It is a solid, entertaining, and certainly enduring episode but was not a sign of the type of seriousness of intent the series would achieve with the later masterpieces from the second and third seasons, despite the fact that it broaches the very serious issue of nuclear war. "Time Enough at Last" is, without question, one the most fondly remembered episodes in the show's entire run. Time goes by and, though he knows he won't starve, Bemis contemplates suicide as an escape from the unbearable lonliness of his situation. Bemis is, as far as he can tell, the last man alive. He panics, terrified of being the last man on Earth, and runs through the rubble of what was his hometown calling out for somebody, anybody. Stumbling through this wasteland, Bemis finds a newspaper prophesizing the event and realizes what has happened. Find them and putting them on, he finds the world around him in shambles. Emerging from the bank vault, shaken, Bemis, at first, cannot see anything, for he is blind without his glasses. One day, when Bemis is in the vault, reading, he sees the glass on his watch face break and then feels the ground and walls shake terribly, knocking his glasses from his face. On his lunch break, he takes his bagged lunch down into the bank vault where he closes himself inside to sit, eat, and read his book in the solitude and quiet. She then places them back where Bemis last left them in order to gloat when her husband comes along and finds the nasty surprise.Īt work, Bemis has devised a curious habit that allows him some time to read in the middle of his day.
She is a sadistic, over-bearing woman who resorts to finding the books that Bemis has hidden in their home and proceeding to gratuitously mark over the text in black ink on each page.
At home, his wife refuses to give him a moment of peace for reading or, frankly, anything else she doesn't deem fit for her husband to do. He attempts to read at his job and winds up neglecting customers and making mistakes, bringing his reading habit to the unwanted attention of the bank manager.
#The twilight zone time enough at last full
You can find full episodes of The Twilight Zone on CBS's website.Bank teller Henry Bemis is a bookish, middle-aged man who can never find time during his day to do what he loves: read. Watch a portion of the television show below (or, watch the full episode): I won’t give away the ending but you can borrow this episode and many more Twilight Zone episodes from the library. Of course, that’s not the end of the tale, and since we are dealing with The Twilight Zone, I’m pretty sure you can imagine all is not well for Henry. Henry realizes he finally has “time enough at last” to read all the books he has always dreamed of reading. Henry deals with the loneliness of being the “last person alive on Earth” and loses all hope-that is, until he sees the public library. One day, Henry takes his lunch break in the bank vault where he works to get some undisturbed reading time meanwhile, an “H-bomb” is dropped, killing everyone except Henry, who was safe inside the vault. Henry is a lover of books who is constantly belittled for his love of reading. One of my favorite The Twilight Zone episodes is " Time Enough at Last" which stars the brilliant Burgess Meredith as Henry Bemis.
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