |
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. See more » |