I'm curious if Arnold Moss got the inspiration to write this story after watching 2 TWILIGHT ZONE episodes called "Nervous Man In A Four Dollar Room" & "The Grave". If this was written as a book, it would definitely be a page-turner because it's 90% of a Drama-Mystery and 10% of a Fantasy-Mystery. What I loved the most in this CBSRMT episode, was E.G. Marshall's discourse on fear in ACT-1, the mystery of time & death in ACT-2, and which is hard to bare in ACT-3: the fear of loneliness or the loneliness that comes from fear? Those narrations were as good as Rod Serling's narrations in the TWILIGHT ZONE series. The cast was good, but not magnificent. I mean, Joseph Julian (as Sam Rogers), Michael Tolan (as Jonny Promise), June Gable (as Linda), and Guy Repp (as the Judge) played their parts well, but not enough emotion, in my opinion. For a character like Sam Rogers who is paranoid of dying, the role should've gone to Larry Haines. For the villainous role of Johnny Promise who acts normal, yet highly deranged, the role should've gone to Fred Gwynne because he can play a bad guy that people would love to hate (i.e. listen to Fred Gwynne's performance in #0303-THE SLAVE). The role of Linda should've gone to Evie Juster because she can play girlfriend roles "to a T". Guy Repp was fine, but it's too bad that this was the only CBSRMT episode he worked on. The sound effects were right on their marks. The slapping of Linda, the bowling alley scene, the noise of city traffic, the running water from the shower, the mirror breaking, the rotary phone, the mysterious footsteps in the streets, the bell tower ringing 5 times, and SPOILER ALERT: the mysterious sound that caused our main character to die at the 43-minute 41-second mark and later found out what it really was at the 44-minute 50-second mark. A good twisted climax! As for the music, it was building suspense, however, it needed more. If they added the music from the episodes of #0573-THE ARTIST, #0167-THE BLACK ROOM, #0034-THE DEADLY HOUR, and #1245-THE JUDGE'S HOUSE, this would be an outstanding mystery tale that would give you goosebumps and leave you speechless. So, I give this episode 4 out of 5 stars.