The Twilight Zone · SEASON 1

Night of the Meek / But Can She Type? / The Star

Episode 13 · 1985-12-20

★ 6.0
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Season 1Episode 13★ 6.0/10
  • Sci-Fi & Fantasy
  • Drama
  • Mystery

Episode overview

A drunken storefront Santa is terminally depressed by the many children who go gift less and starving during Christmas. He is fired from his job at a department store when he shows up late, and subsequently finds a bag that he can pull any present anyone wants from it. An overworked, underpaid, and under appreciated secretary uses a Xerox machine and wakes up in a parallel reality where no one has heard of her. In this reality, however, secretaries are a revered, rare commodity. Onboard a spaceship an astrophysicist and a priest learn they have discovered a planet long dead and a transmitter emitting a signal for eons. They discover that the planet holds the last remains of a civilization, which died when their star went supernova.

49 minutes

Season 1 episodes