The Silence (The Twilight Zone)

"The Silence"
The Twilight Zone episode
Franchot Tone (age 56) as "Archie" in "The Silence"
Episode no.	Season 2 Episode 25
Directed by	Boris Sagal
Written by	Rod Serling
Production code	173-3658
Original air date	April 28, 1961 (1961-04-28)
Guest appearances
Franchot Tone as Archie Taylor Liam Sullivan as Jamie Tennyson Jonathan Harris as George Alfred Cyril Delevanti as Franklin Everett Glass as Club Member Felix Locher as Club Member
Episode chronology
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The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series) (season 2)
List of episodes

"The Silence" is episode 61 (season 2, episode 25) of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The plot of this episode was based in part on the short story "The Bet" by Anton Chekhov.^[1] It's "the story of possibly the strangest bet ever to occur in the annals of chance."^[2] It originally aired on April 28, 1961 on CBS. It is one of the few Twilight Zone episodes to feature no supernatural or sci-fi elements.^{[citation needed]}