"The New Exhibit" | |
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Series The Twilight Zone Season 4, Episode 13 | |
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 |
Episode guide | |
Previous "I Dream of Genie" |
Next "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville" |
"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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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.
See also[]
External Links[]
- "The New Exhibit" at IMDB
- "The New Exhibit" at Trakt TV
- "The New Exhibit" at Wikipedia
- "The New Exhibit" at Themoviedb.org
- "The New Exhibit" at the Twilight Zone Wiki
Keywords[]
Axe | Crowbar | Jack the Ripper | Knife | Serial killer | Shovel | Strangulation | Wax museum