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* CharacterNarrator: This episode is narrated at various points by Nan Adams.
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* InnerMonologue: Nan Adams' inner monologue, in which she tries to make sense of the hitchhiker's repeated appearances, is heard throughout the episode.
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* DeadAllAlong: Nan Adams.
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* InvisibleToNormals: Nan is the only one who can see the hitch-hiker.
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* GenderFlip: In the radio play the episode is based on, the driver was a man named Ronald Adams. [[CreatorBacklash This didn't please Lucille Fletcher, author of said play.]]
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** In the radio play the episode is based on, the driver was a man named Ronald Adams. [[CreatorBacklash This didn't please Lucille Fletcher, author of said play.]]]]
** In the radio version, Ronald Adams picks up a woman and briefly gives her a lift but she leaves after he tries to run over the hitch-hiker. In the television version, Nan Adams gives a lift to a male sailor, who leaves for the same reason.
** In the radio play the episode is based on, the driver was a man named Ronald Adams. [[CreatorBacklash This didn't please Lucille Fletcher, author of said play.
** In the radio version, Ronald Adams picks up a woman and briefly gives her a lift but she leaves after he tries to run over the hitch-hiker. In the television version, Nan Adams gives a lift to a male sailor, who leaves for the same reason.
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* {{Narrator}}: Rod as always, but unusually, also the protagonist, as Nan narrates some of her experiences on a couple of occasions.
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* DownerEnding: Nan discovers she is DeadAllAlong, and her mother has a catastrophic nervous breakdown.
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* DownerEnding: Nan discovers that she is was DeadAllAlong, and her mother has a catastrophic nervous breakdown.
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* GenderFlip: In the radio play the episode is based on, the driver was a man. [[CreatorBacklash This didn't please Lucille Fletcher, author of said play.]]
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* GenderFlip: In the radio play the episode is based on, the driver was a man.man named Ronald Adams. [[CreatorBacklash This didn't please Lucille Fletcher, author of said play.]]
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* {{Tuckerization}}: Nan Adams is named after Rod Serling's daughter Ann, whose nickname was Nan.
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* Inger Stevens also appears in the episode "The Lateness of the Hour".
* Inger Stevens also appears in the episode "The Lateness of the Hour".
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* BreakingTheFourthWall: At one point the shabby man appears directly in front of the camera and looks right at it.
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* VehicleVanish: The hitchhiker disappears as a train passes. Of course, since he's obviously supernatural this isn't a surprise.
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''[[caption-width-right:350:"[[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Just a shabby, silly-looking scarecrow man..."]]'']]
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Nan returns to the car and sees the hitchhiker sitting in the back seat through the reflection of the vanity mirror on the visor. "I believe you're going...my way?" he inquires, almost friendly. As Nan accepts her fate, Rod Serling's narration indicates that Nan never made it to Los Angeles.
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Nan returns to the car and sees [[TheGrimReaper the hitchhiker hitchhiker]] sitting in the back seat through the reflection of the vanity mirror on the visor. "I believe you're going...my way?" he inquires, almost friendly. As Nan accepts her fate, Rod Serling's narration indicates that Nan never made it to Los Angeles.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The hitchhiker himself. He is shabby and creepy-looking, but he isn't a bad guy at all.
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* DarkIsNotEvil: The hitchhiker himself. He is shabby and creepy-looking, but he isn't a bad guy at all. Bonus points if you consider the strong implication that the hitchhiker is the avatar of Death, who is just attempting to help guide Nan's wayward soul to the afterlife.
* TheGrimReaper: Although never explicitly referred to as such, the hitchhiker is strongly implied to be the avatar of Death attempting to guide Nan Adams' wayward soul to the afterlife, particularly with his words to her after she makes the discovery that she's dead.
-->'''Hitchhiker (Death):''' I believe you're going...''my'' way?
-->'''Hitchhiker (Death):''' I believe you're going...''my'' way?
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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Nan initially believed the Hitch-hiker to be an evil being stalking her, and while he is kind of creepy-looking, all he was trying to do was remind her that she was DeadAllAlong.
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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Nan initially believed the Hitch-hiker hitchhiker to be an evil being stalking her, and while he is kind of creepy-looking, all he was trying to do was remind her that she was DeadAllAlong.DeadAllAlong. Again, bonus points considering the implication the hitchhiker is Death himself; he had no intention to frighten or scare her, he was just doing his duty attempting to guide Nan's spirit to the afterlife after her sudden, traumatic death.
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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Nan initially believed the Hitch-hiker to be an evil being stalking her, when what he was trying to do was remind her that she was DeadAllAlong.
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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: Nan initially believed the Hitch-hiker to be an evil being stalking her, when what and while he is kind of creepy-looking, all he was trying to do was remind her that she was DeadAllAlong.
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* DownerBeginning: The car accident in the beginning of the episode? Turns out it killed Nan and she wasn't supposed to walk away from it.
* DownerEnding: Nan discovers she is DeadAllAlong, and her mother has a catastrophic NervousBreakdown.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The tow-truck driver delivers an ominous one.
-->'''Tow-Truck Driver''': Lady, you're on the side of the angels! Somebody shouldn't have called for a tow truck! They should've called for a ''hearse''.
* DownerEnding: Nan discovers she is DeadAllAlong, and her mother has a catastrophic NervousBreakdown.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: The tow-truck driver delivers an ominous one.
