Examination Day

"Examination Day"
The Twilight Zone (1985 TV series) episode
Scene from "Examination Day"
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 6a
Directed by	Paul Lynch
Written by	Philip DeGuere (Based on the short story "Examination Day", by Henry Slesar. The story was first published in Playboy (February 1958).
Original air date	November 1, 1985 (1985-11-01)
Guest actors
David Mendenhall : Dickie Jordan Christopher Allport : Richard Jordan Elizabeth Norment : Ruth Jordan Ed Krieger : Clerk #1 Myrna White : Clerk #2 Jeffrey Alan Chandler : Clerk #3

"Examination Day" is the first segment of the sixth episode from the first season (1985–86) of the television series The Twilight Zone.

Plot

Dickie Jordan is an intelligent and curious youth in a dystopian future. It is Dickie's twelfth birthday, which means he is required by law to report to a government testing facility for a mandatory IQ test. As Dickie gleefully tells his parents how he was told by an older friend that the test is easy and that he's sure he will pass it, his parents react stressfully and avoid his questions. The Jordans give Dickie a present, two years earlier than he thought he'd be able to get it, and then they bring him to the facility and go back home to wait anxiously for the test results. From their faces, they look very scared and have been awaiting this day for a long time.

When Dickie arrives at the testing facility, he is given a medicine. The examiner says that the medicine will ensure he tells the truth. He is then given a series of intelligence tests, and appears to be doing very well, much to his joy.

After his parents anxiously await the test results at home for hours, they are contacted by the government. Dickie's test results are in: his intelligence quotient exceeded the legal limit that the government allows and he was therefore executed. The parents burst into tears as the government examiners ask the Jordans how they would like their son's remains to be handled.

Reception

The Evening Independent wrote that the episode was "a bit predictable, but the reason for the tragic climax was a shock".^[1]

References

↑ Masters, Kay (1985-11-14). "New Episodes of Twilight Zone Are Clever, Unpredictable, Entertaining". Evening Standard. p. 3B.

External links

The Twilight Zone (1985) episodes

Season 1	"Shatterday" "A Little Peace and Quiet" "Wordplay" "Dreams for Sale" "Chameleon" "Healer" "Children's Zoo" "Kentucky Rye" "Little Boy Lost" "Wish Bank" "Nightcrawlers" "If She Dies" "Ye Gods" "Examination Day" "A Message from Charity" "Teacher's Aide" "Paladin of the Lost Hour" "Act Break" "The Burning Man" "Dealer's Choice" "Dead Woman's Shoes" "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium" "The Shadow Man" "The Uncle Devil Show" "Opening Day" "The Beacon" "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty" "Her Pilgrim Soul" "I of Newton" "Night of the Meek" "But Can She Type?" "The Star" "Still Life" "The Little People of Killany Woods" "The Misfortune Cookie" "Monsters!" "A Small Talent for War" "A Matter of Minutes" "The Elevator" "To See the Invisible Man" "Tooth and Consequences" "Welcome to Winfield" "Quarantine" "Gramma" "Personal Demons" "Cold Reading" "The Leprechaun-Artist" "Dead Run" "Profile in Silver" "Button, Button" "Need to Know" "Red Snow" "Take My Life...Please!" "Devil's Alphabet" "The Library" "Shadow Play" "Grace Note" "A Day in Beaumont" "The Last Defender of Camelot"

Season 2	"The Once and Future King" "A Saucer of Loneliness" "What Are Friends For?" "Aqua Vita" "The Storyteller" "Nightsong" "The After Hours" "Lost and Found" "The World Next Door" "The Toys of Caliban" "The Convict's Piano" "The Road Less Traveled" "The Card" "The Junction" "Joy Ride" "Shelter Skelter" "Private Channel" "Time and Teresa Golowitz" "Voices in the Earth" "Song of the Younger World" "The Girl I Married"

Season 3	"The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon" "Extra Innings" "The Crossing" "The Hunters" "Dream Me a Life" "Memories" "The Hellgramite Method" "Our Selena Is Dying" "The Call" "The Trance" "Acts of Terror" "20/20 Vision" "There Was an Old Woman" "The Trunk" "Appointment on Route 17" "The Cold Equations" "Stranger in Possum Meadows" "Street of Shadows" "Something in the Walls" "A Game of Pool" "The Wall" "Room 2426" "The Mind of Simon Foster" "Cat and Mouse" "Many, Many Monkeys" "Rendezvous in a Dark Place" "Special Service" "Love is Blind" "Crazy as a Soup Sandwich" "Father and Son Game"

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