What You Need
- Episode aired Dec 25, 1959
- TV-PG
- 25m
A small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.A small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.A small time crook plans to exploit an old street peddler who has the uncanny knack of selling people exactly what they will shortly need.
- Girl in Bar
- (as Arline Sax)
- Bar Patron
- (uncredited)
- Woman on Street
- (uncredited)
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
- Police Officer
- (uncredited)
- Man on Street
- (uncredited)
- Narrator
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Photographer
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaWhen the leaky pen drips ink on the newspaper, indicating which horse Renard should bet on, if you look closely you will see among the names of the jockeys Clemens, Houghton, Denault and Serling; George T. Clemens was the director of photography in this episode, Buck Houghton was producer, Edward O. Denault was assistant director, and Rod Serling created it.
- GoofsPedott is shown in the opening scene going from person to person selling odds-and-ends in a bar. He approaches Lefty, who does not know him, whereupon the bartender tells Lefty that "the old coot is in here every night". The bartender later says that Lefty is in the bar "seven nights a week." Since both men are in the bar every night and Pedott tries to sell to everyone, Lefty should have already have been familiar with Pedott.
- Quotes
Rod Serling - Narrator: [Opening Narration] You're looking at Mr. Fred Renard, who carries on his shoulder a chip the size of the national debt. This is a sour man, a friendless man, a lonely man, a grasping, compulsive, nervous man. This is a man who has lived thirty-six undistinguished, meaningless, pointless, failure-laden years and who at this moment looks for an escape - any escape, any way, anything, anybody - to get out of the rut. And this little old man is just what Mr. Renard is waiting for.
- ConnectionsEdited into Twilight-Tober-Zone: What You Need (2020)
Steve Cochrane who played gangster roles opposite James Cagney and Joan Crawford in the early fifties plays Rennard. This is a very good little morality tale about the importance of using things not people. Also how little it would take to put one's life on a happy path providing you take a droplet of good fortune with a virtuous approach.
Sorry if I'm sounding a bit preachy, but I love to find meaning in the Zone.
- darrenpearce111
- Nov 23, 2013
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Details
- Runtime25 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1