The episode has a dreamlike quality as Marsha encounters odd, almost combative employees at the department store.

The best episodes ofThe Twilight Zonecapture a sense of magical menace,blending horror into the benign.

The episode was one of the few to be remade forTwilight Zone: The Movieand directed byGremlinsJoe Dante.

Jennifer Howard & William Gordon with disfigured faces restraining Maxine Stuart in The Twilight Zone.

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Theres a hopeless dread that consumes the episode, with no explanation for why the men cease to exist.

A close up of actress Barbara Nichols in the episode “Twenty Two” of the Twilight Zone.

Cliff Robertson sits on stage with a ventriloquist dummy on his lap in The Twilight Zone episode The Dummy.

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A woman holding a jewelry case and looking fearfully at another woman in the Twilight Zone episode The After Hours

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Maxine Stewart, disillusioned by a group of hospital staff with pig faces behind her

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Richard Kiel as an alien in The Twilight Zone episode To Serve Man.

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The Talky Tina Doll in the Twilight Zone episode Living Doll.

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Black and white image of a family sitting in the living room in The Twilight Zone.

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An elderly woman fretfully checks the time in Twilight Zone episode, Night Call

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A colonel begs his crew member to remember the previous day on the Twilight Zone Episode, And When The Sky Was Opened

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George Takei as Arthur and Neville Brand as Fenton, having a tense conversation in The Twilight Zone episode, “The Encounter”

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