It is ironic that this episode of "The Twilight Zone" has been a topic of group discussion earlier this week on another website, since the original aired November 20, 1959. A friend on Writing.com mentioned that she had to get her glasses fixed before she could continue writing and this episode was invoked.
Burgess Meredith stars as Henry Bemis, a man in love with books in a time when reading is frowned upon. During a lunch break, he sneaks into a bank vault to read a few pages and thusly, survives a (very brief but) all-out nuclear war. Now he has 'time enough to last' to read his books. But Fate has one more cruel trick to pull...
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