![]() ![]() And he’s gone when Nan turns to look also. When the mechanic looks though, the man isn’t there. She mentions as casually as she can that she was “just looking at that hitch-hiker.” The mechanic returns with change, and noticing she seems shaken asks her what’s wrong. She quickly shuts the box closed and stares straight ahead, not turning to face hm. Nan then notices that very same hitch-hiker in the mirror of her cosmetics box. Wow, that wouldn’t even fill your gas tank these days! She pays him saying, “Cheaper than a funeral isn’t it.” Okay, that’s the second foreshadowing piece of dialogue in the past 60 seconds. At the service station in town, she is presented with the bill: $29.70 for the new tire and repairs and trip out to the desert to help her. Nan (played by the fetching Inger Stevens who would die at the young age of 35 from a barbituate overdose) gets back into her car and sees an odd sort of fellow, middle-aged in a shabby dark suit and hat, thumbing for a ride. But from this moment on, Nan Adam’s companion on a trip to California will be terror, her route fear, her destination quite unknown.” “Minor incident on Highway 11 in Pennsylvania, perhaps to be filed away under accidents you walk away from. They smile at one another and after putting a spare tire on, he tells her, “just follow me into town and I’ll see if I can fix you up with a new tire.”Īnd then…Rod Serling’s opening monologue continues! It’s a rare occasion when he begins his opening narration and then interrupts it with the story unfolding, only to traipse back into the opening narration, but here it goes: By rights you shouldn’t have called for a mechanic–somebody should’ve called for a hearse!” (Shoulders like pudding by the way was a reference to the highway’s shoulder’s being muddy or soft). At present on vacation, driving cross-country to Los Angeles, California, from Manhattan.Īs he finishes, “Blow out, skid marks, shoulders like pudding and going 65 miles an hour. Her occupation: buyer at a New York department store. Now let’s go for a ride:Īt the outset we see a mechanic working on a car by a highway roadside as the pretty blonde woman looks on. ![]() ![]() Thank you to all the respondents among Facebook Twilight Zone fan sites and writers who took part in this poll. Continuing down the road of my survey asking: “What is your favorite episode of the original Twilight Zone series?”, in 18th place with 199 votes is “THE HITCH-HIKER” originally broadcast January 22, 1960. ![]()
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