| "Mute" | |
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| The Twilight Zone episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 5 |
| Directed by | Stuart Rosenberg |
| Written by | Richard Matheson |
| Featured music | Fred Steiner |
| Production code | 4858 |
| Original air date | January 31, 1963 |
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"Mute" is an episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It was written by Richard Matheson, based on his 1962 short story of the same name which appeared in the anthology The Fiend in You. The episode deals with a young girl (in the Matheson story it was a boy) raised to communicate only through telepathy, and her struggles after the sudden death of her parents forces her to enter mainstream society.