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Episode 2 of season 2 of the award-winning TV series THE TWILIGHT ZONE runs 25 minutes.
WARNING: Spoiler Alerts (about this episode and subsequent short story) will be divulged.
It is entitled “THE MAN IN THE BOTTLE” and features Arthur and Edna Castle, owners of an antique store that has fallen on hard times and is on the verge of going under.
In pops an older woman known to the others, a Mrs. Gumley, who asks $1 for an old wine bottle she at first claims was a family heirloom but later admits was not.
Edna emerges from the back of the store and berates Arthur for buying the bottle. In the heat of the moment, it falls off the counter onto the floor. It does not break but its cork has been popped.
Releasing smoke.
A genie, in the form of a dapper fellow with top hat and wide grin, materializes, and tells the startled Castles they have 4 wishes he will grant. He warns them there may be consequences. Their wishing for additional wishes is not an option.
Initially flabbergasted at the turn of events, for their 1st wish, they ask that some cracked showcase glass be made whole. It is.
Emboldened, Arthur wishes for a million dollars. Bills immediately begin fluttering downward from the ceiling.
