I’d class this one under adults treating children badly, as the grandmother, whose grandson “gave her new life” pretty much takes over the little boy’s life as she refuses to let go and move on. This dynamic disturbs his parents, especially when the little boy disappears to the other side. Long Distance Call (2.22) In this episode, a little boy’s doting grandmother passes away, but she keeps calling him from the other side on a toy telephone.
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The ep, written by Rod Serling, also reminds me of a Hitchcock movie on a small scale. Often, children represent things that adults are afraid of, but this episode makes that dynamic literal. She comes home one night to find a little girl sitting on the stairs outside her apartment and befriends the “strange…sullen and wise” child only to later discover that the girl is herself from the time her mother was killed, a manifestation of her repressed memories coming back. Nightmare as a Child (1.29) In “Nightmare as a Child,” a woman who was traumatized by witnessing her mother’s murder returns to her hometown after years away.
Because there aren’t that many children in general, I have focused on children rather than girls specifically. In this post, I am focusing on the seasons that are currently available on Netflix, curiously seasons one, two, three, and five. It’s a short, pity read that examines classic episodes, the lessons they teach, and what they have meant to actors, filmmakers, and other creators. If you enjoy T he Twilight Zone and its take on life, you would like Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Twilight Zone by Mark Dawidziak. What I found was that the episodes that focus on children are most often commenting on the relationship between children, adults, and imagination, with children usually (not always) holding a moral high ground counter to their adults. As any casual viewer of the show knows, most episodes of The Twilight Zone end with a short, sharp commentary on human behavior. When I went looking for episodes to study, I really did not find that many focused on children, but a common theme emerged quickly in the episodes that did-adults treat kids pretty badly in The Twilight Zone. I could not remember many episodes that featured kids. When I set out to cover childhood in spooky entertainment, I was curious to see what childhood looked like on The Twilight Zone. As I mentioned in my post about The X-Files, The Twilight Zone was a favorite show of mine in my own youth.
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