Time Enough At Last
Henry Bemis (Burgess Meredith) loves to read but has trouble finding the time to read. He tries reading at home but his wife gets in the way. He tries reading at work but his boss gets in the way.
Henry is on his lunch break in the vault of the bank where he works. When a hydrogen bomb falls on the city where he lives, leveling it. He survives but everyone else is killed. The city is in ruins.
Henry finds enough food to last him for years but he doesn't find any other survivors. He is depressed. He finds a gun and is contemplating killing himself but then he notices that he is right next to what is left of the public library.
Henry finds lots of books to read. He is happy once again but then he drops his glasses and they break.
This of the first of four episodes of the Twilight Zone (1959) that starred Burgess Meredith.
This is for the most part a one man show. There are three other actors with speaking parts but they each only appear in one scene while Burgess Meredith is in it from beginning to end.
I want to like this episode more than I do. It has an ironic twist ending but it just doesn't do it for me. There just isn't enough here for me to chew on. According to multiple web sites this is one of the five best episodes of Twilight Zone. I haven't watched many episodes in recent years but I sure hope that there are more than five episodes out there better than this one.
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