No Time Like the Past

No Time Like the Past: "No Time Like the Past"

The Twilight Zone episode

Scene from "No Time Like the Past"

Episode no. Season 4
Episode 112

Directed by Justus Addiss

Written by Rod Serling

Production code 4853

Original air date March 7, 1963

Guest stars

Dana Andrews: Paul Driscoll
Patricia Breslin: Abigail Sloan
Robert F. Simon: Harvey
Malcolm Atterbury: Professor Eliot
Marjorie Bennett: Mrs. Chamberlain
John Zaremba: Horn Player

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"No Time Like the Past" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Contents

1 Synopsis

2 References

3 See also

4 External links

Synopsis

Paul Driscoll uses a time machine with the noble intention to go back in time and alter past events (in such a way as to minimize the loss of human life). After failing to warn a Hiroshima police captain about the atomic bomb, failing to assassinate Adolf Hitler (in August 1939 immediately before the outbreak of World War II in September 1939), and failing to change the course of the Lusitania to avoid being torpedoed (by a World War I German U-boat), he accepts the hypothesis that the past cannot be changed. He then uses the time machine to journey to the town of Homeville, Indiana in 1881 (with the intention of escaping and living out a quiet, uncomplicated life). He then realizes that President James A. Garfield will get shot the next day. However, he allows the assassination to happen. After reading in a history book that Homeville's schoolhouse will burn down because of a kerosene lantern ejected from a runaway wagon, he spots the wagon and attempts to prevent this event from occurring. But instead he causes the fire he intended to prevent. He returns to his own time, having learned not to tamper with the past.

References

DeVoe, Bill. (2008). Trivia from The Twilight Zone. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360

Grams, Martin. (2008). The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090

See also

Fatalism

External links

"No Time Like the Past" at the Internet Movie Database

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Season 1

"Where Is Everybody?"

"One for the Angels"

"Mr. Denton on Doomsday"

"The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine"

"Walking Distance"

"Escape Clause"

"The Lonely"

"Time Enough at Last"

"Perchance to Dream"

"Judgement Night"

"And When the Sky Was Opened"

"What You Need"

"The Four of Us Are Dying"

"Third from the Sun"

"I Shot an Arrow into the Air"

"The Hitch-Hiker"

"The Fever"

"The Last Flight"

"The Purple Testament"

"Elegy"

"Mirror Image"

"The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

"A World of Difference"

"Long Live Walter Jameson"

"People Are Alike All Over"

"Execution"

"The Big Tall Wish"

"A Nice Place to Visit"

"Nightmare as a Child"

"A Stop at Willoughby"

"The Chaser"

"A Passage for Trumpet"

"Mr. Bevis"

"The After Hours"

"The Mighty Casey"

"A World of His Own"

Season 2

"King Nine Will Not Return"

"The Man in the Bottle"

"Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room"

"A Thing About Machines"

"The Howling Man"

"The Eye of the Beholder"

"Nick of Time"

"The Lateness of the Hour"

"The Trouble With Templeton"

"A Most Unusual Camera"

"The Night of the Meek"

"Dust"

"Back There"

"The Whole Truth"

"The Invaders"

"A Penny for Your Thoughts"

"Twenty Two"

"The Odyssey of Flight 33"

"Mr. Dingle, the Strong"

"Static"

"The Prime Mover"

"Long Distance Call"

"A Hundred Yards Over the Rim"

"The Rip Van Winkle Caper"

"The Silence"

"Shadow Play"

"The Mind and the Matter"

"Will the Real Martian Please Stand Up?"

"The Obsolete Man"

Season 3

"Two"

"The Arrival"

"The Shelter"

"The Passersby"

"A Game of Pool"

"The Mirror"

"The Grave"

"It's a Good Life"

"Deaths-Head Revisited"

"The Midnight Sun"

"Still Valley"

"The Jungle"

"Once Upon a Time"

"Five Characters in Search of an Exit"

"A Quality of Mercy"

"Nothing in the Dark"

"One More Pallbearer"

"Dead Man's Shoes"

"The Hunt"

"Showdown with Rance McGrew"

"Kick the Can"

"A Piano in the House"

"The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank"

"To Serve Man"

"The Fugitive"

"Little Girl Lost"

"Person or Persons Unknown"

"The Little People"

"Four O'Clock"

"Hocus-Pocus and Frisby"

"The Trade-Ins"

"The Gift"

"The Dummy"

"Young Man's Fancy"

"I Sing the Body Electric"

"Cavender Is Coming"

"The Changing of the Guard"

Season 4

"In His Image"

"The Thirty-Fathom Grave"

"Valley of the Shadow"

"He's Alive"

"Mute"

"Death Ship"

"Jess-Belle"

"Miniature"

"Printer's Devil"

"No Time Like the Past"

"The Parallel"

"I Dream of Genie"

"The New Exhibit"

"Of Late I Think of Cliffordville"

"The Incredible World of Horace Ford"

"On Thursday We Leave for Home"

"Passage on the Lady Anne"

"The Bard"

Season 5

"In Praise of Pip"

"Steel"

"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"

"A Kind of a Stopwatch"

"The Last Night of a Jockey"

"Living Doll"

"The Old Man in the Cave"

"Uncle Simon"

"Probe 7, Over and Out"

"The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms"

"A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain"

"Ninety Years Without Slumbering"

"Ring-a-Ding Girl"

"You Drive"

"The Long Morrow"

"The Self-Improvement of Salvadore Ross"

"Number 12 Looks Just Like You"

"Black Leather Jackets"

"Night Call"

"From Agnes—With Love"

"Spur of the Moment"

"An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge"

"Queen of the Nile"

"What's in the Box"

"The Masks"

"I Am the Night—Color Me Black"

"Sounds and Silences"

"Caesar and Me"

"The Jeopardy Room"

"Stopover in a Quiet Town"

"The Encounter"

"Mr. Garrity and the Graves"

"The Brain Center at Whipple's"

"Come Wander With Me"

"The Fear"

"The Bewitchin' Pool"

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1963 television episodes
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