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The Twilight Zone original series Season one (1 / 2 / 3 / 4 / 5) Fall 1959 – Summer 1960 List of The Twilight Zone episodes

Episodes: Where Is Everybody? One for the Angels Mr. Denton on Doomsday The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine Walking Distance Escape Clause The Lonely Time Enough at Last Perchance to Dream Judgment Night And When the Sky Was Opened What You Need The Four of Us Are Dying Third from the Sun I Shot an Arrow Into the Air The Hitch-Hiker The Fever The Last Flight The Purple Testament Elegy Mirror Image The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street A World of Difference Long Live Walter Jameson People Are Alike All Over Execution The Big Tall Wish A Nice Place to Visit Nightmare as a Child A Stop at Willoughby The Chaser A Passage for Trumpet Mr. Bevis The After Hours The Mighty Casey A World of His Own

"The Purple Testament" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Details

• Episode number: 19
• Season: 1
• Production code: 173-3619
• Original air date: February 12, 1960
• Writer: Rod Serling
• Director: Richard L. Bare
• Music: Stock

Cast

• Lt. Fitzgerald: William Reynolds
• Captain Riker: Dick York
• Captain Gunther: Barney Phillips
• Jeep Driver: Warren Oates
• Orderly: Paul Mazursky
• Harmonica Man: Ron Masak
• Sergeant: William Phipps
• Colonel: S. John Launer
• Freeman: Marc Cavell

Opening Narration

"Infantry platoon, U.S. Army, Phillipine Islands, 1945. These are the faces of the young men who fight. As if some omniscient painter had mixed a tube of oils that were at one time earth brown, dust gray, blood red, beard black, and fear—yellow white, and these men were the models. For this is the province of combat and these are the faces of war."

Synopsis

William Fitzgerald, a lieutenant serving in World War II, suddenly gains the mysterious ability to discover who is about to die via a strange flash of light across their face. After correctly predicting several deaths, he tells his friend Captain Riker what he is able to see, but the Captain doesn't know whether to believe him or not. Riker consults with a doctor, Captain Gunther, who thinks it may be fatigue and suggests that the lieutenant should take a leave of rest. Fitzgerald goes to a hospital to see one of his men, Smitty, who is supposed to pull through. But he sees the strange light across the soldier's face and knows his fate. Later, his prediction has come true, and he makes a scene in the hospital in front of Captain Gunther. Back at their tent, Fitz reveals to Riker he has seen the light on his face. Though he tells Fitz to forget it and get ready for battle, the Captain sets out some of his personal possessions—a few photographs and his wedding ring—before he goes into combat. In the camp, the men argue about the rumors of the lieutenant's predictions, but Riker tells all the soldiers there that there are no "fortune tellers" in the camp. Fitz, seeing the men's faces and realizing he could cause mutiny, agrees with the captain. In the ensuing battle, all return except for Riker, who is killed by a sniper. Captain Gunther brings news to Fitzgerald that he is being sent back to division headquarters for some much needed rest, but as the lieutenant gathers his gear, he sees the light flash across his own face in a mirror. A jeep driver comes to pick Fitzgerald up for the ride to HQ, but the lieutenant seems distant, as if resigned to fate. The Sergeant sends the two off telling the driver to be careful as they go, they haven't completely checked the area and watch for land mines on the road ahead. As the soldiers are gathered around the camp at dusk, the sound of an explosion is heard in the distance.

Closing Narration

"From William Shakespeare, Richard the Third, a small excerpt. The line reads, 'He has come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.' And for Lieutenant William Fitzgerald, 'A' Company, First Platoon, the testament is closed. Lieutenant Fitzgerald has found the Twilight Zone."

Trivia

• Serling's closing narration reads: “From William Shakespeare, Richard the Third, a small excerpt. The line reads, ‘He has come to open the purple testament of bleeding war.’ And for Lieutenant William Fitzgerald, A Company, First Platoon, the testament is closed. Lieutenant Fitzgerald has found the Twilight Zone.” However, this passage is from Richard the Second.

• Set in the Philippines during World War II, the episode may have been inspired by Serling's service there in the 11th Airborne Division, during which he was wounded in the battle for Manila.

• Originally cast as Lt. Fitzgerald was Dean Stockwell, who was unable to appear but would later star in the similarly themed episode “A Quality of Mercy”.

• The concept of seeing a light on the face of those who are about to die was readdressed in the second revival episode Into the Light.

Themes

Military service related themes are also explored in “Judgment Night”, “Two” and “A Quality of Mercy”.

References

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

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