S1E20
Profile in Silver / Button, Button
The Twilight Zone · 1986-03-07 · 49 min
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what happens
A researcher from the future, a descendent of President John F. Kennedy goes back in time to witness his ancestor's death, and inadvertently changes history by saving the President. The researcher accidentally gives away the fact that he is from the future, as Kennedy is "pursued" by a series of hurricanes. A mysterious man offers a couple a bizarre deal: if they will push a button on a box that will kill one person they don't know, they will get a million dollars. After some contemplation, the couple goes ahead and pushes the button. The man tells them that they will indeed get the money. And somewhere, sometime, another couple will get the same box, and the same offer...
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 S1E20 →who made it
- directed
- Peter Medak, John D. Hancock
- written
- Richard Matheson, J. Neil Schulman
guest cast
Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.
Andrew Robinson as (segment "Profile in Silver")
Mare Winningham as Norma Lewis (segment "Button, Button")
Lane Smith as (segment "Profile in Silver")
Brad Davis as Arthur Lewis (segment "Button, Button")
Basil Hoffman as Mr. Steward (segment "Button, Button")
Jerry Hardin as (segment "Profile in Silver")
Barbara Baxley as (segment "Profile in Silver")
Louis Giambalvo as (segment "Profile in Silver")