The good: (and there\'s a lot of it)

- At the end of the episode those chimes that are the same as my Dad\'s (and your relative\'s) clock ring...E.G. says \"I see by the old clock in the corner that our time is up for now...\"

- Even when the actors do things that would be laughed out of modern day television (or even radio) programming, the RMT could make it work. Witness \"Margaret Egan\", the female medium that was brought in. It was obviously either Patricia Elliott or Joan Shea (each of whom was already playing other characters on the show) portraying her in an almost amusing faux-aristocratic clenched-jaw voice. Robert Dryden was also in the show, but he had to adapt a different voice as satan\'s doorkeeper, the one who says \"I mussszt seee the claaaack\"... These adaptations would be crude by today\'s standards, but in the mix of elements within the RMT, they work for me.

- The music...ohhh, the music. I\'ve posted before that I like the use of CBS\' stock spooky sounds in the RMT. This particular episode uses many of the same music interludes as what many think is the finest \"Twilight Zone\" episode ever produced - \"To serve man\" (itself with an equally disturbing ending). At the 28:52 mark right after Margaret talks about \"the gate to hell\" there\'s an interlude I always enjoyed that was used effectively in two other of my \"listening log\" favorite episodes: \"The laughing maiden\" and \"Yesterday\'s giant\". Good use of music beds in this one.

- If ya\'ll haven\'t heard them, there are two episodes I\'d recommend on related themes: \"Time and again\" (which features another weird clock) and \"The house on chimney pot lane\" (which features another house that has strange things happen to it after people bring something in, although this house was thought to be haunted prior to it\")

- Back to actors, I always enjoy the work of Robert Dryden (even when he\'s asked to do things like he was here) and Tony Roberts, who was most effective at playing the \"ordinary guy\" type of hero quite often in the RMT.

The bad:

- I don\'t like the theology, though I won\'t get into the arguments here. As I said before I\'m a recovering addict, so these things are personal to me.

- I do get bothered by the occasional \"everyone loses\" endings of certain RMT episodes. However, this comes with the genre...certain \"Twilight Zone\" episodes ended the same way.