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Richard Matheson

writer

Death Ship

by Richard Matheson
“Death Ship” by Richard Matheson, Fantastic Story Magazine, March 1953.

The Twilight Zone (r1s01e18)

The Last Flight

by Rod Serling, directed by William F. Claxton
World War I pilot Terry Decker flies through a white cloud and emerges 42 years later, landing at an American Air Force Base in France, at which point he proves that a Nieuport 28 biplane is capable of doing a causal loop just as well as he can do an Immelmann Turn.
— Michael Main
The Twilight Zone (v1s01e18), “The Last Flight” by Rod Serling, directed by William F. Claxton (CBS-TV, USA, 5 February 1960).

The Twilight Zone (r1s03e13)

Once Upon a Time

by Richard Matheson, directed by Norman Z. McLeod
The Twilight Zone (v1s03e13), “Once Upon a Time” by Richard Matheson, directed by Norman Z. McLeod (CBS-TV, 15 December 1961).

The Twilight Zone (r1s04e06)

Death Ship

by Richard Matheson, directed by Don Medford
The Twilight Zone (v1s04e06), “Death Ship” by Richard Matheson, directed by Don Medford (CBS-TV, 7 February 1963).

The Twilight Zone (r1s05e21)

Spur of the Moment

by Richard Matheson, directed by Elliot Silverstein
The Twilight Zone (v1s05e21), “Spur of the Moment” by Richard Matheson, directed by Elliot Silverstein (CBS-TV, 21 February 1964).

Bid Time Return

by Richard Matheson
Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson (Viking Press, 1975).

Dead of Night [segment 1]

Second Chance

by Richard Matheson, directed by Dan Curtis
For the first of three short segments of the TV movie Dead of Night, Richard Matheson wrote this adaptation of Jack Finney’s 1956 story “Second Chance” where a college student lovingly restores a 1920s-era Jordan Playboy roadster and takes it back in time.
— Michael Main
I remember what someone once said; I think it was Einstein or somebody like that. He compared time to a winding river, with all of us in a boat drifting along between two high banks. And we can’t see the future beyond the next curve or the past beyond the curves in back of us, but it’s all still there, as real as the moment around us. To which I now add my own theory . . . that you can’t drive into the past in a modern car because there were no modern cars back then, and you can’t drive into 1926 along a four-lane superhighway, but my car and I—the way I felt about it anyway—were literally rejected that night by our own time.
Second Chance by Richard Matheson, directed by Dan Curtis (NBC-TV, USA, 29 March 1977).

Somewhere in Time

by Richard Matheson, directed by Jeannot Szwarc
An elderly woman presses a pocket watch into a man’s hand, beseeching him to come back to her, and eventually) he does come back to her. We count this as science fiction rather than fantasy because of Professor Finney(!)’s attempt at an explanation of time travel via self-hypnosis, similar to the method in Jack Finney’s Time and Again (1970). In addition, the film may contain the first example of a looping artifact with no beginning and no end.

Wayne Winsett, owner of Time Warp Comics, tells me that this is his favorite time travel movie. Wayne is not alone in his assessment of Christopher Reeve and Jane Seymour, as the film now enjoys a mild cult following.

— Michael Main
Come back to me.
Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson, directed by Jeannot Szwarc (at movie theaters, USA, 3 October 1980).

Twilight Zone: Rod Serling’s Lost Classics

The Theatre

by Richard Matheson, directed by Robert Markowitz
“The Theatre” by Richard Matheson, directed by Robert Markowitz (CBS-TV, USA, 19 May 1994).

The Window of Time

by Richard Matheson
Eighty-two-year-old Rich Swanson, “Swanee,” knows that he’s a burden living with his daughter, so he decides to rent a room on his own, but instead finds himself 68 years in his past, but still at age 82 and uncertain about why or what he can do in the years of his childhood.
Of course! How had I missed it? If there was any reasonable point to all this. . .
“The Window of Time” by Richard Matheson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, September/October 2010.
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