The Silence (The Twilight Zone) The Silence (The Twilight Zone) "The Silence" is episode 61 of the American television anthology series "The Twilight Zone". The plot of this episode was based in part on Anton Chekhov's "The Bet". It originally aired on April 28, 1961 on CBS, and was the first of only four "Twilight Zone" episodes (the others being season three's "The Shelter", season two's "Dust" and season five's "The Jeopardy Room") to feature a story without any supernatural or science fiction elements. It does, however, contain one of the series' signature twist endings. Colonel Archie Taylor, a gruff aristocrat, has difficulty enjoying his
Twilight in the Forbidden City 448–9) was developed and some important parts of the history, such as the confinement of Cao Kun (p. 381) and Kang Youwei's escape from the country (p. 17), were reviewed for modification with "preface to the fourth impression" (p. 6) (Japanese translation; ). Twilight in the Forbidden City Twilight in the Forbidden City () is Reginald Johnston's 486-page memoir of Henry Puyi, who had been the Xuantong Emperor of the Qing dynasty. Johnston was tutor to the Emperor and an eyewitness to events in China in the 1920s and 1930s. Johnston was also a professor of Chinese at the University