He is so engrossed in the novel he regales the increasingly annoyed woman with information about the characters, and shortchanges her. Plot īank teller and avid bookworm Henry Bemis (Meredith) reads David Copperfield while serving a customer from his window in a bank.
Bemis will enter a world without bank presidents or wives or clocks or anything else. A bookish little man whose passion is the printed page, but who is conspired against by a bank president and a wife and a world full of tongue-cluckers and the unrelenting hands of a clock. Henry Bemis, a charter member in the fraternity of dreamers. The episode follows Bemis through the post-apocalyptic world, touching on such social issues as anti-intellectualism, the dangers of reliance upon technology, and the difference between solitude and loneliness. It is "the story of a man who seeks salvation in the rubble of a ruined world" and tells of Henry Bemis ( / ˈ b iː m ɪ s/), played by Burgess Meredith, who loves books yet is surrounded by those who would prevent him from reading them. "Time Enough at Last" became one of the most famous episodes of the original Twilight Zone.
The short story appeared in the January 1953 edition of the science fiction magazine If: Worlds of Science Fiction about seven years before the television episode first aired. The episode was adapted from a short story written by Lynn Venable. " Time Enough at Last" is the eighth episode of the American television anthology series The Twilight Zone. The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series, season 1) 8th episode of the first season of The Twilight Zone " Time Enough at Last"
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