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{{Infobox Television episode | Title = Still Valley | Series = The Twilight Zone | Image = [[Image:Still Valley.jpg|250px]] | Caption = Scene from "Still Valley"; Paradine is behind one of the soldiers. | Season = 3 | Episode = 76 | Airdate =November 24, 1961 | Production =4808 | Writer =[[Rod Serling]] (adapted from the short story "The Valley Was Still" by [[Manly Wade Wellman]]) | Director =[[James Sheldon]] | Guests =[[Gary Merrill]]: Paradine <br /> [[Vaughn Taylor (actor)|Vaughn Taylor]]: Teague <br /> [[Ben Cooper]]: Dauger | Music = [[Wilbur Hatch]] | Episode list = [[List of Twilight Zone episodes]] | Prev = [[The Midnight Sun]] | Next = [[The Jungle (The Twilight Zone)|The Jungle]] }} "'''Still Valley'''" is an episode of the [[American television]] anthology series ''[[The Twilight Zone (1959 TV series)|The Twilight Zone]]''. ==Opening narration== ===Part one=== {{cquote|''The time is 1863, the place, the state of Virginia. The event is a mass blood-letting known as the Civil War, a tragic moment in time when a nation was split into two fragments, each fragment deeming itself a nation.''}} ===Part two=== {{cquote|''This is Joseph Paradine, Confederate cavalry, as he heads down toward a small town in the middle of a valley. But very shortly, Joseph Paradine will make contact with the enemy. He will also make contact with an outpost not found on a military map - an outpost called the Twilight Zone.''}} ==Synopsis== Set during the [[American Civil War]], the episode opens with two [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] soldiers. They have been assigned to scout on the [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] army that is marching into the valley below. Sergeant Joseph Paradine hears the army approaching, but suddenly the sound stops. He decides to descend into the valley to see the cause for himself. His companion refuses to come. When Paradine gets into town, he finds the army there, but all of them are motionless, as if frozen in time. He tries unsuccessfully to wake them. Finally he comes across an old man named Teague, who is unaffected by the strange phenomenon. Teague claims to be a "witchman", and says he used a magic spell to freeze the soldiers. Paradine does not believe him, so Teague casts the spell on him, causing Paradine to also be frozen. When Teague lifts the spell on Paradine, he brags that he could stop the entire army in this manner, ensuring the success of the Confederacy. Paradine asks why he does not go ahead and do it, and Teague replies that he is dying. He gives his book of spells (entitled ''Witchcraft'') to Paradine, encouraging him to use it, but when Paradine looks in it, he realizes that using this magic requires one to align himself with [[Satan]]. Teague dies and Paradine returns to camp to tell his superior about what happened. The superior doesn't believe him and encourages him to get some rest. When another scout returns with the same story, the superior realizes Paradine is telling the truth. Paradine relates the story about the old man, the spell book, and making a deal with the devil. The superior officer decides that the devil is the only one who can help them, and encourages Paradine to read from the book. Paradine discovers that, not only must he praise the name of the devil, but he must renounce the name of [[God]]. Rather than do either, Paradine throws the book into the fire, saying that if the Confederacy is to die, let it be buried in hallowed ground. The next day, Paradine receives orders that the army is going to march to [[Battle of Gettysburg|Gettysburg]]. ==Closing narration== {{cquote|''On the following morning, Sergeant Paradine and the rest of these men were moved up north to a little town in Pennsylvania, an obscure little place where a battle was brewing, a town called Gettysburg, and this one was fought without the help of the Devil. Small historical note not to be found in any known books, but part of the records in the Twilight Zone.''}} ==Preview for next week's story== Announcer: "And now, Mr. Serling." {{cquote|''Next week on ''The Twilight Zone'', we once again borrow the talents of Mr. [[Charles Beaumont]] who's written a script especially for us called "[[The Jungle (The Twilight Zone)|The Jungle]]". Now, this is designed for the reasonably impressionable amongst you who find nothing to laugh about when somebody mentions the words "black magic." Mr. [[John Dehner]] stars in another small excursion into the darker regions of the imagination. Next week, "The Jungle".''}} ==Notes== *In the original story the spell is broken when the book is burned. ==References== *DeVoe, Bill. (2008). ''Trivia from The Twilight Zone''. Albany, GA: Bear Manor Media. ISBN 978-1-59393-136-0 *Grams, Martin. (2008). ''The Twilight Zone: Unlocking the Door to a Television Classic''. Churchville, MD: OTR Publishing. ISBN 978-0-9703310-9-0 ==External links== *{{imdb episode|id=0734624|episode=Still Valley}} *[http://www.tv.com/the-twilight-zone/still-valley/episode/12661/summary.html TV.com episode page] *[http://www.cbs.com/classics/the_twilight_zone/video/video.php?cid=649562032&pid=5dpW2JBSJf8hwN6vr4mMgwhYE3WUq4kW&play=true&cc=2 Full video of the episode at CBS.com] [[Category:1961 television episodes]] [[Category:The Twilight Zone episodes]] [[Category:American Civil War media]] [[fr:La Vallée immobile]] [[nl:Still Valley]]
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