Long Distance Call

"**Long Distance Call**"
"Long Distance Call"
The Twilight Zone episode
	Lili Darvas as Grandma Bayles and Billy Mumy as Billy Bayles.
Episode no.	Season 2; Episode 22
Directed by	James Sheldon
Written by	Maxwell Sanford (uncredited); Charles Beaumont; William Idelson
Featured music	uncredited
Production code	173-3667
Original air date	March 31, 1961
Guest appearances
	Philip Abbott as Chris Bayles; Lili Darvas as Grandma Bayles; Patricia Smith as Sylvia Bayles; Bill Mumy as Billy Bayles; Jenny Maxwell as Shirley; Reid Hammond as Mr. Peterson; Henry Hunter as Dr. Unger; Lew Brown as Fireman; Arch Johnson as Fireman; Jutta Parr as Nurse;
Episode chronology
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	The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 2)
	List of episodes

"Long Distance Call" is episode 58 of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on March 31, 1961, on CBS. In the episode, a 5-year-old boy named Billy communicates with his dead grandmother using a toy telephone that she gave him on his birthday. It was one of the six episodes of the second season which was shot on videotape in a short-lived experiment aimed to cut costs.^[1]

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