The Twilight Zone
Long Distance Call
TV Flash files “Long Distance Call” as hour 58 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 2, episode 22, aired 1961-03-31, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E22: listed hour 58 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 22 of 29 in season 2. It aired 1961-03-31 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Prime Mover” (S02E21). Next is “A Hundred Yards Over the Rim” (S02E23).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
A boy (Bill Mumy) talks with his dead grandmother (Lili Darvas) on the toy telephone she gave him before she died.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Long Distance Call sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S02E22 is listed hour 58 of 156 — hour 22 of 29 in season 2, season 2 episode 22.
When did The Twilight Zone S02E22 air?
Long Distance Call aired 1961-03-31 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…