The Midnight Sun (The Twilight Zone)

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The Midnight Sun is an episode of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Details

Episode number: 75

Season: 3

Production code: 4818

Original airdate: November 17, 1961

Writer: Rod Serling

Director: Tony Leader

Music:original score by Nathan Van Cleave

Cast

Norma:Lois Nettleon

Mrs. Bronson:Betty Garde

The Intruder: Tom Reese

Synopsis

Template:Spoiler The Earth has left its path and is now heading towards the sun. A woman and her landlady start to live off of one another after they become the last people in their building.

Trivia

The effect of oil paintings was accomplished by paiting the pictures in wax on the surface of a hotplate.

Themes

A study in part of animal instincts taking over otherwise decent people who are threatened with doomsday. This theme also serves as the basis for The Shelter.

Critical response

"Whether excplicitly nuclear or otherwise, the apocalypse was never far away [in the Twilight Zone]. "The Midnight Sun" (11/17/61) was telecast on the day the U.S. consolidated its drive for "push-button warfare" with the first successful launching of a Minuteman missile from an underground silo. The episode substitutes a kink in the Earth's orbit-an analogue to what we currently call "the greenhouse effect"-for an atomic holocaust. Instead of blowing up, the planet is falling into the sun. Rape and pillage seem imminent, and even the pigment is boiling on the heroine-artist's canvases as the radio weatherman goes nuts on the air.

References

  • Zircee, Marc Scott: The Twilight Zone Companion. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

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