Rod Serling does an admirable job translating the
original story by
Henry Kuttner and
C. L. Moore to the small screen. The story’s two main incidents (the
scissors and the shoes) come through with little change. In this version, the curious
shopkeeper has become a street vendor, and the man who’s interested in the vendor’s goods
is now a darker lowlife than the original newspaperman. Also, the
science
fiction aspect has been replaced by
psychic precognition, solidly
in the realm of
fantasy, but not quite into
weird
fiction.
— Michael Main
What have you got in there? Some sort of machine? Crystal ball?
. .
. You can see ahead, can’t you? You can look into the future.
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