Editing Time Enough at Last (section)

==Production==
[[File:Burgess Meredith The Twilight Zone.jpg|thumb|Burgess Meredith as Henry Bemis]]
"Time Enough at Last" was one of the first episodes written for ''The Twilight Zone''.<ref name="mp3">{{cite web|url=http://ebooks.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook35278.htm |title=Time Enough At Last: Twilight Zone Story read by Bill Mills |publisher=Fictionwise eBooks |access-date=2007-09-01 |url-status=usurped |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927203030/http://ebooks.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook35278.htm |archive-date=2007-09-27 }}</ref> It introduced [[Burgess Meredith]] to the series; he went on to star in three more episodes, being introduced as "no stranger to ''The Twilight Zone''" in promotional spots for season two's "[[The Obsolete Man]]". He also narrated the 1983 film ''[[Twilight Zone: The Movie]]'', which made reference to "Time Enough at Last" during its opening sequence, with the characters discussing the episode in detail.

Footage of the exterior steps of the library was filmed several months after production had been completed. These steps can also be seen on the exterior of an [[Eloi]] public building in [[MGM]]'s film of [[The Time Machine (1960 film)|''The Time Machine'']] (1960).<ref name="zicree">Zicree, Marc Scott. ''The Twilight Zone Companion''. Sillman-James Press, 1982 (second edition).</ref> [[John Brahm]] was honored by the [[Directors Guild of America]] for his work on the episode.<ref>{{Cite news |date=February 9, 1960 |title=Movie and TV Directors Given Guild Awards |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/fort-worth-star-telegram-movie-and-tv-di/172420221/ |access-date=May 15, 2025 |work=[[Fort Worth Star-Telegram]] |page=3 |via=[[Newspapers.com]] |agency=Associated Press}}</ref> The book that Bemis was reading in the vault and that flips open when the bomb explodes is ''[[A History of the Life and Voyages of Christopher Columbus]]'' by [[Washington Irving]].