Back There
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| “Back There” | |||||||
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |||||||
 Russell Johnson in "Back There" |
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| Episode no. | Season 2 Episode 49 |
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| Written by | Rod Serling | ||||||
| Directed by | David Orrick McDearmon | ||||||
| Guest stars | Russell Johnson : Peter Corrigan Paul Hartman : Police sergeant John Lasell : John Wilkes Booth Bartlett Robinson : William Nora Marlowe : Chambermaid Raymond Bailey : Balding card player Raymond Greenleaf : Bespectacled card player John Eldredge : Fourth card player John Gavin : Policeman Jean Inness : Mrs. Landers Pat O'Malley |
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| Featured music | Jerry Goldsmith | ||||||
| Production no. | 173-3648 | ||||||
| Original airdate | January 13, 1961 | ||||||
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"Back There" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.
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[edit] Opening narration
| “ | Witness a theoretical argument, Washington D.C., the present. Four intelligent men talking about an improbable thing like going back in time. A friendly debate revolving around a simple issue: Could a human being change what has happened before? Interesting and theoretical, because who ever heard of a man going back in time, before tonight, that is. Because this is the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Synopsis
On April 14, 1961, Peter Corrigan feels faint after a discussion of time travel with his friends at the Potomac Club, and finds it's April 14, 1865, the day of Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. He rushes to Ford's Theatre to warn everyone, but is arrested. After being kept in the police station and released in the custody of the assassin (posing as a Mr. Wellington), Peter realizes he was too late, and unable to change the past. He returns to the present; at the club, he finds that one of the members, a club waiter when he left, is now a wealthy man. When asked, the man reveals that he inherited his wealth from his great-grandfather, a policeman who had been the only person to believe Peter and made a name for himself trying to stop the assassination.
[edit] Closing narration
| “ | Mr. Peter Corrigan, lately returned from a place 'back there,' a journey into time with highly questionable results, proving on one hand that the threads of history are woven tightly and the skein of events cannot be undone, but on the other hand, there are small fragments of tapestry that can be altered. Tonight's thesis to be taken as you will, in the Twilight Zone. | ” |
[edit] Trivia
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- In the episode "Execution", Russell Johnson portrays a professor with a time machine.
- Russell Johnson played "the professor" on Gilligan's Island
