A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain

Infobox Television episode
Title = A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain
Series = The Twilight Zone


Caption = Harmon Gordon after regressing to a child
Season = 5
Episode = 131
Airdate = December 13, 1963
Production =2614
Writer = Rod Serling
(From an idea by Lou Holz.)
Director = Bernard Girard
Guests = Patrick O'Neal : Harmon Gordon
Ruta Lee : Flora Gordon
Walter Brooke : Dr. Raymond Gordon
Music = Stock
Episode list = List of Twilight Zone episodes
Prev = The 7th Is Made Up of Phantoms
Next = Ninety Years Without Slumbering

"A Short Drink From a Certain Fountain" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone.

Opening Narration

ynopsis

A wealthy old man married to a younger woman is exhausted by his wife’s youthful lifestyle. Seeking to keep up the pace, he asks his scientist brother to inject him with an experimental youth serum. The serum works wonders; the old man grows younger by the hour. Unfortunately, it does not stop when he hopes, and the regression continues until he is a toddler. His wife tries to leave him, but his clever brother forces the wife to stay and raise him, else she will be cut off from his fortune.

Closing Narration

Preview for Next Week's Story

Production

Initially, Raymond Gordon was a typical family physician. Disturbed by the character's willingness to experiment on a fellow human (Harmon's brother), CBS asked that his occupation be changed to that of a research scientist. Serling complied. [Hal Erikson, "Censorship: Another Dimension Behind the Twilight Zone”, published in the October 1985 edition of "The Twilight Zone Magazine"]

This episode was not included in the Twilight Zone syndication package until 1984. When this and other long-unseen episodes became available, a series of short introductions were shot featuring commentary from the cast and crew of the original episodes. In the segment with Patrick O'Neal for this episode, O'Neal remarked on how accurately the show's makeup effects artists had aged him, as he now very closely resembled his older appearance in this episode.

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
*Zicree, Marc Scott: "The Twilight Zone Companion". Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition)

External links

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