The Twilight Zone

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The fickle finger of fate, as Mad Magazine once called it, often strikes deserving victims in “The Twilight Zone,” who get a comeuppance they deserve. “Time Enough at Last” stands out because it’s especially brutal to a less deserving victim with its monkey’s paw of a wish.

Henry Bemis’ Wish

Poor Henry Bemis (future Batman foe Burgess Meredith) just wants time to be with all his beloved books so he can enjoy the simple pleasure of reading. Before you can say, “Settle down, Bemis!” a nuclear war kills off everyone else on Earth, and he figures he finally has it made. Alas, he breaks his Coke-bottle glasses, which are so comically over-magnifying that they make clear he has no chance of reading without them, even from the large-print section.

The Perfect Episode

Those of us with large movie or book collections that we never fully get time to sit down with should perhaps beware — and treasure our time with people, too.