The Twilight Zone
Spur of the Moment
TV Flash files “Spur of the Moment” as hour 141 of 156 in the TV Flash guide — The Twilight Zone (1959–1964) on CBS, season 5, episode 21, aired 1964-02-21, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E21: listed hour 141 of 156 in the The Twilight Zone guide, hour 21 of 36 in season 5. It aired 1964-02-21 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “From Agnes - With Love” (S05E20). Next is “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” (S05E22).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
An engaged heiress is scared by an older woman wearing all black, on horseback. Her fiance jokes that it was an attempt to get her to call off her upcoming wedding. However, it appears that an old beau may be more successful in getting the young woman to call off the wedding than the woman on the black horse.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Spur of the Moment sit in the The Twilight Zone guide?
S05E21 is listed hour 141 of 156 — hour 21 of 36 in season 5, season 5 episode 21.
When did The Twilight Zone S05E21 air?
Spur of the Moment aired 1964-02-21 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…