He retrieves from the basement an old radio which, in his younger and happier days, he enjoyed as a source of relaxation and entertainment.

All Ed Lindsay knows is that he desperately wanted a second chance and finally got it, through a strange and wonderful time machine called a radio, in the Twilight Zone.As The Twilight Zone's second season began, the production was informed by CBS that at about $65,000 per episode, the show was exceeding its budget.

It was decided that six consecutive episodes (production code #173-3662 through #173-3667) would be videotaped at CBS Television City in the manner of a live drama and then transferred to 16-millimeter film for future syndicated TV transmissions.

Eventual savings amounted to only about $30,000 for all six entries, which was judged to be insufficient to offset the loss of the depth of visual perspective that only film could offer.

It was first published by Comma Press in Shearman’s 2007 anthology Tiny Deaths, and won a World Fantasy Award.

The story itself was then adapted into a short film, which took the action back to the United States, but kept the present day setting.