Episode
The Twilight Zone: Nightmare as a Child
Overview
Schoolteacher Helen Foley finds a strange and very serious little girl on the stairs outside her apartment, who tries to jog Helen's memory about a man she saw earlier that day.
Details
- Series
- The Twilight Zone
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 29
- Air date
- 1960-04-29
- Runtime
- 26 min
Episode context
Nightmare as a Child is Episode 29 in Season 1 of The Twilight Zone. It aired on 1960-04-29. The runtime is 26 min.
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