The Ninth Floor Twilight Zone

This happens to be the twilight zone.

The ninth floor twilight zone.

Stream it here. A short clip from the twilight zone season one classic episode the after hours 1959. Marsha white anne francis browsing for a gift for her mother in a department store decides on a gold thimble. The twilight zone often stumbled when it tackled history some of those episodes have not aged well but this journey into the closing days of world war ii still has power.

She s taken by the elevator man to the ninth floor although the elevator s floor indicator only shows eight floors. Express elevator to the ninth floor of a department store carrying miss marsha white on a most prosaic ordinary run of the mill errand. No not that one the old twilight zone one is probably somewhere close. A woman is treated badly by some odd salespeople on an otherwise empty department store floor.

Miss marsha white on the ninth floor specialties department looking for a gold thimble the odds are that she ll find it but there are even better odds that she ll find something else because this isn t just a department store. She walks out onto the ninth floor and turns to complain to the. She buys it although the saleslady who appears familiar is extremely rude. The way she scurries about the floor so ominous and dark no escape it reminded me of how well the twilight zone could grip and compel me.

Ask someone what the twilight zone s most iconic episode is and the first ones you ll likely hear are t o serve man or time enough at last maybe not by name but by the cookbook one or the one with the broken glasses but the after hours season one s thirty fourth episode the one about the mannequi n. Directed by douglas heyes. From the cbs video library cover. The after hours is the thirty fourth episode of the the twilight zone.

When marsha white gets off the express elevator on the ninth floor of the department store she finds it a desolate place where the lone piece of merchandise is a gold thimble. I felt genuinely eerie and didn t envy francis all alone on that floor trapped with those lifeless painted wooden bodies the eyes of mannequins alone cause the hairs on my arms to stand up. As marsha returns to the first.