Spur of the Moment

Spur of the Moment

Infobox Television episode
Title = Spur of the Moment
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = The older Anne screams for her younger self.
Season = 5
Episode = 141
Airdate = February 21, 1964
Production =2608
Writer = Richard Matheson
Director = Elliot Silverstein
Guests = Diana Hyland : Anne Henderson
Robert J. Hogan : Robert Blake
Philip Ober : Mr. Henderson
Marsha Hunt : Mrs. Henderson
Roger Davis : David Mitchell
Music = Rene Garriguenc
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = From Agnes—With Love
Next = An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

"Spur of the Moment" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Opening Narration

ynopsis

A young woman, Anne, is engaged to be married to a nice young investment broker, whom her father likes, while rebellious David Mitchell is trying to get her to elope with him. One day while horseback riding, she sees a terrifying woman dressed in black on horseback, who begins yelling at her to stop. The woman in black gallops toward her at full speed, and the young woman flees in terror, escaping her pursuer. Just before she is to be wed, the young woman is met by the no-good Mitchell, who convinces her to elope.

Twenty-five years later, Mitchell has driven the ranch Anne's father left her into bankruptcy and her to alcoholism. Anne has a fight with her husband and goes horseback riding, where she sees herself as a young woman on a horse. She now realizes that "she" was the terrifying woman in black who had frantically chased her younger self in the hope of warning her not to make the mistake of eloping with Mitchell. Anne is her own "ghostly double" from the future seeking to warn herself.

When the older Anne goes horseback riding, she repeatedly sees herself as a youngster and gives chase, but can never catch up, and thus can never change her past.

Closing Narration

Preview for Next Week's Story

References

*DeVoe, Bill. (2008). "Trivia from The Twilight Zone". Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1593931360
*Grams, Martin. (2008). "The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic". Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0970331090

External links

*imdb title|id=0734621|title=Spur of the Moment

Twilight Zone links

*The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)
*Episode List
*Season 5


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