What You Need (The Twilight Zone)

"**What You Need**"
"What You Need"
The Twilight Zone episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 12
Directed by	Alvin Ganzer
Teleplay by	Rod Serling
Based on	"What You Need"; by Lewis Padgett
Featured music	Original score by Nathan Van Cleave
Production code	173-3622
Original air date	December 25, 1959
Guest appearances
	Steve Cochran as Fred Renard; Ernest Truex as Pedott; Arline Sax as Girl in Bar; Read Morgan as Lefty;
Episode chronology
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	The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 1)
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"What You Need" is the twelfth episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone, airing on Christmas Day, 1959. It is based on the short story of the same name by Lewis Padgett (Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore), which was published in the October 1945 issue of Astounding Science Fiction magazine.

^ Parisi, Nicholas (October 24, 2018). Rod Serling: His Life, Work, and Imagination. University Press of Mississippi. p. 211. ISBN 9781496819451 – via Google Books.