The Time Element (Pilot) from Desilu Playhouse
Show: The Twilight Zone --> Season: 0 - Specials
AirDate: 11/24/1958
Runtime: 52
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Overview: A man (William Bendix) visits a psychoanalyst, complaining about a recurring dream in which he imagines waking up in Honolulu just prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Rod Serling wrote a teleplay intending for it to be the pilot episode of a new series called The Twilight Zone. Although it ended up airing on a different show, Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse S01E06, it is still considered the pilot episode of The Twilight Zone.