The episode opens up with a man named Arthur Curtis entering an office suite in the early morning and being greeted by his secretary as she arrives.\u00a0 He tells her to reschedule some airline tickets for a vacation he\u2019ll be taking with his wife on Saturday. \u00a0He goes into his private office and sits at his desk and picks up the phone to make a call but he gets no dial tone.\u00a0 He\u2019s perplexed by this and is about to do something about it when a voice calling him Gerry speaks to him from behind him.\u00a0 He turns around to look and realizes that his office is only a set on a motion picture sound stage and the director is criticizing him for messing up the phone call portion of the scene.\u00a0 So that\u2019s the set up.\u00a0 The protagonist thinks he\u2019s the character in the movie, Arthur Curtis but the whole world around him says that he is just an actor Gerry Raigan playing that part in a movie.\u00a0 He tries calling his home and finds out there is no such address or even street name in Los Angeles.\u00a0 He meets up with Gerry Raigan\u2019s ex-wife Nora who hates him vehemently and demands he pay her some back alimony.\u00a0 We hear from a number of characters including the director, Nora and Gerry\u2019s agent Mr. Brinkley that Gerry is an alcoholic actor whose career is falling apart.\u00a0 He drives Nora\u2019s car to where he thinks his home is but can\u2019t find the street.\u00a0 She drives to Gerry\u2019s house where he meets his agent Brinkley (played by David White of Bewitched \u201cfame\u201d) and we learn that the studio is cancelling the Arthur Curtis film and is currently tearing down the set.\u00a0 Arthur panics when he hears his last link to the world, he thought he belonged to, the office set is being dismantled and steals Brinkley\u2019s car and drives crazily to the studio.\u00a0 He arrives at the set as the stagehands are taking the set apart.\u00a0 He sits down at the desk and starts to break down when all of a sudden someone calls his name.\u00a0 He looks up and it\u2019s Arthur Curtis\u2019s wife Marian standing in his office.\u00a0 The office is now an office and not a sounds stage.\u00a0 He runs to her and embraces her and she asks him where he\u2019s been because she couldn\u2019t reach him at his phone.\u00a0 In the background he can hear the muffled sounds of the workmen talking as they disassemble the set.\u00a0 He hurries her out of the office and into the outer office where his secretary is once again his secretary and not an actress.\u00a0 When his wife questions him as to why he is hurrying her out of the office he says \u201cbecause I don\u2019t want to lose you.\u201d\u00a0 He exits the office door to the street with her and behind we see the office is the set again and Brinkley arrives looking for Gerry.\u00a0 But he\u2019s gone.\u00a0 The last scene has Arthur\u2019s plane taking off on his vacation with Marian.<\/p>\n
Although there is a good amount of running around screaming and panicking, I actually enjoyed this one.\u00a0 And I was trying to figure out why.\u00a0 I think it\u2019s because of the happy ending.\u00a0 From the point of view of metaphysical mechanics this isn\u2019t that much different from \u201cThe Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine\u201d where a woman manages to escape reality into a fictional construct, namely a motion picture.\u00a0 Here he seems to have entered into a movie script.\u00a0 But based on his reactions you want to believe that he really is Arthur Curtis and he has become trapped in an alternate reality where his life is a fiction. \u00a0And when he finds Marian standing next to him and he miraculously ducks out of the trap he has found himself in I\u2019m sympathizing with him and felt the relief to have escaped a reality where instead of a happy family life and good career he is saddled with a \u201charpy\u201d ex-wife, a dying career and the reputation of being an alcoholic loser.\u00a0 From my point of view Serling got this one just about dead right.\u00a0 B+<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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