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WESTINGHOUSE - DESILU PLAYHOUSE - The Time Element

Air Date/Released Monday, November 24, 1958
Station/Studio CBS
Featuring Joe DeRita (Solo)

Sponsor Westinghouse partnered with Desilu Studios to produce this filmed anthology series. Noted for high quality productions during its two-year run, the series is best remembered for pilot episodes that launched THE TWILIGHT ZONE and THE UNTOUCHABLES. Primarily producing dramas, PLAYHOUSE also hosted thirteen one-hour episodes of the I LOVE LUCY spin-off, THE LUCILLE BALL - DESI ARNAZ COMEDY HOUR.

Pete Jenson's recurring dream of waking on Dec. 6, 1941 in Honolulu after a 1958 drunken binge takes him to psychiatrist Dr. Gillespie. Jenson is convinced that it's not just a dream, that he's actually travelling back into time. In Honolulu, Pete befriends a young USS Arizona officer and his newlywed wife, and suffers the agony of no one believing his tale of the coming Japanese attack. Joe DeRita appears as a drunk at a Honolulu bar.


This was the pilot episode for THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

Cast: Desi Arnaz (Host), William Bendix (Peter Jenson), Martin Balsam (Dr. Arnold Gillespie), Darryl Hickman (Ensign Janoski), Carolyn Kearney (Edna Janoski), Jesse White (Honolulu bartender), Joe DeRita (Drunk), Jesslynn Fax (Maid), Bartlett Robinson (Mr. Gibbons), Don Keefer (Reporter), Alan Baxter (Doctor), Paul Bryar (Bartender)

Crew: Desi Arnaz (Executive Producer), Rod Serling (Writer), Bert Granet (Producer), Allen Reisner (Director)
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