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Ninety Years Without Slumbering ()

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  • Season 5
  • Episode 12
An old man believes that his life will end the moment his grandfather clock stops ticking.
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Sam Forstmann
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Marnie Kirk
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Doug Kirk (as James Callahan)
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Carol Chase
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Clock Mover
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Policeman
William Sargent ...
Dr. Mel Avery
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Mover (uncredited)
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Roger Kay

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Richard De Roy ... (teleplay by)
 
George Clayton Johnson ... (story by) (as Johnson Smith)
 
Rod Serling ... (created by) (creator)

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William Froug ... producer

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Bernard Herrmann

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Robert Pittack ... director of photography

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Richard V. Heermance ... (as Richard Heermance)

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Patricia Mock ... (as Patricia Rose)

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Malcolm Brown
George W. Davis

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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.)
Carl 'Major' Roup ... second assistant director (uncredited)

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

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

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Bernard Herrmann ... conductor
Marius Constant ... composer: theme music (uncredited)
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Sam Forstman is an old man who lives with his granddaughter Marnie Kirk and her husband Doug. Sam lives a simple life and doesn't sleep much anymore. He's usually up at all hours tinkering on his grandfather clock, something that worries Marnie as his attention to the timepiece verges on the obsessive. The reason for that however is quite simple: he is convinced that should the clock ever stop, he will die. Written by garykmcd

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  • Ninety Years Without Slumbering (United States)
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Trivia William Froug had Richard De Roy rewrite the George Clayton Johnson teleplay "Tick of Time" before it was aired as Ninety Years Without Slumbering (1963). Johnson was displeased with this and ultimately never reconciled with Froug, and never contributed to The Twilight Zone (1959) again. See more »
Goofs The pendulum of the clock would not continue swinging while the clock was tipped back as it was being carried down the stairs. See more »
Movie Connections Remade as Ninety Years Without Slumbering (2005). See more »
Soundtracks My Grandfather's Clock See more »
Quotes Narrator: [Opening Narration] Each man measures his time; some with hope, some with joy, some with fear. But Sam Forstmann measures his allotted time with a grandfather's clock, a unique mechanism whose pendulum swings between life and death, a very special clock that keeps a special kind of time - in the Twilight Zone.
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