-->'''Tow-Truck Driver''': Lady, you're on the side of the angels! Somebody shouldn't have called for a tow truck! They should've called for a ''hearse''.
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* GenderFlip: In the radio play the episode is based on, the driver was a man. [[CreatorBacklash This didn't please Lucille Fletcher, author of said play.]]
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* DangerInTheBackSeat: At the climax of the episode, just after Nan realizes she's dead, the hitchhiker suddenly appears in her back seat.
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* WhamLine: When Nan tries to call her mother, the woman who answers the phone tells her that Mrs. Adams has had a nervous breakdown.
-->"Well, it's all taken place since the death of her daughter".
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The story begins with Nan Adams (Inger Stevens), whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man (Leonard Strong) hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her. She continues to drive, becoming more and more afraid, stopping only when necessary; but every time she does, the same hitchhiker is there.
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The story begins with Nan Adams (Inger Stevens), whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross-country road trip from New York City UsefulNotes/NewYorkCity to Los Angeles.UsefulNotes/LosAngeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man (Leonard Strong) hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her. She continues to drive, becoming more and more afraid, stopping only when necessary; but every time she does, the same hitchhiker is there.
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The story begins with Nan Adams, whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her. She continues to drive, becoming more and more afraid, stopping only when necessary; but every time she does, the same hitchhiker is there.
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The story begins with Nan Adams, Adams (Inger Stevens), whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man (Leonard Strong) hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her. She continues to drive, becoming more and more afraid, stopping only when necessary; but every time she does, the same hitchhiker is there.
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!!Trivia
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* HeyItsThatVoice: The voice of Mrs. Whitney was provided by the same actress who voiced [[{{Cinderella}} [[Disney/{{Cinderella}} Lady Tremaine]], [[SleepingBeauty [[Disney/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]] and [[TheHauntedMansion Madame Leota]].
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->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Her name is Nan Adams. She's 27 years old. Her occupation: buyer at a New York department store. At present: on vacation, driving cross-country to Los Angeles, California from Manhattan. Minor incident on Highway 11 in Pennsylvania. Perhaps, to be filed away under "accidents you walk away from." But from this moment on, Nan Adams' companion on a trip to California will be terror. Her route: fear. Her destination: quite unknown.
The story begins with Nan Adams, whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her. She continues to drive, becoming more and more afraid, stopping only when necessary; but every time she does, the same hitchhiker is there.
When she ends up stranded in New Mexico, she meets a sailor on his way back to San Diego from leave. Eager for protection from the hitchhiker she's been seeing, she offers to drive the sailor to San Diego herself. However, she is still paranoid about the hitchhiker and when she sees him on the road, she tries to run him over. The sailor, who can't see him, begins to fear for her sanity and leaves her. In Arizona, Nan stops to call her mother. The woman who answers the phone, Mrs. Whitney, says that Mrs. Adams is in the hospital; she had a nervous breakdown after finding out that her daughter, Nan, was killed in an car accident in Pennsylvania six days ago, when the car she was driving blew a tire and overturned. At this point, Nan realizes the truth: the hitchhiker is not a man who wants her to die, but is rather the personification of death, patiently and persistently waiting for her to realize that she has been dead all along.
Nan returns to the car and sees the hitchhiker sitting in the back seat through the reflection of the vanity mirror on the visor. "I believe you're going...my way?" he inquires, almost friendly. As Nan accepts her fate, Rod Serling's narration indicates that Nan never made it to Los Angeles.
->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Nan Adams, age 27. She was driving to California; to Los Angeles. She didn't make it. There was a detour...through The Twilight Zone.
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The story begins with Nan Adams, whose vehicle gets a flat tire on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Los Angeles. A mechanic puts a spare tire on her car and directs her to the nearest town to fix it properly. Just before she leaves, Nan notices a strange-looking man hitchhiking. Unnerved, she drives away quickly. As she continues her trip, Nan sees the same hitchhiker thumbing for a ride at several other points on her journey. She becomes increasingly frightened of him and when she is stuck on a railroad crossing and nearly hit by a train, she becomes convinced that the hitchhiker is trying to kill her. She continues to drive, becoming more and more afraid, stopping only when necessary; but every time she does, the same hitchhiker is there.
When she ends up stranded in New Mexico, she meets a sailor on his way back to San Diego from leave. Eager for protection from the hitchhiker she's been seeing, she offers to drive the sailor to San Diego herself. However, she is still paranoid about the hitchhiker and when she sees him on the road, she tries to run him over. The sailor, who can't see him, begins to fear for her sanity and leaves her. In Arizona, Nan stops to call her mother. The woman who answers the phone, Mrs. Whitney, says that Mrs. Adams is in the hospital; she had a nervous breakdown after finding out that her daughter, Nan, was killed in an car accident in Pennsylvania six days ago, when the car she was driving blew a tire and overturned. At this point, Nan realizes the truth: the hitchhiker is not a man who wants her to die, but is rather the personification of death, patiently and persistently waiting for her to realize that she has been dead all along.
Nan returns to the car and sees the hitchhiker sitting in the back seat through the reflection of the vanity mirror on the visor. "I believe you're going...my way?" he inquires, almost friendly. As Nan accepts her fate, Rod Serling's narration indicates that Nan never made it to Los Angeles.
->'''Creator/RodSerling''': Nan Adams, age 27. She was driving to California; to Los Angeles. She didn't make it. There was a detour...through The Twilight Zone.
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