If She Dies (The Twilight Zone)
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"If She Dies" is the first segment of the fifth episode of the first season (1985-1986) from the television series The New Twilight Zone
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That evening, he finds that the bed is haunted by the girl, who asks him to find "Toby" for her. Returning to the orphanage the next day, he learns that the girl died of tuberculosis
while sleeping in the bed, and that Toby is her teddy bear.
After retrieving the teddy bear, the father steals his daughter from the hospital where she resides and places her in the bed; she wakes up, but asks for Toby before her father can explain anything.
, written by David Bennett Carren, was based on a 1982 story originally written by Carren for the Twisted Tales
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The New Twilight Zone
The Twilight Zone is the first of two revivals of Rod Serling's acclaimed 1950/60s television series of the same name. It ran for two seasons on CBS before producing a final season for syndication.-Series history:...
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Opening narration
Synopsis
After a recently-widowed father's only daughter is put into a coma, he is guided by the apparition of another girl to buy an old wooden bed from an orphanage sale. He buys the bed and sets it up in his daughter's room without knowing why.That evening, he finds that the bed is haunted by the girl, who asks him to find "Toby" for her. Returning to the orphanage the next day, he learns that the girl died of tuberculosis
Tuberculosis
Tuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body...
while sleeping in the bed, and that Toby is her teddy bear.
After retrieving the teddy bear, the father steals his daughter from the hospital where she resides and places her in the bed; she wakes up, but asks for Toby before her father can explain anything.
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The teleplayTeleplay
A teleplay is a television play, a comedy or drama written or adapted for television. The term surfaced during the 1950s with wide usage to distinguish a television plays from stage plays for the theater and screenplays written for films...
, written by David Bennett Carren, was based on a 1982 story originally written by Carren for the Twisted Tales
Twisted Tales
Twisted Tales was a horror comics anthology published by Pacific Comics and, later, Eclipse Comics, in the early 1980s. The title was edited by Bruce Jones and April Campbell.-Publication history:...
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Comic book
A comic book or comicbook is a magazine made up of comics, narrative artwork in the form of separate panels that represent individual scenes, often accompanied by dialog as well as including...
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