This episode plays with the familiar "Is it real or is it a dream?" notion which has been used many times before (one notable example is TWILIGHT ZONE's "Shadow Play"), but with the fresh twist of two dreamers instead of one. That's a fascinating conceit, and holds the story quite well for most of its length--even if there are probably a couple more dream sequences than we really need, a product of the 45-minute length requirement that bedeviled so many RMT scripts.

Unfortunately, the threads of this otherwise suspenseful tale never really weave together, and we're left with a frustratingly ambiguous ending in which, it seems to me, the story doesn't end so much as it simply stops. Some may hear in this ending an appropriately dreamlike ambiguity; I just felt it was a dramatic cheat, leaving far too much unanswered.

Interestingly, although this episode indicates "Mary Renwick" as the writer of this script (as does the CBSRMT Episode Guide by Payton & Grams), Tammy Grimes informs us at the beginning that the author is, in fact, RMT stalwart Bob Juhren. Juhren's long career in radio went back to the golden age of OTR, with numerous scripts for series such as SUSPENSE, and he was certainly one of the more reliable writers in the RMT stable.

Many people here probably already know this, but there is an *unproduced* Bob Juhren RMT script available for reading online. It's quite effective in its spooky way, and of course loyal RMT listeners will be able to fill in the music cues and sound effects as they read. It's fascinating to experience an RMT that might have been.