The Twilight Zone (TV Series)

Mr. Denton on Doomsday (1959)

Rod Serling: Narrator

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• Rod Serling - Narrator : [Closing Narration]  Mr. Henry Fate, dealer in utensils and pots and pans, liniments and potions. A fanciful little man in a black, frock coat, who can help a man climbing out of a pit - or another man from falling into one. Because, you see, Fate can work that way - in The Twilight Zone.

• Rod Serling - Narrator : [Opening Narration]  Portrait of a town drunk named Al Denton. This is a man who's begun his dying early - a long, agonizing route through a maze of bottles. Al Denton, who would probably give an arm or a leg or a part of his soul to have another chance, to be able to rise up and shake the dirt from his body and the bad dreams that infest his consciousness.

  [Shot of Henry J. Fate] 

  Rod Serling - Narrator : [Narration continues]  In the parlance of the times, this is a peddler, a rather fanciful-looking little man in a black, frock coat.

  [a six-gun materializes beside Denton] 

  Rod Serling - Narrator : [Narration continues]  And this is the third principal character of our story. Its function: perhaps to give Mr. Al Denton his second chance.