The Twilight Zone
One for the Angels
TV Flash files “One for the Angels” as hour 2 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 1, episode 2, aired 1959-10-09, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S01E02: listed hour 2 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 2 of 36 in season 1. It aired 1959-10-09 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Where is Everybody?” (S01E01). Next is “Mr. Denton on Doomsday” (S01E03).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When Mr. Bookman, a sidewalk salesman gets visited by the angel of death, informing him that he will be dying at midnight that night, he convinces the angel that he has one big pitch to make before he dies. The angel agrees to a delay, but instead causes a neighbor's daughter to have an accident and "Mr. Death" comes to take her. Mr. Bookman realizes he has to make the pitch of his life.
Viewer FAQ
Where does One for the Angels sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S01E02 is listed hour 2 of 156 — hour 2 of 36 in season 1, season 1 episode 2.
When did The Twilight Zone S01E02 air?
One for the Angels aired 1959-10-09 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the empty-town opener, then the broken-glasses hour. Isolation first, stolen moral second; those two teach the anthology’s real instrument better than any twist ranking.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Serling used fantasy as a smuggled sermon when sponsors would not let a straight drama talk. Watch for isolation as craft, the twist as a bill coming due, and half-hours built to sit in the blood overnight — not to snack in a dump.
October 1959, CBS: a man walks into an empty town and the country learns a new address. The Twilight Zone did not invent the anthology. It invented the anthology as a national flinch — half-hour moral weather, a host in a dark suit, and a closing turn that was supposed to sting after the sponsor smile. Rod Serling had already fought live-drama censors and lost enough rounds to change weapons. Fantasy was the loophole. Aliens, bargains, small towns that eat themselves: the vocabulary of a writer who wanted to talk…
Filed against
- Rod Serling as Host / Narrator
Rod Serling created and hosted The Twilight Zone — moral fables in a black suit, twist endings that taught America to fear its own reflection. Sponsor and censor battles are as legendary as the episodes. On TV Flash he is prestige…