Perchance to Dream (The Twilight Zone)

"Perchance to Dream"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.Season 1
Episode 9
Directed byRobert Florey
Written byCharles Beaumont
Based on"Perchance to Dream"
by Charles Beaumont
Featured musicNathan Van Cleave
Production code173-3616
Original air dateNovember 27, 1959 (1959-11-27)
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"Perchance to Dream" is the ninth episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. It originally aired on November 27, 1959, on CBS. The title of the episode and the Charles Beaumont short story that inspired it is taken from Hamlet's "To be, or not to be" speech.[1]

  1. ^ from Hamlet, Act III, Scene I:

    To die, - To sleep, -
    To sleep ! Perchance to dream: - ay, there's the rub;
    For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
    When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
    Must give us pause: there's the respect
    That makes calamity of so long life;