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"The New Exhibit"
Series The Twilight Zone
Season 4, Episode 13
Twilight Zone 4x13 001
Air date April 4th, 1963
Writers Charles Beaumont; Jerry Sohl
Story Charles Beaumont
Director John Brahm
Producers Rod Serling; Bert Granet
Starring Martin Balsam; Will Kuluva; Maggie Mahoney; William Mims; Phil Chambers; Lennie Bremen
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"The New Exhibit" is the thirteenth episode of season four of the science fiction anthology series The Twilight Zone, and the 115th episode of the series overall. It was directed by John Brahm with a screenplay written by Charles Beaumont and Jerry Sohl. It first aired on CBS on Thursday, April 4th, 1963.

Cast[]

Starring[]

Actor Role
Martin Balsam Martin Lombard Senescu
Will Kuluva Ernest Ferguson
Maggie Mahoney Margaret Field
William Mims Dave
Phil Chambers Gas man
Lennie Bremen Van man

Guest Starring[]

Actor Role
Ed Barth Sailor
Craig Curtis Sailor
Milton Parsons Henri Désiré Landru
David Bond Jack the Ripper
Bob Mitchell Albert W. Hicks
Robert L. McCord Burke
Billy Beck Hare
Marcel Hillaire The guide

Co-Starring[]

Actor Role
Rod Serling Host

Notes & Trivia[]

  • The Twilight Zone was an American science fiction anthology series created by producer/screenwriter Rod Serling, who also served as host for the series. The original series aired for five seasons between 1959 and 1964 spanning a total of 156 episodes. Each episode was a mixture of self-contained fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist. A popular and critical success, it introduced many Americans to serious science fiction and abstract ideas through television.
  • Charles Beaumont is credited with writing this episode, but the Twilight Zone Companion indicates that the script was actually provided by Jerry Sohl.
  • Actress Margaret Field, who plays Emma Senescu, is credited as Maggie Mahoney in this episode.
  • Actor Leonard Bremen, who plays the van man, is credited as Lennie Bremen in this episode.
  • Actor Eddie Barth, who plays a sailor, is credited as Ed Barth in this episode.
  • Actor Robert McCord, who plays Burke, is credited as Robert L. McCord in this episode.

Allusions[]

  • Jack the Ripper Jack the Ripper is the name attributed to an unidentified serial killer who claimed the lives of at least five women in the Whitechapel district of London, England in the Autumn of 1888. The five women who are considered canonical Ripper victims were all prostitutes working in London's East End and include Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride and Mary Jane Kelly. Several other victims who were murdered around this time have also been linked to Jack the Ripper, but there is not enough evidence to assertively link them to Jack the Ripper. The mystery surrounding the murders and the individual who committed them has sparked the public consciousness and debate rages to this day over the true identity of Jack the Ripper.
  • Henri Désiré Landru was a French serial killer, nicknamed the Bluebeard of Gambais. He murdered at least seven women in the village of Gambais between December 1915 and January 1919. Landru also killed at least three other women and a young man in the house he rented from December 1914 to August 1915 in the town of Vernouillet, a town 35 kilometers northwest of Paris. The true number of Landru's victims is suspected to be higher.

Quotes[]

  • Narrator: Martin Lombard Senescu, a gentle man, the dedicated curator of murderers' row in Ferguson's Wax Museum. He ponders the reasons why ordinary men are driven to commit mass murder. What Mr. Senescu does not know is that the groundwork has already been laid for his own special kind of madness and torment - found only in the Twilight Zone.

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  • Narrator: The new exhibit became very popular at Marchand's, but of all the figures, none was ever regarded with more dread than that of Martin Lombard Senescu. It was something about the eyes, people said. It's the look that one often gets after taking a quick walk - through the Twilight Zone.

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Keywords[]

Axe | Crowbar | Jack the Ripper | Knife | Serial killer | Shovel | Strangulation | Wax museum

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