History Recap / TheTwilightZone1985S2E4

* DownerEnding: The original episode has Marsha realizing that she forgot her identity and becoming a mannequin volunatrily, but this version has Marsha being transformed against her will and failing to escape the mall in time.

* AdaptationalJobChange: Jenny is told by the time travellers that she will become the first President of Earth in the future, becoming known as the "Great Peacemaker". In the short story by Phyllis Eisenstein, she is destined to become a celebrated, world-famous anthropologist.

* ChromosomeCasting: The male time traveller is the only man to appear.
* CloseEnoughTimeline: Apparently, time travellers aren't supposed to take souvenirs from the periods they visit, saying that it results in a "time shift."
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: The time traveler's wife warns him if he "meets" UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}} again, their marriage is over. The wife then leaves for 2136 AB, while the husband leaves for [[BrickJoke 32 BC]].
* JustOneSecondOutOfSync: The time travellers' movements are filmed in a rougher, choppier style to illustrate that they're out of sync from Jenny and Kathy.

* MinimalistCast: Jenny, Kathy, and the time-travellers are the only characters to appear.
* NoNameGiven: The time travellers.

* StickyFingers: Jenny notices that the contents of her trash can and the mug she uses for her pencils have both disappeared, followed by her textbooks and her high school yearbook. She initially thinks that Kathy is pranking her, but Jenny discovers that they were actually stolen by a couple of time travelers from 2139 who wanted souvenirs from her era, as they were visiting her before she becomes the first President of Earth. The male traveler returns the mug, saying that they were only supposed to take things Jenny wouldn't miss.

* RealAfterAll: Barney thinks that his life in the alternate world is only a series of reoccuring, waking dreams. He's proven wrong when he finds the door leading to it in his basement.

-> "For most of us, our heart's desire seems to lie behind a bolted door. But what if the lives we find so familiar are someone ''else's'' dream come true? Perhaps, for all of us, somewhere is a hidden door into -- the Twilight Zone."

College student Jenny Templeton (Creator/AkosuaBusia), during a night of studying, discovers that her belongings are disappearing when she isn't looking. While she originally accuses her roommate Kathy (Cindy Harrell) of pulling a joke on her, items continue to vanish during her interrogation. When Jenny finally tracks down the source of the disappearances, she's in for a pretty big surprise.

Marsha Cole races to the mall as it nears closing time in the hopes of purchasing a popular toy for her landlord's child, and a worker who takes pity on her lets her inside. Once inside, she meets a number of well-dressed people who seemingly know her by name. A peculiar clerk in the mall also presses her for details about her past and documentation regarding her identity, which prompts Marsha to realize that she has no memories or ID, leading her to become frantic and trying to escape the mall before her true nature resurfaces.

College student Jenny Templeton, during a night of studying, discovers that her belongings are disappearing when she isn't looking. While she originally accuses her roommate Kathy of pulling a joke on her, items continue to vanish during her interrogation. When Jenny finally tracks down the source of the disappearances, she's in for a pretty big surprise.

Barney Schlessinger (Creator/GeorgeWendt) is a part-time inventor whose gadgets, often highly impractical, are rebuked by his wife Katy. Barney has also been having frequent dreams where he lives a second life in an alternate world stuck in the early 20th century, where he is a noted business tycoon and the talk of his town. When he is able to enter this world via a strange door in his basement, Barney learns that his counterpart has dreams identical in motivation to his, wanting to escape to a world where he is freed from the trappings of fame, while the regular Barney seeks to gain said fame for himself.

* DownerEnding: The original episode has Marsha realizing that she forgot her identity and becomes a mannequin volunatrily, but this version has Marsha being transformed against her will and failing to escape the mall in time.

* INeverToldYouMyName: Marsha is surprised and confused when she is approached by a young boy in Play's the Thing who knows her name and asks her to come back. His mother tells Marsha that she must have misheard him and he actually said "ma'am", but Marsha doesn't buy it. She later learns that she, the boy, and his mother are all mannequins from Satler's.
* MurderousMannequin: Marsha is stalked by mannequins in an after-hours department store. They have no intention to actually kill her, though, they just want her to accept her true nature so one of them can have a turn in the outside world.

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: The time traveler's wife warns him if he "meets" UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}}, their marriage is over. The wife then leaves for 2136 AB, while the husband leaves for [[BrickJoke 32 BC]].

-> "For most of us, our secret heart's desire seems to lie behind a bolted door. But what if the lives we find so familiar are someone ''else's'' dream come true? Perhaps, for all of us, somewhere is a hidden door -- into the Twilight Zone."

* AlternateUniverse: Barney has recurring dreams where he lives in a parallel universe wher he's a famous inventor. He later manages to enter this very universe by finding a door behind a bookshelf in his basement.

* EquivalentExchange: Barney and his alternate counterpart switch places, as each wants what the other has in life. The Barney of the regular universe has longed to be a famous and successful inventor, and is delighted when he meets the alternate version of his wife Katy, who admires "his" inventions greatly as opposed to his own Katy who belittles him for them. The alternate Barney, meanwhile, has grown tired of the pressure that comes with fame and people's expectations for his next great invention, so he settles in the regular universe, where he can live in blissful anonymity and doesn't have to invent anything if he doesn't want to.

* ShoutOut: When he enters the alternate world, Barney refers to his counterpart's butler as [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster "Jeeves".]]

College student Jenny Templeton, during a night of studying, discovers that her belongings are disappearing when she isn't looking. While she originally accuses her roommate Kathy of pulling a joke on her, items continue to vanish during her interrogation. When Jenny finally tracks down the source of the disappearances, she's in for a pretty big suprise or two.

A woman at the mall is pursued by mysterious strangers; A woman's possessions keep disappearing; A man finds a door to a parallel universe.

!!The After Hours
* DarkerAndEdgier: This version of the 1959 episode makes Marsha's transformation into a mannequin into a BodyHorror, her fellow manniquins speak with a CreepyMonotone, and Marsha is completely unwilling to rejoin her fellow mannequins, while the original had Marsha have a HeelRealization and apologize for not returning sooner.

-->''"Imagine standing perfectly still, unable to act, to speak, to touch a reassuring hand. If you were released from such a fate, even for a while, wouldn't you hope to forget? But in reality, you're only on a short leave of absence from The Twilight Zone."''

!!Lost and Found
* CloseEnoughTimeline: Apparently, time traveling tourists aren't supposed to take souvenirs because it results in a "time shift."
* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: The time traveler's wife warns him if he meets (read as: has sex with) UsefulNotes/{{Cleopatra}}, their marriage is over. The wife leaves for 2136 AB. The husband? [[BrickJoke 32 BC]].
* YoungFutureFamousPeople: The time traveling couple outright let Jennifer know she'll be [[PlanetaryNation the first President of Earth]].
-->'''Jennifer:''' ''(to her dorm roommate)'' I think I better quit cutting Political Science.

!!The World Next Door

''"Imagine standing perfectly still, unable to act, to speak, to touch a reassuring hand. If you were released from such a fate, even for a while, wouldn't you hope to forget? But in reality, you're only on a short leave of absence from The Twilight Zone."''