S1E13
Night of the Meek / But Can She Type? / The Star
The Twilight Zone · 1985-12-20 · 49 min
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COMMUNITY
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what happens
A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who go gift less and starving during Christmas. He is fired from his job at a department store when he shows up late, and subsequently finds a bag that he can pull any present anyone wants from it. An overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated secretary uses a Xerox machine and wakes up in a parallel reality where no one has heard of her. In this reality, however, secretaries are a revered, rare commodity. Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a planet long dead and a transmitter emitting a signal for eons. They discover that the planet holds the last remains of a civilization, which died when their star went supernova.
nobody has mapped this one
We draw an episode's shape from public discussion of it, and there isn't enough about this one to draw anything honest. Forty-five seconds with the dial and it has a curve.
rate S1E13 →who made it
- directed
- Gerd Oswald, Martha Coolidge
- written
- Alan Brennert, Martin Pasko, Rockne S. O'Bannon, Rod Serling
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Ken Sagoes as (segment "But Can She Type?")
Fritz Weaver as (segment "The Star")
Jonathan Frakes as Steve (segment "But Can She Type?")
Donald Moffat as (segment "The Star")
Richard Mulligan as (segment "Night of the Meek")
Larenz Tate as (segment "Night of the Meek")
Jeannie Elias as (segment "But Can She Type?")
William Atherton as Brian Wolfe (segment "Night of the Meek")