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No Time Like the Past ()

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  • Season 4
  • Episode 10
A scientist attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies, both in world history and in his own past.
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Paul Driscoll
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Abigail Sloan
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Prof. Eliot
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Hanford
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Horn Player
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Bartender (as Lindsay Workman)
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Mrs. Chamberlain
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Captain of Lusitania
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Japanese Police Captain
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Harvey
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Fire Spectator Restraining Driscoll (uncredited)
Peter Humphreys ...
Steward on Lusitania (uncredited)
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Man Hearing About Garfield (uncredited)
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Narrator / Self - Host (uncredited)
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Man at Dining Room Table (uncredited)

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Justus Addiss

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

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Murray Golden ... associate producer

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Robert Pittack ... director of photography

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Eda Warren

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George W. Davis
William Ferrari

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Henry Grace
Edward M. Parker

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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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Marius Constant ... composer: theme music (uncredited)
René Garriguenc ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Jerry Goldsmith ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Pierre Henry ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Bernard Herrmann ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Nathan Scott ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Tak Shinda ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Fred Steiner ... composer: stock music (uncredited)
Van Cleave ... composer: stock 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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Paul Driscoll does not much like the way the 20th century has developed thus far and decides to go back in time to change mankind's future. He first travels to Hiroshima and tries to warn an English-speaking policeman of what is to come, but to no avail. He then travels to Nazi Germany and attempts to assassinate Adolf Hitler but is thwarted when his rifle misfires. He then finds himself aboard the Lusitania but again is unable to convince the ship's captain to alter course before it is torpedoed. When he returns to the present, he agrees with his colleague Harvey that the past cannot be changed. He still does not like the present, so decides to go back to July 1881 to live his life in the small town of Homeville, Indiana. Unfortunately he learns yet again that past events cannot be changed. Written by garykmcd

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Trivia The small town set is the same as that used in A Stop at Willoughby (1960). See more »
Goofs The U-boat that launches the torpedo at the RMS Lusitania has a spinning sonar mast, unlikely for a submarine in 1915. Obviously it is stock footage of more contemporary vintage to 1963. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in No Time Like the Past (2023). See more »
Soundtracks Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean See more »
Quotes Hanford: [at dinner] ... So what are your world views, Driscoll?
Paul Driscoll: ...I don't have any, Mr. Hanford.
Hanford: Of course you do, man. We ALL do! Like all this nonsense about giving the Indians land. What we need are twenty General Custers and a hundred thousand men! What we should have done is swept across the prairie, destroying every redskin that stood before us. Then we should have planted the American flag deep, high, and proud!
Abigail Sloan: I think the country is tired of fighting, Mr. Hanford. I think we were bled dry by the Indian Wars. I think anything we can accomplish peacefully, with treaties, we should... so long as it saves lives.
Hanford: Now, I trust this isn't the path you spoon-feed your students. Treaties, indeed! Peace, indeed! Why, the virility of a nation is in direct proportion to its military prowess. I *live* for the day when this country SWEEPS AWAY...
[notices Driscoll's disapproving look]
Hanford: ... You some kind of a pacifist, Driscoll?
Paul Driscoll: No, just some sick idiot who's seen too many boys die because of too many men who fight their battles at dining room tables... and who probably wouldn't last so long as twenty-five seconds in a REAL skirmish if they WERE thrust into it.
Hanford: ...I take offense at that remark, Mr. Driscoll!
Paul Driscoll: And I take offense at "armchair warriors" like yourself - who clearly don't know what a shrapnel, or a bullet, or a saber wound feels like... or what death smells like after three days on an empty, sun-drenched battlefield... who've never seen the look on a man's face when he realizes he's lost a limb, and his blood is seeping out. Mr. Hanford, you have a great enthusiasm for "planting the American flag deep, high, and proud." But you don't have a nodding acquaintance with what it's like for American families to bury their sons in the same soil!
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