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**Original Air Date**: March 7, 1963
**Director**: Justus Addiss
**Writer**: Rod Serling
**Plot**: A scientist named Paul Driscoll, portrayed by Dana Andrews, attempts to use a time machine to prevent tragedies in both world history and his own past[1]. In a desperate attempt to alter the present, Driscoll seeks out three moments in the past, utilizing the odd and fanciful functions of the Twilight Zone[2].
**Opening Narration**: “Exit one Paul Driscoll, a creature of the twentieth century. He puts to a test a complicated theorem of space-time continuum, but he goes a step further, or tries to. Shortly, he will seek out three moments of the past in a desperate attempt to alter the present, one of the odd and fanciful functions in a shadowland known as the Twilight Zone”[2].
**Cast**:
– Dana Andrews as Paul Driscoll
– Patricia Breslin as Abigail Sloan
– Robert F. Simon as Harvey
– Malcolm Atterbury as Professor Eliot
– C. Lindsay Workman as Bartender
– Adolf Hitler as Self (archive footage)
– Gene Coogan as Fire Spectator Restraining Driscoll (uncredited)
– Peter Humphreys as Steward on Lusitania (uncredited)
– Robert McCord as Man Hearing About Garfield (uncredited)
– Rod Serling as Narrator (uncredited)[1].
**Time Travel Destinations**:
1. **Lusitania**: Driscoll’s first attempt is to board the Lusitania, a British ocean liner that was famously sunk by a German U-boat during World War I[2].
2. **Assassination of Hitler**: His second attempt is to assassinate Adolf Hitler, the leader of Nazi Germany during World War II[2].
3. **Hiroshima**: Driscoll’s final attempt is to warn and evacuate Hiroshima, a city in Japan that was devastated by an atomic bomb during World War II[2].
**Themes**: The episode explores themes of nostalgia, sentimentalism, and the desire to change the past in order to alter the present[5].
Citations:
[1] https://imdb.com/title/tt0734602/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Time_Like_the_Past
[3] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_twilight_zone/s04/e10
[4] https://twilightzone.fandom.com/wiki/No_Time_Like_the_Past
[5] https://mysteryfile.com/blog/?p=26423
[6] https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-twilight-zone/season-4/episode-10-no-time-like-the-past/